The Rules of the Game
Xu Huo stepped forward and finished off the Mermaid. Then he looked at the other iron trunks that had been broken open one after another and said to Dai Wenqian and the others, "Get to work."
"Get to work on what?" Zheng Liang blurted out.
Xu Huo thrust his sword into the gaping mouth of an Alien that had suddenly poked its head out beside him. He waited until it stopped thrashing inside the iron trunk before pulling out his sword.
A mixture of blood and liquid seeped out through the trunk's opening. Xu Huo picked up the Mermaid's corpse beside him and stuffed it inside, plugging the hole.
"Come at them from above." A metal spear suddenly appeared in Dai Wenqian's hand. He leaped onto another iron trunk and drove the spear through it. A few seconds later, the Alien thrashing violently inside fell silent.
He nodded to another one of his companions, and the Player with a sword nimbly jumped onto another iron trunk.
After they dealt with the iron trunks that were reacting most violently, the answering thumps gradually faded.
Watching Xu Huo and Dai Wenqian return from different directions, everyone instinctively stepped back.
"Let's go over what we know so far." Dai Wenqian gestured for Xu Huo to begin.
Xu Huo found a place to sit and laid his sword across his lap. "On the way down from the tenth floor, the one hundred and thirty people were split among twelve elevators."
"Eight elevators had thirteen people each, one had nine, one had seven, and then there were the six in my elevator and the four with Gu Yu."
"Three elevators were attacked: one with thirteen people, one with nine, and mine."
"The other full elevators and the two elevators with