Who gave you permission to travel through time with Earth?

The underground conference room, the toy box on the first floor, and the bloody parade on the second floor—the challenges posed by the dungeon always cross a new level, leaving players with less and less leeway.

The anomaly on this level was even more direct and horrifying. A large number of evil spirits gathered into a red tide of flesh and blood, and countless limbs and organs extended out from that sea of ​​flesh, about to reach their location!

"Get out of here immediately! If we get trapped in the room by the protest, we're dead! They could sweep us into a bloody pulp, the kind of people who'd be stuck to the wall and couldn't be pried off!"

Lu Chen said coldly, then immediately tried to open the office door, but Jin Fugui fearfully blocked the door and screamed:

"No...where's the safe zone? Are we supposed to take the elevator down to the first floor? Otherwise, they'll catch up with us and tear us to pieces sooner or later!"

"It's better than waiting to die here!"

Lu Chen glared and roared, silencing Jin Fugui who had just protested. A white light emanated from Lu Chen's hand as he pressed it against Jin Fugui's fleshy neck, coldly saying...

"Time... what we need is time. No circuit can withstand such high-frequency flashing without burning out. A parade of this scale must have a time limit!"

"As long as we can hold out for the parade and wait for the monsters to disperse, there's still room for maneuver. Then we can just head straight to the elevator shaft on the third floor!"

"..."

Jin Fugui was persuaded, and his large body struggled to move away from the iron gate. Lu Chen's eyes, now completely cold, glared at him before he quickly reached out and pulled open the gate...

Fang Jin pressed him back to his original spot with another palm strike.

Not only that, the skin on his hands quickly turned red and shiny, and the terrifying heat welded the door seam shut, making it absolutely impossible to reopen without tools in a short time.

"Sizzle..."

"What are you doing?!"

Lu Chen was truly enraged this time. He grabbed Fang Jin by the collar with both hands and slammed him against the wall. The white light in his hands had turned into spikes, and the tips of the spikes drew out several drops of bright red blood from the latter's neck.

"Your speculation has several flaws."

Fang Jin, however, remained calm and composed, watching Lu Chen with great interest, anticipating and enjoying the latter's astonished expression before continuing.

"Leaving aside your subjective assumptions about the power system, firstly, even if this mass march of flesh and blood has a time limit, why are you so certain that the monsters that have already gathered will disperse?"

"They're already in the open. If the flashing lights just happen to stop, these monsters will simply revert from their flesh and blood back to human form, putting their evil thoughts back into their skin... Does that make them human?"

"Some of them can still cut the power at any time and start another parade, while we're directly exposing ourselves to the ghosts' gaze. Don't you think you're going to die fast enough?!"

"..."

Lu Chen also realized that he had been somewhat ill-considered, still using habitual thinking to judge these monsters. Compared to their monster forms, the blood demons in human skin were far more dangerous.

"...So what's your plan? Staying trapped in one room is just asking for death, isn't it? Why not go out and fight? Even if you die, you can at least take a piece of their flesh..."

"Then you'll find that the meat is sour and astringent, with bulges in the layers splattering with foul-smelling juice, and rotten, sticky fibers that you can't tear out... It's better not to bite it, at least you won't die from esophageal spasms."

Fang Jin interrupted her directly, saying that instead of thinking about how to struggle and take revenge before death, it would be better to think about how to survive. It would be really foolish to imagine how tragic the ending would be.

"We don't have enough time, so let's get to the second point... conclusion."

"They will never enter our room. Every time there is a bloody march, it is when the field team members return to the company for supplies, so they naturally return to their own office area."

"These vampires only move and rest in the outside corridors and their own department rooms. The other offices and the division of departments on the first floor are also restricted areas, and they will not break in unless absolutely necessary."

"All we need to do is hide in the rooms not belonging to the returning teams, remain undetected and not enter the corridors, and wait for them to resupply before continuing our exploration..."

"This is probably the pattern of the flashing lights. Continuous flashing lights mean that the field crew has returned, and the re-stabilization of the circuit... means that this floor has returned to an unmanned state."

After Fang Jin finished speaking rapidly, he left the other four people to process all the information while he tackled them all to the ground, keeping them out of sight.

Lu Chen was about to say something, like, "Isn't this still just speculation? There's absolutely no evidence to prove it. How could these monsters, which symbolize chaos, be peacefully confined to one place..."

And why is this thing so heavy?!

He was almost unable to move. Fang Jin looked at him as a normal young man, but when he fell, he looked like a three-meter-tall humanoid mech, which made all of Lu Chen's words choke in his chest.

And it was too late. Lu Chen glanced out the window one last time... the vanguard of the red tide had already arrived! It was as if a train was rumbling past outside, filling the corridor!

The entire room was shaking continuously. They could clearly see their vision becoming disconnected from the environment. The window frames and walls were no longer recognizable, as if they were about to collapse into tiny fragments at any moment!

The first featherless, bony bird-beast, embedded within the mass of flesh and blood, swept past with the crimson tide. Its enormous, fleshy eyes rolled about, making a fleeting, indistinct connection with Lu Chen's gaze...

"Gurgle..."

But in the end, the Blood Demon Parade did not find the "gift" hidden in the next area. The red tide they transformed into entered the second room like a whale sucking in water and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Just as Fang Jin had said, the flashing lights didn't stop there. Even after they locked the door, the lights continued to flash rapidly and steadily.

Fifteen minutes later, the iron gate on that side opened again, and a massive procession of blood and flesh surged out and disappeared on the other side of the floor... Only then did the entire second floor return to its initial tranquility.

"..."

"Their rest time... is rather short? How pitiful."

In the slightly oppressive atmosphere, Zhou Tongtong suddenly said this with a smile, and everyone's tension was finally relieved, and expressions of relief appeared on their faces.

Fang Jin stood up and freed the four people who were pinned down. Zhou Tongtong took the opportunity to snuggle into his arms and grope him, then ran away with a sheepish grin as Xu Rou chased after her.

"...How did you obtain this information?"

Only Lu Chen stood up stiffly, leaning against the corner of the computer desk to rest, his voice carrying an uncontrollable gloom.

"...Perhaps you're not a novice player at all, but rather you've used specific methods to interfere with our assessment. You've actually been through the Beast Company's dungeon before?"