Liu Yuning's lips moved, and judging by her mouth shape, she wanted to ask me what was going on. I didn't explain, but just used my eyes to tell her to follow me upstairs.
She didn't say much to me. Seeing me start to move, she had no choice but to follow behind me.
We passed through an arched bridge and arrived in front of a pavilion. A door opened as we stood below. I walked in without hesitation, not holding a gun, but calmly heading towards a long corridor ahead.
Then, the voice of Jile Feng Man Lou sounded from the long corridor not far away: "I see you have entered. Now I will play a game of hide-and-seek with you. If you find me within 30 minutes, I will admit defeat. Otherwise, you will be locked here forever. After you entered, you should have noticed that there is no exit here, and no signal can be sent out."
"Don't think about calling for support; it's impossible. I won't kill you immediately, but I will leave here and then lock all the doors I find. You will slowly starve to death here until you turn into white bones."
I thought this situation would not happen at all, because He Xin knew we were here. If we couldn't contact her within 12 hours, she would send people here. However, I still deliberately pretended to be very scared and said, "Jile Feng Man Lou, do you want us to die so badly?"
"Haha, there's no other way. I don't like the look of you. If it weren't for you, no one would have discovered my live broadcast. I can keep bringing people in to help me. You killed Kong Xing Chang, and now you want to catch me? Do you think I will be arrested as easily as he was?"
"No matter how skilled you are, once you commit a crime, our police will still find you!"
"Haha, you should see how much time is left!"
At this moment, we found that the wall of the corridor suddenly turned into an LED screen, displaying a timer: 26 minutes and 43 seconds. We had only chatted for a few sentences, and four minutes had already passed.
Liu Yuning and I immediately became vigilant and went to catch him, but we suddenly heard the sound of cobras. They had all left after eating the meat earlier, and I thought these guys wouldn't come back. Right before our eyes, I saw several cobras emerge from the cracks in the left and right walls, blocking our path.
Hiss...
They kept sticking out their tongues, looking as if they had already digested the female corpse from before. When I passed her earlier, I didn't have time to take a closer look before coming in, because now was really not the time.
The matter of the corpse could be dealt with later when we called for backup, but if Jile Feng Man Lou escaped, it would be troublesome to catch him.
Liu Yuning and I raised our guns and pulled the trigger without hesitation. The cobras were still some distance away. If our aim was accurate, it should be possible to kill a few of them. However, the situation was not as we imagined; those guys actually dodged our bullets at lightning speed.
The two of us instantly stood shoulder to shoulder, scanning our surroundings. The cobras were all perched on the surrounding walls, some hanging on the walls, slowly moving towards us.
I shot at the ceiling a few more times. The sound of bullets echoed. I found that I had hit two cobras. Liu Yuning said in surprise, "You can hit them so quickly. Your marksmanship is quite good!"
"It's alright. Stop praising me. There are a few more over there!" Just as I finished speaking, a few cobras appeared next to Liu Yuning. They kept flicking their tongues, looking like ordinary animals, but when I noticed their eyes, I realized something was very wrong.
Their eyes were incredibly vacant, their pupils completely unfocused, and the irises around them glowed with a purplish-blue light. Their sharp fangs were bared. The moment I saw them, I knew these cobras had been cultivated by something and were likely under Jile Feng Man Lou's control. These cobras had lost their minds.
They attacked us in groups of three or five. We couldn't use our guns for a while, as we had entered close combat range in this situation. Fortunately, we both had stun batons. We swung them fiercely, and the electric shock was emitted from the top of the batons, stimulating the snakes' bodies. Despite their agility, the current was a wide-area attack. Soon, countless cobras, as if roasted, fell to the ground.
Seeing the ground covered with corpses, we finally stepped over them. We had to hurry now, and we didn't know where Jile Feng Man Lou had gone. We had to find his trace within the limited time.
As we walked forward, we noticed a huge dark shadow appearing in the corridor not far away. It hung on the ceiling like a gray cloak, swaying freely. I shot upwards a few times, and the thing not far away was immediately hit. After a free fall, a pile of powder appeared on the ground. Liu Yuning and I rushed over immediately and realized that we had just hit quicksand.
At the same time, Jile Feng Man Lou's voice was heard again: "Oh dear, Officer He, you have truly done more harm than good. This quicksand cannot be broken. But now that you have broken it, the time can only be reduced by 5 minutes! Adding the previous consumption, you now have less than 10 minutes left."
What??
This bastard did it on purpose! I thought that shadow was him just now. It seems there are quite a few traps here. It's better not to shoot randomly in the future.
We stepped over the powder and saw a faint light appear on a wall not far away. The left and right walls were slowly separating, and something seemed to be rolling in from the middle!
It was a huge black iron ball. Seeing this, Liu Yuning and I immediately separated and pressed ourselves tightly against the walls on either side. The iron ball narrowly rolled past between us. If we had been a second slower, we would have both been flattened into meat patties.
Liu Yuning and I breathed a sigh of relief, only to have a few axes slide down from above the next second. As we both bent down, we heard the sound of something rolling from the end of the corridor not far away!
Looking down together, countless glass marbles appeared at our feet. The moment we moved, we accidentally stepped on them. Due to inertia, we almost fell several times. We supported ourselves against the wall and shuffled for a while. A staircase descended, and at the same time, Jile Feng Man Lou's voice reappeared: "Come up! I'm on the very top floor of the pavilion!"
The voice was broadcast through a loudspeaker. I grabbed the edge of the staircase with one hand and climbed up carefully. The next second, Liu Yuning followed behind me. However, just as we were both in the middle of the staircase, a crisp snapping sound came from the top of the staircase!