Free Web Novel"It doesn't hurt... thank you for your concern, Floor Leader Gu!" Xia Xingyuan pulled his hands back. The slightly chubby Floor Leader's grip on his hand only made it hurt more.
He was also a tough guy—even after being tortured like this, he could still keep his mind clear.
After all, the snake-type handsome man was this slightly chubby man's tenant.
This smiling tiger, no matter how kind his face looked, only inspired fear.
"Stop with the nonsense." The high-browed man barked, tossing a roll of gauze to Xia Xingyuan. "Level 35 healing item. Use it up, then quickly tell us what we want to know."
Xia Xingyuan caught the gauze and wrapped it around his arm. Flesh rapidly regenerated. After covering his whole body, he put away the leftover gauze.
"Floor Leader Han, I'm willing to join Dorm 66 and become your tenant!" Xia Xingyuan shouted at the high-browed man before he'd even fully recovered.
The other two Floor Leaders' expressions darkened.
The high-browed man snorted. "Out of the ten Celestial Demon Building Dorm Owner Tokens, even counting the Floor Leader Token in your hand, we've only gathered seven. The Dorm Owner competition isn't here yet... but the Floor Leader Token in your hand should have gotten you some high-tier resources, right? Take them out and let us see what they do!"
The two Floor Leaders relaxed their guard.
As long as Floor Leader Han wasn't trying to hog everything for himself, that was fine.
Without waiting for the three Floor Leaders to use threats or bribes, Xia Xingyuan very efficiently confessed everything about how he'd obtained the Floor Leader Token.
Three strikes shattered his Floor Leader dream!
Xia Xingyuan had clearly realized the gap between himself and these Floor Leaders and held nothing back.
Sometimes, compromise and honesty were a person's only value.
However, he also had a backup plan. If the three Floor Leaders really did kill him to silence him, the news about the Floor Leader Token would spread quickly.
It might not get the three Floor Leaders killed, but it would cause them a lot of trouble.
In the end, Xia Xingyuan became one of Floor Leader Han Zhenlan's tenants, while the other tenants were all killed.
Floor Leader tenant slots were too precious; they weren't qualified to have them, and leaving them outside was unsafe.
"Haha, I would never have guessed that the Right Hand of the Celestial Demon was hidden in the Sound House!"
"Hahaha, Brother Zhenlan, we should use this Dorm Owner Token together. It can actually control Phantom Sound Beasts—this will greatly reduce our difficulty in pioneering!"
"Alright, leave the item with me. I won't bother rotating usage. From now on, when I go pioneering, I'll call you two."
The three quickly settled on how to split the benefits.
Xia Xingyuan kept his head down the whole time, saying nothing.
Just then, the woman Floor Leader with the upturned eyebrows looked at him and asked, "You still haven't told us about the Taleblade Curse. How exactly did you become an infection source?"
Xia Xingyuan seemed to have been waiting for this moment. His eyes blazed with a terrifying light, and he shouted hoarsely, "It's all Xu Lang's fault!"
If Xu Lang hadn't infected him with the Taleblade Curse, he wouldn't have infected others in the Celestial Demon Building, leading to the Safety Inspection!
All of this was Xu Lang's fault!
The root of all evil!
...
Last Night.
Not a single person died in the Mad King Building.
This made some Mad King Building players a bit cocky.
Blood Calamity? It's nothing!
They didn't know that the Mad King Building and the Taleblades had already blocked 99% of the threats for them.
The first line of defense was the Taleblades Xu Lang had spread. These Taleblades were carefully selected specifically to guard the entrance—they wouldn't go berserk or randomly infect Blood Mist creatures.
And even if Blood Mist creatures did make it to the Mad King Building, they would feel some kind of fear and take a detour.
Two massive sieves had filtered out 99% of the threats.
Today's difficulty was slightly higher than yesterday's. Some fleeing Blood Mist creatures could ignore the Safe Zone's protection and barge right in.
The Mad King Building's defense capabilities had always been a mystery. As long as it wasn't a Blood Mist creature that was clearly impossible to fight, it might get in.
These Blood Mist creatures would immediately be wiped out in large waves by the Mad Vanguards, posing no threat at all.
The total number of Mad Vanguards had already reached nearly five hundred. SAN Manipulation was all the rage, and a great many players had their SAN values completely drained.
Actually, this kind of thing also depended on talent.
Some people simply couldn't lower their SAN values no matter what, while others would have their SAN plummet at the slightest hint of sadness.
It was like the hormones of a teenage boy. Some people, at the slightest provocation, had to play some Thunderbolt Fighter.
Good performance today? Reward myself!
A little sad today? Comfort myself!
But the real tough guys could hold out for an entire year, naturally insensitive to such things.
The Mad King Building stood tall beneath the pitch-black blood-red canopy, unmoving as the blood rain pounded against it.
The second day of the Blood Calamity was all about taking it easy.
This made some players let their guard down.
Suddenly, a dorm door opened, and someone wearing a raincoat walked out to go to the supermarket.
When other players saw him go out and come back fine, they rushed to follow suit.
"Looking for death!" On the tenth floor, Zhou Ye's expression darkened.
Their surveillance cameras were all specially made advanced cameras by the ten researchers. They hung on the guardrails daily, allowing them to see what was happening outside the building.
"Brother Ye, should we call them back?" a tenant hurriedly asked.
"No need. We've already warned them. If they want to die, let them!" Zhou Ye replied.
...
Over at Xu Lang's place, he also noticed people leaving the building.
But he didn't care.
Some people were bound to be sacrificed. Actually, "sacrificed" was too noble a term—"weeded out" was more accurate.
If he explained the dangers of the blood rain in detail, maybe these players wouldn't go out.
But why should he do that?
Did they really take him for their babysitter?
When a general gives an order, if the soldiers have to ask for the whole backstory and global intel before acting, then the soldiers would just become helpless infants.
And once that habit formed, it would be hard to break. Someone might even start getting pushy.
These people who went out to die were exactly the ones the sieve was meant to filter out—unsuited for survival in the Mad King Building.
About ten minutes later, the players who went outside mutated into monsters. The ones who made it back to their dorms even ended up destroying the entire dorm.
Then these mutated monsters were mercilessly killed by the turrets.
For a moment, the players were terrified, filled with fear of the outside world.
The dorms were safe after all.
Just then, a Blood Mist creature broke into the Safe Zone and charged straight for the dormitory building. But before it could even reach the entrance, it was shot dead by the turrets.
Many dorms had structures similar to the Observation Deck, allowing players to remotely operate turrets to shoot outside the dormitory building without having to crouch by the guardrails.
One Blood Mist creature died, and a second came. Then a third... One after another, Blood Mist creatures broke into the Safe Zone and made their way near the Mad King Building.
"I'm going to the Observation Deck..." Xu Xiaomeng saw this and lit up with joy, ready to head for the Observation Deck.
She loved playing Whack-a-Mole. It gave her a feeling like playing Bloody Shanghai or Sniper the Japanese.
Xu Xiaomeng might look innocent, but deep down, she had a little bit of a violent streak.
"Going there won't help. We don't have the Great Barren Dragon's Gaze at home anymore!" Cao Yaxuan shrugged.
Xu Xiaomeng paused, thought about it, and realized that was true.
The active firing range of turrets like the Berserk Laser Ray Emitter wasn't impressive. The Dragon Star Summoning Array had an extremely long maximum attack range. The Legendary turret's effectiveness was undeniable, but using it now was completely unnecessary.
"We'll get more in the future." Xu Lang coughed.
Without long-range heavy turrets, it was indeed very inconvenient, leaving them helpless in many situations.
