Ashen God
Chapter 144 - 143 Flame Resistance

Chapter 144: Chapter 143 Flame Resistance

Fifty minutes later, Zhang Yanhang was running aimlessly in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, which was riddled with bifurcations like a labyrinth. Suddenly, at the edge of his perception range, he spotted a familiar, rectangular-shaped object emitting a golden light—it was indeed a slot machine.

"I didn’t expect to find a slot machine in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, and to find it so easily...but perhaps it wasn’t that easy."

After focusing his perception on the slot machine, Zhang Yanhang realized that to reach the split road where the slot machine was located, he would have to backtrack through three turns and take a completely new path. Although it was only about two hundred meters away in a straight line, the detour would require him to walk more than two thousand meters.

"Should I go there? Maybe not, since I already know where it is..." Zhang Yanhang had already scanned the slot machine with his perception and found that the price for using it in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest was higher than that in Raccoon City, costing 3 Soul points per spin.

Zhang Yanhang suspected that the higher price of the slot machine was due to the weakest monster in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest being the Crimson Iron Worker Ant, valued at three Soul points.

Zhang Yanhang had been running around the Crimson Iron Ant Nest for a while but had not encountered any monster weaker than the Crimson Iron Worker Ant. Almost all other monsters were significantly larger than the worker ants, which was normal, as worker ants are typically the weakest ants in a nest.

Despite spotting the slot machine, Zhang Yanhang only paused briefly before continuing to sprint toward the split road ahead.

Even after running in the ant nest for fifty minutes, he felt like he was still on the outer edges of the nest, as most of the monsters he encountered were still Crimson Iron Worker Ants without the increased presence of higher-tier monsters.

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Another hour passed, and Zhang Yanhang had to admit that he might be lost, even with the aid of his Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil Skill.

The ant nest was filled with numerous interconnected split roads and also contained many dead ends. Sometimes, he would finish running down a split road, only to mysteriously find himself back at a previously visited location. When he tried to navigate away from this familiar area, he would end up on a new dead end.

When faced with a dead end, Zhang Yanhang had no choice but to backtrack and choose another new split road to move forward. Although his perception range extended over two hundred meters, the length of the split roads here, often several hundred to a thousand meters, made him feel tormented.

If his Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil perception range could remain at its normal three-thousand-meter range, he surely wouldn’t be lost. But when facing a solid mass of Crimson Iron Ore, the current penetration power of Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil was simply too weak.

If possible, Zhang Yanhang hoped that the next time he upgraded, the penetration power of his Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil perception could be further enhanced. This way, he wouldn’t have to endure such painful experiences again in environments like the Crimson Iron Ant Nest.

Luckily, he noticed a new development: the duration of the time pause provided by Multiple Choice seemed to have extended. Previously, a time pause could barely maintain for just over an hour, but now, it was approaching two hours before reaching the limit of the time pause.

How did Zhang Yanhang determine that the time pause was nearing its limit? This was fairly simple, by observing the changes in the text option box.

Initially, the options in the text box were in normal bold font, but as time elapsed, these fonts gradually turned red. When time was nearly at its limit, the text box would even start to tremble slightly to remind Zhang Yanhang, who suffered from difficulty in making decisions, to make a choice soon.

Overall, the design was very user-friendly. Therefore, under such circumstances, Zhang Yanhang would be forced to make the final decision.

Since time had reached its limit, Zhang Yanhang revisited the initial choice he had proactively proposed.

"What should I have for dinner tonight?"

"Option One: Just eat something random (because you are inside the Crimson Iron Ant Nest in Ashen World, you feel that you should spend more time and energy on hunting monsters rather than worrying about what to have for dinner. To save time, you take out a can of soup from your waist bag that tastes like snot and drink it down.)"

"Option Two: Crimson Iron Ant Meat (Considering that you are currently in the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, you think you should adapt to your environment and eat something characteristic of the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, such as the meat of a Crimson Iron Worker Ant.

Using Alchemy, you made a simple barbecue grill and grilled the meat, surprisingly finding it quite delicious, a bit similar to crab meat, very tender, and after consuming a large amount, you noticed a slight increase in your resistance to acid and flames.)"

"Option Three: Skip dinner (Because you ate too much in the morning, even now you are still not very hungry, plus you are inside the Crimson Iron Ant Nest in Ashen World where there are no ingredients to cook and make a delicious dinner, so under these circumstances, you decide to skip dinner.)"

"Is the meat of the Crimson Iron Worker Ant edible? But if I eat it, won’t it regenerate in my stomach? If it really regenerates inside my stomach, won’t I end up eating a stomach full of ashes?"

Out of apprehension for the regeneration mechanism, although the second option looks rather appealing, Zhang Yanhang would not choose it.

As for the canned soup in the first option, Zhang Yanhang is even less likely to choose it; in Raccoon City he would rather starve for five days than eat such stuff. Now he is not really hungry and is just trying to make a casual choice to pause time, so naturally, he would not consider drinking it.

"So, I choose Option Three, to skip dinner."

Zhang Yanhang still has to continue exploring the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, so he can hardly afford the time to have dinner. During the past two hours, he felt that he had only explored a relatively small area of the nest. He would need to trigger the time pause several more times to fully explore the whole nest.

But before triggering a new choice, Zhang Yanhang suddenly remembered something, "Since the options stated that eating the meat of the Crimson Iron Worker Ant could increase my resistance to acid and flames, maybe I could conduct an experiment."

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