Childe was the one who ended up carrying you just as you were just finishing up with tying up your mouth. He has the strength and stamina to accomplish this. The only drawback was that unless you removed the cloth, you couldn't speak. However, removing the cloth may result in someone being bitten.

Scaramouche slammed the door wide open, and you all bolted. That, on the other hand, irritated you because it was your job to slam the door open violently. You'd never made it past the 33rd floor before. Ever.

After plenty of breaks, since Childe's stamina was reduced by a lot, you finally ended up on the highest floor, the 40th.

With wide smiles on their bloody faces, everyone exhaled a sigh of relief. Down the hall, the door was right there. It was the only door on the 40th floor, in fact. For a single room, there is such a long hallway.

Scaramouche practically threw himself into the door, finally relieved.

You gave Childe a small tap on his shoulder, signalling him to put you down. As the others rested, you desperately searched around as carefully as you could.

Hu Tao

"Y/N... You find... Anything yet?..."

You climbed a shelf, feeling a large box. You took it down, just to find out it was a safe.

Scaramouche

"Shit!... Y/N, can't you just break it open with your gun?!"

You shook your head no as a response.

Childe pulled out that blade of his and stupidly tried opening it with it.

You pulled his hand away from the safe, you knew that if he had continued to do so, then he would end up breaking the blade.

Both Hu Tao and Xiao rummaged through hundreds of drawers in search of the code. Although they were very exhausted, they persisted. Scaramouche and Childe were handing the number combinations to test as the two searched desperately. Nothing was working, and each time it didn't, you became more frustrated.

Xiao

"What if this safe contains something different?... What we see in this safe might not be the thing we're looking for."

You hadn't considered it until now. You walked away from the safe to continue your search. Childe and Scaramouche continued to cram random 4-digit codes into the safe, while Hu Tao, you, and Xiao looked for both the code and the antidote in case the antidote wasn't in there. Who knows, maybe there's an entire ass dildo in the safe.

In a tiny corner of the room, you saw broken glass and decided to go check it out while everyone else was just talking about the safe.

There was a large shelf in front of you that was blocking your vision. When you peered over it, there wasn't quite as much broken glass as you expected, and it was surrounded by a lavender-coloured liquid.

Regarding the small amount of shattered glass and the colour of the fizzy liquid that stood before your eyes, the note you found in the other building when you had only just found Childe and Scaramouche did mention that the antidote was put into a small bottle and was a more vibrant, purple colour.

As you paid even more attention to it, you had realized that some rain from outside had made its way into the room since the windows were practically shattered.

Xiao

"Y/N?..."

You

"Is that it?..."

As soon as you said that, everyone came racing over to you, desperate for that antidote.

Scaramouche

"... That's it?... It looks pretty simple."

You

"No, it's... Broken."

Childe

"Wait a minute-"

You

"That means we can't use it anymore."

You had lost all hope, right then and there. The others were still confused, it was just lying there on the ground, wasn't it? You could've simply, carefully collected it and put it in a separate container.

Hu Tao

"What do you mean we can't use it anymore?..."

You

"Look. The rain got to it. That means it's completely useless now, doesn't it? The rain watered it down, all the chemicals of the antidote are wearing out. We're done for."

Childe

"Hey! Stop talking like that!... There's gotta be like, copies of it, shouldn't there be?!"

You

"... It didn't say that in the note."

Scaramouche

"You've gotta be fucking kidding me..."

Hu Tao

"No! We can't! We're not going to lose hope right now, especially after all that stress with those stupid zombies! Come on, let's go look for-"

An Infected threw itself right through the door, hungry for human flesh. Everyone's heads turned to look right at the door, more and more of them were swarming in.

Childe

"Run!"

Slowly and shakily, you walked over to the gun you had put down on the table, but Xiao and Scaramouche ended up dragging you away from it.

Scaramouche

"Don't! There's no point, you wouldn't be able to reach it!"

You were left speechless. You normally would have argued with Scaramouche, but it was almost as if you didn't have the energy to do it. All hope had vanished. You would have devised a strategy by now, but there was no way out of this.

The 5 of you got separated, Xiao was running down the 39th floor with your wrist held tightly by his hand, and the rest were running for their lives on the 38th.

You had finally discovered an empty room. But when I say empty room, I mean completely empty. There was only a door and four walls there. There were no bloodstains, the lights were working properly, and the windows had not been damaged. You hadn't seen something like this in the Council tower in such a long time.

Xiao

"We should... Be safe... For now..."

Xiao said, his hands on his knees as he slightly bent down to catch his breath.

You

"Xiao."

Xiao

"Huh?..."

As you simply stood there as you were staring at Xiao, you fell right over, onto him with your mouth wide open, reaching for his neck.

Xiao

"Woah!-"

Xiao put his hands on your shoulders, catching you and thankfully pushing you a bit. He pushed you away enough so you wouldn't be able to reach for his neck. It was then you had realized what you were doing, instantly backing yourself away from him.

You

"You've gotta get out."

Xiao

"Y/N, no!"

You

"I almost fucking bit you! It's either you get Infected or you go make a run for it!"

Xiao

"Then, I'll get Infected! I'm not going to leave!"