# Chapter 185: Little Flower Red Red Building
Xu Huo was still running not too far ahead, his speed seemingly slowing down a bit.
Zheng Liang didn't believe he could really run this long without getting tired. Once again closing the distance, he appeared on Xu Huo's left side. This time, he pulled a gun from behind his back.
But Xu Huo was faster. He snatched the gun, pressed the release, and the magazine slid out. He caught it smoothly and flung it backward at another player charging from behind.
That player was startled and quickly sidestepped, the magazine grazing his face before embedding itself into a roadside signboard.
"Is something this dangerous something you should be playing with?" Xu Huo released his grip, removed the slide, twisted it, and stabbed it into Zheng Liang's arm. When Zheng Liang let go in pain, Xu Huo smoothly took the pistol, dismantled it into pieces in a few moves, and dropped them on the ground.
Zheng Liang swung a punch at his face. Xu Huo simply tilted his head to dodge, then kicked him in the back of the knee.
Zheng Liang's body dropped, and a hand landed on top of his head. Xu Huo pressed his head toward the ground and said, "Is it fun?"
"Xu Huo, screw your uncle!" Zheng Liang yelled, lunging forward to tackle the man in front of him.
But Xu Huo had already stepped aside. Seeing Zheng Liang crash into the player who had been planning to ambush him from behind, Xu Huo turned and ran without hesitation.
"Chase him! Whoever catches him gets twenty thousand White Notes!" Zheng Liang pushed away the companion he'd collided with, furious.
That player looked at Xu Huo running off in the distance. "Just following him on foot probably won't stop him."
The implication was that they'd need to use some special methods.
Zheng Liang hesitated for a moment before saying, "You can injure him, but don't kill him."
"No problem. We'll make sure you get to take revenge yourself." That player smiled and signaled to several companions behind him, then touched his shoulder and leg.
His companions immediately understood. They scattered from the main road, flanking Xu Huo from left and right.
But at that moment, Xu Huo suddenly accelerated.
The distance between them instantly widened. Several players used long-range attack items, but Xu Huo seemed to have eyes in the back of his head, dodging every single time.
"Damn infuriating!" The players catching up were getting angry too. "This kid is clearly leading us around like donkeys!"
"I say we just kill him," another player added. "We've been running around this loop road for so long today. If we let him get away unscathed, how will we face anyone?"
"But didn't Sister Gu Yu and Brother Qiao say they wanted to recruit Xu Huo?" someone else asked.
"Gu Yu has long hair and short sight. Brother Qiao already said it—he's just an E-level player, his evolution rate can't even match Xiao Ba's. We can't let him get cocky!"
A young man wearing a skull head short-sleeved shirt with a thick chain around his neck happened to pass by and said, "Why are you dragging me into this? If you've got the skills, go deal with Xu Huo yourselves."
The players burst out laughing, rubbing their hands together. "Just watch us!"
But over the next ten-plus minutes, they were still being led around the loop road. Even the rain had stopped. People on the roadside had long noticed their commotion and were holding up phones to film, with someone asking, "Are you running a marathon?"
Never mind the mindset of the dozen or so players behind—Zheng Liang up ahead was torn between anger and regret. Just as he was hesitating whether to give up, Gu Yu caught up from behind and ran alongside him, smiling. "Your clothes are dry now. I think we should call it quits."
Zheng Liang jumped onto the car roof and patted the vehicle below. "Catch up!"
Gu Yu looked ahead and stepped on the accelerator, but a mist suddenly rose in her field of vision.
There had been no fog in the air when it was raining, but now that the sky had cleared, a faint mist was rising from the road.
"Why is there fog?" She wasn't the only one who noticed.
But this familiar feeling gave her a bad premonition. Her heart skipped a beat. Without a second thought, she turned the wheel to escape, but after turning around, she found the mist had already spread across the road. As she charged into the fog, a wall suddenly appeared before her eyes!
"Screech—!" A sharp braking sound suddenly rang out, then abruptly vanished.
Xu Huo had just intercepted the flower-selling girl and her companion. Hearing the noise, he turned back and saw the car, along with Zheng Liang on its roof, vanish into thin air in the mist. Then, one by one, the figures rushing toward him also disappeared.
"Damn! It's a random inst—" Before the flower-selling girl beside him could finish speaking, she and her voice were erased together. Her companion as well.
The thick fog surged toward him. Xu Huo pulled out his phone and tossed it aside, then he too was sucked into the instance.
[Player Passerby A has entered "Little Flower Red Red Building," default participating in this D-level random instance.]
[Background Introduction: As a research base that once cultivated world-famous species, Little Flower Red Red got its name from the first mutant plant it cultivated. Strangely enough, the flowers that this mutant plant bloomed were not red.]
[Of course, this cannot erase the contributions of the Little Flower Red Red Research Base. According to incomplete statistics, in the fifteen years of its operation, it cultivated at least fifteen mutant plants and fifteen mutant animals. These mutant plants and animals made outstanding contributions to humanity's fight against disease and extension of lifespan.]
[However, due to the rapid development of evolution and poor management, the Little Flower Red Red Research Base, lacking investors, was forced to close on its fifteenth anniversary. Its founder and boss, Professor Hao, declared in desperation that he had grasped the greatest secret of evolution and claimed he would use this secret to secure the largest investment from the Stellar Pharmaceuticals Research Group.]
[Yet five years passed, and Professor Hao never appeared in public again. Little Flower Red Red Building became an abandoned standalone building.]
[Instance Task: Stay in Little Flower Red Red Building for ninety hours.]
[Task Time: Ninety hours.]
Xu Huo quickly finished reading the instance introduction and task requirements. His vision shifted, and he found himself standing in an old, spacious building.
He was now standing in front of an elevator. The doors were closed. He pressed the open button, but the doors didn't open, and the floor numbers on the electronic panel didn't change either, still showing "15." However, there were long-dried handprints and footprints on the door gaps and the floor.
Right next to the elevator doors was a five-meter-wide corridor. On the opposite wall hung a "15" floor number sign, with a clock beside it showing exactly twelve o'clock. The second hand had already started moving.
One end of the elevator led to the end of the corridor. The original floor-to-ceiling windows were already broken, showing nothing but white from the inside, making it impossible to estimate the floor's height.
On the outer wall, many withered climbing plants hung down, their stems and leaves covering the windows below.
Xu Huo followed the mottled traces left on the floor toward the other side. After about ten meters, he found a second elevator. The bloodstains outside this elevator were the same as those outside the first one.