My breath hitched. "What do you mean, go downstairs?"

"Steve's waiting for us down there," Carol said cheerfully.

My fingers tingled, and I hesitated before speaking, "We need to go downstairs fast." Perhaps Steven was really on the first floor.

That lunatic didn't want Steven involved. He wanted us to turn against each other.

"Steven's definitely the mastermind," some muttered. They were all banding together against him.

Now that someone had died, their fear was maxed out, stirring up their survival instincts and deepest malice.

"We gotta find him and deal with him, or we're done for," Howard muttered quietly. While a few others whispered among themselves, scheming away.

"That annoying voice hasn't shown up. Let's use the time we've got to find a way out, to the next floor," Howard, being clever, instructed a couple of his group to look for a way out. "Who knows what crazy stuff that lunatic might pull next."

I glanced at Joel cautiously. "We gotta head downstairs too."

smirked

at Yasmin. "What do

walked up to me. "He wants us to turn against each other. If that

sneered. "So, this level acts as a buffer zone. All we need for everyone to work together to

her brow, looking warily at Joel. "So, are you saying that just because she asks why, what to do, and cries whenever things go

glanced at me, his gaze deep. "The best trickery fools everyone, even the one

what he meant. But

murderer," Carol accused as she

looked at me apologetically. "Sorry, miss. Carol's not

you're right? Let's see if that person actually starts killing on this level." Yasmin didn't

just a buffer level, no one would die. We just needed to

Yasmin was convinced that someone would die on

the place, just

admit, I was really worried about

the 17th floor. Which means he's already gone

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