Chapter 262: Second Layer: Maze (3) Finding the Pattern
Lin Qin did not stay at that gathering place.
After leaving, he continued making his way through the Maze. He had seen those looks far too many times—the eyes of people who had given up struggling after falling into despair.
But he was different.
He never gave up.
On the twentieth day, he encountered the first reset.
At the time, he was standing in the middle of a passage when he suddenly felt the surrounding walls tremble slightly. The tremor was faint; if not for his keen senses, he would not have noticed it at all. He stopped and looked at the stone walls on both sides.
The stone walls began to change.
They were not collapsing, nor were they moving. It was a deeper transformation—the patterns were flowing, the colors were changing, and new markings began to emerge on the once-smooth surfaces. He turned to look back at the path he had taken for half an hour. It was disappearing at a visible rate.
New passages were forming.
Dead ends became paths, while paths became dead ends. The knife marks he had left on the walls twisted and warped along with the shifting stone, ultimately vanishing completely.
The entire process lasted around ten breaths.
Ten breaths later, the Maze was completely renewed.
Lin Qin stood where he was, but everything around him had changed. What had just been the middle of a passage was now a fork in the road. Three brand-new passages stretched out before him, leading in three unknown directions.
He looked down at his feet, then up at the mist overhead.
A reset. This was the reset those people had mentioned.
At fixed intervals, the entire Maze would change completely. Every path changed, and every marker became