Chapter 30: Another One Arrives
It was very quiet around them. Bai Cha had already started feeling sleepy.
She hadn’t rested well to begin with, having been woken up by sleep paralysis, and then she had gone through life-and-death crises, damaging her body.
So in this regard alone, Wang Xuming had saved her life.
She hated owing people favors and would find a way to repay them.
As for whether the other party had other intentions, she would deal with that later.
She rubbed her forehead and felt the location of the dodder.
It was very strange, it was upstairs.
Perhaps it really was like a Möbius strip, and the two worlds were actually on the same surface.
The dodder had grown a lot, and the connection she felt with it was stronger than before.
With just a thought, the dodder flower would burst out of the front desk’s body.
But it might not kill him, she still needed to think about it.
The lies she had told wouldn’t be easily brushed aside.
Bai Cha knew her own weakness; anyone here could kill her.
She glanced at Wang Xuming beside her.
Although it wasn’t very ethical, this person’s strength was undeniable.
Wang Xuming noticed her gaze, looked over, and gave his usual smile.
Bai Cha also returned a friendly smile and even lowered her head somewhat shyly.
Wang Xuming: “…”
Honestly, if he didn’t know that she dared to summon an evil god at a crucial moment just to protect herself, being crazy and bold but also calm and collected, and that she could really survive, he would have actually believed her current demeanor.
She had just been coldly asking for information.
[Tsk, why does this woman look like she’s trying to seduce someone? I thought she seemed a bit capable just now.]
[She is quite capable, I think she’s quite the schemer.]
[Feels like she has some small cleverness, it’s a pity she doesn’t use it for good.]
[Hahaha, she has a pretty face, can’t she use her advantages?]
Bai Cha naturally didn’t know the malice in the comments.
“Da da…”
Footsteps were slowly approaching from upstairs.
Bai Cha and Wang Xuming both looked towards the stairwell.
They didn’t see the stairs going down, and they couldn’t even really tell if the footsteps were going up or down, but they were definitely getting closer.
The lights in the room began to flicker on and off.
In an instant, the entire space suddenly went dark.
When it lit up again, Ponytail girl was already standing at the stairwell.
A look of astonishment was on her face. She looked at Bai Cha and Wang Xuming, then at the surrounding facilities, and even glanced back.
“What’s going on? Where are the others?”
She said as she walked towards the two of them.
“Don’t know.” Wang Xuming shrugged. “We want to know too.”
Bai Cha very naturally reached out and gestured for her to sit down beside her.
“Did you encounter any danger?” she asked softly.
Ponytail girl shook her head, then seemed hesitant to speak.
Bai Cha immediately looked at her with a hint of envy and said, “That’s great. I encountered something strange and almost died. I panicked and chose to go upstairs because I didn’t dare to go downstairs backwards.”
Wang Xuming looked at Bai Cha with interest. This woman lied without batting an eye, the words just rolled off her tongue.
Her skills definitely had something to do with lying. Lying was also a talent.
And she knew very well when to say what.
For example, right now, Ponytail girl was clearly hiding something. Bai Cha pretended not to notice, and even showed envy, while also saying that she had encountered danger. It seemed as if she had offered her information first. Someone like Ponytail girl, who had been alone for a long time, upon suddenly meeting people, especially when the other person had shared their information, would basically also reveal her own situation.
Sure enough, Ponytail girl asked nervously, “What strange thing did you see?”
Bai Cha recalled with some lingering fear and shook her head.
“I didn’t dare to look closely. I just vaguely remember a hunched figure dragging chains, looking like a person, maybe, but very smelly, like the smell of a corpse.”
Ponytail girl frowned deeply.
“Then what we saw was different. I just saw someone standing at the stairwell on the third floor. That person was very strange, I can’t describe it. It was too dark, I couldn’t see clearly at all. He just stood there motionless.”
It was because that person was standing at the stairwell on the third floor, and Ponytail girl had also seen the extra floor, that she had hesitated for a long time about whether to go down or up.
The rules told them to go down, but going down didn’t mean they would survive.
Especially going downstairs backwards.
But going up also had a high chance of getting trapped on that floor and not being able to get out.
The surrounding environment had become very dilapidated. She wasn’t a newbie like Bai Cha, so she naturally knew that this situation might involve a division between the surface and inner worlds.
She still had a life-saving item in her possession. After hesitating for a long time, she decided to go up and take a look.
“This is actually the same as the first floor…”
Logically, this should be the fourth floor, but it had indeed returned to the first floor. Then what would happen if they went further up?
“Have you guys gone up there?”
“No.” Bai Cha shook her head, timidly saying, “I didn’t really dare to go, and there were only the two of us. So we decided to wait for you here.”
The rules only mentioned an extra fourth floor, so what was this now?
Ponytail girl could understand. If it were her, she wouldn’t easily go up either. The current situation required even more caution than before.
“Then are we waiting for the others now?”
After the Ponytail girl finished speaking, Wang Xuming suddenly pointed at the board game.
“Perhaps we don’t need to wait.”
Both of their gazes turned to the table. They saw that one of the game pieces on the board had been moved, passively, as if someone had picked it up and put it back in its original position.
Ponytail girl instinctively became vigilant.
“This is…”
“Maybe it’s them. Perhaps we’re on the first floor in different spaces.”
As Wang Xuming spoke, he also picked up a game piece and tapped it lightly on the table.
