Fantasy Game: Infinite City

As soon as they entered the building, a strange thing, perhaps a feeling, quickly enveloped the three people. This feeling was not unfamiliar. It was like the feeling of being soaked in sweat and sticky after exercising for a long time in humid hot weather.

Although it is summer in Q City, which is located on the other side of the earth, even some coastal locations are never so humid. This is definitely not normal.

"Boss, something is wrong. I can't use my abilities anymore. It's like something has cut off my connection with energy!"

After hearing what Zhao Xuan said, Han Zu and Su Qing immediately stopped and tried to use their abilities. Su Qing found that he was in a similar state to Zhao Xuan and could not use any strength at all.

Han Zu's condition was relatively better, but his skin was like an indestructible cage at this time. Although Han Zu could communicate with the powerful force generated by the Gift of Death, he could not use the energy from his body.

“Gu…”

At this moment, a strange sound came from deep within the building. It was hard to describe what it was like, but at least Han Zu and the other two had never heard such a sound before.

The three people who were unable to use their own abilities had to rely on their weapons. Han Zu took out the hand cannon from his waist, pointed the muzzle in the direction of the sound, and then slowly walked over.

Zhao Xuan and Su Qing looked at each other, nodded, and followed Han Zu who was walking in front.

The club building is not small and the space is large. Although the lighting and electricity in the facility have not been interrupted, this situation makes the surrounding environment even more eerie.

There were many corpses standing in the wide corridor. Like the guards on sentry duty outside, their bodies had become dry and full of wrinkles. With the slightest touch, they would fall to the ground and turn into ashes.

On both sides of the corridor, many rooms were locked from the inside. It seemed that some people with quick reactions had hidden in the rooms in advance.

Although Han Zu was also unable to use any abilities, his physical fitness strengthened by the Gift of Death was real. After knocking on the door several times and getting no response, Han Zu stretched out his finger, broke the door lock, and pushed it. There was something blocking the door from behind. Han Zu pulled the door outwards and saw some overturned cabinets used to block the door.

Reaching out to push away the cabinets and obstacles, Han Zu poked his head into one of the opened rooms. After confirming that there was no danger, he waved to Zhao Xuan and Su Qing behind him and walked in.

"Except for the objects used to block the door, nothing in the room had been disturbed."

"The people hiding in the room are in almost the same state as the corpses outside, except that after they are pushed down, they will not completely turn into ashes. Instead, they will be left with dry skin that looks like shredded paper."

Zhao Xuan originally planned to use the scanner he brought with him to scan these slightly different corpses, but the scanner malfunctioned, the system was constantly interfered with, and could not be used at all.

"Look in the other rooms."

Han Zu and his two companions spent some time checking all the rooms on both sides of the corridor and found that the people in the room, whether they had noticed or not, had all died in the same way, leaving only a layer of shriveled and wrinkled skin. However, the bodies in some rooms that had no closed doors died in the same way as the sentinels outside, turning into ashes as soon as they were touched.

"If we infer based on the clues we have so far, no matter what caused their deaths, if we can keep a certain distance from the energy, the impact should be reduced. However, the walls and doors of these rooms are very thick. If we want to completely isolate them from this influence, I'm afraid we need more space."

"And this... I can't really describe what it feels like, or what it's like. It should be a special energy field that can isolate our power and the signals from our equipment. No matter what causes these anomalies, it should be difficult to deal with."

As we continued to go deeper into the building, the number of bodies became fewer and fewer, but there was a lot more dust on the ground. At the corner at the end of the corridor, there were traces of something moving in the dust.

"This dust should be the dead people. Judging from this, the traces on the dust should be the cause of all this. I think we should follow and take a look."

The three of them followed the traces and came to a large Zen room. The sand on the ground seemed to be the crawling traces of a large creature, but it would be more appropriate to say that it was the crawling traces of a large creature.

Zhao Xuan went forward to check and found that the trace disappeared after reaching the exit on the other side of the Zen room. It was not the kind of gradual disappearance, but it disappeared suddenly.

Just as the three were about to continue following the traces and see if there were any continuations of the traces outside, Su Qing noticed something unusual on the wall next to him not far after walking out of the Zen room.

"Boss, look here."

There were a lot of traces of water erosion suddenly appearing on the walls, which looked like the kind of condition that would only appear in a riverbed that had been washed by water for many years. But now, they appeared on the walls of a private club that must have a dedicated person to maintain and care for it, which were cast with reinforced concrete.

Han Zu reached out and touched the place on the wall that looked like water erosion. Contrary to the expected damp feeling, it was very dry instead, and Han Zu also sensed some residual energy.

However, affected by the strange energy field inside the building, Han Zu's perception ability was greatly reduced, and he could only perceive a range of two or three meters around him. Such a distance was not enough for him to find the source through these residual energy.

Just when the three of them had no clue, slow footsteps were suddenly heard from under the stairs leading to the underground hot spring bath. Judging from the number of footsteps, whatever was down there, there were quite a few of them.

Prepared for a fight, the three men stood at a suitable distance from each other, leaned against one side of the stairs, and slowly walked down the stairs, ready to take a look at the hot spring bath. However, just as they walked down the stairs, the three men saw a group of life forms that were slowly wandering around, and they couldn't tell what they were.

These things, or life forms, come in all colors and shapes, but most of them are irregular strips. If we want to describe the appearance of these things in a way that is easier to understand, we can say that they are like some failed pottery, or clay blocks with leg-like shapes.

They moved very slowly and looked very wet and sticky. Some mud-like substance could be seen dripping onto the ground from time to time. They seemed to have no vision or hearing. Even though Han Zu had walked behind one of them, that thing did not notice Han Zu.

Han Zu gently touched the thing, but it did not react at all and continued to move slowly along its original route. Han Zu used a little force and pushed it to the ground, but even so, it still showed no hostility. Its clay-like body, even after it had changed shape, continued to wander slowly and aimlessly after struggling to "stand up".

Han Zu glanced at Su Qing and Zhao Xuan beside him. The two nodded, picked up the guns in their hands, and fired at the two things. Their mud-like bodies were broken up and scattered in various locations like slime. He took this opportunity to observe the inside of these things. As a result, there were still some mud-like things inside, but judging from the weak energy fluctuations coming from them, these things were definitely not mud.

"These things seem to be immortal, and even when we actively attack them, they don't show any hostility. This is really strange..."

"If our abilities aren't blocked, I might be able to try using my fire. These things are a bit like oozes and slimes or something like that..."

“Gu…”

The same strange sound attracted the attention of the three people again. This time the sound came from closer, as if it was in the deepest part of the hot spring.

"Go over and have a look."