Someone Behind Him

Inside a Game Room.

Xue Tingtao's thin body trembled. His already pale face had gone deathly white, and his eyes bulged as he stared at the screen.

To him, those four options were demons come to claim his life.

Everyone knew he was useless. Faced with a choice, he could not muster even the slightest thought.

Accustomed to relying on others, he dialed the phone without thinking.

In the deathly still room, only the phone's mechanical ringing sounded over and over.

He did not know how long he waited. The ringing was about to stop when someone finally answered.

"Ting Tao..."

The voice on the other end was weak and exhausted, like the last gasp of someone who had drained his life away.

But Xue Tingtao was in no state to notice. "Why did you take so long to answer? I'm about to die over here!"

"..."

Xue Tinghai's labored breathing betrayed just how badly he was hurt.

The Tenth Floor had nearly killed him. Surviving at all had been a stroke of immense luck.

Xue Tingtao still failed to notice. Pointing at the screen, he recited the bloody text word for word.

"Big brother, help me figure this out. Which one should I choose?"

Everyone knew Gu Qingyun and Xue Tinghai had been hiding on the Sixteenth Floor all along.

Xue Tingtao was hardly capable himself, so when he heard Gu Qingyun had a way to leave the Game World, he had been more than willing to go along.

Gu Qingyun had done nothing during that time, but at least things had remained peaceful.

Then, after a long stretch of safety, the Supernatural World had suddenly invaded.

An Ocean of Heads had surged in from the other end of the Sixteenth Floor, swallowing everything in its path.

At the