"Run, Liguang!"
Fang Qi held Liguang's hand as they sprinted down the corridor.
"Or we'll sink!"
Beneath their feet, the ground writhed like a mire of pixelated sludge.
Every step gave a brief sense of solid ground,
but the moment they stopped, they slowly began to sink.
They couldn't stop. They had to keep running.
The silver-haired girl didn't say a word.
Fang Qi glanced sideways to see that she was being dragged along, still sulking.
Her lips were pressed tight, and her amber eyes glared at him.
Her fingertips even scratched at his palm in protest.
"Master, if you do that again…!"
Fang Qi quickly blinked at her.
"No, no, never again!"
"Hmph…!"
The silver-haired girl let out a soft snort…
then tucked her little hand just a little deeper into his palm.
Fang Qi couldn't help the corner of his mouth twitching upward.
So adorable!
Together, they kept running.
To be honest, looking at the pixelated environment around him, Fang Qi actually felt a mix of novelty and excitement.
Was he playing an adventure game with his wife?
But as they ran…
his steps gradually slowed. He tightened his grip on Liguang's hand.
Ahead, the corridor stretched on endlessly.
He blinked.
…?
This hallway was so long!
They must have run at least a few hundred feet by now,
yet the corridor just kept extending before them.
Liguang also sensed something was wrong. Her pace gradually slowed.
Fang Qi held her small hand tightly as he walked, squinting as he observed their surroundings.
Beside them, the metal walls flickered and warped intermittently, sometimes emitting a faint buzz of electrical static.
Some areas still retained traces of their original form—door frames, wall lamps, embedded signage—all still faintly visible.
But most of the area had completely turned into pixels,
becoming tangled blobs of colorful, slowly writhing patches.
Liguang, dragged along by him, had stopped being angry. Her little head kept turning left and right, curiously examining everything around them.
Without her scanning abilities, she seemed much more fascinated by the oddities of their environment.
"Master, that wall over there… did it just blink?"
"Eh? Walls can blink?"
"But Liguang really saw it…"
Fang Qi looked.
A patch of pixels flickered at an eerie rhythm… almost like blinking?
He glanced down at the path ahead.
The ground was all pixels, but the colors were different.
The larger the color blocks and the slower they writhed, the more solid the ground felt.
Conversely, areas with smaller pixels and faster flickering…
even when stepped on firmly, were soft underfoot.
…Aw, man!
Was this a trap?
He quickly pulled Liguang away from that spot.
"Liguang, watch out for places where the pixels are scattered!"
"Oh, oh…"
Liguang obediently lifted her leg and stepped over.
They continued walking, because stopping meant sinking.
As they moved, Fang Qi furrowed his brow in thought.
Had this place turned into some kind of maze?
Was it trying to trap him and Liguang here forever?
…His eyelid twitched.
This was starting to look dangerous!
They couldn't stop moving, or the pixelated swamp beneath them would swallow them up.
So they had to keep walking endlessly.
But what if…
they never found a safe place to stop?
Would they just have to walk forever?
He instinctively looked back at the seemingly safe research room.
It was gone now.
The door of that room had vanished into the dark end of the corridor behind them.
"Master, look!"
Liguang suddenly pointed at the wall on the left.
Huh?
Fang Qi immediately turned to follow her finger.
Then squinted.
That was…
A line of blurred code was slowly scrolling across the wall.
Dark red characters flickered in and out of view on the pixelated metal surface,
as if the wall was a faulty display screen.
As they walked past the wall step by step, Liguang narrowed her amber eye slightly.
"render_chunk_failed… retry_limit_exceeded…"
She read aloud in her soft voice, pausing in the middle with a slight frown.
Fang Qi was expressionless.
Yeah, no clue what that meant.
"…What does that mean?"
He asked instinctively.
Liguang blinked, turning to look at him.
In her empty right eye socket, fine gold patterns reflected the dark red code from the wall, giving off an eerie beauty.
For a moment, Fang Qi was a little stunned.
But her amber eyes showed confusion.
She shook her head gently.
"With Liguang's current computing power, I can only read the characters one by one, not analyze them."
She pursed her lips, glanced back at the scrolling code, and muttered uncertainly:
"Literally… it seems to mean 'rendering failed'?"
"'Retry limit exceeded'?"
After saying this, her lips formed a small pout, and her eyes looked at Fang Qi with a hint of grievance.
—Master, Liguang can't understand this…
The look almost completely dissolved the tension that had just built up in Fang Qi's heart.
Ah, she was his adorable, ditsy wife!
"It's fine!"
Fang Qi waved his hand with pride.
"I don't understand either!"
As he said this, he pinched Liguang's soft little cheek firmly.
"Now Liguang is just as smart as master!"
Liguang's cheek was squished out of shape. She froze for a moment…
then her eyes curved into smiles.
"Mhm, Liguang is the same as master!"
…
They continued onward.
Hand in hand, strolling through the pixelated corridor.
Fang Qi was pretty sure now…
this place really had turned into a maze.
More and more branching paths appeared on both sides of the corridor.
Some led into pitch-black darkness, while others were completely blocked by pixels.
Then…
they finally saw the first door.
It was right on the right side of the corridor ahead.
It was completely intact—
the frame wasn't pixelated, and the door panel wasn't warped.
It looked exactly like a door from the normal world.
"Oh?"
Fang Qi's eyes lit up!
What lay behind this door in the maze…
It must be treasure!
He immediately reached out to push it open.
"Ah, Master, wait—!"
Liguang's voice came from behind, her little hand gripping the hem of his clothes—
but her reaction was even slower than Fang Qi's now.
By the time her fingers touched his clothes, his palm had already smacked against the door panel, and then—
"Buzz!"
The door in front of him instantly turned into a wall of pixels.
Fang Qi: "?!"
He had been subconsciously moving forward, so his shoulder slammed straight into it.
"Thud!"
"Ow!"
Fang Qi winced, stumbling half a step back, glaring at the wall.
"Master!"
Liguang stepped up beside him immediately, pressing her small hand onto his shoulder, gently rubbing the spot he had hit.
Then her amber eyes glared at him again.
"Master, you…!"
But standing still, their feet began to slowly sink into the pixels.
Fang Qi quickly pulled Liguang and took a step forward.
"…Come on, let's keep moving!"
They had to keep walking!
Or Liguang would threaten to break his legs again!
“Hmph!”
A soft snort came from behind.
...
They walked for a long while longer...
Fang Qi began to frown.
The length of this eerie corridor completely exceeded his expectations!
He remembered clearly that from the B2 genetic gate to the B1 entrance, it was at most a few hundred meters! But now...
They had been walking for at least ten minutes, yet still couldn’t see the end!
The side paths along the way were also increasing, and each one looked familiar.
He glanced to his side at the silver-haired girl beside him.
Liguang, at this moment, was also frowning slightly because she couldn’t calculate the route.
But as they passed the next fork, she suddenly reached out with her free hand...
“Squeak—!”
Her fingernail scraped forcefully across the mosaic wall!
A few shallow scratches were left on the blurry metallic surface.
Hiss—
Hearing the harsh sound of a fingernail scraping against metal, Fang Qi shuddered slightly!
“Liguang, what are you...”
“This way, I can recognize it.”
Liguang blinked at him gently.
“Just leaving a mark.”
Oh...
Fang Qi understood.
She was marking their trail using the most primitive method, wasn’t she?
Well, his wife was smart.
And her nails were pretty tough, too!
Holding her hand, he turned right at the next fork ahead.
Now it truly felt like walking through a maze!
...
A few minutes later, they passed by another fork that seemed familiar.
Fang Qi blinked.
“Wait, could this be...”
He looked at the wall.
...Ah.
There were indeed a few scratches there.
But now, they had turned into a patch of mosaic spots, slowly writhing.
Barely recognizable.
Liguang stared at the cluster of mosaic spots, her lips pressing together.
“Master, we’re back again...”
Her tone carried a hint of unease.
Fang Qi tightened his grip on her hand.
Back again, huh.
Sure enough, they’d been going in circles all along!
This was really...
“It’s okay, we’ll keep going!”
Fang Qi held her hand firmly.
“Next time, we’ll take a different route!”
“Mm.”
Liguang answered softly, following his steps.
The two continued forward.
They had to keep moving.
Holding Liguang’s small hand, they walked for several more minutes through the blurry corridor...
Suddenly, Fang Qi’s eyes twitched.
...Huh?
He felt...
Something was off about the walls on both sides.
Frowning, he stared closely at the mosaic-flickering walls!
Why did it feel like...
The walls were moving?
And just as he focused on observing...
The walls on both sides suddenly trembled!
Huh?!
Fang Qi’s pupils shrank as he saw the walls begin to shift toward the center!
Silently closing in!
The lights overhead suddenly began flickering on and off!
?!
“Master—!!”
Liguang’s small hand tightened abruptly as she cried out in alarm!
“The passage is narrowing!!”
What?!
They had stepped into a trap?!
Fang Qi spun his head around and found that the passage behind was also narrowing!
Both front and back were closing in?!
There was no way to go back?!
Wait...
How was this so sudden?!
“Go!!”
Without time to think, he tightened his grip on Liguang’s hand and pulled her forward, sprinting!
Suddenly, a push came from behind him!
Two small hands pressed against his back, shoving him with all their strength!
“Master, hurry!!!”
Her push sent him stumbling forward!
Liguang! You really are...!
He reached back, grabbed Liguang’s wrist, and yanked her close, then kept charging forward!!
“Let’s go!!”
The walls ahead were getting closer and closer!
His shoulder could almost feel the chill radiating from the metal surface!
Damn it!
What was going on?!
Liguang, dragged to his side, had her amber eyes wide open.
Fang Qi held her hand tight, his feet pounding as he dragged her forward!
But the distant walls ahead, stretching endlessly, seemed to be contracting too?!
Wait a minute?!
He kept running forward, but the passage was becoming tighter and tighter!
The sudden crisis left Fang Qi’s mind blank!
Hey, hey, hey... were they about to be...?!
But then...
The walls stopped shrinking.
Only one fist’s width away from his shoulder.
“...Huh?”
Fang Qi froze, his steps halting.
Liguang beside him stumbled two more steps from inertia before stopping.
She turned her head, her single amber eye blinking.
“Hah—hah—”
Fang Qi, still holding Liguang’s hand, gasped for breath!
He was dumbfounded.
He looked at the wall on his left, then at the wall on his right.
The two walls stood silently on both sides, as if staring at him.
Then, the walls began to slowly retreat.
...What?
Fang Qi’s mind struggled to process this.
A few seconds later, the passage returned to its original width.
The mosaic patches stabilized again.
The overhead lights steadied, no longer flickering, as silent as if nothing had ever happened.
As if it had just...
Taken a long, deep breath?
He stood there, stunned.
No way...
The danger came fast, and it left just as fast!
But it seemed...
There hadn’t been any real danger at all?
The walls were just... messing with him?
What the heck?!
Then his feet softened!
Stopped in place, they were about to sink into the mosaic floor again!
“...Go, go, go, go, let’s move!”
He quickly pulled Liguang along and pressed on!
What on earth was that just now?!
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