The Fall Guy Arrives

"What's going on? Where are they?" the glasses man asked Xiao Meng beside him.

Xiao Meng was just as shocked. "I clearly heard their footsteps!"

The two exchanged a glance, then turned around and ran back to look for the others. But even after retracing their steps, they found no sign of their remaining teammates. There were no signs of a struggle along the way, and the doors they had opened and the objects they had moved were all exactly as they'd been before. Those eight had vanished into thin air!

The laboratory was brightly lit, but the glasses man felt a chill run through him. Gritting his teeth, he said, "Find them!"

As the glasses man searched for his teammates, the eight missing Players were anxiously looking for their captain. They were no longer on the same floor, though they had gone up and down twice along the way. In reality, they had never left the fifth floor where Xu Huo had taken them.

The range of the Spiritual World had extended vertically. That was another benefit of his latest mental Evolution. Of course, Xu Huo hadn't used his Book Tower; the R1 Laboratory was already the perfect place to put his ability to use.

The layout was complex, with countless rooms, many of them containing stored pathogens or toxins. Even knowing the laboratory's layout, the enforcement team couldn't move through it without caution. To avoid causing an even worse disaster, they would steer clear of high-risk areas.

Their fear of viruses made them all the more hesitant to act.

Killing them might not be easy, but trapping them in the laboratory was.

Of course, some Players were harder to interfere with. Xu Huo generally tried once and then moved on.

Fewer and fewer people were moving around inside