Chapter 224: Life-or-Death Maze (2)
Standing inside the circular maze, Ji Ning could only follow the passageway flanked by concrete walls on both sides and press forward.
She had picked up a small stone; whenever she reached a fork, after randomly choosing a path, she carved a mark on the wall so she wouldn't fail to recognize it if she had to turn back from a dead end.
"Is anyone there—" Ji Ning called out as she walked.
With walls this high, if you didn't make any sound, two people could miss each other even if only one wall separated them.
She had nothing on her, so she had no way of knowing the time.
But by mentally recalling the interval of a second hand's movement and counting the seconds aloud to measure, Ji Ning discovered that every five sets of sixty counts—that is, every five minutes—each of her four stats would drop by 1 point.
Doing the math, if she didn't find the men within four hours and figure out a way to replenish her stats, she would become completely unable to move.
The princess, in her high heels and voluminous gown, walked the dirt path while leaning against the wall, each step more taxing than the last.
Ji Ning had been calling out for nearly half an hour, and her voice was weakening. To preserve its effectiveness, she had no choice but to lower the frequency of her calls.
Her voice spread outward without creating the slightest ripple; this went on so long that Ji Ning almost felt she was the only person in the entire maze.
"Is anyone there—"
She didn't know which attempt this was anymore. Just as Ji Ning assumed this probe, too, would sink like a stone into the ocean, she vaguely heard a heavenly sound.
"Good girl!"
"Brother Xing Ye! I'm here!" Ji Ning's forward steps halted immediately. She stood in place and shouted back, amplifying her voice as much as possible to help Xing Ye locate her.
Hearing that familiar voice and the familiar form of address, Ji Ning's suspended heart not only settled back down but was also filled to the brim.
In this monotonous, unchanging place, being alone for too long could bring on a nameless despair. Regaining a sense of reassurance felt wonderful.
Xing Ye called back loudly: "You stay right there. Don't move. I'll come to you."
"Okay—" Ji Ning certainly didn't dare move, afraid that if they both moved at the same time it would make the search harder. She could only call out to Xing Ye now and then to guide him with sound.
In this maze, even if by sound two people seemed only ten meters apart, the actual distance—because of all the passageways sectioned off by walls—could exceed a thousand meters with just a bit of bad luck.
Especially since this was a circular maze; the further out the ring, the longer each section of passageway became.
During the wait, Ji Ning's four indicators dropped another 4 Durability points.
Just as all her stats dropped to 82, a tall man emerged from the bend up ahead.
The man was clad in silver armor, wore an eagle-faced helmet, and held a sword in his right hand and a shield in his left. Even though his face couldn't be seen, he remained solemn and awe-inspiring—like a divine soldier descending from the heavens.
Ji Ning lifted her skirt and jogged toward him, throwing herself into Xing Ye's arms for a full embrace.
He set the shield aside, looped one arm around Ji Ning's bottom, and hoisted her off the ground: "My little princess, I came late."
That low, mellow, sexy voice—she hadn't heard it face-to-face in so long, and she missed it terribly. Ji Ning impatiently cupped Xing Ye's helmet, flipped up the mouth guard, and reached in through the opening to kiss him.
The two became lost in teasing and grinding each other's lips, the tips of their noses pressing together as if trying to embed into one another.
Soft tongues tangled, an indescribable numbing tingle flooding her entire body so rapidly that even her soul seemed to quiver.
"Mm~" Ji Ning was sucked into a soft moan by Xing Ye's kisses.
Her whole body had already gone limp; from the moment they started kissing, her lower body had grown hot and then slick, and by now it was so wet it felt unbearably uncomfortable.
After kissing for an unknown length of time, Xing Ye finally released her, his eyes thoroughly taking in his little princess's delicate ensemble and that adorably flushed little face.
The thought he'd had earlier—of punishing her when they met—had long since been forgotten entirely.
"Baby is so beautiful. Tell your husband, did that little pussy get wet from kissing?"
"It's wet, soaked through!" Ji Ning pursed her lips and laughed. Noticing that her yellow stat was nearly approaching the halfway mark, she confessed honestly, "Arousal is plummeting. Husband, hurry and fuck me…"
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"Ning-Ye, Ning-Ye, sky meets earth shattering"
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