Chapter 10 The Breathing Room

• The hallway lit up again with a flickering green glow. A new door opened, groaning like it hadn’t been touched in centuries. Ivy flinched, clutching her arm where the last challenge had left a burn. No one spoke for a while the silence between them had grown louder than anything the house could produce.
• “This one’s called the Breathing Room,” the system’s voice echoed, mechanical and far too calm. “There are no clocks, no traps. Only oxygen. Solve the puzzle before it runs out.”
• Benji groaned. “Oh good. So we’re just slowly suffocating this time.”