He grabbed the hair flying out of the shadows and forcibly yanked it free. To his surprise, what emerged was a player covered in boils.
The player had passed out. The boils had spread from the neck to the edge of the jaw, but the face was not completely covered yet.
He carried the player with him and continued upstairs. The Bandage Monster and the zombie he had seen earlier had both swollen into giants, stuck between floors in a rather comical fashion and unable to move easily.
Xu Huo suddenly spotted a human-shaped figure pinned beneath the Puffed Giant's foot. He went over and tried to drag the person out, but couldn't. He looked up at the Bandage Monster. The moment he thought of moving it aside, the distance between the floors quickly widened, and the writhing ground carried the Bandage Monster farther away, clearing the space beneath its foot.
"Save... save me..." The "human-shaped figure" by his feet suddenly reached out and grabbed his shoe. It was Xiao Gao, the Special Defense Department player who had "turned into" a zombie.
He had regained consciousness.
Although these people and the products of Mental Contamination had pursued them to the Fourth Floor, the deeper the contamination grew, the more deeply these players should have been trapped in it.
He pulled the man out of the pus and placed him by the wall with the person wrapped in hair, then continued up the stairs.
Aside from the strange-looking things, the boils underfoot were like sludge. When he stepped down, his leg sank halfway in, and hands beneath the surface were pulling at him with all their might.
Before he reached the fifth floor, pus and Monsters surged toward him from every direction, wrapping around him so tightly that only enough space