Empty Elevator Shaft
Past this point lay a spacious office area, over fifty meters long and wide. A large crowd had gathered there, including both Players and ordinary people. There were more than a hundred of them.
"What is this place? How did I get here?"
"I have no idea! I was just walking down the street, and then a thick fog suddenly rolled in. When I opened my eyes, I was here!"
"Could it be Outer District Players again? Are they going to kill us?"
"I don't want to die!!!"
"...This looks like one of those Dungeons people talk about online..." someone said, their voice choked with tears. "Didn't someone say that ordinary people can get pulled into Dungeons too, not just Players? And that they're Random Instances with an extremely high death rate!"
"We're done for! We're done for..."
"Ah!!! There's a head here!" A woman screamed and kicked a skull out of the way.
The people around it scattered as if afraid they'd catch some deadly virus, leaving a path through the middle.
The skull rolled toward a distant wall and stopped when it hit the rear of a small car.
"Why is there a car here?"
Zheng Liang, who'd been thrown aside, shook his head and got to his feet. He hurried to the car, opened the door, and pulled out Gu Yu, whose forehead was bleeding.
Gu Yu had planned to leave the Fog Zone at full speed, so when the car hit the wall at close range, she hadn't had time to react. Fortunately, although the front of the car had been crushed, the only injury she'd suffered was a cut on her forehead from the glass.
Just then, several other Players who'd entered with them came over. The young man in the skull-print