The Queen's Rise to the Top

Chapter 353

With her night vision skill gifted by the puppy from the south, Nan XiangWan took the lead. The useless Lan Jinli followed closely, crawling while pulling Nan XiangWan's shoes and undoing her shoelaces.

Gu Beihuai, as usual, took up the rear.

The three crawled through the passage. In the pitch dark scene, Lan Tianyou kept talking nonstop.

Lan Tianyou: "King Gu?"

Gu Beihuai: "Here."

Lan Tianyou: "Good, Nan XiangWan?"

Nan XiangWan: "What is it now?"

Lan Tianyou: "Don't crawl so fast..."

Nan XiangWan slowed down, feeling the shaky breath of Lan Jinli behind her. She looked ahead.

The passage was long and dark, giving a feeling that there was no end.

After crawling for some unknown time, and after countless pleas from Lan Tianyou to slow down, Nan XiangWan saw a corner up ahead.

Nan XiangWan: "Pay attention, there's a turn."

Lan Tianyou: "Slow down, slow down, I'm scared."

Gu Beihuai: "..."

The three continued crawling. Reaching the corner, Nan XiangWan saw someone ahead with her night vision.

Zhou Wenxia, who took the lead, was crawling over. Behind her, Guan Liangzhe and Yun Qian seemed to be very tired from crawling.

With her night vision, Nan XiangWan could see everything clearly. But Zhou Wenxia ahead couldn't see anything.

Seeing her teammates, Nan XiangWan reached out her hand to pull them.

Suddenly!

Zhou Wenxia: "Ah!!!!"

The shriek echoed through the passage, scaring Guan Liangzhe and Yun Qian silly.

Lan Tianyou also shuddered. What happened? What happened? How could there be someone?

Zhou Wenxia: "Something grabbed my hand!!!"

She couldn't see anything and was just crawling. Then suddenly, a hand touched hers.

Nan XiangWan's mouth twitched: "It's me."

Zhou Wenxia: "..."

After a brief silence, Zhou Wenxia crawled forward quickly for a few steps and crashed into Nan XiangWan's arms.

Zhou Wenxia: "You scared me to death!"

Nan XiangWan: "You scared me too."

That shriek just now surpassed the limits of a female singer!

The two teams met and chatted excitedly.

Guan Liangzhe was the most excited: "Little Lan!"

Lan Tianyou was also very excited: "Brother Guan!"

Guan Liangzhe: "I'm so scared, Little Lan!"

Lan Tianyou: "I'm scared too, Brother Guan!"

If not for the narrow passage that only allowed one person through at a time, these two would probably have hugged each other immediately.

Over here, Nan XiangWan was much calmer. She quickly exchanged information with Zhou Wenxia.

Zhou Wenxia: "We were sealed in a mirror. We utilized the reflection to draw the ghost in the mirror into the mirror before we came out. Then there was this passage."

Nan XiangWan: "???"

Zhou Wenxia: "Say something?"

Nan XiangWan: "No, I don't understand. What dark magic is that?"

Zhou Wenxia: "I mean, we cracked the secret room and came to this passage."

Nan XiangWan: "We did too. I pried open four coffin lids."

Zhou Wenxia: "Oh... That's still quite scary over there!"

Nan XiangWan: "Where to next?"

Zhou Wenxia: "Behind us is the mirror world we sealed off. Ahead should be the space you came from."

Nan XiangWan: "What the heck. Neither direction leads anywhere?"

Surely we can't return to start right? Then what's the point of this secret room!

Gu Beihuai's voice came from the back: "Look around for mechanisms."

Nan XiangWan immediately stretched out her hand and knocked on the passage wall beside her.

Knock!

A section of the passage wall sank in.

Zhou Wenxia: "Nan XiangWan, it should be a switch to press down or pull out. And go easy on your strength."

Nan XiangWan: "Oh, got it."

She changed to pressing with her palm. Another section of the wall sank in.

Zhou Wenxia: "..."

Yun Qian: "Let's search together?"

Embarrassed, Nan XiangWan withdrew her hand.

Not only did she not find anything, she almost brought the passage down.

The six of them moved back and forth in the passage like ants, groping all over.

Eventually, it was still Nan XiangWan who found the key point.

With her night vision, the flailing hands of the others on both sides seemed like insect legs all shaking!

Everyone was touching around but finding nothing but the smooth passage walls.

Suddenly Nan XiangWan saw it right above and pointed: "It's up there."

Zhou Wenxia: "Hmm? It's above?"

Lan Tianyou reached up his hand and heard a 'click' sound.

Immediately, rays of light shone down and now everyone could see clearly.

Lan Tianyou had pushed open the passage exit!

It was right above his head!

At this moment, Lan Tianyou's hands were still awkwardly suspended in midair, holding up a piece of metal sheet, his expression dazed.

Guan Liangzhe: "Little Lan is awesome!"

This was like an elevator shaft, still only wide enough for one person. A ladder extended all the way up for about 3 meters.

Everyone hurriedly climbed up one by one, arriving at another space.

The entire space was huge with white interior, giving a futuristic feel.

Worth noting was that the ceiling above was not a wall surface, but a huge mirror.

Looking up, one could see everyone's expressions and positions.

Yun Qian's face paled a little: "It's a mirror again."

Zhou Wenxia: "I've got a bad feeling about this."

After everyone was up, they spread out to look for clues.

There were no partitions in this space. The entire floor was visible at one glance, brightly lit, seeming without abnormalities.

Guan Liangzhe and Lan Tianyou were already standing together, moving in sync.

Gu Beihuai stood next to Nan XiangWan, following her as she walked.

Zhou Wenxia and Yun Qian exchanged meaningful looks.

The space here was very big without many objects. There were only some scattered stuff on the floor, all kinds of weird things.

Lan Tianyou and Guan Liangzhe searched together, chatting away.

Guan Liangzhe: "I can't look down now or I'll feel dizzy."

Lan Tianyou: "Brother Guan, still drunk?"

Guan Liangzhe: "Don't mention it. I'm never drinking again."

Lan Tianyou: "Wanna go for a couple drinks tomorrow?"

Guan Liangzhe: "Sure, sure! You pick the place?"

Chatting, the two walked together without any sense of danger.

The six people split into three groups, moving in different directions. When the distance between the groups grew...

Click! The lights went out.

Immediately, screams came from the two useless ones, echoing loudly.

Zhou Wenxia and Yun Qian also hugged each other tightly, looking nervous.

Gu Beihuai's expression was unchanged as he stood still.

With her night vision, Nan XiangWan saw the mechanism's operation clearly. Mirrors rose from the ground with 'click clack' sounds, soon transforming the space into a mirror maze.

And with mirrors on all four sides, even the ceiling, the maze became even more disorienting!

When everything was ready, the lights came back on.

Except Nan XiangWan who had already seen things clearly, everyone else was stunned.

Then shouts came from the two other groups.

Zhou Wenxia: "We're done for!"

Yun Qian: "Nan XiangWan! Where are you?!"

Lan Tianyou: "What the hell is this?!"

Guan Liangzhe: "King! Nan XiangWan! Come save us!"