Warning! The evil god's minions are invading the eerie dungeon.

Ding ding ding...

In the empty and quiet shopping mall, a faint, ethereal, and melodious piano sound echoed.

Imagine a pitch-black night, a huge shopping mall that stretches as far as the eye can see, brightly lit, yet you can't see anything outside the windows.

In this silence so profound that even your breath echoes, you find yourself alone in a shopping mall so quiet it makes you wonder if something is hidden there.

One second your companion, who was chatting and laughing with you, disappeared within arm's reach; the next second, a faint, melodious piano sound suddenly echoed, as if something unseen was wandering throughout the mall, humming a tune.

"Are you kidding me...?"

Cold sweat trickled down Chen Mu's forehead.

This scene was both unexpected and yet perfectly logical to him.

Because that's what's eerie.

This is an existence that humanity has yet to fully comprehend. All of humanity's fantasies and speculations about disasters are of little reference value in the face of it.

Chen Mu still remembered that he was in a dungeon called "Dreamland of the Underworld".

The dungeon had ten players, but by the middle of the game, only five remained.

Chen Mu and the remaining four walked across a stone staircase hidden in the misty white fog, floating on the lake.

There were five people, including Chen Mu, when they stepped into the fog; there were six when they came out.

Chen Mu didn't recognize any of the remaining five people.

He was the only one who survived that instance.

The current scene terrified him even more than that nightmarish dungeon.

Because he couldn't imagine what could make the Silent Hunter, whose strength far surpassed his own, disappear silently from within two meters of him, without even making a sound.

"Calm down...think about it...why was he the one who attacked, and not me..."

Chen Mu gritted his teeth, forcing himself to calm down:

"We both ate food, and I should be the weaker one, so why am I the one left here instead of him?"

For a fleeting moment, he couldn't help but wonder if it was actually him who had died, and if he had already arrived in the afterlife.

Ding ding ding...

The ethereal piano music brought Chen Mu back to his senses.

This made him realize something was wrong.

"The music wasn't coming from upstairs..."

Chen Mu looked down at his feet:

"It's downstairs..."

He stood there, hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and walked downstairs.

While having a fearless and powerful companion is a good thing, he is not a useless burden who can't do anything without his companion.

Even if he didn't know where the {Silent Hunter} had disappeared to, he still had to go down and investigate the anomalies that had appeared in the shop.

If this is a harbinger of danger, he can nip it in the bud or devise strategies to avoid and defend himself before the danger escalates.

Because the elevators that quickly go up and down floors require a specific key or electronic key to unlock and start each time they are powered on and restarted, Chen Mu can only cautiously walk downstairs via single-floor elevators.

The closer one gets to the ground floor, the clearer the ethereal piano music becomes.

As they approached the first floor, Chen Mu was able to pinpoint the source of the melodious piano music.

"The underground level?"

Chen Mu stared at his feet in confusion.

He remembered that the mall also had two underground levels, which seemed to be underground parking garages.

And only here could he discern that the echoing piano music was actually the sound of several pianos playing together.

The sound was created by at least three or four pianos playing at the same time.

This also made Chen Mu even more puzzled.

Why is there a piano in the underground parking garage?

Are there still so many pianos?

After thinking it over for a moment, he decided to go down and take a look.

Of course, he hadn't forgotten his experience in the music room on the fifth floor, and he had also prepared a contingency plan for the underground area to be a trap as well.

He took several cans containing strangely colored liquids off his tactical belt and gulped them all down.

Some of these drugs gave him heightened perception, some gave him better vision in low-light environments, and others enhanced his speed.

At the same time, a tall, illusory figure appeared behind him.

The figure had a very strong upper body; even though it was an illusory shadow, its imposing size was still evident.

But his lower body is rather ordinary.

The figure slowly merged into Chen Mu's body, causing his physique to undergo a significant enhancement, his muscles to swell, and his strength to increase greatly.

But there was no change in his legs.

This is why Chen Mu prepared a potion that only enhances speed and not strength.

For this reason, he complained more than once, why do neither ghosts nor humans like to train legs when they work out?

Composing himself and making adequate preparations, he cautiously avoided the elevator and instead made his way down the emergency staircase that connected all the floors of the mall.

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at the same time.

A consciousness drifted within it, initially somewhat dazed and confused.

This is a very subtle state. It is aware that it has a physical body, can feel its body, and can even sense the suffocation caused by the lack of oxygen in this space.

However, it is temporarily unable to control its body, feeling like a vegetative person who has lost control of its nerves but still has sensation.

Logically, it shouldn't be in such a daze, but part of its consciousness is in its body and part is in this darkness, so thinking is somewhat difficult.

Gradually, it developed the idea of ​​trying to unite.

The moment that thought crossed my mind.

[Imagination] is activated.

Driven by this skill that condenses fantasy into reality, the consciousness gradually coalesced in the darkness, allowing the thoughts to become complete.

"We need to get out."

The thought crossed my mind the next second.

In front of the glass window where Qi Xie and Chen Mu were originally.

In the corner, a shadow suddenly seemed to come alive and wriggled a few times before struggling to open several blood-red vertical eyes.

After this step, the shadow became noticeably more active and in control.

Then, a slender, white hand with distinct knuckles suddenly reached out from the center, pressed down on the ground beside it, and pushed the body out of the shadows.

A handsome young man emerged from the shadows, breathing slightly heavily, his pupils somewhat unfocused and vacant.

The shadow with its blood-red vertical eyes returned to the youth's feet, wriggled again, and became like a normal shadow.

As consciousness returned.

The young man's pupils suddenly narrowed, becoming sharp.

"This is... the power of the Lord..."

He uttered a sentence in a low voice, somewhat incredulously.

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