"Calm down, calm down! This is just another trick in the game, nothing to be afraid of, phew!"

After taking several deep breaths, Jia Luo felt his heart, which had been pounding like a drum, calm down a bit. He then slowly sat down against the wall. He didn't dare to run any further and planned to find out why Wan Sheng and the others had disappeared. But before he could even sit down properly, he suddenly felt a sense of weightlessness.

As the surrounding light faded away, Jia Luo Jin realized he was really falling and screamed in terror. Like a fish out of water, he frantically thrashed his arms and legs, trying to stop himself from falling.

But it didn't work!

"ah!!!"

"Someone's there?!"

Mo Shuwan and Zhou Quansheng, who had been squatting on the round platform for a while, suddenly looked in the direction from which the sound came. Almost simultaneously, they shone their flashlights in that direction and caught a glimpse of the fake Luo Jin descending from the sky.

The two immediately moved the beams downwards, but before they could hit anyone, they heard a soft thud. It was clear that the person who had fallen from the sky had landed on one of the broken bridges. The person was probably in a state of shock and had not noticed the two beams of light coming from below.

After confirming that what had fallen from above was indeed a person, Mo Shuwan and Zhou Quansheng quickly turned off their flashlights. In such an uncertain situation, it was best not to expose themselves too early.

Mo Shuwan lowered her voice and said, "It's a passenger from 404."

Fake Luo Jin had no idea there were other people in this place. After venting his anger on the broken bridge while still in shock, he started running towards the broken bridge that connected to the wall, panting heavily. But when he reached the end of the broken bridge, he realized that there was no passage at all.

Fake Luo Jin's heart suddenly raced, and he abruptly turned and ran towards the other end. Standing at the broken point of the bridge, Fake Luo Jin squatted down, placed his hands on the ground, and panted as he looked down, but all he could see was complete darkness.

"What on earth is going on?!"

On another broken bridge, the cloaked figure stretched out his other hand, which was hidden inside the cloak. He pointed twice into the air, and soon after, terrified screams echoed in the void, and more passengers fell down.

With a muffled thud, the newly fallen passenger landed on the broken bridge opposite the fake Luojin. He was one of the thirty-seven passengers who did not belong to any group.

This time, Mo Shuwan and Zhou Quansheng didn't even turn on their flashlights; they just listened silently.

As time passed, more and more passengers fell. Hearing those sounds, Mo Shuwan and Zhou Quansheng felt a tightness in their hearts. If they hadn't miscalculated, apart from those who were already dead, probably all the passengers had inexplicably ended up here.

It might seem like nothing serious, but all the other passengers ended up on the four broken bridges, leaving only the two of them on this circular platform. From any perspective, this was extremely disadvantageous for them.

"Tell me... is it your bad luck that dragged me down, or my bad luck that dragged you down?"

Hearing Zhou Quansheng's breathy tone, Mo Shuwan fell silent. In her heart, she was more inclined to believe that she was unlucky—no, it couldn't be called unlucky. She was even convinced that this situation was caused by the game, and that it was aimed at her.

Mo Shuwan confirmed that it was the game's doing, but it felt a bit off to say that the game was targeting her. She believed that if the game really wanted to kill her, it wouldn't need to go through all this trouble.

Liu Dongcheng, who was on one of the broken bridges, wiped the blood from his face and looked down at all the passengers on the bridge.

They were all familiar faces, but I didn't see Mo Shuwan.

Liu Dongcheng withdrew his gaze and stood quietly. He was fortunate to have suddenly fallen to this place, otherwise he would probably have been torn to pieces by the monster. He just didn't know why that monster was chasing him alone.

The first person to reach the finish line will have a chance to receive ten map fragments.

After the black text disappeared, lights gradually lit up the surrounding walls, and soon the place was as bright as day. The cloaked figure that had been standing behind the passengers was nowhere to be seen.

The surroundings were no longer pitch black, and the passengers could finally see their environment, causing an uproar.

"grass!"

"Damn it, this is disgusting!"

"...Damn, I'm going to throw up!"

"Damn! It's moving!"

On the four broken bridges, a group of passengers who had seen all sorts of things and had walked back and forth on the edge of life and death were genuinely disgusted by the scene before them.

The surrounding walls weren't actually walls, but rather a collection of strangely shaped insects. The insects were also the ones they were stepping on. Most bizarrely, these insects were all alive, staring at the passengers with disgusted expressions through their insect eyes.

On the round platform, Mo Shuwan stood stiffly, staring intently at the insects baring their teeth at her feet. The thought that she had not only supported herself on these insects with her hands but had even crawled down on them made her feel extremely uncomfortable.

Zhou Quansheng, however, remained seated on the ground, his expression unchanged. He watched the insects in the distance, their long tongues licking the blood he had left behind, and even smiled.

boom--

Suddenly, a rumbling sound came from below. The place that Mo Shuwan couldn't reach with her flashlight was gradually turning bright red. Stones the size of an adult's palm, steaming hot, were linked to the circular platform where Mo Shuwan and Zhou Quansheng were, and also to the four broken bridges.

The passengers who had just been complaining about how disgusting the insects were suddenly silent as they looked at the palm-sized rocks. If nothing unexpected happened, they would soon start fighting over how to stand on these rocks.

Mo Shuwan turned her head and glanced at Zhou Quansheng.

Zhou Quansheng shrugged. "Don't worry, my current physical condition can't compete with yours."

The stones continued to pile up, and everyone watched in silence until another rumbling sound came from below. Only then did they shift their gaze, watching helplessly as the stones suspended in the air were submerged by the molten lava. Their hearts sank.

The finish line is right below, but now the lava has submerged it, and they can't use any defensive items. How can they possibly get through that scalding lava to the finish line?

Even though she was still a long way from the molten lava below, the heat wave that hit her forced Mo Shuwan, who was standing on the edge of the platform, to take a step back. But soon her face stiffened, and she took a few more steps back. She still felt a strange sensation under her feet, so she endured the discomfort and took two more steps to the side.

The insect she had just stepped on bared its teeth at her.

This wretched place is only so big, yet it's teeming with disgustingly long, sharp-looking insects. No matter where you retreat, the insects will protest. Mo Shuwan simply ignores them and begins to examine the insects closely.

They seemed quite excited to have discovered them?