Chapter 6 Running away (1/2)

Wen Jiubo must be crazy!

The monster seemed very hungry. It roared as it quickly ran towards us, its loud footsteps making the entire corridor shake. The monster’s claws almost touched the edges of my clothes, and I barely escaped.

“What are you doing? It’ll devour you if you don’t run faster!” Wen Jiubo shouted at me. He grabbed my wrist before I could recover from the shock.

“What the hell are you doing?” I refuted as I ran as fast as I could. “How can we get out of this place? Now both of us will die in the mouth of this monster!”

We both desperately ran away, but the maze was so complicated that no matter which direction we picked, the only thing we could see were endless corridors with the same exact walls, repeating over and over.

If this continues…we’ll be caught by that horrible monster sooner or later!

Also, my stamina was far worse than Wen Jiubo’s. After a few minutes, I was already out of breath. My legs were so heavy it felt like they were made of lead.

“I can’t do this anymore, Wen Jiubo…I’ve already…” I said with difficulty. My feet felt like jelly. “We’re going to die here!”

I did not need to look back to know that the monster was approaching. I could smell its disgusting breath.

Suddenly, I heard the sound of something cutting through the wind by my ear. Before I could understand what happened, Wen Jiubo grabbed me and threw me on the floor. I heard the sound of claws piercing flesh; I looked back and saw that Wen Jiubo had taken a blow from that monster for me.

The monster did not succeed. It let out an angry roar before it opened its mouth and tried to bite Wen Jiubo. Wen Jiubo immediately turned and mercilessly kicked it in the face.

The monster staggered back a few meters because of the pain. Wen Jiubo seized this opportunity to grab me and run away.

I gasped, “Wen, Wen Jiubo. I can’t, I can’t run anymore!”

“Do you want to die?” Wen Jiubo angrily asked.

“No, but…”

“There must be a way out,” said Wen Jiubo, as he held my face and looked me straight in the eye. “You have to believe that we will get out. Don’t say it’s impossible, you can do it!”

The monster was still chasing us; how could he suddenly speak nonsense like that!

“I don’t know what to do!”

“No, you do!” Wen Jiubo said firmly. “You must believe me! You must believe in us, and that we’ll get out of this place today for sure!”

I shouted back, “Even if you say that——”

However, the current situation did not allow us to argue further. If we continued, we really would be eaten by that weird monster.

I focused all my attention on imagining an exit as I ran.

I had to believe that there was an exit ahead. As long as we kept running, we would see… Urm, the stairs?

It was so hard for me to think about such a thing right now!

However, surprisingly, just after a short while, a staircase miraculously appeared in front of us.

“Let’s go, hurry!” Wen Jiubo shouted.