Chapter 424 [(*^▽^*)]
Elite Monster 04 watched from a distance, not daring to approach. As for the players, they were all outside the main entrance on the first floor, leaning against the wall to avoid the attacks flying everywhere inside, completely abandoning any thoughts of picking up any leftovers.
After the female secretary went berserk, the entire building was basically stripped bare, except for some basic framework. All the walls, even the staircases and elevators, were completely demolished, not to mention the tables, chairs, benches, and other decorations inside.
Xue Rui is currently only on the side of a load-bearing wall. Even if he were outside the building, he probably wouldn't be able to escape the attacks flying up from below.
Even from the top floor, Lin Leyou could hear the faint, maniacal laughter of a woman coming up from below; he knew without a doubt it was his female secretary.
He glanced at the time expressionlessly. There were only five minutes left. He wondered if his female secretary could still feel the passage of time!
Xue Rui had already begun his operation. Devourer had just reached the vicinity of his hiding place. Even Xue Rui was already at his limit, though he only had a few minutes left to be safe...
At first, Devourer thought he could hold out until six o'clock, but now he had no such idea at all. If he didn't find a way to deal with the female secretary, he definitely wouldn't be able to hold on for the next few minutes!
The physical invisibility did not bring him any sense of security; it only increased his escape speed, but what good was simply increasing speed?
The female secretary was just as fast as him, and even faster. If it weren't for his ethereal body allowing him to ignore these things and pass through walls, he would have been caught, torn to pieces, and swallowed long ago.
But as time went by, the walls where we could hide were gone, and now, apart from the load-bearing walls and some immovable pillars, the whole place was empty.
From the 43rd floor, you can even see directly to the ground floor. Elite Monster 04 saw the players huddled together on the ground floor, barely clinging to life. He wanted to go and eat two of them, but considering his greatly weakened state and the ants still gathered below, he knew that if he went now, he might end up drowning in a ditch.
Since that's the case, I might as well stay here and wait for their fight to end. Maybe I can pick up some scraps here. When the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman benefits. Perhaps I can even become the fisherman.
Xue Rui noticed the time; there were only two minutes left… The female secretary and the others were still attacking at the same speed as before. Could it be that she really lost track of time after going completely mad?
Just as Xue Rui and Elite Monster 04 were feeling a bit strange, the time came to the last minute. At the very last minute, the female secretary suddenly stopped her pursuit. Her eyes no longer held the madness they had just seen, as if she had regained all her rationality at that moment.
Devourer was stunned for a moment. Could it be that the female secretary had deactivated her berserk state at the last minute? How could that be! Once she deactivated this state, she would surely die. Devourer quickly realized that she hadn't deactivated her berserk state, but rather that the female secretary had gone so mad that she used her last bit of strength to forcibly regain her sanity for a short period of time!
In this way, she could deliver the strongest and final blow to Devourer. Devourer didn't even see the female secretary preparing to attack before it slammed on the brakes and frantically rushed back.
The gaping maw, riddled with wounds, had lost most of its sharp teeth, but even so, it charged back relentlessly, the black mist swirling around it constantly churning, as if it were making its final struggle before death.
Facing that enormous mouth that seemed capable of devouring everything, the female secretary revealed a sinister smile. "Good timing, saves you trouble..."
Xue Rui stared wide-eyed ahead. There were only forty seconds left. Could these two make it? Just then, the figure of Elite Monster 04 appeared in a corner of his field of vision.
Oh right, there's still one who slipped through the net. If he gets away... he'll be a threat to them too. Right now, his attention is all drawn to that side, which is the perfect opportunity to make a move.
Now that Devourer and his female secretary definitely won't interfere with his little schemes, since that's the case...
Lin Leyou smiled slightly when he noticed Xue Rui sneaking towards Elite Monster 04. Sure enough, he didn't want to waste any possibility.
However, now is indeed the best and last chance to kill Elite Monster 04. Once it reaches six o'clock, the Elite Monster will return to normal and will return to its peak state when the next night arrives.
How can we fight then? So in these few dozen seconds, can Xue Rui... kill elite monster 04, then become the fisherman and completely kill the female secretary and that Devourer?
Lin Leyou sat in front of the monitor, waiting with bated breath.
Xue Rui's stealth was going very smoothly. Elite Monster 04 was seriously injured and was focused on the battle situation on the female secretary's side. If the situation was in his favor, he would seize the opportunity to go and eat the two of them.
In this way, I can become the only surviving elite monster and the strongest elite monster!
Because of this, he never expected that the ant he didn't take seriously would dare to ambush him at this time, just like the elite monster 02 who was ambushed and killed even with him by his side, and whose head was even taken away, dying at the hands of the same ant.
When he came to his senses, all he could see was his own headless body. Before he could even show a look of shock, he lost consciousness.
All of this happened in the blink of an eye, and even Xue Rui didn't expect it to go so smoothly. However, now is not the time to relax. The shockwave generated after the female secretary and the strongest attack of Devouring had already arrived.
Xue Rui had no choice but to hide on the other side of the load-bearing wall. He didn't know if the two of them would still care about the building's condition, but judging from the situation, this strongest attack didn't seem like it could avoid these things.
So, is this building going to collapse?
Xue Rui's worries were not unfounded. After the strongest blows collided, everything around them shattered, regardless of whether it was load-bearing or not.
Xue Rui was thrown away by the shockwave, but fortunately he was still attached to the prop rope, which was fixed to the outer wall of the top floor, so even if he flew out, he could still come back in a short time.
When he swung back on the rope, the building had already begun to tilt. He needed to hurry, otherwise, if the timeout for the two elite monsters' deaths wasn't confirmed before...
With twenty seconds left, Xue Rui swung the rope back while quickly taking out props to knock away or block the flying rocks in front of him.
He returned to the building, and the dust that had just appeared was swept away by the raging wind mixed with black mist outside. Luckily, Xue Rui saw two elite monsters.
The original body was reduced to only half a mouth, and the black mist around it was only a bit of black smoke that was being swallowed up. There was also a female secretary with only a head, a shoulder, half a body, and an arm.
They were both lying there like two puddles of mud. Xue Rui didn't even have time to check how much time was left. He used his right hand, which was adorned with the evil-repelling bracelet, to tightly grip the gold-plated dagger and rushed over. First, he stabbed the female secretary in the head several times. The moment he received the system notification, he rushed towards the remaining half of her mouth.
Without even a chance to examine it closely, he swung the dagger wildly, as if he wanted to chop the half-mouth into pieces. The half of the building where he was going to work was collapsing rapidly.
If he were even a little slower...
Lin Leyou watched the house gradually tilt, sitting motionless in his chair. Of course, nothing in the house, or rather, on the entire floor, moved at all.
He knew that he now had complete control over the rooftop. As long as he didn't allow any movement, even if the entire building collapsed, the rooftop would remain exactly the same as before, without the slightest mess.
But the time came, six in the morning.
At the last second, Xue Rui finally heard the system's kill notification. The previous notification was for killing the female secretary, who was originally elite monster 01, but the last notification was for killing the new elite monster 01.
It turns out that this Devourer is a new elite monster 01. Although it's unclear why 01 has been replaced, for him, it's best if all the elite monsters are dead, and then he'll only have to face the BOSS.
At six o'clock, the building, which had already begun to collapse, seemed to freeze in time, with everything frozen in that instant. Then, as if time had reversed, the entire building began to refresh itself.
In just two or three seconds, the building was transformed, just like when they first came here. The next second, many people walked in from outside the black fog; they were company employees who had returned to work.
The players still outside the first-floor wall breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing so many people. They had genuinely thought the building was about to collapse and hadn't even noticed that it was already six o'clock.
Only Zhou Feng and his three companions couldn't calm down. The other players didn't know, but they were very clear that their captain, alone up there, had initially found an opportunity to kill one elite monster, and then, in the last minute, he had managed to kill three more elite monsters in a row, especially after hearing the notification in the last second...
Huajiao sighed, "That was extreme! I even saw the captain flying through the air with a rope tied to him. Was I seeing things?"
Ding Baishuang: "I saw it too."
Fang Hong said, "Me too, but I only saw one figure, I didn't expect that was the captain."
Zhou Feng sighed, "So, they're the captain, and we're just team members. The four elite monsters have a total of 12,000 points. Do you think the captain will even give us a little bit?"
It was only then that everyone realized, "Oh yeah, we've got so many points! We'll definitely get some of them!" Of course, they weren't greedy; they were happy to get even a little.
Huajiao glanced at the chat group and said, "Let's go to the staff cafeteria. The team leader is waiting for us there."
The five of them soon met in the staff canteen. Even Xue Rui looked tired. "Let's eat first. After we eat, we'll go back to our posts and get some rest. Tonight, we'll be facing the BOSS."
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