When Lin Zhizhi left, Shao Lan had already had a bad premonition.
Yet it was just a premonition, so he had only bought a weapon for self-defense at the vending machine before going to bed.
After all, having lived in a law-abiding society for too long, he only bought a knife and hadn’t thought about guns, leaving him completely on the defensive at this moment.
Right now, the robbers’ strategy of sending two people to 803 and one to 802 made Shao Lan completely certain—
Lin Zhizhi had sold out their information.
Otherwise, how could the robber gang know them so well?
Nursing bitter resentment, the knife in his hand sliced through the air with a whistling sound. Shao Lan’s face was expressionless; he no longer had any intention of holding back.
Zhang Fang was shocked. Disregarding attacking Shao Lan, he shoved Xu Nan aside: “Brother Nan, watch out!”
The dagger missed, and Shao Lan’s face sank.
Zhang Fang’s fighting skills could be described as extremely, exceptionally good.
Unlike Jiang Mingran, whose physical fitness was simply from studying sports, this guy was a trained martial artist with a vast amount of combat experience.
Xu Nan clearly knew this too. The first thing he did after escaping death was toss the nail gun to Zhang Fang: “Fangzi, kill him!!”
Zhang Fang caught the nail gun and aimed at Shao Lan.
Thinking to himself that this was bad, Shao Lan threw himself forward to grab a chair for cover.
Nails flew out from the gun, leaving deep, clean holes all over the chair.
Zhang Fang’s combat power was clearly the highest, but because Xu Nan was the brains of the three-person gang with the highest status, and he was too short and unathletic to fight well, he usually held the nail gun.
Seeing that Shao Lan was about to be cornered by the nail gun, Jiang Mingran dragged himself up and crashed into the yellow-haired man closest to him.
The two locked into a tangle of hand-to-hand combat. Trembling like a sieve by the doorway, Uncle Bing suddenly let out a roar and charged at Xu Nan holding the induction cooker.
Xu Nan: “?”
The induction cooker landed squarely on Xu Nan’s head, and he collapsed, seeing stars.
“Brother Nan!” Zhang Fang yelled, turning his head.
“Kill… kill him!” Xu Nan scrambled back up, picked up the induction cooker, and smashed it down on Uncle Bing.
Though filled with grinding hatred for Uncle Bing, Xu Nan understood that the core figure on the opposite side was Shao Lan.
As long as Shao Lan was dead, dealing with the remaining two wouldn’t be a problem.
Taking advantage of the chaos, Shao Lan had already bolted into the hallway. Xu Nan and Zhang Fang gave chase, and the yellow-haired man also shook off Jiang Mingran and followed along.
Despair flooded Jiang Mingran’s heart.
Shao Lan was very smart, but it was three against one, and the enemy included someone with overwhelmingly strong combat power like Zhang Fang.
Shao Lan was practically facing certain death.
Using his remaining strength, Jiang Mingran tilted his head to look down the hallway. The corridor was pitch black, completely devoid of any light sources.
Visibility was equally zero in the robber trio’s field of view, and they had no idea where Shao Lan was hiding.
“It’s fine, he’s on this floor, he can’t escape,” Xu Nan instructed. “Yellow-hair, guard the stairwell. Fangzi and I will search along the hallway.”
The yellow-haired man acknowledged and headed off, while Zhang Fang and Xu Nan searched step by step.
Suddenly, Xu Nan grabbed Zhang Fang’s arm.
Zhang Fang looked in the direction Xu Nan was pointing—a vague, shadowy figure was squatting in the corner of the hallway.
Could it be Shao Lan?
“Careful, it could be a trap,” Xu Nan whispered a warning. “That kid is extremely scheming.”
Zhang Fang raised the muzzle of his gun and fired a nail into it; the dark figure didn’t budge at all.
“As expected, it’s fake,” Xu Nan said bitterly, turning to head the opposite direction. “The elevator is right ahead, he shouldn’t be on this side. Let’s search back the other way; the kid most likely ducked into one of the other rooms.”
Zhang Fang nodded.
However, the moment he turned around, the sound of a sharp weapon cutting through the air came from behind him.
Zhang Fang lunged hard to the side, but in the end, he couldn’t completely avoid it. The weapon grazed his neck and stabbed into his shoulder.
Zhang Fang spun around and fired the nail gun in rapid succession.
In the extremely faint light, he caught sight of Shao Lan’s blood-stained face.
That shadowy figure really was Shao Lan!
What kind of sheer willpower was this? He had taken a nail gun shot head-on without making a single sound, ultimately tricking right under their noses!
The nail gun’s accuracy in the dark was terrible, but with continuous close-range firing, something was bound to hit. Sure enough, after a few shots, the sound of a dagger dropping to the floor echoed in the darkness.
Shao Lan’s hand had been hit!
Zhang Fang’s spirits lifted.
He switched the nail gun to his left hand, drew a cleaver with his right, and slashed forward. With his immense strength, the damage from this blow would be far greater than the nails, capable of delivering a one-hit kill.
Shao Lan was a dead man!
Shao Lan backed up abruptly, but his back had already hit the wall, leaving him nowhere to retreat.
Zhang Fang smiled, stepped forward, and swung his blade down once more.
Shao Lan didn’t dodge at all! He took that slash straight on, then used the momentum to grab Zhang Fang’s shoulder.
Using his final strength, Shao Lan violently spun around while gripping Zhang Fang, shoving him backward against the wall.
What good is that? Zhang Fang almost wanted to laugh. Shao Lan didn’t even have a weapon left; did he really think slamming someone against a wall could kill them?
Until he felt his back press against a protruding object on the wall.
The moment Zhang Fang realized what that was, his brain went blank with a deafening roar.
No! Don’t!!
Zhang Fang frantically tried to stop his momentum.
However, Shao Lan leaned forward with the momentum, crashing into Zhang Fang.
The protruding object was pushed down.
Xu Nan’s face turned ashen white. He stood in place, not stepping forward.
It was meaningless now.
He couldn’t believe that Shao Lan, with his physical strength completely suppressed, could have thought of this method.
Shao Lan having nowhere left to escape and backing into the wall had actually been planned all along.
He used this method to press the elevator button.
Then, in a split second, he forced Zhang Fang to press it as well.
With his body full of nails and a slash wound, Shao Lan used a trade-off strategy to take down their combat ceiling, Zhang Fang.
At that moment, the elevator doors slowly opened.
“No! I don’t want to go back in, I don’t want to…”
Zhang Fang panicked and ran toward the hallway, but the property management woman had already appeared like a ghost, standing before him with a flashlight.
“Are you going to violate the owner regulations of [Xingfu Community]?” The property management woman still wore that signature professional smile.
Zhang Fang felt his hair stand on end. He pointed at Shao Lan, who had already stepped into the elevator: “No, I didn’t press it! It was him! He pushed me against the wall so I hit it! He broke the rules! Go punish him!”
Under the cold, white light of the elevator, a heavily injured Shao Lan sat leaning against the ground. He didn’t speak, just smiled with a face covered in blood and filth.
The property management woman acted as though she completely didn’t understand human speech, asking Zhang Fang with a smile: “Are you going to violate the owner regulations of [Xingfu Community]?”
Zhang Fang trembled. He knew what the consequences of a violation were.
Filled with immense resentment and fury, he stepped into the elevator.
“Weapons used inside the building cannot be brought into the dungeon,” the property management woman reminded. “Otherwise, it will also be considered a violation of the regulations.”
Zhang Fang closed his eyes and tossed both the nail gun and the cleaver out of the elevator.
Xu Nan hurried forward to pick them up.
However, just as he wanted to grab the weapons and make a run for it, the property management woman, as if she had discovered something, turned toward him: “Oh, property owner Xu Nan, you are also a participant in this [Game Dungeon].”
Xu Nan was stunned: “Why? I didn’t press the button!”
“A small number of dungeons are by invitation only,” the property management woman smiled. “What a coincidence, you’ve been invited to this dungeon.”
“I refuse!” Xu Nan’s hands were shaking. “Isn’t it an invitation?! I refuse this invitation!”
He turned around and started to walk away.
The property management woman smiled and asked, “Are you sure you want to violate the owner regulations of [Xingfu Community]?”
Xu Nan instantly froze.
Damn it! What kind of invitation is it if you can’t even refuse?!
Watching the property management woman walk toward him, Xu Nan completely lost his nerve. Helplessly, he dropped the nail gun and cleaver in his hands and stepped into the elevator.
“I will definitely kill you,” he said viciously to Shao Lan.
Shao Lan smiled weakly.
“You failed to seize the best opportunity to kill me,” he said. “It’ll probably be very hard to kill me from now on.”
The elevator doors closed, and the property management woman smiled and bowed: “Wishing all three of you a pleasant game.”