Minecraft: Steve came to the back room

Another food vending machine, but this time it doesn't sell drinks, but all sorts of snacks.

After taking a few bags of free potato chips and chocolate, Yang Bo knocked the vending machine off and put it in his backpack.

"Vending machine (snacks)"

"Instant noodles, bread, potato chips, chocolate, peanuts, almond water..."

"In the back room, the inventory is automatically refreshed and replenished every 72 hours."

"P.S.: Every time you take a vending machine, there will be one short in the back room. Don't you feel any remorse?"

'Isn't this supposed to refresh infinitely? Is there a limit to the total number?'

He touched his chest.

'Those who have no conscience earn even more!'

Although he joked about it in his mind, he also made up his mind that from now on, he would avoid demolishing facilities that benefit the homeless if possible.

The three grown men, eating potato chips and drinking cola, explored forward. Perhaps because the happy aura they exuded was 'unpleasant' to the real thing, they didn't encounter a single real person after wandering around for at least two hours.

However, an exit to other levels was discovered.

At the end of the empty corridor on level 4, there is a black iron door half-blocked by a filing cabinet, with the word "BASEMENT" crookedly written on it in white paint.

Yang Bo found "Eric's Legendary Notebook" in his backpack and flipped through it to the one marked with the exit.

"If you encounter an iron or wooden door marked 'Basement' or 'Storage Only' in level 4, then that is the entrance to the Void Basement in level 71."

"Level 71 Void Basement..."

Yang Bo didn't have much of an impression of the deeper levels of the back room, since there were just too many levels.

He closed the legendary notebook and looked at Zero and Wright:

"This is the exit to the Level 71 Void Basement. To be honest, I don't know what's going on down there, and I can't guarantee your safety. I really hope you can survive, so we can say goodbye here."

"Boss, we're already here."

Wright smiled and said, "I told you, wherever you go, we'll go!"

“If it weren’t for you, we would both be dead when we encountered those two hounds.”

Zero nodded in agreement.

"In that case, wish us good luck."

Anyone who can survive for months in the back room will take responsibility for their choices.

The mental influence and special entity in the back room acted like a sieve, filtering out those homeless people with mental and physical problems one by one.

Chapter 57 Level 71 The Void Basement 2

The iron gate hinges were rusted shut, so Yang Bo kicked the door open, and a cold, ozone-smelling wind rushed out from behind.

Behind the door was an extremely narrow concrete staircase, pitch black inside, where the level 4 lights couldn't reach at all.

He took out two torches and handed them to the two people behind him.

"You two walk side by side behind me. If anything unusual happens, stay calm."

"understood."

The two men took the torches, and the yellow light dispelled the darkness in the stairwell.

Holding an iron axe and shield, Yang Bo stepped into the descending stairwell. The steps were covered in dust and cracks, looking as if they could collapse at any moment.

After taking just a few steps, the whole world quickly faded to black and white, like a pantomime from long ago.

"head…"

"Calm down. This is just a characteristic of this level. The color has changed, it's not a physical entity."

"No, I felt footsteps behind me."

Upon hearing Wright's words, Yang Bo frowned slightly. He did not turn around but continued walking down.

Is the sound still there?

"It's still there."

"Hallucination? Logically speaking, my physical fitness is better than yours, but I didn't hear any sound. Don't worry about it, don't be nervous, just keep a good attitude."

This is where the advantage of bringing along two ordinary homeless people becomes apparent; they act like living radars, able to warn of potential psychological dangers in advance.

"Ok, I know."

"If you feel scared, drink almond water. I have enough almond water here for both of you to take a bath."

"Haha, boss, I'll have to try this sometime."

"Survive first, then we'll talk."

The staircase was long, and the surroundings grew increasingly dark.

When the group reached the bottom, the stairs and doors behind them completely disappeared, leaving only an infinitely long gray wall and three sides of dark void that devoured everything—a truly empty dark void.

"Don't move yet, let me check the message."

He took the "Legendary Notebook" out of his backpack and flipped through it; sure enough, the contents had changed.

Level 71 – “The Void Basement”

Survival Difficulty: Class 2

Unsafe, unstable, small number of entities

Level 71 is a vast, unfinished underground area.

The entire structure consists of cold cement floors, monotonous concrete pillars, and scattered old scaffolding. The entire area is stripped of all color by invisible rules, forever presenting a monotonous tone of black, white, and gray!

Except for one long southern wall, all other directions are endless nothingness.

The air was bitingly cold and utterly silent, save for the faint echoes of the wanderer's footsteps and breathing, occasionally punctuated by the alluring sounds of memories.

Existing entities

Hounds, fur thieves, low-frequency auditory hallucinations.

主要危险：

1. Spatial rule restrictions: Once you step into a level, you cannot go back or turn around. The path behind you will completely disappear. You can only move forward in one direction, and there is no way to turn back.

2. Auditory Hallucinations that Corrode the Mind: Every so often, a memory echo is triggered, playing the most cherished sounds, slowly eroding reason and leading people into an endless void.

3. Depletion of bodily energy due to low temperature: The deeper you go, the lower the temperature becomes, which will gradually cause numbness in the hands and feet, hypothermia, and in severe cases, loss of mobility.

4. Risk of being swallowed by the void: If you stray too far from the south wall, you will be pulled and swallowed by the invisible void around you, and disappear completely into the back room.

5. Absolutely dark environment: There is no natural light source in this level. The probability of being ambushed by entities is doubled in the absence of light, making it extremely easy to be ambushed in the dark.

6. Body Etherealization Effect: If one ventures too deep into the interior for too long, the physical body will slowly become transparent and ethereal, eventually merging with the void and remaining there permanently, unable to escape.

Yang Bo memorized the information in the notebook, then turned to Zero and Wright and said seriously, "I checked the floor information. This place is extremely poor in resources and extremely dangerous."

“Here, apart from the three of us, any familiar voices you hear are just hallucinations, not even your own father’s voice, understand?”

Zero and Wright exchanged a glance, then Zero spoke, "Boss, we just came in. I know you're the real deal, but over there..."

He pointed to the dark void in the distance: "There's been a voice calling for me to hurry over, and... it's your voice."

Yang Bo: "..."

"Hehe, damn it, you came up here to play like this, huh? You two stay close by, and drink some almond water every now and then. Remember, no matter what, don't leave this wall. If you stray even a little too far, you'll never be able to come back."

"understood."

The two responded and immediately leaned against the only gray wall.

Seeing this, Yang Bo nodded, holding the torch in his hand, and walked forward. After walking for about ten minutes, a figure also walked towards them, close to the wall.

"Stop."

Zero, who had been resisting the sound coming from the void, suddenly stopped and accidentally bumped into Yang Bo.

"head…"

There are people ahead.

Wright pulled out a bottle of gray almond water, gulped it down, and aimed his gun at the figure in front of him.

Is it a physical entity or a person?

Meeting someone in this godforsaken place is more stressful than meeting them in person.

Many people who suffer a mental breakdown will engage in indiscriminate killing.

Those who shout, "I can't tell, I really can't tell!" are the most dangerous.

"do not know."

Low-level skin thieves have extremely difficulty communicating with normal people, but high-level skin thieves are impossible to distinguish from ordinary people based on conversation and appearance alone.

"Wait for the right opportunity to act."

"Ah."

The guy in the distance with the backpack and flashlight had obviously seen them too. He stopped immediately, looked at the dark object in Wright's hand, and quickly raised his hand.

"I am human, don't shoot."

Because the whole world had turned black and white, Yang Bo couldn't immediately tell the other person's age, so he lowered his voice:

"I'll go ahead and make contact with them. If they're an unknown entity, you guys turn around and run. If you find anything unusual about the wall, that's the exit."

"Unknown entity? Boss, what if it's a skin thief?"

Yang Bo chuckled: "If it's a skin thief, then I'll skin it alive!"

Wright: "..."

Forget that Yang Bo is a ruthless man who can take down a physical body with a single axe blow. If a mere skin thief is facing his head head-on, it probably won't even have a chance to regret it.

"Don't move from where you are now."

Yang Bo temporarily put away his iron axe, raised his shield, and walked towards the other person. The figure instantly tensed up, and his body involuntarily stiffened.