Chapter 88 – 88. Exploring the Infinite Labyrinth
The infinite labyrinth that Kang In-ho and Kang Ji-yeon escaped.
There, Kang In-ho’s group, who had completed preparations for exploration, was sitting together and having a strategy meeting to conquer the labyrinth.
“Are you all ready?”
“Yes~”
“Neng.”
In response to Park Young-sik’s words, the people carrying their own weapons nodded and responded.
There were five people exploring the labyrinth today, excluding Yoo Sae-yeon and Han Seung-hee, who stayed in the living area and cleaned up after themselves.
“First of all, since we are only doing a quick check today, it would be better to split into men and women. “It seems like we’ll just be wasting time if we rush around.”
“Good.”
“Okay.”
They divided the teams into two. Park Young-sik and Han Jun-ho were on the male team, while Baek A-yoon, Kim Hyun-ah, and Park Seon-hwa were on the female team. The remaining Yoo Sae-yeon and Han Seung-hee were naturally classified into the residential team.
“First, let’s find an entrance and proceed with the feeling of creating a map.”
“Uh.. Then I guess I’ll have to decide where to go in first.?”
“Yes. Before that, I found something…”
Park Young-sik told her group about the strange patterns she found at the five entrances she had inspected last night.
“First of all, there are two entrances on the left wall.”
“Yes, yes.”
“When you open the entrance, there is graffiti drawn on the wall of the hallway. “I found a common pattern there.”
“What? Really?”
“Wow.. I checked with a flashlight last night.. And found something. It’s awesome.”
“Haha..”
“So Yeongsikkun. “What are the common patterns?”
“That’s…”
Park Young-sik took out a notebook in which he had drawn two patterns that were commonly emphasized among the messy graffiti painted on the walls of the two hallways.
“This is…”
“It’s a skeleton?”
“But Yeongsik… You’re not good at drawing.”
“Oh, no! I drew it as similar as possible…”
In the notebook that Park Young-sik took out, there was a drawing of a skull that seemed to have been roughly imitated.
“Anyway… If this is a clue, the two entrances on the left are most likely connected to the Tomb of the Immortals.”
“Hoo.. It’s quite interesting. Then what is the other entrance?”
“Next are the two entrances on the front… This is emphasized here.”
On the next page of the notebook, something that looked like an animal’s teeth was drawn.
“This must be the den of wild beasts.”
“Then the area connected to the end of the corridor on the right is…”
“It’s probably a battle between warlocks.”
“If this is certain…”
“Then let’s go to the left first.”
Park Young-sik nodded at Baek A-yoon’s words. The rest of the staff didn’t seem to be very dissatisfied either. Regardless of her age, her companions respected her because Baek Ah-yoon was the strongest among them.
“Then we go in through the front entrance. Let’s not go too deep. “I’m just going to get a taste of it today.”
“Yes.”
“Good.”
Everyone nodded at Han Jun-ho’s words about not getting hurt by being greedy. Excessive greed always brings anger.
“Hmm.. Which of the two entrances should I enter first?”
“First, let’s put a number on the door.”
“Number?”
“Yes. “It’s easy to sing.”
“Then start with the door on the left wall and go clockwise.”
According to Park Seon-hwa’s opinion, numbers were attached to the entrance to the labyrinth.
First, the two doors on the left wall became numbers 1 and 2, respectively, and then the doors in front of the entrance became numbers 3 and 4 in that order on the left. Of course, the remaining entrance on the right wall became number 5.
“I’ll start with number 1.”
“Everyone be careful.”
“Huh. Good luck to Saeyeon and Seunghee.”
Baek Ayun’s team stood in front of entrance number 1 after saying hello to the rest of the group in charge of cleaning.
“Then I will open it…”
“Yes..”
Baek Ayun opened the door at the end of the hallway, holding an ax in one hand.
-Whoop…
When the door is opened, a foul smell and damp moisture waft out.
“This is…”
“Ugh.. Damn..”
Luminous moss and unidentifiable mushrooms growing all over the wall.
Even just looking at this place, it seemed like a dangerous place. Also, the cylindrical passage endless implied that the place unfolding in front of you would be quite complicated and twisted.
Above all, it is dangerous because you never know where something will pop out.
“The difficulty level of this is quite disgusting from the beginning.”
“It looks like a sewer… Didn’t they say it was the graveyard of the immortals..?”
“It’s a cemetery.. It could be the road to the cemetery.”
“First of all, I don’t think this is the place. Let’s throw it away and go somewhere else. “I feel like I might get sick if I go in.”
Due to Kim Hyun-ah’s strong insistence, the group closed the door to entrance number 1.
As she said, this was a very dangerous and messy place for people who were not yet properly equipped with anti-contamination gear to wander around.
It was suitable for collecting various materials, but the environment felt more dangerous than the monsters that appeared.
“First of all, it’s risky.”
“W-was it a decontamination agent? I think it would be possible to eat that, but…”
“If you take more than three decontaminant tablets, you will melt and die.”
“Ugh… Is there something like that..? Crazy..”
Baek A-yoon’s team, unable to enter through entrance number 1, stood in front of door number 2. As expected, Baek Ah-yoon opened the entrance this time.
“This time twice..”
“I’ll open it.”
“Yes..”
-Kkiik…
The door opened with difficulty, making a creaking sound as if the hinges were rusty.
“Huh…”
There was no foul smell this time, but a dark spiral staircase appeared in front of the three. Stairs leading down. The end is not easy to guess.
If number 1 was an endless sewer maze, number 2 was like a deep abyss.
“Wow.. The atmosphere is so bloody..”
Baek Ayun frowns at the endless stairs.
“Ayun. “Did you bring an amulet against ghosts and an exorcist’s lantern?”
Hyuna Kim checked her items first.
“Oh, here. I also brought a solar-powered flashlight. But I’m currently turning into a vampire, so if you shoot me, I might burn to death..”
“Ugh.. Ayun, don’t say anything scary…”
“Let’s not use solar flashlights.”
Baek Ayun was slowly becoming a vampire due to the penalty for vampire recovery. Park Seon-hwa was started by her playful words and took the flashlight away.
Haha.. Then let’s all go down.”
Baek Ah-yoon laughed as she looked at Park Seon-hwa, who was freaking out, then stuffed her lantern into her belt and carefully went down the stairs. He didn’t intend to go into too much detail. It feels like just a taste.
There is no need to waste your one and only life wandering around a place where the difficulty level is terrible from the start.
“Everyone be careful. “Because the graveyard of the immortals is filled with gravekeeper’s traps.”
Baek Ah-yoon goes down, shining a flashlight as if she’s excited, and the two people carefully follow her.
After going down for about ten minutes, they reached the end of the spiral staircase.
“Seonhwa unnie. “How long did it take to get here?”
“About 10 minutes..”
“Phew.. 10 minutes just to get in and out. You even have to climb up to get out. If you are injured, getting out would be a task…”
They came down quickly and it took 10 minutes. It will take more time to go up. Even worse, if a monster was chasing you from behind, a hopeless future could unfold.
“Phew… But it means there will be an end, so let’s have hope…”
“That’s a good mindset..”
Kim Hyun-ah smiled slightly at Park Sun-hwa’s words to have hope because there is at least an end.
At that time..
-Legally.
“Hmm…!!”
“What the fuck.. What did you just do?”
“It was a rattling sound…”
“Over there… “
– Jeopuk. Jerk..
“Fuck..!”
13 minutes have passed since entering the Tomb of the Immortals. The monster finally appeared.
That was the skeleton that Kang In-ho had already killed numerous times in the disturbing underground tomb.
“I’m holding a weapon.”
“It’s much slower than I thought..”
“This is my first time seeing anything other than zombies..”
Kim Hyun-ah and Park Sun-hwa, who had never entered the labyrinth, were astonished at the sight of the skeleton.
“Ah, a hunting order has been issued. “I will kill that bastard.”
At that moment, a new hunting order occurred to Baek Ayun. That was an order to kill 20 skeletons.
In response, Baek Ayun rushed towards the skeleton that was approaching slowly. It was a golden opportunity to gain stat points for the first time in a long time.
Hung-
-Kwazijic!!!
A skeleton whose head explodes with a single blow from Baek Ah-yoon’s axe. That was the end.
As its body fell apart, a small magic stone emerged from the bone fragments.
“It’s the lowest level magic stone?”
“What. “These are shit.”
“I’ll pick up the weapon he was holding.”
“Yes.”
Baek Ah-yoon picked up the magic stone and put it in her pocket, and Kim Hyun-ah picked up the old club that the skeleton had dropped.
The atmosphere of the labyrinth itself was very heavy, but perhaps because it was at the beginning, the monsters that crawled out were very weak.
“If you break these bastards’ heads, they die, so don’t be too nervous.”
“Oh..”
“Oh, here he comes again.”
“Hehe.. Let’s collect a lot of magic stones!”
Skeletons heard the sound and started crawling out one by one. When Baek Ah-yoon realized that the skeletons were around, he got excited. The rest of the group also relaxed a little.
Soon they went deeper, killing the approaching skeletons. Drawing a simplified map.
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“Hmm…”
“It looks like a very large cave. I wouldn’t want to go into it by mistake and get lost.”
“That’s right..”
Meanwhile, Park Young-sik and Han Jun-ho entered through entrance number 3.
A large cave appeared before their eyes. Paths opening in all directions and vertical passages in the ceiling. And even traces of tunnels remain here and there.
It looked like a mixture of a natural cave and a mine.
“The den of wild beasts…”
“Let’s dive in a little bit first.”
“If you get lost here, you’ll really die… So leave at least a trace.”
“Yes.”
Park Young-sik took out a permanent marker from his side bag and marked an X on the wall. It was the minimum sign to avoid getting lost.
“Uh.. Over there..”
“There’s something..”
Soon they also encountered monsters.
What appeared before them was a beast with degenerated eyes.
