While Xia Liang's squad had already gone through a battle, Lin Xiaolu and the others were still racking their brains over the puzzle before them.
—"Bo Xue, are you done over there?"
"Mm... almost!"
"Hurry up, I'm about to reach it on my end!"
"I'm already going as fast as I can!"
"White Rose, what about you?"
"I'm supplying the magic power! Focus on your own job! Stop asking!"
Yes, they had successfully found a puzzle.
Or rather, not "found," but successfully "seized" a puzzle.
After discovering traps laid by another squad in the passageway earlier, they had played along, identifying and checking the number and types of traps placed throughout the corridor. Then, they detonated all the destructive items at once. In the end, they successfully blasted a hole into the maze passageway.
At Mint's suggestion, the three of them had cautiously avoided moving any traps. When triggering them, they had used as little of their own magic power as possible. Thus, responsibility for the explosion had indeed not been pinned on them, but on the Magical Girls who had set the traps.
And the reason they knew this was that, after the explosion, the stream of cursing from the other end of the passageway had been unmistakable.
After passing through the corridor, where the traps had mostly been cleared out, Lin Xiaolu and the other two found, just as Mint had predicted, a half-solved puzzle.
The walkways around the puzzle still held extremely chaotic remnants of magic power, along with many signs of human activity. It was therefore almost certain that another squad had been working on solving it here not long ago.
Perhaps they had been too excited after discovering the puzzle, or perhaps the lengthy solving process had clouded their judgment. In order to protect their