Chapter 185: Xiaohua Honghong Building

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Chapter 185: Chapter 185: Xiaohua Honghong BuildingXu Huo was still running at a moderate distance in front of them, and his speed seemed to have slowed down a little. Zheng Liang didn’t believe that he could run for so long without getting tired, and once again closed the distance, appearing on his left side, this time pulling out a gun from behind his waist. However, Xu Huo was even faster, he chopped down on Zheng’s gun hand with a press, and the magazine slid out; with a smooth motion, he caught it and flung it toward another player who was coming up from behind. The other player was startled and quickly moved to the side; the magazine grazed his face and embedded itself into a signpost by the road. "Is this dangerous thing something you can play with?" Xu Huo said as he loosened his grip, slid off the gun’s slide, twisted it onto Zheng Liang’s arm, caught the gun when he winced and let go, and then swiftly dismantled it into parts and threw them on the ground. Zheng Liang swung a fist at Xu Huo’s face, but Xu Huo simply dodged by tilting his head and then kicked at the bend of Zheng’s leg. Zheng Liang’s height shrank as a hand appeared above his head, Xu Huo pressed his head down toward the ground and said, "Is this fun?" "Xu Huo, fuck your uncle!" Zheng Liang yelled as he lunged at the person in front of him. However, Xu Huo had already sidestepped, and watching Zheng collide with the player who was planning a sneak attack from behind, he ran off neatly. "Chase him! Whoever catches him, I’ll give 20,000 White Notes!" Zheng Liang pushed away his colliding comrade, seething with rage. The player glanced at the fleeing Xu Huo, "Just following him probably won’t be enough to stop him." The implication was they needed to use some special methods. Zheng Liang hesitated for a moment before saying, "Injure or maim him if you must, just don’t kill him." "No problem, we’ll make sure you get your revenge personally," the player smirked and signaled his several companions with his eyes while smearing something on his shoulder and leg. His companions immediately understood and dispersed from the main road, encircling Xu Huo from left and right. But at this moment, Xu Huo suddenly sped up, rapidly increasing the distance between them. The players used some long-range attack items, but Xu Huo seemed to have eyes at the back of his head, evading them accurately every time. "Damn it, so irritating!" The players trailing behind also grew angry, "This guy is clearly taking us for a walk in the park!" "If you ask me, we should just kill him," another player suggested, "We’ve been running around the ring road for so long today; if he gets away unscathed in the end, how will we save face?" "But didn’t Gu Yu and Brother Qiao say they wanted to recruit Xu Huo?" Someone else chimed in. "Gu Yu has long hair but short sight, and Brother Qiao has already said it—Xu Huo is just an E Level Player, with an evolution rate that can’t even catch up to Xiao Ba, we can’t let him get too arrogant!" A young guy wearing a skull head short sleeves and a thick chain around his neck happened to pass by them and commented on hearing this, "Why are you cueing me? If you have the guts, go sort out Xu Huo." The players burst into laughter, rubbing their hands with glee, "Now it’s our turn to show what we’ve got!" Yet, in the following ten minutes or more, they were still led around the ring road; even the rain had stopped, and passersby had noticed their antics, filming with their phones, some even asking, "Are you running a marathon?" Regardless of how the dozen or so players behind were feeling for the moment, Zheng Liang at the front was a mix of rage and regret. Just as he hesitated about whether or not to give up, Gu Yu caught up to him from behind in her car, pulling alongside him. She smiled and said, "Your clothes have dried off already, I think we might as well call it quits." Zheng Liang flipped onto the roof of his car and patted the underside, "Catch up!" As Gu Yu looked ahead and pressed down on the gas, a sudden fog began rising into view. There had been no fog in the air while it rained just a moment ago, but now that the skies had cleared, a faint mist was rising off the road. "How did fog come up?" She wasn’t the only one who noticed. But this oddly familiar sensation gave her a bad feeling. With a thud in her heart, she didn’t say a word before turning the steering wheel to escape, only to find when the car turned around that the fog had already spread across the road. Driving into the fog, she was suddenly confronted by a wall! "Screech—!" A sharp brake noise suddenly burst out and then abruptly disappeared. Xu Huo had by then caught up to the flower-selling girl, and turning around at the noise, he managed to see the instant when the car, along with Zheng Liang on top of it, vanished into the fog, followed by figure after figure rushing towards him disappearing one after another. "Crap, it’s a random instance..." The flower-selling girl beside him didn’t finish her sentence before she, too, was erased along with her voice, and her companion met the same fate. The fog surged up in front of him, and Xu Huo pulled out his phone and tossed it on the ground, only to be sucked into the instance right after. [Player Passerby A has entered "Xiaohua Honghong Building," and by default participates in the Level D random instance.] [Background introduction: As a scientific research base that once cultivated world-famous plant varieties, Xiaohua Honghong took its name from the first mutated plant it developed. Strangely enough, the flower that this mutated plant bloomed was not red.] [Of course, this did not diminish the contributions of Xiaohua Honghong Research Base. According to incomplete statistics, in the fifteen years of its operation, it cultivated at least fifteen mutant plants and fifteen mutant animals, and these mutants have made outstanding contributions to humanity in conquering diseases and prolonging life.] [However, due to rapid evolutionary development and poor company management, the Xiaohua Honghong Research Base, lacking investors, was forced to close down on its fifteenth anniversary. And its founder and boss, Professor Hao, claimed to possess the ultimate secret of evolution in desperation, vowing to attract the largest investment from the Stellar Pharmaceutical Research Group with this secret.] [Yet, five years went by, and Professor Hao never appeared in public again, and the Xiaohua Honghong Building became a stand-alone abandoned building.] [Instance mission: Stay in the Xiaohua Honghong Building for ninety hours.] Searᴄh the Nôvelƒire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. [Mission duration: Ninety hours.] Xu Huo quickly read through the instance introduction and mission requirements, and as his vision shifted, he found himself standing in a spacious, old building. He was standing in front of an elevator with closed doors. He pressed the open button, but the doors did not open, and the floor numbers on the electronic board didn’t change, still stuck on "15." There were some long-dried handprints and footprints at the crack of the door and on the floor. Adjacent to the elevator doors was a five-meter-wide corridor. On the wall across was a sign with the number "15," next to which was a clock showing exactly twelve o’clock. The second hand had started moving. At the end of the elevator was the end of the corridor, where the original floor-to-ceiling windows had shattered. Looking out from inside, there was only a blank whiteness, making it impossible to estimate the height of the floor. Many desiccated vines on the outer wall hung down, the stems and leaves covering the windows below. Following the mottled tracks on the ground, Xu Huo walked the other way. After about ten meters, he encountered a second elevator, its exterior stained with blood marks, just like the previous one.

Chapter 185: Xiaohua Honghong Building

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