Deities Are All Just My Food
Chapter 282 - 140: Historical Ranking, Third on the List, Excellent!【Vote for Monthly Ticket!】_3

Chapter 282: Chapter 140: Historical Ranking, Third on the List, Excellent!【Vote for Monthly Ticket!】_3

There was a door above.

Lin Baici inserted the key and turned it to the left three times.

With a soft click, the door opened.

Xia Hongyao rushed forward, but before half of her leg could step in, she was pulled back by Lin Baici.

"Women stay back!"

Lin Baici looked at the old man, "You’ve got to contribute, right?"

"Fine!"

The old man knew he couldn’t escape and also guessed that just entering a new game may not necessarily be dangerous, so he cautiously walked in.

The others followed.

Everything went dark for about seven seconds before the light gradually brightened, and they could start to see some things, but it was still very dark, like early morning around four or five in winter.

Lin Baici took out five high-intensity flashlights and distributed them.

"Thanks, Captain!"

The dwarf and the leather-pants woman quickly expressed their gratitude.

"Don’t you have one for me?"

The bartender was a bit depressed.

"I only bought five!"

Lin Baici didn’t take a flashlight; he used a pine torch for illumination.

"Five isn’t too few!"

The leather-pants woman said enviously, "Only you God Hunters with space forbidden items can carry so much baggage. For us, even carrying one flashlight feels burdensome!"

"Does this place look like some kind of monster’s lair?"

Xia Hongyao shook her flashlight around the surroundings.

The place where everyone stood was a cave tunnel, apparently underground, cold, and damp, with green moss growing on the walls and the ground.

The air was very murky.

Lin Baici was too tall, and the cave was just a little over two meters high, so he felt quite oppressed, with a sense of restraint that stopped him from spreading his arms and legs.

"Old man, you lead the way!"

Lin Baici arranged, "I’ll go second."

The old man sighed but didn’t refuse.

He had no choice; Lin Baici had already gained everyone’s approval, and it was through strength, after all. If he refused, he would definitely be kicked out of the team.

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.

The sudden sound of a Christmas carol startled everyone.

"It’s that maid singing!"

The landlady had already memorized the voice, which, although somewhat distorted through the megaphone and the cave tunnel echoes, was unmistakably that crazy maid.

"Ladies and gentlemen, since Lin Baici’s team has killed the Pigman King and passed the first challenge, ’The Slaughterhouse,’ the first challenge will close in a quarter of an hour!"

"Please, all teams that have not passed, select one person as the price of your clearance!"

"Please note, the person used as the price will be erased!"

"If your group is as close as siblings, unwilling to sacrifice each other, then the whole team will be erased together!"

The maid announced.

Everyone was put into the same challenge to start the competition, creating a spectacle; otherwise, letting Lin Baici leave everyone in the dust would be no fun.

Upon hearing these rules, the leather-pants woman blurted out a curse.

"This cruel?"

The bartender felt somewhat relieved; it was good that he was with Lin Baici. Otherwise, in any other team, he would have definitely been chosen as the price to pay.

"Long live the Captain!"

The dwarf cheered.

"I bet that transgender person is regretting like hell right now, wondering why they didn’t cough up five thousand Meteorite Coins for a spot in the team just now!"

The old man’s heart lightened a lot of his dissatisfaction with Lin Baici.

"Let’s go!"

Lin Baici urged.

...

In the room, the men with sunglasses who had just killed a wave of Pig-Headed Men were dumbfounded.

"Lin Baici has already cleared the level?"

The man with sunglasses was super annoyed, especially since he had been the first to go upstairs.

"Can our luck get any worse?"

Someone complained.

"It’s not luck, that Lin Baici must have found some sort of clue downstairs, which is why he’s ahead of us!"

Shen Fujiang’s face was gloomy.

What a pity that they were enemies, or else how great would it be to team up?

No one spoke, but they all felt some regret. They should have tried harder to join Lin Baici’s team back at the bar.

At first, they had mocked the old man for having more money than sense, spending so many Meteorite Coins to buy a spot on the team. Now it seemed, he was the wise one.

"Stop thinking about that, what do we do now?"

"What else can we do? They’ve already cleared the level, we just have to choose someone to pay the price!"

"But ’the price’ could be death!"

The group argued.

Although they hadn’t been cooperating for long, they had come to understand the nature of each person well enough.

"Let’s vote by a show of hands!"

Shen Fujiang suggested, "We can’t waste any more time. Lin Baici must already be on the second level by now. If we let them get any further ahead, we might even end up paying the price!"

This was something everyone understood, but it was too cruel.

And everyone was worried about being chosen.

"Let me add, don’t worry about offending anyone. Vote with confidence. For the ’price’ that gets chosen, I will blow its head off first thing, ensuring it won’t harm any of you!"

This statement from the crazy maid made Shen Fujiang and the other strong individuals relax a bit.

At times like this, it was usually those who had contributed least or were on the fringes of the team that were chosen as the sacrificial lambs.

...

The cave ceiling was covered with stalactites dripping water down with a steady tick-tock sound.

Lin Baici and his team of seven had been walking for more than twenty minutes, getting nowhere.

The tunnels in this lair branched in all directions with no map; they just couldn’t find the way out.

The group arrived at a place with five bifurcations.

"Little Linzi, use the Ask God Turtle Shell for divination!"

Xia Hongyao felt that stumbling around blindly was not a solution.

"If I use it too much, I’ll be cursed and my luck will decrease!"

Lin Baici prepared to activate A Sip of A Hundred Flavors, intending to use the smell to discern the direction, but as soon as he activated it, he took a breath and a pungent smell of fireworks drifted in.

Achoo!

Lin Baici sneezed and quickly warned, "Be careful, a monster is coming!"

Before his words had finished, seven or eight torches were thrown over from the tunnels.

The flames on these torches were small, but they emitted thick smoke intensely, quickly filling up the corridor.

"Red Medicine! Boss lady, crouch down, take the masks!"

Lin Baici took out two gas masks at the fastest speed and handed them to them, then put one on himself. While doing all this, he also summoned Muscle Buddha as a shield in front of him.

His caution proved necessary, as no sooner had the thick smoke risen than spears and arrows shot in. They struck the walls with a clinking noise.

"Ah!"

The woman in leather pants screamed, her arm being pierced: "Captain!"

She shouted, trying to crawl to Lin Baici’s side.

"Get down! Quick, get down!"

Xia Hongyao urged.

Staying here was a death trap. Just as Lin Baici was about to tell everyone to run out, a voice suddenly sounded in his ear.

Hidden mission triggered!