Zhao Xun did not answer Su Tiantian's question right away. Instead, he asked another question. "When did you get back?"
Su Tiantian did not mind and answered directly, "Last night."
"I killed him," Zhao Xun answered her earlier question, then asked, "You got back pretty late. Were you having fun in there?"
"I knew it was you. Who else could beat me to killing the Minotaur?" Su Tiantian gave a soft huff, then smiled again. "You even guessed that. It's rare for a maze game to be that interesting. Watching the show was pretty fun, too."
As she spoke, she leaned a little closer to Zhao Xun. "Do you know what the game turned into after you left?"
"Judging by your expression, it must have gotten interesting." Zhao Xun smiled.
"It wasn't bad." Su Tiantian stopped keeping him in suspense and explained, "After the Minotaur died, all the traps in the chambers disappeared completely."
She deliberately paused here. Seeing that Zhao Xun's expression remained unchanged, as though this did not surprise him, understanding dawned on her face. "So when the maze's traps stopped working for over ten hours earlier, that was because you put the Minotaur into a deathlike state."
When she first discovered that the traps had stopped working, she had not assumed they would never have to worry about traps again, unlike some of the naïve new players.
She suspected it had something to do with the Minotaur's condition, but could not be certain.
Only after the system's public announcement informed all players that the Minotaur was dead, and every trap stopped working completely, did she confirm what had happened earlier.
Zhao Xun had just admitted that he had killed the Minotaur, which meant he had cleared the game and left at that point. He could not have