Chapter 814 - 551: Room 2
Pop~
As Fufu was released, a bubble-like light screen popped out above its head.
Li Pu didn’t bother with anything else, he grabbed it and kept running.
They’d tested it before: as long as they never looked straight at the light screen from start to finish, their line of sight wouldn’t get locked.
The heavy footsteps behind them abruptly stopped; obviously the plaster statues were being controlled.
That situation let Li Pu relax just a little inside.
So they sped up, charging toward the stone gate of the next stage.
By the time they reached the stone gate, Li Pu was already panting hard.
After all, right now he had a mortal’s physique, not enough to support a full 1000-meter sprint.
Just that last 400 meters alone had already been brutal.
"Finally here!"
With both hands on his knees, Li Pu for the first time felt that the opening of the stone gate was unbelievably slow.
[Quiet! Quiet!]
Fufu: Faster! Hurry up!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Its dream ability had already ended; from behind came the heavy and rapid footsteps of the plaster statues.
At last, the door opened just wide enough for them to squeeze through.
[Gaa!]
Right then, the plaster statues lunged forward.
Just as man and Fufu slipped through the door, they pounced and hit the ground instead.
In fact, at that moment the stone gate was still in the process of opening wider.
[...]
But after the plaster statues got up, they stopped in place, as if hesitating over something.
They stared at man and Fufu for a few seconds, then finally turned around and left.
[Quiet!]
Fufu: Master, that naked butt finally left!
By now Fufu was already drenched in sweat, breathing heavily as well.
"Hoo... just Room 1 alone is this exhausting."
Li Pu wiped his forehead, feeling it slick and wet.
"Wait, why is it so hot in here?"
Realizing that something was off, he started scanning their surroundings.
Right now they were at the entrance of a bend in the corridor; five meters ahead, a right-side exit was throwing off a strong red glow.
That slightly unbearable heat was clearly coming from over there.
"Be careful."
Li Pu had Fufu follow behind him while he himself walked up to the corner and cautiously poked his head out.
First off, it was a fairly large hall, roughly a thousand square meters by eye.
Just like before, there were plenty of pillars standing around the edges of the hall.
The good news was, no plaster statues.
But the most eye-catching thing was still the massive blaze in the center of the hall, taking up nearly half the space and burning fiercely.
The fire was roaring, its tails thrashing wildly like a giant beast eager to devour people.
Suspended above the flames was an equally huge, glossy black iron ball.
[Quiet quiet?]
Fufu: Master, does this stage have any enemies?
Fufu lay flat on the ground and also stuck its head out at a low profile.
"So far looks like no. Let’s keep watching."
Li Pu wasn’t reassured.
Room 1 had left him with some trauma; for all he knew, the moment they stepped out, new monsters might pop up again.
So they watched for two minutes like that, and the flames grew even stronger.
[Quiet quiet!]
Fufu: Master, looks like there’s a little string over there too!
Fufu’s eyesight was relatively better, and it had noticed something.
At the bottom of the iron ball there was a thin string, and the end near the fire had already been lit.
A little line of sparks, different from the main flames, was slowly crawling upward along the string.
If not for that, even Fufu wouldn’t have spotted it.
"Uh..."
Li Pu followed the direction it pointed, and his face froze on the spot.
No matter how you looked at that thing, it screamed fuse.
And since there was a fuse, then that iron ball above...
In silence, he watched the little sparks draw ever closer to the iron ball.
Rumble!
[You died in an explosion]
[Judged: Restart]
The next second, man and Fufu were back in the starting room again.
"How are we supposed to clear this round?"
Li Pu sprawled on the ground in a big X, resting while he thought.
[Quiet quiet!]
Fufu lay down as well and declared that Room 2 was actually way too easy.
All they had to do was find the stone gate leading to the third room before the bomb went off, and they’d be fine.
"Going by the pattern in Room 1, that fire is probably only triggered and ignited after we enter the room."
"Which means we’ve got about two minutes to search for the stone gate to the next room."
"But... is it really just that simple?"
Li Pu expressed his doubts.
Based on the difficulty of Room 1, if that were true, Room 2 would be way too easy.
"Come on, let’s go check again."
Once he’d finished resting, he hauled Fufu back up.
Room 1 turned into another round of you-chase-I-run, and with Fufu’s dream ability, they scraped by again.
"Make the most of the time."
As soon as they entered Room 2, Li Pu and Fufu split up to search for the stone gate.
They advanced from opposite sides and finally met up in front of the stone gate; its position was directly opposite the entrance, just hidden behind the flames so they couldn’t see it.
[Quiet quiet?]
Fufu: Summoner, why isn’t it opening?
But the tightly shut stone gate made Fufu tilt its head so far it touched its shoulder.
The two of them tried to pry the door open from left and right together, but it didn’t budge an inch.
"Knew it."
Seeing their effort fail, Li Pu spread his hands.
Rumble!
[You died to an explosion again]
[Judged: Restart]
"Feels like we’ve picked up some kind of Moonlight Box or something."
Standing back at the starting point, Li Pu grumbled.
Once more, they cleared Room 1 without a hitch.
After three consecutive runs, their movements were already smooth and practiced.
"Split up and search carefully, see if there’s anything else special."