The next second, the Murder Demon was already upon them, but a miraculous scene unfolded. The Murder Demon, who had been so menacing, suddenly stopped, halting just outside the limits of the lamplight.

The Murder Demon's body tensed up strangely, its eyes rigid and stiff. It was the first time that Feng Jie, Fatty, and the others had come into such close contact with the Murder Demon.

A chilling aura spread out, and fear pressed down like a tide, making them afraid to even breathe.

"Everyone, gather around me, within the range of the light," Jiang Cheng said in a low voice, quickly.

Everyone formed a circle, huddling tightly around Jiang Cheng like petals. Jiang Cheng held the desk lamp high in one hand, trying to make the illuminated area as large as possible.

"I'm going to move, stick close to me," Jiang Cheng said.

A group of people huddled together, starting to inch forward at a relatively slow pace. If it weren't for the Murder Demon so close by, the scene would have even been somewhat comical.

Fortunately, the office area's door was wide enough for them to leave without breaking their formation.

The Murder Demon behind them didn't chase after them. About 3 meters behind, the mist closed in, and the Murder Demon's figure disappeared.

Jiang Cheng was responsible for finding the way, and the task of keeping an eye on the Murder Demon was entrusted to Feng Jie, who was at the rear. This man's sense of responsibility and overall perspective had left a deep impression on Jiang Cheng.

"Mr. Jiang," Feng Jie said in a very cautious voice after observing, "The Murder Demon didn't follow. It disappeared."

The Murder Demon relied on stepping on people's shadows to kill, but now that Jiang Cheng and the others were gathered within the range of the lamplight, their shadows had disappeared, and the Murder Demon had lost its target.

However...

The shadows of ordinary people had indeed disappeared, but his shadow hadn't. It had only temporarily left his body; it hadn't disappeared and was still in this building!

"Damn it!" Jiang Cheng's heart clenched. "The Murder Demon's new target... is Wu!"

"Gather closer, we need to speed up!" Jiang Cheng said, turning his head to the others.

The group moved quickly along the corridor towards the other end. Turning a corner, they saw a broken corpse lying in front of the safety door, blood covering the ground as if the murder had just happened a moment ago.

It was Li Mengyao, the first one to enter here.

"Mengyao..." Yuan Xiaotian's face flushed with excitement upon seeing her. He immediately leaned down; the other party's corpse was still warm, with a soft touch.

The name tag on Li Mengyao's clothes emitted a faint light, as if reminding them.

Yuan Xiaotian reached out to take off the name tag.

"Don't move!"

"Don't touch it!"

Two voices stopped Yuan Xiaotian's outstretched hand.

The first voice was Jiang Cheng, the second was Feng Jie.

Realizing that Jiang Cheng didn't intend to explain, Feng Jie looked at Yuan Xiaotian and said quickly, "We came here just to confirm that Mengyao is here, that's enough. Don't touch her yet. Let's find Brother Qiang first, get Brother Qiang's name tag, and then come back to get Mengyao."

Seeing Yuan Xiaotian's hesitation, Huai Yi couldn't help but say, "You blockhead, if you take off the name tag, this person will stand up and kill us. Your Brother Qiang died upstairs, with her blocking here, how will we get down after going upstairs?"

Although the words were unpleasant, they were all true, and it was enough to save people, so Yuan Xiaotian had no objection.

Bypassing Li Mengyao's corpse, they pushed open the safety door and went upstairs to the 11th floor.

According to Lin Muyun's recollection, Xia Qiang was on the 11th floor when he separated from him.

As soon as he turned his head, Xia Qiang disappeared, and the real passage also appeared.

When Xia Qiang called out his name, he realized that Xia Qiang was in danger, and Xia Qiang was the one targeted by the Murder Demon.

"Do you remember the approximate location?" Jiang Cheng asked. He stepped onto the last step, pushed open the safety door, and outside was still a dark corridor.

Lin Muyun's eyes narrowed, revealing a thoughtful expression. "I don't remember the exact location, but it should be in the middle of the corridor. I won't be wrong about that."

Feng Jie scanned the surroundings and said in a somber tone, "Let me lead the way. We came here once during the day and saw Brother Qiang's body."

"This way," Feng Jie said after judging.

Soon, as the group was about to reach the end of the corridor, they found Xia Qiang's body.

The corpse's death was extremely gruesome. It had been split into two halves from the waist, and the distance between the upper and lower body was as much as 3 meters.

Everyone's attention was more focused on the upper body of the corpse.

The upper body was lying on the ground, the left arm bent, the right arm straight, the fingers clenched into claws, the fingertips digging into the ground.

This strange appearance couldn't help but make Fatty's heart tremble, and then he imagined a rather terrifying scene.

At the moment when Xia Qiang was split in half by an axe, he didn't die immediately, but the severed upper body was still desperately crawling forward for a while before he died.

After approaching, Jiang Cheng was holding the lamp with his phone, making it inconvenient to move, so Zhou Tong squatted down and reached out to take off the name tag on Xia Qiang's clothes after obtaining Jiang Cheng's consent.

After obtaining the name tag, everyone didn't dare to hesitate and immediately returned the way they came, and soon their figures disappeared into the 11th-floor corridor.

But no one noticed that at the moment their figures disappeared, the corpse's tense fingers suddenly trembled.

Immediately afterward, this trembling intensified, like ripples, quickly spreading throughout the body.

A strange sound began to echo in the silent corridor.

Through the safety passage, the group quickly returned to Li Mengyao's corpse. This time, Yuan Xiaotian took off Li Mengyao's name tag and carefully put it away.

"Let's go."

Without hesitation, they immediately turned around and headed downstairs.

Both name tags had been obtained. According to the mission rules, as long as they brought these two name tags out, out of Yourun Building, then Xia Qiang and Li Mengyao would be able to come back to life.

In this mission, no one would die, and everyone would be able to survive!

Since Jiang Cheng stepped into the Nightmare Assault missions, he had never encountered a situation where everyone cleared the level. Each time, at least half of the people would die.

There were even a few times when only he and Fatty were left.

This time... very good!

In Jiang Cheng's thoughts, the Murder Demon was restrained by Wu. As long as his group didn't have any problems and didn't leave the range of the light, no shadows would appear.

And without shadows, the Murder Demon would ignore their existence.

The only variables were the two corpses.

Xia Qiang and Li Mengyao.

This was also Jiang Cheng's biggest concern at the moment.

Who would they attack after they stood up? Would they attack Wu together with the Murder Demon, or would they abandon Wu and choose to attack them instead?

The Murder Demon couldn't attack them, but that didn't mean Xia Qiang and Li Mengyao couldn't.

"Doctor," Fatty said, as if he had discovered something, his expression slightly paused. "Did you... did you guys hear a sound?"