Am I going to be controlled by the players too?

Arriving above the hospital, Cheng Cheng looked reluctantly at the blood-stained maple forest, black flames igniting in his hand, seemingly not yet fully satisfied with the heat.

After all, those are all valuable experience points! You'll never find such a monster-rich treasure trove again!

"boom--!"

Without further ado, Cheng Cheng set the maple forest ahead ablaze!

Impatient with the slow fire, they resorted to lightning strikes and firearms; purple lightning crackled into streaks of celestial fire; countless bullets shot from their palms, blasting the maple forest to pieces. Freya, lacking sufficient magic, could only add a final wind spell to fuel the fire. In no time, the maple forest within a ten-mile radius was reduced to ashes!

Flames shot into the sky, turning half the sky black, thick smoke billowed, and news of experience points increasing kept coming.

In just a few minutes, Sylvia reached level 45; Freya also gained a lot of experience from Cheng Cheng and climbed to level 43.

Seeing that he hadn't had enough of the burning, Cheng Cheng wanted to continue, but was stopped by his teammate who was about to take off: "Boss, I advise you not to burn anymore."

"what happened?"

"Don't underestimate these individual maple trees... their roots are all connected. The entire maple tree on the fourteenth floor is made up of hair growing from a super-powerful boss. Otherwise, how could it have the strength to capture three Gold Saints?"

"Boss, you've burned about ten miles, that's enough. If this monster wakes up, we'll really never get out!"

"Damn, why didn't you say something so important earlier?" Cheng Cheng sighed. "How did you conduct your intelligence gathering?"

"Hehe, sorry..." The teammate scratched his head sheepishly.

Li Xianyu, who was standing nearby, quickly advised, "Let's go quickly, Sylvia. It's too dangerous here. I don't want to stay any longer!"

Is that so... Since everyone says so, Cheng Cheng didn't insist and extinguished the fire in his hand.

The group re-entered the hospital and easily found the operating room that was in use.

However, just before opening the door, Cheng Cheng turned his head, his gaze sweeping across everyone's faces, and then said, "Just in case, everyone should introduce yourselves and your positions in the group, check each other's memories, and see if there are any contradictions."

Everything on this floor felt eerie to Cheng Cheng—although the initial attempts to alter his perceptions had no effect on him, the disappearance of his teammates one by one and the forced alteration of his own memories truly terrified him.

“Start with me—Sylvia, the swordswoman, in charge of attacking and finishing off the enemies.”

"Freya, a mage, is responsible for ranged attacks, team buffs, and healing."

"Li Xianyu, necromancer, is responsible for attrition, control, and defense."

"Paul, the swordsman, is responsible for being the second damage dealer and the second defense."

"Cuckoo, a thief, is in charge of intelligence, exploration, and logistics."

After checking his memory and confirming that none of the five people had been missed, Cheng Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and completely relaxed.

Thankfully, no one was missing, and the ordeal on the fourteenth floor is finally over.

Chapter 81, I watched another episode.

The fifteenth floor, the battlefield.

Cheng Cheng pushed open the iron gate.

Behind the door was a makeshift operating room. White operating lights illuminated the room, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of disinfectant.

A military doctor was bent over on the operating table, holding a hemostat in his hand. A nurse next to him was carrying a tray with several pieces of bone that had just been removed. A soldier lay on the bed, his face mostly covered by an oxygen mask, his exposed skin as white as paper, and his chest wrapped in thick bandages.

The military doctor heard the door open but didn't even look up: "Don't come in during surgery..."

He looked up and saw Cheng Cheng and the others pushing open the door, his brows furrowing into a knot.

"Wait, who are you? Did you come in from the fourteenth floor?" He threw the hemostat in his hand onto the tray. "Non-military personnel are prohibited from entering the fifteenth floor. Haven't you read the law?"

He shouted towards the door, "Guards! Arrest them!"

Two soldiers rushed in from the corridor, guns at the ready, muzzles pointed at Cheng Cheng.

Cheng Cheng silently activated his Sacred Domain.

The two soldiers' fingers froze on the triggers, the gun barrels stopping at the edge of the sanctuary, as if they had hit an invisible wall.

"Gold tier?"

The military doctor's expression changed, and his Adam's apple bobbed: "...You wait here, I'll go report to the leadership."

With that, he turned and went into the inner room.

Hurried footsteps echoed down the corridor, and soon a middle-aged man in a dark green military uniform emerged, his epaulettes adorned with a gold star.

He walked up to Cheng Cheng, looked him up and down, then stood at attention and saluted.

"Gentlemen, please follow me."

He stepped aside to make way, gesturing towards the depths of the corridor.

The corridor was long, the fluorescent lights humming from the ceiling, and every few steps there was a tightly closed iron door, each marked with a number. The officer walked at the front, Cheng Cheng followed behind him, and the others lined up in order.

The cuckoo came up from behind, its head close to Cheng Cheng's ear, its breath tickling his neck.

"Boss, let me tell you about the situation here." Her voice was very low. "There are a total of 200,000 Kingdom troops stationed on the fifteenth floor. Among them, there are 800 Silver-rank officers, whose ranks are generally from captain to lieutenant colonel. There are seven Gold-rank generals - three colonels, two brigadier generals, one major general and one lieutenant general."

She paused, then gestured with her finger in the air:

"The kingdom has only three generals: one is the five-star general, the sword saint Karen, who guards the entire territory with the legendary rank; the other two are four-star generals who are at the peak of the gold level, guarding the border and overseas colonial military bases respectively."

Cheng Cheng nodded.

“Don’t be fooled by the lack of gold here; each one is incredibly powerful,” Bugu continued. “After all, the dungeons are the easiest places to encounter demons, and half of the kingdom’s fire-breeding forces are controlled by officers of various ranks. In terms of quantity, they’re probably no less than the Theocracy, only slightly less in quality.”

Cheng Cheng nodded again, indicating that he understood.

Based on Bugu's subsequent description, Cheng Cheng roughly understood the situation on the fifteenth floor—

Outside the military camp on this level, yellow sand swirls everywhere, and monsters roam the land. Every so often, a "beast tide" occurs—tens of thousands of monsters charge towards the kingdom's stronghold. Each battle results in the deaths of thousands, but also brings huge profits—the monsters' pelts, flesh, and cubs can all be sold for high prices in the real world on the surface.

As for how to get to the next level... you need to kill all the monsters on that entire level!

Of course, besides going to the next level, you can also access other levels in some way—by jumping into the lake in the desert oasis, you can go to the sixth level, "Cave of Sorrow and Rain".

Therefore, the Kingdom's mission is to occupy and defend the various oases within the fifteenth floor, resist the beast tide, and prevent demons from cutting out and escaping the dungeon to endanger reality.

Of course, there will still be some that slip through the net, or some that are breached.

This is why there is a chance of encountering demons before the fifteenth floor—of course, the kingdom doesn't have the power to control all floors, so the Adventurers' Guild serves as a supplement.

"Cuckoo, you know so much..."

Listening to the girl's introduction, Cheng Cheng couldn't help but sigh, "It's a good thing you were here, it avoided a lot of trouble."

The same thing happened on the fourteenth floor. If Bugu hadn't reminded me to burn it, it would have been too late to rescue Li Xianyu. In the end, if Bugu hadn't reminded me to burn the entire floor, I probably would have awakened that super-powerful BOSS, and the game might have already been rolled back.

"Hehe~"

Bugu was a little embarrassed by the praise, her cheeks flushing slightly: "My job is intelligence gathering and logistics, it's just my duty!"

is it?

Cheng Cheng subconsciously looked at the girl beside him.

The girl was about the age of a junior high school student, with short blue-gray hair, wearing a simple and stylish white jacket, a black short tank top and skirt, and her skin on her waist and abdomen was dazzlingly white.

The mesh inner layer peeking out from the neckline adds a touch of nonchalant sexiness, giving the originally cool style a hint of eroticism.

It's strange, we've been teammates for so long, how come I only just realized that she fits my ideal type?

After thinking it over carefully, Cheng Cheng shook his head.

Maybe it's because my aesthetic sense is too diverse, I like all sorts of things, from loli girls and tomboys to mature women, elves, beast girls, dragon girls, JKJCJSJJ, Fury, male girls, slimes, and giant mushrooms... It seems like there's no one I don't like.

Noticing Cheng Cheng's gaze, the girl looked up, her blue-purple eyes narrowing into two crescent moons. She smiled playfully at Cheng Cheng, revealing two adorable little tiger teeth.

"What are you still standing there for, boss? Have you finally fallen for me?"

Cheng Cheng looked confused for a moment, then shook his head: "It's nothing, let's keep going."

"Hehe~"

Bugu proudly gave Freya a peace sign behind her.

The cat that steals fish...

Freya gritted her teeth, her face full of indignation.

Deep down, Sylvia also felt a slight sense of unease: "Strange, why does it feel like my 'cat-stealing radar' has jumped?"

"But Bugu is clearly an old teammate, and she doesn't even know about Cheng Cheng's existence... I guess I'm overthinking it."

…………

soon.

At the end of the corridor, the officer pushed open an iron door.

Behind the door was an office, not large, with a desk, a filing cabinet, and a map hanging on the wall, covered with red and blue markings.

A woman sat behind a desk, wearing a dark green military uniform with two gold stars on her epaulets; she had short blonde hair, sharp eyes, and a pursed mouth, like a drawn sword.

She saw Cheng Cheng and the others, her expression indifferent, a cold smile playing on her lips:

"Ah, it's Sylvia."

Navel.

The chief disciple of Sword Saint Karen, a lieutenant general of the kingdom, the highest-ranking general of the Dungeon Kingdom Army, and one of the candidates for queen.

While Harari and Liu Ruyan were campaigning for votes everywhere, the queen candidate remained in the dungeon every day, commanding the army in the war against monsters, seemingly uninterested in the throne.

“I didn’t expect you to have already reached the Gold rank… If I remember correctly, you weren’t even an adult yet.” Navel leaned back in her chair, tapping her fingers twice on the table. “What a genius.”

She gestured with her chin toward the adjutant beside her, who then brought over a few chairs and some tea.

Navel picked up her teacup, took a sip, and glanced at Cheng Cheng's face, then at Freya, Li Xianyu, Paul, and Bugu.

“Five Gold Saints… Lady Vilette actually has such a powerful force hidden away, yet she never shows it to anyone.” She put down her teacup, her finger slowly tracing circles on the rim. “If Lady Vilette’s justice weren’t known throughout the world, I would have thought she was plotting a rebellion.”

Why does this person speak with such a strong sense of hostility?

Cheng Cheng frowned and said, "We are here on the orders of the Holy Maiden to deal with the remnants of the Primordial God Cult. You should have already been notified."

"That is indeed the case."

Navel took a sip of tea, not even lifting her eyelids, and asked instead, "I heard that the Holy Maiden intends to push you to run for Queen... Ha, putting aside that dead Liu Ruyan, you are indeed more qualified to compete with me than that good-for-nothing Harari."

Cheng Cheng understood why this woman was so rude to him—