A bizarre and terrifying experience; I messed up the dungeon world.

There were about twenty people from Black Gold. They were blocking the intersection behind the sandbags.

There were forty or fifty monsters. They swarmed in from all directions.

Black Gold's firepower is fierce, but the monsters are thick-skinned and die slowly.

Zhou Lang glanced at the building next to him. It was an abandoned three-story restaurant.

"Let's go upstairs," Zhou Lang said.

The three entered the restaurant and climbed the stairs to the third-floor rooftop.

From the rooftop, you can overlook the entire intersection.

Zhou Lang walked to the edge and squatted down.

He saw the communications tower diagonally across the intersection. There was a metal door at the base of the tower.

"Fatty, take out their machine gunners," Zhou Lang said.

Liu Wei set up his submachine gun and aimed at the machine gunner behind the sandbags below.

"Brother Zhou, are we fighting people or monsters?" Liu Wei asked.

"Hit someone," Zhou Lang said. "Help the monster out."

Liu Wei pulled the trigger.

The bullet struck the machine gunner's helmet. The machine gunner fell backward.

The machine gun misfired.

The monster seized the opportunity to break through the sandbag defenses and plunged into the Black Gold group.

A scream rang out.

The Black Gold crew didn't have time to look for snipers. They were busy dealing with the melee monsters.

Zhou Lang stood up, carrying a chainsaw.

"Walk."

He walked to the other side of the rooftop. It was only five or six meters away from the communications tower, separated by an alley.

Zhou Lang took a few steps back. He took a running start. He jumped over the alley. He landed on the metal platform outside the communications tower.

Liu Wei and Lao Ma jumped over. Lao Ma lost his footing and almost fell. Liu Wei pulled him up.

"Old man, are you even capable?" Liu Wei cursed.

"Enough nonsense. I'm tough as nails." Old Ma dusted off his Taoist robe.

Zhou Lang walked to the metal door.

There is an electronic combination lock on the door.

He took out the gold card the masked man had given him and swiped it in the sensor area.

*Beep.* The door opened.

The three of them went inside.

The tower wasn't very spacious. In the center was a cylindrical control panel covered with screens.

Zhou Lang walked to the control panel and inserted the gold card.

The screen lights up. Countless lines of code appear.

Zhou Lang's fingers tapped on the keyboard.

His goal was to access the underlying network and unlock Han Yingying's account.

He didn't know anything about hacking. But his hands moved across the keyboard with practiced ease.

It's an instinct.

He entered a password that was thirty-two characters long.

The code on the screen stopped scrolling. A progress bar appeared instead.

[Underlying permission verification in progress.]

[Verification successful.]

Welcome back, Administrator 01.

Zhou Lang looked at the words on the screen.

Administrator 01.

He's not an ordinary player.

Fragmented images flashed through my mind.

He saw himself sitting in a room filled with monitors. Typing on a keyboard.

A woman in a white coat was standing next to her. Her face was obscured, but her figure resembled Han Yingying's.

"There's a vulnerability in the underlying architecture," he heard his own voice say. "The mental anchor can be exploited."

"This is the only way," came the woman's voice. "We have to lock them inside."

Zhou Lang shook his head, trying to banish the image from his mind.

He brought up the player list. He searched for Han Yingying's ID: Bai Ye.

Status displayed: Account locked. Real-world coordinates exposed.

Zhou Lang clicked to unlock.

Insufficient permissions. This account has been marked as abnormal by the main system.

Zhou Lang accessed the external surveillance footage of the transfer station.

The screen displayed images of the real world.

Changsheng Biotechnology Headquarters Building. Three basement levels.

Han Yingying was running towards the stairwell. Behind her was a server emitting smoke.

Zhou Lang looked at the screen.

He knew that was the real world.

"That's Bai Ye," Liu Wei said, leaning closer. "Was she framed in real life?"

Zhou Lang watched the surveillance footage.

He accessed the power control panel of the communications tower.

He wants to transmit the energy of the transit station to the real world through network nodes.

He wants to give Han Yingying a cheat code.

"Old Ma, stick all your talismans on the control panel," Zhou Lang said.

Old Ma took out a handful of yellow paper talismans and pasted them around the control panel.

"Fatty, guard the door. Kill anyone who comes in," Zhou Lang said.

Liu Wei, holding a gun, stood behind the door.

Zhou Lang placed his hands on the keyboard and began modifying the underlying code.

He wanted to turn the real-world Changsheng Biotechnology Building into a temporary game instance.

To impose the rules of the game onto the real world.

The progress bar is moving slowly.

Footsteps came from outside the door.

The Black Gold people came after they finished clearing out the monsters.

"Listen up, you people inside. Hand over control, and we'll leave you with your bodies intact!" someone shouted from outside.

Liu Wei didn't speak. He pointed the gun at the crack in the door. He fired.

The bullet pierced the door. A muffled groan came from outside.

"Brother Zhou, hurry! They have explosives!" Liu Wei shouted.

Zhou Lang stared at the screen.

[Rule coverage in progress. 10%.]

【30%. 】

boom.

The metal door was blown apart. The blast wave threw Liu Wei into the air, slamming him against the wall.

Several men with black gold rushed in.

Old Ma raised his wooden sword. The talisman ignited. A fireball hurtled towards the person at the front.

The man raised his alloy shield to block.

Zhou Lang did not turn around.

His fingers flew across the keyboard.

【90%. 】

A beam saber was held against Zhou Lang's neck.

"Stop," said a high-level player in Black Gold.

Zhou Lang pressed the Enter key.

[100%. Rule coverage complete.]

On the surveillance screen, a blue beam of light illuminated the basement of the Changsheng Biotechnology Building.

The short knife in Han Yingying's hand transformed into a blue lightsaber.

Zhou Lang stood up and turned to look at the person holding the sword.

"You're dead," Zhou Lang said.

He drew his shotgun from his waist, pressed it against the man's stomach, and fired.

The man was sent flying. He crashed into the control panel.

Zhou Lang pulled the start rope of the chainsaw. The engine roared.

"Fatty, get to work." Zhou Lang charged toward the remaining men with his chainsaw.

Han Yingying stopped in her tracks.

She looked at the glowing dagger in her hand.

The blade transformed into a blue plasma beam.

She turned her head and looked at the smoking server room.

The walls started flickering. They turned into the metallic texture seen in the game.

Reality has been assimilated by games.

The memories in her mind were completely unlocked.

She remembered.

She is Administrator 02.

Zhou Lang is administrator 01.

They created this game to imprison those unspeakable monsters.

Now, the monster has appeared.

Han Yingying gripped the lightsaber tightly.

"I should go back now," she said.

She raised her lightsaber. She cleaved through the metal wall before her. She walked into the depths of the light. Chapter 48

Han Yingying cleaved through the metal wall. There was no soil behind the wall. A dark red corridor stretched out.

The wall was covered in fleshy growths. The growths throbbed rhythmically and emitted a foul odor.

The "Flesh and Blood Factory" dungeon in the game.

The overlap between reality and the game has increased. The main system is tampering with the laws of physics.

Han Yingying walked in, carrying her lightsaber. Her military boots made a squelching sound as they stepped on the sticky ground.

At the end of the corridor stood a monster. It was three meters tall. It had no head. A gigantic mouth grew from its chest, filled with jagged, sharp teeth.

Low-level anomaly. Devourer.

The Devourer roared. Its vocal cords vibrated in its chest cavity. Flesh fragments fell from the walls of the corridor.

It charged. The ground shook. Two thick arms waved in the air.

Han Yingying didn't dodge. She walked towards the Devourer.

The images in her mind automatically matched. Administrator 02's memories told her that the Devourer's weakness was the nerve knot in the groin of her left thigh.