Chapter 1305
Robin reacted way faster than Eleanor, and when he realized he couldn’t help the others, he
immediately pulled her up, “Don’t look down, choose now!”
His voice was loud, enough to bring Eleanor back from her thoughts.
She steadied herself, staring at the box in front of her, and slowly reached out.
The box was sealed shut, impossible to open. And with all four types of insects being lightweight, it was
impossible to discern what was inside.
As she was anxious and indecisive, the one-armed man next to her, due to lack of time, randomly hit
the button labeled ‘butterfly’.
The box opened, and what flew out wasn’t a butterfly, but a moth. Simultaneously, the Death Door
beneath him opened.
Fortunately, the one-armed man wasn’t standing on the round mark. He didn’t fall straight down like
Scarface Man, but turned around and bolted.
He thought that leaving the arcade would save him, but as soon as he took a step beyond the arcade,
the tiled floor beneath him opened up.
Without any warning, he fell down, and at the same time, the adjacent tiles opened up one after
another.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtMeaning not only was the round mark a trapdoor, the entire floor they were standing on was a trapdoor.
Choosing wrong, or not choosing at all, would result in falling down, until they were swallowed by
snakes.
Seeing the man being slowly devoured by the snakes, his flesh being stripped away layer by layer,
Eleanor felt a wave of nausea.
It was only now that she understood why no one ever made it out of the nine-round game. Each round
was a matter of life and death, no one could escape.
“5, 4…”
“Eleanor!” Robin’s voice echoed in her ears again, and Eleanor, seemingly resigned to her fate, like the
one-armed man, hit the button labeled ‘butterfly’.
The box opened, and a blue butterfly spread its wings and flew out, fluttering towards the sky as if it
had found freedom.
Once Robin confirmed Eleanor had chosen correctly, he finally relaxed. Then, at the last second of the
mechanic voice countdown, he hit the button.
The moment he hit the button, Eleanor, not daring to look, covered her eyes and staggered backward.
But the expected sound of the Death Door opening did not come. Instead, she heard Robin’s clear and
loud voice, “Eleanor.”
Hearing his voice, Eleanor slowly opened her eyes, seeing Robin leaning against the control panel, his
head slightly tilted, smiling at her.
He was actually quite good looking. When he smiled, the dimples on both cheeks, one deep and one
shallow, were quite charming.
Seeing his safe and sound smile, Eleanor was overwhelmed with joy and broke down in tears.
Robin, on the other hand, spread his arms and tilted his chin at her, “Come here, gimme a hug.”
After the end of the second round game, Eleanor found the key to the handcuffs in a compartment of
the suitcase, and the two of them were finally freed.
Eleanor smiled and walked over to embrace him, “This is our second brush with death.”
The first time was during the first round, the second was the seventh. In the meantime, with the
assistance of Scarface Man, they had not felt endangered. It was, only these two times that were real.
Robin, with his wish fulfilled to hold Eleanor, his smile became even more pronounced.
Even though it was just comfort after surviving a catastrophe, for him, it was enough for a lifetime.
“If you hadn’t chosen correctly just now, I had already decided to go down in your place.”
After so many rounds of games, Robin had already figured out the trapdoor mechanism.
No matter which round of the game, the trapdoor needed one person to fall in for it to end.
So watching Eleanor fall down without doing anything was worse than him going down himself.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmRobin’s words touched Eleanor. She patted Robin’s back gently, whispering, “No one is worth your life,
Robin. You need to take good care of yourself.”
You’re worth it. Robin said in his heart.
It was a bit exaggerated, but he was quite like Bernard, willing to do anything for the one he loved.
In the backstage viewing area, Mr. Nine stared at the image of the two embracing, slowly sinking back
onto the couch.
His clenched fist was resting on his knee, bleeding profusely, it slowly started to loosen…
No. 2-7 turned his head, following the trail of blood on his fingers, looking at the chilling Mr. Nine, “The
person I invited, and the one Mr. Quartus invited, are quite lucky, they managed to pass this round.”
After speaking, 2-7 let out a cold laugh, “I wonder, without the help from the front and the back stage,
can they survive the next two rounds?”
Mr. Nine didn’t respond, his eyes behind the mask were as dark as ink.
After relaxing from the intense moment, he kept recalling the program 1-2 had rewritten in the viewing
area.
If he could break the code of the 1-1 game area, get the authorization to go down, then he could see
them…
But all he knew now was the program code 1-2 used to lock the game, he didn’t know what the
program code to break the authorization was…