“Let’s go together!” Ding Jinghuan said quickly.
“No! Captain Ding, you and my brother stay here, Gu Xicheng and I will go,” Lu Qing said.
Ding Jinghuan: "No way! The main control room requires the fingerprints and iris scans of the branch office staff to enter. Besides Sun Cancan, I'm the only one from the branch office here."
“Then I’ll go with you,” Lu Qing said.
"Gu Xicheng, you and your brother go and seal off the nearby doors and windows, try to prevent those monsters from escaping."
"Okay! Be careful!" Gu Xicheng nodded and gave a warning.
Don't worry!
Lu Qing smiled slightly, then left with Ding Jinghuan to go to the fifth floor.
The demons and monsters had blocked almost all the roads, so Lu Qing had no choice but to fight his way to the elevator.
Ding Jinghuan quickly pressed the elevator button:
"Miss Lu Qing, come in quickly!"
Lu Qing kicked the monster away, then slipped into the elevator.
Fortunately, the elevator was still working, but before they could even feel relieved, it suddenly stopped.
Immediately afterwards, a loud bang came from above.
The lights in the elevator went out, and the ceiling was smashed and deformed.
In the darkness, a sharp, slimy tentacle pierced down.
Lu Qing's body reacted faster than his brain. He directly transformed his Qi into a blade and severed the tentacles. Then, he used the tentacles to poke open the bottom of the elevator.
"Captain Ding, get out of here immediately!"
"Okay! Great!"
Ding Jinghuan quickly crawled out of the hole and then grabbed the ladder next to the elevator shaft to climb down.
Lu Qing quickly crawled out of the hole as well.
She looked up and saw a huge spider crawling on it, which gave her goosebumps.
The giant spider, its leg severed, writhed in pain and even tried to burrow down to attack Lu Qing and the others.
However, due to its enormous size, the elevator shaft was not large enough for it to turn over, so it could only use its tentacles to pierce it.
The two climbed quickly and soon put some distance between themselves and the giant spider.
They quickly reached the elevator entrance on the fifth floor, and Ding Jinghuan forcefully pried open the door.
The next second, a zombie pounced and grabbed him by the neck.
Caught off guard, Ding Jinghuan was knocked away and fell down with the zombie.
Lu Qing immediately summoned the little paper figure:
"Quickly, go save them!"
The little paper doll flew down quickly with the wind, one of them kicking the zombie that was grabbing him down, and the other sticking a flying talisman on his head.
Ding Jinghuan's falling body suddenly stopped, and then slowly rose into the air.
At that moment, the elevator above made a loud clanging sound.
The chains were about to break under the weight of the giant spider, while the zombies below struggled to climb up, their bodies shattered from the fall.
With wolves in front and tigers behind, Ding Jinghuan could only grit his teeth and fly upwards as fast as he could.
"Captain Ding, hurry up!"
Lu Qing stretched out her hand.
Ding Jinghuan gritted his teeth, and just as he was about to reach his destination, the elevator plummeted down with a loud crash.
Just as it was about to hit him, Lu Qing grabbed his hand and pulled him up.
The elevator almost grazed his face when it fell.
Even after his feet touched the ground, Ding Jinghuan's face remained pale.
He was just a second away from being smashed into a pulp.
"Captain Ding, are you alright?" Lu Qing asked.
"I'm fine! Quickly activate the formation!"
Ding Jinghuan gritted his teeth and stood up, dragging his aching legs as he led Lu Qing to the main control room.
There were no more demons or monsters along the way, but when they arrived at the control room, they saw the four missing people.
They all smiled the same way when they saw Lu Qing.
That smile was sinister and eerie, and it was very familiar; it was clearly the King of Wrath!
"Who exactly are you?" Ding Jinghuan asked sternly.
Lu Qing pushed him aside: "Captain Ding, they've been possessed by the Fiend King's clone, let me handle this!"
Lu Qing slowly stepped forward, quickly going through the events in her mind.
"King Li, if I'm not mistaken, you're trying to use the lives of these four people to threaten me into agreeing to your demands!"
"No, no, no!" The Wrathful King shook his head with a sinister smile.
"Lu Qing, you're wrong! It's not just the lives of these four people, it's the lives of all the people of Jizhou!"
Lu Qing's eyes narrowed: "What do you mean?"
The tyrannical king pointed to the main control room and laughed:
"This contains not only the key switch to activate the demon-subduing formation, but also the switches to open all the main gates."
“There are four doors here, as well as many ventilation duct entrances. If they are all opened, are you sure Gu Xicheng can seal all the exits in time?”
Lu Qing's expression changed slightly.
Once all the demons and monsters here are released, even if they intervene, they won't be able to save everyone.
But if we agree to the King of Li's demands, then the whole world will suffer.
Seeing Lu Qing remain silent, the King of Li laughed:
"I know what you're thinking?"
"You're thinking about whether to choose people from one city or people from all over the world, right?"
This is like the classic train problem created by you humans.
When faced with a choice between one person and five people, many people would choose to sacrifice the one.
After all, only one person was sacrificed. There are many people in the world, what does one person's life matter?
But now it's not just one person, it's the entire city. What would you choose?
As he spoke, the Wrathful King sent one of his clones to the control room and placed his hand on the switch to open the passage.
"I'll give you one minute to consider," the tyrannical king said with a smile.
Cold sweat broke out on Lu Qing's forehead, and his eyes were filled with a chilling light.
"Lu Qing, don't listen to him, there's no way to choose!" Ding Jinghuan hurriedly advised.
"If you don't choose, I'll turn on the switch right now and let the blood of this city be my first gift to you!"
Just as the King of Li was about to press the switch, Lu Qing hurriedly said:
"etc!"
"So? Have you made your choice?"
Lu Qing: "Not even a minute has passed yet, what's the rush? Let me think about it some more."
The tyrannical king glanced at his watch:
"Hurry up! You only have thirty seconds left!"
As time ticked by, Lu Qing's tightly clenched hands were covered in cold sweat.
Will I become a sinner to one city, or a sinner to the world?
This is simply a problem of the century!
Therefore, Lu Qing chose to create a third option for himself.
"Time's up, have you made your choice?" the King of Li asked with a smile.
Lu Qing lowered her head, concealing the upward curve of her lips:
“You know what? You’re not the kind of person who asks me about the train problem, but who says this problem only has two options?”
The tyrannical king suddenly sensed something was amiss: "What? Is there a third option to this question?"
"Of course!" Lu Qing smiled slightly, raised his head, and said, word by word:
"I choose to...stop the train!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than the person in the main control room was trapped by the Nine Nether Lotus Flame.
Immediately afterwards, Gu Xicheng jumped down from the ventilation duct and pressed the switch to activate the Demon-Subduing Array.
Once the formation was activated, the entire branch was enveloped.
All the prison doors opened, sucking every single demon and monster back inside.
The King of Li then realized that Lu Qing's nervousness just now was an act; she had actually been prepared all along.
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