Chapter 740: Titan Dormitory Building, Stunningly Beautiful Woman

"With her wanting to slaughter our Taleblade Building?" The Bandaged Man sneered coldly. "She doesn't have the qualifications for that yet!"

The Republic-era old man glanced indifferently at the Bandaged Man but said nothing.

Taleblade Building was one of the few Tier 3 dormitory buildings in the Titan Ruins, and everyone carried a sense of pride about it. Some people had already been living here for nearly five years.

For an ordinary dormitory building without any accelerated leveling traits or settings, three to five years was the standard growth time to reach Tier 3.

A Tier 3 dormitory building meant completing thirty rounds of the game.

This was also why veteran players had an advantage over new players. Even a slacker who had coasted for five years would inevitably accumulate experience, developing their own genuine insights and survival strategies along the way.

"I think we should try communicating. She possesses intelligence. At the very least, we need to figure out why she's targeting our Taleblade Building." A woman dressed in a bright red cheongsam spoke calmly.

Within her cyan-colored irises, countless light and shadow flickered, as if an opera were unfolding inside them.

Everyone else had long grown accustomed to this and paid it no mind.

"Let me go. I at least have a Legendary-tier social skill." The Bloody Robe let out a sigh.

Everyone seemed to have been waiting for him to say exactly that. They all looked at him in tacit understanding, their faces wearing expressions of having entrusted him with a great responsibility.

The Bloody Robe's face twisted in bitterness. "I shouldn't have opened my mouth."

"Don't worry, there won't be any danger. That woman doesn't possess the ability to counter Ghost Controllers. Her numbers are just strong, that's all." The cheongsam woman took a puff from her water pipe and said flatly.

"Then you accompany—"

"I'll go with you."

Before the Bloody Robe could finish his sentence, the cheongsam woman cut him off.

"Xiao Hong..." The Bloody Robe was momentarily stunned, then deeply moved.

"Don't look at me with those disgusting eyes. We Ghost Controllers, our bodies have long since rotted away." Zhen Qihong complained. "Going out with you isn't because I like you. It's because I'm afraid you can't handle the problem. Everyone's just trying to stay alive here."

"Low-class!" The Bloody Robe stood up in displeasure. "I'm going back to my dorm to grab something."

Everyone watched him leave but said nothing.

Romantic feelings between men and women?

In the face of survival, that meant absolutely nothing.

...

The terrain of the Titan Ruins was quite peculiar, resembling a giant's clenched fist.

At this very moment, at the very center of this fist, players were likewise concerned about this mutation.

The safe zone here was incomparably vast, like a small town. Every building stood towering and colossal. Even the shortest structure measured at least a hundred meters in height.

And that dormitory building was even more absurdly tall. It wasn't the kind with glass curtain walls, but rather a rough-hewn rock structure, resembling a small mountain.

At least five-figure numbers of players were active within it, moving in orderly fashion.

A small squad hurried out of the dormitory and entered another high-level dormitory building.

After reporting their intelligence, the squad soon emerged again.

"The Titan's Eye has issued a warning. It really is a phenomenon triggered by a dormitory building's advancement!" A player who stood three meters tall spoke up.

Another player, a full head taller than him, exclaimed in amazement, "The area across Ghost River, we've never bothered to explore it, and it turns out a dormitory actually managed to develop over there."

"Heh, none of that concerns us anyway." Another woman whose build matched the two men said, "Exploring across Ghost River is the Operations Department's job. We in the administrative division just need to file the records."

"I wonder if anyone's going to get punished this time."

"Ghost River is ferocious. Crossing it isn't that easy."

"..."

The group chatted and laughed as they walked away.

Meanwhile, the atmosphere inside that high-level dormitory was extremely solemn.

The furniture and furnishings within were all impossibly massive, which made the two giants sitting face to face in the room seem normal by comparison.

One of the giants, dressed in a crisp white military uniform, spoke with a grim expression. "I just checked on the radio. All players in the dormitory buildings across Ghost River can sense this advancement phenomenon."

In the Blood Mist World, demons and monsters were countless. Phenomena meant danger, and major phenomena attracted major dangers. It was the same principle as lighting a torch in a dark forest.

But here was the problem.

Would something capable of triggering a major phenomenon be simple in nature?

That was the crux of the issue.

Based on past experience and speculation, this advancing dormitory building was likely a Tier 4 dormitory building. In other words, it was on the same tier as their Titan Building.

When the power of the Dorm Survival Game first touched this land, it birthed many dormitory buildings. The Titan Building was one of them, and it had survived all the way to the present.

The player culture in the Titan Ruins wasn't particularly deep. To date, not a single Tier 5 or above dormitory building existed.

There were only three Tier 4 dormitory buildings, collectively known as the Big Three.

The Titan Building was one of them.

Furthermore, the Titan Building's development strategy was rather brutal. Plunder was the core means of acquiring resources.

Without raiding, the internal resources of the Titan Building alone couldn't sustain the demands of its players. This had earned the Titan Building's players a somewhat notorious reputation, which in turn spawned the rumor that anyone who encountered a Titan Building player would have their building destroyed.

Even if one percent of it was false, it was still a rumor.

Titan Building players would never admit to aggression. It was simply that they encountered stubborn villagers while expanding their territory, and since those villagers refused to submit, they had no choice but to eliminate them.

Of course, those Titan Building players with radio accounts would tacitly switch to a disguise.

"This incident is the Operations Department's failure... We never expected the ecosystem across Ghost River to be this flourishing." Another bald man furrowed his thick brows, paused for a moment, then slowly said, "Should the overall strategy be changed?"

The military-uniformed man shook his head.

"The specific decisions will be left to those Titans above."

"But my feeling is, the process of crossing the river will continue to advance, and it will accelerate."

"After all, there are no more dormitory buildings around us. There are only two rounds of games left before the Promotion Match. Without a few dormitory building remnants to hold down the fort, no one will feel at ease."

Across Ghost River, there were many newly born dormitory buildings, which made them ideal targets for plunder.

And conquering a dormitory building wasn't something one or a few people could accomplish. It required establishing an entire front line, which was why they had spent so much time on this matter.

...

Beneath the blood-colored sky.

A black river bay stretched endlessly, like a vast ocean, separating the two shores.

A stronghold was stationed on the riverbank, housing nearly a thousand players of enormous stature. The later the dormitory building's stage, the longer the intervals between games, granting them ample time to venture outside.

At this moment, information flowed continuously within the stronghold, and soon everyone assembled at the front of the base.

"The dormitory building across the river has a new development!"

"Higher-ups are ordering us to accelerate our progress, to prevent complications from arising overnight!"

"Who wants to be the first to go into the river today and lure out that Ghost Shark? Afterwards, you can draw one Hercules God Pill from the Quartermaster Department!"

A male giant standing ten meters tall shouted, his voice impassioned.

Soon, someone's interest was piqued. They stepped out of formation and volunteered.

Just as this brave soul was putting on his peak-grade equipment and preparing to enter the river, a sudden change occurred!

"What are you all doing here?"

A voice of utmost seduction rang out from some direction. Everyone turned to look, and they saw a stunningly beautiful woman with flowing black hair reaching her waist.

This woman wore a black dress, her beauty so devastating it could topple nations and ruin cities. In any dynasty, she would have been the ruin of an empire.

Everyone was instantly captivated!

The leading officer swallowed hard and said in a deep voice, "Who are you? What are you doing here?"

"Why are you yelling at me?" The stunningly beautiful woman looked thoroughly displeased.

In that instant, the officer felt countless icy glares fixed upon him!

The lesser giants stared at this officer, extremely unhappy.

"That's right, why are you yelling at her?"

"Old Zhou, don't think just because you've been an officer for two days that you can start shouting at people!"

"This lady hasn't done anything wrong... Even though she's a bit small in stature, she's exactly my type!"

"You should just quit. I'm going to report you to the higher-ups!"

"Hurry up and apologize to this lady!"

"..."

The lesser giants' blood boiled with righteous fury, cursing the officer until he couldn't even save face.