Three floors underground.

"Are we going to stay here until we die?" the girl said, sitting in the corner of the room, "or do you have any ideas?"

Ma En opened his eyes:

"I have a way, but...

"How long have you been waiting?"

Ning Changkong stood up and shrugged:

"Half a minute."

"I almost followed you in. Logically speaking, you don't have time to sit down." Ma En said, "But time is not constant in physics."

There were sparse footsteps outside.

Both the girl and Ma En looked towards the door.

Click.

Something opened the door.

The first person to walk in was an old man with wrinkles on his face and so thin that he could see the shape of his bones. When he saw Ma En and Ning Changkong, his face showed obvious joy.

"These two newcomers look very beautiful." Behind him, a fat man covered in green fish scales squeezed in, and his eyes greedily glanced at the space between Ma En and Ning.

go.

The third person who walked in was a woman. The left half of her face no longer had any flesh and blood tissue. It was replaced by an insect-like chitin carapace. The huge compound eye occupied two-thirds of the space on the left side of her face. Her left arm

It also looks like the pincers of some kind of insect.

The skinny old man said:

"You are lucky. You didn't encounter the cannibal cult on the seventh floor underground, nor did you run into the homeless people on the eighth floor. You also escaped the crazy beasts on the ninth floor, and were found by a few of us.

"Besides, you are both good-looking. I even want to disfigure you."

Insect Girl said:

"The queen will be very satisfied. Come with us. Don't be afraid of being scared by us. Not to mention that you won't even have a chance to escape, and you will be like us soon."

The fat fish man suggested:

"I'm hungry, can you pull off both arms first?"

The old man said:

"The queen doesn't want defective products. Just bear with me. I can't bear to peel off their skins."

When he heard the skinning, the fat man, whose whole body was covered with fish scales, took two steps back in fear.

Ning Changkong looked at the scene in front of him, stood silently behind Ma En, and said in a low voice:

"I don't know if it's my fault, but I saw a skeleton, a fish monster, and a crustacean insect with female characteristics."

Man said:

"A few...

"Can you listen to me for a few words?"

The three weirdos looked at him at the same time.

The old man grinned and said with a strange expression:

"Okay, I was worried that you two would be scared away, but I didn't expect you two to be quite calm."

Ma En asked:

"Can you introduce me to this place, such as the queen you call, and the other floors just mentioned? We are new here..."

"Very good, very good!" The old man's tone was close to crazy jealousy, "A courageous man and a beautiful girl, she will definitely like you very much."

The girl whispered behind Ma En:

"Are we going to run away?"

Ma En quietly raised his hand to signal her not to panic.

"Come out with us and have a look." The old man motioned his companion to go out with his eyes, "Let's talk later."

They followed him out.

Then, both Ma En and Ning Changkong noticed that this was contrary to reality.

Except for this door, there are stretches of dark walls on both sides behind him. The corridor looks like a deep darkness with no bottom, and the ceiling is dozens of meters high.

The old man led them back in the direction:

"This place is infinitely more spacious than the hospitals you know before. Corridors are connected to each other with almost no end, and the former halls have become empty squares, even enough to form tribes.

"Same as above, there are nine floors here, three, four, five, seven, and eight. These floors have their own rulers and residents, and the ninth floor is where the expelled beasts gather."

Mahn noticed that he did not mention the first, second and sixth floors.

"And our ruler here is the Queen. She likes beautiful boys and girls very much, so you are lucky that you won't be like us running around for a living, in vain to delay the inevitable death."

"What is a herd?" Marne asked.

The insect woman sneered and replied:

“What is a herd?

"We are, I am, and so are you. Look at us. This is your future. We will not die easily here, but every time you are injured, you will be pushed into a crazy beast."

Fat Fish Man added:

"It will also bring strength."

The woman said:

"Yes, but the more you gain, the more you lose.

"There are only two ways here, become a mad beast, or be truly killed,"

Ma En asked with a normal expression:

"What is real killing?"

"There are some strong men." The old man said hoarsely, "They can grant others true peace and kill you directly and completely, and they are feared and worshiped for this.

"The rulers of the five floors are all such strong men."

Man said:

"What about the other three floors?"

The old man glanced at him sadly:

"The sixth floor has collapsed for many years. It used to be no different from other floors, but at some point, no one can go there anymore.

"As for the first floor, no one really knows what is there. There are passages to leave, hell, heaven, and so on.

"The most terrifying monsters who care about this gather on the second floor. It is a forbidden area that only the strong can enter. Other floors will communicate with each other, but if you enter the second floor without permission...

…

"The strong men everywhere there will kill you ruthlessly and use your meat to delay their transformation into beasts."

And the door you left is on the second floor?

It seems that he has been underground in the past and entered the second underground floor, where he left the "employee passage" of the control bureau through a method that he cannot remember.

The old man suddenly stopped:

"Almost forgot."

He raised his palm and stretched his sharp bony fingers out of the skin:

"Every newcomer must hand in a finger to see your potential."

After the words fell, the three weirdos looked at them, with some strange emotions flashing in their eyes, and their expressions gradually became fierce, as if they did not intend to give Ma En and Ning Changkong any chance to refuse.

This is indeed the rule of the underground floor. The strength of the beast transformation can often be seen from its performance, but this is not the reason that drives them to insist on doing so.

It is said that there is a passage back to the ground on the underground level, but only pure ones without any signs of animal transformation, or pure beasts, can pass there.

"Can I not cut it first?" Ma En asked politely.

"It's not up to you." The old man showed a bloodthirsty smile, "If it didn't look okay, we would have torn off your limbs for dinner.
Chapter completed!