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Chapter 857: Chapter 862: The Fifth Trial 5
But is it really that simple?
Walking on the stone walls was indeed more than twice as fast as taking the detour below.
As they neared the building that looked very much like a safe house.
Suddenly, Su Tang slowed her pace.
"Do you guys smell anything?"
Yadang, "Yeah, I’ve been smelling something burning for a while."
Qiu Mo, "I smell it too."
Everyone looked around but didn’t see anything suspicious.
Su Tang felt puzzled, but she didn’t dwell on it.
The group continued forward.
After crossing over two stone walls, they would be able to reach the safe house smoothly.
But just at this moment, an incident occurred—
As Yadang jumped from one stone wall to another, his straw sandals suddenly ’poofed’ and caught fire.
Su Tang saw this but didn’t panic; instead, she couldn’t understand why the straw sandals would just catch fire like that.
And maybe it was psychological, but Su Tang also felt the soles of her feet getting hotter.
"Wow f*ck, it’s so hot, so hot!"
Yadang landed on the opposite stone wall and suddenly jumped three feet high, frantically hopping around with comic movements.
But at this moment, no one laughed at him because everyone felt the unusual heat beneath their feet.
Gaiyin made a quick decision, scooping up Su Tang and leaping down, while Xi Ye supported Qiu Mo as she climbed down the vines.
Once on the ground, Su Tang, with a helpless expression, yelled to Yadang, who was still frantically dancing and cursing on the stone wall, "Brother, stop jumping around, hurry down!"
Perhaps driven mad by the heat, Yadang jumped directly from the eleven or twelve-meter-high wall, landing with a force-dispersing roll before sitting and cradling his feet, wailing in pain.
When the straw sandals were being made, Yadang had complained about the soles being too thick, which made walking uncomfortable, so he strongly requested that the female who made his sandals thin out the soles.
That female actually really gave him just one sole layer, while Su Tang’s sandals had been given a full five layers.
"Brother, are you okay?"
Su Tang struggled to suppress her amusement as she approached.
Come to think of it, she had to thank Yadang. If it hadn’t been for him, the rest of them might not have noticed the anomaly so quickly and escaped the mishap.
Yadang looked up at her with a grievous expression, "Do you think I’m okay?"
The soles of his straw sandals were completely burnt away, and the soles of his feet were red and blistered, with the heels even faintly showing signs of charring.
Su Tang put her fist to her lips and coughed lightly twice, covering up her urge to laugh.
"Looks like you’re not too bad. It’s no big deal if the shoes are ruined; we can have Liu Ye make another pair for you when we get back."
Yadang stared mournfully at Su Tang’s sandals, filled with immense regret. If only he had known!
The sandals of the others, having five layers at the base, didn’t catch fire so quickly, but were also scorched black from the heat on the walls; they probably wouldn’t last much longer either.
Yadang hadn’t brought any other shoes, and although Su Tang had some in Space for her and Gaiyin, Yadang’s feet were too big to fit any. There was nothing to be done about it.
As the only Barefoot Immortal in the group, Yadang felt utterly dejected.
"Sigh, we thought we’d found a shortcut out of the Maze. Who knew they had planned for this?"
Listening to Su Tang’s muttering, Gaiyin suddenly remembered the time he went scouting earlier.
The longer he flew, the more muddled his thoughts became. If Su Tang hadn’t called out to him...
