Underworld Player Chapter 97 - Puzzle with a Missing Piece

The sink, end of the corridor on the sixth floor of the orphanage.

After a long silence, Temperance Gentleheart said curtly, "...I'm getting the feeling that my life is being threatened right now."

"Oh, you have nothing to worry about. The likelihood of you being the traitor is pretty low, since you're not the sharpest tool in the shed. I had thought that your getting attacked multiple times in the Newbie Run was just bad luck, but now it's starting to look like you're really just foolish…"

Noticing the expression on her face, Bai Zhi tried to offer some words of reassurance.

"On the plus side, you may be a fool, but you're blessed with dumb luck—you're pretty good at running into neutral creeps, even if you're bad at everything else!"

"If this is your idea of comforting someone, I'd rather you… not," said Temperance as she pursed her lips. Changing the subject, she said, "Since the second objective has been met, what do we do now? Do we keep looking for possible survivors?"

"No. If I had to say, the first priority is to identify the traitor, then shed light on the truth behind the supernatural incident that happened here..." said Bai Zhi as he walked toward the stairs. "Right now, we could rendezvous with the other teams. Keep your skill ready—I don't know how they'll react but it will certainly be worth..."

Before Bai Zhi could finish his sentence, two notifications, barely a minute apart, popped up before them.

[ One secret source of strange activity neutralized ] x 2

Bai Zhi narrowed his eyes at the two notifications, then brought out his walkie-talkie. Soon, Traveler's breathless panting could be heard coming from it.

"Yeah, we were just attacked by a supernatural entity."

Traveler leaned against the wall, coughing, once again covered in cuts.

"It was something that looked like a cockroach but was the size of a cat, and its insides were filled with concentrated acid. We had no way to tell at first, so even though we took care of the supernatural entity, Viridescent's sword was corroded by the acid.

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