Congratulations on Your Successful Escape

Chapter 11

Right before their eyes, the scene suddenly changed.

They were standing on an endless staircase, surrounded by boundless darkness, and countless photos, big and small, were hanging in the void.

A ghostly photo frame appeared, displaying an expressionless face which hollowly stared at the two people standing on the empty stairs.

Mo Yi turned and looked behind him.

Although the stairwell was still there when they came in, what it was connected to was no longer the corridor, but to a dark void: Mo Yi didn’t want to know what would happen if he fell.

Suddenly, a pale arm stretched out from a photo without warning. It grabbed Mo Yi’s wrist, fast as lightning, and dragged him towards the photo.

The ice-cold touch penetrated into his bone marrow through his skin, making his scalp go numb. Mo Yi felt as if his wrist was firmly encircled by an iron hoop. It pulled him with astonishing strength, forcibly dragging him several steps in a matter of seconds.

This was bad!

Seeing that he was about to be dragged into the photo, Mo Yi was anxious, and he seized the chance to fall backwards. His body sank, using his own gravitational force to counter the strength of the arm.

Jiang Yuanbai suddenly stepped forward and took advantage of this opportunity to wield his raised axe and heavily chopped at the deathly pale arm.

The arm split open, and the cut was neat and pale without a drop of blood spilling out. It slowly withdrew into the photo. The hand clasped onto Mo Yi’s wrist turned into powder the moment it was severed.

Mo Yi was sitting on the stairs, panting. The intensely agitated blood pounded against his eardrums, and the overwhelming pressure caused his eyes to go black. The cold sweat on his back firmly glued his clothes onto his body, and the cold touch penetrated through the skins surface.

He looked down at his wrist.

The skin that hadn’t seen the sun for a long time was delicate and pale, making the few green and purple finger marks on it even more shocking. Mo Yi moved his wrist slightly, and a needle like stab of pain instantly shot out.

Jiang Yuanbai was also shocked, “… Are you okay?”

Mo Yi shook his head weakly, “… It’s nothing.”

He stretched out his hand to grasp Jiang Yuanbai’s extended hand and made an effort to stand up. It was hard to tell whose hands was colder, but they both trembled a little.

Mo Yi stood up and turned to look inside the photo of the outstretched hand.

He saw that the person in the photo no longer had an expressionless face like before. Instead, he looked at him with resentment, a pair of pitch-black eyes similar to a snake was spitting out words of malice while staring fixedly at them.

— It was like it was alive.

At this moment, the surrounding photos all began to shake! One pale arm after another came out of the photo, elongating before stretching out its open palms towards them.

Their hearts of the two jumped and they started to run away at the same time.

Every time they passed by, one of the photos in the area would get alarmed. Mo Yi looked back to the side and his heart instantly tightened.

Behind him was densely packed with hands, like a surging wave of arms and fingers, competing with each other to reach out and grab them. Even just looking at it made people break out into goosebumps.

Mo Yi turned around and continued to run forward. The stairs in front of him extended into the dark depths and it looked like there was no end in sight.

A thought rose from his heart and chilled him: sooner or later they would run out of stamina and be caught.

Suddenly, a hand reached out from the side unexpectedly and grabbed his ankle like an iron hoop and tugged him down to the ground!

Mo Yi’s head was knocked on the stairs and warm blood flowed down his cheeks. He clenched his teeth to hold back the sound in his throat and his vision grew dark.

Jiang Yuanbai heard the noise behind him and paused when climbing up the stairs. He gritted his teeth and turned around, raised the fire axe in his hand, and cut off the hand that was tightly clutching onto Mo Yi’s ankle.

The pale hand turned into powder the moment it was cut off, and the remaining severed arm slowly retreated, but more arms took the opportunity to surge over like a wave and climbed up the legs of the two men and dragged them backwards.

It was over.

Mo Yi’s heart sank.

All of a sudden, a piercing scream broke through the air, and a tiny silver white thing soared over his head and was thrown into the pile of arms.

The arms instantly stopped moving. Even the hands holding Mo Yi lost their strength and loosely hung around his legs.

Mo Yi and Jiang Yuanbai took the opportunity to break free of their shackles.

A familiar low voice rang out nearby, “Here!”

Mo Yi looked up and saw Shen Lei standing in front of them beckoning to them, His messy clothes were still stained with blood. Although he cut a sorry figure, somehow, it looked complete.

The two men’s spirits rose, and their exhausted limbs seemed to be injected with new energy instantly, and they ran towards him as quickly as possible.

The arms behind them seemed to wake up and began to twitch again. Shen Lei grabbed them, then turned around and entered a gap, and the three people staggered into an empty space.

The arms were patrolling outside, searching and fumbling about.

Shen Lei slowly put his finger on his lips and made a silent gesture.

Mo Yi understood and covered his mouth and nose with his palm and forced back the gasping sounds in his throat to avoid making any sound. He could only hear the rapid beating of his heart and the rustling of the hands.

After an unknown period of time, the hands seemed to have finally given up and then slowly retreated.

Shen Lei tiptoed out and looked around carefully. Then he turned to them and nodded, signaling that everyone could make a sound.

Only then did Mo Yi put down his palm, and a warm feeling dripped down the tips of his fingers. He looked down, dazed, only to find that the back of his hand had been wet with the blood from his forehead. The vivid red marks were like snakes crawling around the pale skin, bright and dazzling.

He blinked slowly and his dizziness spread.

Shen Lei came over and easily helped him treat the wound, and then said, “It should be a light concussion. It’s okay, it seems like you’ll recover soon, but I ran out of hemostatic bandages. I’m afraid I can only do this for now.”

Jiang Yuanbai, who was beside him, said with a lingering fear, “… Just now, what was that ah?”

“I don’t know.” Shen Lei shook his head briefly and raised his eyes towards Jiang Yuanbai, then explained, “What I know is that they look for prey through the photos, and they’ll be chased when they appear in their line of sight. The good news is that once you get out of their sight, you can escape by not making any sounds.”

“The bad news is that they’re everywhere.”

A thin voice suddenly appeared from beside him, sounding a little weak. Jiang Yuanbai was startled, and he looked towards the voice and saw a woman sitting in the corner. Her face was pale, her right arm was gone, and blood was seeping out of the white bandage.

Perhaps it was because her breathing was too weak, or the situation was too tense, that Mo Yi and Jiang Yuanbai didn’t notice her in the beginning.

“Yu Li.” The woman weakly introduced herself. “This is my second game.”

Jiang Yuanbai blinked and said in a low voice, “I’m Jiang Yuanbai and this is my second game. Sitting over there is Mo Yi. This is his first time entering.”

Yu Li smiled and lightly shrugged, “It’s a pity I can’t shake hands with you.”

Shen Lei stood to the side and lit a cigarette. His teeth gently held the cigarette in his mouth, and with a somewhat tired appearance between his brows, said, “The difficulty of this game is at least A. At the very beginning, I found it unusual: 11 people live for 5 hours. So many people, yet this is the first time I have encountered a game with such a short survival time.”

After a pause, he continued, “It seems that I underestimated the difficulty this time. Up to now, only the two of us remained alive. But you, when we separated, I really didn’t expect you to live until now.”

Shen Lei was very straightforward.

But Jiang Yuanbai didn’t feel offended.

He trembled with lingering fear and briefly recounted the experience after separating from Shen Lei and his party, from the secret room on the second floor to the photo illusion, and then to the disappearance of the fourth floor. Even though the words were succinct, nevertheless, it was still thrilling and shook them to the core.

Hooked, Shen Lei and Yu Li listened for a long time in a daze.

Finally, Jiang Yuanbai concluded, “– To tell you the truth, I didn’t expect that I would live until now. If it weren’t for Mo Yi, I would have died.”

Jiang Yuanbai added, half jokingly and half with emotion, “Brother Mo is really powerful!”

The powerful ones were a little frightening,

While they were talking, Mo Yi was sitting cross legged on the ground. He had not fully recovered from his dizziness. In a trance, he seemed to hear someone call his name, so he looked up and was startled by the scene in front of him.

They were staring at him, especially Shen Lei and Yu Li. They looked at him in surprise with complexed eyes, as if observing some rare animal.

“…” Mo Yi back got some goosebumps. “What happened?”

“Young man, is this really your first time?”

Mo Yi, “…”

Although he knew what the other person wanted to ask, but … why does this sentence sound so strange?

Mo Yi was about to say something, but his eyes inadvertently fell on the photo frame behind him. He was stunned for a second and couldn’t help but straighten his spine and carefully examined the environment around him.

Although nothing attacked, there were still floating photos around them. However, unlike the other photos outside, the frames here didn’t have those blurred and strange figures, but a vast expanse of white.

Mo Yi looked at Shen Lei thoughtfully, and the conversation shifted, “How did you find this blind spot?”

“We didn’t find this blind spot.”

Shen Lei was silent for a moment and then replied, “Every time a photo kills a person, it will become like this … and here, we had the most people die, so it became a blind spot.”

The atmosphere turned heavy for a moment.

Mo Yi didn’t know what to say for a while, so he stared at the photo behind Shen Lei and kept pondering.

And he really seemed to have discovered something. Mo Yi frowned and hesitated for a second, then stood up from the floor and walked slowly to one of the photos.

He looked closer.

If a person didn’t look carefully, they wouldn’t see it at all. The white in these photos seemed dynamic, like a thick fluid, flowing slowly in the same direction.

It was like mist.