Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 319 - 183: Hunting Feast_2

Chapter 319: Chapter 183: Hunting Feast_2

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Starlight was the second in command at Starfire Base, and the combination of Starlight and Sunlight differed from that of Maya and Stone. Starlight was in charge of finding and patching up weaknesses, with slightly less authority. Maya was responsible for tactical training, with more authority even than Stone. However, due to their involvement in base management, the two women found plenty to talk about when they got together.

Originally, Lin Wu and Fire Dance were assigned as the point team, but Yellow Hair kept ingratiating himself with Fire Dance and smiling at her, so Lin Wu left them behind and took the lead. Stealthily moving through the darkness, he was like a ghost, not only undetectable by outsiders but also hard to spot by his own team members.

The four-person team, wearing headlamps, moved through the darkness like fireflies in the night, quickly attracting attention. Nightmare, Blood Meng, and two other Fortress agents had already formed a legion, with Blood Meng as the commander. They had been aggressively attacking players throughout the day, raking in points. They were not particularly interested in a small team of four players, but when they saw the team heading towards their rest spot, they felt it would be a disservice to themselves not to ambush and eliminate them.

Then they saw a fifth person, or to be exact, a dog. Despite their night vision gear and straining their eyes, they could not spot anyone around the dog.

"Retreat," Blood Meng ordered decisively.

"The damn ghost," Nightmare said through gritted teeth, grabbed their backpack, and followed Blood Meng.

Nightmare had no objections either, she was another person who Lin Wu had hurt. Seeing the three bosses retreating, the two agents quickly followed suit and left.

Lin Wu raised his hand and snapped his fingers. Maya, not knowing where Lin Wu was, quickly headed towards the source of the sound. When she got close, she saw Lin Wu pointing at the last room on the second floor of a two-story building, "There’s light."

The others gathered around. Maya said, "You stay here, we’ll go."

Maya and Lin Wu approached the staircase, one on each side, and advanced upwards. Soon, Maya appeared at the second-floor window, shaking her headlamp at the team below to signal them to come up.

Inside a separate small room in the building, a fire blazed. The scene suggested that someone had been cooking food there not long ago, and there were still food scraps in the hanging pot. Starfire reached for a piece of food and gave it a sniff, "Beef, is there any beef for sale?"

Lin Wu thought for a moment, "The restaurant has beef dishes, but there’s no canned beef or raw beef for sale."

Maya, leaning on the window, looked outside and said, "Hunters, it seems they’ve grouped up and are no longer acting alone." The daytime attacks might have been temporary cooperation, but sharing a meal and resting together indicated that they had formed a team for long-term collaboration.

Why a team? Who would cook a meal alone? It would be easier to just eat snacks.

Fire Dance, at the other side of the window, asked, "Sister Maya, is that a fog?"

Maya looked in the direction Fire Dance was pointing and saw a fog appearing on the road they had just taken. The fog, jelly-like, filled the entire road without spreading into the buildings. It was moving down the road toward the library.

Maya said, "We need to move."

The five of them, accompanied by a dog, went downstairs. Lin Wu remained the point man, followed by Yellow Hair and Fire Dance. During this time, an incident occurred, and Maya couldn’t help but admonish Yellow Hair on Starfire’s behalf, "Please don’t talk unless necessary, and keep it down if you need to speak." This made Starfire feel awkward. In everyday life, Yellow Hair had endless things to say to Fire Dance, and today he had actually been rather quiet.

Starfire wasn’t as tactically savvy as Sunlight, and she knew it wasn’t right, but she normally didn’t scold or correct members’ behaviors. She worried that the team might see it as her leveraging Sunlight’s position to intimidate others. Her role in Starfire Base was more like that of a supportive spouse, assisting Sunlight in handling interpersonal relationships in the base.

meters from the library, the mist behind Lin Wu and the team was 300 meters away. At a crossroads, Lin Wu gestured for everyone to move forward while he dropped Beast Traps along the way toward the library. When the fog enveloped the Beast Traps, all three of them were triggered, clearly indicating there were creatures within the fog.

The fog Lin Wu encountered on this expedition was denser compared to the one he had seen on his first. He said to Maya, "The fog is going to attack the library." The library’s safe zone was only effective against Hunters and players.

Maya asked, "Have you encountered it before?"

Lin Wu recounted the fog he encountered on his first expedition, "This fog is denser, and I’m worried visibility may drop below five meters when it hits. Should we book a room to go back to?"

"I’m afraid that’s not an option," Maya said. "Can you climb to the top of the library?" The library had a sloped roof with no direct access.

Lin Wu replied, "It shouldn’t be a problem." He could climb out from a third-floor window.

Maya said, "Use a rope."

"Understood," Lin Wu responded. "Let’s hurry."

Calculating the situation, Maya said, "There’s no rush, we have around ten minutes."

The group hurried towards the library, and after removing their protective gear, Lin Wu bumped into someone. He exclaimed as if seeing a ghost, "Peanut?"

Maya said with surprise, "Peanut, you’ve finally arrived."

Peanut, his face etched with pain, moved in to embrace Maya, but she pushed him towards Lin Wu. Peanut immediately pushed Lin Wu away, "It’s just me."

"The others?"

"I don’t know."

"You can’t be serious?"

"Got any food?"

"Yes."

Shadow Team had spawned in Zone 12, and their first objective was to head to the supply point in Zone 4. Following the route given on the map, they encountered a collapsed building blocking their way. With no choice but to take a detour, they came across a player with golden hair by the afternoon. Golden Hair informed the six members of Shadow Team that the road was blocked and that they needed to pass through a tunnel to reach the junction of Zones 4 and 8.

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