Breaking the Deadlock and New Discoveries
Inside the tunnel, the flames raged like a surging, furious tide, and the temperature soared, climbing sharply like a blazing purgatory. Caught within it, the group felt as though they had been cast into a searing furnace, baked almost to the point of suffocation. Beads of sweat, the moment they seeped out, were instantly vaporized by the high heat, turning into wisps of rising white steam that vanished without a trace in the scorching air. Although the lethal threat of the falling rocks had been slightly alleviated by the group's tenacious resistance, the rubble that still plummeted down like raindrops acted like hidden, cold arrows against which defense was extremely difficult; a moment of carelessness would result in a direct hit.
In this life-or-death desperate situation, Lin Yu's figure moved like a ghost, weaving and leaping through the gaps between the flames and falling rocks. At the same time, his mind operated like a high-speed precision machine, spinning rapidly to devise a way to break the deadlock. His thoughts raced like a wild horse unmoored in the river of memory, struggling to recall the detailed arrangement of the runes surrounding the key in the pattern, while cross-referencing it with the sequence in which the Mysterious Traveler had pushed the stones. In a flash of inspiration, his eyes suddenly brightened, as if he had found a glimmer of hope in the endless darkness, and he shouted aloud, "Everyone, do not pani…
Chapter 342