Chapter 132 Relentless Pursuit (Unedited) My Young Lady
When Geng Qing replenished the propofol in the second-floor pharmacy, he deliberately increased the dosage, which greatly extended the time it took for the zombies to be anesthetized.
Geng Qing can guarantee that these monsters will be unconscious for at least fifteen minutes, but beyond that time, the zombies may wake up and resume their actions at any time.
Therefore, they need to seize every opportunity in the limited time remaining to complete the next step of the operation ahead of time.
Liang Jun's suggestion is not unfeasible; on the contrary, it may be the only method they can currently utilize.
However, there are currently ten adults confined in the warehouse, while the small elevator can only barely accommodate one person at a time. Moreover, the elevator takes time to move up and down. If they continue to linger in place, they will definitely run out of time.
Liang Jun, who first proposed this idea, had naturally planned all of this long ago.
She quickly turned to face the two black and white clouds of mist diagonally behind her. "You two go ahead and scout ahead for us. If you encounter any danger, try to cover us as much as possible."
Zhu Bieming had thought it was a very difficult task, but Liang Jun arranged it this way, and his tense shoulders visibly slumped down.
"You can rest assured," he snorted with a hint of pride. "Don't even mention any danger, even if it's going to be a mountain of knives or a sea of fire, the two of us brothers are fearless."
"Anyway, all I know from now on is that you're good at talking nonsense!"
Liang Xun feigned annoyance and pushed the humanoid white mist aside, "Go quickly!"
Seeing the black and white mists drift away in an instant, Liang Jun finally felt relieved.
She trusted her guardian spirit to handle things.
Immediately afterwards, Leung Yung restarted her searchlight.
"I've already arranged for the guardian spirits to help check for risks. Before the zombies fully wake up, we can each have a flashlight to ensure our vision is completely clear."
Without Liang Jun reminding him, Geng Qing already understood her next move.
Gu Keke and Jiang Zhiling were closest to the flashlights. Before Geng Qing could even speak, Gu Keke had already noticed her movements and, together with Jiang Zhiling, carried the flashlights over.
The hospital had prepared ample supplies, and the two women distributed a flashlight to every player without any items. The moment all the flashlights lit up together, the area of the hospital warehouse was as bright as day.
Old Ren, who was pulling Zhang Weiming along, hurriedly began to test the flashlight in his hand. He understood the special nature of the system's props, but he didn't know how to test them.
Although he was only testing it secretly, Geng Qing saw through his little trick at a glance. She glanced at him and said, "This is just an ordinary flashlight, not a system item. You don't need to use it."
Old Ren, who had been seen through, was extremely embarrassed and had no choice but to obediently let the flashlight shine directly in front of his eyes.
Only Liang Jun and Geng Qing knew the location of the small elevator in the center of the warehouse. The players returned to the formation they had just formed when they moved to a new location, letting the two of them lead the way.
When everyone shone their flashlights on it, they noticed that the aisle leading to the central warehouse was slightly different.
They couldn't see the items that were actually visible on the shelves; instead, all they could see was black and white mist. This mist stretched to the very end of the corridor, like two layers of impenetrable walls standing on either side. Only after they successfully reached the center of the warehouse did the mist suddenly contract, eventually splitting back into two black and white wisps.
“There are no dangerous elements here right now,” Zhu Shengqing said in a deep voice, maintaining a safe distance from Liang Xuan. “The zombies that you have anesthetized will probably take some time to wake up, so you have plenty of time to escape from here.”
Upon hearing this, Liang Jun excitedly explained to the others, while Geng Qing had already taken the lead and started working on activating the small elevator.
This place usually operates automatically; this is the first time it's been manually operated. Although Geng Qing couldn't find the start button at first, she quickly mastered how to operate it.
"Only one person can go in at a time," Geng Qing called everyone closer. "The elevator car is quite low, so we need to lie down to get in, and try our best to curl up and hug our legs, and press the top of our heads as close to our waist and abdomen as possible, compressing our bodies to the limit."
After demonstrating the movements briefly on the ground, she quickly scanned everyone in front of her and finally fixed her gaze on Liang Yun, who was surrounded by both black and white mist.
"You go first."
“Me?” Liang Jun was somewhat surprised.
To be honest, she was prepared to be among the last few to start, but she never expected to be a starting player.
But they didn't have time to allow Liang Jun to hesitate any longer. Under everyone's gaze, she walked directly to the small elevator, then braced herself with her arms and sat down steadily on the iron platform.
Liang Jun was neither fat nor thin, but the cramped elevator space still felt somewhat suffocating to her. Like a microwave oven that hadn't been enlarged much, Liang Jun could only grit her teeth and tighten her knees to close the elevator doors again.
Before Geng Qing pressed the start button, Liang Xun looked up at Zhu Shengqing and Zhu Bieming, who were still floating in place.
The compressed lung space made her breathing somewhat rapid. Liang Xun's face turned bright red, and she always felt like she wasn't getting enough oxygen when she spoke, "How are you going to get up there?"
Zhu Bieming dashed through the crowd and rushed to Liang Xun with almost instantaneous speed.
"You can rest assured, we're in the air mist now, going wherever we want is just a matter of minutes."
Geng Qing had no idea what kind of conversation had taken place between them. All she knew was that when the white mist passed through her body, a chill, seemingly out of nowhere, began to spread from her lower abdomen.
Without giving it much thought, she confirmed with Liang Jun again before starting the small elevator for the first time.
Huddled inside the sedan chair, Liang Xun heard a crisp "click," followed by a violent jolt in the space she was in. She then had a distinct feeling of rising.
The elevator doors were made of semi-transparent frosted glass. Through this partially obscured material, Liang Jun could see the inner wall of the elevator shaft just inches away, as well as the natural sunlight that would soon be exposed to her.
As expected, she was teleported to the medicine dispensing area located in the lobby on the first floor.
This place is similar to the cashier area, with completely transparent glass windows facing the hospital entrance, allowing sunlight to stream directly into the spacious back office area of the pharmacy.
Although she didn't stay curled up for long, Liang Jun's hands and feet were already slightly numb. She forcefully pulled her hands out of the gap between her knees and the elevator car wall, and then pushed open the elevator door, which was not completely closed to begin with.
Because there was no iron platform to catch her at the medicine dispensing area, Liang Jun tumbled to the ground in a rather disheveled manner.
The pain from the compression of her joints and the fall made the numbness disappear instantly. Liang Yan gasped and scrambled to her feet. She then immediately pressed the return button on the elevator, sending the car back down to the warehouse on the basement level.
While waiting for her teammates to arrive, Liang Jun took the opportunity to survey her surroundings.
The pharmacy area is still lined with shelves, but unlike the hospital warehouse, the variety and quantity of items on the shelves here are significantly less.
Liang Jun leaned closer and glanced at them, finding that they were mostly basic system items. There were no strict restrictions like in the hospital warehouse, so Liang Jun was completely free to take these items.
But after searching every corner of the medicine dispenser shelves, she unexpectedly found no other players.
The sky-blue and pure white tiles were spotless, without a trace of pollution. But it was this extremely clean environment that made Liang Jun feel even more uneasy.
If it were like the usual levels, each instance should randomly match players, but they have been in the fourth level for so long and have not seen any players other than their own in the game scene.
This eeriness is like the "Asylum Carnival" instance being created solely for a few individuals.
Thinking of this, the eerie sense of helplessness surrounding Liang Jun grew even stronger—
Her twin guardian spirits have yet to appear.
A sense of foreboding began to pound in her heart. Just as Liang Jun was about to take out propofol and prepare for battle, two very familiar gusts of wind suddenly whistled past her ears.
First, Zhu Bieming glanced quickly past her ear, seemingly casually tossing out a sentence, "My dear young lady, are you planning an assassination?"
Zhu Shengqing, however, stopped further away from his younger brother, still politely saying, "I'm sorry, we were delayed on the way."
"fine."
Ignoring Zhu Bieming's familiar, flirtatious remarks, Liang Jun asked with concern, "Did you encounter any trouble on the road?"
This time, Zhu Bieming didn't rush to answer. Instead, he turned to look at his brother, seemingly seeking his opinion.
After a brief silence, Zhu Shengqing still chose to tell Liang Xuan the truth, "We sensed another dangerous signal. We initially wanted to deal with it directly, but we decided to consider your opinion."
After saying that, Zhu Shengqing turned slightly to the side, and Liang Xun saw his gaze looking out the glass window.
"He's there."
Liang Jun glanced over, and just one look was enough to make the blood in her body freeze again.
The hunched-over old man somehow managed to stand steadily outside the glass window, his back to the diffused sunlight, staring intently at Liang Yun.
The golden sunlight seemed to coat Dean Liang's body with a divine outline. He raised his arm and waved at Liang Jun, the loose sleeves of his hospital gown slipping down to reveal his withered arms.
“GunGun, I said we would meet again.”
He grinned, revealing dark red, rotten-looking gums. "Please come out, the dean really misses you..."
Before Liang Jun could react, she realized that her teammates were rushing toward the medicine station in a steady stream.
Ge Lin, who had just stepped out of the elevator car, immediately noticed this unpleasant little incident, and his face turned pale with shock. "What's he doing here?!"
But something even worse was yet to come.
All the players at the medicine collection point noticed that two large groups of zombies were rushing towards the medicine collection point from both the left and right sides at the same time.
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