Click, click, click...
Just at that moment, the sound of a mechanism turning echoed in the underground hall.
They turned their heads and discovered that eight new passages had suddenly appeared in the sealed hall.
Without needing any hint, Ash and Weiser knew that as soon as they entered one of the passages, it would seal off and become their exclusive path for the trial.
In fact, Ash and the Observer were not intentionally lying in ambush for the Silver Lamp Twins here; they simply could not leave.
Because after they had arrived at this hall, a message had popped up on their wristwatches: "The entrance to the Cicada Hall will only open once all the trialists have reached the Cicada Lurking Hall."
Clearly, even if Weiser and the others had arrived at the hall first, they had to wait for Ash to arrive before they could proceed. Initially, Ash had found this setting strange, but upon seeing these eight passages, he understood.
