Huh? Isn't This A Galgame?-Chapter 165 - 162: Rising from the Ground

Hu Jiayao and Gu Jinxing were originally waiting anxiously at the refresh point.

When the notification sound that all mainline tasks were completed rang in their minds, Hu Jiayao, who was pacing back and forth in the living room, cursed loudly, let out a long sigh of relief, and then collapsed to the ground.

Lying face up at the ceiling, he immediately saw the light screen suspended directly above the refresh point, switching to the final countdown for clearing the level.

Before the corners of Hu Jiayao's lips could lift, the ground beneath him suddenly started to shake violently.

"An earthquake?!" Hu Jiayao leaped up from the ground.

"No," Gu Jinxing stood at the dormitory door, gazing solemnly in the direction of the company headquarters next to them, "it's the Erin Building."

Hu Jiayao quickly followed, glancing over Gu Jinxing's shoulder towards the Erin Building next door, and then his jaw dropped in shock.

In the night, the twelve-story building swayed from side to side, pulling itself out of the ground.

The massive body suddenly detached from the ground, like an abandoned building being demolished in the real world, raising a rolling gray-white dust that enveloped the entire building.

Accompanied by a huge rumbling noise, the ground directly below the building rapidly caved in, causing the surrounding ground to shake, crack, and collapse as well.

As the dust dispersed, the silhouette of the giant like a small mountain finally emerged clearly.

The side wings on both sides tore apart from the main structure of the building to form two arms, and the top floor, where the CEO's office was located, was the only source of light at the moment, the white striped light made it look like the eyes of this giant.

Further down, from the ground-floor lobby to the second-floor canteen, to the third and fourth-floor labs, it all slightly bulged out to form the giant's waist, hips, and leg base.

Further down, where legs should have grown out, many slender "tentacles" supported it—those "tentacles" were the tangled underground passages leading to the furnace.

After pulling its body out of the ground, those "tentacles" started spinning swiftly, moving the body in the direction of the company dormitory.

Such a massive creature, cloaked in the night, was pressing towards them, the scene was so overwhelming that Hu Jiayao turned pale with fright, instinctively retreated, stumbled twice, and directly fell to the ground.

"Damn! What is this?! Godzilla or Optimus Prime?! It's, it's it's, it's going to destroy our refresh point?!"

Facing such a massive building, Gu Jinxing also felt deeply shocked, instinctively wanting to retreat together with Hu Jiayao, but rationality told him, there was no need to avoid—

He didn't know why this building came to life, but since it was already part of this map, it wouldn't approach the players' refresh point.

Sure enough, that humanoid building only shifted a distance in the direction of the refresh point and no longer continued to approach.

It stopped, rotated its body on the spot, faced the place where it had stood up, and then raised one arm high.

The arm swung through the air like a giant pile driver and slammed hard onto the sunken ground—

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

One loud bang followed another, causing the ground to vibrate along, shaking the soul.

The ground where the Erin Building originally stood, because the tangled dark paths were pulled away, sunk in, already on the brink of collapse, was smashed by that massive reinforced concrete arm, after a few hit, the ground completely collapsed.

With a loud rumble.

The surrounding ground fractured, collapsing downward, forming a giant crater resembling a volcanic pit.

The scorching orange-yellow magma underneath was completely exposed.

Seeing this scene, Hu Jiayao and Gu Jinxing both turned ashen, eyes filled with worry.

"The others... they won't have already..."

"No." Gu Jinxing raised his hand, pointing to a spot on the edge of the deep pit.

Hu Jiayao squinted and looked closely, seeing several small round balls hanging on the inner wall near the ground, looking like frog eggs.

"Damn! They're still alive!" Hu Jiayao smiled in relief, then pulled out a sledgehammer, instinctively wanting to run out, "Go save people!"

Gu Jinxing raised his hand to stop him, "How do you save them? With your hammer? In the eyes of that building, your sledgehammer is no different from a paper clip."

"Then what do we do?" Hu Jiayao also realized that charging over like this, not only would it not help but also cause another unnecessary casualty.

They were all novices who had just come out of the trial map, with no handy weapons in their equipment storage. Dealing with such a building was simply a fool's errand.

Gu Jinxing thought for a moment, pulled a signal flare from the equipment reserve, placed it by the window, and fired it at that building.

The fireball dragged a long trail of light, landing on the "head" of that building, but did not attract any attention from the other side.

That building was entirely focused on the volcanic pit formed by the furnace.

"Howl——"

The gigantic structure emitted a dull howl, like a mournful wail formed by the wind pouring into an empty valley, and also like the crazed roar of a wounded beast.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

That giant arm swung forcefully through the air, desperately reaching into the crater as if to pick up lost treasures, but the intense heat from the furnace forced it to retract its hand, ultimately growing more frenzied, starting to madly pound the ground, causing the crater to further collapse about a meter outward.

"Damn!"

Huang Yan cursed, hurriedly releasing the stone block slipping from his hands to anchor to a new spot on the inner wall.

Scorching rubble rumbled down from above, crashing onto them, and if it weren't for the "welfare item" protecting them, they would have been covered in cuts and bruises by now.

But that "welfare item" was now riddled with holes and couldn't last much longer.

"Ah, help—"

Above came the sharp plea for help from Guo Xiaofu, then he was seen falling from a height.

Huang Yan hurriedly reached out, trying to grab him but fell short by a distance, failing to intercept, "Damn!"

At the very bottom, Yang Mingzhong promptly flung out a rope, securely lassoing Guo Xiaofu's waist, pulling him up.

The close-call surviving Guo Xiaofu, hanging under Yang Mingzhong's feet, started to cry, "We can't get out of here… Are we going to die here… With that building above, we can't possibly get back to the refresh point… We're doomed..."

The faces of the others were equally grim.

Only ten minutes remained until the final settlement time.

That building weighed down on them like a mountain.

All of them novices, in any case, couldn't withstand it.

Several people simultaneously looked at the man by their side,

"President, what do we do?"