Players, Please Board the Train

”Behind the doors actually don’t connect!” After closing the door, Zheng Liang glanced at a wall to the side and said instinctively, but immediately realized after speaking that if the space behind the doors was the same room, there would be no need for two doors.

”This is the first floor, right.” Jiang Yihua looked toward the left side, ”Such a long corridor.”

That’s right—what lay behind the door wasn’t a room. To the right was a wall, and to the left was a horizontal passageway. Only one light remained in the corridor, casting dim illumination that stretched all the way to the opposite wall’s end before turning at a corner.

”Should we regroup with Dai Wenqian and the others?” she asked Xu Huo.

”No need, let’s go directly.” Xu Huo was already running, with Jiang Yihua following close behind. Seeing they had both left, Zheng Liang had no choice but to hoist the injured woman onto his back and hurry after them.

Just after rounding the corner, the people ahead suddenly slammed to a halt, forcing him to stop abruptly. ”Why aren’t we moving?”

”We can’t go forward.” A sword and shield materialized in Xu Huo’s hands as he stared at a gaunt, emaciated wolf that had risen to its feet several meters away.

It was true that the front of the first floor was the main hall, but this area had already been overrun by mutated animals. A starving wolf happened to be blocking the elevator door closest to them!

The moment they locked eyes, the starving wolf and Xu Huo simultaneously lunged at each other!

The starving wolf leaped through the air while Xu Huo dropped low, swinging the crimson sword in a wide arc. As man and wolf crossed paths, the wolf was cleanly sliced in two, and Xu Huo arrived at the first elevator door. He shoved the metal door open, raised his shield to block the rapid hammering strikes of small man-eating flowers, and as he retreated, he swung his sword repeatedly, instantly reducing the man-eating flowers inside the elevator to scattered pieces.Freed from the man-eating flowers’ interference, he strode directly into the elevator shaft, grabbed one of the man-eating flower vines, and used the piano wire to ascend. Midway, he drove the crimson sword into the shaft wall for leverage, then smoothly reached the thirteenth floor.

Opening the elevator door, he tied the man-eating flower vine to the metal frame of the glass room, then lowered the piano wire to rescue the others under siege.

The piano wire could only lift two people at a time, so when Jiang Yihua picked up the little girl, Xu Huo controlled the wire to ascend.

Zheng Liang, who was carrying an injured person while facing several mutated animals, showed hesitation upon seeing this, his grip on the woman behind him loosening slightly. But at that very moment, countless small man-eating flowers suddenly flooded into the building’s front area. Two mutated animals that were farther away were immediately entangled in the flower vines and subsequently devoured by several flower crowns!

Watching as the small man-eating flowers were about to submerge the entire hall, Zheng Liang squeezed into the elevator shaft along with several mutated animals, but it was too late to close the door. With one hand securing the woman on his back and the other gripping a pipe, he began climbing toward the second-floor elevator door.

”Zheng Liang!” Xu Huo’s voice echoed from above. Zheng Liang looked up and saw a U-shaped thin wire right in front of him, quickly reaching out to grab it.

However, the danger hadn’t passed. The small man-eating flowers that had surged into the elevator shaft crushed those few mutated animals and then actually began climbing up the shaft walls, spreading and growing like blood vessels!

”Can these damn things really be flowers?!” Zheng Liang wailed like a ghost howling and a wolf crying, ”Xu Huo, hurry the hell up!”

”Grab the flower vine.” The piano wire was nearing its distance limit as Xu Huo shouted downward.

Zheng Liang reacted fairly quickly. As he switched hands to grab the flower vine, he clamped his feet around the sword blade and pulled the sword out, then moved upward with the contracting vine.

Upstairs, the three of them pulled the two up as fast as possible. The moment Zheng Liang’s feet touched the ground, the thirteenth-floor elevator door was also shut, blocking all the pursuing man-eating flowers inside the elevator shaft!

But before anyone could catch their breath, Xu Huo picked up the crimson sword again. ”Stay alert for other elevator doors.”

Jiang Yihua and Zheng Liang quickly snapped to attention and stood guard. Fortunately, the other elevator doors remained unopened. Outside the building, man-eating flowers could be heard frantically smashing against the exterior walls, along with faint sounds of tearing and biting. However, since the thirteenth-floor windows were all sealed, the small man-eating flowers couldn’t squeeze inside.

Zheng Liang stared at the flower vines that nearly completely blocked the windows, swallowed hard, and said, ”It seems the man-eating flowers have entered other floors. What about the people left behind...”

Given the scene they had just witnessed, anyone remaining on those floors would either be eaten alive or crushed to death.

Jiang Yihua also felt lingering fear but said, ”Not necessarily. The man-eating flowers attack indiscriminately, so the mutated animals in the building will definitely suffer too. As long as they hide in the elevator shaft, they should be safe!”

”Then once the man-eating flower tide recedes, let’s search the elevator shafts.” Zheng Liang said.

But right after he spoke, an elevator door not far away slowly pushed open. The three turned to look and saw Gu Yu, covered in blood.

When Gu Yu saw them, she froze momentarily, then her eyes lit up. ”You’re still alive!”

Xu Huo and Zheng Liang went over to pull her up, only to discover that many people were dangling in the elevator shaft behind her. Besides Da Zhi and Chen Shu, there were over ten non-players.

”Da Zhi!” Jiang Yihua rushed over to grab her companion, her eyes reddening. Da Zhi patted her shoulder. ”I only sustained minor injuries.”

”What about the others?” Zheng Liang asked Gu Yu. ”Didn’t Zhang Biao and Brother Tie stay with you?”

A cold glint flashed in Gu Yu’s eyes. ”Don’t mention those bastards. If it weren’t for them, things wouldn’t have turned out like this!”

It turned out that after they reached the seventh floor, Brother Tie and the others forced ordinary people to climb out the windows to check the situation on the sixth floor. Because Da Zhi’s earlier act of smashing the table lamp had given them hope, instead of fearing for their lives floor by floor, they preferred to use people as scouts. Alternatively, they wanted to confirm whether the area outside the walls was safe, then exploit this perceived game loophole to wait safely until the dungeon ended.

”A loophole?” Zheng Liang’s tone was mocking. ”With faces like theirs, they couldn’t possibly be smart enough to find a game loophole?”

Xu Huo signaled him not to interrupt and said to Gu Yu, ”Continue.”

”They’re not stupid either, of course they wouldn’t go down first—that’s why they sent others.” Gu Yu said with hatred in her expression. ”Naturally, a few of us disagreed. Xiao Ba and Kang Hong fought with them. In the chaos, someone accidentally fell out and died. Unexpectedly, after people started dying, man-eating flowers suddenly burst through the windows and dragged away seven or eight people in one go! And the number of man-eating flowers was increasing dramatically!”

”We had no choice but to hide in the elevator shaft.”

”Luckily, there were fire hoses on the seventh floor, otherwise we couldn’t have saved so many people. After we jumped down, we didn’t encounter any mutated animals, but two people were bitten to death by man-eating flowers at the bottom of the shaft.”

”The others probably also entered elevator shafts, but whether they had that kind of luck is hard to say.”

”Despicable!” Jiang Yihua exclaimed righteously indignant. ”They’ve only been players for a few days, and they’ve already lost their humanity!”

Gu Yu and Zheng Liang fell silent.

A moment later, the elevator door sounded again.

This time, it was Dai Wenqian and Wei Bin who climbed up. Both were seriously injured, especially Wei Bin, who had a large chunk of flesh missing from his calf, exposing the bone.

However, the first thing Dai Wenqian said upon arriving was: ”Why did you choose the red door?”

”Professor Hao is colorblind—he probably can’t distinguish between red and green. Based on his cultivation diary, he seems more sensitive to the color green.”