Volume 5 - CH 86.2

Suits is standing there, blanking out looking at the things on the ground, with Teen and Shen Yünjü by his side.

Just as Suits has planned to, they’re on the 17th floor; however, the scene at play here, is far beyond their wildest imaginations.

This almost looks like a factory warehouse.

Countless bodies are stored here, perhaps one day, to end up as the ‘materials’ for the Renovators above, or to be the ‘food’ for the Cannibals below.

Of course, the trio here doesn’t yet know about Renovators and Cannibals. They can only extrapolate, through the different experiences each group of Missiontakers had last run, what all these things in this Nightmare, in this building could mean.

Suits is crouching down. He is watching the bones of a section of finger there.

Bones are nothing unusual in and of themselves, but what is remarkable is the fact that they have been cleaned thoroughly, and piled up together into a plastic bucket.

Moments later, he stands up, and asks Teen, dryly, “what do you think this is?”

Teen glances at the bucket, but quickly retracts his gaze. He rather forcefully asks, “what else could it be? Merchandise?” He then comments, “disgusting.”

Then Suits sighs and stands up, looking away from the mountains of corpses, and asks, “it seems, we’re in some sort of… storage?”

Teen just hurries him impatiently, “are you done? Let’s just go,” his brows are furrowed as he says, “I have a bad feeling about this.”

That is when Shen Yünjü suddenly looks over at the cargo elevators to say, “I can hear elevators run.”

They glance at each other and quickly walk over towards the passenger elevator lobby; while the lobby is separated only with glass, but they can still lean over at the walls to conceal themselves. The three Missiontakers poke their heads out to observe.

They are hiding instead of facing the unknown visitors because they have already realised how great the unknown risks are in the building. They are also powerless to stop any of it.

Suits quietly wonders, “could the Nightmare have changed because an hour has passed? If so… would there be more dangers later? What would happen when two hours have passed?”

Teen scowls at him to make him shut up and keep quiet.

Suits complies, but rolls his eyes at him.

The cargo elevator has arrived.

It came from the floors below. It moves slow, and so it was more than 20 seconds after it was heard that it finally reached the floor.

The Missiontakers are waiting anxiously.

Not just the Missiontakers, but also the viewers of the stream too.

A cargo elevator coming from an unknown floor, destination being the warehouse for corpses on the 17th floor. When you think about what Xü Beijin told them of the types of insane people in the building earlier…

“uwuwu im scared”

“I’m not even there but I can feel the sweat on my back”

“seriously, this building feels something like a… stranded on a desert island, and all the survivors might be living, but theyve all gone weird.”

“… I know its just a nightmare, but I still wanna ask if these people can be saved? like, it’s just a mental illness?”

“the renovators and janitors maybe, but the cannibals…”

“this would depend on your view of the criminal code of the law…”

“stop, we’re not gonna have law 101 here”

“honestly, this nightmare feels like it’s different from all the other nightmares before… looking at how even the missiontakers from the higher floors are having trouble, could this really simply be a normal bottom floor nightmare?”

“just ask Beibei”

Xü Beijin can only answer honestly, “it is certainly a Nightmare on the bottom floor.”

“what kinda difficulty is this for the bottom floor?!”

“Beibeis also on the bottom floor! maybe Beibei has a super difficult nightmare?”

“oh i remember now, the detective dalao hasnt worked out what Beibeis nightmare could be yet”

“!!! Don’t remind me. I seriously have no clues…”

“Beibei, spoilers please? this anxiety is too burning to cope”

Xü Beijin pauses with his words, until he explains, “my Nightmare is…” Then another pause, and finally, “related to Nightmares.”

“related to nightmares?”

“a nightmare of nightmares?”

“a collection of nightmares?”

“maybe Beibeis nightmare is like some kinda hub world that can randomly land you in any other nightmare… just like the elevators in this nightmare?”

“oh damn! that would make sense!”

“Which is why Beibei doesn’t want to open his nightmare, because what if the Missiontakers of the bottom floor got randomly assigned to a super high level nightmare of the higher floors… He’ll have murdered them”

“!!! this is really consistent with Beibei’s personality, amazing detective dalao!”

Xü Beijin, reading the comment on the stream, is wondering how this is at all representative of his personality.

Does he behave like he’s really a good person?

… Well, he is a good person at heart, although his appearance suggests the opposite.

Regarding the viewers’ guesses, Xü Beijin neither confirms nor denies, not even making a remark at all. Though, for the detective dalao, that mere information Xü Beijin gave earlier is enough for him to go on.

The detective dalao soon types, “Beibei sure is lucky to randomly get such a Nightmare in a game. You must also have an amazing game role to get such a Nightmare I think… The God of Luck must be on your side, Beibei!”

The audience are in happy agreement, but Xü Beijin can only give a tortured smile in response.

Lucky?

He is sure, that the moment he was assigned this Nightmare, and this identity, might have been the unluckiest moment of his entire life.

Well, he did learn the truth thanks to this, but can it really be called luck still?

Xü Beijin has no answers.

While he falls into thought, the situation on the stream is rapidly and unexpected changing.

The cargo elevator is now on the 17th floor, from which emerged several burly men. In groups of two or three, they each carry a corpse and transport it back to the cargo elevator. They do it several times.

Suits is murmuring to himself quietly, “transporting the bodies? What could they be doing that for…?”

His voice is no louder than a whisper, but the group of people doing things in relative silence almost immediately drop the bodies they’re transporting to yell out, “who is here in the ‘Warehouse’ against the rules?!”

Teen is looking at Suits with this scary expression like he wants to chew him out, cussing, “you fucker! I told you to keep quiet…!”

Suits’ expression is souring rapidly, as he furrows his brows looking at Teen’s response.

Shen Yünjü, who has been quiet the whole time, glances at the pair.

Soon enough, the men have found the trio hiding out in the elevator lobby.

They’re massively outnumbered and out-physique-d, so the three Missiontakers are pushed along without much resistance, until they are brought to who seem to be the leader of this group of men. He appears to be the most physically fit and experienced men of the group.

He has a calm and neutral expression as he eyes the three Missiontakers like they’re merely some kind of inanimate object. Soon enough, he says, “they look good enough to taste and sample.”

Suits and Teen almost immediately flinch as they realise what the man is actually referring to. They are astonished.

What in the world?! This, in a Nightmare on the bottom floor…?!

The man, obviously not knowing what Suits or Teen might be thinking, merely points to the pile of corpses and tells the others, “slaughter them and pile it on.”

Teen, looking at the pile of corpses, and recalling what they’ve encountered so far, suddenly realises a strange… a special… déjà vu.

The corpses. Them.

They are getting added on to the pile.

Teen, after acting momentarily stunned, yells out, “this is the déjà vu of elevator Three?!”

His sudden speech spooks the others carrying the bodies around.

Teen is too absorbed to notice, though, murmuring, “since abandoning the little girl, to the sea of blood on the 20-something floors, to this floor – busted by this group of people and caught… Dead? Could she be dead?”

Suits, following Teen’s thought processes easily, also looks to fall deep into thought.