Are you kidding me?! The boss of the Hell Dungeon is a loli!

Jiang Luo calculated that the amount of fear points he could obtain wouldn't even be enough to fill a gap between his teeth.

Anyway, it won't be much more.

She rolled her eyes and reached into her pocket.

I took out a new strawberry lollipop, unwrapped it, and popped it into my mouth. The sweetness spread across my tongue, and the anger I felt from the misinterpretation vanished instantly.

Lin Xiao and Han Ya can be ignored for now; given their skill level, they pose no threat whatsoever in this beginner dungeon.

As for that ridiculous rule about not being able to attack players with keys, Jiang Luo didn't care at all.

The rules only say you can't attack first, but they don't say you can't steal keys. Once she's stuffed all the brass keys at the front desk into her pocket, killing whoever she wants is just a matter of a word.

She reached out and touched the bedside table, and sure enough, she found a hard plastic room key card with the number 302 printed in red, its edges worn white.

Jiang Luo twirled the room key in her hand twice, then opened the door and went out.

The mist in the corridor sensed the ominous aura emanating from her and retreated like mice seeing a cat, barely managing to touch the hem of her skirt.

Her black leather shoes made no sound on the carpet. As she passed room 301, she heard two girls inside crying quietly, saying that they had just seen a woman in a red dress standing at the top of the stairs, her feet not touching the ground.

Jiang Luo pursed her lips.

What kind of woman in the red dress is this? This lousy hotel's original boss is only this capable. When he sees her later, he'll probably kneel down and call her "boss."

She walked to the door of 303, raised her hand to knock, when a bell suddenly rang from the front desk downstairs.

The copper bells jingled crisply, their sound particularly clear in the empty inn.

Then came a boy's trembling voice, his words incoherent, drifting up from the direction of the front desk.

"Excuse me, is anyone here? We received a text message and are checking in..."

Jiang Luo raised an eyebrow and leaned on the corridor railing to look down.

Three students in high school uniforms stood at the front desk, clutching the plastic flashlights that were given out in the newbie dungeon. The beams of light swayed back and forth. One of the girls, with her hair in a ponytail, had a face as white as paper. She was gripping the sleeve of the boy next to her so tightly that her knuckles were turning blue.

Oh, so it's a new player who just joined the game.

Jiang Luo leaned against the railing, twirling the lollipop in her mouth to reveal two sharp, white teeth.

She waved the plastic room key in her hand, her black leather shoes tapping twice on the floor. Just as she was about to turn around and walk towards the stairwell, the door to room 302 behind her suddenly creaked open by itself.

A cold, foul-smelling wind blew out of the room and wrapped around her ankles.

……

On the other side, on the covered bridge in the main city of the Senate, the withered old man was still lying on the ground, unconscious and peaceful. Several low-ranking ghosts on patrol saw a little boy shrouded in shadow standing at the entrance of the covered bridge. They were so frightened that they didn't even have the courage to go forward and turned around and ran towards the main control room.

When Shura tore open the spatial rift and fell down, the hem of his gray robe was still covered with holes caused by the spatial turbulence.

He was just in the West District urging the collection of crystals when he suddenly sensed the restrictive fluctuations in the Senate's control room. The defensive rule that he had personally set up shattered cleanly and decisively, without even triggering a warning.

Where is the withered old man?

He glanced at the covered bridge and saw the skeleton lying on the ground; his temples throbbed.

Where are they?

The low-ranking patrolman suddenly knelt down, his finger trembling as he pointed towards the gate of the restricted area, unable to speak coherently.

"Just now, a little white-haired girl, with a few subordinates, knocked out Lord Skeleton and entered... entered the forbidden area..."

A little white-haired girl?

Shura's mind went blank.

Jiangluo!

He rushed to the entrance of the restricted area like a madman. The barrier door he had personally set up was wide open. The main control screen inside was half broken, the red light of the teleportation platform was still flashing, and the core security lock was charred black by the calamity patterns.

broken!

He rushed in and pressed a couple of buttons on the main control panel. The screen jumped around for a while, displaying a bunch of gibberish.

The central control room connects to the teleportation anchors of all instances in the entire bizarre world. The security locks have been burned out, and all anchors are randomly redirected. People who were just standing within the teleportation platform's range will be randomly thrown into any instance.

No, that's not the worst.

Shura's hand rested on the bottommost hidden compartment of the main control panel. The lock on the compartment was broken, and it was empty.

The sealing plate that sealed the source of pollution is gone.

That was the source of the abyss pollution that Jiang Juechen sealed away during the Twilight Battle a hundred years ago. It was the core polluted consciousness that the Thousand-Eyed Demon God had released back then, and it had no physical form.

At that time, the Senate could only rely on the rules of the dungeon to seal him away. Once he escaped, the rules of the entire dungeon in the strange world would be corrupted, players would be slaughtered indiscriminately, and even low-level strange creatures would be corrupted into mindless monsters.

To contain this thing, they deliberately hid the sealing disk at the bottom of the control room, which was connected to a random instance anchor point. As long as no one touched the security lock in the control room, the source of contamination would always randomly jump to different E-level instances and would never be able to find a fixed location.

Jiang Luo, however, immediately burned the security lock and triggered a random teleportation.

"Someone come here!"

Shura's voice changed tone. Herman and Moen, who were guarding the entrance to the penalty area, rushed in and turned pale when they saw the shattered screen on the ground.

"Sir, what's wrong?"

"Immediately seal off all dungeon teleportation channels and investigate any abnormal energy fluctuations in all E-rank dungeons." Shura kicked over the server rack next to him, which crashed to the ground and emitted black smoke. "That little girl from the Calamity Star has been randomly teleported to an E-rank dungeon, and the sealing disk went in with her."

Herman paused for a moment.

"It's just an E-rank dungeon? With Lord Jiang Luo's SSS-rank strength, getting out will be a piece of cake."

"You don't know anything!"

Shura was so angry that the veins on his forehead throbbed. He reached out and slapped Herman across the face, sending him staggering back three steps.

"The source of contamination is sealed inside! That thing is most adept at devouring the source of power. Jiang Luo has just inherited the source of calamity, and her foundation is still unstable. If the source of contamination takes advantage of this weakness and corrupts the source of calamity, the entire strange world will be destroyed along with her!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the remaining half of the screen on the main control panel suddenly jumped, and a red alarm box popped up.

An abnormal SSS-level energy fluctuation has been detected in the E-level dungeon "Terror Inn".

[Detection indicates loosening of the seal on the source of contamination]

[Replication rules have been detected being rewritten]

Shura stared at the words "Horror Hotel" on the screen, his fingers trembling.

"Oh no..."

Outside the restricted area, Shadow and Jiang Xiaobai hid in the shadows of a corner.

They were secretly observing everything inside.

Jiang Xiaobai poked his head out and looked curiously at the shadow.

"Little Shadow, what's wrong with your older sister?"

Shadow shook his head. "I don't know. We can only wait now."

"Why, Xiaobai wants to eat them?"

"Mom's presence has vanished; we still need to rely on Shura to find her."

"All right……"

Jiang Xiaobai disappeared back into the shadows.

Shadow stared at the button flashing red in the control room, a strange look flashing in his eyes.