# Chapter 190: Feeding Frenzy
"Repeat! Little Flower Red Red Building fifteenth floor is about to close, all personnel please proceed to the fourteenth floor!"
After the electronic alarm came a long air raid siren. Several players near the elevator not only refused to enter but took a few steps back.
"Is this a trap?" someone asked.
But then the air raid siren stopped, and the electronic voice sounded again: "Countdown sixty seconds, fifty-nine seconds, fifty-eight seconds..."
The lights in the elevator began to flicker, urging those present to make a decision quickly.
Xu Huo glanced at the clock nearby and saw that there were still forty seconds until six o'clock. His eyes darkened, and he strode into the elevator.
Moving at the same time as him was the older bespectacled player, who entered the other elevator.
"Dai Wenqian, how could you..." Zheng Liang looked at his companion in surprise.
Dai Wenqian smiled. "Come on in. We have to go down anyway. Taking the elevator down gives us a chance to survive. If we're forced to jump, that's certain death."
The first to act were Gu Yu and Wei Bin. Gu Yu quickly returned to the car to grab the food and entered the elevator within seconds.
Then Xiao Ba, Zhang Biao, and the others followed. They originally intended to take the same elevator, but Dai Wenqian blocked those behind him and pointed to the sign next to the elevator that read "Maximum Capacity 13 People." "Only thirteen can enter at a time. You all go to the other one."
The remaining four players said nothing, exchanged glances, and went to the nearby elevator.
With the players gone, the remaining people naturally dared not lag behind and rushed toward the elevators.
The flower-selling girl and the burly man entered the elevator to Xu Huo's right. Kang Hong, the wealthy young girl, and the tall woman were the first to rush into Xu Huo's elevator.
When the count reached thirteen, Xu Huo kicked out two people crowding the door. "Full. Go to the other elevator."
The sharp-faced man who was kicked out shouted angrily, "It didn't show overweight! Why won't you let me in!"
Xu Huo didn't speak. Instead, he took out the Crimson Sword and stood it in front of him.
"...Twenty seconds, nineteen seconds..." The countdown continued. Those still outside the elevator dared not delay any longer and frantically ran toward the other elevator. The sharp-faced man cursed and followed.
Even after the elevator doors closed, pushing and shouting could still be heard outside.
"Ding!" A few seconds later, the elevator doors opened on the fourteenth floor. This floor had no lights at all, and the windows were sealed shut. Only faint daylight seeped in from outside, completely insufficient to see the layout of the floor.
As soon as Xu Huo stepped out of the elevator, a dried corpse fell from the side, landing right against the wealthy young girl who had come out behind him. She screamed in fright, and with her scream, sounds came from certain places on the fourteenth floor.
Kang Hong and the tall woman quickly covered her mouth, looking fearfully toward the source of the sound. Xu Huo, who could see in the dark, said, "Something fell over. No danger."
Only then did the others relax and step out before the elevator doors closed.
Xu Huo crouched in front of the dried corpse. The tall woman turned on her phone flashlight to illuminate for him.
Xu Huo pinched the corpse's arm, then turned its head and found a fist-sized hole on the back of its neck.
"Was he drained dry?" the tall woman asked, her voice trembling.
People from the other elevator also came out one after another. The flower-selling girl propped up her phone and walked forward, quickly saying, "There's another dried corpse here!"
Not just her—others who came out later also discovered corpses scattered in various places.
The scattered light sources illuminated the fourteenth floor, gradually revealing its layout.
Unlike the fifteenth floor's office area, this floor was completely open. Arranged throughout were glass water tanks, each two meters long and two meters wide, filled with green liquid. Soft tubes were inserted at the edges, connected to special metal instruments labeled "Nutrient Solution Mixer."
"There seems to be something in the water," someone said, pressing against the tank wall.
Several beams of light shone over simultaneously. Many people saw transparent insect eggs the size of fists floating near the edge of the tank, vaguely recognizable as multi-legged spiders.
Sounds of swallowing followed. Someone said, "This floor isn't raising blood-sucking spiders, is it?"
The flashlight beams swept left and right, revealing dozens of identical water tanks. Besides the one in front, some tanks were densely packed with insect eggs, almost overflowing, while others already had small spiders crawling around.
"They're coming out!" the flower-selling girl exclaimed, lifting her foot to crush a spider near her.
Xu Huo, who was nearby, quickly pulled her back and shouted, "Don't step on them recklessly!"
The flower-selling girl came to her senses and quickly said, "Right, right. So many people died here—there must be big spiders."
"Everyone be careful. Don't crush the small spiders!"
The group quickly pulled back their feet, avoiding the small spiders while searching for any large ones.
But the entire fourteenth floor was completely visible. Besides these water tanks, there was no place for spiders to hide.
Xu Huo seemed to sense something and suddenly looked up at the ceiling. There, crawling all over, were giant black spiders, each over half a meter long. Their hairy leg joints intertwined, clinging to the ceiling like wallpaper!
And less than a meter away from him, a spider was descending toward him, a cylindrical mouthpart extending from beneath two pairs of dark red round eyes!
As he retreated, Xu Huo split the spider in half and shouted to those behind him, "Turn off the lights!"
Before he finished speaking, two of the people who had come down in the same elevator were bitten on the backs of their necks. Their screams and the sound of sucking overlapped. Nearby, Kang Hong bravely swung his backpack at a spider, but it was caught by the spider's silk and thrown, bag and all!
Dodging past panicked people fleeing, Xu Huo sliced through two spiders in quick succession. But the two whose necks had been grabbed now had bloody holes in their necks, their faces torn bloody by sharp spider legs. They only managed two gurgling sounds before dying.
"Ah!!!" Screams erupted everywhere. Not just their group—others were also attacked by spiders. Within moments, over a dozen people had their necks pierced!
The satisfying sounds of sucking drew more spiders down. Not only ordinary people with no escape, but even players were caught.
Zheng Liang pulled a spider off his back and slammed it to the ground, then stomped its head. He then teleported to Gu Yu's side and knocked away a spider lunging at her!
Gu Yu slashed and killed several spiders in succession, then looked up. She saw not just one layer but layers upon layers of spiders. The outer layer had come down, and the inner ones were waking up. She suddenly realized something and shouted, "Everyone turn off your flashlights! The light is waking the spiders!"
"Are you kidding? Without light, we're blind—we'd be asking for death!" Zhang Biao held something like a triangle ruler, fighting as he spoke. "Since we're already in this mess, I say we just kill them all!"