Huh?
What was going on?
Xu Yanxing stopped short and whipped around, only to discover that the staff member wasn't dead!
Behind them.
The staff member in the white lab coat ran toward them, shouting as though something terrifying was chasing him.
Behind him.
The room glowing with pale green light looked like a will-o'-the-wisp in the night.
It even gave the illusion of flickering in and out of existence.
"Beta-20's Mental Distortion can injure Fifth Tier Evil Spirits, but it acted like nothing happened."
"What level of Evil Spirit is this?"
"Sixth Tier?"
"Doesn't seem like it."
"I heard they can use a Ghost Domain once they reach Sixth Tier. There's no way we could have escaped unscathed."
"Peak Fifth Order?"
As Xu Yanxing considered the possibilities, he drew on Beta-20's supernatural power again.
An eerie magnetic field activated.
Everything around them twisted out of shape. In his distorted vision, the staff member about to reach them froze again, then fell to the floor with a thud.
His cries for help abruptly stopped as well.
But Xu Yanxing knew.
This was only temporary. In less than a minute, this damned thing would get up and keep chasing them.
"Hurry up and run."
The group took off down the corridor at full speed.
They needed to find the side passage beside the kitchen as quickly as possible and use it to leave the fifth floor. They couldn't find a room, shut the door, and hide like before.
Besides.
Almost all the institute's equipment was about to shut down.
The rooms weren't safe either.
Even if they took a step back.
Even if the rooms were temporarily safe, the corridor would only grow more dangerous. If they stayed any longer, they wouldn't be able to leave at all.
Either they would