[Ding, Player No. 68316489, challenge… activate…]
Nancy was in a daze. She felt as if she had fallen into mud, and the voice beside her ear sounded cold and faint.
She could not hear what it was saying, and her body could not move.
She could only let herself sink deeper and deeper into the mud—
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"Hey, wake up. Please wake up. It'll be too late. You're not going to make it."
"Those behind, why are you still dawdling? Hurry up and run!"
"Wake up, quickly wake up!"
The voice became more and more urgent. Soon, the person grabbed Nancy's arm and dragged her away.
She could hear it gasping beside her: "The mud flow is coming. If you don't wake up soon, we'll both be washed away."
A rumbling sound followed closely behind them like a flood that sought to devour their lives.
Nancy opened her eyes.
Pain.
Her whole body ached. After she regained consciousness, the pain was even more thorough.
"Great. You're finally awake."
The girl who spoke was quite plump but also tall. She was about 1.7 meters tall and looked very cute when she smiled.
The person in front shouted, "The mud flow is reaching soon, hurry up!"
Boom—
Thick mud rolled over like burning magma, it was like a torrent that had broken through a floodgate.
The huge impact caused the cave to collapse, together with a huge wave of flowing mud.
The plump girl's expression changed drastically. She pulled Nancy and quickly ran forward.
Although she was fat, she had good stamina.
A young man in front of them was unable to endure the intense running and started vomiting while holding onto the wall.
"Stop vomiting. The mud is rushing over." The person beside him dragged him forward.
"I can't take it anymore… I can't take it anymore."
The person who was pulling him gasped and shouted, "If you stop, you will die. Do you want to die?"
Someone in front shouted, "We've found the exit. Hurry up and follow us!"
At the same time, the mud surged over.
"Ah!!"
Everyone felt the world spinning as they felt a strong sense of dizziness.
Those who reacted quickly covered their mouths and noses.
Then, the entire world suddenly fell silent.
There was not a single sound in their ears. It was eerily quiet.
The sounds of their breathing and clothes rubbing against each other were amplified in this extremely quiet environment.
"We… we're not dead?"
Everyone got up from the ground and looked at each other—
Except for the people running in front who were not submerged in the mud, everyone else's clothes and faces were covered with sticky mud.
They looked pathetic and pitiful.
"Are you alright?" The plump girl helped Nancy get up.
The two of them were running at the back, so their bodies were covered in mud.
The plump girl frowned as she looked at the young girl in front of her.
She was not tall and was wearing a thin white dress. However, she was covered in mud.
Her entire body seemed weak and feeble.
"I'm fine." Nancy wiped the mud off her face, even her voice was soft and meek.
"Wow! What big cloths."
Everyone quickly looked over. The black cloths that fell from the sky were like a huge black screen blocking their surroundings.
It would have been fine if these were just ordinary black curtains, but these curtains were ridiculously large.
They were as tall as the sky, and when one looked up, they could not see an end to them.
There were cloths all around them, surrounding them like a black cage.
The huge black cloths moved without wind, flowing like the waves. This scene really made one's scalp go numb.
"These cloths… are too strange."
The young lady subconsciously hugged the arm of the man beside her and said: "I feel so uncomfortable looking at them."
Both the visual and sensory organs were uncomfortable. This was a psychological discomfort.
This was somewhat similar to trypophobia and claustrophobia.
If one stared at them for too long, it would make their scalp go numb and feel suffocated.
A youth wearing a headband said, "It looks uncomfortable because of megalophobia. However, even if one had no phobia, when facing such frightening things, they would still feel uncomfortable."
The middle-aged woman rubbed her arms and said, "It's too scary. I have goosebumps all over my body. Did we accidentally enter the rumored hell?"
"No, this should be a dream, a very realistic dream." Everyone started making wild guesses.
After waiting for a while, someone could not help but rush over and pull at a black cloth.
The black cloth fluttered like a huge wave.
The person's pupils dilated as he stared ahead.
"How… is this possible…"
Four to five meters away from him was a huge black cloth.
It was just like the black cloth around them.
Everyone felt their scalps go numb as they lifted the black cloth around them.
"Black cloth! More black cloths. This place is full of black cloths."
"Why are they all black cloths?"
"Heavens, we can't leave…"
"I feel terrible."
The short-haired girl suddenly squatted on the ground and hugged her head, the huge black curtains dancing like a devil.
They bared their fangs and brandished their claws.
When they brushed past one's body, the hairs on their back would stand up and their scalps would go numb.
"What the heck is this place? What are these black cloths?"
Everyone was stunned.
On the black floor, there was a huge black cloth as well.
There were countless layers of them all around.
No matter how many times you lift it, there would always be another black cloth below.
They were as wide as the sky, without any wind, emitting a terrifying and strange aura.
"I can't stand it. What in the world is this place? I can't stand it."
The short-haired girl cried bitterly: "I was at a gathering with my friends, counting down to the New Year together. Why did I suddenly come to this godforsaken place? Whose prank was it?"
Someone hurriedly said, "Me too. Back then, I was counting down to welcome the New Year with everyone in the square. My vision went dark and I appeared in the cave just now."
"Me too. I was hanging out at the bar with my friends."
"My family and I were having a reunion dinner when we suddenly appeared in that cave…"
A middle-aged man in a suit said, "So, we all appeared here on New Year's Eve?"
Everyone looked at each other, clearly in the same situation.
"That's creepy."
Did they encounter a supernatural incident?
The huge black cloths swayed gently like black waves.
Those with strong mental fortitude were slightly better off, but those who were especially sensitive to such things had difficulty breathing and started sweating.
The plump girl pursed her dry lips: "We are of different genders and ages. It would appear that we were randomly sent here."
The youth with a headband said, "Wow, it sounds very cool. So, there really are supernatural things in this world. Haha."
The middle-aged woman's face was a little pale. She glanced at him and said, "You're young after all. Have you forgotten about the danger of almost being drowned by the mud flow earlier?"
"Why did we get teleported here? What the hell is this place? Sob, sob, sob, this is so scary. It's worse than staying in a sealed space."
The middle-aged man said, "Close your eyes and don't look at the black cloths."
The short-haired girl closed her eyes tightly and grabbed the arm of the boy beside her.
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