448: Chapter 447 Unable to Leave

"The exit is on the roof?"

Everyone could not help but look astonished.

"To be precise, it should be to go to the roof, and then jump down!"

Chu Xuan was not actually certain, but the rules here had some similarities to those in the dormitory back then.

The night, werewolf kill, leaving to clear the stage, the door on the first floor that could not be opened, plus the connection regarding the night cloak, all forced him to have many associations.

Although people had doubts in their hearts regarding Chu Xuan's statement, they did not express them aloud.

There was no better way now, and with about a third of the time already passed, they could only try it out first.

If they were wrong, they could think of other methods as soon as possible.

Seeing that Chu Xuan had already set off upstairs, no one raised any objections and they all followed him up.

Chu Xuan's speed of moving forward was neither fast nor slow, averaging half a minute per floor as he searched for that vague sensation.

Ever since the third stage began and the night curtain swept in.

The sensation in Chu Xuan's heart regarding the night cloak and the paper effigy became increasingly intense, yet he could not grasp the specific direction.

It felt to him as if it existed in every place within this night.

Everywhere!

On the way up, they did not encounter any special situations again, but Chu Xuan noticed the sound of chattering teeth behind him.

Glancing back inadvertently, Chu Xuan saw that some people were already trembling in their legs.

"Has the fear already seeped into the bone marrow due to the influence of the night..."

Chu Xuan muttered in his heart, and when he swept his gaze over the others, he discovered that the complexions of everyone, including Lin Liguo, Cai Hou, and Fat Pig, were all a bit poor.

"I feel like a hand is gripping my heart." Lin Liguo's expression was dark: "The longer time passes, the deeper the influence of the night becomes."

"I also have a bad feeling... My thinking and actions are starting to become somewhat rigid."

Cai Hou frowned: "At this rate, perhaps we won't even need the 30-minute time limit for the stage to end before we collapse and die here."

"This patch of night... seems to be able to amplify the fear and spirit pressure that Specters cause to humans..." Wu Wanqiu said with chattering teeth.

Chu Xuan's expression remained as usual.

He, however, did not have the slightest feeling of discomfort.

However, he also understood that this was the trait brought to him by the max-level [Forbidden Darkness], which basically allowed him to be fearless against the spirit pressure on himself caused by The Gloom.

Chu Xuan quickened his pace and led everyone to the roof.

It was still pitch black here, with no moonlight and no starlight.

Although there were candles and lamps around, the light they emitted could not illuminate a single bit, completely swallowed by the darkness.

Only the desk lamp in Wu Wanqiu's hand could barely illuminate a little of the path ahead.

The edge of the ancient castle was right before their eyes.

"Jump down from here, who among you will go first?" Chu Xuan took a deep breath, turned back, and said to everyone: "I will stay here and leave last."

No one answered.

Do they really have to jump?

When it came to this final step, everyone instead felt a bit hesitant, mainly because they could not believe they had reached the roof so smoothly.

The previous gate on the first floor could not be opened, and there were people left behind to deal with the path downstairs.

And now, coming up the stairs, if the exit were really on the roof, why were there no Specters blocking them?

"No need to waste time, I'll go first." Lin Liguo was the first to step forward: "If one can leave the ancient castle, one should naturally be able to jump down; if one cannot jump down, it means this path is impassable."

After a pause, Lin Liguo looked at Chu Xuan, "If I unfortunately die here, please lead the remaining people out of here."

After speaking, without looking at how the others reacted, he immediately stepped forward and leaped down.

A bizarre scene appeared.

It was seen that when Lin Liguo leaped up, it was as if there were invisible barriers around the roof walls, obstructing Lin Liguo from jumping down.

"Still doesn't work!" Lin Liguo's expression was dark.

Immediately after, Cai Hou and Fat Pig also went to try, but the result was still useless; it felt as if an air wall existed in front.

Upon reaching the edge, no matter how much effort they made, they could not reach out even a little bit.

After the others tried, it was all the same; let alone jumping down, on this roof, they couldn't even stretch their hands outward.

"Could it be wrong?"

Everyone could not help but look at Chu Xuan one after another.

"Half the time has already passed, we must quickly find another method!"

"We won't last 30 minutes; most of us probably won't even be able to hold on for 20 minutes..." Wu Wanqiu gritted her teeth, standing on the wall of the roof, her whole body desperately pushing outward, but she was forcibly blocked and could not advance an inch.

"Let's hurry downstairs first." Cai Hou suggested: "We'll check carefully again once we reach the first floor to see if there are any mechanisms to open the door."

"I'm afraid the exit isn't on the first floor at all, but on another floor!"

"I'm afraid there isn't enough time for us to keep looking for other methods..."

Many people's voices trembled when they spoke, their bodies shivering, and their joints seemed to have become stiff.

This was not caused by the cold, but was a somatization reaction resulting from the spirit being severely affected by the night.

Sigh...

Everyone looked at Chu Xuan one after another, and could not help but sigh inwardly, yet they did not voice any complaints.

Being able to reach this step was already thanks to Chu Xuan; otherwise, they would have been crushed to death by gravity on the Mountain Road in the first stage.

However, they were still somewhat unwilling to give up.

"It is not necessarily that I was wrong."

Just at this moment, Chu Xuan stepped onto the top of the wall, and amidst the astonishment on everyone's faces, he raised his hand and reached out without the slightest obstruction.

"This... how could this be?"

People did not understand why.

Why were they all seemingly stuck by an air wall, yet Chu Xuan could get out; could it be that some step was wrong?

"It's not that the path I chose was wrong, but that you have all developed a problem..." Chu Xuan sighed softly, his gaze sweeping over the soles of everyone's feet.

At some unknown time, the soles of everyone's feet, just like Cai Hou, Fat Pig, and the others, were all stained with a pitch-black circle, as if they had stepped into a layer of ink.