Caught.

The red-robed old woman, clutching a naginata and an infrared lamp, was falling down the empty elevator shaft.

Beside her was a mercury blood amber puppet identical to her,

holding Wanli Fengdao, whose eyes were turbid. The puppet's mercury eyes slowly spun like whirlpools.

The 【Soul Skewer Nail】 skill from Ω

allowed one, after obtaining the flesh of another life form, to implant thoughts into their brain within a certain distance.

After the red-robed old woman's main body teleported to the twelfth-floor corridor through the Elder Thing's black mud,

she first buried the mercury blood amber under the carpet in the form of mercury threads, extending them toward Li Ang and the others,

then used the infrared light to remotely sever Wanli Fengdao's arm,

eating Wanli Fengdao's right hand.

Afterward, she transferred the 【Soul Skewer Nail】 skill to the mercury blood amber,

allowing the mercury puppet to control Wanli Fengdao and rush him toward her main body.

The monsters that had been teleported into the corridor instinctively wanted to attack Wanli Fengdao, who carried the aura of a living person,

but they hadn't yet recovered from the aftermath of the Tiangong Kaiwu miniature missile,

and couldn't stop the red-robed old woman and her mercury puppet from entering the elevator shaft.

Eleventh floor, here we are.

The red-robed old woman's withered hand put away the infrared lamp and took out a metal sphere with countless holes.

【Name: Golden Cicada Tinder Mine】

【Type: Consumable】

【Quality: Perfect】

【Effect: Tinder Mine Array. After throwing the metal sphere, it automatically generates a powerful light minefield in a confined space, which can be set to trigger upon contact or manually.】

【Consumption: None】

【Cooldown: None】

【Equipment Requirement: None】

【Note: When your parents go out and you want to watch a movie in your bedroom, remember to lock the door, or buy a Golden Cicada Tinder Mine and set up a minefield in the room to prevent your aunts and other relatives from discovering you watching movies and causing social death.】

After the red-robed old woman casually tossed the metal sphere, it immediately floated upward and spun rapidly within the elevator shaft.

Countless holes on its surface emitted dazzling light,

quickly setting up an impenetrable light minefield within the elevator shaft,

while the metal sphere itself dissolved and vanished without a trace.

A perfect-quality consumable item was used just like that, but the red-robed old woman didn't show any sign of distress—after all, it was all stolen from others.

She waved the naginata, accurately striking the gap in the elevator door, and pried the door open with a heavy thud.

*Clack.*

The red-robed old woman and her mercury clone landed lightly on the floor of the eleventh-floor corridor, taking a deep breath.

The power of Liu Wudai's Tiangong Kaiwu missile

was far more ferocious than she had imagined...

The red-robed old woman flexed her trembling hand,

and sent a mental command, ordering the mercury clone to throw Wanli Fengdao face-first onto the floor.

She herself, before the 【Soul Skewer Nail】 skill's effect ended, raised the naginata.

It's over.

As long as she killed Wanli Fengdao on this floor, she could quell the hotel's agitation and safely get through tonight and tomorrow night...

Hopefully, all this is worth it.

The long naginata drew an arc in mid-air, carrying the wind as it chopped down toward Wanli Fengdao's nape.

*Clang—*

The sound of metal clashing echoed suddenly in the eleventh-floor corridor.

A long-handled scythe had blocked the naginata.

The red-robed old woman's eyes widened in shock. She slammed her feet on the ground, retreating more than ten meters,

and together with her mercury clone, gripped the naginata, watching the front of the elevator shaft on the right side of the eleventh floor with vigilance.

Wanli Fengdao's right arm had suddenly exploded just now, shattering and disappearing.

Replacing it was Li Ang, wearing a dragon head mask and a white coat, wielding a long-handled scythe.

What's going on?

Wasn't he on the twelfth floor? How could he suddenly appear here?

The red-robed old woman's mind was in turmoil. She subconsciously wanted to flee this place—the dragon-headed white coat exuded an indescribable aura of terror. The red-robed old woman, with her special insight into the essence of things, was particularly sensitive to it.

This player in front of her

was far stronger than any she had encountered or killed before.

Even after the red-robed old woman had devoured so many players, possessing all their skills and equipment,

she still felt an intense sense of being unable to win, unable to resist.

No, she couldn't escape.

The red-robed old woman and that person were grasshoppers on the same string.

If she allowed Li Ang to rescue Wanli Fengdao, then all the plans for tonight would be for naught.

She had to take advantage of the present moment,

while there was only one player, and kill him here,

then capture Wanli Fengdao and keep him until tomorrow night...

The red-robed old woman's withered hand gently stroked the naginata's hilt, her entire body crackling like popping beans.

Her body, already taller than ordinary people, expanded again.

Horns grew from the top of her head, her skin turned crimson, and fragments of black snowflakes swirled around her like baleful energy.

"Are you wondering why I could appear directly next to Wanli Fengdao?"

The dragon-headed white coat, or rather, Li Ang,

pulled the still-dazed Wanli Fengdao up from the ground, healed the Little Knife Bro's broken arm with the biological template, and had him sit against the wall.

He then leaned on the long-handled scythe and said leisurely, "The light minefield in the elevator shaft wasn't triggered, which means I didn't come down through the elevator shaft.

And the stairwell on the left side of the corridor is too far from the elevator shaft. Even if I had a teleportation skill,

it would be impossible to teleport directly from the twelfth floor."

"..."

The red-robed old woman didn't speak.

She maintained the mystique of being a monster, preserving the eerie aura of the technique she had plundered from the Eye-Concealing Ghoul.

She stirred the energy within her body,

healing the minor injuries caused by the miniature missile.

She was indeed curious about how Li Ang had done it.

Since he wanted to say a few more words, the red-robed old woman didn't mind pretending to be willing to listen, adjusting herself to the best state to face the enemy.

The other players haven't arrived yet, are they being held back by the monsters on the twelfth floor...

She had placed a scouting shikigami (summoned spirit) she had obtained from the Eye-Concealing Ghoul on the left side of the corridor on the eleventh floor.

If any players came down from the twelfth floor, she would be able to detect them immediately.

"The answer is simple."

Li Ang smiled. "13mArk left you with a trick.

He knew that his life was in danger, and probably wouldn't be able to wait for other players to rescue him before you killed and devoured him, plundering his equipment and items.

Therefore, before he died, he did one thing.

He used the printing on the scrap of paper I gave him to leave information about all his equipment and items,

and hid the paper under the landline on the left side of the eleventh-floor corridor.

That's what I tell my 'comrades,' the other players. You, as a monster, wouldn't know.

But, besides the scrap of paper recording the information,

13mArk also hid an item under the landline.

An item that allows me to teleport next to the mercury blood amber. A charging-type item."