Who gave you permission to travel through time with Earth?

Chapter 25 Xu Rou

Almost the instant Xu Rou touched the edge of the third floor, she seemed to hear some sound—heavy, chaotic, and approaching footsteps…and the strange sound of something slowly cracking open.

When she came to her senses again, she was already in mid-air, all her support points—hands and feet—were stripped away, and gravity was acting completely and thoroughly on Xu Rou's body.

"..."

"...Huh?"

"Bang—!"

Because right below the entrance to the third floor, a sluice gate, covered by a gray tarpaulin, suddenly bulged and burst open without warning! The shadow of the searchlights made it impossible for Fang Jin and the others to notice!

Then, the first and last act of carnage, the carnage, poured out completely! Flesh and blood surged and menacing figures thronged! And Jin Fugui's deformed and mutilated body was at the very front of them!

"One minute and forty-seven seconds left... Hahaha—!"

He laughed wildly and unrestrainedly, his bulging eyes looking with pleasure at Xu Rou who was falling slowly, the joy in his chest was almost uncontrollable... He had been waiting for this moment without a doubt!

Jin Fugui never intended to hunt down Fang Jin and his group of four. After witnessing Fang Jin and Lu Chen's abilities, and later Zhou Tongtong's pure and utter tyranny,

He realized that simply controlling this parade wouldn't be of much use; these people undoubtedly possessed the ability to ascend to the third level, and he was no longer qualified to catch up with them and kill them here.

"..."

"Then I'll have to resort to some underhanded tricks...isn't that what I'm best at?!"

Jin Fugui laughed and grabbed the edge of the third floor. Then, he swung his hand downwards, and the flesh and blood affected by him stopped in their tracks. The stacked monsters clung to the steel bar at the end.

Immediately, pairs of eyes crowded together turned downwards, forming a dense mass of dark shadows under the cover of the overhead searchlights... their mouths stretched almost to their ears.

Jin Fugui bared his gleaming white teeth, his eyes bulging, his expression one of wanton madness! He was so consumed by the urge to kill that he was almost completely out of his mind; he couldn't understand why he had been able to endure it for so long!

But his methods were so meticulous and cold that they were terrifying. His choice of methods and timing was ingenious. He used the blind spots in their thinking and vision to drive them into a corner, and with one move, he firmly took the initiative!

Furthermore, he also controlled the passage to the third floor, so even if what his predecessor said was all nonsense, and killing the last person was not the way to leave the instance, he could still have this information.

He had already prepared an escape route to the third floor, another possibility. No matter what the final outcome was, Jin Fugui would be the winner who survived to the end!

"..."

"..."

I really am... just a burden.

As she was knocked off the ladder by the parade and her body was about to fall in a parabola, Xu Rou did not receive the expected flashback; only this thought could appear in her mind.

She was actually lying. She wasn't old enough to be a student in the preparatory class. The Seventh District's internal education system, designed specifically for training players, had a minimum age requirement of sixteen.

Xu Rou was still a month away from meeting the admission requirements. All her knowledge was acquired and integrated through advance study, and she had absolute confidence in passing the preparatory class exam...

Unfortunately, she didn't even have time to enter the preparatory class before graduating early from school and becoming a player, and subconsciously gave herself this title in the meeting room.

...This is the root of Xu Rou's inferiority complex.

She's only half-baked in terms of knowledge, her decryption logic is significantly outdated, and she's utterly useless in combat. What makes her think she was chosen for this level of dungeon?

I thought that with effort I could at least keep up with Fang Jin and the others, but why is it like this again? Why am I always useless at crucial moments? Why do I always need someone else to save me?

She watched as Fang Jin took Lu Chen's affections, wrapped the burn marks and fire wire around the steel bars, and flew over to embrace her... but always fell just a finger's width away.

The wind in my ears grew colder and faster, and the roars of the blood tide below gradually carried a hint of excitement. A strong sense of grievance and helplessness welled up in my heart, and my upward gaze was uncontrollably blurred by tears...

But he gripped the gun more steadily than ever before.

After enduring hardships from the underground conference room to the duty station, their pistols were almost empty, with Xu Rou's ammunition being the most depleted, as she had no other means of attack.

But she always kept one shell hidden in the magazine, initially as a last-ditch effort.

But when Xu Rou realized that Jin Fugui's influence and the reliance of the assimilation movement were based on the blood flowing in his body, which even possessed vitality... the meaning of this bullet's existence changed.

"There are one minute and forty-one seconds left. This is the limit for your body to avoid being devoured by the blood tide. But if your only means of survival in the parade disappears before that time..."

"And what will you do then?"

Xu Rou spoke as if to herself, her body plummeting downwards with a whoosh. Her finger, more steady than ever before, cocked the gun and aimed it at Jin Fugui's forehead with a metallic clang.

"I'm still a burden... but I've made some progress."

These were her last words, and just before Xu Rou was swallowed by the surging, impatient tide of blood below, she gently pulled the trigger of the revolver.

A crimson line pierced through the closing tide above, using the sound and the shadows of the waves to penetrate Jin Fugui's brain without warning! The powerful impact slammed him heavily against the edge of the third floor!

"Ugh...!"

I've already tested it; the blood bullets can't kill any living beings other than staff members. Your desperate struggle is completely pointless...

After the shock, the thought had just surfaced in Jin Fugui's mind, and the sneer on his lips even widened a little, but then the abnormality in his body made his expression change abruptly!

His blood is disappearing! His body, replaced by Fu Gui's... the turbid fluid circulating within him is rapidly drying up uncontrollably! And he is powerless to stop this change!

The bullet killed the vampire within him, stripping Jin Fugui of his means of survival in the parade, and his previously comforting sensation instantly changed.

A fine, sharp pain spread upwards from his waist, as sharp, long teeth and tongues entered his hollowed-out body. Jin Fugui subconsciously looked down...

But all they saw were countless pairs of bubble-like eyeballs rising from the tide of blood, densely surrounding his body, looking at this strange creature that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere with suspicion.

And the instant "Fugui" completely dried up and died from within his body, the emotions in those eyes finally transformed from doubt into utter bloodlust and madness! All the blood began to converge towards the center, tearing and biting!

"No……"

"No no no no no—!"

"Aa ...