Yiye Zhiqu's vigilance was correct.

No sooner had the two of them run down the stairs than over twenty fully armed soldiers charged into the maze after them.

The man who had previously scurried back to report was conspicuously standing among them.

He was nearly choking on his breath when he saw his own shield stolen by the skeleton soldiers.

The commander leading the team didn't care much about the shield and drew his short flintlock, aiming it forward.

"Fire!"

The two players sprinting through the maze couldn't understand what he was yelling, but they heard a gunshot from behind them, followed by a rapid succession of bangs!

Lead bullets flew wildly in the dark clearing, striking the ancient stone bricks and granite columns, chipping off large pieces of stone and dust!

Luckily, the two sides were already quite far apart.

Moreover, if the two of them weren't skeleton soldiers with inherent "ranged dodge buff," they might have been done for in that volley!

Even so, Yiye Zhiqu still anxiously watched as a bullet passed through the gap between his ribs, digging a deep hole in the ground!

"Damn! All this for two skeletons? Was it necessary to send a whole company after us?!" Hu Wan cursed at the musketeers on the stairs behind them as he ran.

It seemed like the game designer deliberately didn't want them to reach the upper floor and had even spawned a squad of super soldiers to punish them!

Watching the two skeletons disappear into the darkness, the human commander raised his hand, signaling the soldiers behind him to stop firing.

"Damn, we should've shot the flares first," the deputy commander grumbled with a shaken expression on his face.

Just the mention of Undead made everyone panic so much they completely forgot their training... not that they did much training to begin with.

And the reason for their panic wasn't the mere frightfulness of the Undead, but the fact that the Undead had appeared inside the maze.

This wasn't a good sign.

"Should we go after them?" a militiaman asked, swallowing hard and looking anxiously at his superior.

The commander said nothing, weighing the pros and cons for a long time, ultimately missing the best opportunity to give chase before making a decision.

"... Report to Sheriff Adlai first, then notify the Adventurer's Guild!"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yes!"

They were not adventurers, just the town's militia.

While their job included guarding the entrance to the maze, they were not at all suited to the high-risk task of exploring it...

...

Meanwhile.

"Disaster OL" official website.

Yiye Zhiqu, who had been missing for most of the day, finally reappeared in the view of his silly netizen friends.

Yiye Zhiqu: "Guys! I've found another exit from the maze!"

Table and Chair: "!"

Minotaur Warrior: "You guys went outside?!"

Knowledge Explodes: "Tell us more!"

Yiye Zhiqu: "Didn't quite make it out, missed by a bit."

Hu Wan: "Damn, we were just about to go up when a bunch of soldiers spawned at the entrance, nearly ran my legs off."

Gou Shi: "Hahahaha! Did you guys stir up a hornet's nest? (Amused)"

Yiye Zhiqu: "Don't know, but the human who saw me acted as if he'd seen a ghost."

In about a few minutes, Yiye Zhiqu narrated the ordeal he and Hu Wan underwent in the maze.

Including the discovery of new monsters "Slime," "Lizardman."

Including new maps "Sewer Corridor," "Maze Entrance B."

Including his analysis of the power distribution within the maze and his speculation about the surface powers.

Everyone was captivated by the story.

Who would have thought the game, still in the closed beta stage, was already so polished.

In regions they had yet to explore, so much new content awaited them.

Of course.

This also meant they would soon face new challenges.

From the adventurer's corpse and the reaction of the maze guards to the sight of the skeletons, it was likely that the enemies in the maze would not just be beasts anymore!

Gou Shi: "Looks like we're going to see a wave of adventurers in the maze. (Amused)"

Pig-headed Knight: "Speaking of which, which side do we count as? Monsters? Adventurers?"

Candied Hawthorn: "Obviously, we're a third faction."

Knowledge Explodes: "To put it nicely, it's a three-way battle, to put it crudely, we're stuck in the middle for a doubles match. (Sweaty)"

Gou Shi: "Exciting. (Amused)"

Too Poor to Play: "This really intensifies things for Lord Demon King. (Amused)"

Yiye Zhiqu: "Well, it's not that extreme. Even if it's a doubles match, we're not the ones getting sandwiched. For one, Maze Entrance B is quite far from where we are. I don't know about above ground, but we walked a whole night to get here. Secondly, there seems to be a Lizardman Tribe in the Sewer Corridor that can use tools and is organized in breeding slimes. It would take quite an effort for surface adventurers to reach our region."

Gou Shi: "Let's set some traps! Ambush them on their essential path through! (Evil Grin)"

Yiye Zhiqu: "That's exactly what I was thinking. We can set some traps on the necessary path from Maze Exit B to the Exit A below us, then mark the surroundings with signs only players can understand. According to information revealed by Lord Demon King, capturing adventurers should yield handsome rewards."

Yiye Zhiqu: "Speaking of rewards, we discovered when farming the slimes that killing beasts drops Demon Crystals. Although we don't yet know what they're used for, it's better to collect as many as we can."

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