For argument's sake:
Scenario 1:
Staying for a while to inspect the entire safe area, gather your thoughts, and come up with something.
Scenario 2:
Thinking about hunger and going from a safe area straight into an unknown and dark hallway, which is obviously dangerous.
We would all agree that Scenario 1 would be the most logical and realistic choice he could've made.
Well, of course he didn't since from the start he already had little to no selfa-wareness or common sense for not thinking more than once about asking help from douchebags.
He's just that kind of dumbasspull MC.