Here is a world without daylight.
Dark night is the only scenery that can be seen here.
On the land of eternal night, a boundless maze rises from the ground. The high wall of more than 100 meters divides the land continuously, leaving only a width less than six people's arm span (approximately 11 meters) for passage.
Dark clouds covered the sky, covering up the only moonlight, leaving only scattered stardust sending weak signals to the earth.
There is no life in the barren land, only a cemetery composed of endless mazes, with towering tomb walls built for the creatures that have existed.
But sometimes... there will be some lost little creatures who stray into this eternal paradise built for the undead.
As for these outsiders who mistakenly enter this place, as the undead living here... they will actively or passively start to eliminate [foreign objects].
There are only two ways left in front of outsiders. Either they will be reduced to ashes under the purge of the undead, and their souls will be completely transformed into a member of this place.
Or...find the non-existent way of survival in the endless pursuit of the undead.
"Haah! Haah!"
In a small corner of the maze, a young man wearing a black hooded suit was running hard in the maze.
At this moment, he was like a headless fly, constantly shuttling through a maze with complicated lines, as if hoping that the next corner would be the exit.
But it is a pity that this kind of small hope is infinitely close to zero in this almost endless maze...
After running through countless maze corners, the young man gradually stopped.
However, from the way he kept looking back behind him, and the still-tinged look of panic in his eyes, we could tell that some unknown creature beyond his knowledge was following him relentlessly.
His sweat-soaked back pressed against the high wall of the maze, and the biting chill concentrated his dissipating consciousness.
The eyes under the hood quickly scanned the surroundings, and the disordered and rapid breathing quickly subsided under the young man's conscious control.
Huh...huh...
The cold wind of the eternal night keeps blowing through the maze, and the slightly harsh wind seems to be a lament for the dead, and it also seems to be mocking the screams of the young people who are not overestimated.
"Uh-huh..."
A large number of "Gaya Bubble Sounds" reached the ears along with the shrieking of the wind, making the young man's originally relaxed body tense up again.
The body clinging to the wall slowly moved towards the dark corner until the entire body was completely submerged in the darkness.
At the same time that he was submerged in the darkness, pale arms crowded out from the high wall, floating like white streamers in the cold wind.
Looking at the pale arms that kept stretching out towards him, the young man in the darkness forgot to breathe several times.
"Uh-huh..."
This was the first time for the young man to hear the representative bubble sound of Kayako at such a close distance. At this time, he wanted to bury his entire body into the wall.
But what is somewhat surprising is that at this time... his mind is in an extremely excited state, and his scattered consciousness is highly condensed under the pressure of the surrounding environment.
"Ouch!——"
The resounding barks of dogs spread throughout the maze, and the pale arms that originally covered the entire wall disappeared from the high wall in the blink of an eye, leaving only the barking of the dogs in the cold wind.
"Oops!"
With a cry from the secret passage, the young man quickly escaped from the huge shadow cast by the high wall and ran towards the next corner of the maze in large strides.
Just ten minutes after he left, a large hound, whose outline could only be seen clearly, was leaning over to smell the still strong smell of strangers in the maze.
The stranger's scent made the hound extremely excited, and its tail flicked rapidly over the high wall.
On the ground where the dog's tail was thrown, debris from the high wall continued to fall down, leaving only scars on the wall that looked like they had been torn apart by a chain saw.
"Ouch!"
The hound roared excitedly, and followed the scent traces left by the young man quickly.
The young man kept running forward without daring to stop for a moment. With his keen hearing and the quiet environment around him, he could hear the low roar of the hounds even from a long distance.
(At most, being caught by the cursed nightmare means that you will be imprisoned waiting for assimilation. At least you will have a chance to escape. But if you let the hound catch up, you will really have no chance of being assimilated.)
With this thought in his mind, the already windy pace at his feet speeded up again. The young man under the starry night is like a black shadow, constantly traveling through the maze.
The hound chasing him seemed to have merged into the darkness at this moment, and there was no sound of wind during the attack.
"Hooo!"
Just as he turned a new corner, the increasingly excited growl of a hound sounded from another corner less than a hundred meters away.
As the distance quickly shortened, the scent of strangers left in the maze became stronger, which also meant that it was close to its prey.
The young man running in front looked shocked. He had imagined the pursuit distance and time between the two in his mind, but he did not expect that the opponent could be so fast.
(The gap is fifteen minutes, and you can catch up in less than three minutes... Does it have the blood of the Hound of Tindalos!)
Surprised in his heart, the young man's eyes quickly glanced towards the high wall not far away. Using the starlight reflected from the wall into his eyes, he searched for the extremely fine lines on the wall.
(Come soon... Although you can't see clearly, as long as there are lines on the wall, it means there must be a "safe house" around.)
The young man moved quickly while reaching out and stroking the uneven lines on the wall. The excited low roar of the hound behind him was already close at hand, but the young man had been groping for a long time but still couldn't find the so-called [mechanism].
"Roar...woof!"
The hound with dim eyes slowly walked out of the darkness. Its low forelimbs and tight body showed the young man that it had fully entered hunting mode.
And as a low growl sounded in the young man's ears, the figure of the hound came directly up to him in the twinkling starlight. The sharp claws that reflected the cold light were raised above his head. It seemed that the action was intended to tear the young man into raw meat.
"Bo!"
"boom!"
The young man's body was torn apart like a bubble by the strong wind pressure around him.
The hound's sharp claws also fell at the same moment, and the ground that was highly integrated with the maze was directly torn open with a crack as deep as the pond.
The sky was filled with smoke and dust, and gray-black hard clods of different sizes kept flying out of the smoke and hitting the wall. The huge figure of the hound was completely obscured in the smoke.
The next second, the hound's tail began to swing rapidly, and the strong wind blew away all the choking dust around it.
When the smoke and dust dissipated, the hound also lowered its head and looked towards the center of the pit, its eyes even showing a hint of human anticipation of death.
But to its disappointment, there was not even a trace of red left in the center of the pit, not to mention corpses or pieces of meat. Under the deep pit like an exhausted pond, there is only the gray-black land that has been eroded by the depth of the labyrinth.
"Woo!"
The unwilling roar of the hound continued to echo in the maze, and the cursed nightmares who were still waiting for an opportunity disappeared amid the barking of the dogs.
The unwilling hound lay directly on the spot, staring intently at the deep pit that was being gradually repaired by the maze itself, and kept whimpering unwillingly from its closed mouth.
"Jingle Bell!"
Under the dark night, the crisp and loud bells kept ringing in every dark corner of the maze. The calm but short voice seemed to be calling the children who were playing outside, so that they could go home as soon as possible.
"Woof!"
Upon hearing the bell, the hound changed his attitude, his colorless eyes once again showed an excited light, and his rapidly swishing tail scratched the maze wall again.
With more excitement than when hunting, the hound turned back in the direction from which it came, returning with a speed even more ghostly than when hunting.
And as the hound left, the maze returned to its original silence.
The scattered starlight gradually gathered over time, illuminating the completely restored maze.
The uneven lines continue to extend on the wall, and under the reflection of the starlight, a line outline that looks like a human shape is outlined.
After a long time, the lines that were originally dead objects trembled slightly. A pair of eyes that belonged to the murals in the lines slowly opened their eyes, and the lines in the human form were also given vitality at this moment.
The humanoid pattern on the wall looked at himself in this form in disbelief, and then remembered what had just happened.
