Floating silently behind the Wanderer, Yang Tao extended a tentacle onto the red mist emanating from his body.
'Is this… is this the taste of fear?'
A peculiar 'taste' transmitted into Yang Tao's mind; he couldn't describe this taste because he had never experienced anything like it before.
There was no similar taste to describe it.
He could only say it felt incredibly satisfying.
However, the Wanderer, whose fear was being tasted, trembled slightly, suddenly feeling drowsy, and his eyelids grew heavy.
"Hey, run!"
At this moment, a voice came from a distance, and two people dressed in M.E.G. uniforms ran towards the Wanderer, shouting loudly to warn him.
Yang Tao looked at the M.E.G. team running over from a distance and guessed their identities in his mind.
The 'Mirror' team, wandering in Level 365.
He immediately distorted his body and flew into the mirror, as he didn't want this group of people to know he could transform into a Sightless Seer, and even less did he want to be sprayed with white stuff by the guy carrying the Water Gun.
'I'd better use up the backpack cans first…'
Once he entered the Mirror World, the M.E.G. personnel were completely helpless; they could only take out Almond water and pour it into the Wanderer, helping him recover some spirit before leading him to the nearest safe elevator to rest.
After the people left, Yang Tao slowly searched for the figure of the Sightless Seer in the Mirror World again; he wondered if it was because the Wanderer had just attracted all the surrounding Sightless Seer, as Yang Tao flew for a long time without sensing a single one.
Having no choice, he could only fly out of the 'Mirror World', undo his transformation, and summon his magic broom.
After all, no matter how fast a Sightless Seer was, it couldn't be faster than a magic broom.
'Catch seventeen more…'
It wasn't that he didn't want to catch more, but there were only that many cans left in his backpack; however, these were temporarily enough, even for selling in the supermarket on Level 4 'Office' without issue. At worst, he could use hunger marketing, as Seer Tea powder was already considered a luxury.
Riding the magic broom, he sped wildly through Level 365. As he passed a crossroads, his peripheral vision caught sight of a 'Wretch' that was highly decomposed all over.
He quickly controlled the magic broom to turn back.
"I almost forgot that Level 365 has Entities."
Level 365 has quite a variety of Entities, and Wretches are the most numerous among them. After all, with the existence of the emotion-affecting Sightless Seer, many Wanderers, once targeted by a Sightless Seer, would soon turn into pitiful Wretches.
Yang Tao's 'reverse' action might have angered this Wretch. It made a clacking sound and ran quickly towards Yang Tao, with many disgusting brown liquids flowing from the holes in its body, even splattering onto the walls and ground as it ran.
"So disgusting… even more disgusting than a Hound."
Hounds were just ugly, but they were definitely not this disgusting. The holes on the Wretch's body were already enough to give one goosebumps, and now it was oozing disgusting liquid.
Yang Tao didn't even think about getting close; he directly took out his Supernova and cleared the Wretch's health with one shot. The powerful knockback force sent its body flying more than ten meters away.
Controlling the magic broom to fly over, Yang Tao endured the disgust and put it into his backpack, then without a second's delay, he directly converted it into energy value.
"Even after turning into a Wretch, it doesn't know to be hygienic…"
Just as he was about to return the way he came, he suddenly saw a metal door on the wall not far down the hallway.
"A door?"
Yang Tao's curiosity immediately piqued. Generally speaking, the exit methods in Level 365 were through various mirrors, but now a door had appeared. He didn't need to think twice to know that this must be a metal door leading to other levels.
He flew over.
Seeing the red exclamation mark on the metal door, information about Level ! 'Run for your Life' immediately surfaced in Yang Tao's mind.
"This is Level !? Isn't this level already destroyed?"
Yang Tao got off the magic broom and came to the metal door with the exclamation mark, listening carefully to the sounds behind the door. Unfortunately, it was silent behind the door, with no special sounds coming through.
Although the door would disappear once he entered, he thought about it and summoned a wooden door to mark the spot.
"This… this is Level !. Wouldn't it be a shame not to go in and take a look…"
[Level ! 'Run for your Life']
Unsafe, unstable, Entity-infested!
Level ! is one of the most dangerous and bizarre levels in the Backrooms, and also one of the levels where you cannot stay due to the sheer number of pursuing Entities.
Level ! is a corridor approximately 10 kilometers long, with a structure similar to a hospital. There are many doors on both sides of the hallway, with about three meters between each door. The entire level also has bright, constantly flickering exit signs, each about ten meters apart.
Upon entering this level, an alarm will be triggered, and a large number of Entities will appear behind the Wanderer: Smilers, Hounds, Wretches, Skin Stealers, the Duller, juvenile Facelings… It can be said that any common Entity will appear among the Entity army and begin to frantically pursue the Wanderer.
Aside from a few fixed methods, Wanderers can enter this level through any level of the Backrooms.
Just like the iron door with the exclamation mark in front of Yang Tao.
The exit method is also simple.
Wanderers only need to run the 10km distance to reach the end of the level, passing through the exit door will teleport them to any random level of the Backrooms.
Yang Tao gently pushed open the metal door with the exclamation mark in front of him. Behind the door was a hospital corridor flashing with red light, filled with various messy objects.
Crooked hospital beds, overturned furniture, tables, and randomly placed potted plants.
All of this would limit the Wanderer's running speed.
Yang Tao took a deep breath, preparing to earn a massive amount of energy value. He switched to the Yamato from his backpack, and the slender Yamato automatically hung at his waist.
"I wonder if there are enough Entities inside…"
He stepped into Level !, and the iron door behind him automatically closed.
The next moment, an irritating alarm sounded, and various thumping sounds came from the metal doors on the hallway walls behind him, as if something was about to burst out from inside.
Yang Tao slowly placed his hand on the hilt of the Yamato, silently counting down in his mind.
'10, 9… 3, 2, 1!'
As soon as the ten seconds were up, the constantly thumping metal doors behind him opened simultaneously, and a large number of Entities poured out from them.
'Health doubled?! No wonder the Entities here are so aggressive…'
Looking at the Entities frantically charging towards him, Yang Tao drew the Yamato from his waist, its blood-red blade emanating a chilling aura.
"Haha, come on, I want to see how much I can earn today!"
With a gentle swing, a blood-red blade aura appeared on the Yamato and struck the Hound at the very front. However, without a score bonus, the Yamato, with only seven points of damage, merely tickled the Hound, whose health was doubled.
However…
Swishing sounds rang out, and the score in Yang Tao's vision instantly rose from D to A, and his damage also began to skyrocket…
A slaughter feast was about to begin.