New Friends and Old Friends! Stupid Heads and Stupid Asses

Ronan and Moriel stepped out of the portal, and the small door behind them quickly closed.

"It looks like we really can't get out."

Moriel sighed and turned her head away, looking rather disappointed.

"No."

Ronan shook his head. "The method is correct, it's just that we don't have enough resources."

"What other ideas do you have?"

Moriel followed Ronan's gaze and saw the passage they had come from, with small doors quietly closed on the walls on both sides.

You wouldn't be thinking of...

Moriel's eyes widened.

Ronan calmly replied, "Yes."

But it wasn't them.

Ronan's gaze passed over the small doors on either side of the passage and looked towards a more distant direction.

He had previously "peeked" into the situation inside a small door and almost had his life sucked away by the terrifying entity inside.

These individuals imprisoned in separate rooms were too dangerous and difficult to control. Ronan's idea was to gather the "Monsters" roaming the labyrinth together to "fight" the Abyss Bull Demon named Babu Li that had just appeared.

"Putting aside the fact that we are delicious prey, just seeing the effects of the Space Key tells us that the clue to escaping the maze lies with us... People like Patrick will chase after us relentlessly."

Ronan squinted and said, "As long as you can help us hold that Bull Demon back for a while, we can find a chance to open an exit and leave."

"Even if we could lure them all here and into the room."

But why should they obey your commands?

Moriel frowned.

"I will naturally find a way."

Ronan straightened his robes, which were slightly wrinkled from the battle, and calmly gestured for Moriel to leave, "Let's go, this plan still needs your cooperation."

A few ambiguous expressions flashed across Moriel's face, as if she had something on her mind, but after hesitating for a moment, she followed Ronan's footsteps.

Ronan stopped at a spot some distance away from all the small doors, picked up the Space Key, and gently slashed through the gray fog wall in front of him.

A rift appeared, and he led Moriel through it.

Then perform the same operation.

After several attempts to "break through the wall," Moriel noticed the silver key in Ronan's hand, its light noticeably dimmed, and hesitated several times before speaking.

Suddenly, as he broke through the high wall once again, Ronan stopped and turned to look at one side of the passage, where there was a noticeable corner.

"There's one over there."

As Ronan spoke, he took the lead and walked towards the corner, with Moriel following behind with a suspicious look on her face.

A few breaths later, the two who had just turned the corner reappeared, this time in a desperate run.

"Bang! Bang!"

Ronan stomped his feet in the tunnel one after another, creating a series of explosive sounds as he moved with lightning speed, with Moriel close behind.

Behind them, a loud "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—"

A river entirely composed of blood relentlessly pursued them, and within that Blood River, blurry figures slowly rose to their feet.

How did you know this was the passage we walked through back then?

Moriel stared at Ronan in utter astonishment, as if there were flowers on his face.

Ronan didn't answer, but simply cut a hole in the nearest high wall and pulled Moriel inside.

This time he did not close the crack, but continued to break through the wall and escape. Behind him, he could always hear the sound of the blood river flowing, which seemed to be getting more and more intense.

Upon reaching a certain passage, Ronan urgently gave Moriel the order, "You to the left, I to the right, one for each of us."

Moriel nodded, Ronan quickly darted to the side.

After turning a corner, you can immediately spot an "old acquaintance" standing far away at the end of the passage, holding a sword in one hand, like an ancient knight statue.

Almost the instant the other person turned around, Ronan returned the way he came.

He returned to the spot where he had parted ways with Moriel, slashed through one of the high walls, and stared intently at the direction Moriel had disappeared in. Occasionally, he would glance at the crack in the gray wall from which he had come, where the sound of the surging river of blood seemed to be drawing ever closer.

Before long, Ronan heard a sharp rebuke—"You slut!"

With a short, sharp explosion, Moriel, her body ablaze with anger, dashed out from around the corner on her side.

Behind them followed a woman with a distorted face, a brass clockwork toggle on her chest, loose blonde hair, and burn marks all over her body, who was moving with bizarre ballet steps, chasing after them at breakneck speed.

Moriel nearly crashed into Ronan's arms, but her free hand, which wasn't holding the Short Staff, was only used to cover Ronan's eyes.

"I said you're not allowed to look!"

Ronan grabbed her and shoved her into the newly opened gap in the gray wall, narrowly avoiding the violent collision that erupted when the three "giants" met.

"Call--"

Ronan was breathing rapidly.

The plan is still ongoing.

Every second felt like dancing on a knife's edge for the two of them. The pace was so fast that Moriel forgot what she had asked Ronan earlier: why he knew the exact location of every passage.

"Tear—"

The dim space was pierced by the silver key through the gray wall, and a grotesque face wearing a black and white clown mask squeezed in almost instantly through the gap, as if it had been pressing its face against the wall, just waiting for Ronan's "wall-breaking" action.

Before the clown-masked man could make any move, a Short Staff blazing with crimson flames slammed into its head.

"Bang!"

The clown groaned, his face contorted as he temporarily withdrew, a sound that even Ronan found painful.

Ronan gave Moriel was gripping her cane and looking excited, an approving look, and continued to "break down the wall" with his hands.

This is a new friend.

"Call--"

Ronan and his companion emerged from a gap in the gray wall, their feet landing firmly on solid ground.

Listen attentively.

"Giggle giggle—"

The familiar chattering sound, accompanied by the rapid tapping of fingers on the wall, drew ever closer.

Ronan's expression relaxed, and he smiled.

"Patrick... this is an old friend."

Ronan led Moriel through the maze, constantly moving her around and navigating different maze passages.

Moriel seemed to be thoroughly enjoying the thrilling and exciting process. She held Ronan's hand tightly the whole time, her palm sweaty with excitement.

Finally, as he entered a certain passage, Ronan lowered his head and seemed to count silently.

"That's about it."

He calmly pierced the gray fog wall before him, leading Moriel inside. Then, under Moriel's astonished gaze, the two returned once again to the passage filled with tightly closed doors.

Ronan quickly walked to the light gate at the deepest part of the passage, but instead of opening it, he turned around and squinted at the end of the passage.

He heard faint sounds coming from the narrow opening in the gray wall: the roaring of a river of blood, the scraping of ancient war boots against the ground, the turning of a clockwork mechanism, and a strange, gurgling laugh. Twisted, bizarre, evil, yet powerful Level 5 auras leaked out from the crack.

A group of Level 5 "Monsters," born out of despair and fear and driven by the hope of escape, are approaching this place step by step with "unparalleled excitement."

"What are you waiting for? Open the door now!"

Moriel seemed a little nervous and kept urging Ronan on.

Ronan remained unmoved.

Finally, a twisted, narrow hand suddenly appeared in his field of vision, passing through a crack in the gray wall.

He suddenly took two steps forward, and then, under Moriel's incredulous gaze, quickly inserted the Space Key in his hand into the lock of the nearest small black door covered with strange patterns.

"Snap—"

With a gentle twist, the small door creaked open.

An indescribable stench of decay wafted from inside the door, gently ruffling Ronan's hair.

Ronan squinted and could only see an extremely dark room filled with rotten and tattered black cloth strips fluttering everywhere. A figure whose face was not visible seemed to be slowly raising its head and looking at him.

"Just to be on the safe side!"

Ronan didn't have time to look at it again and quickly said something.

Then they returned to their original position, opened the small door to the room guarded by the Abyss Bull Demon, and slipped inside with Moriel.

"Call--"

A scorching wind, a blinding sun! And the familiar, irritable, and not-so-bright roar of the Abyss Bull Demon.

"That despicable insect dares to come back!"

Ronan ignored the enraged Bull Demon and quickly pulled Moriel aside, trying to stay as far away from the portal they had just entered through.

His eyes were fixed on the portal of light, which could disappear at any moment.

"Da da da—"

A human-headed monster with arms all over its body and four bald heads quickly crawled in.

One.

Ronan counted silently in his mind.

Then a crimson figure, entirely formed of congealed blood, silently emerged.

Two.

Ronan counted the figures of the level 5 "monsters" appearing one after another, three or four at a time.

The bright scene before them seemed to shock these guys. They easily noticed the conspicuous door behind the Bull Demon Babu Li and connected it with the key that Ronan had been using. Soon, powerful and majestic waves of consciousness rose into the sky and interacted excitedly.

"The exit! I see the exit of the maze!"

"That kid has a key! A key that can open the exit!"

"I can leave! A thousand years! I've waited a full thousand years, and finally I can leave!..."

"Giggle giggle"

The "Monsters" were incredibly excited, almost frantically talking, while Ronan frowned slightly as he stared at the slowly dissipating and completely disappearing portal.

He didn't see the "prisoner" appear in the last "cell" that was opened.

"Did you miss it?"

He felt a slight pang of regret.

"What are you going to do now? They won't just blindly follow your orders."

Moriel stared at the "Monsters" below, her pretty face slightly tense.

Ronan blinked, took a step forward, and then shouted at the enraged Bull Demon Babu Li not far away, "Babu Li! You stupid idiot! Listen up!"

Ronan pointed at the Monsters below, who were caught up in a collective "frenzy," and sneered with disdain, "I may not know the stupid answer to your stupid question, but I have a group of powerful and reliable friends! They will help me twist your stupid bull head off and stuff it into your stupid ass!"

Ronan's voice echoed clearly and loudly throughout the space.

In an instant, the entire space fell silent, and everyone, including the Bull Demon Babu Li, stared at him intently.

"Damn it, you don't think you can get away with such clumsy methods."

Moriel was rubbing her forehead, speechless, when she was interrupted by a roar that sounded like countless volcanoes erupting at the same time!

"Roar roar roar!"

"Damn it"

"Insects!"

"All of you, die, Lord Babu Li!!"

Amidst the scorching winds whipped up by the Abyss Bull Demon, who was enraged beyond measure, Ronan calmly turned to look at Moriel, who wore a bewildered expression, and said indifferently, "The simpler the method, the more effective it is for dealing with those who don't have much of a brain."

The next second, a terrifying battle erupted.

Babu Li, whose five chains suddenly tightened, roared, clenched his fists, and slammed them down on the "Monsters" below.

Eerie laughter, screams, growls, and explosions filled the space, instantly turning it into a chaotic battlefield!

Moriel pursed her lips tightly and suddenly spoke, "You don't think it's that simple, do you?"

"Certainly."

Ronan took a deep breath and said calmly, "This is only the first step."