All four were extremely shocked.

Cheng Weicai walked over and touched the “hybrid” wall bit by bit in disbelief, murmuring: “This isn’t scientific… how could several materials of this type possibly combine together, and so seamlessly at that?…”

Trees embedded in reinforced concrete, tree trunks growing blue-gray tiles, with crooked vending machines squeezed into the middle—it was like being cut in half at the waist, yet the branches and leaves still grew lushly, as if they were naturally one entity.

Bai Youwei looked at the faintly glowing light inside the vending machine and asked: “Who has coins?”

“I do…” Old Teacher Cheng’s wallet contained quite a few coins.

Bai Youwei took the coins and inserted several into the vending machine. After several clanging sounds, a bottle of cola rolled out—

Several people were even more dumbfounded.

They hadn’t seen any power source, yet this vending machine actually had electricity! And could be used normally!

This was truly insane!

Tan Xiao was inspired and suddenly ran forward several steps. A bathtub was embedded in the opposite wall. He turned on the faucet, and water immediately sprayed out!

Tan Xiao let out strange cries and shouted: “And it’s freaking hot!!!”

“The city was broken apart, turned into scattered components, then recombined.” Shen Mo took out his long-unused phone and looked down at it. “…Water, electricity, and network seem to still continue the state from before the city changed.”

Bai Youwei’s phone had long since run out of battery and she hadn’t brought it with her. She leaned over Shen Mo’s hand to look at his phone and couldn’t help saying: “Even the signal towers were stuffed into the walls, yet phones still have signal.”

This completely defied scientific principles.

Shen Mo operated the phone a few times and shook his head slightly. “The outside world still can’t be contacted. It seems it can only be used within this local area.”

“That’s good enough.” Bai Youwei surveyed the surroundings. “It’s so big here. If the few of us get separated, we can still use phones to contact each other. Should we find a place to charge first?”

“No rush.” Shen Mo turned around, looking toward the direction they came from. “Let’s first test whether we can go back.”

…

Shen Mo pushed the wheelchair and returned along the original route.

As predicted, they couldn’t get out anymore.

When they came, it had clearly only taken a few minutes to pass through the fog layer, but now no matter how they walked, they remained in the fog.

“Looks like it really is an independent instance.” Bai Youwei let out a light sigh. “Let’s go back.”

Several people returned to the maze. As expected, this time it only took two minutes to walk out of the fog layer.

They stopped at the entrance of a passage without rushing in.

“No inspector, no rule explanation, and no other players.” Shen Mo gazed into the maze’s depths. “If the fog’s range is the maze’s range, then the maze before us covers approximately thirty-five million square meters—that is, thirty-five square kilometers. Once we enter, it will probably take several days to get out.”

Tan Xiao had no concept of numbers. Just hearing Shen Mo say this, he only felt it was big! The maze was incredibly huge!

Bai Youwei said calmly: “Although it’s a bit large, at least water, electricity, and network can all be used normally. In the short term, we don’t need to worry about living supplies.”

Tan Xiao couldn’t understand why the two big shots were so calm, but since the big shots were calm, he somehow felt less panicked too.

“So… looking at it this way, staying in the maze seems pretty good actually.” Tan Xiao scratched his head and said somewhat uncertainly: “There’s water and electricity here, no shortage of food, no need to worry about suddenly falling into some game, and it’s… quite comfortable.”

Bai Youwei let out a light scoffing laugh: “You’re thinking quite beautifully.”

Tan Xiao: “…”

Where did he say something wrong?

“If it were really comfortable…” Bai Youwei smiled and gazed into the maze’s depths. “Then how would you explain those people who disappeared without a trace after being trapped in the maze?”