"Ah, we're in."
Poking her head out of the bushes before pulling the rest of herself through, Lin Xiaolu planted her feet on the slightly damp ground, looked around, and made a rather pointless observation.
What lay before her was no longer the campus scenery of the Silver Gallery. Instead, it was a long corridor, its ceiling and walls entirely formed of shrubs and flowers, filling the surroundings with a faint fragrance.
The process of entering this labyrinth from the Silver Gallery had been somewhat peculiar. Lin Xiaolu and the others had lined up to enter the back Garden of the Silver Gallery, followed the other examinees along the only path for a while, turned at the only corner, and arrived at a "dead end" surrounded by bushes. The examiner on site had told them to walk straight through the "dead end," explaining that crawling through the bushes in front of them would lead them into the labyrinth. Lin Xiaolu had done as instructed.
And then she was inside.
After she made that utterly unremarkable remark, rustling sounds came from behind her. Before long, Mint and Bai Jingxuan entered the same way.
"Oh, we're in."
Mint made an equally unremarkable observation.
"So what do we do next? Just start looking for the exit?"
Having finished surveying their surroundings, Lin Xiaolu turned to her two teammates. "Theoretically, we can go either forward or backward right now. Which way would be better?"
"Mm... don't rush."
A thoughtful look appeared on Mint's face. She slowly walked to one of the shrub walls, reached out, and pressed her palm against it. "Can you feel it? Everything in the labyrinth's corridors—the walls, the ground, even the ceiling—has a very faint mana fluctuation."
"I can feel it."
Lin Xiaolu looked unconcerned. "But this whole labyrinth was