The Argo Goes West

39, Dragon Fights Against Minotaur, part 1

"It's another dead end."

When Bonnie, who was leading the way, stopped her horse, she turned around and told her comrades behind her.

"It's all about dead ends," Orpheus sighed. The bent tracks were running in a deep ditch instead of flat ground. Wider than a trench, closer to a canyon. It's about 13 feet deep, and even The Mad Bomber, the tallest member of the group, couldn't reach the top of the wall.

"Let's turn back," said Pat Garrett.

They went back to the crossroads. Bonnie tried to turn right. Lou noted. "WE've already gone to the right."

"Is that so?"

"Look at your feet."

Bonnie looked at the ground. There was a single playing card. Seven of diamonds.

"I left a red card on the road that turned back at the dead end."

Lou also threw a card on the road they had just returned from. 8 of diamonds.

"The road with a red card is a dead end, so you say go the other way."

"That's right," Lou winked mischievously.

At the crossroads, the only road without cards was the one on the left. they went that route. After a while the road came to a three-way intersection. Bonnie chose the right, but it was a dead end. They went back to the three-way intersection again.

"It's like a labyrinth. Can we get out of here?" The Mad Bomber gritted his teeth impatiently.

"If we follow the black card, we can get back to the entrance," Lou said.

"Then let's do it. I don't want to be in this place anymore."

Slim made another suggestion. "If you can climb to the top of this wall, you can see the whole thing, and you may find a route to the exit."

"Then I will climb," said Orpheus, raising his hand.

"Dangerous," Pat Garrett shook his head. "Since you are a child, you may be agile, but standing on the wall, while you can find something, there is also the danger that something will find you. Billy is the right person for that job," Pat asked his young Chinese assistant. "Can you do it?"

"I'll do it!" Billy Chen nodded.

"Use my body as a stepping stone," said The Mad Bomber, his back against the wall. Billy didn't hesitate to climb his body and up the wall.

"How's that?" asked Pat.

"The exit is this way," Billy replied in English with a Chinese accent. "Please follow me."

Billy started walking on the wall with light steps. Pat left his horse with Lou and pushed the motorbike onward.

It was a re-start by going back quite a bit on the road they had been through so far.

"We've been wasting our time. We should have done this all along," complained The Mad Bomber. Lou had a cautious personality and continued to place landmark cards.