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Chapter 339 - 311 Woof Woof

Chapter 339: Chapter 311 Woof Woof

The talisman nail dragon finally couldn’t hold on, the ink in the brush was completely squeezed dry, and it could no longer draw on the alloy steel plate.

Masses of flying snails scurried around, players scattered in the dark tunnels, and soon they were all separated.

"Huh... huh..."

Hyena ducked into a dim room, leaned against the wall, and gasped violently for a moment. Just as he was about to take out a Life Potion and drink it in one gulp, he hesitated and put the potion away, then took out a Magic Potion from his Backpack, and poured it on the ghastly wound on his forehead.

The Magic Potion was highly stimulating, the wound started to smoke, growing fresh flesh buds. The intense pain made Hyena grit his teeth, and he immediately punched himself in the chest to suppress the moan.

"Don’t move."

Before Hyena could catch his breath, a cold voice sounded from above his head. He instinctively looked up,

only to see the Ant, in a lizard-like upside-down posture, crawling on the ceiling, holding the Steel Banner Spear silently above Hyena’s head.

"Don’t act, it’s me!"

Hyena hurriedly lowered his voice and said, to prove his identity, he even showed his player ID.

Players, to deal with all sorts of different Script Tasks, usually browse various literary works, especially horror movies.

In horror movies, one major scare point is that a companion who got separated once may be possessed by vengeful spirits or something else.

"Just showing the ID can’t prove you are Hyena."

Li Cheng, lying in the corner of the ceiling, asked calmly, "After all, there’s the possibility of a brain parasite taking control of the player’s body."

Bro, do you have to be so cautious?

Hyena raised his hands helplessly, "How do you want me to prove it?"

"Split your head open, let me see if there are any parasites inside."

"What?" Hyena’s eyes widened, "Split my head and still live?"

"Of course. Hua Xiong’s father Hua Tuo once performed a craniotomy on Cao Cao. The surgery was very successful, but during the process, Hua Tuo discovered that Cao Cao’s true self was actually a pretty young girl. In the end, Hua Tuo was killed violently out of shame by Cao Cao."

Li Cheng casually spouted nonsense, the spear in his hand lightly shaking, as if it could stab down at any time.

"Ant bro?"

On the other side of the room, flashlight beams lit up, Talisman Nail Dragon, Zhao Zijing, and a Scottish Border Collie walked over, their tone joyful.

"Oh, it’s you three." Li Cheng didn’t really intend to kill Hyena, he casually put away the Victory Flag Spear, flipped off the ceiling and jumped down, "Where are the others?"

"All scattered apart."

Zhao Zijing sighed, showing the GOC standard walkie-talkie in his hand, "My Point Array Detection Skill is still on cooldown. Theoretically, this walkie-talkie can show the position of other machines,

but the high tower has a complex terrain, with very thick walls that block signals, making it impossible to see or contact the others.

We found you by relying on Bai Jixiong’s ability to turn into a rescue dog with strong sense of smell."

"The Paw Patrol deserves great credit, I’ll introduce you to a championship dog breeding center later. I’m familiar with them, every time I walk our big yellow dog past their door, they always ask me, ’You too?’.

Li Cheng gave Bai Jixiong a thumbs up, "Can you track Dorling Gray’s scent?"

"Yes."

Bai Jixiong, having turned into a dog, still managed to show a pained expression. He tried to ignore the innuendo in Li Cheng’s words and said, "Dorling Gray just sprayed some unique-scented perfume on himself earlier, it can be tracked. Follow me."

"Wait, you’re really going?"

Hyena hurriedly asked, "Earlier, a group of players couldn’t take down the Three Heads and Six Arms mutated monster. Now with fewer people..."

There was another sentence he kept to himself, the monster intentionally chose a path filled with flying snails, evidently it has a certain degree of intelligence. Going there now could be walking into a trap.

"Letting ’Nezha’ continue draining the high tower’s electricity, causing further geological collapse, is still a death sentence, there’s no difference."

Li Cheng swung the spear, making a flourish, and walked into the darkness. "If you don’t want to, you can stay here."

Hyena looked at the few people striding ahead, then turned to gaze at the pitch-black silent corridor, gritted his teeth and followed.

...

In the underground parking lot of the high tower, Gray Rain was sitting on the ground, leaning against a pillar, boredly browsing the offline version of Douyin.

The Earth teenagers gathered here and the Otherworld locals silently gnawed on the emergency rations and drinking water left by the players.

Though called emergency rations, they actually tasted quite good, with a soft, sweet texture, and rich nutrition far surpassing Snickers – Transcendents wouldn’t shortchange themselves on food,

some players even utilize the Backpack’s non-corrosive material feature to bring warm meals and lunch boxes inside.

"..."

Xue Luomeng, holding a sandwich, ate while silently shedding tears. Her brother, Xue Lingyu, had still not been found, and with every passing second, hope waned further.

Gray Rain glanced at her while scrolling through short videos. As Li Cheng’s self-proclaimed mistress,

Li Cheng’s relatives were her relatives too, but she couldn’t show too much concern, lest others notice.

After thinking for a moment, Gray Rain put down her phone, took a small table, coffee, white sugar, and a thermos from Li Cheng’s travel bag, and said to Xue Luomeng, "Don’t look so sad, have some coffee. This is Barnaba Geisha Coffee, very fragrant and expensive, I always have to add sugar when I drink it."

While speaking, Gray Rain used her finger, which transformed into a razor blade, to arrange the white sugar into neat strips on the small table.

???

Wait, are you going to drink coffee or what? Don’t teach bad habits to kids!

The surrounding people had strange expressions, Xue Luomeng’s face was stiff, unsure of what to say.

In the awkward atmosphere, Tina, an Otherworld local sitting in the corner of the crowd flipping through an old notebook, suddenly seemed to discover something, shot up excitedly, and said to Gray Rain, "I found it!

My father had an encounter with a drifter two years ago, he claimed to have escaped from a survivor settlement in Boston.

That base had thousands of former United States officials, scholars, soldiers, and tens of thousands of civilians, along with a large-scale laboratory. Until one accident when the electrified protective wall was breached by a mutated monster capable of absorbing power from a distance, the base fell."

Gray Rain quickly brought the coffee forward and took the old notebook from Tina, perusing the description,

the researchers in the Boston base were trying to find a way to control the mutants but inadvertently nurtured a constantly evolving monster in the lab.

It absorbs nutrients like a bottomless pit, and whenever it suffers fatal injuries, it would find a hidden corner, exhaust its energy, and produce an egg at the cost of its own life.

The newly hatched individual from the egg would be smarter and stronger than the previous generation.