A Fellow Traveler

The labyrinth naturally had no shortage of corpses.

Countless adventurers had entered to explore it, and some had died inside because of bad luck or for one reason or another. Along the way, Duanmu Huai and the others had also seen quite a few unfortunate souls. After all, there really were a lot of people who died in there.

But this was their first time seeing anything like this.

"It's so dark! So narrow! So scary!"

Standing at the entrance to the road and looking at the adventurer who had been half-swallowed by a Treasure Chest Monster, Duanmu Huai was utterly speechless.

"Come to think of it, I've seen this kind of scenario in a book before."

"A book?"

"Yeah..."

Duanmu Huai silently sighed. A girl immobilized by a Treasure Chest Monster, encountering an ill-intentioned adventurer, who then took advantage of her inability to resist and hehehehehehehe...

Although the scenes drawn in those books were quite stimulating, in real life... who would be interested in someone whose body was half-bitten by a Treasure Chest Monster?

"Ah, here it is after all."

Just as Duanmu Huai was making his sarcastic comment, several figures appeared on the road on the other side. Duanmu Huai turned his head and saw three adventurers approaching. The adventurer in the lead looked at Duanmu Huai and the others, froze for a moment, then smiled and nodded at them. After that, he walked behind the adventurer being devoured by the chest and reached out to grab her by the waist...

Huh? No way. Surely no one would actually dare do something like that in broad daylight.

"Hey."

Fortunately, the adventurer did not strip the unfortunate girl as Duanmu Huai had imagined. Instead, he grabbed her and shoved her farther inside. The Treasure Chest Monster then let out