Lu Cai opened her eyes wide. She had a hard time adjusting to the sudden drop from a bright corridor into a dim hallway, but her perception remained sharp.
The moment the sharp murderous aura came, there was no way to avoid it. She held the dagger in her hand and blocked it, and the red supernatural energy blocked her eyes.
When she looked up, the first thing she saw was a flawless silver blade. She was stunned. The blade's force gradually faded, and she looked away, meeting a pair of bright red eyes.
The other party was also stunned and completely released the strength in his hands.
"666?" Lu Cai was puzzled. "Why are you here too?"
Because his gaze was unwavering, Lu Cai believed that he was not following him.
"Lu Cai!" Another figure ran up to them. Xiao Fei seemed a little afraid and moved aside to avoid him. "Are you okay?"
Seeing Xiao Fei and Xue Yi following behind, she breathed a sigh of relief: "Where is this?"
She looked up and saw a windowless warehouse, cluttered with debris and covered in a thick layer of dust. Facing her was a doorway, leading into a deep corridor. It seemed the three of them had all emerged from the doorway.
"-1 floor." Another figure jumped up and stood firmly on one side.
Hua Xiaochi's attire remained unchanged, the look of a delicate college student. Lu Cai noticed that the backs of her hands were covered with metal objects, like bones, corresponding to the position of her hand bones, tightly attached to the backs of her hands. There were sharp protrusions at the fingertips, making her hands look like ghost claws.
There was a loud thud from the doorway, and a heavy object hit the wall with a thud.
"What happened?" Xue Yi looked at the doorway with surprise in his eyes.
He and Xiao Fei were brought down a little earlier than Lu Cai, so they didn't know much more than Lu Cai.
"Zombie." Hua Xiaochi's face was still calm, but her tone was obviously trembling slightly. It was obvious that she was afraid of ghosts.
Lu Cai walked forward, spread out his hand and touched the doorway, only to find that it was blocked by a barrier.
"Let's leave here first." While thickening the barrier blocking the door, she was thinking about finding an opportunity to return to the 5th floor. She had to find Dr. Lu and couldn't abandon Qin Yu.
With that dark shadow around, Qin Yu is in great danger.
Hua Xiaochi pointed behind her: "There's only one exit." She pointed at the elevator, "But the elevator is broken."
No one would dare to take a good elevator, Lu Cai couldn't help but think to himself.
"For such a big hospital, there is only one elevator exit in the basement?" Xiao Fei's tone rose slightly, full of disbelief.
"This basement is incomplete," Hua Xiaochi explained. "If you don't believe me, you can go and see for yourself. When you reach the edge, there's a sea of black smoke, blocking the road."
"Can't walk through the black smoke?" Xue Yi asked.
Hua Xiaochi frowned tightly, but didn't say anything.
Xiao Fei glared at Xue Yi: "Xiao Chi is afraid of the dark..."
Lu Cai couldn't help but ask: "Are you afraid of the dark and yet you come to read the supernatural book?" She asked Xiao Fei in a low voice.
"Because it's an entry-level copy, I wanted to give it a try." Hua Xiaochi answered hesitantly. Who knew that the entry-level copy would start off so fiercely.
Lu Cai comforted him: "Everyone, don't go into the black smoke. It might be scarier than ghosts—"
After saying that, he quickly sent a message in the group chat.
[Lu Cai: I encountered a black smoke, it doesn't seem to be something from the dungeon, be careful if you encounter it.]
After giving the reminder, they didn't reply, so she ignored it.
666 behind him ran towards the elevator. Lu Cai turned around to look, and then the person next to him gasped. Something hit her barrier.
She withdrew her gaze and looked towards the doorway. A row of black and purple faces were pressed tightly against the barrier, their arms, legs and feet twisted and broken, squeezed together.
Lu Cai frowned, looking at so many corpses: "Is that the morgue over there?"
"What is that!" Xue Yi suddenly shouted, pointing at the wall with mottled paint above the doorway.
It was a dark green hand, extremely huge, slowly extending from the wall and grabbing towards them.
Lu Cai threw out a red thread, wrapped around the big green hand, and quickly put up a barrier to block the palm and prevent it from pouncing down.
"What's wrong?" Hua Xiaochi frowned and looked at Lu Cai, only to see Lu Cai in a defensive posture with a red umbrella-shaped barrier blocking his head.
Although he was puzzled, Hua Xiaochi knew that it was probably a ghost. The ghosts and monsters in the supernatural dungeons were numerous and varied, and their behaviors were generally divided into two categories: hiding and causing trouble, or showing and intimidating.
Ghosts enjoy seeing their prey frightened, so they usually reveal their true form to scare people. Invisible ghosts are either too weak or too strong. The former lacks energy, while the latter simply become boring after seeing them too often.
Hua Xiaochi looked at Lu Cai's reaction and knew that the ghost he encountered this time was a tough one.
The red energy emanating from Lu Cai's hands was like a giant snake, wrapping itself around her arm and climbing upwards. Without changing her expression, she tightened her hands slightly, and the giant snake exerted its force to entangle her tightly.
At this moment, there was a loud noise behind him. I don’t know what 666 did to make such a big noise.
The huge ghost hand was cut off by Lu Cai's special ability, and several people rushed towards the elevator.
When he got closer, Lu Cai realized that he had actually dismantled the elevator... He looked at 666, who had an indifferent expression, with a feeling that was hard to describe.
He probably felt Lu Cai's gaze, turned his head and looked at her, frowning in confusion, his movements very subtle, then loosened the knife handle with his left hand and pointed to the elevator passage.
"You want us to climb up?" Lu Cai asked uncertainly.
666 nodded.
This was actually a good idea. They were all players, their bodies were enhanced, and climbing two or three floors with bare hands was no problem for an ordinary player. Furthermore, escaping through an elevator shaft was always better than being trapped in an iron box and restricted in movement.
A lot of green shadows overflowed from the wall over there, solidifying into human figures one after another.
"You go up first." Lu Cai took two steps back, intending to cover the rear. "Mr. 6, you lead the way up, and go out after you reach the first floor." Seeing 666 standing beside her, she quickly added.
666 looked at her, nodded, and walked into the elevator.
He's quite obedient. Lu Cai couldn't help but think that he originally thought that since he was a scavenger and was so good at fighting, he should have some temper.
The "people" trapped in the doorway collapsed one after another, and the green smoke emanating from the wall grew thicker and thicker. The pale green ghosts swayed, then, once they had adjusted themselves and aimed their gaze at Lu Cai, they charged forward with all their might.
Lu Cai spread his hands and pulled a red thread in the air in front of him. She frowned, but her heart relaxed a little. After all, he was an old hand, so pulling a barrier wall was not a difficult task.
The faint red threads were still spreading left and right, and in the process, they expanded vertically, forming a translucent red barrier against the ceiling and the ground, temporarily blocking the ghosts' way.
The people behind her entered the elevator corridor one after another, and Lu Cai followed closely behind. After she entered, she saw the steel frames on the four walls used to fix the elevator, and it was effortless to climb up.
The number 666 at the top has opened the elevator door to the first floor. Xiao Fei and Xue Yi climbed up one after another, and Hua Xiaochi jumped up nimbly.
Lu Cai also climbed up quickly and, using the steel frame, easily jumped out of the elevator passage.
At this time, the group chat responded.
[Yue Xiaoyan: Black smoke? Is that a ghost too? The ghosts I saw were green.]
[Lu Cai: There's no time to explain now, just be careful. Also, I found Hua Xiaochi. The three of them and I are on the first floor.]
[Lu Cai: @Zhao Yan, where are you?]
[Zhao Yan: I seem to have entered a side storyline? Why can you still find me in your group chat?]
Lu Cai was also stunned for a moment. Is this group chat so outrageous?
[Yue Xiaoyan: I'm also on the branch line QAQ I'm now an operating room nurse! They asked me to prepare and give the patient anesthesia? Isn't that the anesthesiologist's job? This hospital is not compliant!]
[Zhao Yan: If a doctor can kill a patient with a scalpel, how can you expect it to comply with regulations?]
[Yue Xiaoyan: What is your side quest?]
[Zhao Yan: Give people a note for leave.]
[Yue Xiaoyan: Do you sit at the door and stamp people’s documents? (/envious)]
[Zhao Yan: What the hell! Only compliance is required before we can stamp it! A patient recently brought last year's medical records and asked me to write a leave request for today. I refused, and he looked like he was going to explode...]
[Zhao Yan: Is this considered a medical disturbance? If he hits me, would it be against the rules if I fight back?]
[Yue Xiaoyan: Beat him up! With Mr. Lu, we'll definitely make it through! At worst, we can just stay in the side quest for a while longer.]
[Arbitrator Lu: ...]
Is this a plan to just stay inactive and survive the whole process?
[Lu Cai: @Qin Yu, how are you?]
Qin Yu did not answer.
[Yue Xiaoyan: @Qinyu, don’t scare us!]
[Zhao Yan: @Qinyu]
[Zhao Yan: What should we do?]
[Cai Lu: I'll go to the 5th floor.]
She frowned and said, "I'm going back to the fifth floor. What are your plans?"
"Going back?" Xue Yi was a little reluctant to go up, "It's too weird up there..."
"If you're scared, just stay here!" Xiao Fei retorted, then turned to Lu Cai, her tone softening. "What's going on on the 5th floor?"
"Qin Yu... My companion is on the 5th floor and may be in danger." Lu Cai did not elaborate.
Hua Xiaochi spoke first: "I'll go up."
"I'll go up too!" Xiao Fei saw Hua Xiaochi agreed and hurried to follow.
Although Xue Yi was a little afraid, it was impossible for him to separate from his teammates, so he finally nodded and agreed.
Finally, Lu Cai shifted his gaze to 666. His eyes met her gaze without averting their gaze. Lu Cai coughed lightly, "What about you?"
666 lowered his eyes, as if thinking. After thinking for a while, he looked up at her again, frowned slightly, and his indifferent eyes seemed a little confused. He raised his hand and pointed at Lu Cai.
Lu Cai was also stunned: "Me?" Then he remembered what he had told him, that she told him not to follow.
Tsk, he looks silly, but he's not stupid at all...
Seeing Lu Cai's eyes darken, 666 pursed his lips slightly and avoided his gaze, seeming to feel a little guilty.
"You have already entered the dungeon, I can't chase you away—" Lu Cai smiled.
666 breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the gloom on her face disappear, and then nodded.
Cai Lu turned around and looked at the elevator corridor: "Should we continue to take the elevator, or find the stairs?"
"Why don't we just climb up from here..." Xue Yi suggested in a low voice, "There are pitfalls everywhere anyway, so why not save some time..."
Xiao Fei smiled: "I didn't expect you to have such a brain?"
Lu Cai turned his gaze to Hua Xiaochi: "Which way do you plan to take?" It didn't matter which way she took, but after all, she was not very familiar with them, so she still had to seek their opinions on this decision.
Hua Xiaochi seemed to be distracted and only reacted after hearing Lu Cai's words.
"It will be all right."
"Then let's climb." Lu Cai nodded. "I'll go first this time. I'll trouble Mr. Liu to follow behind."
There is an unknown danger on the 5th floor that is not part of the dungeon. There is also a group of ghosts in the basement that can break through the barrier at any time, so you should be cautious.
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