Chapter 224 223. A sharp turn for the worse
"Oh no! President Farr! Something terrible has happened—!"
Mirabell almost broke open the door of the president's office. The door panel hit the wall with a bang, and the documents on the table jumped.
Fal, who was writing at his desk, frowned and looked at her, dissatisfied: "Mirabel, you must keep calm even if the sky falls! How can you explain yourself when you are so panicked?"
“President!” Mirabell’s chest rose and fell violently, her face pale. “The dungeon… The dungeon has begun to collapse! The spatial rift… has spread to the fourth and fifth floors!”
"What?!" Farr stood up suddenly, and the chair slid backwards with a harsh friction sound. He put his hands on the table, leaned forward, and his eyes were full of disbelief. "Only more than a month?! This is impossible!"
"It's absolutely true!" Mirabelle was shaking with anxiety. "I just received a report about the rift from the adventurers who escaped. They were attacked by monsters from other dungeons! I even went to the basement to see the magic wave collector myself... The situation is even worse than they said!"
Farr's heart sank: "I want to go and see for myself!"
The two of them almost ran down the stairs and rushed into the monitoring room in the guild's basement. Fal finally saw the recorded magic map.
On the graph, the dazzling energy peaks were like the fangs of a violent beast, one after another, endlessly, with only extremely brief breaths in between.
It was as if there was a great magician casting horrific magic day and night beside the instrument!
The completely abnormal fluctuations in magic power clearly indicated that the dungeon had entered a dangerous period!
"Damn Gu Ge! What a bullshit array master!" Fal, who always paid attention to his manners, was unable to hold back and swore. "You boasted so loudly that it would take at least three months for the collapse stage? It's not even halfway through the three months yet!"
He turned to Mirabelle and spoke as fast as popcorn: "Three months is unreliable, and the so-called six-month deadline is bullshit! Worst case scenario...it may collapse completely in a few days!"
"Mirabell! Execute the highest emergency plan immediately!"
"First, seal off the entrance to the dungeon! Post a high-risk notice and force all adventurers to leave. No one is allowed to enter!"
"Second, organize the evacuation of all residents in the town! The scope of the underground city collapse is unknown, and everyone must evacuate ten miles away! Prioritize evacuation to nearby cities and contact the local lord to explain the situation!"
"What about the refugees?" Lillian, the maid who had been following Fal like a shadow, suddenly asked.
"Yes... there are still refugees!" Fal felt his temples throbbing. This was the real problem. These refugees were difficult to manage in the first place, and now they were tied here by the mushrooms that served as their food... Forcibly ordering them to evacuate would probably only lead to resistance!
In theory, he only needs to fulfill his duties of "advising" and "organizing". Those who disobey will bear their own life and death, and the responsibility will not fall on him as the branch president of the guild.
But Fal only paused for a moment before giving a firm order: "Mirabel! Send people to the surrounding cities to buy me a batch of food that can fill their stomachs, no matter what the price! Then tell the refugees that if they follow the evacuation team, they will have hot porridge to drink!"
“President Farr!” Mirabelle was embarrassed. “There is a food shortage everywhere now! Even the price of red rice has increased by more than five times! The number of refugees is huge... The materials stored in the guild warehouse have not been converted into cash because of the high prices paid in the previous two purchases..."
“Tsk!”
"Tsk!" Fal scratched his hair in annoyance, then looked at the maid beside him, "Lillian, take my money to Mirabelle!"
Lillian looked directly at Farr with clear eyes: "Master, are you sure? That's all your savings."
Fal did not answer Lillian. His sharp eyes were fixed on Mirabelle. "Mirabelle, listen! Use this money to buy as much food as possible! This is a matter of life and death! You are a smart person. If you can do it, I will ensure that you will have a bright future in the guild! But if you dare to touch this money..."
"I wouldn't dare! I absolutely wouldn't dare! President!" Mirabelle waved her hands in fear.
"Go!" Farr waved his hand.
Mirabell turned and ran away.
After the people left, Lillian said softly, "We won't be able to afford the red pork shipped from Yufan Harbor anymore."
"It doesn't matter!"
——
“What the hell is going on?!” The swordsman captain’s face was twisted into a hideous shape by anger and grief. His companion’s tragic death made him desperately need a target for his resentment. “Demon Tide? Didn’t the guild issue a warning for the Demon Tide?!”
"Don't even think about it. Let's get out of the dungeon first!" Before he finished speaking, the bowstring hummed, and a feather arrow with a sharp sound of breaking through the air accurately pierced the eye socket of a stone-skinned wild boar that rushed out from the shadow on the side!
The beast howled miserably and ran away in another direction.
Suddenly encountering this unknown situation, everyone naturally did not dare to stay any longer. Vera's trio and the remaining four members of the swordsman team formed a temporary defensive formation and retreated to the upper level.
After jogging all the way to the fifth floor, the tense nerves in everyone's hearts relaxed a little - this level, which was completely controlled by Puji, was relatively safe.
However, this luck only lasted less than ten breaths.
In the shadows, a tall and thin figure rushed towards the crowd with a "shasha" sound!
It was a "scarecrow" roughly made of withered yellow rotten grass and unknown vines. It was more than two meters tall, with sharp dead grass on its arms and simple facial features painted with black mud. Only an ominous light flashed in its eye sockets.
Its movements were stiff but incredibly fast, and its target was directly the soldier in the team who was responsible for carrying the wounded.
"Enemy attack! How could there be such a thing on the fifth floor?!" The swordsman captain's eyes were bloodshot and he roared. The giant sword, with the sound of wind, chopped fiercely at the scarecrow's waist!
At the same time, Vera's scimitar also slashed out an arc of light, cutting through the scarecrow's swinging arm.
The two attacks hit the enemy almost at the same time. The rotten grass flew around and the broken scarecrow's remains struggled on the ground for a few times before completely falling apart.
However, this is not victory, it is just the beginning...
"Right!" Feiyin screamed in warning.
Under the faint fluorescent light of the mushrooms on the dome, more withered and yellow figures appeared in the distance!
Not just one, but more than twenty!
They moved in slightly stiff steps, silently gathering around, and the rustling sounds of dry grass rubbing against each other gathered together, instantly filling the entire space.
What's worse is that among this group of slow-moving ordinary straw men, there is an individual with a more sturdy build and obviously much faster movements!
"Feiyin! Speed up everyone!" Vera reminded while running.
"Keep the formation! Retreat to the fourth floor!" the swordsman captain roared, trying to maintain the formation.
However, he didn't run far before he ran into another group of scarecrows!
There was no way to avoid it. After two fireballs, the two sides finally engaged in battle.
It didn't take long before the formation was completely broken up!
In the chaos, Vera could only try his best to protect Feiling Feiyin, fighting and retreating, and was eventually forced into a cave.
This is the cave where Vera knew the Puji lottery.
But at this moment, the fat man Puji who hosted the lottery had long disappeared, and only scattered fragments and mycelium were left in the cave.
The three tried to block the straw man by leaning against the cave entrance, but were forced to retreat step by step due to the disparity in numbers.
"That feeling is coming again!" Feiyin suddenly said loudly.
"What?" Vera said before she could finish her sentence.
An exceptionally ferocious straw man tore through the air with its sharp claws and attacked fiercely!
With his strength almost exhausted, Vera tried his best to block, but the huge impact made him lose his balance instantly, and he staggered and fell to the ground.
"Vera!" Feiyin exclaimed, magical light flashed at the tip of her staff, and a translucent magic shield instantly condensed in front of Vera.
However, the expected heavy blow did not fall.
Right in front of Vera, the space suddenly twisted and torn apart, and the familiar space rift that cut off everything appeared again without warning!
Phew!
This time, it was the scarecrow that suffered.
puff--
As the three people stared in amazement, a round Puji lightly jumped out of the crack and stepped steadily into the cave surrounded by layers of straw men...
I originally planned to write three chapters, but I only wrote two chapters with more than 5K words in the end. I will write the third chapter tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)
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