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

A terrifying roar suddenly exploded, echoing like thunder in the empty underground parking garage.

"Ughhhhhh!!!"

A sharp and mournful howl mingled with the chaotic and dense sound of running, as if countless monsters were going mad, running and roaring at the same time!

As he sprinted at breakneck speed, Chen Mu kept swallowing, his eyes scanning the surroundings, trying to gather any useful information.

"There are at least five or six hundred monsters... Although most of them aren't very dangerous, at this number, we don't need to worry about their quality anymore... Damn it, why are there so many monsters hiding in the underground parking garage?!"

Just then, a middle-aged man hanging from the garage ceiling waited quietly until Chen Mu ran past below. Suddenly, he let out a roar and pounced on Chen Mu.

Without even looking, Chen Mu twisted his body and threw a punch while running, smashing the opponent's head in mid-air and sending him flying.

Just then, he noticed that the other person's clothing was the same combat uniform as the young man behind him.

But because the light was now bright, he also noticed something.

The other person had many bullet holes with congealed blood!

"this!"

Chen Mu's pupils contracted, and his gaze swept over the various monsters in different clothes around him once more.

He discovered that many of them had scars from the battle.

At this moment, countless insects of various shapes and sizes are crawling around in those wounds.

Chen Mu also saw a stick insect inside that looked exactly like a chocolate bar.

"Depend on!!"

Chen Mu gritted his teeth and cursed.

He got it!

He finally understood why each floor of the mall was damaged to varying degrees, and why there was no food or corpses in the food section on the fourth floor.

Some of the survivors of this world, including a small number of military personnel and most ordinary people, came to this mall to try to obtain supplies, just as they had thought after the disaster.

They cleared out the original dangers from the mall, collected the food, and established a base in the underground parking garage.

But they certainly never imagined that one day the noodles they cooked and ate would suddenly burst open their stomachs, and the bread they ate would devour their hearts.

To be honest, Chen Mu felt that no one could have imagined such a hellish way to die.

And so, this sizable group of survivors, after being repeatedly controlled and then killing each other, all died here, becoming corpses controlled by the insects.

The underground parking garage is not like a monster's lair.

It really is a monster's lair!

Even if he didn't come down tonight, there's no guarantee that the monsters in this nest wouldn't come out in droves at any time and drag them back to their nest as prey.

By then, he or the "passerby" would be trapped by the monster that had already surrounded them.

"No, that guy has flown off somewhere now, and I'm stuck here."

Chen Mu gritted his teeth, his face contorted with rage, as he used the "malicious warning" and his fists to knock away the monsters that were chasing him, all the while running towards the escape route he had come down from.

However, when the green fluorescent escape route sign appeared in Chen Mu's eyes, he also saw monsters piled up like a human pyramid blocking the entrance.

Without hesitation, he turned again and ran towards the other side where there were fewer monsters.

Such a large underground parking garage would naturally have more than one escape route.

But when he arrived at the other side and found that Exit 2 was also guarded by a terrifying number of monsters, he couldn't help but feel a sense of despair.

He hadn't expected that the monsters controlled by these insects were actually quite meticulous in their actions, having already secretly controlled all the exits before they surrounded them.

"What should we do...?"

Seeing the monster roaring and chasing after him from all directions, Chen Mu anxiously looked around.

Suddenly, he noticed the closed elevator doors next to him.

Chen Mu's eyes narrowed, and he quickly ran over, simultaneously using the "Evil Soul Druid" to condense a hard stone cone, which he then inserted into the crack in the door.

Then, he gripped the slightly ajar door with both hands and strained with all his might to pry it open, silently chanting to himself:

"Please, don't stop on this floor..."

The elevator is powered on but not unlocked, so it cannot operate.

If the elevator car stops at this floor, then he's doomed.

The relentlessly closing monster would not give him time to break through the roof of the carriage after opening the door.

Fortunately.

As the elevator doors opened, the dark bottom of the elevator shaft came into view.

"God help me!"

Chen Mu's face lit up with joy as he straightened the snakeskin bag that he had been carrying around his waist—even though "Passerby A" wasn't around, he hadn't dared to leave it behind.

If the other party is still at risk of surviving, then going back to settle scores with him would be disastrous.

Fortunately, it only contained some mushrooms, so it wasn't heavy.

Chen Mu tightly tied the opening of the snakeskin bag around his waist with his belt and quickly crawled into the shaft.

The stairwell is a sealed concrete vertical shaft with straight sides, but it has beam grooves, guide rails and buffer zones.

Chen Mu possesses the ability to enhance strength and slow descent, but he has never practiced climbing.

Although you can use these structures to climb upwards, the speed is still relatively slow.

Another problem is that his low-light vision makes it really difficult to see very far up in this almost dark environment.

He actually brought a flashlight, but he didn't have time to take it out now.

Boom-!

Just as he struggled to climb two floors and reached the ground floor, a muffled thud suddenly came from beneath his feet.

Chen Mu looked down sharply and saw that at the elevator on the second basement floor, monsters surged in like a tide, layer upon layer, pushing and shoving each other as they climbed up the elevator shaft. Countless roars echoed in the gloomy elevator shaft, making Chen Mu's ears throb with pain.

"Depend on!!!"

Chen Mu hadn't expected these things to climb the wall faster than him, so he could only grit his teeth, avoid looking down, and desperately climb upwards.

In the quiet, dark space, time seemed to lose its meaning.

The roars and crashes of the monsters echoed in Chen Mu's ears, along with the rapid, drum-like pounding of his own heart.

He was almost numb, and didn't even know how long he had been climbing. He only felt that his limbs were just mechanically repeating the act of climbing the stairs as if it were an instinct.

But soon, he stopped, looked at the deep black shadow above his head, and fell into despair once again.

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