Underworld Player Chapter 105 - "Life's Hard Disk"

Once Traveler and Bai Zhi clambered up the hole, Iron Blood, who had been standing by with more containers of gasoline, poured the flammable liquid onto the creatures below. It was the best they could do, but the firewall could only stall those creatures for so long.

As could be expected, the rooftop of the orphanage's main building was a flat, open space, and the Players easily spotted what they were looking for. While Iron Blood was guarding the hole, the other Players had gathered at the northeast corner.

There, by the wall, were two figures, curled up and weak from exhaustion.

"Lin XiaoYi?? Err..."

Bai Zhi balked when he recognized one of the survivors.

After reading the bloody diary, he had been prepared to find two survivors, judging by the reference to the "two newcomers" mentioned in the final entry, but the last thing he expected was for them to be people he knew.

...What the heck are the campus belle and her friend doing here, of all places?

"Phew, they don't look injured, just fainted from prolonged hunger and thirst. They'll recover with proper care." Temperance Gentleheart sighed with relief after inspecting the two unconscious figures.

"They really were on the roof, after all... Now, how are we going to get them down?" said Traveler, frowning as he turned his head toward Iron Blood, and the hole in the floor.

They had quite literally burned their bridges to get to the roof, effectively cutting off the most obvious escape route. However, the quest objective did not simply require them to find the survivors, but also guide them safely out of the building.

As he watched the flames leaping up through the hole, Traveler racked his brains to think of a way they could make it back the way they came, but reached the grim conclusion that it was impossible.

"We have one minute!" said Iron Blood.

"Obviously we're going to jump. What other way is there?" said Bai Zhi, as he took out a coil of climbing rope from his Inventory. After finding a place to anchor it, he turned to Temperance Gentleheart.

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