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

Lin Qi was behind Wang Jianguo. She seized the opportunity. The short knife pierced through Wang Jianguo's armpit, the tip embedding itself in the metal crevice next to the monster's single eye.

Lin Qi twisted his wrist. The blade destroyed the internal wiring.

The monster stopped. The red light in its single eye went out.

Lin Qi drew his sword. He took two steps back, creating distance.

Wang Jianguo wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Girl, you cooperated well."

Lin Qi didn't look at him. She stared at Han Yingying and Lu Chen's backs.

Lin Qi thought, these two people killed a level 98 monster in just one move. Their movements were fluid and without any unnecessary pauses. Their reflexes exceeded human limits. Especially the woman. Her movements possessed a mechanical precision. She was being assimilated by this space.

The battle was over. A-Jie walked to the wall. He took out a data cable with a metal probe attached.

"The spacecraft's control center is located in these fleshy tissues," Ajay said.

He inserted the probe into the pulsating veins in the wall. A large amount of red gibberish appeared on the tablet screen.

"There are many layers of data encryption. Zero is preventing us from taking off." Ajay tapped his fingers on the screen. "I need time."

"How long?" Han Yingying asked.

Five minutes.

The sound of heavy tracks rumbling echoed from the depths of the tunnel. A red light flashed in the darkness. Dozens of one-eyed monsters were approaching.

"Hold on," Han Yingying said.

She held the knife in both hands, standing in the middle of the passageway. Lu Chen stood to her right, the butterfly knife now in his left hand.

Wang Jianguo threw the rolled-up machete on the ground. He then pulled two large-caliber pistols from his bag.

Lin Qi stepped back to A-Jie's side. She didn't come forward.

Lin Qi thought, the passage is too narrow. The two people in front are enough to block the monster. If I go up, I'll only get in the way. I need to conserve my energy. The weakness from the fading effects of the medicine is getting stronger. I can't die here.

The monsters charged forward.

Lasers intertwine to form a web.

Han Yingying didn't dodge. She swung her straight sword. The blade left afterimages in the air. The sword cleaved through the laser beams aimed at her. The intense heat made the blade glow red-hot.

Lu Chen's figure weaved through the laser net. Each time he paused, a monster would fall.

Wang Jianguo fired from behind. Bullets struck the monsters' tracks, hindering their movement.

Lin Qi leaned against the wall, watching the carnage unfold before him.

She saw the red line reappear on Han Yingying's wrist. The red line climbed up Han Yingying's arm and burrowed into her neck.

Han Yingying's speed increased. Her strength grew. With a single strike, she cleaved the monster in two, along with the treads.

Lin Qi gripped the short knife tightly. She thought, this woman is overdrawing some kind of inhuman power. When she completely loses control, we'll all die. If things go wrong, I'll have to kill her first.

I'll be there in five minutes.

A-Jie pulled out the probe. "Done. Navigation coordinates locked. Changsheng Bio's private space station."

Supergravity has arrived.

Lin Qi's legs went weak. He knelt on one knee, his hands bracing against the sticky floor.

The spaceship broke through the dome of the underground base and soared into the sky.

Weightlessness replaced hypergravity.

The spaceship entered the stratosphere. The gravity system in the tunnel was not activated. Five people floated in mid-air. Monster corpses and blue engine oil flew around in the air.

Wang Jianguo flailed his arms and legs wildly. "There's nowhere to get leverage. How can I fight?"

Han Yingying plunged a knife into the fleshy wall to stabilize her body.

A sharp pain shot through her head. Red lines throbbed beneath her skin. Memories flooded back.

Ten years ago. Han Fei took her in an elevator. The elevator went straight up, through the clouds.

"Yingying, look." Han Fei pointed out the window.

A massive ring-shaped space station is suspended in Earth's orbit.

"This is Eden," Han Fei said. "The ultimate goal of immortal beings. The human body will decay. But the data will endure. Zero's core code is there. It will upload the consciousness of everyone."

Han Yingying opened her eyes. She looked at the engine oil floating in mid-air.

"Zero is rewriting the laws of physics," Han Yingying said. "The space station is its server. It's going to turn the real world into a giant hard drive."

Lu Chen grabbed a dangling blood vessel. He swung over and stopped beside Han Yingying. "How do I destroy it?"

"Find the core motherboard. Physically destroy it," Han Yingying said.

Ahead in the passage, the fleshy wall cracked open again.

This time, it wasn't a tracked monster that appeared. It was a person.

Researchers wearing white lab coats from Changsheng Biotechnology. Their bodies contorted in zero gravity. Limbs stretched. Hands transformed into sharp bone blades.

"Spatial overlap has increased." A-Jie, holding his tablet, clamped a blood vessel between his legs. "The bizarre bug has worsened. Kinetic weapons are completely ineffective. The rules of physics have become turn-based."

Wang Jianguo raised his pistol and pulled the trigger.

The bullet flew from the barrel. Its speed was extremely slow, as if it were encountering immense resistance in water. The researcher monster extended its bone blade. With a gentle flick, it changed the bullet's trajectory. It struck the wall.

"Turn-based?" Wang Jianguo cursed. "How are you supposed to play that?"

Lin Qi was behind her. She plunged her dagger into the wall to steady herself.

Lin Qi thought, the rules have changed. The advantages of speed and strength have been weakened. Now it's a battle of understanding the rules. These monsters were generated by the system. They are naturally adapted to the rules.

A monster, bracing itself against the wall, charged towards Wang Jianguo. Its bone blade slashed down.

Wang Jianguo raised the empty gun barrel to block. The barrel was severed. The bone blade stopped an inch in front of Wang Jianguo's nose.

The monster stopped moving.

"Its turn is over," Ajay shouted.

Wang Jianguo reacted. He pulled out a spare dagger from his waist and plunged it into the monster's eye socket. The monster screamed. Green blood gushed out.

"It's my turn." Han Yingying drew her straight sword.

She bent her knees and slammed her weight against the wall. Her body flew out like a cannonball. A straight blade swept across, severing the waists of both monsters.

Han Yingying froze in mid-air, unable to find any foothold. Three monsters pounced on her simultaneously.

"Their turn," Ajay reminded him.

Lu Chen swung out a rope. The rope wrapped around Han Yingying's waist. With a strong pull, Han Yingying dodged the monster's attack and returned to Lu Chen's side.

Lin Qi watched this scene unfold.

Lin Qi thought, "Turns have a time difference. The attack interval is three seconds. I can attack the instant their attacks finish."

A monster charged at Lin Qi. Lin Qi didn't move.

The bone blade pierced towards her chest. Lin Qi dodged to the side. The bone blade grazed past her tactical vest.

The moment the monster paused, Lin Qi thrust out his short knife, plunging it into the monster's throat. He pulled the knife out, kicked the corpse aside, and moved swiftly.

Lu Chen glanced at Lin Qi but didn't say anything.

The battle proceeded slowly and dangerously under the rules of zero gravity and turn-based combat. Ten minutes later, the monsters in the passage were cleared out.

The red lines on Han Yingying's arm have faded somewhat.

The spaceship suddenly stopped shaking. The feeling of weightlessness disappeared. Gravity returned.

Five people fell to the ground.

A-Jie stared at the tablet, his face pale. "This is bad. The spaceship is locked from the outside. We're stuck outside the space station."

A-Jie turned the screen towards everyone. The screen showed that the spacecraft was fifty meters from the docking module of the space station. A blue energy net blocked their path.