Chapter 99: Forbidden zone

Jonathan lifted his head and saw Rover standing still. In front of him, the statue had vanished, nowhere to be seen.

Blood, the souls seated on the benches, the piano music, everything had disappeared. The space fell into a suffocating silence.

Jonathan looked around. After confirming there was no longer any danger, he tried to move closer to Rover.

But the chain was too short. When he was less than 20cm from Rover, he couldn’t move any further.

With no other choice, Jonathan could only shout, “Rover! Rover!”

Rover remained motionless, as if he had turned to stone.

“Damn it!” Jonathan muttered. “How the hell do we get out of this freaky place now?”

“Rover! Motherfucker! Are you dead?!”

“Rover!”

Jonathan fell into complete despair. If no one could reach this place and Rover didn’t wake up, then even if every single monster here died, it would be meaningless. He still wouldn’t be able to escape.

“Rover!” Jonathan snapped again, furious.

“I heard you!” Rover suddenly moved, then let out a hiccup.

“Huk!”

It sounded like he’d eaten too much and had to hiccup. He let out a long breath, glanced at Jonathan, and said coldly, “Useless!”

Jonathan: “…”

“Motherfucker! Say that again if you’ve got the guts!”

“Useless! Useless! Useless!” Rover, of course, wasn’t afraid at all, shouting it repeatedly.

Jonathan’s face flushed red with rage, but then, thinking about how he was still tied up here, he could only swallow his pointless pride, his voice carrying a hint of pleading.

“Let me go. I can give you more gold coins and other things.”

Rover curled his lip. “You think I’m an idiot? Right now I kill you, then take your room. Your stuff becomes mine.”

“You…” Jonathan ground his teeth, but Rover was right. He couldn’t refute it.

“I… I’ve distributed the items I own to my [Tenants]. If you kill me, they’ll gain their freedom and immediately run away. In the end, you won’t get a damn thing.

Hearing that, Rover wasn’t surprised. After all, for Jonathan to have survived until now, he wasn’t a fool. Keeping a few trump cards to preserve his life was only natural.

Besides, he had no intention of killing Jonathan.

Rover grabbed the chain, then yanked hard.

Clang!

The chain snapped instantly and fell to the floor.

Jonathan was a little stunned. He hadn’t expected Rover to save him on his own initiative without demanding anything in return.

Rover added one more line, wanting to provoke Jonathan a bit. “You’re too weak. Killing you wouldn’t mean anything anyway.”

“You…” Jonathan clenched his teeth, but thinking about how Rover had just saved him, he could only stay silent.

Crack!

At that moment, the wall behind where the statue had been suddenly split apart, revealing a narrow, dark passageway.

Rover looked at Jonathan, frowning. “Stay here!”

Jonathan let out a sigh and nodded. He had no intention of fighting Rover over who completed the mission anymore. Right now, he just wanted to get out of this damn mission as soon as possible.

Rover entered the passage, and the wall closed again.

Right after that, the church doors opened once more, and Nanoe and Nick rushed inside.

When Nanoe saw Jonathan, she immediately asked anxiously, “Where is he?”

Hearing Nanoe’s concern for Rover made Jonathan feel extremely uncomfortable, but in the end, he still recounted everything that had happened, of course, from his own point of view.

Finally, he said, “Let’s wait a bit. Maybe he’ll be back soon.”

Nanoe and Nick nodded.

….

“How much longer do we have to wait?” Nick finally lost patience. “It’s been almost an hour. What if he died in there?”

Crack!

The moment Nick finished, a chill washed over him, making him shudder. Jonathan didn’t dare say a word, his body edging back slightly.

Nick turned his head and saw the icy muzzle of a gun aimed at him. His heart trembled as he stammered, “Y-you put the gun down first. I mean, I just… I…”

He stuttered for a long time and still didn’t know what he was supposed to say.

Nanoe slowly lowered the gun. Her eyes were filled with coldness, and her indifferent voice rang out, “If I hear you insulting him or saying anything unlucky about him again, I won’t mind leaving the two of you here forever.”

Nick shuddered, clenched his jaw, and silently swore that sooner or later he would find a gun too.

In missions like this, a gun was the most powerful weapon.

Jonathan glanced at Nanoe and said softly, “Nanoe, about my proposal, do you want to reconsider?”

Nanoe said coldly, “Jonathan, I don’t want to hear you mention that ever again. If you keep quiet, you’ll still be my ally. If you keep talking, I can also gift you a piece of candy.”

Jonathan shivered. Of course, he knew exactly what kind of “candy” Nanoe meant.

[Ding! Congratulations, you have successfully completed the mission. Top contributor: Rover. Everyone will be transported to the bus stop in 10 minutes.]

“What?!” Nick jolted when he saw the notification panel appear in front of him.

Jonathan let out a sigh, both exhausted and disappointed, yet also relieved to finally be freed from this godforsaken place.

Nanoe, on the other hand, was ecstatic. Her face flushed with excitement, her eyes brimming with joy as if she were the one who had completed the mission this time.

Seeing this, Jonathan felt a brief stab of pain, but then he shook his head and sighed, forcing himself not to care anymore.

….

“Wow!”

In the room full of Spider-Men from earlier, John sat on the back of the gigantic twelve-legged spider, his legs swinging, utterly relaxed as he looked at the notification panel that had just appeared in front of him.

[Congratulations, you have successfully completed the mission. Top contributor: Rover. Everyone will be transported to the bus stop in 10 minutes.]

He no longer wore that indifferent or weary expression. Instead, there was a smile on his face, friendly yet hollow, so cold that anyone who saw it would feel like it was the smile of a mask.

He said, “As expected… I wasn’t wrong. He’s one of the Saviors, but I need to observe a while longer. That way, I’ll be more certain.”

Krit!! Krit!!

The spider he was sitting on twitched slightly, and an extremely agonized sound came from its mouth.

All around, the entire swarm of Spider-Men had completely vanished, leaving only it behind.

John lightly patted its head and laughed. “Don’t worry, you’ve got time. You can reproduce more, hahahaha…”

….

In a dim, freezing room like a tunnel beneath this psychiatric hospital.

By the weak light, the mottled brick walls could be seen, smeared with countless bloodstains, with bits of minced flesh still stuck to them.

The deeper one went, the more horrifying things appeared.

At this point, on the walls there weren’t only bloodstains, but also the corpses of monsters with grotesque shapes, pinned to the wall by sharp spikes.

They weren’t dead, but no matter how violently they struggled, they couldn’t break free from those spikes.

At the end of the tunnel, a beautiful figure with curves seductive to the extreme sat atop a massive corpse like a bear, over three meters tall.

However, that bizarre creature was now fixed to the ground by countless sharp spikes, unable to move.

It had four eyes on its head, all glowing red, staring at the beautiful figure sitting on it with seething hatred.

That’s right, it was Leng Yan.

She sat with her legs crossed, the high-slit dress revealing her long, slender legs, proportions so perfect they looked like they’d been carved by the most precise laser cutter in the world.

Leng Yan toyed with a sharp spike in her hand, her gaze on the notification panel displayed before her, and said softly, “Ah! The little man truly didn’t disappoint me.”

She licked her lips, the greed in her eyes almost spilling out.

….

Ten minutes later, at the bus stop in front of the psychiatric hospital gate.

Everyone was teleported here. There had been twelve people at the start, but now only seven remained: Leng Yan, Nanoe, Rover, Morie, Nick, Jonathan, and the Catgirl, Jonathan’s [Tenant].

At this moment, when they saw Rover, everyone’s gaze instantly turned a little strange.

Only Nanoe and Morie were overjoyed.

Rover hurried over to Morie and asked softly, “Are you okay? Did you run into any danger?”

Morie smiled and shook her head. She lightly tapped the air with her finger, and an info panel appeared. She pointed at it and said, “Rover, I’m Rank 2.”

Hearing that, Rover smiled and nodded, then gently ruffled her hair.

Morie sat in her wheelchair, puffed out her cheeks, and said irritably, “Don’t treat me like a kid!”

Rover chuckled. “Of course. How could I treat you like a kid, especially that little mouth of yours…”

When Morie heard that, her face flushed red. Of course, she knew exactly what Rover was talking about.

She didn’t say anything else. With so many people here, she was so embarrassed she wanted to crawl into a hole and hide.

The people standing around looked at Rover, Nanoe, and Morie with eyes full of envy, all except Leng Yan.

No matter how they thought about it, they couldn’t figure out why only their group had no one die. In fact, it even looked like clearing this mission had been easy for them.

After all, twelve people had entered this place, yet now only seven remained. Five had died.

The mortality rate was nearly 50%, yet Rover’s group was still intact, and no one was even seriously injured. And in his group, Morie was even sitting in a wheelchair.

That’s right, a girl in a wheelchair, yet she hadn’t been hurt at all. On the contrary, she had taken second place.

Meanwhile, Jonathan had lost an arm. Nick wasn’t seriously hurt, but his body was covered in countless scratches.

The Catgirl had had one ear and her cat tail torn off, and one eye was already gone, miserable beyond miserable.

Except for Leng Yan, everyone here realized that… Room 2705 had become a forbidden zone in their hearts.

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