Chi Yan was the first to leave the stairwell. Standing beneath the corridor lights, he looked back at the other players.
At that moment, the air around them was even quieter than before, because the strange scraping sound was gone.
Xie Ying followed him out of the stairwell, then Xiang Feiyu carrying Xu Rui on his back, Tian Yue walking alone, Le Shiya and Su Bai holding hands, and finally Feng Xuelan.
"Big brother, there really aren't any monsters." As always, Le Shiya described what she saw to Su Bai. "There are only nurses in the corridor, standing motionless just like the ones upstairs... But even though the lights here are just as dazzling, the thirteenth floor looks very different from the fourteenth."
From Le Shiya's description, the thirteenth floor also had long corridors, and their beige walls looked just as pale and oppressive beneath the glaring lights. But unlike the rows of identical ward doors on the fourteenth floor, what greeted them after they left the stairwell was a... lobby.
Yes, Le Shiya and the others had expected the thirteenth floor to have the same enormous loop of corridors as the fourteenth, with four long corridors in all.
But this "corridor" had no wards at all. Aside from the motionless nurses standing along the left wall, there was only the empty lobby and the floor-to-ceiling windows along the right. Beyond the windows was undoubtedly the dense fog commonly seen outside Nightmare Game scenarios, separating each scenario from the Nightmare World beneath the Red Moon-when they were newcomers, they had often pulled back the curtains to see the world outside, but after everything they had experienced, they naturally lost that curiosity about the windows.
The entire lobby looked like a lounge for the Newborn Ward, furnished with various sofas and