APTnovel Chapter 353 Key Neglect
Chapter 353 Key Neglect
Chapter 353 Key Neglect
The carriage traveled in the opposite direction.
Hall looked serious, while Bailey eyed the other passengers in the car with suspicion.
Although Aaron was also worried about this matter, he remained unusually calm.
He knew that being anxious would not help in resolving this matter.
Aaron tilted his head slightly, taking in the scenery along the way so as not to miss any important clues.
However, the roadside was lined with only ordinary trees and scattered stones.
There was nothing too suspicious, but Aaron still dared not let his guard down.
Suddenly, Henderson's exclamation came from the front of the car:
"Oh my god!"
Everyone looked ahead, and they saw Reagan's burned bench again.
In other words, they've returned to square one.
"Damn it!" Pelé cursed, "What the hell is going on?!"
Henderson said, "It's like we're trapped in a cycle!"
Aaron said to everyone, "Don't rush, the most important thing is for us to stay calm."
He stood up, looked around, and then said:
"Since we can't leave by road, let's try going through the wilderness."
No one objected, so Henderson got out of the carriage, took the horse, and carefully led it out into the wilderness.
They walked through a sparse forest and came to a wide-open plain, followed by another dense forest.
The carriage traveled very slowly through the forest due to the extremely difficult terrain.
Aaron also discovered that there were no animals in the forest.
There were no squirrels flashing by, nor any birds startled and screaming.
In other words, there were only a few animals trapped in the space.
Are these plants special?
If Aaron leaves a mark on a tree, could he contact someone outside the space?
However, entrusting one's fate to uncertain strangers is too passive a strategy.
They've only just been trapped in this space; they shouldn't give up so soon.
Having spent so many years alone in the library, how could Aaron be afraid of being trapped in this area?
Besides, there were several other people with him.
After walking a distance in the dense forest, the forest density suddenly decreases.
The carriage finally moved faster, but when they emerged from the woods, they saw another road.
The group looked around the road and saw a dark object not far to the side.
As the carriage drew near, there stood Reagan's bench.
"Damn it! They're back again!" Bailey cursed.
"It's no use!" Aesop cried out in terror, clutching his head. "We've seen a ghost! We're trapped here! We'll never get out!"
"Calm down, Aesop!"
Hall tried to comfort him, but his own voice was trembling.
Henderson grasped his cross necklace and began to chant.
Only Reagan seemed oblivious to the danger, still staring longingly at his bench.
Just then, Pele suddenly stood up and kicked Reagan to the ground.
Startled, Reagan yelled and hurriedly crawled away into the distance.
Aesop exclaimed, "God help me! Bailey! What are you doing? Why are you bullying Reagan?!"
Bailey appeared to be planning to beat Reagan, but Hall intervened in time to stop him.
"Don't do that, Pele, at least tell us your reasons."
"It's all because of this half-man!" Bailey roared, his eyes blazing. "It's all because of his damn bench that we've run into this mess! Listen, we should kill him, maybe then everything will be fine."
"What does this have to do with me!" Reagan cried. "I've always had that bench, why was it never a problem before?"
“Speaking of which—” Aesop suddenly looked at Aaron, “Mr. Juan, it seems that you were the one who set Reagan’s bench on fire and threw it off the bench.”
Upon hearing this, everyone looked at Aaron.
Even Henderson stopped reciting and turned around.
This reasoning is clearly problematic, because Henderson noticed the anomaly before Aaron set the bench on fire.
Henderson hasn't brought this up yet, probably because he needs an outlet for his panic.
Bailey didn't attack Aaron directly; instead, he stared intently at Aaron's cane and the dagger at his waist.
Finally, Hall asked, "Mr. Juan, can you give an explanation?"
"I did nothing."
Although Aaron couldn't rule out the possibility that the matter had nothing to do with him, it certainly wasn't because of anything he did.
Aaron was not pressed further, but he did say:
"Keep moving. Since the problem lies in this area, keep an eye out for anything strange."
Aaron sensed an atmosphere of suspicion spreading within the team.
However, they did as Aaron suggested.
Time passed quietly, and they circled around in space again and again.
Bailey went even more berserk, Aesop became even more terrified, and Reagan turned himself into a tiny worm, curling up in a corner.
Only Hall persisted, constantly looking around at his surroundings.
He suspected several places during the search, but after looking around, he found nothing unusual there.
Aaron also felt that they had to try other things.
If this space can seal them all, can it also seal Aaron's consciousness and soul?
Aaron immediately controlled the power of illusion within his body, attempting to control his soul to leave the false substitute and return to his true self.
As the power activated, he felt his soul being pulled away.
But it felt like hitting a wall; after a moment of disorientation, I was back inside the doll.
I tried several more times, but the result was still the same.
The power contained within this space has an extremely high priority; even the power of the Jade Record cannot surpass it.
Aaron couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
At this moment, perhaps sensing that the atmosphere was not right, Hall suggested:
"How about we get something to eat?"
"Are you an idiot?!" Bailey immediately yelled. "We don't know when we'll be able to get out of here, we should conserve our food! I'm not hungry at all, I can't eat anything now!"
Aesop also said, "I'm not hungry either."
The doll has no hunger level and usually only pretends to eat, so he is unaware of the hunger factor.
But it was precisely because of this that he suddenly thought of something strange.
They wandered in the loop for hours, discovering that they had spent a considerable amount of time on the road before falling into it.
In other words, they may have gone without food for more than ten hours.
But they said they weren't hungry, and the sky didn't change at all, which means one thing—time here is fixed!
But if that's the case, why is the spice in Aaron's body being continuously depleted?
The doll's power comes from spices, which are equivalent to Aaron's food.
This means that only Aaron's hunger level is normal.
In other words, only his time is passing! He is so special that his space must be treated separately!
But what exactly makes Aaron so special?
He is not human.
And he's spice-driven!
Aaron immediately realized that this space must be related to spices!
Since that's the case.
An idea popped into Aaron's mind—
Use spices to beat spices!