162: Chapter 162 Abandoned Unfinished Building 15

Receiving Luo Yuejian's cold gaze, the Girl in Pink Jeans knew that Luo Yuejian meant for her to jump first.

But the Girl in Pink Jeans did not move.

Mainly, she didn't dare to.

During her school physical fitness tests, she had never even managed a standing long jump of 1.5 meters. Thus, she lacked any confidence at this moment, terrified that she wouldn't make it to the iron railing on the other side and would fall directly to her death.

She hesitated, trying several times but still not daring to jump. She truly didn't have the courage...

Seeing the Girl in Pink Jeans hesitate and not dare to jump, Luo Yuejian's eyes practically lit up.

This move was exactly what she wanted!

Luo Yuejian wished the Girl in Pink Jeans would continue to dawdle, leaving her with plenty of time to wait for her death.

However, seeing the Girl in Pink Jeans hesitate there, the Messy-Haired Man decisively lent his item to her.

He had the Girl in Pink Jeans do what he had done earlier—hook one end of the grappling hook to the doorknob and tie the other end around her waist.

With this layer of safety protection, the Girl in Pink Jeans finally gathered her courage, took a running start, and leaped across.

With a running start, the distance the Girl in Pink Jeans jumped was much further than she had imagined.

She successfully grabbed the iron railing, a hint of excitement appearing on her face, and turned back to say to Luo Yuejian, "Quick, come over! The ceiling is about to collapse!"

Luo Yuejian remained expressionless, thinking to herself that she was only dawdling precisely because it was about to collapse.

Yet, while she was still hesitating, the system in her mind had already started buzzing with alarms.

Helpless, she had no choice but to leap over lightly as well.

Just a few seconds after she jumped over, the door behind them suddenly slammed shut in an instant.

With a loud bang, the players were instantly startled.

After seeing what happened, the Tattooed Man couldn't help but curse, "Holy crap, thank goodness we all jumped over. If we hadn't made it out in time, we'd definitely be stuck here waiting for this floor to collapse!"

But time was of the essence, so they didn't waste any words and hurried downstairs.

At this moment, the players didn't dare to step on the stairs below. After all, nobody knew if the steps below would collapse directly like the ones they had tested earlier.

So, the players clung to the iron railing, carefully climbing down step by step by stepping on the horizontal bars at the bottom of the railing.

After climbing down two or three floors, the player below suddenly stopped moving.

The Tattooed Man was the first to lose his patience and asked, "Why did you stop? Did something happen down there?"

The Messy-Haired Man's strained voice came from below: "Below... there's no way forward below..."

"What do you mean? What do you mean there's no way forward?" The Tattooed Man was clearly startled and asked hurriedly.

The Man in Floral Boxer Shorts shouted, "It means the space below is empty! The stairs are gone, and the iron railing is gone too! We're trapped!"

Hearing this, the players above who couldn't see the situation below were all dumbfounded.

The Gentle Man with Glasses and the Tattooed Man hurriedly strained their necks to look down. Only through the gaps between the stairs did they finally see the situation below clearly.

When the floor near their doorway collapsed earlier, the Gentle Man with Glasses had felt that something was off, because normal buildings should have floor after floor.

After the floor they were on collapsed, logically, what was revealed below should have been the floor of the next story down.

Even if the next floor was empty for some reason, it should have been the floor of the story below that.

However, they had been able to clearly see back then that the pit from the collapse was extremely deep, at least dozens of meters, dropping straight down to the First Floor.

Only now did the Gentle Man with Glasses finally understand the reason.

It turned out that except for the top two floors, the entire lower portion of this Abandoned Unfinished Building was completely hollowed out, resembling a factory or workshop.

Dust covered everything. Below, many boxes of unknown purpose were stacked together. Machinery and equipment were covered in thick cobwebs, conveyor belts were crooked and broken, shelves had toppled over, and documents and papers were scattered messily on the floor.

Above this pile of clutter lay an empty space of at least twenty meters.

And just as the Messy-Haired Man had said, there was no way forward below them.

The entire staircase seemed to have been cut off, completely severed from below. The end of the stairs hovered in mid-air, with absolutely no path to continue downstairs.

At this moment, Luo Yuejian and the Girl in Pink Jeans also saw the situation below through the gaps in the stair railings. The faces of the players all turned somewhat grim.

Admittedly, even if the upper floors collapsed, it wouldn't affect their current position for the time being.

After all, even if the very top floor collapsed, it would at most crush that specific floor without affecting them.

But they were now in a dilemma, caught in a situation where they could neither go up nor down.

As expected, they wouldn't be allowed to reach the First Floor so easily.

Although they had anticipated this, when they discovered that this wasn't even a matter of traps but rather that there was simply no path down at all, the players still felt somewhat panicked and helpless.

The Gentle Man with Glasses' expression shifted several times before he said in a low voice, "Let's go upstairs. It hasn't been crushed by the top floor yet. Maybe there's a way to help us get down."

Since they couldn't go down now and couldn't return to the very first room, this was their only option.

Luo Yuejian had been at the very back of the group. Hearing them say they wanted to go back upstairs, she felt this might be a great opportunity to seek death.

After all, if they had really made it to the First Floor smoothly just now, they would probably be very close to clearing the game.

Thinking of this, she actively turned around, becoming the leader as she headed back.

However, she had only taken a few steps forward and reached the landing between the floors when a chaotic commotion came from behind her, followed by the Messy-Haired Man's terrified scream—

"Ah!!!"

"Help!!"

What was going on?!

The other players were startled by the scream. The two walking at the back immediately turned around to check the situation below. The Tattooed Man anxiously shouted, "What's wrong? What happened?!"

The voice of the Man in Floral Boxer Shorts came from below.

His tone was extremely panicked and clearly strained: "Quick, quick, quick, come help me! The Messy-Haired Man just accidentally slipped! I'm holding onto him, but I can't hold on much longer! Hurry up!"

Hearing this, the Gentle Man with Glasses and the Tattooed Man, who were standing above, could no longer worry about the weight capacity of the railing. They hurriedly held onto it and climbed down.

Once they stood on the same row of black iron railings as the Man in Floral Boxer Shorts, they indeed saw him straining to pull up the dangling and precarious Messy-Haired Man.