Chapter 1051: Oh my, the survival variety show ran into an ex! 21

Not long after walking downward, Jiang Ting at the front let out a startled cry and dodged toward the cave wall, shouting, "Something bit me!"

Jiang Ting's cry made everyone alert; they all shone their flashlights forward, breaking the steady pace, failing to keep distance, and people bumped into each other.

Ah!

As Lin Gui swung his arm, it felt like he had been bitten; the thing biting him turned out to be a squirrel with a row of sharp teeth.

Yu Sui almost got hit by him, stopped, gave him a cold glance, looked down, and saw it was a gap in the narrow path.

Lin Gui, who hadn't been warned, instinctively stepped back and waved his arm, then slipped, stepped on empty air, and fell downward.

Lin Gui!

He Chao quickly grabbed him, while Xie Shao in front jumped in fright and also grabbed Lin Gui's other hand, shouting, "Come help rescue him!"

Xie Shao shouted loudly, but he hadn't forgotten that they now needed to rely on Lin Gui's good luck to possibly survive.

But after shouting several times, no one came to help.

Shen Yi touched his face and turned around, saying, "Oh no, my face hurts."

Fortunately, He Chao and Xie Shao were strong enough, and they managed to pull Lin Gui up.

Lin Gui's eyes held fear and lingering despair from almost falling; he clung tightly to He Chao's embrace, unable to cry.

All right, all right, it's fine.

He Chao patted his shoulder to comfort him.

You two, speed up.

Jin Chen, bringing up the rear, reminded them, "The people ahead are almost done with this path."

You don't want supplies anymore?

"... Let's go, let's go." Lin Gui sobbed, then voluntarily continued forward.

Xie Shao turned to scold Jin Chen for being cold-hearted, but seeing Yu Sui's fearful gaze, he could only quicken his pace and move forward.

【Everyone's gone mad……All the guests have gone mad, right? This is a human life…】

【Gui is so miserable!! Such cold-blooded companions!】

【The guests themselves can barely survive, yet they still meddle in others' affairs; now, fighting over supplies makes everyone a competitor—if you don't take advantage of his illness to take his life, that's already not bad.】

Yu Sui shone his flashlight on the squirrel that had burrowed from the wall corner into the cave, feeling that the biting squirrel from earlier looked strange.

It was just that flash of flashlight light that let him see the cave wall's contents, which actually bore part of a code.

Jin Chen quickly pressed his hand, walked ahead of Yu Sui, and as they brushed past, he whispered a sentence in his ear.

"Don't be caught on camera."

"Mm."

Yu Sui softly agreed, pressed the detector at his waist, and, under Jin Chen's cover, recorded the code.

From the camera's angle, it looked as if he were huddled in Jin Chen's embrace while walking, with no other movements visible.

Now most of the code has been collected; Yu Sui recalled the codes imprinted in his mind, and a pattern had already begun to emerge.

At the end of the winding narrow path lay a gap at least six meters wide; one had to jump straight across to be temporarily safe.

But the cave was dim, and the flashlight couldn't reach the bottom of the abyss below, so nobody dared to go first.

"It's too far, and there's no intermediate stepping stone; without tools you can't cross."

Su Nai tested the distance; there was nothing in the middle to push off from, making the jump almost impossible to accomplish.

"What do we do…what do we do! Are we all going to die here!"

Jiang Ting was extremely agitated, as if he would collapse any second, shouting, "Who can get across! The program team just wants us all to die!"

Now, on the contrary, he's no longer lingering as a shadow.

Jin Chen, Youyou, looked toward Jiang Ting, his eyes darkening; it seemed someone was about to reveal their true colors.

He, in front of everyone, again took out a tool from his backpack—this time a flying tiger claw capable of spanning long distances.

"This time the price is increased by one million, or if you get out, remember to transfer the money to me."

【Trying to survive just lets Chengzi rake in a fortune.】

【Hope Jin Chen can get this money out (Amen】

Xie Shao gritted his teeth, "You're doing this on purpose! How do you have every kind of tool?"

Jin Chen was surprised, "Why did you come then? A spring outing?"

Yu Sui crouched at the front to observe, his tone sinking, "The stone opposite keeps moving backward; if we don't go over, the flying tiger claw isn't long enough."

"Ah! The stone can move too!" Shen Yi jumped in fright.

Time was especially urgent; there was no time for the guests to think more, so they could only agree one by one and then hurry across.

This time Jin Chen still appeared to be in pain, showing no flaw, and even his gait changed due to the high-intensity activity.

Everyone watched, some feeling relieved, others mocking, each with their own thoughts, completely unaware that they had all fallen into Jin Chen's trap.

After landing on the stone opposite, they could clearly hear the water sound inside the cave growing nearer, making them believe the water prison was not far away.

"It sounds like something is crawling…"

Su Nai shone his flashlight around, seeing only jagged black stones, then turned to them and asked, "Did you hear that?"

"Don't look back." Jin Chen reminded them again.

Su Nai met his gaze, then quickly looked away, his eyes inscrutable, and said, "Understood."

Following the route indicated on the map, Jin Chen, who had memorized all the paths, deliberately led them around again to avoid the program team—or rather, the route arranged by the people behind the scenes.

He Chao repeatedly tried to guide them back to the correct path, but Jin Chen refused each time and threatened, "If you want to die, go ahead."

After walking for about ten or more minutes, Jin Chen's keen hearing detected the cave wall behind them beginning to shift.

As they moved forward, the wall kept changing position.

Indeed, it was artificially controlled.

Jin Chen grabbed Yu Sui's hand, gesturing not to act rashly.

As they went forward it grew darker; the flashlight's beam only reached a few steps ahead, and Su Nai stopped again, "Look! Scratch marks."

"Like the one beside Bai Xuan's corpse…… no, that's not the same as that mark."

The person behind came over to look; Shen Yi gestured with his hand, "Animal scratch marks shouldn't look like this, right?"

She muttered, "It's still quite human-like."

"Don't joke, how could human scratch marks gouge stone?"

Xie Shao retorted, "It must be some wild beast again."

Shen Yi shook his head, indicating he didn't understand, "I'm quite sure. What I saw last night was a crawling wild beast; logically, the scratch marks shouldn't be like this."

Jin Chen felt the depth of the scratch marks, then gestured with his hand, "They're human."

As they were studying it, the cave wall in front suddenly shifted, revealing another passage before everyone's eyes, and the original route was blocked off.

"Damn it!" Shen Yi was startled, "What does that mean……"

Jin Chen lowered his eyelids, the carefree smile on his face faded, and his expression grew cold.

This road, in his memory, was neither arranged by the Program Team nor a route leading to the water prison.

Haven't even reached the water prison yet, and you already can't help wanting to take action?

"Which way should we go?" Shen Yi asked Jin Chen.

Over the past few days, they seemed to have grown accustomed to asking Jin Chen.

"Go left."

Jin Chen slightly lifted his chin toward the smaller passage on the left.