Sure enough, the female ghost reappeared at the other end of the elevator. Her head had grown back, and an even more eerie smile graced her lips.
"Hehehe...you can't escape..."
The female ghost's voice echoed in the elevator, seemingly coming from all directions. Xiao Jin felt dizzy, and the scene before her eyes began to distort.
"This is... a mental attack?" Xiao Jin flipped her hand, pulled out a bottle of 'holy water,' pulled out the stopper, and poured it directly into her mouth.
After drinking the 'holy water', Xiao Jin finally felt better.
Seeing that there was still a third left in the bottle, she had an idea. With a flick of her wrist, she sprinkled the remaining 'holy water' all over the elevator.
As Xiao Jin poured the holy water, it flowed like nimble silver threads, leaping through every inch of the elevator space, followed by a series of strange "sizzling" sounds.
This was accompanied by a piercing scream from a female ghost.
Xiao Jin's eyes suddenly lit up: "It really worked!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Xiao Jin took out another whole bottle of holy water from his backpack and repeated the action he had just taken.
"ah--"
Under the corrosive influence of the holy water, the female ghost let out a shrill scream. It was at this moment that Xiao Jin saw the female ghost's figure again through the reflective elevator door.
The other party was distorted and deformed in the reflection, and its body began to collapse. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xiao Jin quickly swung his long sword, the blade slicing through the reflection of the elevator door and heavily striking the female ghost.
This time it didn't escape; instead, it turned into a cloud of black smoke and completely dissipated inside the elevator doors...
'Buzz~'
As the female ghost disappeared, the lights in the elevator returned to normal, and the temperature gradually rose.
Xiao Jin looked closely and saw that Xu Qing and the others had reappeared beside her. The only difference was that everyone's clothes were somewhat disheveled, and Zhan Wenzhen looked particularly embarrassed.
A corner of his glasses was broken, but he grabbed the temple and gently removed the lens, then put a new one back on.
"Pfft~" It turned out to be a fake skill. Xu Qing's sarcasm came late but arrived.
It's no wonder he said that; of the four people in the elevator, Zhan Wenzhen was the one who was injured.
Upon hearing this, Zhan Wenzhen showed no anger whatsoever, but simply smiled without saying a word.
Xiao Jin looked at Xu Qing: "There are still ten minutes left. Let's go find the general manager's office first."
Xu Qing didn't know, but Xiao Jin did. Zhan Wenzhen wasn't a combatant to begin with; if you angered him, you might be killed by him.
The elevator doors slowly opened, revealing the corridor on the 44th floor.
The four of them stepped out of the elevator and headed towards the general manager's office. The corridor was silent, with only the sound of their footsteps echoing in the empty space.
Xiao Jin's gaze swept across the walls on both sides of the corridor, and she suddenly noticed the decorative paintings hanging on the walls.
These decorative paintings all depict a person, but each painting only shows a single figure without any specific features.
The painting uses a dark color scheme on a large scale. The figures are either sitting or standing, but without exception, they are all shrouded in large areas of black and gray.
"What's wrong?" Cui Mingyang asked, looking at Xiao Jin who was in a daze.
"Hmm?" Xiao Jin paused for a moment, then quickly regained her usual expression: "Nothing, I was just thinking about Nie Shuangshuang. Haven't they arrived yet?"
Indeed, Xiao Jin and the others were delayed in the elevator for almost twenty minutes, but the four players who took the stairs did not reach the 44th floor either.
Xiao Jin glanced up and saw that there was no one else upstairs except them!
Cui Mingyang frowned slightly: "Perhaps something has delayed us. It's only the first day, nothing will go wrong!"
"That's true!" Xiao Jin nodded.
The first day of the dungeon is meant to give players time to get used to it; it's not very dangerous, like the challenges they encountered tonight.
Xiao Jin didn't even take it seriously before the crisis was resolved.
………………
Five minutes before 4 a.m., Nie Shuangshuang and her three companions finally appeared in a disheveled state at the end of the corridor on the 44th floor.
However, their appearance was much more tragic than that of Xiao Jin and the others: Nie Shuangshuang's spear was broken in half, and a few wisps of black mist were still hanging on the tip of the spear.
Wang Zhongyan's clothes were torn to shreds, and his face bore several long, bloody streaks. Xiao Bin's hair was disheveled, and his face was as pale as paper.
Wang Bing was in the worst condition; she lost an arm, the cut was wrapped with blood-stained strips of cloth, and her face was frighteningly pale.
"What... happened to you?" Xu Qing raised an eyebrow, her tone quite incredulous.
Although he had a suspicion that the stairwell might be dangerous, he never expected these people to be in such a terrible state!
The fact that the elevator is open means that the game is more inclined to let players take the elevator.
Xu Qing didn't believe that these people hadn't thought of this. Their stubbornness was probably due to wishful thinking, hoping to replicate their previous success.
But didn't they realize that the game might have been anticipating this move?
Xu Qing could guess that if the vengeful ghost they encountered in the elevator had a combat power of 10, then the one Nie Shuangshuang and the others encountered would have a combat power of at least 40.
Nie Shuangshuang snorted coldly and pointed at Wang Bing: "Isn't it all because of her!"
Her voice was laced with suppressed anger: "If she hadn't been such a hindrance, alerting the vengeful spirit, I wouldn't have had to break a purple artifact! And..."
When everyone saw the spear in her hand, they all understood the reason for Nie Shuangshuang's rage.
This is the main weapon! Xiao Jin found this prop quite familiar.
It's only the first day, and without her main weapon, Nie Shuangshuang will have a tough time in the following dungeons.
Hearing Nie Shuangshuang's accusations, Wang Bing's face turned even paler, but she did not refute them, only biting her lower lip tightly.
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