anovelconsole Chapter 112 Why are your hands webbed?
Chapter 112 Why are your hands webbed?
Chapter 112 Why are your hands webbed?
The appearance of the atavistic lion ants, their D-rank strength, and their indiscriminate, frenzied attacks—this has already shattered the "Lion Ant Dynasty."
The difficulty of this long-running dungeon has completely spiraled out of control, soaring to a level far beyond what current players can handle!
Logically, in order to maintain the basic fairness of the game and to prevent the survivors they deployed from being wiped out instantly, thus rendering the "game" meaningless, the best option for the game administrators would be to immediately stop this "Final Battle of the Dynasty," declare the mission canceled or failed, and forcibly teleport everyone out.
Even a less desirable approach would be to significantly reduce the target objectives.
For example, change "kill the queen lion ant" to "survive XX hours in a rioting ant nest".
Alternatively, you can unlock the teleportation by simply killing a certain number of ordinary lion ants.
In any case, at least give the survivors a glimmer of hope.
Yu Wang's eyes were cold as he quickly typed out lines of text:
You're about to hit the jackpot: "Emergency Alert! Attention all survivors participating in the Final Battle of the Dynasty!"
"An uncontrollable upheaval has occurred in the instance! A large number of lion ants have reverted to their ancestral form, reaching level D, with changes in size, strength, and..."
Its aggression has surged dramatically, indiscriminately and frantically attacking any creature other than its own kind!
After sending the message, he refocused his attention on the dark, slippery, and foul-smelling "Royal Kitchen Road."
He didn't know if he could save others. He wasn't sure how effective the warning would be. He also wasn't sure if it would trigger intervention from the "game system."
But he did what he could, issuing a warning within his power.
"Holy crap! Luck is in the dungeon too!?"
"I just heard a strange roar, could it be a regressed lion ant!"
"Do we still need to meet up at the Siren Market? We've killed our way through ants, we're almost there!"
"Damn it, the dungeon won't end until we kill the boss. Now there are so many more roaming hunters in the ant nest, isn't it even more dangerous if we keep wandering around? This is going to turn into a game of hide-and-seek!"
Chaos erupted in the channel as fear spread rapidly.
The "pineapple bun" that was previously suggested to gather has not appeared; I wonder if something has happened to it.
However, the "game system" that Yu Wang cared about most was like a stone sinking into the sea, receiving no response whatsoever.
The game administrators must have known about the changes to the instance, but they have done nothing and show no sign of changing the instance quests.
This means that survivors still only have two ways to escape the instance:
"Either we wait until almost everyone is dead, or we still have to kill the BOSS, the Lion Ant Queen!"
Now, two choices are presented to Yu Wang.
The first one is the simplest. This "Imperial Cuisine Path" is already very well hidden, and the entrance has been disguised again.
Even if they were discovered, the space here is narrow, allowing only one person to pass at a time, making it an excellent stronghold that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is very safe to hide here.
Most importantly, not everyone has abilities and items like "bubble helmets" or "compressed air pills." Others, after hiding in a small space, cannot last long and will die from lack of oxygen.
This is the unique advantage of the 444 partition!
In addition, out of caution, Yu Wang brought enough supplies, so it wouldn't be a problem to wait for ten or fifteen days.
If they're lucky, the reverted lion ants might wipe out all the creatures, including the ordinary lion ants and the survivors, in just a few days, allowing them to easily complete the dungeon and leave.
The second option is to take a risk!
With a large number of ordinary soldier ants and worker ants being diverted to fight against the atavistic lion ants, the defenses of the "royal palace" where the queen ant resides are likely at their weakest! This is the perfect window of opportunity to carry out a decapitation strike and kill the queen ant!
During the few minutes he was thinking, the number of survivors displayed above the temporary channel in the instance kept fluctuating and decreasing!
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The longer it drags on, the worse it is for the survivors!
Once their numbers drop to a certain level, even if they want to regroup and launch a surprise attack on the queen ant, they won't be able to muster enough manpower and firepower!
In the chat window, sporadic reports of other teams encountering reverted lion ants began to appear, confirming Yu Wang's warning and exacerbating the panic.
As the numbers continued to decrease, Mad Shark frowned deeply. He suddenly stood up, his voice low and strained: "We can't hide anymore. The people outside need support."
After saying that, he looked towards the entrance of the passage, clearly wanting to go out and rescue people.
Old Wang disagreed: "Save people? What happens after you save them? Bring them back? If we don't kill the queen ant and complete the mission, the people we save, like you and me, will be trapped in this instance."
Are we really going to expect those brainless, atavistic monsters to kill the queen ant for us?
"How long do we have to wait? Three days? Five days? Or longer? Will our supplies last until then? How will we solve the oxygen problem?"
He paused, looked at Lin Wei, and said meaningfully, "Besides, after we rescued them and brought them back here, the oxygen consumption will increase exponentially with the number of people. The air in the passage is also toxic. Are Miss Lin Wei's compressed air pills enough to distribute to everyone? Even if they are enough, who will pay for the materials consumed?"
"Are we going to force Lin Wei to hand over her life-saving item just to save people from other districts?"
Old Wang was recently disgusted by the moral blackmail tactics used against him by the "morally corrupt world," and he would never use the same methods to blackmail his teammates again.
Lin Wei pursed her lips. She had been saved by Kuang Sha once before and was grateful. Now that she saw Kuang Sha wanting to save someone, she disagreed, feeling that the risk was too great and it wouldn't solve the fundamental problem. However, she couldn't directly refuse her benefactor and was caught in a dilemma. Her fingers unconsciously twisted the strap of the medical kit.
Yu Wang observed the three's reactions, secretly nodding and sighing inwardly. A good team truly grows through repeated disagreements and adjustments.
He could tell that all three of them were kind at heart.
Kuangsha's kindness stems from an inherent sense of responsibility and protectiveness, while Lao Wang and Lin Wei's kindness is firmly restrained by reason. They too cannot bear to see someone die, but once they realize that their kindness might endanger their own survival, they will actively suppress their impulses and choose a more rational path.
There is no right or wrong, just different ways of dealing with things shaped by different experiences.
Yu Wang did not immediately express his opinion; instead, he reopened the [Area Survivor Map].
The number of dots representing survivors on the map has decreased significantly, which is alarming.
Apart from their team, those small teams of three or four people have almost disappeared.
Instead, there were three relatively concentrated small groups of light spots, each with about twenty people, moving slowly through different passages, as well as a large group of light spots with a size of one hundred people near the "Siren Market".
Since humans banded together and these groups grew in size, the number of survivors, which had been plummeting, finally stabilized at 167, and stopped decreasing rapidly.
In the silence, Yu Wang spread the map out on the ground and said, "You've all seen what's happening inside the instance."
"We might survive hiding here. But more and more people outside will die. And we don't know how long we have to wait here, or if things will get even worse."
For example, after the atavistic lion ant kills everything, it begins to dig deep into the ground, or a new situation arises on the queen ant's side.
"With the current internal strife in the ant colony, where ordinary ants and the primordial monsters are fighting each other, the queen's core defenses have been greatly weakened. This is the best opportunity we may have, and it may also be our last."
"My opinion is: unite with those outside who are still fighting, strike at the heart of the enemy, kill the queen ant, and end all this."
Yu Wang paused, then met the gazes of Kuang Sha, Lao Wang, and Lin Wei one by one: "What do you guys say?"
After a brief discussion, the four reached a consensus.
Not long after, in the temporary chat area of the instance, someone started speaking, saying, "You're going to hit the jackpot!" The words were sharp and went straight to the heart of the matter.
The chaotic channel fell silent, and new hope was ignited.
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Rather than stubbornly waiting to die in despair, it's better to seize the opportunity amidst the chaos and fight for a chance to survive! Cut off their supply lines at the root!
On the map, the dots representing the survivors—no, the clusters of light—began to adjust their direction and converge toward the "Royal Court Palace."
Yu Wang's team didn't delay any longer. Since they were already quite far from the royal palace, they quickly got up and continued to advance along the narrow and damp "Royal Dining Path".
Because the passage was downhill, after walking for a short while, the road ahead was submerged by a murky, dark green seawater that faintly smelled of decay.
Before entering the water, Yu Wang took out the [Area Survivor Map] again to examine it carefully and determine the length of the waterway.
The dotted line representing their route curves on the map, with the curve extending deep into the area submerged by seawater. However, as the dotted line approaches the "Royal Court" marker, it begins to extend upwards again, indicating that there will be an exit ahead, leading back to the dry cave.
"Based on the map scale, this completely submerged passage is about 800 meters long." The mad shark glanced at the map and quickly obtained the accurate value. 800 meters is nothing on land, but underwater, especially in such a dark and narrow cave waterway, it requires extra caution.
The good news is that, perhaps because the area was flooded and abandoned, they didn't see any signs of lion ants along the way, so the underwater area is probably safe, or at least, there are no lion ants.
All four used the ability [Bubble Helmet]. Apart from some psychological discomfort with the dirty water, their movements were not greatly impaired.
Duck B — it doesn't need that at all, at most it will take a good bath when it gets back.
Next, the four people and the duck continued to enter the water in the same formation as before.
Underwater visibility was extremely low; anything beyond half a meter became a blur. The current was barely perceptible, and the stillness was terrifying.
Eight hundred meters seemed to stretch on endlessly.
Just as they had swum about halfway and were beginning to adjust to the deathly silence, the shark, bringing up the rear of the group, suddenly sent a message to everyone: "There's someone behind me. I think I just touched its hand; it had webbed fingers."
He was the last one in the team!
The passage was narrow, allowing only one person to pass at a time. It was impossible for the person in front to sneak up behind him without him noticing!
Therefore, what comes after you can only follow!
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