Don't provoke mentally ill people in the infinite flow genre!

boom!

Yin Canglang pulled the trigger, shattering the cold light in the morgue with a single shot.

Strangely, even though the lights were off, there was still a faint light inside the room.

On the ceiling, eerie green traces, like will-o'-the-wisps in a graveyard, slowly appeared. Upon closer inspection, these seemingly chaotic traces were vaguely gathering into a single letter:

V.

"Is this a hint?" Mu Qiuxue reacted quickly, immediately turning to look at the morgue cabinet behind her. "Using the locked cabinet as a reference, pull open the other corresponding cabinets to form the letter 'V' on the wall!"

Wu Ying and Mu Qiuzhu thought this guess was completely reasonable, so they immediately cooperated to carry it out. For a while, the sound of metal scraping was incessant until all the correct morgue cabinets were pulled out.

The four took a few steps back and saw that the open morgue cabinets on the wall were emitting a cold white mist, like giant mouths waiting to devour someone.

Then, with a clang, the lock on the morgue cabinet fell off.

Wu Ying stepped forward and tentatively reached for the morgue cabinet. Sure enough, this time she opened it very easily.

Thus, the shape of the letter "V" on the wall was finally complete.

Almost at the same moment, she felt the floor beneath her feet begin to vibrate with a buzzing sound, and she could vaguely hear a sound like a mechanism being activated.

An ominous premonition arose within her, and she instinctively wanted to hide, but unfortunately, there was no way to escape from the surroundings.

The next second, the floor below cracked neatly to both sides, and she instantly lost weight and fell.

At the same time, Yin Canglang decisively pounced from behind, pulling her towards himself, while Mu Qiuzhu and Mu Qiuxue also fell in.

The four of them rolled down the icy slide into the unknown darkness.

……

……

This mechanism is very strange. It's like a winding, large slide with many abrupt turns, causing the four people to crash into each other repeatedly. However, due to severe loss of balance, they are unable to slow down on their own.

Yin Canglang kept Wu Ying in his arms the whole time, protecting her head and waist with his hands to ensure that her most vulnerable parts were not hurt.

Mu Qiuzhu was responsible for protecting Mu Qiuxue. The two sisters hugged each other and spun around as they fell rapidly until they hit some obstacle and were forced to stop.

The four of them fell flat on their faces and it took them a while to get up.

"Thank you, Captain Yin." Wu Ying felt a little guilty when she saw the bloodstains on Yin Canglang's arms from the rough walls on both sides. "You've been too kind to me."

Yin Canglang lowered his sleeves expressionlessly: "We should avoid the risks that need to be avoided, so that your captain won't be picky and think I'm bullying you when we get back."

"My captain won't; she's always trusted you."

"...Really?" Yin Canglang, who had already begun checking the surroundings, turned back after hearing this, staring at Wu Ying with a complicated expression. "How can you be so sure? Do you know her well, or do you know me well?"

The four are currently in a small, damp space with rough walls and floors, resembling a newly dug cave. There is a metal door not far away, in front of which are two uninflated rafts and an air pump.

Seeing that the Mu sisters had already started inflating the raft, Wu Ying didn't have time to think about it carefully before joining the work team.

She picked up the other air pump, thought for a moment, and answered in a low voice.

"To be honest, I don't fully understand my captain even now, and as for you, I know absolutely nothing about you."

"But in a team competition not long ago, I briefly glimpsed the feelings you had when you were twelve years old—I don't know if all the teams had the same format in that competition, and if you have any similar memories."

Yin Canglang suddenly looked up: "...You also experienced memory regression back then?"

Wu Ying replied, "Yes, because of the special mechanism in the game, the captain turned back into his twelve-year-old self in the illusion. He kept thinking about going back to find you, and thought we had captured you. He almost got into a fight with us."

"..."

"Captain Yin, I won't mention anything else, nor do I have the right to. I just want to tell you that if there had been an opportunity back then, the captain would definitely have been willing to take you with her."

Fate is unpredictable, but the truth never lies.

Yin Canglang stood there stunned for a long time, until he finally came to his senses and gave a self-deprecating laugh.

She didn't say anything more, but walked forward and dragged the inflatable raft that the Mu sisters had just filled with one hand toward the tightly closed metal door.

Strangely, the metal door was not locked and seemed to spring open automatically the moment she touched the handle.

"..."

The four looked outside and fell into a brief silence.

The world behind the door was completely different from what they had imagined.

Who could have predicted that beneath this abandoned hospital lay a vast metal maze?

It's like a giant factory that only appears in movies and TV shows, with pipes and metal staircases crisscrossing and rushing water flowing through it. There are branching paths in all directions, and you don't know where the next one will lead.

Without a doubt, this is the underground tunnel they are looking for.

* * * * * *

The cooperative match continued into the second night, and the Black Wind Stronghold members who stayed in the spectator area felt that each day was an eternity.

Tang Yunxi had been staying up all night. She finally managed to get some sleep, but after only a few hours, she got up again and hurried downstairs to the living room.

"Zhaozhao, Brother Shen, how's the situation?"

"So far, things are going fairly smoothly," Shen Yubai replied. "Lanlan and Lao Qin have taken on new commissions and are getting along well with the members of Langtaosha; Xiaoying is also receiving good care from Yin Canglang, but..."

"Just what?"

"But the tasks for both sides are not easy," Yan Zhao said in a deep voice. "Lanlan is going to lead a group to wipe out the Flying Car Gang, while Yin Canglang and the others are going to row into the underground dark river maze to find the potion. Both of them are very risky."

Du Songzi looked very worried: "Currently, both teams only have healing potions, no energy potions. If something unexpected happens along the way and the alertness level reaches the critical point, the situation will be very troublesome."

The virus in this game directly affects the players' emotions. When emotions are extremely unstable, it is easy to lose control due to a lack of mental clarity.

Lingye has already given examples of just how painful it is.

Wang Mingyue asked, "What will happen if the mission isn't completed?"

"There might be no punishment, but you won't get the potions or weapons you're supposed to get," Yan Zhao said. "This is only the second night. The whole game lasts seven days, and it gets more and more dangerous as it goes on. So equipping your team in the early stages is essential, otherwise it will be very difficult to complete the game."

"I understand the reasoning." Wang Mingyue was silent for a while, then suddenly sighed, "But... our points are still quite advantageous, and we have room for error. Even if we don't play as hard in the cooperative matches, we won't be overtaken by other teams."

Yan Zhao could understand the team members' feelings, but she also understood Yi Zanglan's thoughts.

"There is a special reward for all members surviving in the cooperative match. I think that both captains of Black Wind Village and Waves Washing Sand are proud by nature and should hope to win this game perfectly."