Chapter 543

Chapter 543: Island of Devil’s Maw (48)

Translator: Lonelytree

“That was the belief that I have used to survive in the illusion from the Origin of Horror.” Feng Bujue continued to explain, “This is called ‘reverse psychology’.” He then laughed, “But then perhaps the situation got a bit ‘out of control’ and that was the reason why the Heart of Terror would say something like that.

“Okay, I think I’ve heard enough, there is no need for you to continue.” Pegasus turned his head around.

“I too have lost my interest...” Ambitionist concurred. He was feeling quite helpless. Every time he paired up with Brother Jue, his sanity (a value in the Cthulhu Mythos table top game, it represents sanity or mental stability) would divebomb...Follow the latest novels at novelhall.com

Therefore, Brother Jue had once again successfully swindled his teammates... and then, he casually switched the topic and continued to lead his teammates forward. This time, the players were not wandering aimlessly anymore because before the Heart of Terror died, it had given them the direction to the Cage of Despair.

Actually... there were directions in the path within this crystalline maze and the trick was hidden on the surrounding crystalline columns. The Heart of Terror did not completely reveal to the players the secret, it only told them one of them; whenever they came across a split (where two or more paths were available), they only needed to stand at the centre of the any two paths and calculate the distance between the top tip of the right crystal column on the left and the crystal column on the right, as well as the angle formed between this aforementioned line and the ground, if the value of these two numbers is within a certain range, then it proved that they were on the right path.

Using this method, even if the road split into more than 5 paths, it did not matter as long as they could try it at every 2 paths. Feng Bujue, Pegasus and Ambitionist followed this method and continued to push forward. Initially they were making great time and everything was successful but after some time, the splits became more numerous and more and more crystalline columns appeared, this made it so that their progress started to slow down. Of course this was to be expected because the closer they got to the centre of the maze, the path that fitted the required condition would lessen. The centre of the maze had many dead ends and they were used to mislead outsiders. To put a long story short, this journey took more than 4 hours...

During this period, Feng Bujue’s group had stopped another time to replenish their hunger and ran into several monsters. Naturally battle could not be avoided, every one of them had paid some price but thankfully there was no serious injury and finally at the fifth hour...

Phew— That was the sound of crystal falling, and then... and then there was nothing...

“Hue~ So it is a bottomless hole...” Pegasus had his hands on his knees and knelt down to look into the edge of the hole.

“Yes, perhaps Lady Earth Flow (The Albino Rat Spirit from Journey to the West) is living under there.” Brother Jue mocked, “I could not contain myself anymore... Woohoo~”

“What is this ‘woohoo’ about...” Ambitionist commented with his lips twitching. “I have to warn you, now that Atobe is dead, none of us remaining knows the gag that you are playing. If you continue in this manner, we will only take you as someone who is acting crazy.”

“Hah... then never mind.” Feng Bujue shrugged. “In any case, I think I still should go down first.” Then, he took several steps back and prepared for a running start.

“Current quest completed. Main quest updated.” At that moment, two consecutive quest system announcement rang out and it interrupted Brother Jue’s movement. The players each opened their game menu to check the quest tab and saw that ‘arrive at the Cage of Despair’ had been ticked off. And the new quest that appeared was, ‘Figure out a way to open the cage.’

“What is with this new quest?” Pegasus asked, “This is already a hole, there is no lid... how are we supposed to ‘open’ it?”

“Perhaps... The ‘Cage of Despair’ is not the hole itself but it is an object down there under the hole.” Ambitionist presumed.

Feng Bujue though said, “Well, enough speculation. After I get down there, we’ll clarify everything.”

“That won’t be necessary.” Suddenly, a stranger’s voice said. At the same time, a hand landed on Feng Bujue’s shoulder.

“I will help you open it, travellers from another world...” The person followed it up with this and slowly emerged from the darkness.