Act 7 "Wrath of the Machines," The Mechanical Army Swarms Out, The Entire Building Gets Wrecked!

[Act 6 "Rescue" Ended]

[Hidden Mission: All Ten Scientists Survived - Completed, Unlocking Hidden Stage "Wrath of the Machines"]

[Act 7 "Wrath of the Machines"]

[Game Background: The ten engineers with high-level Dawn City authority have escaped. Dawn Heart is furious beyond measure and has mobilized all of Dawn City's military forces to exterminate humanity... At this point, handing over the engineers is useless... Please survive under the wrath of the Machine King!]

[Game Duration: 0~3 hours]

"Holy shit, what does this mean?! We rescued a bunch of troublemakers, folks!"

"What do you mean 'all forces'? Don't tell me there are still Apocalypse Fighter Jets?"

"Fuck your mother, you stupid Mad King Building! Wasn't it you who told us to protect the ten scientists?!"

"Your mother is gone!"

In the corridors, wails filled the air.

Immediately after, all players fell silent, like geese being choked by the neck.

They saw Dawn City outside the Safe Zone shatter!

Pieces of light scattered, drifting away with the wind, as if a boundary separating reality from illusion had been smashed!

Steel monsters broke free from their cages one after another, marching toward the Safe Zone with clear targets.

*Whoosh whoosh whoosh~~~~*

Fighter jets roared, micro-missiles tore through the air at incredible speeds. Several players were locked on and discovered, while trying to flee, that these things were actually homing!

The micro-missiles exploded right against their bodies. Amidst the billowing smoke, dismembered limbs flew chaotically.

These few Mad King Building players were no pushovers either. They stubbornly dragged their bloodied, mangled bodies back to their dorm rooms.

They often controlled their SAN value, so losing a limb or suffering minor injuries was like a buff to them, only increasing their attributes.

*Crash~!*

*Whoosh whoosh whoosh~*

*Boom boom boom boom~*

[15 Gu Man: Too fierce, bros, the main gate's Durability is dropping like crazy!]

[88 Cao Bin: @Gu Man, even the Rakshasa Country bros are afraid of a hail of bullets?]

[82 Liu Tian: What do we do? The mechanical army is really launching a full-scale attack, with at least six-digit combat units! The firepower of a futuristic metropolis... we definitely can't hold out!]

[95 Zheng Ming: What else can we do? Pack up our stuff, then go kowtow to the Demon Box Lord!]

[90 Passionate Cockroach Hot and Spicy: @Xu Lang, Dorm Owner Daddy, save me! We can't hold on here anymore!]

The situation couldn't be clearer!

The moment the mechanical army moved, everyone knew their dorm rooms couldn't be defended.

Now, all problems boiled down to one single question.

That was whether Xu Lang could hold the line or not.

It wasn't just the Mad King Building players crying for help; the Twilight Building players were the same, though they weren't doing it in the chat room.

Xu Lang could even hear the *thump thump thump* of those players kowtowing.

In a way, the Taleblade Demon Box was a part of him; this was perfect containment.

If something unexpected happened in the future, it would be Xu Lang losing control, not the Taleblade Demon Box going out of control.

That's why Xu Lang had always been wary of this thing.

He wasn't a Taleblade Building player, but he had stolen the core gameplay of the Taleblade Building, which made him feel a bit guilty deep down.

...

Twilight Building.

Three players pleaded desperately toward the Taleblade Demon Box, cold sweat beading more and more on their foreheads.

The sounds of artillery fire outside were terrifyingly loud, as if unknown bombs were exploding right beside their ears!

The Twilight Building couldn't even withstand a modern military, let alone the military-grade firepower deployed by a futuristic city.

*Boom!*

The dorm room door exploded!

"The monsters haven't even reached the corridor yet, and the dorm door is already blown up! What kind of game difficulty is this?!"

The three Twilight Building players felt like they were going insane. The smoke of gunpowder outside the door was like Death's cloak, flickering in and out of sight.

The next moment.

The Taleblade Demon Box held by one of the players suddenly enlarged and swallowed all three of them in one gulp.

In the blink of an eye, the three found themselves in a new world.

This place was gloomy and desolate, with a grayish-white sky.

Yet, these three players felt an immense sense of peace, as if they had returned home, letting out a huge sigh of relief.

Besides these three, Twilight Building players kept appearing one after another, all looking thoroughly frightened.

Their proud Trump Cards and hidden aces were as fragile as paper in the face of the steel tide!

It couldn't be helped. Although the Twilight Building was level eighteen, its facility levels couldn't keep up at all.

Whereas the Mad King Building, though only level six, had facilities all above level ten, with the extravagant ones even having gems inlaid.

Later, Mad King Building players were also sucked into the Demon Box World.

They behaved much better, far from being as panicky as the Twilight Building players, already accustomed to screens full of monsters.

...

Xu Lang pretty much figured it out. Whether it was the Twilight Building or the Mad King Building, they had zero resistance against the steel army.

So, he simply sucked all the players into the Demon Box World.

Looking at the overwhelming firepower outside, Xu Lang pondered one thing.

That was, if there wasn't an unexpected BUG like him, how were the Mad King Building players supposed to clear this stage?

Finally, he arrived at a serious conclusion.

— A dead end!

The Mad King Building never intended for anyone to clear it from the start.

Without him, the Mad King Building might not even have been unsealed.

At the same time, there was another possibility: his existence had raised the dungeon's difficulty, causing the Mad King Building to react. But he would absolutely never admit that the truth was like this.

The world could be wrong, but he couldn't be wrong. Blame anyone, but never blame yourself!

"Lang Ge, the main gate is starting to lose Durability!" Xu Xiaomeng stood by the door, turning her head to say to Xu Lang.

"Don't rush." Xu Lang shook his head.

Sherry glanced sideways.

Every time monsters attacked the building, the two words Xu Lang said the most were "don't rush."

Everyone had basically never seen Xu Lang panic.

This was the confidence brought by proper management!

The mechanical army advanced step by step, its artillery fire baptizing the entire dormitory building. The Durability of dorm room doors was being cleared to zero one after another at a shocking speed!

One must know, due to the special structure of a dormitory building, firepower could only enter by threading through, which greatly limited the mechanical army's firepower output.

Before the mechanical army even truly reached the foot of the Mad King Building, only four dorm room doors remained standing firm.

They were Dorm 49, Dorm 170, Dorm 180, and Dorm 200!

...

Dorm 170.

Pandora held a black-and-white-faced teddy bear in her arms, watching the scene in her crystal ball, her little face pale.

Seeing the mechanical army getting closer and closer, she dragged her large and small bags, praying desperately to the Taleblade Demon Box, almost crying from anxiety.

"Please, please, please, take me away quickly!"

"Lady Pandora, don't you know you have to show your panties when making a request?" the Killer Bear quipped.

"Do you want to stay in the dorm and wait for death?"

"No way, Lady Pandora, you must take me with you!"

*Boom!*

An explosion sounded. The door of the Witch's Home was breached!

Pandora's little face instantly turned deathly pale. Her panties felt a surge of heat—she was sweating from fright.

The mouth of the Taleblade Demon Box curled up mockingly, opened wide, and swallowed her and all her luggage.