Without choosing the grappling hook, Wen Xishu believed that with his skills, akin to master assassin Ezio, he could handle any climbing challenge.
With a handle and electric chainsaw, plus gloves, Wen Xishu was confident he could get out of here.
At this moment, the most anxious one was naturally Aspasia:
"Wang Ying... you, you will protect me, right?"
Aspasia could feel that Zheng Zai was the most kind-hearted person, while Wen Xishu harbored malice towards her.
But Zheng Zai wouldn’t deliberately save her; the only one she could turn to was Wang Ying.
Wang Ying nodded:
"Don’t worry, we are all from the Stone Gambling Society, I will definitely protect you."
Aspasia felt slightly relieved.
After Wang Ying finished speaking, he looked at Wen Xishu:
"Brother Wen, what do you think I should choose? I can assist you, like with a lamp or glasses, I can use those too."
"Or if you think I need to use combat-suited items and charge ahead, I will charge ahead."
Wen Xishu didn’t expect that rushing through twelve levels had such a big impact on Wang Ying, making him so cooperative. It seemed Wang Ying had faced a lot of troubles in level nine and truly felt the difficulty of clearing it.
Wen Xishu said:
"We don’t know the strength of the monsters outside, so it’s best if you choose something that can keep you alive, preferably with combat attributes."
Wang Ying said:
"In that case, I’ll choose the vacuum cleaner, if it can absorb attributes and statuses, I can charge ahead."
Wen Xishu nodded.
Actually, Wen Xishu had another combat ability: the eerie sequence·37 mental barrage.
Besides gathering information, the mental barrage had another function—thoughts could materialize at certain moments, viewed as a summoning effect.
He could also control the materialized barrage by consuming some special energy.
Wen Xishu had seen this trick used by Deceit Jack in Jack’s Mysterious Tower. The dense barrages directly materialized.
It was like some kind of resentment.
But Wen Xishu never knew how to use it. Even now, he hadn’t fully developed all the abilities of the sequence.
Zheng Zai held an electric chainsaw, Wang Ying held the vacuum cleaner, Wen Xishu had a ball underfoot, gloves on, and holding handle, while the wine glass was kept safe.
Wen Xishu had gotten the optimal solution thanks to the Compass, but Zheng Zai and Wang Ying should identify a few more items.
However, they were now in a state of readiness, the two standing on either side, shielding Wen Xishu and Aspasia behind them.
The reason was that they had already sensed... the threat from outside the building.
The weird, chilling light laughter had already arrived. This kind of sound usually only appears in horror movies, like in a very quiet environment, suddenly a resentful voice laughs lightly by the ear.
Aspasia looked back but found no one.
To finish the task was simple; first, go downstairs, then leave the hospital. The four of them were now on alert, beginning to move downstairs.
When the sound of footsteps was heard in the hallway, the light laughter became sharper.
The third floor, just reaching the stairway on the third floor, Wen Xishu felt a coldness.
A woman in a bloodstained striped patient gown, with long hair, stared at Wen Xishu and the others with a venomous and greedy gaze.
Then, blood footprints appeared on the ceiling.
The battle began.
A monster with invisible abilities appeared; if not for the blood footprints it left behind, there was no way to tell where it was.
But Wen Xishu didn’t alert the group to deal with the invisibly crawling monster on the ceiling; instead, he controlled the handle to have Zheng Zai deliver a powerful tiger kick to the long-haired woman.
The ball shot out a straight line, like a laser cannon, directly piercing through the ghost woman.
With a shrill scream, the long-haired woman fell to the ground.
Outside the building, countless monstrous roars emerged, and from the third floor’s wards, dozens of high-tier constantly transformed beings, holding various items, in patient gowns flowed out.
They barely retained human outlines, almost devoid of any human characteristics.
Many parts of these monsters’ bodies had twisted and mutated; some grew tentacles on their hands, others had mouths full of sharp teeth on their chests, and some were covered in ghastly tumors.
They still wore patient gowns, evidently former patients.
Awakened by the long-haired woman’s scream, these monsters frenziedly charged at Wen Xishu and the others. The ball instantly returned to Wen Xishu’s foot, but this time Wen Xishu didn’t have Zheng Zai kick the ball, but made Zheng Zai and Wang Ying, one wielding the electric chainsaw, the other the vacuum cleaner, block the monsters.
At the same time, Wen Xishu snapped his fingers.
Snap, all the monsters charging in momentarily froze; no matter what kind of abilities their items had, at that moment, they all turned to clay.
The items in the monsters’ hands mainly came from the museum.
However, Wen Xishu deliberately didn’t destroy one item: the invisible patient gown.
Because it was by wearing the invisible patient gown that the monster initially able to hang upside down on the ceiling and crawl like a spider could silently approach Wen Xishu and Aspasia from behind.
At this moment, in the hallway, Wang Ying and Zheng Zai, like a gate, blocked the other monsters.
And the monster wearing the invisible functional patient gown immediately extended a proboscis-like a mosquito and stabbed—Aspasia, who was standing at the very back, in the neck.