Chapter 191: The Disappearance of Fifteen People

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Chapter 191: Chapter 191: The Disappearance of Fifteen People"There are too many of them, we just can’t kill them all," Dai Wenqian said a few meters behind them, holding a glass bottle in his hand. The pale green smoke billowing out from it made the spiders approaching him sluggish, while two other players cooperated in dealing with the nearby spiders. Seeing this, the others tried to move closer to him but were blocked by the two players. One of them, holding a long knife, said, "Come any closer, and I won’t hesitate to kill you too!" The crowd was both shocked and angry but had no extra energy to curse or scream because more and more spiders were surrounding them! "Click! Click! Click!" The sound of a lighter opening and closing rapidly rang out, followed by roaring flames. The group turned to see the circle of spiders that had surrounded Xu Huo and the others had been set ablaze, sending the spiders scrambling in panic while the foreign strongman rode a tiger, stabbing one spider after another. "Go over there, it’s safe!" Those who were still alive moved towards Xu Huo, perhaps emboldened as they swung their makeshift weapons and killed the spiders fleeing towards them. A young man who had just crushed the head of a spider said, "These spiders aren’t that tough..." Before he could finish his sentence, a white thread suddenly stuck to his back and then he was pulled up towards the ceiling. Several spiders collaborated to bind his hands and feet, leaving him to hang in midair as the first spider drained his blood! "Bang!" The body was thrown back to the ground. Before the rest could recover from this sudden turn of events, a "silk rain" began to fall from the ceiling, and one person after another was snatched away! "Save them!" Gu Yu shouted at his companions, rushing forward to try to cut through the white threads. But to his surprise, the spider silk was not only sticky but also tough, and the prop knife could hardly cut through it after one or two slashes! Searᴄh the ηovelFire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. On the other side, Xu Huo also tried to start a fire, but the spider silk would not ignite. At the same time, several large spiders pounced on him from different directions. By the time he had dealt with them and looked up, the spiders had spun a large fireproof net on the ceiling, and the silk could still pass through the gaps in the net, continuing to pull people up towards the ceiling! "Leave it to me!" The foreign strongman jumped over, and then the tiger beneath him pounced at the large net. The massive beast hit the center of the net, and in its struggle, not only got the net stuck together but also pulled down several spiders hanging from the other end of the threads! Xu Huo seized the opportunity to set a fire. The spiders’ fluff caught easily, quickly igniting a blaze. Continually, spiders fell from the ceiling, and even if they weren’t burned to death, they were dispatched by the people nearby. More than an hour later, the giant spiders on the fourteenth floor had been mostly cleared out. Xu Huo and Kang Hong and others had smashed the egg incubation tanks to prevent the fire from spreading further while Gu Yu had found the main switch. But with the combination of fire and water, they dared not switch it off, so they could only use the light of their cell phones to inspect the situation at hand. The death toll on the fourteenth floor had reached forty-seven, three of whom were players who had come with Gu Yu and her group. Looking at the bloodied faces of his companions, Zheng Liang knelt in front of the bodies and punched the floor, "It’s all my fault! If I hadn’t called them out, they wouldn’t have died!" Gu Yu’s face was full of sorrow as she patted his shoulder and said, "You can’t blame yourself..." She didn’t finish her sentence when Brother Tie, who had just woken from his stupor and survived a fight for his life, interrupted, "Of course you can’t blame Zheng Liang, the blame is on him!" He pointed at Xu Huo, his injured face twitching, "If he hadn’t had us running in circles on the main road, how could we have entered this damn instance?" Gu Yu and the other players’ gazes were cast toward the man examining the spider corpses nearby. They saw him dust off his hands and stand up, "Lack skills and still looking for someone to take the fall?" "What did you say!" Zhang Biao said furiously, "We’ve lost three players on our side!" Xu Huo squeezed the pus and blood from the wound that had been scratched by a spider leg, and pointed his chin at the ground, "Isn’t the murderer right here?" His attitude infuriated Zhang Biao and the others; several players pushed past Gu Yu, who was trying to stop them, looking ready for a fight to the death. But at that moment, a middle-aged woman stepped in front of them, "Have you no shame?" "Even a housewife like me, who hasn’t read many books, knows that this thing is the doing of that damned game; someone gets killed by a spider, and instead of blaming the monsters in the building or the people who raised these monsters, you go blaming someone completely unrelated?" "Are you just picking on him because he’s alone, picking the softest persimmon to squeeze?" Zhang Biao and his group were sprayed with her words, both shocked and furious, "Who the hell do you think you are, to beep in front of us?" "I’m a human being!" The middle-aged woman shouted: "Aren’t you all human too?" The group was momentarily stunned, then several other people stepped forward, an older person among them said: "Lad, it’s only been eight hours, and there are three days left. If you start infighting now, who will deal with danger when it comes?" "They’re right," said Dai Wenqian at that moment: "The game time totals ninety hours, the first six hours on the fifteenth floor; when the time is up, the elevator appears, and everyone moves to the fourteenth floor." "Which means, the rest of the time in this instance may be evenly divided, six hours for each floor." "The game mentioned this building has bred fifteen types of mutated plants and fifteen types of mutated animals; encountering situations like on the fourteenth floor again wouldn’t be strange." "The loss of any player increases our risk significantly; after all, the game gets more dangerous the further we go." His words successfully halted the fiery anger of Zhang Biao and the others. As they turned away, Zhang Biao dropped a line: "I’ll see if someone will save you when it comes down to it after you’ve stood up for others!" These people were speaking up for Xu Huo, but it was also out of a survival instinct. When they were surrounded by the swarm of spiders earlier, only a few people on Gu Yu’s side were willing to lend a hand to rescue the common folk; Xu Huo, though silent, had his abilities on display, and of the more than ten people with him, only two died. "Young man, don’t stress yourself out too much," the middle-aged woman who spoke first said, "Everyone has their fate, and luck isn’t exactly on the side of anyone who ends up in a place like this." Despite her words, the remaining hundred or so people still unconsciously shifted a bit closer to Xu Huo’s side. Xu Huo wasn’t focused on this; after counting heads, he discovered that fifteen people were missing. A total of one hundred ninety-five people had come down from the fifteenth floor; forty-seven were killed by spiders, but now there were only one hundred thirty-three people on the fourteenth floor. He frowned slightly, and after scanning the area, he went over to the elevator and knocked on it; sure enough, the elevator cabin had disappeared once more. When the elevator arrived on the fourteenth floor earlier, he had checked the time, and it had been exactly six hours; Dai Wenqian was right, ninety hours corresponded to the fifteen floors, with each floor having six hours. But after coming down from the fifteenth floor, one elevator’s worth of people had disappeared. The windows on the fourteenth floor had been sealed off; there were no blind spots in the entire floor’s visibility, so those fifteen people could only have disappeared from the elevator.

Chapter 191: The Disappearance of Fifteen People

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