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When the woman met Su Hui's deep, cold eyes, her body trembled involuntarily.
She gritted her teeth, suppressing the hatred and agitation in her heart, and began to tell her story.
"Okay...I'll talk..."
Her voice was still trembling slightly, but the madness from before was gone.
“My name is… Emily Evans, and I am… a researcher in the animal testing center on the fifth floor.”
Emily began to narrate, albeit haltingly.
On the day the apocalypse came, she was working in the laboratory.
All she saw was the sky suddenly tear open, revealing a terrifying purple crack.
An object emitting an eerie purple light, trailing a long flame, fell from the crack, crashing through the roof of the experimental building and landing in the central area of the fifth floor.
The entire building shook violently, and the shockwave almost destroyed half of the fifth floor. Some people died before they could even react.
Then, the terrible things started to happen.
The animals used for experiments in the laboratory, as well as the personnel, began to undergo unimaginable mutations.
The laboratory instantly descended into chaos, filled with alarms, screams, and the roars of monsters!
She was terrified and hid in a small, sterile storage room next door, locking the door behind her.
She hid inside for the entire night.
Outside, there were all sorts of terrifying sounds: gnawing sounds, the sound of bones breaking, and... a strange pulsating sound, like a heartbeat.
It wasn't until the next day, when the noise outside had gradually subsided, that she dared to open the door a crack, her hands trembling.
The entire fifth floor has changed.
She saw the monsters radiating a purple light, and there was blood everywhere and... twisted corpses.
"Just as I was about to escape from the fifth floor, I saw... in the center of the smashed area, right next to that purple crystal... a huge, still writhing... fleshy sac!"
She seemed to be contemplating an extremely terrifying scene, and her body began to tremble uncontrollably.
"That fleshy sac was also purple, and its surface was covered with something that looked like blood vessels. It was still... still pulsating! It was like something was about to hatch inside!"
"Those mutated monsters are lurking around the fleshy sac, not allowing anything to get close!"
Then they encountered other survivors.
At first, they were able to barely cooperate to survive, but as food ran out and their fear of the monster upstairs deepened, they began to become increasingly insane and violent.
Until today, they tried to break out, but failed. After escaping back, they completely dropped their disguise.
Emily finished speaking in one breath, and then she seemed completely exhausted, panting heavily.
Su Hui listened quietly, a hint of understanding flashing in his eyes.
The purple crystals that appeared in the dimensional rift immediately reminded him of the Source Crystal.
The developing fleshy sac is a controlled, mutated organism.
When these pieces of information are put together, they point to a clear possibility.
Fifth floor.
It is highly likely that a powerful dimensional being has descended and is undergoing some kind of incubation or transformation.
And those mutated animals are its guardians.
"Don't those mutated animals usually leave the fifth floor?"
Su Hui followed up with a crucial question.
Emily shook her head, a hint of lingering fear on her face.
"Yes."
"We...we survived because they seemed to be confined to the fifth floor."
"But these past few days, there have been fewer and fewer zombies downstairs. We're guessing... maybe something upstairs is about to come out, or its area of influence is expanding, so we're thinking of risking our lives to rush out..." (The rest of the text appears to be a series of unrelated phrases and sentences, possibly from different sources.)
This explains why the building is so empty, without any ordinary zombies.
This also explains why the zombie horde outside only dared to linger downstairs but not enter.
It's very likely that the unknown entity on the fifth floor exudes a certain aura that keeps low-level zombies away and also restrains the mutated creatures.
But this constraint was clearly not permanent; these survivors felt the approaching threat and took the risk.
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If we stay here, we'll either be discovered by the monsters upstairs or starve to death sooner or later.
Going outside means facing a massive number of zombies.
Now that we know the situation on the fifth floor, all that's left is to go and see for ourselves.
No matter what kind of monster it is, it has not yet taken shape.
That represents astonishing value!
Not to mention that it is very likely a purple crystal that is a source crystal.
Su Hui had already made up his mind.
He glanced at the three black men still trembling on the ground, then at Emily, who was being pinned down by Harley.
A cold smile curved at the corner of his lips.
"very good."
He looked at the three black men.
"You, lead the way."
"Go up to the fifth floor."
The three black men's faces turned deathly pale instantly, their eyes filled with extreme fear.
"no, do not want!"
"We'll die! We'll be torn to pieces!"
"Please, let us go!"
They cried and begged for mercy.
"Or, die now."
Su Hui's tone was flat, but he slightly raised the long sword in his hand, the bloodstains on the blade gleaming eerily in the dim light.
A chilling killing intent instantly enveloped the two of them.
He wouldn't show any mercy to these scumbags.
The three black men stared at the still-dripping long knife, then at Su Hui's unwavering eyes, all their cries and pleas stuck in their throats.
The threat of death was so real.
Going to the fifth floor might offer a glimmer of hope.
Staying here to resist is a sure way to die.
They exchanged a desperate glance and ultimately chose to give in.
"We...we'll lead the way..."
A Black man said, his voice trembling.
Su Hui nodded, signaling Harley to release Emily.
Emily struggled to her feet, glared venomously at the three black men, and then looked at Su Hui with a complicated expression.
"Let's go."
Su Hui's words were concise and to the point.
He walked in front, with Harley beside him, and three black men following behind like zombies. Emily hesitated for a moment, then gritted her teeth and followed.
The group walked through the fourth-floor corridor and stepped onto the stairs leading to the fifth floor.
The higher you go, the stronger the smell of disinfectant, blood, and decay becomes.
At the same time, an invisible sense of oppression is growing stronger.
It was as if some terrifying being was watching them from upstairs.
Finally, they arrived at the stairwell on the fifth floor.
The sight before them made everyone gasp in shock.
The corridor on the fifth floor is completely different from those on the lower floors.
What should have been a spacious and bright corridor was now covered by a thick, purplish-black fungal carpet that resembled a network of blood vessels.
The walls, ceiling, and floor were covered with this strange organic matter, which was still wriggling slightly and emitting a pale purple fluorescence.
Broken experimental equipment, twisted metal frames, and... a large number of corpses were scattered on the ground.
There are human ones and animal ones.
What's even more chilling is that in the corridor not far ahead, all sorts of... monsters are roaming around in dense numbers.
And on these eerie fungal carpets, twisted figures wander.
There were zombies wearing white coats, but their bodies were already rotting and deformed, and their movements were stiff.
There are giant zombie dogs with bloated bodies, festering skin, and emitting low growls.
There are strange creatures with insect-like limbs or whose bodies are covered with carapaces.
There were even some twisted aggregates that were completely unrecognizable from their original form, resembling various biological tissues forcibly spliced together.
These monsters wandered aimlessly across the fungal carpet, their scarlet eyes gleaming with a bloodthirsty light.
The quantity is extremely large.
At a glance, there are at least dozens!
Su Hui's gaze swept over the monsters.
The scanning function starts automatically.
[Mutant Zombie Level 8]
[Rotting Zombie Giant Rat Lv9]
[Bone spur deformity variant lv10]
【…】
Most of the monsters are below level 10 and pose little threat to him.
but……
His gaze quickly settled on several figures deep within the passage, near the central area.
The monsters there are clearly different.
A mutated beetle, as big as a calf, covered in a thick black carapace, and with a pair of huge pincers...?
[Black-armored Giant Caterpillar (Elite) lv12]
There are also monsters floating in mid-air, with semi-transparent bodies that constantly change shape like jellyfish, emitting mental interference waves.
Void Disruptor (Rare) lv13
Especially further away, in the shadows near the central area where Emily described it as a flesh sac, there seemed to be an even more powerful presence.
With Su Hui's current eyesight, he could only see a huge figure that was obese and looked like a fusion of multiple corpses, with tumors growing everywhere on its muscles and limbs, resembling a small mountain of flesh.
【Sewed Abomination (Rare) lv17】
There are monsters here that are higher level than him!
And there's more than one!
Su Hui's expression turned serious.
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