Underworld Player Chapter 80 - How to Team Up

As soon as the door closed behind them, the light faded rapidly, and the Players were soon plunged into darkness as they stood in the hall on the first floor of the building.

Nonetheless, the broad daylight outside filtered through the windows and soon, their eyes adjusted to the dim interior. Looking around, it was clear enough that the hall was just as empty as the rest of the orphanage so far, and the only features in this otherwise open space were some scattered pieces of furniture.

There were two routes that led out of the hall and to the higher levels: the first was a switchback staircase to the west, while the other way up, to the east of the hall, was a plain lift.

Knowing that there must be supernatural entities around them, only an idiot would think to try the lift. If anything were to happen in a small, cramped space like that, there would hardly be enough time for a Player to activate any of their skills.

After several more attempts at forcing the door open to no avail, Iron Blood turned around and said, frowning, "Sealed in."

"That's only to be expected." Traveler smiled as he pushed his gold-rimmed glasses up along his nose. "If the door could be opened and closed freely, then there would be nothing challenging about the first objective. The task is simply to locate the survivors and guide them out of the building, after all.

"Remember what I said about the lack of time limit? In order to do this more efficiently, I propose we search the building by splitting into smaller teams. Moving around in a group of seven is too slow, and makes us an obvious target. I think 3 teams should be the best, and we should group up based on—"

He was interrupted by the Player known as "Douchey, SoWhat", who spat a melon seed shell on the ground.

"Pah, why should we listen to you anyway?" His mocking smile and overall body language spoke strongly of a rebellious, delinquent attitude. "Watch any horror movie, it's obvious that splitting up is the dumbest thing to do. I'm against it."

Traveler looked unfazed as he

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