Key

Chapter 637: Key

The route to the top floor was rather contrary to common sense.

Normally, to go up, people would take stairs, elevators, or something similar. Otherwise, there would at least be some sort of secret passage leading upward.

But this place had never played by the rules. The way to the top floor...

was down.

Wang Xiao'er looked at the enormous pit below and asked uncertainly, "Brother Zhou, are you sure that guy didn't lie to you?"

Zhou You was looking down as well.

The pit was quite peculiar. Though it had split open in the floor, nothing could be seen beneath it. Only vortex-like shadows swirled within, and at first glance, it looked like a gaping mouth waiting to devour someone.

Hearing Wang Xiao'er's question, he shook his head and denied it.

"Some people can endure the Bureau's punishments, and some can even withstand them long enough to mislead us. But those are people with unwavering will. Scum like him, who sold himself to the anomalies just to cling to life... he definitely isn't one of them."

After saying that, he looked at the seemingly bottomless pit and stepped forward.

His body suddenly dropped, vanishing without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Wang Xiao'er pinched his nose, hesitated for a long while, and finally jumped down after him.

The next moment, the world spun around him.

The sensation was indescribably nauseating. He felt as though he had become a piece of excrement in a sewage pipe, or something equally disgusting. In any case, after a thoroughly unpleasant journey, he finally fell out of some sort of pipe and hit the ground.

Fortunately, he was fairly sturdy. After struggling for quite some time, he finally managed to crawl up from the filthy floor.

Once he steadied