I Have Yet to Become a Doll Today-Chapter 841 - : Stay to Guard the Door

Chapter 841: Chapter 841: Stay to Guard the Door

Du Lai halted in his tracks, and even Leonid, who was about to leave, stopped as well.

“The exit has already appeared. Aren’t we leaving?” Du Lai was puzzled. “Besides, didn’t you say that the greatest use of those keys was to serve as landmarks? We don’t necessarily need to collect them all.”

Leonid was also getting impatient. “Let’s just get out of here as soon as possible. These lice keep following us, and no matter what we do, we can’t shake them off. Even if we wash with alcohol, it doesn’t last very long before the lice come back.”

He took off the towel wrapped around his face, unable to bear it any longer. “If we continue to stay here, won’t our symptoms get worse? I am really… so hungry!”

“The exit is right before our eyes, and it won’t take too much time to find the last few keys. Let’s just endure a little longer,” Bai Youwei looked toward the glowing square, her expression anxious. “After all, we can’t be sure… whether these lice will disappear after we leave the maze.”

“No, that can’t be, can it?” Asarina’s heart, which had just settled, lifted again. “Every time we leave the maze, don’t we undergo an upgrade in physical ability? And no matter how severe the injuries to our bodies, they are almost always healed!”

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Bai Youwei pursed her lips and remained silent.

What she wanted to say was that it wasn’t like that at all. When Chang Weicai left the maze, not only did the scales on his body not disappear, but they also upgraded along with him.

Just like how previously he was an aquatic creature and after the upgrade, he became amphibious, capable of surviving on both land and water.

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And these “lice”… it was impossible for Bai Youwei to predict what effect the maze would upgrade them to.

Chen Hui looked distressed, glancing around before speaking up, “I think… we should just do as Sister Weiwei suggests. There are only three keys left, and not many stone chambers we haven’t been through. Just a little more time and we can gather all the keys and open the iron door… Whatever the outcome, at least when we leave, we’ll feel more at ease.”

“But what if the exit disappears?” Du Lai frowned, “Will the exit stay here forever, or is there a time limit?… There must be a time limit, right? Otherwise, wouldn’t it be easy for the next group of people coming in to find the exit?”

Bai Youwei pondered for a moment before replying, “How about this, now that the Minotaur is dead, we don’t have to worry about the step count. One of us will stay here to watch over, while the others go find the keys. Then, we all meet in the maze’s center, that is, the stone chamber with the murals.”

“I’ll stay,” said Du Lai.

Everyone looked at him.

It was obvious to those with discerning eyes that Du Lai did not want to miss the chance to leave.

He was neither a subject of Bai Youwei nor had any particular relationship with her; indeed, he did not need to follow her orders.

“Alright, you stay,” Bai Youwei nodded indifferently, and directly assigned tasks to the others.

Leonid would search the eastern stone chambers, Asarina the south, Chen Hui the west, and she and Shen Mo would take the north.

Before leaving, Bai Youwei handed a white conch to Du Lai.

This was an artifact for transmitting sound; as long as Du Lai spoke through the white conch, even through layers of stone walls, Bai Youwei and others could clearly hear him.

It was just a pity the artifact could not facilitate conversation; otherwise, it would be almost as useful as a cell phone.

Du Lai held the white conch and sat down cross-legged in front of the glowing square, calmly saying, “If the exit shrinks or disappears, I will immediately notify you with the conch.”

He paused for two seconds, then added, “But if you don’t come back… I won’t wait forever.”

Bai Youwei looked at him deeply.

Tiny black bugs scurried around his neck, and veins bulged faintly on his forehead; he seemed to have endured to his limit…

“If you decide to leave first, I have no objections,” Bai Youwei said indifferently. “However, think it through carefully, you wouldn’t want to end up in such a ghastly state when Fu Miaoxue has recovered.”