Chapter 80: Escape Plan (1/2)

”The difficulty of our final phase has been set to Impossible? What is this? Who did...? Why? Why would they... Do they really want us to die that much?”

Jannette directly collapsed on her knees realizing the harrowing reality that they were really sent here to die.

Calvin's calm and composed facade broke at this moment as he clenched his fists.

His eyes went bloodshot as he raised his head and stare at the ceiling, ”You bastards from Fivecent... Are you enjoying this? Are you entertained yet?!” He yelled with such vigor and volume that everyone's attention turned to him.

Soon, they all stood up and shouted at the ceiling.

”That's right! Why did you send us here if you want us to die? We came here to take advantage of the opportunity to clear our debts, but that doesn't mean that we wanted to die!” Jane mustered her courage and shouted.

Albeit, her voice was so small it seemed as if she was whispering than shouting.

Scarlette also stood up and ranted, ”So many... So many people have died just so we could escape... But now that we are about to escape, you are preventing us from escaping? Does that mean that you don't want us to live? Do you bastards out there still have some conscience?!”

Scarlette was a woman who had a proper upbringing.

She didn't want to curse and even disdained it, but at this moment...

She knew that she had to curse.

She had to curse in order to vent her feelings since she didn't want to die as a ghost full of grievance and be stuck on this place for all eternity, unable to return to the cycle of life and reincarnate.

What they were doing seemed to be futile since a multinational company like Fivecent wouldn't possibly listen to their cries. But unexpectedly, as soon as Scarlette finished her rant. Another transparent window appeared in front of everyone and it said...

[Countdown will start in twenty seconds...]

[19...]

[18...]

[17...]

”It's starting! We still have a few seconds to run! It's good, we can run now!”

Scarlette exclaimed in joy.

But Hugo had a different opinion, ”It's not good...”

”In a few seconds, we will still be swarmed by those bastards. They should've canceled this bullshit event and let us ride the elevator to safety. Fucking hell. I swear, I will bash the skull of that bastard who decided to set the difficulty of our final phase to Impossible...”

Hugo's eyes reddened as his chest violently heaved with emotions.

”We lost half our members in a blink of an eye just because a bastard with authority decided that some of us needed to die! Fuck this! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!” Hugo howled.

Everyone turned to look at him in astonishment.

The first impression that everyone had of Hugo was that he was a man of dignity and composure.

They had never seen him panic even once but at this moment...

He was actually yelling out his frustrations like this?

To think that a man like him had several layers of personalities underneath.

Everyone thought for sure that Hugo was a hired killer or an ex-convict, and that was the reason why they felt that they could never get close to Hugo since that endeavor seemed to be too dangerous.

But right now, they were amused seeing him rant like this.

However, their amusement wasn't that significant compared to the despair that they were feeling in their hearts at this moment.

Calvin took out a map that he had already memorized and handed it over to Hugo.

Without saying anything, he walked towards the nearby corpses of security guards and took their guns.

He then gave those guns to the others.

”Memorize that map! We are going to use the route that I highlighted so that we can have those bastards follow us from behind, but we're actually circling around the Administration Block! I predict that after this two minutes, we will end up in this staircase adjacent to the main elevators.”

Calvin pointed at the staircase and everyone followed his finger and line of sight