Chapter 16：Current Objectives: Survive (1/2)

”What's wrong?!”

Ray cried out.

He noticed that the lights of the room where she was in were abruptly extinguished.

”Drag her down here before she falls by herself!”

Calvin gestured towards Hugo.

Hugo's expression turned stern.

He leaped upwards and like a fisherman reeling in his prey.

He swiftly took Rose into his embrace and dragged her back down the ladder.

This took quite some time to describe, but it actually happened in just a blink of an eye.

Rose's face was as pale as a sheet of paper.

When she felt Hugo's, thick body sticking close to her own— she struggled a lot which made Hugo frown.

”Let go of me! Let go of me! What are you doing? Are you trying to take advantage of me?”

Calvin furrowed his eyebrows.

'What an ungrateful woman! If Hugo didn't secure her in time, she would've fallen backwards into the ground below.'

Calvin inwardly criticized.

But Hugo didn't say anything.

He gently placed Rose back onto the ground.

”Damn it! What was that?” Rose irritatingly said.

She had won the admiration of everyone, but because of that blunder. She felt as if she lost her face.

Arranging her clothes that were now in a mess, she glared at Hugo and said, ”You go first! Since it seems like you're quite brave and powerful. You should lead the way for us!”

Hugo was speechless.

Calvin was dumbstruck.

Even he couldn't tolerate the shameless attitude of this woman anymore as he spoke up, ”You're such a shameless woman... You took the liberty to lead us and even stood at the front, but now that you met with an accident, you are suddenly relegating your job to someone else? Have some dignity!”

Rose went red from the sudden scolding.

She gnashed her teeth and stared at Calvin with hatred.

”If you are that brave, then fine! You go and lead the team!”

”You took the words out of my mouth...” Calvin shook his head and didn't bother about her anymore.

He stepped forward and amidst the nervous eyes of the newbies. He scaled the ladder and landed in the room.

The cold breeze that blew from the outside world to the inside Calvin's frail body shiver, yet the light in his eyes remained as placid and as determined as ever. It was because he knew that at the very start of the final phase, one wouldn't encounter any enemies.

It would be stupid for Fivecent to give the newbies no time to explore the area and just send some enemies down their way. It just didn't make sense.

As for what Rose said earlier regarding the final phase, she was wrong.

Fivecent didn't actually care that much for the lives of the newbies who didn't manage to pass the final phase.

In other words, for Fivecent, they were even worse than cannon fodders.

At least, Fivecent would give some attention and basic care for their cannon fodders.

But for them who were still taking the final phase of the trials?

Fivecent could care less if they died.

In fact, they wanted them to die.

They wanted to prune the newbies and search for the true diamonds among the rocks.

Sending the newbies to an incredibly dangerous place did sound counterintuitive to Fivecent's goal of having more subordinates or employees, but Fivecent had no use towards people who weren't even qualified to be cannon fodders.

Furthermore, resources exclusive to the world of Las Felipinas was too scarce that Fivecent couldn't possibly afford any freeloaders.

In other words, the two trials weren't just a test of one's bravery and courage. But also, a test for all sorts of traits that one would find incredibly valuable in the world of Las Felipinas.

One of them was the trait of knowing where danger lurked.

In this Asylum where danger was everywhere, this particular trait would be tested to the limits.

”There's nothing in here... There's only me... You can come up now.” Calvin peeked out of the ledge.

Upon seeing the smile on Calvin's lips, the newbies felt reassured and they soon climbed up of the ladder one by one.

Rose was the last one to climb due to her skirt, and as soon as her feet landed into the room.

A transparent window appeared in front of the newbies.

[Current Objective: Survive and Escape the Asylum.]

The transparent window hung there for a while before disappearing.

”Survive and Escape the Asylum?” Rose uttered in astonishment.

”We just came here and they want us to escape from this place already?” Ray furrowed his eyebrows.