Just a second earlier, the players could still see the thirteenth-floor corridor, bright as day, right before them. But in the next second, the entire stairwell plunged into utter darkness, as black as some abyss suddenly opening its maw to swallow everything.
After learning of this terrible, unexpected turn from Le Shiya, Su Bai stopped descending, his brow creasing in thought.
Once again, the lights had gone out without any warning.
Su Bai quickly retraced the events in his mind. In this brief span of time, the corridor lights had gone out twice with no discernible pattern. If there was no fixed interval, no predictable pattern, that meant-
Darkness could descend at any moment!
Worse still, there was that thing that appeared along with the darkness!
At that thought, Su Bai's fingers tightened slightly. He recalled the spine-chilling scraping he had heard in the ward earlier, as though something rough and hard was being dragged across the floor, even knocking against the doors of illuminated rooms.
"Everyone, stay quiet and breathe as slowly as you can." Her hushed voice sounded particularly steady in the darkness, without the slightest tremor, carrying a calm authority. "Watch the stairwell doors above and below, and have your weapons ready. If anything seems wrong, please hit it with everything you've got. Don't hold anything back."
They were currently near the thirteenth-floor stairwell door, and Chi Yan, who was in front, was only a few steps from the corridor outside. But considering that the things in those corridors might be attracted by light or sound, and might also only move within the corridors, no one was willing to risk moving at a time like this.
Still, just as Xie Ying had said, everyone was ready to fight the Strange Creatures.
Su Bai heard the faint rustle