Chapter 77
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Three large black and decaying birds charged towards Lou Yan together, the wind from their flapping wings causing Lou Yan’s clothes to sway in the air.
Li Sannin’s eyes widened in horror, and he immediately opened his mouth, emitting a crying sound similar to that of a baby.
The sharp and penetrating sound seemed to create shockwaves in the air, directly impacting the large birds. The cry of the ghost baby successfully halted the attack of the black birds on Lou Yan, while Lin You swiftly attempted to climb up the wall using his wolf claws to bring Lou Yan down.
After so many years of companionship between Lou Yan and Li Sannin, their understanding was unparalleled. In the instant the cry of the ghost baby sounded, Lou Yan ignored the other two black birds rushing towards them from behind, focusing solely on the one charging towards them from the front.
Lou Yan believed that Li Sanxin would definitely help him delay the attacks of the two black birds behind him, and Li Sanxin did not disappoint his trust. Because of this trust, Lou Yan accurately seized the brief time difference that Li Sanxin fought for him. When the black bird was less than a meter away from him, Lou Yan flicked his wrist, fiercely whipping out his spinal whip and wrapping it around the black bird’s neck.
The spinal whip was extremely sharp, instantly cutting off a piece of already rotten flesh from the black bird’s neck. The black bird let out an angry roar, and Lou Yan, with eyes ablaze, suddenly took two steps forward. Leveraging the tension of the spinal whip, he leaped high and smoothly flipped over, landing on the back of the black bird!
The black bird let out a piercing scream, angrily raised its neck, and flapped its wings, trying to throw Lou Yan off its back. Lou Yan tightly hugged the black bird’s neck with both hands, lowered his body to avoid the strong wind, and was directly lifted into the air by the black bird!
“Yanzi—!” Li Sanxin’s pupils dilated, his face tense, and he ran towards the direction where the black bird was flying away.
Lin You took a deep breath, quickly following Li Sanxin, his face full of disapproval. “Comrade Lou Yan’s approach is too dangerous!”
The black bird was fast, and its smell was extremely foul and nauseating. The cold wind at high altitude blew Lou Yan’s black hair back, revealing his full forehead. The whistling wind in his ears, the rotten flesh of the black bird under him, and Lou Yan’s gray prison uniform billowed up high in the wind. The black bird struggled fiercely, but Lou Yan firmly held onto it, and against the gusts of wind, he leaned down from the black bird’s neck and looked down at the maze below.
There was nowhere else clearer than the perspective from the back of the black bird, where the entire maze layout could be seen.
Lou Yan’s eyes sparkled, and he wasted no time observing the entire huge maze from the high-altitude viewpoint. But soon, the other two black birds caught up from behind.
Lou Yan glanced back, tightening the spinal whip even more. Feeling the pain beneath him, the black bird let out a miserable cry and flew even faster.
In order to shake off Lou Yan, the black bird dashed wildly in the air, rolling violently or slamming its back against the curved edge of the wall from time to time. But Lou Yan seemed unfazed by the pain, holding on firmly and not being thrown off by the black bird. With the black bird carrying him up and down in the sky, Lou Yan almost managed to see the entire map of the maze.
And in the process of memorizing the maze, Lou Yan saw someone familiar.
Wen Yian was hiding with two men, evading an anomaly, while masked hunters played with humans like cats playing with mice. Li Sanxin and Lin You followed closely behind his flight path, and humans found and died in various corners, leaving crimson traces of blood…
As Lou Yan flew against the cold wind, he did not see Fu Xuezhou, but he found the passage to the second floor. At the moment he saw the passage’s location, a smile appeared on Lou Yan’s face. He suddenly exerted force with his arms and mercilessly broke the black bird’s neck below him with the spinal whip.
The bird was useless and could die now.
The rotten flesh and pale bones of the black bird were instantly severed by the spinal whip. The black bird let out a final mournful cry, then plummeted to the ground with Lou Yan on its back.
Lou Yan fell headfirst, the wind blowing his clothes upward, his hair making a “rustling” sound in his ears. Lou Yan felt like a bird with broken wings, only able to fall continuously, but he somewhat fell in love with this feeling — the freedom on the brink of life and death, from rushing from life to death in thrilling adventures, yet not actually dying.
In the midst of life and death, the soul could soar freely in the most unrestricted space.
Lou Yan smiled, opening his arms to embrace the freedom of this moment. The black bird, heavier than him, fell to the ground first, and before Lou Yan landed, he used the power of time reversal.
【Mental Power: 45/70】
Time began to flow rapidly backward!
But at the moment when he used time reversal, Lou Yan saw Fu Xuezhou suddenly appear on the ground where he was about to fall.
Fu Xuezhou was dressed impeccably in a black prison guard uniform, standing upright with his silver hair scattered behind him like ice and snow. He wore a cold, featureless white mask, with only his eyes exposed, calm as if devoid of any emotions, yet with a faint mocking smile, and he accurately opened his gloved black hands towards the falling Lou Yan.
The two men locked eyes at a height of half a meter, and the next moment, Time Reversal five minutes ago.
At this moment, Lin You was trying to climb the wall. His hands waved in the air, instantly transforming into thick wolf claws.
Li Sanxin exclaimed, “Impressive!”
Lou Yan was slightly dazed, but quickly reacted after seeing this scene, immediately stopping him, “Lin You, come down!”
Lin You, who was about to climb the wall, stopped in surprise, turned his head and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Lou Yan exhaled hot air to dissipate the heat from his body. “I already know how to navigate the maze.”
Lin You instantly understood, “Did you use your talent to see the future?”
Lou Yan nodded without changing his expression, “Yes, you can come down now. In the future I saw, there are black rotten birds patrolling at high altitudes. Once you climb the wall, you will be discovered. Those black birds are fast and powerful, making it difficult to evade their attacks.”
Li Sanxin knew immediately that he had used the ability of time reversal and hurriedly fanned him to cool him down. “Are you okay, Yanzi?”
Lou Yan shook his head. “I’m fine. What can happen if I just stand here?”
Lin You also smoothly slid down from the wall. He found a piece of broken stone that he had crushed with his wolf claws, tossed it in his hand, and then threw it forcefully into the sky.
The gravel was thrown higher than the wall’s height, and Lin You and Li Sanxin looked up at the stones. The next moment, a black rotten bird flew quickly overhead, with the stone already in its mouth.
Li Sanxin exclaimed, “Such fast speed!”
Lin You, seeing that there were indeed black rotten birds patrolling in the air as Lou Yan had said, completely believed that Lou Yan could see the future. He nodded towards Lou Yan and asked, “What do we need to do next?”
Lou Yan closed his eyes, recalled the maze map he had just seen in his mind, found the route between his current location and the location of the second-floor passage, then opened his eyes and took the lead to move forward. “Leave the next road to me.”
Li Sanxin completely trusted Lou Yan, and Lin You also chose to believe him. The three of them shuttled through the maze together, gradually approaching the passage to the second floor with a speed that was not very fast but definitely not slow.
Lou Yan’s “Crisis Perception” had worked twice during this period, helping the three of them avoid two anomalies. Just under an hour after the start of the amusement park, Lou Yan’s mental power had dropped to 35 points.
Lou Yan considered whether to temporarily disable the passive reminder of “Crisis Perception,” but ultimately decided not to.
Because in this maze where you didn’t know where the next danger would lurk or suddenly appear, Lou Yan’s “Crisis Perception” was the most useful detector. The passive reminder of “Crisis Perception” could be turned off on other floors, but in the huge maze of the first floor, Lou Yan absolutely couldn’t turn it off.
If his mental power was insufficient, Lou Yan could just take a break to recover after passing through the first-floor maze.
You see, just one month after the Anomaly Resurgence, the vast majority of those who came to participate in the amusement park had only awakened their talent abilities, and most of them wouldn’t even know the secret of humans and anomalies being able to merge. Under these circumstances, those who awakened talent abilities had only 20 points of mental power. And to get out of the first-floor maze, you would inevitably need the help of talent abilities to some extent. This meant that after clearing the first floor, most of the clearers would exhaust their mental power.
If they wanted the later stages of the game to be more exciting, anomalies would definitely give them some time to recover.
But it didn’t matter. Even if the anomalies didn’t give them time to recover, Lou Yan wasn’t worried—because both he and Li Sanxin had brought two mental power recovery syringes with them.
When they left to participate in the amusement park, Duan Zege and Lu Haoxiu insisted on giving them the syringe they had divided. According to them, it was an extra guarantee, a life-saving thing when needed. If it wasn’t needed anymore, they could just return it. Lou Yan and Li Sanxin couldn’t refuse, so they took the syringe with them.
This was also the reason why Lou Yan dared to use “Crisis Perception” so freely now.
Smooth sailing all the way, Lin You and Li Sanxin were somewhat incredulous at how smoothly things were going. Lin You couldn’t help but admire Lou Yan a bit. It was like Lou Yan had rehearsed in advance and knew which route was the safest and most convenient to reach the destination. Following Lou Yan, there was a satisfying feeling of knowing the answers to questions in advance.
In the blink of an eye, they were almost at the entrance to the second floor.
“Only fifty meters left,” Lou Yan turned around and whispered to them, “Be careful and stay vigilant.”
Li Sanxin and Lin You nodded solemnly, and Lou Yan smiled. When he turned back, “Crisis Perception” in his mind suddenly went wild with warnings.
The sound of military boots hitting the ground echoed in his ears. In an instant, an extreme danger approached Lou Yan from two hundred meters away. When “Crisis Perception” reacted, Lou Yan already felt a cold body pressing against his back.
A slender hand covered in black gloves grabbed Lou Yan’s neck, pressing him fiercely against the wall. The hunter, with silver long hair, lowered his head, looking down at the prisoner in his hands from above, suddenly smiled inexplicably, a smile that was extremely unsettling.
“Lou Yan, I gave you a week to think it over, or maybe I’m being too lenient.”
Author’s note:
After Chief Lou fell rapidly, Little Fu caught him and then the scene of time reversal was written~ After that, there will be illustrations for everyone to see.
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