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

As Chen Mu's figure disappeared from the elevator entrance on the fifth floor.

Qi Xie also let out a soft breath, and his previously slightly hunched and tense body relaxed as he rotated his neck and wrists.

The cracking and popping of bones echoed from his shoulders to his legs.

It doesn't feel like relaxation.

It's like a race car worth hundreds of millions, its engine freed from some kind of restriction, ready to abandon mechanical beauty and reveal its beastly ferocity.

Now you can play freely.

"roar--!"

Several monsters roared as they bypassed Qi Xie, about to chase Chen Mu straight to the fifth floor via the single-level elevator.

They had just rushed onto the elevator when they discovered a rapidly expanding dark shadow looming over them.

Boom-!

A steel coil weighing over ten tons flew through the air like a meteorite, crashing down and mixing it evenly with the elevator debris.

The single-story elevator could not withstand the weight and collapsed.

The seemingly unintelligent monsters fell silent for a rare moment, plunging the entire mall into an eerie stillness.

Boom-!

The silence was broken by the sound of another single-story elevator being crushed by a steel coil.

Qi Xie let out a soft breath, his cheeks flushed slightly, the bulging veins on his forehead slowly receded, he rubbed his wrist, and glanced to the side into the distance.

Such a large shopping mall naturally cannot have only two elevators.

Even if all the enclosed elevators and freight elevators are out of service, there are still eight single-level elevators between the two floors.

However, most of the monsters have now been drawn to him, and the two most recent single-level elevators have also been destroyed.

As for the few cats that sneaked up via the elevator further away, Chen Mu was confident he could handle that himself.

Of course, the premise is...

Qi Xie pondered for a moment, then, without even looking, he raised his hand and grabbed the head of a monster that had attacked him from behind, his five fingers exerting tremendous force.

boom--!

The headless corpse lay on the ground, twitching and writhing, before Qi Xie kicked it away, the terrifying force causing it to explode and disintegrate in mid-air.

Between Qi Xie's blood-stained, slender, pale fingers, he was holding a slug-like insect that was writhing and struggling wildly.

Qi Xie shook the blood off his hands, put the wriggling mollusk in his mouth, and bit down.

Pfft—!

"Oh?"

Qi Xie wiped the blood-red liquid overflowing from the corner of his mouth with his thumb, and a strange smile appeared on his lips:

"It's even cola flavored, hehehe~"

The monsters around them, who were supposed to be devoid of intelligence, suddenly trembled and took a step back.

The next second, ferocious shadow tentacles suddenly rose from beneath Qi Xie's feet, tearing up the surrounding monsters like a meat grinder...

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Fifth floor.

Chen Mu stuffed a grenade into the mouth of a monster that must have been physically enhanced in its previous life, then kicked it off the railing into the courtyard, causing it to explode into pieces in mid-air.

He then quickly took out a sticky, butter-like explosive from his bag and stuck it to a vulnerable part of the elevator in front of him. With his other hand, he took out a detonator from a compartment on the side of his backpack.

"It's all done!"

After he finished doing that, he shouted down at the top of his lungs.

"fry!"

Qi Xie's calm and composed voice came from below.

Without hesitation, Chen Mu pressed the detonator.

Starting from his elevator, four explosions rang out in succession, from near to far, each accompanied by a burst of orange-red flames.

At the same time, Qi Xie jumped off the fourth-floor railing, his figure floating in the air for a while before rising straight to the fifth floor, his entire body shimmering with black light hidden beneath his clothes.

Below him, a number of terrifying monsters were still leaping at him from the railing, while others were pushed out by their companions and fell from the fourth-floor railing, crashing to the first floor like dumplings being dropped into a pot.

"finally……"

"It's finally over... They can't get up here. The narrow staircase will restrict them, preventing them from breaking through the locked escape route by sheer numbers."

Furthermore, there doesn't seem to be enough intelligence to build a human ladder from the fourth floor to the fifth floor.

Overwhelmed with joy at surviving the ordeal, Chen Mu glanced down again and said with a smile:

"Next, we just need to guard against those fragile insects that might fly up, and then stay here until dawn. You can just take me and break a window and fly out."

Qi Xie's gaze did not fall on him, but looked in the distance.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing this, Chen Mu followed Qi Xie's gaze with suspicion and saw that the other party was staring at a tightly closed escape route door.

"Actually, I was just lying to you."

Qi Xie looked at Chen Mu.

"What?!"

Chen Mu was taken aback.

"I don't know if the escape route on the fifth floor is locked or not."

Qi Xie shrugged:

"I just said it casually, but those monsters that shouldn't have much intelligence seemed to really understand and somehow informed all their kind."

They really didn't try to come up through the escape tunnels.

Chen Mu was stunned for a moment, then his expression gradually turned ugly:

"So... they actually possess intelligence? Swarm intelligence? Or is there something behind them that can control and mobilize them?"

"The swarm consciousness is essentially a behavior, not that intelligent. I tend to think of the latter, that there is an intelligent being similar to a hive or a king that can command all the strange insects and the monsters controlled by them."

Qi Xie said:

"Since the intelligent being behind us hasn't made these low-level monsters continue to try to come up, it means it has a better way to deal with us."

After all, if these insects can specialize like food, then logically they could also specialize into other species, such as individuals skilled in single combat, similar to soldier ants.

"But there must be relatively few of these specialized species, right?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile:

"Without a numerical advantage, an insect is still an insect. How much specialization can it achieve...?"

His voice grew softer and softer, and even Qi Xie on the other side showed a look of astonishment.

rumbling...

That was the sound of massive helicopter wings vibrating.

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