Huang Xie didn’t waste any more time with the statue that he had been trying to open.
Yes, it was the statue that hadn’t moved a single micrometer since falling down into the room with them.
It seemed like this statue was detached from the rest of the room, which was why it hadn’t moved a single micrometer. It was like this statue just didn’t exist in the same space as the rest of the room.
That was what Huang Xie was looking for in this room now.
There had to be other objects in this room that were the same as the statue that would help him open it up.
Finally, the rest started to notice what Huang Xie was up to and came over to see what was happening. It was just that they couldn’t understand what Huang Xie was doing as he moved around the room.
There were some that had noticed that he had been at the statue earlier, so they went over to see if there was anything special about the statue. But when they looked closely at the statue, they couldn’t find a single thing that was off about it.
It didn’t seem like there was anything with the statue that he had been doing.
So what was he doing?
Finally, one of them couldn’t take it anymore and grabbed Huang Xie’s arm to ask, “What are you doing?”
Huang Xie just ignored this person and seemed to continue walking around the room.
Since that was the case, the others had no choice but to come over and help this person in grabbing Huang Xie. After several people grabbed him, Huang Xie had no choice but to address them.
He raised his hand and threw them all off before raising his hands again in a crushing position. It seemed like he was getting ready to crush something with the way that he had his hands out.
Everyone immediately moved back when they saw this.
They raised their hands as if they were guarding themselves, but then they looked like they were trying to calm Huang Xie down as they said…
“Wait, we don’t want any trouble.”
“We just want to help you. We want to get out of here as well.”
“We know that we have to work together, so at least give us something to do.”
Huang Xie narrowed his eyes to look at them as if he was scoping them out, but his expression eventually relaxed since he could see that they were being serious.
They recognized the situation that they were in and had come to accept it, which was why they were offering to help. In that case…it might be better to get them to help rather than just trying to do everything himself.
He didn’t know how long it was before the room completely collapsed in on itself, but he knew that it wouldn’t be that long either. It was going to happen and it was going to happen sooner or later.
So before that happened, it was best if he worked with everyone to get out of here as soon as possible.
He didn’t know if they would actually be helpful, but it was better than them just getting in his way.
Huang Xie took a deep breath and started telling everyone about what he saw, though he only said it simply without wasting any time at all. However, they were smart enough to understand just from this short summary.
Though to actually find anything useful…
They didn’t have the same abilities as Huang Xie, so it wasn’t as if they were able to find anything.
They couldn’t even see that the things in the room were shrinking, so there were many of them that were even doubting what Huang Xie said. They thought that he might have lost his mind from the stress of the situation and was coming up with things.
Those people instead moved over to the statue to look at the panel on it that Huang Xie had been working on earlier.
This was at least something that they could see, so they chose to believe in this. They didn’t think that there would be things in this room that would help them open this, so they were just using brute force in an attempt to open it.
It was too bad that the statue blocked every single attack that they used.
It was even as if the energy from their attacks were erased when they tried to break through with force.
There seemed to be something around this statue that was blocking all of their attacks, so that they couldn’t do a single thing to it.
Huang Xie just ignored them since he never expected anything from them, though he did take note of the ones that followed his words and kept searching around the room.
After a long time, Huang Xie was able to find five things that didn’t move in the room, though none of them seemed to be helpful.
They were all a bunch of knick knacks that seemed like they could be thrown away at any moment.
So how were these things supposed to help him?
Xiao Ming was the one that solved his doubt by waving at him and saying, “Come over here and try it. There’s nothing to lose from just trying them.”
Huang Xie was surprised to hear this, but he nodded in agreement before heading back to the statue.
The others that had been gathered around the statue immediately moved aside when they saw Huang Xie come over. All of them had worried looks on their faces as they looked at the room around them.
With how much time that they had spent here, the room was now moving at a speed that they could perceive. It was not moving at millimeters rather than micrometers, so they could tell that the room was indeed shrinking.
That made them panic more since they were filled with regret over not having listened to Huang Xie sooner.
There was the will to do something, but they weren’t able to do a single thing since they had wasted all this time with the statue. Even if they wanted to help, they didn’t even know where to start looking.
So the only thing that they could do was stand aside and try to hide as much as possible.
When Huang Xie came over, he looked at the knick knacks in his hand and the panel in front of him with a look like he didn’t know what to do.
It was Xiao Ming who made the first move by taking one of the knick knacks and bringing it up to the panel.
When she did, that knick knack was suddenly sucked into the panel and disappeared without a trace.
Everyone was surprised to see this and there were even a few people that wanted to criticize her for this since they had no idea what was happening. They were worried that this might have caused something bad to happen, or they might have even lost the key to getting out of this place because of her actions.
However, Huang Xie’s glare immediately made them turn away.
Huang Xie looked at the panel for a bit before raising the other four items and bringing it forward.
He found that when he tried to put more than one into the panel, the panel wouldn’t take it. It was only when he brought these items forward one by one that the panel started taking the items.
In no time at all, the five items all disappeared without a trace.
However, when the fifth item was put in, they were all suddenly ejected from the panel.
At the same time, there was a red light that came from the panel itself as if something was wrong.
Huang Xie picked up the items and looked at them with a confused look, but there was a slow look of recognition that appeared on his face.
At the same time, he and Xiao Ming said, “There must be some order to it.”
The two of them looked at each other before nodding at the same time.
Huang Xie didn’t hesitate this time to mix up the order of the items that he put into the panel, but once again the panel released the same red light and ejected the items.
It seemed like there was no other choice but to slowly go through the different orders that these items could be put into the statue, but at the same time…the walls were slowly closing in around them.
Since it had already reached millimeters, it didn’t take long for the shrinking rate to reach centimeters.
It seemed like it would only be a matter of time before the walls closed in on them and crushed them all.
Seeing the walls closing in on them like this, everyone started to panic and wanted to urge Huang Xie to go faster, but they didn’t dare say it out loud. The only thing that they could do was look at Huang Xie with desperate looks, hoping that he would find the right combination.
Huang Xie could also see the walls closing in on them like this and he had to admit that he was getting nervous as well.
But Xiao Ming suddenly grabbed his hand and said, “Calm down and think about this clearly.”
That was when he realized that he had been panicking too much.
There had to be some kind of indication of what order to put these things in, but he just missed it.
So instead of putting the items in the panel again, he looked around the room.
When he couldn’t find anything, Huang Xie looked down at the items.
“Ah, so it was that…”
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