Keyboard Immortal - Chapter 2742

1255: Disappearance

“Yes, we’ve been here before.” Though the surrounding rocks looked bizarre, the perceptive crowd immediately recognized a sense of familiarity.

“No wonder these rocks are so strange; it turns out to be a maze.” Several guests looked toward Zaun, hoping the key in his hand would point them in the right direction.

Zaun shook his head, waving the key. “It no longer has any direction. I think it was meant to lead us through the foggy area, opening the vortex and leading us here.”

Another guest asked, “Miss Isabella, where’s that fish you’re holding?”

Isabella hurried out of the bathtub. Seeing the fish still lying belly up in the water, she felt so embarrassed she nearly dropped it.

Yani suggested, “Why don’t we split up and explore the path separately, then retreat if we hit a dead end?”

Zaun frowned. “Separately in a maze, it’s easy to get into trouble.”

He’d watched so many horror movies in his past life. When the protagonists’ teams started to act alone, they were often defeated one by one by the monsters lurking in the dark.

Yani said solemnly, “That’s fine. We can split into several teams, keeping everyone close together. With our cultivation levels, we can look out for each other.”

Isabella pondered for a moment and pulled out several walkie-talkie-shaped items from her small bag. “Everyone, take these communicators and stay in touch at all times. We’ll be the first to know if any danger comes. They’re highly resistant to interference, and their own power source is enough to last for ten years in harsh environments.”

Yani took one and said, “I’ll lead the team and explore the way ahead.”

Her cultivation level was evident to all, and no one saw a problem with a single team.

Seeing this, Tingxue also said, “Then I’ll explore this way.”

She took a walkie-talkie and headed down a small path to the left.

Zaun wanted to go with Tingxue, but with so many people left, he had to suppress his personal feelings.

In the end, Isabella and Alfred joined his team, and the remaining guests joined in another, and they began to explore the surrounding areas.

They kept in touch and updated each other along the way.

Zuan observed his surroundings as he journeyed, his gaze filled with jagged rocks that resembled formations, yet weren’t quite.

Despite his mastery of formations, he couldn’t grasp their mysteries for a moment.

Just then, Isabella suddenly spoke, “Sister Tingxue hasn’t responded in ages.”

Zuan was startled. Tingxue’s personality was reserved for communication. Others, fearing danger, would eagerly report safety after every few steps.

But Tingxue was aloof, her responses coming only after long intervals.

He’d grown accustomed to this, but now, with Isabella’s reminder, he suddenly realized she had truly been silent for ages.

He frantically called for her on the communicator, but there was no response.

His heart sank. Even if Tingxue was aloof, she couldn’t possibly not respond in such circumstances.

Something truly had happened!

He hurried back, tracing the path Tingxue had taken.

Isabella quickly said, “Don’t worry, Brother Zu. These things can locate each other.”

After a few clicks, a WeChat map appeared on the communicator’s screen, showing the locations of the various walkie-talkies.

The other two could be seen rapidly approaching, while Tingxue’s communicator remained motionless in one location.

Zuan’s expression grew increasingly serious, and he almost continuously teleported until he finally reached Tingxue’s location.

This was a relatively empty circular area, completely blocked off except for the path they had come in, by a wall of strange rocks, with no other exits visible.

And the communicator had fallen beneath the wall directly ahead.

“What happened?”

“What happened?”

The other two teams arrived, curiously asking.

Zuan didn’t bother to respond, but began to grope around the wall.

Isabella explained the situation to everyone.

“How could it have disappeared without a trace?” one of the guests wondered.

“We certainly didn’t hear anything.”

Yani approached Zuan. “What’s up?”

Zuan shook his head. “I don’t see any trap.”

He drew his sword and decided to blast through the wall.

Yani said, “Let me do it.”

Everyone had seen the power of her punch, so they naturally agreed.

She took a deep breath, her chest swelling slightly, and then launched a punch.

The ferocious force of the blow seemed to suck all the air out of the air, causing everyone to panic. Who could withstand such a blow?

But they were even more shocked. Despite the immense force of the punch, the wall didn’t budge!

Instead, with a crack, Yani’s arm was broken, and her fist was covered in blood.

Isabella exclaimed, hurriedly pulling a pill from her small bag and offering it to her. “Sister Yani, take this quickly.”

“Thank you.” Yani swallowed the pill, and her arm soon healed.

She hurriedly declared to the group, “This wall seems to possess some mysterious power, of a very high order.”

“It’s not just this wall. We just discovered along the way that the surrounding rocks are impenetrable.” They weren’t fools. Why follow the rules of a maze if they could just hack their way through?

They’d tried, but the rocks, unknown to them, proved impenetrable.

Zuan frowned, examining the other walls. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t find any clues.

Yani approached and said, “Don’t worry too much. With Miss Tingxue’s strength, she’s unlikely to be in any danger. She can certainly protect herself.”

The other guests echoed, even Isabella and Alfred nodding instinctively. Tingxue’s sword strike had been truly impressive.

With a single strike, she had slashed through chaos. The peerless masters they’d met were no match for her. Unless a true god himself attacked her, she wouldn’t be in any danger.

Zuan calmed down. Indeed, Tingxue wasn’t Yan Xuehen. Even among the myriad realms, she was a formidable figure. She was likely trapped in some kind of predicament, unable to escape immediately, but she was definitely not in danger.

She was a messenger of Chaos. At worst, she could simply slash through it and leave.

“By the way, we’ve made a discovery over there. It seems we’ve found a way out,” said a few guests who had just begun searching the back.

Seeing the puzzled crowd, the guest holding the golden compass smiled and said, “The maze here is a deception. The way we came is the way we will go back, but most people don’t think of this. Just now, when we walked back and looked at the reefs, we found that they were arranged using a 256-bit key symmetric encryption method. We already have some clues to crack it, but we hurried over because we heard your shouts.”

“Give me a little more time and I can find a way out!”