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

The machine is jammed. The circular saw has stopped rotating.

Han Yingying's eyes were bloodshot. She drew her twin swords and charged at the clown.

The movement was extremely fast. The blade transformed into two streaks of silver light.

The clown didn't dodge. Han Yingying's knife severed the clown's neck. His head fell to the ground and rolled twice.

The clown's body collapsed. His abdomen swelled. His skin became translucent, emitting a blinding red light from within.

"He's going to self-destruct," Lu Chen shouted.

Han Yingying was too close. She couldn't back away.

A powerful shockwave exploded outwards. The blast carried countless tiny steel needles. Han Yingying used her twin swords to shield herself. The steel needles pierced through her arms, thighs, and abdomen.

She crashed into the fleshy wall three meters away. She slid down.

Lin Qi ran over. Han Yingying was covered in steel needles. Blood soaked through her clothes.

His lung was punctured. His breathing sounded like a leaking bellows.

Zhou Yan walked over. He glanced at her. "She's beyond saving."

Han Yingying looked at Lin Qi, raised her right hand, and handed him the two swords in her hand.

"The knife is for you," Han Yingying said.

Lin Qi caught the two swords. The hilts were still warm from his body.

Han Yingying closed her eyes. Her chest stopped heaving.

There are three people left in the team.

The other guild members who were following behind turned and ran. Countless vascular tentacles emerged from the wall, sweeping them away without even a scream.

Lin Qi sheathed Han Yingying's twin swords in the scabbards at her back. She stood up. She didn't look at the corpse on the ground.

"Walk."

The passage narrowed. The concentration of the red toxic smog in the air doubled.

Zhou Yan's mask emitted a beeping alarm. The filter was saturated.

He took a spare filter cartridge from his backpack. There was only one left.

Lu Chen's mask also emitted an alarm sound.

Zhou Yan tossed the filter to Lu Chen.

"You're more useful than me," Zhou Yan said. He calculated that even if he changed the filter, his physical fitness wouldn't last until the finish line. Lu Chen could change the rules. Lin Qi needed Lu Chen's cooperation.

Lu Chen caught the filter and replaced it on the face mask.

Zhou Yan removed his mask and inhaled a large breath of red poisonous mist.

He leaned against the wall and adjusted his glasses.

"This game design is really unreasonable." Zhou Yan closed his eyes and stopped breathing.

Lin Qi walked forward. Her steps were quick. She couldn't stop. If she stopped, she would start to think. Thinking wouldn't save anyone.

Lu Chen followed beside her.

The maze came to an end. A massive skeletal door stood before them, carved with hundreds and thousands of monster heads.

A faint blue light shone through the crack in the door.

Lin Qi placed his hands on his groin. He exerted force. The door opened.

Inside the door was a huge circular theater.

A stage was erected in the center of the theater. The audience seats were empty. A powerful spotlight shone directly above the stage.

A red leather sofa was placed in the middle of the stage.

A man was sitting on the sofa. He was wearing a floral shirt, beach shorts, and flip-flops.

The man was holding a bucket of popcorn and chewing it.

He watched Lin Qi and Lu Chen walk in. He placed the popcorn beside him and clapped his hands.

"Impressive. To actually make it this far," the man said. His voice was exactly the same as the one on the radio.

Lin Qi drew his gun. He aimed. He pulled the trigger.

The bullet left the barrel and stopped half a meter in front of the man, hovering in mid-air.

The man extended two fingers, pinched the scorching hot bullet tip, and casually tossed it to the ground with a crisp sound.

"I call it Absolute Defense. The underlying physical rules," the man laughed.

He is a wisp of a celestial being, a higher-dimensional being. The sight of humanity struggling for survival fills his long, boring hours. He doesn't care whether players complete the game or not. He wrote the rules. He has the highest authority to modify them.

Lin Qi threw the rifle to the ground. He drew the short knife from his waist. He held the short knife in his right hand and Han Yingying's long knife in his left.

"Lu Chen. Break through," Lin Qi said.

Lu Chen walked to the edge of the stage. He crouched down and placed his hands on the wooden floor.

There are no ports on the floor. There are no data cables.

Lu Chen pulled the dagger from the side of his thigh and slashed his left wrist. Blood flowed out.

He pressed his bleeding wrist to the floor.

His eyes turned pure green. Countless streams of green code data emerged from his blood, spreading outwards along the floor.

This was no ordinary terminal intrusion. He forcibly connected his biological neural network to the theater's underlying logic processing center.

The man looked at Lu Chen, raising an eyebrow. "Interesting. You actually managed to find the underlying code architecture. However, you can't handle this amount of data. Your brainstem will burn out within three seconds."

Lu Chen's nose was bleeding. Blood trickled from his ears and eyes.

The green code stream gradually turned blood red.

The theater lights began to flicker. The air around the man seemed to distort.

Lu Chen looked at Lin Qi. "Ten seconds."

The man frowned. He realized that his absolute defenses had been breached by a logical flaw.

Lin Qi rushed forward, unleashing her full speed. She leaped, using the edge of the sofa as a springboard.

The man raised his hand. His palm transformed into a black claw, reaching for Lin Qi's neck.

Lin Qi swung her longsword with her left hand, striking the claws. The blade chipped, and the recoil cracked her hand.

She used the momentum to spin in mid-air. Her right hand plunged the short knife towards the man's throat.

The man took a step back, dodging the blade. He opened his mouth and spewed out a stream of black flame.

Lin Qi didn't dodge. He charged into the flames. His combat suit caught fire. His hair was singed and curled.

The flames burned through the skin of her left arm. Extensive areas of muscle tissue were carbonized.

She rushed towards the man. The two were less than half a meter apart.

The man's expression changed. He hadn't expected this human to withstand the flames of a higher dimension.

Lin Qi tossed aside the long knife with her left hand. She grabbed the man's floral shirt collar and yanked it down forcefully.

The short knife in his right hand pierced the man's chin from bottom to top, penetrating his entire skull. The tip of the knife emerged from the top of his head.

The man stopped moving. A gurgling sound came from his throat.

He looked at Lin Qi. There was no fear in his eyes, only extreme excitement.

"Game... over." Black blood gushed from the man's mouth. "You won this round. But the amusement park... is huge."

The man's body turned into a pool of black water, flowing onto the stage.

The system announcement sounded. The original inorganic electronic tone was restored.

"The main god's avatar is destroyed."

"SSS-rank dungeon: God's Playground. Cleared."

"Survivors: 2. Granted permanent survival rights. System shut down."

The theater began to collapse. The surrounding scenery turned into white fragments, peeling away piece by piece.

Lin Qi collapsed onto the stage. The fire on his body went out. His left arm was completely useless. His pain receptors were completely numb.

She looked at the black water on the ground. She knew this was far from over. This was merely an avatar of an evil god. The so-called strange descent was just a pastime.

She turned to look at Lu Chen.

Lu Chen lay on the edge of the stage. Blood flowed from his seven orifices. The green light in his eyes had gone out.

Lin Qi stood up and walked over, his steps unsteady.

She crouched down beside Lu Chen, checking his breath.

There was still a breath. Very faint.

Lu Chen opened his eyes. His vision was blurry. He looked at Lin Qi's face. It was covered in blood and ashes.

"I won't die," Lu Chen said softly.