"The blackboard on the eighth floor is barely usable."
"But I didn't see any missions on the eighth floor, nor did I see you. This building has hidden spaces, right? You just mentioned 'you,' meaning that besides you, there are other people in this building?"
Jiang Qiao asked.
"That's right."
"Besides me, there are three others. There are four of us in total, living in a hidden layer."
Yang Kun answered.
"The eighth floor is a fixed mission floor."
"It only displays missions when one needs to be completed."
"At other times."
"For example, after a mission has already been completed."
"Or during the period before a new mission appears."
"It's completely blank."
"It's been like this since the fifth floor. Also, missions don't need to be checked off. The blackboard displays the mission-taker's name after the mission."
"There's no choice."
"And no chance to refuse."
"However, compared to the floors below, we do have some room for error."
"From the first floor to the fourth floor."
"The missions must be completed."
"Failure means certain death."
"But starting from the fifth floor, perhaps because we've all become property recognized by the Malevolent Ghost Building, each person is allowed to fail three missions."
"These chances to fail refresh each time we reach another floor."
Yang Kun explained:
"You didn't see any missions on the eighth floor because none had refreshed yet."
"But from the fifth floor to the seventh floor."
"They really have been abandoned."
"Because there's no one there, no missions refresh."
"There are currently more than twenty people on the first floor."
"Three people on the second floor."
"Two people on the third floor."
"One person on the Fourth Floor."
"There's no one farther up, leaving only the four of us on the eighth floor."
Jiang Qiao asked:
"How