Chapter 326: Maze Run - Start (2/2)

When he came upon a fork in the road, he had no idea where he was supposed to go. ”Screw it,” he thought and walked straight ahead.

After a minute or so, he came across a dead end. This was not the correct path.

”F*ck”

He turned around and walked back to the intersection once more. However, this time, there was a woman there contemplating where to move.

When she saw Alex walking towards him, she suddenly took out a bow and arrow and aimed at Alex. Alex could tell that the woman was at least in the Meridian tempering realm, thus he was not her match.

”You will get disqualified if you attack me. Why don't you choose a path a go first? I won't stop you,” Alex said. He slowly started circling around the woman.

The woman was frightened even more as she couldn't see Alex's cultivation base and kept the bow and arrow at him at all times.

”You— You just want to get behind me and steal my talisman, don't you? You think I'm stupid. Why don't you go first?” she said.

”I'm afraid I can't do that. You will steal my talisman,” Alex said. ”I guess we are both in the same dilemma then.”

Alex was desperately trying to come up with things to say. ”First of all, please just put the bow down. You know obstructing me from leaving this place will get you disqualified, right?” he asked.

”I'm not obstructing you at all. You can leave if you want,” the girls said. ”Besides, you keep telling me to drop my bow, yet you still hold your sword. You're quite a hypocrite, aren't you?

Alex slowly looked at the sword on his right hand and sighed. ”You are right,” he said before throwing away his sword.  ”Happy?” he asked.

The girl finally accepted that he wasn't after her and decided to lower the bow for now. Just then, Alex walked forward and grabbed his sword once again.

The girl immediately pulled her bow back and targeted him as she asked, ”What are you doing?”

Alex simply looked at her and smiled, ”Time's up.”

”What?” the woman didn't understand what he meant when suddenly, she felt her body lift without her volition. She looked up to see that the staff was pulling her out of the maze field.

”You are disqualified for not moving for a minute.”

Alex immediately started walking down the path once more. He didn't want to be the next one disqualified. He walked on and found another intersection.

This time, however, he seemed to have chosen the right path as he didn't encounter any dead ends.

However, he did encounter it next. Free, dead-end, dead-end, free.

After walking on for nearly 10 minutes, he finally came across a long stretch of thin walls that seemed to lead… outside.

”That can't be true. It's too soon,” Alex thought.

Still, he had to try, so Alex took a step forward. Suddenly, something grabbed his foot.