Sprinting along the elevated highway, there were almost no hiding spots in sight. Gu Mian was already starting to run out of breath. It would have been fine if he were running alone, but unfortunately, he was dragging Xia Tenghai and Xiao Feng, this useless couple, along with him. After running for ten minutes, these two had basically completely lost their ability to move. If Gu Mian hadn't brought them along, they would have already been fed to the monsters. To be honest, Gu Mian really wanted to abandon these two halfway, but this was a difficult-level instance dungeon. If even one player was missing, the difficulty would increase exponentially. Gu Mian himself had never cleared a difficult-level instance dungeon before. The closest he had ever gotten was just one step away. If he abandoned his teammates and tried to clear a difficult-level multiplayer instance dungeon by himself, the difficulty would be too great. Fortunately, Xu Tong didn't need his help, otherwise, if he were dragging three people along, Gu Mian would definitely choose to abandon one teammate first to save his own life. "You're pretty good at running..." Gu Mian asked Xu Tong, drenched in sweat, "Have you trained before?" Xu Tong calmly turned his head. Even after sprinting for more than ten minutes, his expression was still the same as ever. "It's alright, I'm a sports student." A... sports student?
Gu Mian was stunned for a moment. This sports student was quite impressive. Xu Tong looked back at the monsters chasing relentlessly behind him and said, "This doesn't feel good. If they keep chasing us like this, we'll probably die of exhaustion before we die at the hands of the monsters." It's me who's about to die of exhaustion! Gu Mian was dragging two people along. When he first heard that all three of them were level seven, Gu Mian thought this round would be his weight training, but no one told him it was real weight training! This was going to kill him! "H-haven't we... found a place to hide yet?" Xia Tenghai was already showing obvious symptoms of nausea and vomiting. His stamina could be said to be completely drained. Every step he took felt like he was moving legs filled with lead. Gu Mian's stamina was also running out, but the monsters behind him were still chasing relentlessly. In the darkness, these monsters were like they had endless stamina, their chasing speed didn't decrease at all. If this continued, the ones who would die first would definitely be them, the players! Maintaining the current safe distance, these monsters wouldn't launch an attack at least, but if the distance was shortened, it would be hard to say. What to do? He had to think of a way! While escaping, Gu Mian looked around and noticed several cars parked horizontally in the middle of the elevated highway, dividing the entire elevated highway into two sections. The door of one of the buses was half-open, making it easy for one person to squeeze in. "Forget it, let's get in the bus first! Let's see if these cars can block those monsters!" Without any hesitation, Gu Mian squeezed out his last bit of strength and rushed into the bus with Xia Tenghai and Xiao Feng, while simultaneously reaching out and pressing a button in the empty driver's seat. Chi—— The bus door slowly closed, and the monsters in the distance quickly chased to the front of the bus. Gu Mian quickly signaled everyone to hide themselves, trying their best not to be discovered by the monsters outside. The monsters with twisted heads wriggled their tentacles that replaced their skulls, wandering outside, with no intention of leaving. "What do we do?" His voice was a little hoarse. Xia Tenghai swallowed hard. "It feels like these guys are determined to guard us. This isn't a good sign." Gu Mian didn't reply, he just looked up at the bus window.
It wasn't difficult to climb out of the window to the other side of the bus, but every move they made now could attract the attention of the monsters outside. They had finally gained some breathing room, they couldn't allow themselves to be forced into a desperate situation again in the next second. Moreover, if the night didn't recede, they would always be in this dangerous state, because the instance dungeon description had already said that there was more than one of these monsters. He had reason to believe that there were more monsters ahead on the elevated highway. This was a difficult-level instance dungeon! Sure enough, the pressure was too strong! "Hiss... Huff..." Just as Gu Mian was thinking about a countermeasure, Xiao Feng suddenly exclaimed and said in a low voice, "Look at the sky!" Looking towards the sky, the dark clouds that had been blocking the entire sun and covering all the sunlight finally receded at this moment, revealing the blinding white disk. The sunlight re-poured onto the earth, and the monsters whose entire heads had mutated received the sunlight's baptism, their bodies began to tremble violently, the tentacles extending from their skulls retracted, and the eyes growing on the surface of the tentacles gradually degenerated and disappeared. They returned to the state where their entire head was occupied by a giant eye. Correspondingly, they no longer had the previous aggressiveness, and were more like neutral NPCs wandering in place. Seeing this, Gu Mian finally breathed a sigh of relief, "Great, it seems the crisis is temporarily resolved. As long as the sunlight is still there, we are safe." After the extreme fear and crisis were resolved, Gu Mian and the others finally relaxed, and fatigue filled their entire bodies like a tide. Even moving their arms was quite difficult. Resting while sitting down to recover stamina when you can't run anymore and resting while sitting down to recover stamina after your stamina is completely exhausted are completely different concepts. "I can't move at all..." As soon as Xia Tenghai finished speaking, Gu Mian looked at the time, "We have a maximum of three minutes to rest, and then we have to continue moving forward." "Three minutes?" Xia Tenghai's eyes were about to pop out, "That's too little time, I take longer than that to finish!" Xiao Feng glared at him, "Are you sure?" "Don't interrupt when adults are talking!" Gu Mian seemed relatively calm, "Resting is useless. If we don't complete the main quest, we will always be in danger. Not to mention the instance dungeon description also mentioned a BOSS that kills you upon encounter. The longer we drag this on, the greater the possibility of encountering the BOSS, so we must complete the main quest as soon as possible." His words made sense, and although Xia Tenghai was a little discouraged, he chose to agree. At this time, Xiao Feng suddenly raised her hand, "I... can I ask a question?" Gu Mian nodded, "You say." Her gaze swept over Xia Tenghai and Gu Mian, and she asked timidly, "Are we... missing someone?" Hearing this, Gu Mian was stunned. Looking around, even including himself, he could only count three people. That's not right. Where did that guy named Xu Tong go?
