Chapter 327: Stolen (2/2)

”Sh*t, Quicksands,” Alex realized. ”Why the F*ck is there quicksand in a Maze run? Isn't this supposed to be a normal Maze run,” Alex asked. He tried to move his legs out and barely got it out after a lot of force. He stumbled backward and fell on his butt.

'Sh*t. So I can't walk, and I can't fly?' Alex thought as he looked at the hundreds of hanging threads. He absolutely didn't dare to touch them.

'I'm on a quicksand. Think fast, Alex,' he said to himself. ”The only way to not get dragged into quicksand is to flop down on your back. In that way, your body has enough surface area to not drown.”

”Can I flop down here?” Alex thought, but the answer was no. ”Wait, what if I imitate it instead of actually flopping down.”

Alex slowly got down on his knees and took a deep breath. Then suddenly, he placed one of his arms on the surface. Surprisingly, it felt like solid ground to him.

He placed another arm and it too was very solid.

”Yes! Fluctuating Friction Dance works. Increasing my friction does help me from drowning,” he thought.

PING

Suddenly, he heard something. He heard it from his backside. Alex quickly turned around to see a lady catching the talisman that was falling off his body.

Somebody had managed to sneak up to him while he was distracted and stole his talisman from his back. The girl immediately started running sideways, but Alex wouldn't let her.

He immediately disappeared from where he stood and appeared right behind the lady and he used his own red talisman to touch one of her talismans.

PING

The woman had a horrified face when she realized what had happened. Alex caught the falling talisman and jumped into the quicksand. Only this time, he had the proper techniques ready.

He crawled on his hands and knees and tried his best to stay lower than the bells.

”Stop,” the lady cried and followed after him, but as soon as she jumped in and saw her palms disappeared inside the ground. She too realized what it was.

”What? Quicksand? Why?” she couldn't understand. She tried to pull her arm out but that was very hard. As she tried to pull her arm out, more and more of her body was swallowed by the quicksand.

”What's going on? Help!” she cried out, but nobody came to help. Alex looked right at her but decided to do nothing.

She was halfway deep into the quicksand when a staff flew down and brought her out of it. ”You are disqualified for not moving for more than 1 minute.”

The girl tried to beg, but the staff heard none of it. Alex turned his head from her to the other ones who were crossing this part of the maze.

The people were far away and he couldn't see what was happening very clearly, but he could see almost all of them flying without any delay.

Alex could finally focus on his quicksand crossing right now. Once again, he got onto his arms and knees and followed the way out.

This time, he didn't have any disturbances to account for his distraction, so he easily crossed the entire section of the quicksand by himself.