【10 Kui Zi: After the Glutton appears, the Headless Knight appears half an hour later. The third-floor BOSS will appear in the next hour and a half.】

【22 Lin Youfu: @Kui Zi, another player on the second floor has had their door broken. Can Sister Kui Zi help analyze this?】

【10 Su Yuan: Kui Zi is very busy. I'll answer on her behalf. Can you figure out the Headless Knight's attack pattern?】

【22 Lin Youfu: It seems like it attacks after circling three times. If that player's door isn't broken, it just circles once and continues attacking that door!】

【10 Su Yuan: That's his attack mechanism. Try to interrupt it!】

Time flew by, and the players on the third floor grew tense.

On the third floor, Li Shuwen and Zhu Yan stood outside their dormitory, staring at the end of the corridor.

The next second.

A witch riding a broomstick, dressed in black and yellow attire, materialized in the corridor!

【Mad Witch】

【Type: Monster】

【Level: 8】

【Skills: Mystical Broom, Frost Meditation, Fire Magic, Comet Impact】

【Introduction: Want to experience the ultimate thrill of ice and fire? Ahahahaha!!!】

The witch's eyes were maniacal, the blood vessels within seeming ready to burst from their sockets!

Li Shuwen felt his scalp crawl. He immediately turned and pulled Zhu Yan back into the dormitory.

【Third-floor BOSS Mad Witch sends her blessings】

【Mad Witch's Blessing: Every hour, unleash purgatory fire to burn all dormitory doors】

……

One and a half hours into the game, nearly thirteen player dormitories had been breached!

Ten on the second floor, three on the first!

The Glutton had begun attacking. A single glob of its phlegm could corrode a Level 4 door. When it encountered players, it was an instant kill. After eating, it would return to the stairwell to sleep, only to emerge again not long after to hunt for food!

The situation on the second floor was even worse. To prevent the Headless Knight from completing three full circles, all second-floor players had to give their all, as if fighting a blitzkrieg. If not for Zhao Liang having some tricks up his sleeve, it wouldn't be surprising if all the second-floor players were dead!

Many players who were originally from Clear Sky University had mentally broken down. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Back when Xu Lang was around, they had never experienced anything like this. Once the tenth-floor monsters were cleared, players like Wu Huihui would go to help, resulting in a one-sided slaughter of the monsters.

The veteran players maintained their composure, but their pressure had also multiplied exponentially.

Forget wiping out a floor in a few hours; they had even heard of floors being wiped out in tens of minutes.

It's just that no one expected such a thing to happen to them!

This was only the fourth round of the game! They started with ten mechanical BOSSes right off the bat, without even releasing minor monsters to give players time to develop. The Mad King Building was truly a goddamn bastard!

……

Two hours into the game, the fourth BOSS appeared!

【Fourth-floor BOSS Fear Strawman sends its blessings】

【Fear Strawman's Blessing: Players gain a new SAN value. When SAN reaches zero, players will descend into madness】

A withered strawman holding a sickle walked out from the corridor, surrounded by a flock of crows, its appearance terrifying!

……

【Fifth-floor BOSS Butcher sends its blessings】

【Butcher's Blessing: Player bleeding probability increased by 100%】

……

【Sixth-floor BOSS Pumpkin Head Jack sends his blessings】

【Pumpkin Head Jack's Blessing: Every two hours, the ambient temperature increases by 15 degrees】

……

【Seventh-floor BOSS Pharaoh Mummy sends its blessings】

【Pharaoh Mummy's Blessing: The Pharaoh will release Sleep's Breath in players' dreams, affecting their rest】

……

【Eighth-floor BOSS Mourning Lady sends her blessings】

【Mourning Lady's Blessing: The Mourning Lady's husband is dead. Please mourn for her. No sounds are permitted in the corridor】

……

【Ninth-floor BOSS Senior Sister Red Butterfly sends her blessings】

【Senior Sister Red Butterfly's Blessing: Senior Sister Red Butterfly doesn't like money, but she needs you to show attitude. All players' funds are automatically deducted by 5% every hour】

……

【Tenth Floor Chatroom】

【180 Nie Xiaozhu: Oh my god, what a malicious blessing! My little money is going to disappear!】

【181 Li Yu: What do you think Senior Sister Red Butterfly's attack mechanism is?】

【180 Wu Huihui: The attack mechanism isn't important; the weakness is!】

【195 Ma Li: My SAN value is dropping...】

【180 Wang Tingting: @Xu Lang, Lang Ge, you need to be careful. When the tenth-floor BOSS comes out, it might attack you directly】

【194 Zhang Feiyan: Lang Ge, be careful!】

【180 Nie Xiaozhu: +1】

【186 Zhou Mei: +1】

【200 Cao Yaxuan: Lang Ge, be careful! What about Sister Cao?】

In Dorm 200, Cao Yaxuan munched on potato chips while idly chatting in the group.

The others were also eating snacks, including Xu Lang.

The food reserves within the entire Mad King Dormitory Building were being rapidly depleted.

Hunger rate increased by 100% – taken literally, it might seem like just eating six meals a day would suffice, but in reality, it was nothing like that.

It was similar to having your breathing reduced by 100%; it wasn't a matter of just taking one more breath.

"Lang Ge, Zhai Ren's dormitory is being attacked by the Mourning Lady!" Xu Xiaomeng suddenly said.

"What's going on? Isn't the Mourning Lady the eighth-floor BOSS?" Xu Ruyan asked, her face pale.

"I don't know." Xu Xiaomeng quickly shook her head, her voice filled with worry. "With the Mourning Lady here, the game's pace is about to accelerate again!"

Xu Lang's brow furrowed deeply.

This was likely triggered by the Mourning Lady's attack mechanism.

The Dormitory Broadcast had previously stated that crossing between floors was prohibited, but this Mourning Lady was clearly an exception.

This further proved one point.

– In the Dorm Survival Game, there are no absolutely unbreakable rules!

It carried a feeling akin to "The Great Dao is fifty, but Heaven only derives forty-nine; the one that escapes is the variable."

For players, this was a good thing. It meant there were no absolutely hopeless dead ends. Even if a monster's setting was "All players die when I appear," there would still be a way to break it.

In this regard, the Asuras from Indian mythology who loved making wishes were quite experienced.

"If the Mourning Lady suddenly attacks after the tenth-floor BOSS appears, it would indeed be troublesome." Xu Lang spoke slowly, then looked at the women and asked, "What is the most obvious characteristic of Zhai Ren's dormitory?"

Tong Qi pondered hard: "The Mourning Lady's husband is dead... Could it be she's looking for a man, and Dorm 66 just happens to have many men!"

As she spoke the last part, Tong Qi's eyes lit up.

This guess was highly plausible.

Zhai Ren focused on the physical combat playstyle. His dormitory was almost entirely filled with brawling tough guys. Even the dormitory's name was "Iron Man Gym." It was said the tenants inside exercised until they collapsed every day.

"It might be the population!" Wang Yazhi suddenly said.

Hearing this, everyone's spirits perked up.

Zhai Ren's dormitory had the highest population!

"Lang Ge, should we tell Zhai Ren these guesses?" Wang Yazhi looked at Xu Lang and asked.

The Mourning Lady was currently attacking Dorm 66. Every second counted!

"No need." Xu Lang shook his head. "If we guess wrong and he kills his tenants to save his own skin, he'll blame us."

……

Save his own skin?!

Zhai Ren would never just save his own skin!

For physical combat players, recklessness defined their entire lives!

Seeing that the raw materials were no longer sufficient to support repairs, and the tenants' SAN values were also dropping, Zhai Ren gave an order. He pulled open the dormitory door and faced the fear head-on!

The Mourning Lady wore a black gauze dress with a veil covering her face, appearing both eerie and dignified. She sobbed continuously, her mournful whispers transforming into black threads that cursed the dormitory door.

At that moment, the dormitory door suddenly swung open. Zhai Ren charged out headfirst, executing a shoulder throw that slammed the Mourning Lady onto the ground!

"Soul Resentment~"

Instead of being alarmed, the Mourning Lady seemed pleased, letting out a sigh of delight. A spiderweb-like domain instantly spread from beneath her, causing the burly men who had charged out to feel dizzy and disoriented!

In that instant, they all received a system prompt – Cursed: Defense greatly decreased, mobility decreased.

The next second!

The Mourning Lady stood up as if levitating. Her small chin tilted up, her black lips curling into a smirk. The gauze dress on her body suddenly transformed into a captivating set of black lingerie. Fishnet stockings wrapped around her jade-like thighs, the tops adorned with bows.

Her veil also flew up, revealing a face full of wild, dissolute laughter!