The Strange Creatures present were being treated as "hostages," but they had no way to object.
Su Bai closed his eyes to sense Little Fire's location, then set blue flames burning somewhere in the Inn.
He trusted that the Inn itself could sense the threat posed by these insignificant humans.
Although Su Bai and Wu Heng had only verbally stated the "ransom" they wanted the Inn to pay, their actual consumption of Strange Creatures, along with the blue flame purifying filth in some corner of the Inn, gave them more than enough bargaining power.
Rumble-
Perhaps the Inn had understood the "sincerity" Su Bai and the others had shown. After a series of thunderous crashes, the walls around them began collapsing visibly, revealing brighter light from outside. Having grown accustomed to the dim surroundings, they found it uncomfortable. Players like Liang Yuyan, whose bodies had undergone little enhancement, found it downright dazzling, and she instinctively covered her eyes as the light shone in.
Once the surrounding walls had collapsed, what appeared before Su Bai and the others was not the endless maze from before, but the ordinary second-floor corridor. The size of the room they had just occupied did not match the corridor's width, but that was hardly unusual in an Inn with a consciousness of its own.
The changes in the space's width and height made Liang Yuyan stumble, nearly falling onto the corridor's thick, dark-red carpet. After steadying herself against the wall, she realized they had returned to familiar surroundings. Photographs of Strange Creatures and humans were plastered all over the walls.
Unlike before, the wall separating the hidden area from the outer area had also vanished amid the rumbling, revealing the complete layout of the Inn's second floor.
The Inn itself had not said a word from