The stairs leading to the fifteenth floor were blocked by a fine wire mesh, but it did not look sturdy. Outside the doors on the fourteenth and thirteenth floors, the heat was already more than a human could bear.
In that oppressive silence, a baby's cries drifted eerily into the stairwell. Not just Su Bai, but everyone heard those chilling cries.
Yet no one spoke.
They simply stood in silence, watching their surroundings warily. After all, none of them knew what bizarre, terrifying thing they might encounter if they actually followed the cries.
Xiang Feiyu was standing on the steps at the thirteenth floor, leaning forward to look farther down.
"It's fog." Xiang Feiyu's voice echoed through the narrow stairwell. "You can't see anything down there except thick fog. It should be the same as the fog outside-the area you said we mustn't enter."
Ever since they entered the Nightmare World, the fog seemed to have been invisibly imprisoning them, blocking their escape routes and preventing them from ever truly getting away.
Chi Yan withdrew his gaze and turned toward the emergency exit door in front of him.
It was a thick, solid metal door, with light from the corridor spilling through from behind it.
Yet even the edges of this metal door had warped.
The deformation had not been caused by an impact. Instead, the intense heat outside had slowly twisted the edges, even leaving faint scorch marks that resembled the traces left by a melting candle.
A scorched smell hung in the air.
Su Bai still could not see with his own eyes, but Blood Butterfly's vision projected the scene clearly into his mind. He raised a hand and rubbed his temple to ease the dizziness caused by that strange, overlapping vision.
Clearly, the temperature outside had already