Fierce Horror Dorm: Take a Concubine to Get Stronger

The shelter was brightly lit, the incandescent lights on twenty-four hours a day.

Zhang Liang hadn't gone far, leaning against the wall, his mind still replaying that dream.

Suddenly, movement came from the nearby dormitory.

The female doctor he had met in the cafeteria last time stepped out of her room.

"Zhang Liang, it's so late, why aren't you asleep?" The female doctor patted her chest, scolding lightly, "You scared me!"

"Had a nightmare," Zhang Liang replied.

"A nightmare? What a coincidence, me too." The female doctor forced a smile.

Zhang Liang's expression stiffened, and he abruptly turned his head, "What kind of dream did you have?"

"There was a black box in the dream..." As the female doctor spoke, her expression froze and she stared at Zhang Liang, "We didn't have the same dream, did we?"

Clack, clack, clack!

At that moment, door after door opened.

Researchers emerged from their rooms with anxious looks.

"What is going on? We had the same dream?"

"Did you dream of ghosts?"

"I dreamed a black box was chasing me!"

"Me too!"

...

"This isn't just a simple nightmare, this is a group supernatural event, go notify the professor and Officer Wu!"

"Wait, maybe we're infected by some supernatural substance, don't call anyone yet."

"Yeah, maybe it's just a dream?"

The staff were debating, and a squad of soldiers carrying bayonets had been drawn by the commotion, arriving in neat formation.

Now the matter could not be concealed.

The female doctor saw Zhang Liang and laughed, annoyed, "Zhang Liang, what's so funny?"

"I'm not laughing!" Zhang Liang said blankly.

If the others were only stressed, their stress meters had already maxed out!

He suspected he might be a T1 infection source.

The T0 infection source was Xiao Yi!

That black box in the dream—he seemed to have seen it in Xiao Yi's eyes!

He had experienced many nightmares about the black box these past days and had assumed it was just severe mental stress.

Now it could nearly be confirmed as a supernatural event, and highly contagious, possibly dooming the entire shelter!

How could he possibly laugh if he'd broken the celestial rules!? This was catastrophic!

"You're laughing, you haven't stopped!" The female doctor snapped.

"No..." Zhang Liang touched the corner of his mouth and found he really was smiling, the creases on his cheeks visible!

In an instant, an extreme chill climbed up from his heart, making him feel like he'd fallen into an abyss!

Xiao Yi, when tied to the restraint bed, loved to laugh hysterically.

He couldn't possibly be like him, could he?

As the fear deepened, Zhang Liang's self-awareness began to waver.

The Demon Box Curse seized the gap, its concentration rising another level!

"I can see you..."

The staff were reporting to the soldiers, the noise a chaotic clamor, but amid that confusion, the words Zhang Liang uttered quieted everyone.

All eyes turned to Zhang Liang at once!

The voice was too bizarre, its hertz different from a human voice, like an acoustic weapon that could plunge people into fear and physical discomfort.

"The one who just spoke isn't..." Zhang Liang's voice returned to normal, but he was completely stunned.

My god!

How much trouble had he caused!

...

"Finally seen them!" Xu Lang's mouth curved up, a trace of excitement shining in his eyes.

He had no idea what was happening in the real world, or how long it had been since he entered the Dorm Survival Game.

Zhang Liang's natural sensory perception was hit-or-miss, but after this incident it would only sharpen.

Among everyone in that shelter, Zhang Liang's level of curse infection was the highest.

Earth was the second refuge he had chosen for himself.

The first refuge was Mad King Building.

Xu Lang wouldn't abandon Mad King Building unless absolutely necessary; without the Mad King Building player identity, he'd be stuck lying in bed forever.

Since he was already here, Xu Lang planned to deepen contacts with Grandmaster Building and Celestial Demon Building, but before he could act, the Mad King Building broadcast sounded.

[Mad King Building Broadcast—]

[Blood rain passes, the land collapses, corpses float on the Blood River, they carry unknown deadly pathogens, do not approach!]

Before Xu Lang could fully process the broadcast, a private message popped up.

[Wang Yazhi: Xu Lang, hurry back, many floating corpses are drifting on the Blood River!]

...

Mad King Building.

Most buildings inside the Safe Zone had been flooded; standing on the upper levels of Mad King Building and looking down revealed a vast scarlet lake.

Blood rain still fell from the sky, black-red blood clouds piled up.

It was a complete scene of apocalypse.

Corridor on the twentieth floor.

Wang Yazhi, Cao Yaxuan, Han Zhixiu and the others all went out, standing at the guardrail staring outward.

Across the endless scarlet lake, desiccated corpses floated.

On other tall buildings, Blood Mist creatures also watched, occasionally glancing at Mad King Building.

Even if they wanted to attack Mad King Building now, they had no way to get over here.

"Are these corpses blood-mist creatures that died in this Blood Calamity? So many!" Yan Xiaoli quietly stepped closer, amazed.

At that moment, a black vortex gate appeared and Xu Lang walked out.

Yan Xiaoli's eyes lit up.

She had known Lang Ge would come!

"Xu Lang, you're here!" Wang Yazhi stood without wearing frog-hide gear, dressed in ancient-style clothes, her white robes brighter than snow; the exposed skin was smoother and paler than the fabric, like a moon palace fairy.

Not long ago, Wang Yazhi's Rakshasa Sequence had advanced, gaining the three abilities "Fearless Seal", "Great Might Seal", and "Bright King Seal", corresponding to control removal, increased resistance, and damage boost.

A good fighter must have a control break skill.

"What's the situation?" Xu Lang took a few steps forward and asked.

He had been intervening with infection sources on Earth and hadn't paid attention to changes here.

"These corpses are strange, we are holding off for now." Xu Ruyan took over, speaking, "Logically, if these were proper floating corpses, they should have arrived earlier. Some sudden trigger must have caused these corpses to appear."

"Reasonable." Sherry nodded.

"This trigger isn't ordinary, and these floating corpses won't be ordinary either." Xu Ruyan stopped and looked at Xu Lang, "Xu Lang, what's outside the Safe Zone like now, are there floating corpses there too?"

Xu Lang stared at the floating corpses and slowly said, "There are, but they're different from these; these are too dry!"

The floating corpses on the Blood River below showed no signs of waterlogging; instead, each was extremely desiccated, as if all the blood had been sucked out, and they had no hair.

"Complicated origin, this is troublesome!" Cao Yaxuan inhaled sharply, cold energy swirled in her hand as she wanted to knock down two floating corpses to test.

"Look at those corpses, don't they all look very human, skulls smooth, facial features intact!" Kui Zi had the best eyesight among them and an extremely strong information-capture ability.

After her Sequence promotion, she had begun using AI-assisted combat; many doubts others couldn't spot the AI proactively reported.

Yan Xiaoli's ears perked up, her heart a little bewildered.

Isn't it right that the corpses look human?

Then she suddenly felt alarmed.

Maybe it really wasn't right!

If the Blood River floods, it should be flooding blood-mist creatures, where would it get humans to flood?

"They're human corpses, they look a lot like the mummies our Rakshasa Country makes," Gu Ya said confidently, then added, "Where did these human corpses come from?"

Xu Ruyan speculated, "Could Mad King Building be playing tricks?"

"Doesn't seem like it, the dormitory buildings themselves are special and can attract some demons and ghosts, so that's normal." Xu Lang shook his head.

He had already figured things out.

[Nightmare Eye·Blood River Desiccated Corpses: Guardians' floating corpses of the 'Progenitor of Humans', do not disturb... they are merely passing through]

"Do not disturb? I'm afraid we've already disturbed them!"

When Xu Lang arrived, he saw players attacking those floating corpses.

There was no choice; those corpses looked too much like monsters.

Keeping monsters away from the dormitory building was part of the players' base code.

"Stop hitting them all!"

Xu Lang still issued the command.

His voice penetrated both reality and the Demon Box Curse field, ringing in almost every player's ears.

The Progenitor of Humans sounded formidable, perhaps as ruthless as the Machine King; these floating corpses were still dormant now, but if they awakened they'd be level thirty monsters.

Ordinary bosses don't recruit so many level thirty monsters as underlings.

Xu Lang couldn't afford such extravagance now.