"The timer's still running, so we have room to experiment." Xu Huo wasn't in a hurry. "We can ask someone if we run into anyone on the way."
Mu Yan nodded knowingly and called Li Cheng, who was behind them, to set off.
Unexpectedly, they didn't encounter anyone for a long time. Surrounded by the fog, it was hard not to feel abandoned in some isolated place with no way out.
"Maybe we should wait until dawn to continue," Mu Yan said. "We haven't rested all night. You two must be tired, too."
The three stopped to rest. Nothing else happened before dawn, but when the time came for daybreak, the maze still didn't brighten. The sky remained gray and dim, hardly any better than at night.
Had the Dungeon... changed its tricks again?
The three exchanged glances. Without wasting words, they continued along the route they had taken the previous night.
The dense fog dulled the Players' senses, reducing the quality of everything they saw and heard. The maze passages were especially long, and sometimes they couldn't even make out what lay at the far end.
The three had no choice but to slow down.
After walking for a while, Xu Huo stopped and looked back.
"What is it?" Mu Yan and Li Cheng stopped too, but they hadn't sensed anything behind them.
"Nothing for now." Xu Huo trusted his judgment. The other person had appeared for an instant before vanishing. With a long passage behind them, where could he have hidden?
Or was he not a Player at all?
Seeing how serious he looked, Mu Yan and Li Cheng grew alert and put a little more distance between themselves.
They had only shifted their positions slightly and hadn't picked up speed, but two minutes later, Xu Huo slowed