Her Talent for Courting Death Has Always Been Impressive - Chapter 29 Part 2

Xu Turan nodded, seeming to understand but not quite. Beside her, Xiao Gao carefully moved his leg and cautiously spoke up, “Um, what should we do next?”

Xu Turan was startled, only then remembering that he and the boss were the last to join the group and had not yet had time to understand the information and plans they currently had. She hurriedly explained—after explaining, she added, “So, what we need to do first is to find that locked room again.”

The locked room, and the room where the little girl is. Find these two rooms, then build a VIP parent-child passage between them, release the locked “mom”, and let her successfully devour the other attendant—even if this can’t break the current “domain”, it will surely deal a significant blow to the domain master.

The boss listened carefully to her plan, then took the diary Xu Turan had snatched and flipped through it carefully. After pondering for a moment, he nodded lightly:

“It’s a method worth trying. But how to locate these two rooms is a problem. Do you plan to try room by room?”

“As it looks now, we can only try room by room,” Xu Turan said frankly. “First, try to find one of them, locking down one endpoint. Then keep walking out with the doors open…”

As long as the doors are not closed, the connected rooms before and after will not change. This way, keep walking forward with the doors open until you find the other room. Then let Teacher Yu draw markers inside the rooms along the way to construct a passage. Although it will take longer, theoretically, it should be feasible.

“I think the rooms here are definitely not endless,” seeing the boss’s thoughtful expression, Xu Turan added, “When someone opens a door to enter this domain, the room they were in at that time would be duplicated, becoming part of the maze, added to this domain, which is why those hint papers mention ‘newly appeared rooms’—of course, it’s just my guess, not necessarily correct.”

“But assuming this guess is correct, then the total number of rooms certainly won’t be too different from the number of people currently missing. At most, it’s 50, right?”

Xu Turan actually didn’t know how many people had gone missing due to the Plum Blossom Apartment, but according to the information she had found, it was only about a dozen or so. 50 was already a number she had blindly reported.

The boss nodded slightly, and Weiwei beside him mused thoughtfully, “It’s not that many. About 30, probably.”

Before them, quite a few ability users had fallen in the Plum Blossom Apartment incident. Add to that their batch, and it was about 30.

30 rooms, not too many, not too few. If stretched into a straight line, it wouldn’t be unbearably long.

“But closing doors is a bit tricky,” An Nai interjected. “Sometimes, even when you don’t intend to close the door, it somehow ends up shut without you realizing. If that happens once, wouldn’t all our efforts be in vain?”

“We’ll all move together and keep an eye on each other,” Su Sui’er said nonchalantly. Yang Buqi nodded, then seemed to remember something and took out that rag doll from the small backpack he was carrying.

The boss’s “Wither” ability had already started to take effect. As soon as he picked up the doll, large patches of hair fell to the ground. Yang Buqi picked up the fallen hair from the ground, studied it for a while, then looked up at everyone:

“Although these hair strands won’t continue to grow, their original length is still quite sufficient, and they’re very tough. We can tie them together into one long strand and tie it to the doorknobs along the way…”

With a string pulled taut, it wouldn’t be so easy to unintentionally close the doors.

The rag doll, already half bald: ……

Have you ever considered my feelings? No, you haven’t, you only think about yourself, trash.

“And we don’t necessarily have to rely on this string,” Xu Turan thought for a moment and spoke up, “If worse comes to worst, we can just remove all the doors along the way. Security doors might be hard to remove, but bedroom doors shouldn’t be difficult, right? Even if we can’t remove the entire door, taking off the lock shouldn’t be too hard.”

Solving the problem from the source, directly eliminating the existence of doors. When you want to close a door but there’s no door to close, that should solve the issue.

Others: “…”

Rag doll: …

Although it’s strange to say, for the first time, it felt this woman was quite human-like.

Of course, whether others saw her that way or not, that wasn’t its concern.

“Alright, one last question,” Teacher Yu, who had already regained consciousness, pushed up his glasses and raised a hand, “Even if we successfully find that attendant’s room again—what if it’s still locked?”

It’s not like a door we couldn’t open the first time would suddenly open the second time we see it, right?

… Regarding this point, Xu Turan really didn’t have any ideas yet. She pursed her lips, just about to speak when Yang Buqi’s voice sounded again:

“Perhaps I have a way.”

At once, all eyes turned towards him. Yang Buqi sat on the ground, his eyes half-lowered, seeming lost in thought, but his words were firm:

“Regarding that door, when we find it again, let me take a careful look. I might have a way.”

“…”

The boss glanced at him indifferently, clapped his hands, and stood up: “Alright, any other questions? If not, then let’s do as she said—”

The rest of the group stood up one after another. Xu Turan moved closer to Teacher Yu and asked him a few more questions about using markers. Teacher Yu quite liked her way of handling things, so he wasn’t impatient, answering every question. After answering, he thought for a moment and lowered his voice:

“Your method isn’t bad. But there’s one hidden danger that keeps me on edge.”

Xu Turan: “?”

“What if—I’m just saying what if,” Teacher Yu pushed up his glasses, “What if we’re targeted by that thing again while we’re looking for the second room?”

They didn’t have the strength to confront the domain master head-on. If they were targeted again, they could only run. Once they start running, to have a better chance of survival, they’d have to close doors—not to mention the problem of all their efforts being in vain once a door is closed, according to Xu Turan’s “remove as we go” approach, whether they’d even have doors to close would be a question.

Xu Turan reacted quickly, immediately coming up with an idea: “Can’t you draw markers? You can draw as we walk, and if the situation turns bad, immediately trigger the marker to let us hide in an independent space… Wouldn’t that work?”

“It’s possible, but there won’t be enough time,” Teacher Yu said seriously. “Drawing a marker takes at least 2 minutes, and charging it takes 1 minute. I can’t possibly draw and charge one on the spot.”

Xu Turan: “Then you can carry one that’s already drawn, and trigger it when needed.”

“It’s not that simple,” Teacher Yu waved his hands repeatedly. “A set of markers must be drawn on similar locations or materials to be effective. If the first one is drawn on a wall, the others must also be drawn on walls… How can you carry a wall with you? Right?”

Xu Turan: “…”

Teacher Yu: “…?”

Xu Turan looked at him silently, then suddenly smiled.

Teacher Yu: “…?!!”

45 minutes later.

Teacher Yu looked at the boss carrying a door panel on his shoulder ahead, his tone very apologetic: “Sorry, boss, for causing you trouble.”

“It’s fine,” the boss lifted the door panel with the marker drawn on it, his face expressionless. “It’s my duty.”

Teacher Yu: “…”