"Give up." Xu Rui looked at Xiang Feiyu, who lay barely conscious on the bed, and lowered his head in dejection. His back sagged with exhaustion, and even his breathing sounded labored. "We're just ordinary humans. How could we possibly deal with something like that? If there really is a god in this world, then we must have been abandoned the moment we were dragged into the Nightmare World, right?"
"I'm sorry," Tian Yue suddenly said beside him.
Xu Rui was utterly exhausted and frozen stiff, the chill seeping into the very marrow of his bones. He didn't have the strength to turn and look at her.
"Maybe joining you in blaming this world and cursing our fate would make you feel better. But I'm sorry..." Tian Yue's voice trembled, almost breaking into sobs as she spoke. "I really... really don't want to give up yet."
She forced her chin up, holding back the tears in her eyes as her emotions unraveled. "If I wanted to give up, I wouldn't have risked my life dragging you all back here... I've still got a pile of items I haven't used! Even if all I can do is throw them, I'll hurl every last one of those damn things at those withered branches. As many as I can!"
"If we clear this game, we can take the information back to the Special Action Group. The veterans there might be able to find a better, safer way to clear it. As long as we spread the methods for clearing each survival game, we can save so many Players." Feng Xuelan's voice had grown dazed, as though she were lost in a pleasant dream.
"We've already done amazingly well, really." The tears on Tian Yue's face froze into ice. "Before I entered this shitty