"Fuck!"
"Captain!"
Jun Ci instinctively reached out to grab him, lost his balance, and fell too.
"No!!"
"We're following Brother Duan Chen!"
Mi Xue'er felt that Duan Chen must have discovered something. Without hesitation, she grabbed Sheng Chen with one hand and Qin Nanyuan with the other. Qin Nanyuan's feet slipped, and she also reached out to grab Mi Le.
"Ahhh! If you want to die, can you not take me with you—!"
Silence returned to the cliff, only Mi Le's voice echoing in the distance.
After jumping, a cold wind whipped past his face. The expected sensation of falling lasted only a minute. When Duan Chen opened his eyes, he was in darkness again.
He didn't die.
"Wuwuwu, I was so scared..."
Duan Chen was speechless.
"You're a man, how can you be so timid?"
"Captain, how did you figure it out?"
Duan Chen smiled and looked at Mi Le. "He reminded me. On such a steep cliff, I couldn't think of any way to escape other than death."
"So, where was that place, and why did we appear there?"
"I suspect it might be the first floor of Building 263."
Duan Chen said in a deep voice.
"The first floor?"
"That's right. Which means, if we want to reach the fifteenth floor, we still need to go through fourteen more such scenarios!"
"No way?"
They didn't want to experience cliff jumping fifteen times.
"The scenario has probably changed again."
Duan Chen activated his True Sight.
Indeed.
Before them was a secret room, and a terrifying one at that.
Qin Nanyuan's interest was piqued, her eyes lighting up. "A secret room? That's my specialty!"
Meeting Duan Chen's questioning gaze, Jun Ci explained, "Oh, she loves dragging me to escape rooms."
No wonder.
Duan Chen looked at Qin Nanyuan. "Then we'll have to rely on you this time."
"No problem!"
Qin Nanyuan's enthusiasm didn't last long. After failing a puzzle, her punishment was a bizarre creature!
As the prompt "Incorrect password" appeared, a giant iron cage descended from the sky, enclosing Qin Nanyuan.
Opposite her was a giant sea monster, its body oozing green slime!
The sea monster swung its tentacle-like appendages at Qin Nanyuan.
"Unlucky!"
Qin Nanyuan rolled her eyes and began to fight the sea monster.
Duan Chen and Jun Ci could occasionally help her, but Mi Xue'er and the other two could only watch helplessly.
The iron cage was incredibly sturdy; even spiritual energy couldn't break it. Jun Ci could only use his dual light and dark guns to attack the sea monster occasionally, while Duan Chen used You Jiawei's abilities, finding it quite effective.
The sea monster was unexpectedly resilient. Even with the help of Jun Ci and Duan Chen, Qin Nanyuan fought for about ten minutes before finally defeating the low-level sea monster.
"Phew... I was so scared, my spiritual energy is almost depleted."
Qin Nanyuan breathed a sigh of relief, panting.
The iron cage retracted, and the sea monster's corpse remained there.
"Something's not right."
Duan Chen frowned. After all, Qin Nanyuan was a high-level agent, and the sea monster that had been released was just a low-level one. It would be difficult for even an intermediate agent to defeat it under normal circumstances, let alone a high-level agent. Yet, no matter what attack hit the sea monster just now, it only left a faint mark.
He walked forward and began to examine it closely.
"Could it have been injected with drugs to increase its resistance and endurance?"
"Very likely."
Duan Chen took out his equipment from his backpack, drew a vial of blood from the sea monster, and planned to give it to Hill later for research.
Since Qin Nanyuan's spiritual energy was depleted and there was no guarantee of success in the subsequent puzzle-solving, it was decided that Duan Chen, Jun Ci, Mi Xue'er, and Qin Nanyuan would take turns solving puzzles, with Qin Nanyuan guiding from behind. She was indeed skilled at escape rooms, and after a full round, they didn't encounter any more battles.
"How many more rooms are there?"
"Only the last one remains."
Qin Nanyuan breathed a sigh of relief.
After they got out, she probably wouldn't think about going to escape rooms anymore.
"Dong!"
With a loud bang, Duan Chen realized that the entire room was a giant iron cage!
"We're trapped?"
"Goo-goo—!"
"We're not trapped. This is probably the final challenge. We might have to force our way out?"
In front of them, all sorts of strange creatures were piled together, writhing in their direction.
The two girls felt a chill.
"Xue'er, can you handle it?"
Duan Chen intended to train her.
"Yes!"
Unwavering Heart Sword Technique, First Form: Sever!
Unwavering Heart Sword Technique, Second Form: Annihilate!
Unwavering Heart Sword Technique, Third Form: Rend!
Mi Xue'er did not disappoint Duan Chen's expectations, directly unleashing the first three forms of the Unwavering Heart Sword Technique!
Zing zing zing!
As a flash of sword light passed, Duan Chen's brow furrowed as he saw the scene before him.
The horde of heretics seemed only half-dead; the other half, still barely alive, continued to writhe towards them fearlessly.
"What's going on?"
Mi Xue'er was surprised. Her Unwavering Heart Sword Technique was more than enough to deal with these low-level heretics, even high-level ones. But these guys in front of her seemed to have only sustained some injuries?
Duan Chen frowned and patted her shoulder.
"Don't worry about it. It's not your fault. I suspect these heretics might have been modified, which is why they have such endurance."
With that, he wasted no time and fired two electromagnetic cannons!
"Boom!"
After the smoke and dust cleared, the heretics were finally completely dead.
"There's a door over there, let's go through it."
"Yes."
Upon opening the door, a white light greeted them.
Duan Chen stepped through without hesitation.
The others followed closely.
Relying on Duan Chen's True Sight and the cooperation of the group, they easily cleared the first four floors. However, upon reaching the fifth floor, the situation seemed to change.
Duan Chen gazed at the scene before him and murmured to himself.
"What's going on? Could the fifth floor be a watershed?"
"What in the world is happening?"
The others also looked around at the familiar scene with stunned expressions.
"Captain... this..."
Jun Ci and Qin Nanyuan were speechless.
The scene on the fifth floor was none other than the capital city!
That's right, their current identity was that of an ordinary agent in the Spirit Hunter Guild of the capital city?!
What kind of nonsense was this?
As someone walked past, they handed Duan Chen a document.
"Duan Chen, print thirty copies of this document for me before you get off work. Thanks."
"Jun Ci and Qin Nanyuan, what are you two standing around for? Get to your missions!"