Where's the cute girl we were promised? She's completely wiped out S-rank dungeons!

"I'm just worried something might happen if you sleep too long," Song Yuan said matter-of-factly. "How are things on your end? Where are you now? We're coming to find you."

"I'll come find you," An Xiaoyou snorted. "I'm in the main building across from the administration building. That brat is still alive, squatting in the corner crying right now. The students at this school hardly take any art classes, so there aren't many people here, and there aren't any monsters."

"A multi-purpose building?"

"A multi-purpose building?!"

"A multi-purpose building?!"

The three people gasped in surprise upon hearing the news. Qiao Ran stood up and looked out through the gap in the blinds:

"No way, what are you doing in a place like that? Did your mental energy drop too much and you start hallucinating?"

The distance between the main building and the administration building is almost the size of a sports field, roughly 150 meters. Xu Tai'an was able to cross the main building because he had a gun; the bullets could deter the monsters. But An Xiaomei had nothing, and the outdoors was the most densely populated area of ​​monsters. How did she "fly" from the administration building to the other side?! An Xiaomei doesn't seem to have any teleportation or flight items, does she?

"You wouldn't believe me even if I told you."

An Xiaoyou scoffed coldly: "Back then, wasn't that guy with kidney deficiency the one who came to pursue me?"

Then, clutching her trophies—a venomous fang and a sobbing seventeen-year-old high school boy—An Xiaomei huffed and puffed her way up to the fifth floor. She knew her level was low; facing an S+ level player like Liu Gaosheng meant certain death. But her luck was high; if she hid somewhere, she wouldn't be easily discovered.

An Xiaoyou relied on her intuition to choose an unlocked archive room, ran in with the child, and turned off the lights as she closed the door.

Liu Gaosheng chased them to the fifth floor, only to find that he had lost them. So he and his beloved pet split up and began searching for them.

An Xiaoyou never expected that her usually excellent luck would turn out so badly this time. Upon entering, she found a middle-aged man, around fifty years old—wearing a uniform, presumably the librarian—lying on a recliner with his head tilted back. His throat had been ripped open by the monster's claws, and bright red blood had splattered onto the white curtains, forming a large, circular stain.

Having survived so many trials and tribulations, An Xiaoyou remained completely unfazed by this scene. However, the high school boy next to her was terrified; his face paled, his legs went weak, and he was about to scream. An Xiaoyou quickly covered his mouth, sternly warning him in a low voice:

"If you want to live, shut the hell up! Do you want to attract that weak-willed bastard outside?!"

"Mmm..."

The little boy shook his head in terror, as if he had something to tell her. An Xiaoyou suspiciously released his hand, and the boy said in a trembling voice:

"This is Uncle Xu. He often came to our ward when I was hospitalized."

He briefly explained to An Xiaoyou. It turned out that there was a pretty female classmate in their hospital room, and they were friends.

This librarian, known as "Uncle Xu," frequently visited their ward, bringing all sorts of books to please the female student. Every few days, he would take her to his rest room, though it was unclear what they were doing there.

Every time that female classmate came back, she was listless, as if something had drained her of all her energy. Later, she started to have mental problems, and less than half a month later, she jumped off a building.

An Xiaoyou guessed in a second what had happened to the "girl" in this story. Her gaze towards the man's corpse turned disdainful and disgusted.

"Turns out he was a beast... It's a good thing he died, ridding the people of a scourge."

She muttered to herself, preparing to take the boy to find a hiding place. As she turned around, she caught a glimpse of the bright moonlight shining on the man's hand, and some kind of black smoke was slowly rising.

An Xiaoyou's pupils constricted sharply, realizing that something terrible had happened and that she probably couldn't hide here anymore. But it was too late. The smoke quickly condensed before her eyes into a completely black monster with two long, thin claws.

The little boy was so frightened that he fell to the ground. The monster hadn't expected that two pieces of fresh flesh would be delivered to its door so soon after it was born. It raised its head, roared, and charged towards them.

The loud noise startled Liu Gaosheng, who was searching for An Xiaoyou in the stairwell, and his pet snake. The man and snake's eyes flashed, and they swiftly attacked the direction from which the sound came.

"Damn it! Why am I having such bad luck this time?!"

An Xiaoyou cursed loudly, dragging the high school boy around the archives room, trying to escape through the door. But the monster seemed to have gained intelligence; it leaped forward and pulled the key out of the lock.

An Xiaoyou used the crying little boy as a shield in front of her, her face darkening: Could things get any worse?

The answer is yes!

At the same time, a pale hand slammed down. Through the window in the door, An Xiaoyou saw Liu Gaosheng's face, which had been suffering from kidney deficiency for almost fifty years.

An Xiaoyou: "..."

That's it, she's doomed. Caught in a pincer movement, she's definitely going to die today.

Liu Gaosheng originally wanted to avenge his beloved pet, but seeing this scene in the room, he smirked with schadenfreude. It seemed that he didn't even need to lift a finger; these two were going to die inside.

The monster rampaged through the room, seemingly disliking the little boy's scent, a dislike that extended to An Xiaoyou as well. It pounced on him several times, but An Xiaoyou dodged each time. Liu Gaosheng, standing guard outside, frowned.

"The monsters in this dungeon actually show mercy to students?"

While hiding, An Xiaomei thought of a way to escape. There were air conditioner units outside the library. If she jumped down from there and stepped on the units one by one, she might be able to survive.

But that would mean giving up on the boy, and Liu Gaosheng would definitely chase after her once he found out. The space to dodge in mid-air was very small; even the slightest sway could force her down.

Just then, she suddenly saw the monster, flying through the air, accidentally crash into the curtain stained with large patches of blood. Strangely, when it hit the clean part, its body passed right through the fabric. However, when it hit that area, the curtain was arched into a circular bulge, which then returned to its original shape.

A bold idea suddenly popped into her mind. She patted the little boy next to her:

"Hey, cover me!"

The boy exclaimed in disbelief, "Huh?! Me?"

"If you don't hurry up, before that thing scratches you to death with its claws, I'll throw you out the window first!"

Forced by An Xiaoyou's tyranny, the little boy could only cry and spread his arms wide, screaming in terror as he tried to shield her from the monster's claws.

An Xiaoyou ripped off the stained curtain and spread it on the ground. Then she dragged the old pervert's corpse off the rocking chair and made several cuts on the important blood vessels. Before the corpse had cooled down, warm blood immediately flowed out, quickly staining the snow-white curtain red.

"Feeding?! What are you two doing?"

Seeing An Xiaoyou's unusual behavior, Liu Gaosheng, standing outside the door, suddenly sensed something was wrong. He quickly took out a prop:

[Ding~ Player "Liu Gaosheng" has used the item "Universal Decoder"]

Five seconds later, the door lock clicked open. But An Xiaoyou was already prepared. She opened the blood-stained curtains and wrapped the monster in the cloth as it swooped down again.

She grabbed the little boy who was still crying in fear, opened the window, stepped onto the monster's back, and jumped out.

Liu Gaosheng opened the door and ran in as fast as he could, reaching out his hand to An Xiaoyou's retreating figure, but he was still a step too late:

"Holy crap—! What the hell is going on?!"

"Aaaaaah—Help me!"

A strong feeling of weightlessness washed over him, and the little boy let out a heart-wrenching scream in mid-air. But the next second he realized that the two of them did not fall as expected, but instead stood on the monster's back and floated in the air with it.

The monster's carpet-like hem was stuck to the curtains, holding them firmly like a flying carpet from a fairy tale. The monster darted wildly through the air, its thrill comparable to a roller coaster. An Xiaoyou gripped its head tightly—or rather, something like a tuft of hair—controlling its direction. She screamed in despair:

"What the hell?! It's carrying two people, why isn't it sinking?!"