“The Mad King Building wants to punish the Twilight Building? A level seven dormitory beating up a level eighteen dormitory?”

Xu Lang stared at the blood-colored arm, feeling like there was a lot worth pondering here.

Just then, he heard a chattering sound.

He quickly turned his head and found that the girls’ eyes were fixed and glazed, their teeth chattering as if they were suffering a massive psychological shock!

“Don’t look anymore. Go lie down on your beds!” Xu Lang pulled up the Tenant panel and saw that Wang Yazhi and the others’ SAN values had all dropped below sixty. He couldn’t help but jump in shock.

“Mary, Miaoying, send them back to their beds!”

At the command, Mary and Miaoying immediately sprang into action.

That blood hand was withered, gaunt, with skin patterns like endlessly spiraling whorls—bizarre and nauseating. It had inflicted a tremendous mental blow on the girls.

Xu Lang was used to it; the eye from his Nightmare Eye had the same constant spiral. But Cao Yaxuan and the others couldn’t handle it.

If they kept watching, their SAN would keep dropping.

Thankfully, once the girls were back on the Nightmare Beds, their SAN began to recover.

As everyone knows, 18+ content is harmful to kids, but once you’re an adult, it’s just addictive!

Xu Lang sat back down on the sofa, continuing to watch the Mad King Building operate.

After being pinned down by the massive blood hand, the Twilight Building screamed even louder, and its structure began to decay bit by bit!

Shit!

This wasn’t punishment—this was devouring!

It was eating it, consuming it whole!

Xu Lang watched helplessly as the blood hand slowly drained the Twilight Building dry, sucking in a cold breath. At the same time, he started getting anxious.

Building, don’t go crazy on me!

I was just messing around when I complained about you being lackluster before!

Working this hard is making your father really worried about your mental health!

One minute you’re scared the building’s having a rough time, the next you’re scared it’s gonna buy a Range Rover.

If the Mad King Building gets stronger, is it going to turn its back on me, the one who helped it out?

Eating the Twilight Building? That was partly my doing too.

Xu Lang was now seriously wondering if his move to recruit the Twilight Building’s players had been part of the Mad King Building’s plan all along, or if it was just taking advantage of the situation as it unfolded.

If the Mad King Building was a businessman, it would absolutely be the ultimate super black-hearted merchant. On the third day of cooperation with a partner, their own people had already crippled the other side’s operation. And now that the other company was in crisis, it was capitalizing on the chaos!

While Xu Lang was lost in wild thoughts, the Mad King Building had already finished its meal.

The Twilight Building was reduced to ashes, leaving a vast, empty stretch of white—truly clean and pure.

This was a dormitory that had survived eighteen rounds of the game, and now it had been devoured by the Mad King Building!

The blood-colored giant arm retracted, leaving sparks and lightning in its wake.

Then, the entire Mad King Building began to tremble—violently!

Rumble...

The Mad King Building was rising!

The furniture inside Dorm 200 rocked back and forth. Xu Lang stood steady as a pine, perfectly balanced, and adjusted his surveillance view. He noticed that everything around the Mad King Building was shrinking!

It wasn’t that they were getting smaller—it was that the Mad King Building was getting bigger!

Originally just over a hundred meters tall, by the time it stopped shaking, the building had shot up to over two hundred meters!

And keep in mind, for civilian residential buildings, a hundred meters is already forty stories. Anything above that is considered a super high-rise!

“It stopped...”

Senior Sister Red Butterfly poked her head out from behind her bed curtain, a look of lingering fear on her face.

Even with her tough mentality, she was stunned by the Mad King Building’s commotion.

The Mad King Building had never made such a big move before.

【Mad King Building Broadcast——】

【Mad King Building Hidden Trait Revealed——Usurpation】

【Usurpation: Plunder everything from affiliated buildings】

The cold, slightly insane dormitory broadcast echoed through the building, with no follow-up content.

Immediately after, everyone received a quest.

The quest was issued by the Pioneering Hall, and it popped up an impatient reminder.

【Dormitory Quest “Confidentiality Agreement” (Easy)】

【Quest Content: All players in Dorm 200 sign a confidentiality agreement, agreeing not to disclose any information regarding the Mad King Building’s hidden trait. This is a group quest requiring all players in Dorm 200 to complete it together.】

【Reward: Mad King Dormitory Map Fragment x16】

In front of Xu Lang materialized a contract paper radiating a bloody aura.

“Xu Lang, the dormitory building is sending us hush money.” Cao Yaxuan pulled open her curtain. A contract paper appeared in front of the other girls too.

Everyone was waiting for Xu Lang to make the call.

Xu Lang stared at it with his Nightmare Eye for a while. Seeing no hidden traps, he was about to nod in agreement.

But Senior Sister Red Butterfly let out a loud curse and started grumbling.

“Pfft, what kind of crappy map is this supposed to make us shut up?”

Senior Sister Red Butterfly was completely uneducated. The Mad King Building map was sitting in the storage room, and she’d never even bothered to look at it. She had no idea it was the Dorm Owner Token.

Everyone was speechless.

They could all tell—Senior Sister Red Butterfly was scared by the Mad King Building’s display, and she was just lashing out in frustration.

Xu Lang ignored this blockhead and was about to agree when the quest prompt flickered suddenly.

The content stayed the same, but the reward changed!

【Reward: Mad King Dormitory Map Fragment x16, Dormitory Upgrade Count x2】

Everyone’s eyes lit up.

“Red Butterfly, curse at it a few more times!” Zhen Lu encouraged.

Senior Sister Red Butterfly froze for a moment, then a malicious grin spread across her lips. “I won’t agree unless you give a higher price... Mad King Building, you don’t want the secret about you harming other dormitories to get out, do you?”

This time, the quest gained a three-minute countdown timer, but the reward content didn’t change.

It could be negotiated, but there wasn’t much room for haggling.

Seeing that there was nothing more to gain, everyone signed the confidentiality agreement.

The agreement was thorough and detailed, with no lethal threats involved. If Xu Lang or the others tried to speak its contents, it would turn directly into “nothing.” Other entities wouldn’t be able to probe it either.

Sherry looked at Mary. “Mary, do you know what just happened?”

Mary maintained her perfectly composed demeanor and replied, “After the Machine King left, the game ended.”

“Just that?” Sherry pressed further.

“Mm.” Mary frowned.

Wasn’t that the case?

Sherry asked Miaoying and the Firepower Girl the same question, and their answers matched Mary’s perfectly.

It turned out that some things weren’t even visible to dormitory-level units.

Just as everyone was talking, the dormitory broadcast rang out in rapid succession. The insane tone carried a festive cheer, as if it were the New Year.

【Mad King Building Broadcast——】

【Through the Blood Mist, we advance hand in hand!】

【Round Seven of the Game has ended. The Mad King Building has made significant progress, leveling up to Level 9, gaining ten new floors and 200 new dormitory units!】

【New buildings added: Soul Factory, Monster Factory, Facility Factory, Raw Material Factory!】

【New Forbidden Land added: Twilight Curtain!】

【Supermarket upgraded, Pioneering Hall upgraded, Merit Tower upgraded, Angel Church upgraded, Player Benefits upgraded, Chat System upgraded, Item Display Method upgraded!】

【Recruitment rules changed: No restrictions on recruited players’ experience or race!】

【Rejoice! As the dormitory building grows, the types of dormitories available to players increase, weapon types increase, item types increase, and the quality of refreshed resources in safe zones improves!】

【In the future, gameplay will become even more diverse!】

【Survive by any means necessary!】