The abrupt fourth voice sounded a bit sharp, like a child's voice, and then as if it had been electrified.
The female staff had already been working in the space station for a long time, and she was very familiar with the nature of this strange object.
At this moment, the Fright Maze would speak and mock people, this was its favorite thing to do, getting in your face.
In past research records, it was noted that the Fright Maze was like an annoying child who needed a beating.
So the female staff was already completely immune to this sudden voice.
She explained to Nero and Stelle, "This is the Fright Maze's voice."
Of course, Nero and Stelle were not scared by the Fright Maze's sudden voice at all. Stelle even evaluated it with a serious expression.
After thinking for a few seconds, Stelle said to Nero with complete seriousness, "Its voice doesn't sound as nice as yours."
"Really? Nice!"
Seeing Nero and Stelle completely unaffected in front of her, the female staff felt emotional inside.
'As expected of the heroes who faced the Doomsday Beast head-on and saved the space station, they're not scared at all!'
"We looked up some info about the Fright Maze on our way here," Nero told the female staff.
"So we roughly understand its condition already. Are the designated Imaginary Overflow Storage Container and the Imaginary Overflow Interference Field needed for retrieving it here?"
The female staff nodded. "They are."
Then, she led Nero and Stelle to find the designated Imaginary Overflow Storage Container and the Imaginary Overflow Interference Field among the unreadable devices outside the maze entrance.
The former was something with a pitch-black base and a transparent cover, like some sort of display case. The latter looked like a model made of four palm-sized triangular units connected by rods.
It didn't take long to learn from the female staff what these two tools were, understand them, and learn how to use them.
Even though the Fright Maze kept interrupting them with mockery while doing so.
For example, "Hilarious! You two even need to learn how to use these devices on the spot!"
Or, "You actually think you can retrieve me when you have to learn how to use these devices right now?"
Or, "If you ask me, the two of you should hurry home! Don't embarrass yourselves here!"
In short, mocking comments like these fired out of the Fright Maze like bullets from a machine gun, but Nero and Stelle ignored every single one.
Once they understood how to use the tools, Nero and Stelle armed themselves with them.
The Imaginary Overflow Interference Field was small and could be held, but the larger designated Imaginary Overflow Storage Container could only be carried on their backs. When strapped onto Nero and Stelle, it looked like they were carrying a transparent turtle shell.
"Hehehe… no time to waste! Let's go retrieve the Fright Maze right now!"
With the two containment tools equipped, Nero clapped his little hands and grinned confidently.
He was a bit excited inside, after all, once he completed this mission, he would be free.
Now he only hoped the Fright Maze would behave. Otherwise, don't blame Nero for showing no mercy.
Stelle followed Nero, and the two of them arrived at the maze entrance.
"Heh heh~ You two little chicks learned how to use those devices? But you just learned them. I think you should turn around and go home!"
The Fright Maze's voice was full of confidence, not taking Nero or Stelle seriously.
So what if these two defeated the Doomsday Beast?
It believed Nero and Stelle had no power to deal with it. Inside its maze, it was invincible.
Nero and Stelle ignored the mockery on the surface, but had already noted every insult in their hearts.
And they decided that after catching this strange object, they were definitely going to give it a hard kick in the butt.
The two didn't speak. Nero walked in front to lead, Stelle guarded the rear, and the two squeezed straight into the maze entrance.
"Hoho! You two really have guts. So many people went insane from fear because of me, and you two rookies who only just learned how to use the containment tools didn't run away, instead you came in to challenge me?"
Finally, upon hearing this line from the Fright Maze, Nero's DNA stirred. He had to respond.
"If we didn't, how would we catch you and then give you a good kick in the butt?"
"Hmph! So many people failed before. What makes you think you two will succeed?" The Fright Maze was extremely arrogant.
"The next ones to be scared insane will be you two!"
During this short exchange, Nero and Stelle kept moving, navigating through the maze entrance.
This maze entrance was at first extremely narrow, then after walking dozens of steps, suddenly opened up…
And as the space in front widened, Nero and Stelle had fully stepped into the maze.
Towering walls appeared before them. The interior of the space station seemed folded up by the Fright Maze. Although only one road lay before them at the moment, what actually awaited them were countless intersecting and complicated corridors.
Nero and Stelle exchanged a look and walked forward side by side.
Inside the Fright Maze, maps were useless. Nero and Stelle encountered many forks, made many choices, turned left and right, and couldn't tell east from west.
But their goal was simple, enter within five hundred meters of the center.
So even though they walked many paths and could not tell directions, Nero kept leading Stelle forward in the direction they had when entering the maze.
After turning another corner, a massive monster blocked their way.
A giant, black-and-white Trotter stood there.
After seeing the two, the Trotter did not run. Instead, it spread its wings and roared, its two fangs gleaming, as if it had already taken the two of them as food.
At the same time, the Fright Maze's voice echoed from all directions.
"How about that? This is a giant Trotter! More than three hundred people have gone insane from fear in front of it! A Trotter spends its whole life eating and running because they're too weak. But when they grow this huge, humans become just another dish on their..."
Before the Fright Maze finished its arrogant bragging, it went silent.
Because as the creator of the maze, it could observe everything in the maze. At this moment, instead of seeing Nero and Stelle panic as it expected, it saw the opposite, these two were staring at the giant Trotter with excitement, like wolves spotting a rabbit. Their eyes were glowing.
"It's a Trotter! And such a big one!" Nero clenched his fists excitedly. "Stelle, hurry hurry, hit it, let's see how many stones it drops!"
Hearing Nero, Stelle smirked, flicked her hand, and a pitch-black bat wrapped in star-core power appeared in her grip.
In the next second, Stelle charged straight toward the roaring Trotter, swinging her bat down.
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