Segment 5 had appeared too, arriving in this unexpected, lethal fashion.
Each descending segment left the living with an extremely narrow window to hide—no more than half a minute at most.
Against a killing method whose rules were unknown, their chances of survival would plummet if they merely scrambled to evade it without advance warning or forethought.
Clearly, Segment 5's arrival was the result of the Gold Generates Water Barrier turning against the Pentagram Sin Item and throwing its rules into disarray.
Faced with this sudden attack, Mei Sheng stared straight overhead, deaf to the panic of those beside her.
She was so composed that she seemed oblivious to the imminent catastrophe, but the slight trembling of her hands inside her sleeves betrayed her feelings.
Mei Sheng was frightened and rattled too, but she could rein it in.
There were only two options now:
Either stay where they were and gamble that Segment 5's erasure path would not be on the first floor;
Or hurry up to the second floor and face Segment 3, whose rules they knew.
Yet both options were like snatching chestnuts from a fire, with pitifully low chances of survival.
The first meant entrusting everyone's lives to luck, but the employees had always had terrible luck.
The second was theoretically more viable, but if it failed, the consequences would be more than they could bear.
They did know Segment 3's rules, but it still qualified as unsolvable killing. Entering its range meant considering the possibility that everyone would be wiped out.
In Mei Sheng's bright, star-like eyes, there was more than the oppressive darkness of the deadly segments. She also saw the red light rapidly flashing at the edges of the starry sky.
As the five segments descended, the red light around the barrier flashed faster