Chapter 1234: Devour the Steps

In this gloomy, blood-soaked environment, hearing such a sentence all of a sudden made several human Team Members shiver involuntarily.

Skinny Monkey shrank back even more, trembling as he whispered, “Captain, what… what do you mean?”

“Someone’s missing…” Yuwen Xuan and the others first looked at their teammates nearby… After confirming everyone was present, they forced themselves to look at the mangled corpses at their feet, fighting the urge to vomit…

But after a few seconds, they all gave up at the same time…

How the hell could anyone tell from this mess!

But the way they looked at Ling Mo instantly changed to one of utter admiration… He had seemed to be enduring it with a frown just like them, but unexpectedly, this captain had silently counted every head!

So deeply hidden…

Ling Mo, however, was still staring intently around, not noticing the group’s reaction.

He continued in a low voice, “That’s right… someone is missing…”

Actually, this wasn’t as challenging as the Team Members thought. For Ling Mo, he just needed to contact the Zombie Puppets for feedback.

The Female Zombies remembered every battle scene with each corpse clearly.

And when they first searched here, Black Silk had already memorized all the corpses in this place.

By comparing both sides, Ling Mo found a subtle inconsistency…

After magnifying and searching this point, he saw a shadow in the corner of Li Yalin’s vision in her feedback.

That figure had been standing motionless there just a second before. But after Li Yalin cut off a corpse’s head, it disappeared.

And that moment was precisely when the battle was about to end…

He had been standing there observing the entire fight, then slipped away quietly at the end…

Whatever that was, it definitely wasn’t an ordinary corpse…

Ling Mo’s gaze returned to the messy platform. He said, “That master of ceremonies, he’s not ‘dead’ yet.”

Master of ceremonies?

Everyone was stunned, then someone suddenly looked enlightened.

They remembered… wasn’t that the corpse with the terrifying expression?

“Find him!”

As soon as Ling Mo finished speaking, a faint sound suddenly came from the tightly closed main door.

The entire hall immediately fell silent again. After a moment, Xia Na blinked and said, “Do you all remember those twelve corpses below?”

“And how the door just closed…”

Everyone looked at each other, then their expressions changed drastically.

“Block the door, block the door!”

So it seemed. The corpses inside were just disgusting “appetizers” meant to wear them down; what the enemy had really prepared for them was actually the “Twelve Fiends”! ʀ𝔞ƝȰᛒЁ𝙨

“Wait!” Ling Mo stopped them, “Blocking is only temporary… The master of ceremonies just disappeared, there must be another exit here!”

Although the whole hall looked sealed, considering the enemy had changed the entire environment, it was possible they’d tampered with something here.

Maybe the enemy just wanted to trap them here, then wear them down with endless attacks.

Thinking about it this way, the enemy’s preparations were actually very thorough. No matter which direction they chose to follow the arrows, or whether they went up or down, they’d eventually be trapped somewhere.

And this Hotel was a must-pass place prepared for them. Even if they deliberately skipped it, they’d probably circle back here again.

That was the point of the enemy changing the environment… to lure Ling Mo and the others into their home ground, into their trap.

“What a grand scheme…” Ling Mo muttered to himself, then said, “Everyone, search carefully! It might be a visual trick or a blind spot! If you look closely, you’ll definitely find it!”

“Then let’s hold out for a while first!” Black Silk said.

She and Yu Shiran’s petite figures darted forward at the same time. In the next moment, just before a bloody hand reached in, they blocked the door.

Immediately after, there was a muffled “thump thump” from outside the door. In less than two seconds, several holes suddenly appeared in the heavy door, and several hands reached in, clawing at the gaps with a “click click” sound.

If it weren’t for Black Silk and Yu Shiran nimbly dodging and always keeping a hand pressed against the door, while also fending off those vicious dead hands, the door would have been torn to pieces by now.

This scene made Mu Chen and the others’ scalps tingle… Luckily Ling Mo had dismissed their idea of blocking the door… The brutality of these corpses far exceeded their imagination!

“Hurry, find the exit!”

Everyone immediately started searching around.

According to Ling Mo and the others’ deduction, the basic layout of these places shouldn’t change.

The group divided the work tacitly, focusing their search on the three walls other than the main door, especially places where there might be another door.

Ling Mo led Ye Lian and the others toward the stage… That master of ceremonies had disappeared here before, and this was also the most likely place for another exit to appear.

“Nothing here…” Xia Na and Li Yalin knocked along the wall.

Ling Mo circled around the stage… He didn’t find anything on the walls, so maybe there was something wrong with the stage itself.

Suddenly, he noticed a spot that wasn’t very conspicuous.

When the Flashlight swept over, most of the dark areas were illuminated, but behind the master of ceremonies’ podium, there was a patch of shadow.

Normally, Ling Mo might not have noticed this, since a shadow wasn’t anything special.

But now, as he was investigating, Ling Mo immediately noticed something odd about this shadow.

It was too flat… There was none of the usual elongated shape. And even when Ling Mo changed the angle of the Flashlight, the shadow remained completely still.

“Found it!” Ling Mo immediately called out.

He walked over and carefully Sensed it, then used his Tentacle to feel around the shape, finally confirming that it was a staircase.

It must have been prepared for some kind of performance… and below was the space inside the stage. The other exit was probably arranged down there as well.

“Pretty professional…” Ling Mo muttered to himself.

He really hadn’t gotten a close look at places like this before, and the designs were definitely different in each location.

The opponent was able to take advantage of such environmental details-truly meticulous.

And the other side probably thought that, in such a tense situation, just a little visual trick like this would be enough to keep Ling Mo and the others from finding the entrance.

“But I still don’t know what kind of Superpower this is…” Ling Mo pressed his hand down. He could feel there was space below, but to the naked eye it was just pitch black, like a patch of pure shadow.

“I can’t Sense anything either…” Ling Mo moved his hand back and forth… Strangely, once it entered the darkness, he couldn’t see his own palm anymore.

“Ah!” This scene really startled the others. Xu Shuhan, who was especially timid, immediately cried out, and Gu Shuangshuang also quickly covered her mouth in fright.

But when Ling Mo pulled his hand back, everyone instantly realized they’d been mistaken. Ling Mo’s hand wasn’t cut off… to be precise, it had just “disappeared.”

“What do we do? Should we go down?” Yuwen Xuan and the others curiously tried it out, then asked.

“This…” Mu Chen frowned at the darkness. “Even though the captain found this after careful investigation… for some reason, I feel like the other side must have prepared for this too. What if it’s a trap?”

Xia Na sniffed, then said, “Then let’s see who can handle whom. I’ll go first.”

With that, she jumped into the darkness.

“Hey!” The others were startled, but saw Ling Mo pulling Ye Lian in after her.

“See you down there,” he winked at everyone.

To the others, it looked as if the two of them were being slowly Devoured by the darkness. It was an incredibly eerie sight.

“I’m coming too!” Li Yalin followed, giggling as she chased after them.

At that moment, Black Silk’s voice came from the doorway: “Are you guys done yet? I can barely hold on over here!”

Everyone turned to look… Well, the main door was almost gone!

Those corpses had basically all crowded their heads over, their ashen eyes staring at them.

“Let’s go down! They don’t look easy to deal with!” Yuwen Xuan shuddered, his hair standing on end, then jumped down after them.

“I just feel… the captain must be hiding something from us,” Mu Chen said before heading down.

The remaining people looked at each other and all sighed.

“Forget it, let’s just grit our teeth and go in…”

As soon as she went down, Xia Na’s eyes changed.

One of her irises turned red, and at the same time, a blood-red phantom appeared around her.

That huge red Scythe flickered in her flowing red hair, looking rather unreal.

“Moldy smell… the scent of wood… and the odor from the corpses…” Xia Na’s eyes swept alertly through the darkness, tracking the scent.

But to her surprise, it was still completely dark below, and this unnatural darkness even affected the Zombies’ vision. Also, in terms of the environment, it didn’t look very tall from the outside, but after coming down, you could barely stand and walk. And with only a single passage, it felt like it was just meant for people to make an entrance.

Before long, Xia Na felt her way to a door.

“Is it here?”

As Xia Na was thinking, a faint sound suddenly came from outside the door.

“Music!” Xia Na’s ears twitched.

At this moment, the door slowly opened, revealing a crack.

Under Xia Na’s wary gaze, a figure appeared outside the door and bowed to her.

“What the…” She blinked, and the figure was gone.

“Wait!” Xia Na hesitated for a moment, then pushed the door and chased after.

“Xia Na!” At that moment, Ling Mo’s voice came from behind, but as the door swung open, Xia Na seemed not to hear at all and ran straight out…

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