Chapter 211: Escape into the Thirteenth Floor
"The doors don't connect!" After closing the door, Zheng Liang looked at a wall on the side and said subconsciously, but after speaking, he immediately realized that if the doors led to the same room, there would be no need for two doors.
"This is the first floor, right?" Jiang Yihua looked to the left. "Such a long hallway."
That's right, behind the door was not a room. The right side was a wall, while the left side was a horizontal corridor. Only one lamp remained lit in the corridor, casting dim light, and it extended all the way to the end of the opposite wall before turning a corner.
"Should we meet up with Dai Wenqian and the others?" she asked Xu Huo.
"No need, let's go straight." Xu Huo had already started running, with Jiang Yihua following. Seeing them leave, Zheng Liang had no choice but to carry the injured woman on his back and catch up.
Just as they rounded the corner, the person ahead suddenly slammed on the brakes. He quickly stopped. "Why aren't we moving?"
"We can't move anymore." Xu Huo had a sword and shield in his hands, staring at a gaunt wolf standing a few meters away.
The front of the first floor was indeed a lobby, but it had already been taken over by mutant animals. A starving wolf was blocking the nearest elevator door!
The moment they met eyes, the starving wolf and Xu Huo lunged at each other simultaneously!
The wolf leaped into the air, while Xu Huo crouched low and swung the Crimson Sword in a half-circle. As the man and wolf passed each other, the wolf was sliced in two, and Xu Huo had already reached the first elevator door. He pushed open the metal door, held up his shield to block the continuous hammering of small man-eating flowers, and swung his sword repeatedly as he retreated, instantly cutting the man-eating flowers in the elevator to pieces.
With the man-eating flowers out of the way, he went straight into the elevator shaft, grabbed a vine from a man-eating flower, and used the violin string to ascend. Midway, he thrust the Crimson Sword into the shaft wall, borrowed some force, and successfully 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 violin string to pick up the others who were under siege.
The violin string could only carry two people at a time, so when Jiang Yihua picked up the little girl, Xu Huo controlled the string to rise.
Seeing this, Zheng Liang, who was carrying an injured person while facing several mutant animals, hesitated and loosened his grip on the woman behind him. But at that moment, countless small man-eating flowers suddenly surged into the front of the building. The two mutant animals farther away were directly entangled in the flower vines and then devoured by several flower crowns!
Seeing the small man-eating flowers about to flood the lobby, Zheng Liang squeezed into the elevator shaft along with several mutant animals, but it was too late to close the door. With one hand holding the woman on his back and the other gripping a pipe, he crawled toward the second-floor elevator door.
"Zheng Liang!" Xu Huo's voice came from above. Zheng Liang looked up and saw a U-shaped thin thread close at hand. He quickly reached out and grabbed it.
However, the crisis was not over. The small man-eating flowers that surged into the elevator shaft crushed those mutant animals and then began climbing up the shaft walls, spreading and growing like blood vessels!
"How the hell can these be flowers!" Zheng Liang wailed. "Xu Huo, hurry up!"
"Grab the flower vine." The violin string was nearing its limit. Xu Huo shouted down.
Zheng Liang reacted quickly. As he switched hands to grab the flower vine, he clamped the sword blade between his feet and pulled it out, rising with the contraction of the vine.
Upstairs, Xu Huo and the other two pulled them up as fast as possible. When Zheng Liang's feet touched the ground, the elevator door on the thirteenth floor was also closed, blocking all the pursuing man-eating flowers in the shaft!
But before they could breathe a sigh of relief, Xu Huo picked up the Crimson Sword again. "Watch the other elevator doors."
Jiang Yihua and Zheng Liang quickly perked up and stood guard. Fortunately, the other elevator doors were not opened. Outside the building, man-eating flowers were wildly smashing against the exterior walls, and faint sounds of tearing could be heard. However, the windows on the thirteenth floor were all sealed, so the small man-eating flowers couldn't squeeze in.
Looking at the flower vines that almost completely blocked the windows, Zheng Liang swallowed his saliva and said, "It seems the man-eating flowers have entered other floors. What about the remaining people..."
Given the situation just now, anyone staying on those floors would either be eaten alive or strangled to death.
Jiang Yihua was also shaken, but she said, "Not necessarily. The man-eating flowers attack indiscriminately, so the mutant animals in the building will also suffer. As long as you hide in the elevator shaft, you're safe!"
"Then after the man-eating flower tide recedes, let's go look for them in the elevator shaft," Zheng Liang said.
But as soon as he finished speaking, the nearby elevator door slowly pushed open. The three turned to look and saw Gu Yu, covered in blood.
When Gu Yu saw them, she was stunned for a moment, then her eyes lit up. "You're still alive!"
Xu Huo and Zheng Liang went over to pull her up, only to find that several people were hanging in the elevator shaft behind her. Besides Dazhi and Chen Shu, there were also more than a dozen non-players.
"Dazhi!" Jiang Yihua came over and grabbed her companion, her eyes reddening. Dazhi patted her shoulder. "I only have minor injuries."
"What about the others?" Zheng Liang asked Gu Yu. "Zhang Biao and Brother Tie, aren't they with you?"
Gu Yu's eyes turned cold. "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 go down the windows to check the situation on the sixth floor. Because Dazhi's earlier smashing of the desk lamp had given them hope, they thought it was better to use people to scout the way than to be scared floor by floor. Or they could confirm that the outside of the wall was safe and then use this game loophole to wait out the instance in peace.
"Loophole?" Zheng Liang said sarcastically. "With their looks, they can't be that smart. How could they find a game loophole?"
Xu Huo gestured for him not to interrupt and said to Gu Yu, "Go on."
"They weren't stupid either, so of course they wouldn't go down themselves. That's why they made others go." Gu Yu said with hatred. "The few of us naturally disagreed. Xiao Ba and Kang Hong fought with them, and in the chaos, someone accidentally rolled out and fell to their death. Unexpectedly, after the death, man-eating flowers suddenly broke through the windows and dragged away seven or eight people in one go. And the number of man-eating flowers was still increasing rapidly!"
"We had no choice but to hide in the elevator shaft."
"Fortunately, there was a fire hose on the seventh floor, otherwise we couldn't have saved so many people. After we jumped down, we didn't encounter any mutant animals, but two people were bitten to death by the man-eating flowers at the bottom of the shaft."
"The others should have also entered the elevator shaft, but whether they have this kind of luck is hard to say."
"Damn it!" Jiang Yihua was 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 rang again.
This time, Dai Wenqian and Wei Bin climbed up. Both were seriously injured, especially Wei Bin, who had a large chunk of flesh missing from his calf, with the bone exposed.
However, Dai Wenqian's first words were: "Why did you choose the red door?"
"Professor Hao is colorblind and probably can't tell red from green. From his cultivation diary, it seems he is more sensitive to green."