Jim followed Doug and so he had to leave the others behind.“What the hell, man?” Ronny looked most disappointed. “I can’t believe that Doug was a spy working for some bastard on the third floor!”“You can never really trust anybody anymore,” Love Bullet opined. “I’m glad he revealed his identity this way, or I think something much worse might have happened.”“To me, it looked like he was being controlled,” Joker voiced his mind. “So let’s not jump to conclusions just yet.”“Controlled in what way?” Skarlet asked.“I have a guess, but it’s a scary thought,” Electric Assassin said.“No one’s going to shit their pants, so speak your mind,” Love Bullet stated.“Let’s say that Doug is not a traitor, but still someone was able to control him from a distance. That means, they might also be able to control us,” Electric Assassin said. “Now, this may sound crazy, but what’s the one thing that we all have in common?”“We are all humans?” Ronny said.“No, that’s not what I’m talking about,” El

Binnie returned to her room which was somewhere hidden deep inside one of the many caves on the third floor.To her surprise, Demon Dwarf was inside her room.“Why the hell are you here?” Binnie frowned. “And how did you get in when you don’t have the digital access?”“That’s not what’s important,” Demon Dwarf said while rolling metal balls around his fingers. “Did you meet Jim the Hero?”Binnie was a little surprised. “Why are you asking about him?”“So you met him. Did you fight him? What’s your impression of him?” Demon Dwarf asked.“It’s very surprising that the Demon Dwarf who isn’t afraid of even the Eight Masters and doesn’t give a shit about anybody in this world now is interested in some random guy,” Binnie smirked.“He’s not a random guy. I taught him for a few hours in the past,” Demon Dwarf reasoned.“That’s not enough for you to personally come here and inquire about him,” Binnie retorted. “Is it because you’re interested in the martial arts he’s learned? What was it? The

A few minutes later.Jim was walking out of the laboratory and was muttering to himself, “In the book, he said that we can even hear other people’s thoughts, but I’m not yet able to do so. If I could, I wouldn’t need that fatty to tell me with his own mouth. I could have just read his thoughts.”[Yeah, you’re right, but you can’t learn everything at once.] Joe said. [Your mind and heart energy centers have awakened. So, it won’t be difficult for you to learn any skill related to them.]“You mean I can learn the thought-reading skill if I put my focus on it now?” Jim asked.[Yes.] Joe assuredly said. [From the cells in our bodies to the stars in the skies.. everything in existence produces sound in their own way. Sound can travel through any medium. People used the word ‘silence’ without fully being aware that the silence around them is not an objective experience but a very subjective experience. For instance, the air itself carries a lot of different sounds, and humans can’t hear all

As a group, Jim and others began to look around for Scarlet.First, they went to the location where a group called the Four Freakish Thieves lived. They were all butchers who lived in a dirty, bloody environment, working with the dead bodies of humans and animals like.They all didn’t answer any questions and instead attacked with their butcher knives.Electric Assassin stepped in first and unleashed his thunder punches onto them. They blocked his attacks with their blades and then cleaved the air with their cutting moves.Electric Assassin created an electric blast to block the attacks, but they still managed to cut through his defenses and then struck him. As a result, he was pushed back and found himself bleeding everywhere.“Why are you taking on all four of them by yourself?” Love Bullet pointed the gun at them and shot four times, sending bullets at all of them.“Pathetic tricks,” the four of them swatted the bullets away with their blades and rushed at her.“Don’t gang up on a

A few minutes earlier.Nightmare_lily and Little Nightmare were dashing through the woods.“Why are we going there of all places?” Little Nightmare asked. “I don’t like vegetables and fruits.”“But that place will be peaceful right now,” Nightmare_lily said. “Just like you, most people on this floor don't prefer eating vegetables and fruits. So, they’ll avoid that building. Let us stay there and watch others fight among themselves. When they are done draining each other’s strength, that’s when we’ll step in and mess with them and grab all the gold they worked so hard to collect.”“Hahaha,” Little Nightmare laughed in excitement. “That’s your plan, huh. I like it. It’d be nice if we can get Jim this way, too.”“Mm…” Nightmare_lily also hoped that her little sister’s wish would also come true.Along the way, they came across some male villains. Some of them did not want to mess with Nightmare_lily and so went their way, but there were some who saw Little Nightmare as a handicap for Nigh