"Whether the research institute really was attacked is questionable," Xu Huo said. "But it looks like they really were conducting human experiments here."
"Let's check the basement."
Compared to the ground floor, the basement was downright gruesome. Several small compartments contained piles of bones, some intact and others scattered in pieces.
From the scene, Cong Lei and Black Eye could tell what these people had gone through before they died.
Objects could be devoured by space, and people could too. Though the place still looked like a research institute after they came through, there was no food here.
Xu Huo found no trace of the players who had been devoured during the day. He didn't know whether they had disappeared into some unknown space or turned into piles of ash like those killed by the Dungeon Boss at night.
"There's a pile of ash here too!" Cong Lei spotted a small, inconspicuous patch of dust in the corner. It was clearly a player who had been killed.
The three of them had entered the Dungeon at different times, but none of them had heard the other players they encountered mention this layer of space. That meant the Dungeon's rules made it difficult for players to enter. But since someone had managed to get in and been killed, the Dungeon Boss might come after them as soon as it discovered them!
"Find the exit, quick!" Black Eye said at once.
Xu Huo didn't dare waste time either. He immediately began searching the basement rooms for a Space Portal. But just as they had gone around in a circle, the small pile of dust in the room suddenly stirred without a breeze, then drifted into the air, forming a shadow taller than a person.
Black Eye and Cong Lei had become adept