Alps leaned against the wall and pushed his face armor up, gasping for breath, and the cold underground air made him feel his stomach rolling. The bandage that hung on his left hand had broken at some point. He fell to the ground weakly, looking at the dim ceiling with his eyes blank.

"What should I do next?" asked a man next to me. At this moment, they were crowding in a room, all the torches were extinguished, and the door had been damaged long ago. So they directly lifted up the decayed wooden bed to block the door, and used the cloth that they found that had long been rotten and became fragile to block all the gaps, and tried not to let a trace of light be revealed.

They were the ones who had to separate from Anthony's team at the beginning when they were attacked by monsters. Alps and Marcus, the leader of the fourth group with the Black Knight Warhammer, tried their best to organize them and hide in the lower room. One of the two opposite rooms was hidden half. Fortunately, they encountered not many monsters at the beginning, and they could barely deal with it after reorganizing it. Until the thing appeared, they had to escape here and hide.

"Waiting for rescue." Marcus, who was sitting not far from the Alps, leaning against the black knight's sledgehammer in his arms, said calmly.

"What a joke, you saw that thing too, right?" a man suddenly shouted excitedly.

"Speak softly!" The companion next to him punched his arm, and then immediately pressed nervously to the wooden bed that blocked the door and listened to the sound outside.

The excited man immediately lowered his voice, but obviously he still didn't calm down. "Where is there any rescue?" He said excitedly, "You have seen that thing, have you seen that thing?! Drake and the others might have been wiped out!"

"That guy Drake--" Alpine's sudden interruption made everyone else quiet. They looked at the man in iron armor who was slumped on the ground, "But it's scarier than all the monsters here combined, he is not that easy to die."

Everyone was silent, and finally Gavin coughed gently, pretending to be relaxed and said, "Since Drake's friend, Brother Alpine, said so, don't worry, just wait-"

Before he could finish his words, a strange sound made everyone hold their breath: it was a monotonous sound, clattering, just like the sound of the old man hitting the ground while walking on his crutch, the rhythm was neither slow nor fast. In fact, everyone knew that it was indeed the sound of the old man's crutch hitting the ground, but the old man here was a "monster" and the crutch was a "staff".

It was that monster. Everyone was so nervous that they dared to move, for fear that the monster would hear it. The people who approached the lantern quickly covered the lantern with their cloak. The monotonous sound soon began to go away, and finally it was impossible to hear it. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and took out the lantern hidden under the cloak. When they saw the expressions of the people next to them, they couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"This is endless." Someone couldn't help but sigh.

"Besides, we are hiding here, how can Anthony and the others find us?"

"The monster is wandering outside. As soon as it goes out and is discovered by it, we will be dead."

"Is it safe to stay here?" someone questioned.

They have been discussing this kind of discussion for more than ten times, but each time it has no results.

Alps was almost tired of this meaningless discussion. He sighed, attracting the attention of Marcus, who had been sitting calmly against the wall and silently. He reached out to cover the armor and stood up to support the wall. The slight metal sound of the armor collided made everyone shut up and look at him.

"I'll go out and find them." Alps said as he bent down and lifted the lantern under his feet.

"You are wearing iron armor, and the sound you make will attract monsters. If you go out, you will die." Marcus said in a deep voice, and when he heard his objection, the others obediently shut their mouths.

"I'm not that easy to die, I've always been lucky." Alps said, leaning towards the exit.

Gavin, who was standing beside him, couldn't help but step forward and said, "Brother Alpine, you'd better sit down and rest, you're still hurt-"

"Why don't you go?" Alps looked at Gavin, who was speechless for a moment.

"You can probably find them by going back the same way, right?" a man next to him asked in a low voice.

The person next to him looked at him suspiciously: "Why, you want to go too?"

"No, no, I'm just asking..."

"The way back was blocked by those ice crystals, right? Can you go back?" Another person asked immediately.

"It looks like it's hanging," the person next to the man shook his head, "If you find an exit from other roads, whether you encounter a boss or another monster, if you encounter a person, you will basically be dead?"

"This guy was injured..."

"Tsk. You guys can only talk sarcastically." Suddenly a voice came from the corner. Everyone looked over and saw a man wearing a rag cloak and a sloppy beard on his face stood up holding the wall. His hands were also wrapped in bandages, and the hilt of the sword around his waist poked out from under the cloak. These were men who were quite tall but a little thin. They looked like a skilled guy. "I'll accompany this guy to find reinforcements." The man said.

"You?" Someone looked at the man suspiciously.

"Don't look at me like this," the man grinned, "I have level 47, there are three scout skills, proficiency... I'm so careless. If I follow you, the survival rate of this guy will be greatly improved."

Alps couldn't help laughing when he heard his half-joking tone, but no one saw him with his mask. "What's your name?" Alps asked with a smile.

"Call me Robin." The man shrugged, then walked lazy to the Alps, stretched out his hand to scratch his messy brown hair. "I feel like I'm going to get moldy if I stay here."

Alps turned to look at the two players who were in charge of guarding the wooden beds that blocked the door: "So please move a gap and let us both go out."

"Wait." Marcus, who had been sitting against the wall before, also stood up at this moment. He was not tall, but very strong. This was also the reason why he got the Black Knight Warhammer. He also had a goatee and looked very calm. He was still famous among this group of players who were separated, because most of them were the fourth group he was responsible for. In the battle with the Black Knight, he made many people admire his command and experience, so most of them were willing to follow his advice, and the Alps were no exception.

"What's the point?" Alps turned his head and looked at him. Next to him was a low cabinet, and his lantern was placed on it. The fire illuminated his faded cloak, and the black black knight warhammer was also inlaid with gold.

"There are only twenty-two survivors here, and after you two, there are only twenty left. I hope you can convey this message to Drake." Marcus said in a deep voice. Alps thought about the meaning of his words for a moment and nodded.

"I get it." He was afraid. Alps realized that this strong man was afraid that they would be abandoned. After all, after seeing that terrifying power, it was inevitable that he would be afraid. He wanted to tell Anthony that "we are worth your risk to come and rescue." After all, there were twenty people, and maybe there were not even such people in Anthony. So if Alps told him that there were twenty people waiting for their rescue, Anthony would not give up on it.

"Also," Marcus walked over. He raised his hand from under the cloak and handed something to the Alps. "Hold this." Alps handed the lantern in his hand to Robin next to him, and then reached out to take the thing that Marcus handed over. He looked down and saw that it was a small glass bottle with a copper hoop wrapped around it. It was a dark purple liquid inside, which looked like ink.

"What is this?" Robin, who was beside him, came up curiously.

"Alchemy potion," Marcus replied, "can temporarily obtain the effect of a special skill. This bottle is the 'Night Cat potion', which can make people's vision more sensitive in the dark."

"This is a good thing." Robin said enviously.

"That's right, fifteen silver coins per bottle, it's almost as much as a good iron price." Marcus said, turning around, waving his hand, "Go, be careful, don't let the monsters discover this place."

Alps pulled the bottle of potion tightly, then turned to look at the two players in charge of the door: "That's so troublesome."

The two players looked at each other, then struggled to move the wooden bed away, and the cold wind immediately blew in from outside. The people in the room took a breath of air conditioning. Everyone subconsciously held the handle of the weapon. They were afraid that there was a monster waiting for them at the door. As a result, they found that the door had been blocked by white frost. Robin took the lead and held the lantern and carefully poked out half of his body from the mouth, and then he whispered: "Safe."

There was a smile in his tone, which made the person in charge of the door anxious: "Get out quickly!" Under their urging, Alps also walked out behind Robin.

"Good luck to you." As he said this, the wooden bed blocked the door again. Robin looked at the entrance and exhaled a breath of white air. Then he raised the lantern, and the range of the fire was shining was snow-white.

"There are no other strange sounds around," Robin said in a serious tone, "Where to go?" At this moment, the two of them were leaning against their backs, facing the darkness in front and behind the corridor, and white frost rustled under their feet.

"Here." Alps pointed ahead. Then he took out a torch from his backpack. He asked Robin to open the lid of the lantern, then poked the torch in. The torch soaked in the fuel burned at a moment. Alps raised the torch and shook it slightly, then took a step forward. Robin followed him carefully. The footsteps of the two of them echoed in the tunnel, making them dare not make a sound easily, and from time to time they had to stop and stop for a while. Is there any strange sound?

When they reached the first fork, the Alps stopped and turned to look at Robin.

"What's wrong?" Robin asked in a low voice.

"You take this." Alps handed his torch to Robin, "Put down the lantern." Robin did as he wondered. After he bent down and put the lantern down, Alps had taken out the bottle of night cat potion given to him by Marcus from his "backpack" and handed it to Robin.

"Give it to me?" Robin was a little surprised. He opened his eyes wide and looked at the small glass bottle in his hand.

"I'll give it to you." Alpine said, taking the torch from Robin's hand, then turned around, "If something is wrong, drink it immediately, but be careful that this thing is poisonous, don't blame me for not explaining it clearly to you."

"Poisonous?" Robin looked at the bottle in his hand again. The dark purple liquid inside reminded him of poison, "How did you know?"

"Because I've used it." Alps carefully poked out half of his head at the fork in the road, looked around and confirmed that nothing was coming towards them.

"So you know it's poisonous, and then I'll give it to me?" Robin asked with some contempt.

"No, it's because there are a lot of similar things in my backpack, and I can't use this bottle." Alps replied in a low voice.

There were many? Robin was stunned, but the Alps didn't care. He turned his head and said to him, "Come here and see if there is any danger."

"Yes, yes, right away." Robin stuffed the bottle of potion into the small pocket of his belt, and then quietly came to the Alps.

...

"Hey, is it okay? Are we getting higher and higher?" Ding Ke, who was leaning against the "Lady" big sword, frowned and asked Meka behind him.

"If we go down, wouldn't we just follow the boss?" Coria said angrily, "If that happens, let alone look for Miss Aleya, we can't guarantee our own safety, right?"

"Huh," Ding Ke let out a breath of white breath, "It's so cold, I feel like I'm about to catch a cold."

"You won't catch a cold in the game." Coria said coldly.

"Do you have to argue with me every word I say?" Ding Ke asked impatiently.

"That's because everything you say is too stupid." Coria said without caring.

"What did you say?!"

"You two guys are quieter." Meka said in the back with a serious expression. The two men who looked like they were about to quarrel just now immediately closed their mouths obediently.

At this moment, they were walking in a narrow tunnel covered with white frost. After passing through the towering corridor, they arrived at the spiral staircase behind the large open stone door. They saw the terrifying huge worm crawling down the spiral staircase. They followed and found that there was a circular hall under the spiral staircase. There were iron doors on the walls around them. A large hole was broken in the location of one of the doors, and the sound of freezing was endless. The place where the huge worm crawled by began to form white frost, and the temperature became lower and lower. They looked around the circular hall and found that the other iron doors were locked. So in order not to conflict with the huge worm, they followed the spiral staircase to the top.

Like below, there is a circular hall above the spiral staircase, and there are iron doors on the same wall, but they are all closed. Only one iron door is located the same as the bottom. A large hole collapsed together with the wall, and white frost spreads out from this big hole.

After they walked into the hole vigilantly, it was also snow-white inside, like a frosted monster's esophagus, which made the girls' scalp numb, but they did not retreat. After all, the frosted corridor was always better than a corridor full of insects and monsters, and they really didn't want to return on the same path.

They searched for the downward stairs in this frosted maze, but they tried their best to find an intersection. After walking along the stairs for less than two steps, they found that the lower floor had collapsed and the entrance of the stairs was blocked by gravel, so they had to turn back.

What made them even more uneasy was the monster. They saw a ball of red meat-like monster walking over the corner not far away. They lowered their voices and continued to move forward after the monster walked away. Fortunately, Mozi and Lianda acted as scouts, allowing them to avoid one danger after another.

But even so, they finally began to get tired of this maze.

"It's endless." Ding Ke said viciously, gritting his teeth, while leaning on the big sword to the ground. It was obvious that walking around with this heavy weapon was a big burden for her.

"It's the same everywhere we go. Are we lost?" Coria asked tiredly.

"This layer is really too big." Meka also replied with a frown, "We have never repeated our footprints."

"We almost walked the streets of Jinshui City just now, right?" Ding Ke couldn't help complaining.

"No, it should be just like I've finished the sluice area." Mo Zi, who was in front, turned around and said.

"I'm so exhausted." Mai said weakly, "This ghost place doesn't even sit."

"This is a normal manifestation," Ding Ke said as he looked at Mai, "Don't you and Lianda know what it means to be tired?"

"I'm fine." Mozi said lightly.

"There is no way to do it or not," Lianda, who had been silent before, turned around and looked at Ding Ke who was leaning against the sword. "The important thing is to find a way to leave here as soon as possible."

"If you want to leave, just follow the same route, won't it be enough?" Ding Ke said angrily.

"Will there be no meaning for us to come here?" Meka sighed and said, "Although I know everyone is working hard, Lianda is right. I have to find a way to leave here as soon as possible - of course, after finding Miss Aleya."

"Ahhhhh, I'm tired and annoyed." Ding Ke began to yell, "It seems like he's chopping people."

"Look," Coria immediately said to her sternly, "If the monster hears you, you will have to cut—"
To be continued...