Chapter 511: Endless Maze

Feng Yucheng led the four people into the Secret Room Maze. The five of them felt something and turned their heads, only to find the entrance blocked by a wall.

They walked to the end.

There was no path forward, but there was a passage on both the left and right sides. Choose left or right?

Feng Yucheng wasn't in a hurry to choose; instead, he stood in place and quietly pondered.

"Boss, what's wrong?" Ma Guoyuan asked in some confusion.

"Say, are we in the same Secret Room as the other teams?"

Hearing this, the four were momentary stunned, and then their brows relaxed: "Let's test it."

"Ghost Whisperer: Clear Glass World."

The Secret Room turned black, but when the light was restored, they waited for a long time, and the Secret Room did not welcome a second blackout, nor was the duration of the first blackout ever extended.

Immediately after, he signaled his teammates to retract their Virtual Overlay Skills.

"Let's go left."

Following Feng Yucheng's instruction, the five walked toward the left passage. This passage was about a hundred meters long, and they soon reached the end.

But, at the end...

There were three passages!

Left, right, and center; the three passages were laid out before their eyes. This time, Feng Yucheng was a bit troubled. They knew nothing about the Maze, and there were no patterns to speak of.

In other words.

Every choice they made from here on out would be a blind guess.

"Continue left." Feng Yucheng felt it was better to stick to one path to the very end. Since they had chosen the left side, they would always choose left.

The five walked into the left passage. This passage was also about a hundred meters long, and soon the five reached the end once more.

But, as the five looked at the four passages ahead, their expressions gradually turned ugly.

It could be seen that the four passage entrances ahead were lined up in a row, all identical in size.

"Continue left!" Feng Yucheng gritted his teeth and pointed at the leftmost passage.

It was still a hundred-meter-long passage, and they still walked to the end of the passage.

The five were dumbfounded.

It could be seen that, in front...

There were five passage entrances!

Two passages on the left and right each, and another passage entrance on the wall directly in front.

'No, is this right?'

Feng Yucheng lit a Cigarette, took a deep drag, and said to his teammates: "Alright, let's start summarizing now."

Ma Guoyuan spoke first: "When we first entered this Maze, we had one and only one passage in front of us. Then we encountered the first fork, and this fork had two passages. We chose the left passage and encountered the second fork, but the second fork had three passages, and so on..."

"In other words, from what we can see so far, every time we finish walking a passage, the fork we encounter will have one extra passage."

"If we continue moving forward, does it mean that at the next fork, we will encounter six passages?"

Ma Guoyuan's words made the scalps of the other four tingle. With so many passages, there should only be a single passage leading to the exit. But if they continued walking like this, they would face countless passages. How to find the one and only exit passage among countless passages was the problem they had to consider next.

But, it was the same old saying: with no clues and no way to make Markings, they fundamentally couldn't find the one and only passage leading to the exit among countless passages.

"Since there are only patterns and no clues, the clues should be further ahead." Feng Yucheng narrowed his eyes and looked forward.

"Continue left!"

The four nodded and continued walking to the left.

They walked for another hundred meters or so.

They walked out of this passage. The space here was very large, about half the size of a football field. On the opposite wall, there were five passage entrances, and on the left and right sides were...

Rows upon rows of shelves!

The upper layers of the shelves were filled with delicious food, and the lower layers were all mineral water and beverages.

In the middle, there were five stone steles, and each stone stele had one character on it:

First stone stele: [Joy]

Second stone stele: [Anger]

Third stone stele: [Sorrow]

Fourth stone stele: [Delight]

Fifth stone stele: [Fear]

The five frowned. This was obviously a Rest Area. But having a Rest Area in a Maze was not a good thing; it meant this Maze was very large and very difficult to walk out of.

Moreover, the most crucial thing was that there was only one passage leading to this Rest Area for them.

Simply put, there was only one path from the entrance to this Rest Area, rather than multiple paths leading to this Rest Area.

What did this mean?

Feng Yucheng's eyelids twitched. He thought for a moment, took out a can from his bag and threw it on the ground, then hurriedly led his teammates back.

The way back was very simple; after all, there was only one passage.

Soon.

They arrived at the fork with the five passages from earlier, turned around, and stood in front of the fork.

Previously, they had chosen the leftmost passage. This time, they chose the rightmost passage and continued moving forward.

They walked for about a hundred meters.

They encountered another Rest Area.

On the opposite wall, there were still five passage entrances. The left and right sides similarly had rows upon rows of shelves filled with food. In the middle were also five stone steles, but there was no can left by Feng Yucheng just now on the ground.

The five panicked.

They immediately looked at the opposite side. Feng Yucheng waved his large hand and pointed at the left passage:

"Go!"

Thus, they crossed through the Rest Area and walked into the leftmost passage on the opposite wall.

"Go!"

Thus, they crossed through the Rest Area and walked into the leftmost passage on the opposite wall.

Inside the passage, the five walked silently. No one spoke; there was only the thumping sound of their heartbeats.

Not long after.

They all reached the end. This was still a Rest Area. Opposite them, there were still five passage entrances. The left and right sides were still shelves, and there were also five stone steles in the middle.

Seeing this scene...

The scalps of the five went numb.

In other words, all five passages from earlier would lead to different Rest Areas. And choosing a passage in a Rest Area to move forward would lead to the next Rest Area, which would still have five passages for them to choose from.

Putting it even more simply.

Along the way, all the choice passages they faced were independent routes; there was fundamentally no intersection or connection.

It was just like a river being diverted into two rivers at a certain location, and those two rivers being diverted into four different, non-intersecting rivers at a certain location downstream...

And so on!

It was just that in this Maze, one passage was diverted into five. The upper limit of five had already been fixed, but if one chose any one of the five passages, the end of this one passage would again be diverted into five.

Assuming it diverted ten times.

That would be...

5 to the power of 10 passages, which is a total of: 9,765,625 passages.

In other words, among nearly ten million passages, they had to find...

The one and only passage leading to the exit. It was simply like looking for a needle in a haystack!

Moreover, this was only assuming ten diversions. What if it was a hundred or a thousand times?

Unimaginable!

The hand Feng Yucheng used to hold his cigarette was trembling.

'Suppress Mental State!'

'Currently, there are two questions: First, why is the upper limit for diversion five passages?'

'Second: What is the significance of the stone steles in the middle of each Rest Area?'