"What the f******!!!"
Amidst the violent roar, Lu Mingfei and others, who were still trapped in the maze, felt a bit confused in their hearts.
With Norton waking up, the maze was already collapsing, and now it's collapsing even faster because of the battle between the two in the distance!
The bronze walls as tall as mountains continued to fall like dominoes under the influence of violent shock waves, and all they could do if they were trapped inside was to escape desperately!
"I knew I shouldn't have followed!"
Lu Mingfei shouted filial piety as he ran, don't ask him why, ask him because he is running last now, if he is going to die, he will be the first one!
Boom boom boom——
Violent roars sounded from behind like a death knell.
Without looking back, Mingfei knew that it was the sound of the collapsing bronze walls hitting each other layer by layer.
Although it wasn't the turn of the walls behind or around them yet, the sound was getting closer, which meant the danger was getting closer.
Facing the bronze wall that collapsed like this, their strength was really as small as ants.
Unless they find an exit from this maze, they can only be crushed to death. After all, none of them were ruthless enough to be monster enough to withstand the weight of so many walls pressing together.
But the most damning thing is...this maze has no exit at all!
"What should we do!? Didn't you promise to protect us?"
Lu Mingfei asked with a filial piety.
"..."
Chen Duo and Liu Hongzhong ran in silence without answering.
"Protection depends on the situation, okay! Even we are in danger now!"
Liu Wukui retorted without politeness at all.
"I have no choice but to run! There is no other way! If you have the strength to talk nonsense, why not run faster! Otherwise, just wait here to die!"
"But...but..."
Lu Mingfei gasped, "I can't run anymore..."
As the only weakling among the people, when faced with a situation where his life was at stake, he couldn't care less and said he couldn't do it.
"This is easy to handle! Brother!"
"Why……"
Liu Hongzhong sighed and slowed down his pace. After Lu Mingfei caught up, he picked up Lu Mingfei and accelerated his pace again.
With his current 'Mixed-blood Monarch' physique, a man weighing only a hundred pounds would not be able to affect his running at all, and it seemed that just continuing to run like this was not an option.
"Didn't the boss say there is no exit here before? Where can we run to?"
"..." Chen Duo remained silent.
"Don't ask me!" Liu Wukui snorted and turned his head.
"I don't know." Caesar spread his hands as if it had nothing to do with him, "Chu Zihang, what can you do?"
Now that Sun Haoran and Ange are both not here, they are the only two people who can serve as the backbone.
The three people in the company all look very strong, but at a glance it is clear that they have too little experience, especially the Liu brothers and sisters, who are complete brats. And he and Chu Zihang were still considered 'leaders', and they definitely had a much greater say in decision-making than the others.
"You still need to ask me?" Chu Zihang calmly turned his head and looked at Caesar, "Looking at you, you don't feel worried at all. You should already know what's going on, right?"
"yes……"
Caesar sighed helplessly, "Actually, we just need to stop, stand still, and wait for rescue... provided that Sun Haoran can really kill Norton."
"What do you mean?" Lu Mingfei asked with some confusion.
"Do you want to play dominoes?" Chu Zihang replied calmly.
"No...but I know the principle." Lu Mingfei was a little anxious, "Have you never eaten pork before and haven't seen a pig running?"
"Actually, you should eat pork often. You may have never seen a pig running around. After all, you live in the city..." Chu Zihang answered seriously.
"Brother, is this the key point!?" Lu Mingfei was going crazy. How did these people's brain circuits develop? ?
"Don't worry. In fact, our lives are not in danger, at least not yet. Even if we stop immediately, we won't be crushed to death." Chu Zihang explained calmly, as if he was really preparing to slow down.
"What's the meaning!?"
"Stupid, just imagine these bronze walls as falling dominoes, and then mentally simulate the scene after they fall." Caesar reminded.
"Forehead?"
Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized.
They just walked around here and found nothing, but they did find out the approximate thickness of a wall. No... Such a wall can no longer be described as a 'wall'. It is a cube about a hundred meters high and five meters thick. If If the inside is empty, it will be completely filled with people!
He imagined the situation of those trapped inside.
Take two dominoes standing side by side as an example. They are in the middle of the two dominoes.
When one domino falls, it will hit the other domino. Unless they have Sun Haoran's ability to climb a hundred-meter wall with no point of strength with bare hands, or can overturn a wall by themselves, it is impossible to climb up before the wall tilts, and when the wall tilts...
It must have been crushed by the wall that fell first, and the pressed position must be above. In other words, the escape path did not exist from the beginning.
But that doesn't mean they'll be crushed to death by a falling wall.
Because the fallen walls have volume, if they fall down like a domino, there will be a cavity between the lowest parts of the two walls. And based on the thickness of these bronze walls, the size of the cavity will not separate them at all. Several were crushed to death.
"Then why are you running?"
After Lu Mingfei figured it out, he immediately stopped and sat down on the ground and started to mess around.
"Hey, hey, hey, what do you mean?" Liu Wukui hadn't understood the conversation between them, "What dominoes are running? Why aren't you running?"
"Um? Don't you have a childhood?"
"You...you, you, you!" Liu Wukui blushed, stamped his feet and glared at a few people with an aura on his face, "Brother! They bullied me!"
"Hey..." Liu Hongzhong sighed again.
He and his sister did not have much childhood. They were abandoned since childhood due to physical reasons and grew up dependent on each other. Before his physical problem was solved, Liu Wukui, the younger sister, even had to take care of his brother who was holding him back.
"You guys, can you be more careful when you talk to my sister?"
Crunch——
The sound of bones cracking continued to explode on Liu Hongzhong's body.
Although his speech spirit has also been suppressed by the 'commandments', he is not weaker than a few people in the academy based on the physique of the mixed-blood monarch.
"Excuse me."
Caesar covered Lu Mingfei's mouth, and Chu Zihang seemed to understand the gloom in the boy's eyes and apologized.
"In short, what we probably mean is..." Chu Zihang listened to the direction of the roar and judged the direction in which he could escape, "If there is no way to climb this wall, or push it down before the wall behind it comes over. With it, we don’t have to struggle, and we won’t die if we stand where we are..."
Caesar continued his analysis: "Because this is a wall made of bronze and not a stone wall, the strength should be sufficient. We don't have to worry about it collapsing in the middle of falling. The space left after the wall is pressed down is enough for us. It’s just that if no one rescues us in the end, we will be trapped inside and die.”
"Isn't that still death?"
Liu Wukui didn't understand much, but he probably understood that they could live a little longer.
"What? Are you also worried that Sun Haoran can't kill the Dragon King?"
"No..." Liu Hongzhong shook his head slightly.
How strong Sun Haoran is, he is probably the one who has the most say among the people here. Although he was not very conscious at the time, the pain of being ravaged by that man will never be forgotten as if it has been engraved in his soul.
"What I'm worried about is whether the boss will have the strength to break open so many walls and dig us out after taking care of the Dragon King."
"Yes, that's why we were just running with you to see if there would be a gap in the collapsed maze that could be exited due to the collapse." Caesar spread his hands.
"It was there just now, but it's gone now." Chu Zihang said.
"What do you mean?" Liu Wukui frowned slightly, "If there is something, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"The place destroyed by the battle between Sun Haoran and Norton is the only exit of this maze. Only there can be exited." Chu Zihang explained calmly, "But it was also the first place to collapse, and obviously, we have been there since the beginning. Can’t catch up.”
As he spoke, he looked in the direction behind.
The rumbling sounds continued, which meant that they would soon be buried by these cold bronze walls.
If they can't get out of trouble by themselves, they can only rely on Sun Haoran or Ange.
Sun Haoran is currently fighting the King of Bronze and Fire, and the outcome is still unknown. And Principal Angers... was helpless at this moment.
The only time the principal can save them is when the maze has just collapsed. If it is at that time, relying on the power of 'Time Zero', there may be a chance to take them out.
But unfortunately, the principal seemed to have made the worst judgment because he was eager to kill the Dragon King. He left them first and kept the distance so far that it was too late to turn back and rescue them at the time of the incident.
That's right, Angers had already evacuated from the maze alone at this moment.
He looked at the maze that collapsed behind him, and then at the two people who collided with each other far away in the Nibelungen. He clenched his hands and his eyes were full of anger.
Because of that damn Dragon King, he once again survived alone.
"Why……"
A silent sigh came from Angers mouth.
He looked at the figure above him fighting the Dragon King and couldn't help but sigh again.
"It's so similar..."
As early as the first time he met this young man named Sun Haoran, he had an unusually familiar feeling.
And until now...this feeling is becoming clearer and clearer.
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1900, autumn, late night, drizzle.
Port of Hamburg.
The waves lapped on the stone piers of the port, and a man in a windbreaker stood quietly on the pier.
Under the windbreaker that was blown by the sea breeze, a shimmering silver could be faintly seen, which was the long knife on his waist. He held the silver-embedded hilt in his hand, with an ancient silver ring on his finger.
The man's golden eyes narrowed into a slit, and he looked at the dark, windy and rainy sea through the lenses of his brown glasses.
"Meniek, the time for the transaction is coming, and the preparations here have been completed."
A male voice came from behind, speaking standard Chinese.
Lu Shanyan walked behind Meineke. He was an authentic Chinese, 25 years old, with brown eyes, clear and soft lines on his face, and a figure similar to Meineke.
The person in front of him was his close friend, the heir to the Cassel family, a famous dragon-slaying family in the West, and a standard Western aristocrat.
He himself was an important member of the Westernization faction. In the 16th year of Guangxu's reign, he was selected to be sent to the Tongwen Hall of the Capital, and he is now an elite military attaché of the Qing Dynasty.
In short, slaying a dragon is always an expensive thing. To slay a dragon, you must first have financial freedom. If you don't have money, you can't even buy a knife or bullets, so how can you slay a dragon?
A dark windbreaker covered Lu Shanyan's Qing Dynasty dress, and his thick whip was hidden in a top hat.
At this moment, Lu Shanyan looked a little cautious. After all, what they were going to trade with each other next... was very special.
So he was as fully armed as Menek, and his waist also shone with metallic light. These were two silver large-caliber revolvers!
The gun has been specially modified. In Lu Shanyan's hands, it can fire forty bullets continuously in a short period of time at an extremely fast rate of fire, and his gun never fails to fire.
Yes, as a military attache, he is of course different from those useless people who are addicted to opium. He is a dragon slayer who has experienced hundreds of battles. Running on the line of life and death all the time has allowed him to develop a skill that is unparalleled. marksmanship.
But what he was going to face next forced him to be cautious even though he had both guns in hand and his superb marksmanship.
"Don't be so nervous, Menike, Shanyan..."
Someone said in a relaxed tone.
If the tone Lu Shanyan spoke just now was that he was in a meeting, then this person was probably here for an outing, and the two were completely incompatible.
But for some reason, after hearing this, the solemn expressions on both Menike's and Lu Shanyan's faces softened a lot.
They looked back at the speaker.
If Sun Haoran were here at this moment, he would probably be extremely surprised.
Because the man speaking... actually looks 90% like him!
"Hahaha. Sun, seeing that you are still the same as usual, I suddenly felt a lot more at ease."
Meineke chuckled and looked at the relaxed man leaning on the cargo box behind.
"Be serious, Yaohui." Lu Shanyan shook his head helplessly, "This transaction is different from usual. You know... the goods delivered this time are probably..."
"Dragon King?" Sun Yaohui chuckled, the relaxed expression on his face not changing at all.
He is such a person, always with a smile as bright as the sun on his face, no matter what he faces.
Every time they faced such a smile, Lu Shanyan and Menieke could only smile helplessly.
