"What the hell?" The boy was taken aback by the sudden tremor. "Is this a normal production process?"
He still had a glimmer of hope in his heart, but he saw the man on the balcony who was walking toward them suddenly stop in his tracks, and the look on his face became extremely horrified. It was as if he had seen something terrifying. He could no longer care about them, and he immediately rushed to the spiral staircase on the side.
"I don't think it's a good idea to stay here any longer," Kratos said with a solemn expression.
Although she had just entered this quest and had yet to figure out what this factory was for, she could feel that something bad was about to happen.
"Follow him," Zhang Heng said.
After that, he took a step forward, and the players in the room followed behind him as they ran toward the spiral staircase.
The players looked at their feet as they ran, only to find that not only were the cubes jumping more and more violently, but even the fixed insulating plates around them were bent by the tremendous impact. It was as if a terrifying demon was sealed under the circular cover, and the demon was about to break free from its cage and bring disaster to the world.
Without Zhang Heng's reminder, everyone realized the danger they were in. They quickened their pace, rushed down the spiral staircase, and came to a place about ten meters above the ground. There was a passage there.
They had just come out of the house, and they were not familiar with the "factory" at all. In fact, they had no idea where they should go in order to be safe. Under such circumstances, they did not have much choice. The safest way was to follow the man on the balcony. No matter what, the man was still an employee here. He wouldn't do something like this to himself … right?
But to be honest, no one was confident. As soon as they entered the passage, they lost sight of their target. Fortunately, they heard the sound of a door opening on the left. Judging from the sound, the door should be quite heavy, and the man on the balcony seemed to be struggling to push it open.
At the same time, everyone heard a humming sound behind them. Something that looked like a safety valve was opened, releasing white steam. It seemed to have relieved some of the pressure on the large manhole cover. However, it did not take long for the valve to break, and the movement under the circular manhole cover became even louder.
No one dared to delay any longer. They scrambled to the left. There, the man who had been standing on the balcony had already opened a security door that looked like a bank vault. He squeezed his body into it.
Zhang Heng was the first to arrive, but he was not in a hurry to squeeze in. Instead, he opened the gate a little wider, allowing at least two people to pass through. This greatly reduced the passage time for everyone.
After that, Zhang Heng, the engineer, and the boy worked together to close the safety door. Not long after they closed the door, they heard a loud noise coming from the other side.
The entire "factory" shook.
"Did something explode below?" The subdued youth continued to run forward as he said nervously, "I was really nervous just now. It was like a thousand pounds …"
Before he could finish his sentence, he heard an even more terrifying noise. This time, the "factory" did not just shake. It felt like an earthquake before the end of the world. The subdued youth could not even stand properly, and he fell to the ground. He saw a few cracks on the wall on his right, and even the steel bars inside were exposed. The lamppost above him had also fallen to the ground.
The air was filled with dust and dust.
The subdued youth's ears were ringing. After a while, he regained his hearing. He shook his dizzy head and asked, "Is everyone okay?"
The players responded one by one. With the safety door separating them from the explosion, they ran some distance forward. At the very least, the terrifying explosion didn't affect them directly, so the players didn't lose any of their members.
At this moment, Zhang Heng's attention was on the man standing on the balcony not far away. Although the latter had fallen, he seemed to be fine. However, there was no joy on his face, as if he had escaped death. Instead, he looked even more terrified. He muttered the same word repeatedly, got up from the ground, and stumbled towards the corridor in front of him.
And Zhang Heng only learned what the word meant after a long time.
"What should we do now? Should we continue to follow him?" The repairman patted the dust off his clothes.
"There's no need for that," Coconut said. "Looking at that guy, I think he is going to inform the others. I think he might even call the factory's security guards or something. If we continue to follow him, we will most likely be exposed. Even if we don't get exposed, there is a high chance that we will be asked to fight the fire. Of course, I will still obey the guru's command."
When Zhang Heng revealed his codename earlier, he attracted a lot of exclamations. However, other than the subdued youth, the other players still respected Zhang Heng more than they trusted him. After all, they did not have much interaction with Simon. They only knew that Simon was strong, but they knew nothing about his character and moral standards. Besides, they could not rule out the possibility that Zhang Heng was using Simon's name to stir up trouble.
Although most of the players were polite to Zhang Heng on the surface, they were still wary of him in private. They would listen to Zhang Heng's arrangements as much as they could, and they would only act when it went against their plans. However, after Zhang Heng opened the safety door not long ago, everyone was certain that he was not an absolutely selfish person who did not care about others' lives.
Many players had a good impression of Zhang Heng, and players like Coconut had begun to regard Zhang Heng as the leader of this team. They were no longer the kind of random team that randomly gathered people on the road. Now, they all had their own agenda.
Zhang Heng looked ahead. At the end of the corridor, about a hundred meters away, there was a room that looked like a control room. That was where the man on the balcony ran to.
Zhang Heng also wanted to go there and take a look. He should be able to find some clues related to the two explosions just now. Unfortunately, none of the seven players who participated in the game this time could speak Russian. Even if the clues were placed in front of them, they probably wouldn't be able to read them. In the end, Zhang Heng could only say, "Let's get out of here first."
The players did not object when they heard Zhang Heng's words. The explosion just now had shattered the glass in the corridor, and glass shards were everywhere. It looked like a mess. However, from where they stood, they could see that not only were there gravel and burning charcoal-like things on the ground, but there was also the door in the distance.
"Good news. At least we will be able to leave this damn place soon," Mouse said. "I'm about to choke on the smoke and dust here. And what is this smell? Why does my mouth taste like metal now?"
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