Chapter 415

The air was cold and damp.

Fu Liang Liang Jian tightened his collar, regretting that he hadn't worn something thicker.

The ground was not very level; he took cautious steps, reached out his hands, and slowly groped his way forward.

He could occasionally hear the sound of dripping water, eerie wind, and people passing by. These sounds made his skin crawl, but beyond the fear, he couldn't help but admire how exquisitely this maze was designed.

Fu Liang Liang Jian was a failed man.

Over a decade ago, his stock investments failed, wiping out his family's savings and leaving him with a mountain of debt. His wife angrily divorced him, leaving him alone to raise their young daughter.

He should have taken good care of his daughter.

But in reality, it was his daughter who took care of him.

At that time, he was depressed, couldn't find interest in anything, and even contemplated suicide multiple times. If his daughter hadn't been helping him, he might have died in that cheap rented apartment long ago.

One day.

His daughter blindfolded Fu Liang Liang Jian, wanting to play hide-and-seek with him.

She wanted to use the game to make her father happier, to cheer him up, and to keep their home from falling into further ruin.

Fu Liang Liang Jian searched symbolically for a moment before lying on the bed, waiting for his daughter to come out on her own. But he waited for a long time without hearing her voice, so he took off the blindfold and discovered that his daughter was no longer in the house.

There was a letter on the table.

The letter poured out his daughter's disappointment in him.

She was just a child, yet she had to bear so much pressure, and her father wasn't even willing to play with her for a while. This game of hide-and-seek made her completely lose hope in her father.

She was leaving home to live somewhere else and wouldn't return until her father got his life together.

This letter struck Fu Liang Liang Jian like a bolt of lightning.

But after two days of depression, Fu Liang Liang Jian actually pulled himself together.

Now, over a decade later, Fu Liang Liang Jian had paid off all his debts, even built his own business, and found his ex-wife to remarry, putting his life back on track.

But his greatest regret was that his daughter had never returned to find him.

Until a few days ago.

He received a letter.

At the Daqingshan Longyan Cave Scenic Area, there was a cave maze attraction. She would be waiting for him in the maze today; if he could find her in the maze while blindfolded, she would acknowledge him as her father.

This made Fu Liang Liang Jian ecstatic.

So he bought a ticket, put on a blindfold, and entered the maze. He was determined not to lift the blindfold no matter what happened until he found his daughter.

Tap-tap, tap-tap...

Footsteps could be heard around Fu Liang Liang Jian, sometimes on the left, sometimes on the right, but he didn't pay much attention to them because there were other tourists in the maze.

Sometimes he would touch something strange.

Living insects, damp skin, or something like a tongue, but these only made him marvel at the high production quality of the maze.

There were walls in the maze.

Rather than calling them walls, they were more like wooden pillars. Some sides of the pillars were flat, while others were curved. Tapping on the pillars revealed that they were hollow inside.

Fu Liang Liang Jian groped around in the maze for a long time, his body covered in all sorts of filth, and the pungent odor made him frown.

At this point, he began to realize something was wrong.

How had he been inside for so long, hearing only the sounds of others moving, yet no one was speaking? He was exploring a scenic maze while blindfolded; he should have been very conspicuous, but until now, no one had approached him. Could it be that his daughter had bribed everyone in the maze?

Besides, was it necessary for the scenic area to make the maze this dirty? Weren't they afraid of complaints? Once the doubts started, Fu Liang Liang Jian felt that the maze was wrong in every way.

Then, he touched something strange.

It must have been a leg!

His palm could feel the fabric, the leg muscle, and the bone, but the leg was incredibly cold, and the most bizarre thing was... he had touched this leg at a height of over a meter! Tap-tap!

Before he could think it through.

He suddenly heard the sound of marbles, accompanied by a girl's laughter! Fu Liang Liang Jian hurriedly cast aside all his doubts, believing the sound was a hint from his daughter, so he let go of the leg and groped toward that direction.

He had been wandering in the maze for over an hour and was already very familiar with its layout.

But when he reached the location of the sound, it appeared elsewhere, so he had to chase after the direction of the sound again. Along the way, he touched swaying human legs several times, and his own legs were touched by suspicious palms, but he had only the obsession of finding his daughter in his heart, ignoring all these things.

After repeating this a few times.

He finally caught the girl who was making the sound.

Listening to the girl's giggling, Fu Liang Liang Jian felt his heart melting.

He hurriedly reached to take off his blindfold, but just as he placed his hand on it, he stopped.

He felt something was wrong.

This giggling, while similar to his daughter's voice, was far too young.

His daughter had been gone for over a decade; her voice couldn't possibly be this childish. Furthermore, the person he had caught was very short. If it were his daughter, she would be at least 1.6 meters tall, but the girl in front of him was only a meter tall...

Then what exactly was he chasing? Just as Fu Liang Liang Jian hesitated, the girl in front of him reached out and helped him remove the blindfold.

And then, he saw.

A strange girl wearing a green padded jacket was standing right in front of him.

The girl wore her hair in a topknot, her face was pale, her cheeks were painted with rouge, her body was semi-illusory, emitting a faint green fluorescent glow, and she held several marbles in her hand, looking up at him with a pale little face and a smile.

This was not a human!

Fu Liang Liang Jian's heart shook violently, his scalp went numb, and he was almost scared out of his wits.

What terrified him even more was that if the girl in front of him wasn't human, then was the maze he had just experienced really just a well-designed scenic maze?

Were the things he touched really just props?

Fu Liang Liang Jian hurriedly lowered his head to look at the clothes on his body: bloodstains, rotting flesh, and half a bug.

His breathing became rapid, and sweat dripped continuously from his body.

"Where, where is this place?"

Click, click...

Fu Liang Liang Jian suddenly felt his leg being dragged by someone.

He turned his head blankly and saw two legs. Looking down further, he saw an old man, older than himself, crawling upside down, one hand supporting the ground and the other grabbing his pants.

And...

The old man's throat had been slit, and blood covered his head! This was an upside-down walking corpse! And behind the corpse was the maze he had just experienced! There were no wooden walls there, only countless upright coffins, some with their lids pried open, and inside the coffins were corpses with miserable deaths, standing upside down...

An upside-down corpse in front, a ghost behind.

Fu Liang Liang Jian finally couldn't hold it in and let out a shrill scream.

"Ah, ahhh!"

(End of Chapter)