Underworld Player Chapter 42 - The Auction House and the Black Market

A sweltering summer's day.

First Central People's Hospital, Marina City.

As the air conditioner struggled to tame the heat of the afternoon, a dozen or so students struggled to pack themselves into an otherwise serene hospital ward.

"The students affected by the incident are all here, but if you're going to be here a while, please watch yourselves and keep the noise down," said a young nurse in a white coat and a face mask, addressing the group of students who had come to see how their friends were doing. With that slightly stern warning, she left the room in a rush.

A total of fifteen students had been admitted to the hospital as a result of the gas leak incident that occurred a few days ago at Marina City University. Thanks to the medical attention provided, their vital signs were in good shape, but not a single one of them had shown any signs of waking up, so returning to school was out of the question.

A committee of students had organized this visit on behalf of concerned fellow students, and Bai Zhi had somehow snuck in amongst the group.

One thing baffled Bai Zhi—why had they taken special care to buy baskets of fruit like watermelons, bananas, and apples?

The patients they were visiting were comatose, after all. Who was going to eat all that fruit? Certainly not the patients. Not to mention, the weather was so hot that their "thoughtful" gifts would likely spoil before the end of the week.

O poor apples, how sad they must be with nobody to eat them...

Bai Zhi casually tossed the core of the apple he had just finished into a nearby bin and headed into the toilet. Bai Zhi found a shady corner, then activated the Shadowland Pass. Several seconds later, a doorway of purest black materialized before him.

Based on firsthand experience, he had reason to suspect that those students could be trapped in that bizarre corridor in another dimension, which explained why they were still comatose. As it happened, there was a piece of property in that so-called Shadowland waiting for him to claim it, so making the

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