Chapter 107: The Right Way to Open the Door
His brows drew together slightly. "We assumed there had to be a switch or a key to open the main gate—at least some key item. Without it, the gate couldn't be opened."
"But that information came from Lin Pei."
"What do you mean? Was he deliberately misleading us?" Gu Yu stopped what she was doing.
"Not necessarily. He might believe he was looking for a 'key' himself. We thought he was looking for a 'key,' so we followed suit. But leaving the Dungeon might not require opening the main gate."
"You mean there's another way to get out of the Dungeon?" Gu Yu thought for a moment. "That doesn't make sense. If there really were another way, why would Lin Pei go to all that trouble to help us draw the Aliens away from the gate?"
"He didn't look like he was pretending when he fought the Aliens," Shen Yi added.
Xu Huo said, "Lin Pei learned how to leave the town through some unknown channel, but his method might not be right."
Everyone present was taken aback. Then Shen Yi smacked his forehead. "That's right! We've all been assuming he knows how to get out and that we have to beat him to it. None of us even considered that he might be wrong!"
"We were so stupid! We actually believed that little weasel, Lin Pei. If he were that capable, he wouldn't still be stuck here without a way out." Gu Yu laughed, then added, "I think our original idea was sound. There are wires connected to the main gate, so there must be a control mechanism."
"Not necessarily," Xu Huo said. "If there were a switch to operate the gate, we would have found it by now, even