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Chapter 66 - Jail - A

Adam, Bull, and Bunny walked towards the wooden stage of the lounge area that has a long line of contestants standing right in front of it. A couple of minutes passed by and it's their turn to enter the tube, Bunny scanned her watch to the small wooden stand while staring towards the blank masked man who was standing right behind the stand.

"Beasts, please enter the tube, and Good luck on your third game." The man said while looking towards Adam, Bull, and Bunny.

Adam, Bull, and Bunny went inside the tube and the floor below them slowly raised upwards. The floor stopped and surrounded the three of them in darkness. A bright light turned on above the three of them and the tube quickly move around in the darkness.

"Here we go were very close now, I wonder what kind of stage that the viewers pick this time." Bull said while looking straight ahead towards the darkness while stroking his chin.

"I'm hoping something nice and not dark but not as dangerous as the jungle, something like a beach would be nice." Bunny smiled widely while looking towards Bull.

"Well, whatever it is we should do it as fast as we can and find the secret prize." Adam looked towards Bull and Bunny who quickly nodded towards him.

Their tube suddenly stopped after a couple of minutes of moving around the darkness and a static voice came from the roof "Contestant Bunny please extend your hand outwards."

Bunny extended her right hand forwards and a scroll fell down from the roof to her hand. She took a deep breath and opened the tube of the scroll. She rolled out the scroll and read what was written inside the scroll out loud.

"To the fallen ones that have made a grave sin who even hell can not accept their existence, will get dropped even lower than hell itself."

"Well, that doesn't sound like a secret for a beach stage." Bunny sighed as she rolled the scroll back and put it back inside the clear tube. She turned around towards Adam and Bull while sliding the tube into the side of her bag.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! Adam, Bull, and Bunny quickly looked upwards as they heard a loud alarm-like sound came from the roof as it opened on its own and the floor under them slowly raised on its own.

Adam, Bull, and Bunny quickly get closer to each other backs and looked straight forwards towards the darkness that was surrounding them. A slow chilly wind blew towards them and they felt that they were in a very spacious space.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! Their watches rang loudly and flashed bright green. The three of them quickly looked towards their watch "Objective: Find six keys with specific numbers to be qualified into the next round, you will be able to find your keys inside the body of the prisoners. The key numbers that you have to collect are 869520."

"Keys? Prisoners? Inside their body? What do they mean by that?" Bunny asked as she turned around and looked towards Adam and Bull who quickly shook their head.

REEEEEEEEE! A loud high-pitched sound came from their surroundings and a bright red light turned on by itself right on top of them, illuminating the three of them as a couple more similar lights turned on by themselves right in front of Adam. Forming a long line on a roof of a very long hallway with a couple of meters of space between each of the lights.

Adam, Bull, and Bunny instantly looked towards their surroundings while they were surrounded by large pitch-black rooms that have thick dark metal bars as the wall of their entrance.

Bunny slowly walked closer towards one of the rooms that was near to her, while holding her blowgun with both of her hands that she took from the right side of her bag "AAAAAAAAHHHHHH NO B-BONES! There's a lot of bones! This is the exact opposite of a beach stage!"

Adam walked closer towards Bunny who was still screaming to the top of her lungs and took a peek inside the darkroom. Adam squinted his eyes and saw that the room was filled with broken bones and skulls that were in various sizes.

"This one is filled with tons of bones, are you okay there Bunny?" Bull turned around and looked towards Bunny who gave him a thumbs up with her right hand while holding her mouth close with her left hand.

"Okay then now let's find the six keys that we need to get out from here while thinking of the secret prize riddle because I have zero clues to what they were talking about." Adam looked towards Bull and Bunny who quickly nodded.

"We're at a dead end and the only way for us to go is illuminated by those red lights. We will follow the red light and be careful of your surroundings. Let's go follow me." Adam turned around towards the very long hallway which was illuminated with bright red lights and quickly ran toward it with Bull and Bunny right behind him.

Adam followed the trail of red lights for a couple of minutes looking for the prisoners with Bull and Bunny right behind him. As they ran through the long hallway Adam noticed something about the prison cells that was on his left and right side.

"I don't think the prisoners that they wrote down on the objective are humans," Adam said as he took a sharp right turn with Bull and Bunny following him.

"What do you mean by that?!" Bunny shouted while looking towards Adam.

"Well, there's a couple of reasons for why I think that they're not humans. First, if you noticed all of the jail cells that we passed by were filled with human bones, and most of them are broken into a couple of pieces, Second there was no flesh remains stuck on the bones even the insides of the bones were clean as well, and lastly there are no shoes or footprints on the hallways that we ran pass by even though it's as dirty as a mechanic's garage." Adam listed as the three of them ran through a long hallway.

"That makes sense but we have trained really hard for our game so I'm sure whatever it is we can kill it together." Bull said while looking towards Adam who nodded.

"Yeah, I agree nothing can-"

"Ouch! My head! What's the big idea huh? Why did you stop Bull?!" Bunny asked and punched Bull's back with her right hand while rubbing the top of her head with her left hand.

"Lion suddenly stopped. Sorry, I didn't give you a warning." Bull apologized.

"What is this? I have never seen anything like this before do any of you know what this is?" Adam asked as he kneeled down.

"What? What is it huh? What's the thing that made you stop without telling both of us Huh?!" Bunny who was still angry asked and quickly walked to the side of Adam.

Bunny looked downwards and saw a large footprint that was as big as a wooden barrel. The large footprint has a big palm at the bottom of it and six sets of large round finger-like shapes at the top of it.

"That looks like a bear paw but way way way bigger than a normal bear paw, plus it has six fingers. What kind of thing is this?" Bull asked while looking towards Adam who shook his head while slowly stands up.

"I don't know but if it's like a bear paw that means that this thing will be at least five times the size of a normal bear." Adam looked towards Bull who quickly nodded.

"Looks like it's going to be a hard game if somethings that big is one of the prisoners, but luckily I have prepared a lot of healing." Bunny grinned while looking towards her back.

"Let's follow this footprint and make sure if it's one of the prisoners first. If we're lucky this thing will have one of our keys." Adam smiled towards Bull and Bunny who quickly nodded. The three of them quickly ran straight ahead following their large bear-like footprints.

"If this were the normal world and were inside a forest I will call the two of you insane for following a bear-like paw. Because it's basically suicide in the normal worlds." Bunny commented while Bull who was beside her burst into laughter.

After following the large footprint for a couple of minutes Adam suddenly slowed down while raising his right hand signaling Bull and Bunny to slow down.

They stopped right behind a corner of the long hallway and Adam slowly peeked out from the corner for a couple of seconds and quickly turned his head towards Bull and Bunny "I can't see anything because it was dark there but I can feel that the thing that we're following is right around this corner."

GRAWWWWWW! A very loud and deep roar came from the corner that Adam was leaning against with a strong gust of wind blowing out from it "That's very loud! Let's ambush it and kill it as fast as we can-"

WOOSH! Bull grabbed Adam and Bunny by the back of their neck as he saw a tip of a large claw flew towards Adam. Bull jumped backward a couple of times while staring towards the spot that they were on which was crushed into pieces. Bull let go of Adam's and Bunny's neck who instantly dropped down to the ground.

Bull looked towards the corner of the hallway while melting both of his hands. His right hand instantly turned into a long sword that has thorns as it guards while his left hand turned into an angry bull face shield that was surrounded by roses.

Right in front of them was a gigantic bear which was at least twenty times the size of a normal bear that was covered with dark brown overgrown fur and large cut marks on this entire body with claws that were shining bright red.

GRAWWWWWW! The gigantic bear screamed to the top of its lungs as it saw Adam, Bull, and Bunny with its bright red eyes. The bear quickly stands on two of its feet showing a large number two which was carved in the middle of its chest.