Under Stiller's scouting, the group quickly reached the first floor.

They didn't encounter any new monsters along the way.

Robin's stone sphere was simply too effective—it was literally a dimensionality reduction strike against the monsters wandering in the stairwell.

Looking at the flattened monsters and fresh bloodstains on the ground, Lin Yu grew increasingly uneasy.

These monsters were indeed quite weak.

But Robin was genuinely a true expert.

According to the excellent mechanism where dungeon difficulty basically matches the players' level within it, the weaker these monsters were, the more uneasy Lin Yu felt.

This indicated that within this dungeon, there was some aspect Lin Yu hadn't yet discovered that contained difficulty matching the level of third-tier players.

What made Lin Yu most anxious was that he had absolutely no clue which aspect contained the difficulty!

Lin Yu couldn't even determine what type of dungeon this roughly belonged to.

Puzzle? Survival?

Lin Yu wasn't the only one feeling this unease.

He could sense that Robin walking ahead also seemed quite unsettled.

The reason was probably exactly the same as Lin Yu's: she could also feel that the parts of this dungeon currently revealed were too simple for her.

When things go abnormal, there must be something strange.

But probably because she was the one "carrying the main responsibility," Robin's sense of duty prevented her from showing this unease.

The three stood at the stairwell entrance about to enter the first floor. Robin took out a pencil and sketch paper, casually made a few strokes, and the massive stone sphere blocking the doorway slowly dissipated, revealing the door that had been slightly deformed from the impact.

Stiller stepped forward and pulled open this door—still no danger.

The three cautiously exited the stairwell and arrived on the first floor.

The corridor here was still long and spacious. The room doors on both sides of the corridor, unlike the sheet metal doors upstairs, were all made of wood.

The spacing between doors was also quite large, from which it could be inferred that these rooms should be more spacious than the "patient rooms" upstairs.

"These are likely offices, pharmacies, or examination rooms," Robin said while looking around. "Let's search for anything useful... preferably searching carefully."

As she spoke, Max raised her hand.

"Teacher Robin, wait! Let me try!"

Then, Max again manipulated the compass in her hand and began chanting.

"Bodhisattva bless Zeus bless! Amen Amitabha!"

Watching the continuously spinning compass, Max looked up and pointed to the nearest door on the right.

"Let's start with this closest one!"

Lin Yu was somewhat curious: "Your compass hasn't stopped spinning yet, has it?"

Max chuckled: "Yeah, so it didn't come to any conclusion... When questions are too vague and known conditions too few, it tends to not reach conclusions, so I picked one based on gut feeling."

Lin Yu felt helpless: "You picked based on gut feeling?"

This Thief lady was just too optimistic!

Robin covered for her junior from the same organization: "It's actually not a problem. There are only four rooms in this corridor total, we can search them one by one."

"After all, this floor looks different from the other floors, being careful won't hurt."

Saying this, Robin reached out, gripped the doorknob, and shook it up and down.

"It's locked," she said unsurprisingly, looking toward Max beside her.

"Do you have lockpicking methods?"

Max nodded: "Of course—although my Lockpicking Pins are on cooldown, since it's a wooden door, I still have ways."

Max said confidently, then pulled out...

a red fire axe.

"Open for me!"

Max swung the axe in a full arc, and with a cracking sound, she hacked a gap in that sturdy wooden door.

Under Robin and Lin Yu's astonished gazes, Max swung the axe repeatedly, widening the gap further and further.

Then she reached her hand in, fumbled around for a moment—and soon, the door was opened.

Max spoke triumphantly: "How about that, my original lockpicking method!"

"As long as the door material isn't too hard, it can basically open anything."

Lin Yu looked at Max, pondered for a long time, then said: "What kind of Thief are you anyway? Do you open locks like this in real life too?"

Max said sheepishly: "Actually, I'm a law-abiding good citizen in real life... I have a proper job, I work as a front-end programmer at a company."

"Then how come your awakened profession isn't Corporate Drone but Thief?"

Hearing Max's earlier words, Robin couldn't help but ask.

Max answered honestly: "I've thought about that question too, because I've never stolen anything... but later I thought maybe it's because I never work overtime, so I'm not really a 'corporate drone' at all."

"And I frequently steal snacks from the pantry, slack off during work... my colleagues call me a 'salary thief,' maybe it's related to that?"

Max said seriously.

"Is that so?"

Lin Yu felt quite shocked.

"Indeed, profession awakening does have some relationship with self-identity," Robin said. "I don't make a living from drawing either..."

Hearing Robin say this, Lin Yu understood.

Thinking about himself, his Fraudster profession didn't match him at all either.

Although Unique Class was probably different from ordinary professions, possibly also considering potential or something.

"Anyway, let's first see what's in the room!"

Lin Yu said, and everyone entered the room.

This didn't seem to be some doctor's office, but rather belonged to some hospital administrator in an administrative position.

A spacious desk, comfortable sofa, lush green plants, tall bookcases...

And a tall monster sitting behind the desk, looking startled.

A humanoid monster wearing a suit, with bluish-purple skin, sitting nearly two meters tall, was holding pen and paper writing something.

Seeing the uninvited guests who had barged in, the monster stood up and emitted incomprehensible shouting.

"...Shua!... Wei!"

It said, violently slamming the button on the desk before it.

Soon, alarm bells rang loudly throughout the office, with blinding red lights flashing.

Noisy footsteps came from outside the door.

Turning around, several teams of personnel wearing black security uniforms, waving tentacles, surged from both sides of the corridor, also shouting loudly.

"Hu! Hu!"

These security guards looked almost identical to the one Lin Yu encountered earlier behind the door who caught Max, but the difference was these appeared somewhat taller!

"So many!"

Max was also startled, holding the fire axe and looking bewildered toward the door.

And not just these security personnel...

The tall hospital management figure inside the room also stood up, pulling out a large, black shotgun from under the desk!

Although it was a shotgun in the hands of this over-three-meter-tall giant after standing up, from Lin Yu's perspective...

This shotgun looked almost no different from a door mortar!