Rhodes Island does not exist.

"However, since Skadi didn't leave any muddy footprints when she left, it means she must have left before this pile of stuff rotted," the doctor pondered.

The bizarre decay lasted approximately one minute and thirty-eight seconds.

Excluding the time around her death, Skadi had no more than a minute to leave.

In other words, she may have left shortly after her own death.

What made her so anxious?

The doctor stood at the door of room 1002, crouched down, and tried to find traces left by Skadi.

The ground was clean, without any footprints or stains.

However, a shallow and narrow dent extends intermittently from the doorway of 1002, which would likely be invisible if one did not look closely.

The edges of the dent show signs of wear.

This was probably caused by Skadi dragging her greatsword briefly across the ground as she left.

The doctor could even picture the scene of sparks flying everywhere.

So she was indeed in a hurry.

In such a hurry, he didn't even put his greatsword back on his back before dragging himself out of the room.

She must have seen something.

The doctor decided to continue observing along the direction the traces extended.

Sword Mark turned right and arrived at the door of room 1003. He paused for a moment and then continued dragging.

Out of curiosity, the doctor stood up and put his ear close to the door of room 1003.

Apart from the airflow in the corridor, there was no sound.

So he carefully placed his hand on the doorknob and slowly turned it.

The door is unlocked.

The silent room opened as he pulled his right hand outward.

He peered through the gap.

What appeared before him was a surface of water as black as ink.

Room 1002 was less of a room and more of a pool filled with ink.

The container was bottomless due to the murky water, and its calm surface was completely still, as if it existed in isolation from the world.

No one knows how wide or deep this room is, and no one dares to explore what lies hidden beneath the surface of the water.

The doctor even felt that if he looked at the water for even a second longer, he would be sucked in.

"boom."

He closed the door.

Many adventures only require a little curiosity to entice people to take the plunge, but Room 1003 is definitely not one of those adventures.

Because to take an adventure, you first have to survive.

Even Skadi wouldn't dare set foot in that room, so he'd better not.

However, I should note down the location of this special room; it might come in handy later... I hope so.

The doctor continued to follow the direction of the sword mark.

This time, Skadi didn't run to the opposite room, but instead chose to go along the side of room 1003, so her sword mark stopped at the door of room 1005.

It has completely stopped.

There was no further development or turning point.

It seems that Skadi has most likely entered room 1005, but it's unclear whether she's still inside.

If she's not there, it means there's no danger in the room.

If she is still there, it means the situation in the room must be dire, and she herself may even be in danger.

Neither outcome is good for the PhD student.

But if the door isn't opened, he won't know anything.

"Still no sound."

After pressing his ear against the door and receiving only silence, the doctor decided to open the door directly.

The door was still unlocked.

The room was a complete mess.

Without a doubt, room 1005 was an ordinary room, even its furnishings were similar to the one on the fourth floor.

However, compared to my own room, it looks absolutely terrible.

The floorboards were almost entirely chiseled open and torn up. The hard walls were covered with gaping wounds, looking as if they had been trampled by a bunch of bulls with sleds.

What happened here? Was it Skadi who did it?

Just as the question arose in the doctor's mind, a loud bang suddenly came from room 1007 next door.

"boom!"

The heavy security door was flung off and slammed into the corridor wall like a catapult projectile.

The heaven and earth shook violently.

-

Thank you segment.

Thanks for the blade, thank you.

Chapter 27, Part 27: Nobody knows where this thing came from.

The door panel was blown off like a cannonball.

But it wasn't just the door panels that were blown away.

"boom!"

The next moment, a sound louder and more deafening than the slamming of the door came rushing along the cracks in the corridor wall.

That's Skadi.

It is Skadi, who holds a greatsword in her left hand and a pickaxe upside down in her right.

The female hunter appears to have transformed into a dual-wielding warrior.

"Whoosh—"

Fresh, bluish-green blood gushed from her mouth under the pressure of the impact.

It turns out Skadi's blood is blue.

The doctor silently noted down this information, which might not be of much use.

After Skadi was slammed against the wall, she immediately saw the Doctor standing at the door of room 1005 and shouted at him, "Don't just stand there like an idiot, run!"

Even after such a severe impact, her lungs were still able to expel enough air to support her loud voice.

"Boom."

Another loud noise came from room 1007 next door.

The doctor felt as if an elephant was taking a walk in the next room.

"I don't know what happened to you before, but anyway, take this and run... run fast."

Skadi leaned against the cracked wall, straining to muster the strength in her arms, and slid her right-hand pickaxe down the floor toward the Doctor.

The first item on the to-do list... was achieved, in a way that a doctor could never have imagined.

At this moment, Skadi's command both terrified him and made him unwilling to obey.

His fear stemmed from not knowing what kind of strangeness could have put Skadi in such a desperate situation.

His refusal to comply stemmed solely from his desire to save the hunter he had just met.

For some reason, a hunch was stirring within him.

His intuition told him that if he were here, at this moment, and in this place, and abandoned Skadi to save his own life, he might never see her again.

We have to do something.

Something needs to be done...?

The enormous shadow bent down, peering out from the low doorway of room 1007, casting its crimson, ghostly eyes at the Doctor. The sheer oppressive force of that moment froze the Doctor's mind.

It was a humanoid monster.

Its entire body was wrapped in unknown pipes, and it was over two meters long, resembling a walking city wall.

The deformed armor plates were embedded in his flesh, his head was strangely shrunken like a fossil buried for millions of years, and his limbs were as thick as the gnarled roots of an ancient tree.

He was burning with an intense emotion that was invisible yet perceptible.

That emotion is called revenge.

"I've seen him."

A thought flashed through the doctor's mind.

“I’ve seen him before… Although I’ve lost my memory, this intuition can’t be wrong.” He firmly believed it.

As if responding to this intuition, when the burly, humanoid monster peeked out of room 1007, he immediately turned his gaze toward the doctor's location.

It seems he also knows the doctor.

"Hey, he's got his eye on you! Run! Don't worry about me, I'm not that easy to kill!" Skadi warned again, urging the Doctor to leave as soon as possible.

But the doctor shook his head.

"It's okay, I'm not that easy to die."

"Or rather, I still have many lives left, and I can afford to die."

-

However, less than half a minute later, the doctor regretted it.

"What the hell?!"

He had thought that this strange creature, which was known for its strength and size, would lose out in terms of reaction and mobility, but he did not expect that this guy was incredibly agile. No matter how the doctor ran, it could quickly catch up with him and deliver a powerful punch based on its prediction of the doctor's movement.

The doctor had also taken him into the muddy mess in room 1002 and tried to use the swampy, decaying land to hinder his movements.

However, it was completely useless.

To this heavyweight contestant, who was oblivious to filth and moved with a light step, the mud in room 1002 was no different from the flat ground.

These things will only have a one-sided impact on the PhD student, and will ultimately harm him.

"Why is it that after he saw me, he only knows how to chase after me?!"

The doctor scrambled out of room 1002 and closed the door behind him.

"boom!"

But in the next instant, the door followed Skadi's fate and was smashed against the opposite wall.

“I don’t know. Perhaps this anomaly follows some rule,” Skadi said, now able to stand with the aid of her greatsword. “If we can find this rule, then perhaps there’s still a way to deal with it—”

"Dong dong dong dong——"

But before the Doctor could finish listening to Skadi's words, the monster behind him came crashing down on him like a steel tank, its aura overwhelming.

"Hey!"

The doctor bent down and drew his pickaxe, which he held tightly in his right hand, in an arc to the side.

This is the first time he has ever launched an effective attack on this enormous monster since he was being chased.

"Ding!"

However, all that followed the pickaxe handle to him was an incredibly tingling sensation.

It's like touching an electric switch with wet hands.