Chapter 111 - MYSTERY DOOR (1/2)

ONCE everyone ate, the tables around the ballroom disappeared.  Then the King stood up once again.

”Now that we've all eaten and filled our stomachs, it's time for this year's entertainment to begin,” he said.  ”This year's theme is unlike what we've had these past years.  I hope all of you could enjoy what I've prepared.  And in return, you have to do your best to entertain me as well.” He smiled gently at them.  ”Okay?”

He snapped his fingers and five doors in different colors appeared in front of everyone.  From left to right, the colors were; red, purple, green, yellow, and blue.

And then after that, a maze appeared that occupied the whole ballroom.  It separated each player from one another.

Luo Yan looked around.  He couldn't see his team mates or any other players for that matter.  It didn't seem like he was in the ballroom anymore.  It's more like he was in a garden maze.  When he was about to call out the others, the King spoke once again.  His voice echoing throughout the whole place.

”Each and every one of you is now isolated.  I can't have you communicating with one another and forming a plan before the game even started.  That would just take away all the fun, wouldn't it?  Now let's have you all answer a question that would determine your fate for tonight.”

A screen appeared in front of Luo Yan.  What was written inside was;

[If you're given a chance to go on vacation, which of the following place would you go?  Please, pick only one.]

i. A train travelling the seas.

ii. A town from the long distant past.

iii. A castle of dreams for the wicked.

iv. A stage set for the brightest stars.

v. A student's hellish paradise.

Luo Yan read the choices listed below.  There were five choices which probably corresponded to the five doors they saw earlier.  Their answer would probably lead them to a particular door.  What's behind each door was probably related to the choices listed.  Like the first choice; A train travelling the seas.  Whatever door it represented, it would lead whoever picked it to a train.

”You only have 10 seconds left to answer.  Please, choose wisely,” the voice of the King echoed once again.

Luo Yan looked again at the choices available to him.  He didn't hesitate to choose the second one.  There's no particular reason why.  It just had a very nice to ring to it, more so than the others.  Or maybe he was simply attracted by the word 'past'.

For someone like him who had been reborn, he should not dally in the past.  Because that could only affect how he lived his life in the present.  But sometimes, he still wondered what could have happened to his original body.  If it even received a decent burial.  He hoped that it received one at least.

Luo Yan searched in the internet for a possible news about an incident involving a T University graduate who died after a potted plant fell on his head.  But he couldn't find any.  Probably because it had already been seven years since it happened.  Even if he graduated from a famous university, he was still just a poor orphan.  No one would make that much of a fuss just because of his death.

Well, maybe those roommates of his would.  But all of them belonged to ordinary families.  He doubted if they could even make a fuss over his death.  Luo Yan shook his head.  This was not the time to think about that.  Once he had the chance to go back to B City, he'd check it himself.