Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 768 - 348 Advancing_2

Chapter 768: Chapter 348 Advancing_2

Shana’s eyes lit up, "Follow me."

Everyone arrived at the entrance to the 52nd floor corridor, where the door that had been knocked flying by the Titan still lay. Lifting one of the doors, they indeed saw an A4 paper stuck to its back.

The following information contains three false statements and one true statement, please discern for yourself.

One: Inside the South Pool, there is a bag of diamonds worth a million dollars.

Two: The Hidden Portal is in the East Pool.

Three: All NPCs are already dead.

Four: The BOSS is not inside the golden door.

Lin Wu returned from a delivery just in time to see everyone analyzing the information, approached, and glanced at it, "The second one is a lie." Confirming the Hidden Portal is in the South Pool.

Little Knife said, "Then the third one should also be a lie."

Lin Wu said, "Not necessarily, I’ve seen a living one, but she’s dead now."

Shana questioned, "Is the information valid based on the time of posting or the time of discovery?"

Maya said, "This one is most likely a lie, that leaves one and four. Lin Wu, you’ve run to the South Pool five times, have you found any diamonds?"

"No," Lin Wu said. "Either I risk my life and search the South Pool one more time, or we directly head to the golden door."

Everyone said, "Go to the golden door."

Shana asked, "Do you know where it is?"

"I know." Lin Wu was someone who had wandered through most of the 52nd floor. "It’s not too far from here, we’ll have to pass through the territories of two Titans, but it’s not difficult. Just stick close and don’t make a sound."

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The group of five lined up, with Lin Wu leading the way. With movements so practiced they were heart-wrenching, he guided everyone safely to the golden door.

The door wasn’t locked. Pressing down the doorknob, Lin Wu gently pushed it open a crack to look inside but only saw closed windows. Lin Wu, holding a handgun, didn’t bother with any niceties and directly pushed the door open, yet didn’t go inside, opting instead to wait outside. After a while with no noise, Lin Wu tilted his head for another look inside and then entered the office.

The office space was over thirty square meters, rectangular, and contained no zombies, just a Blood Heart on the wall with ’BOSS’ displayed on the heart.

The two Deputy Commanders looked at each other, and Shana said, "Can we take it down? If we unleash all our weapons on it, can we kill the Blood Heart before it unleashes its fifth wave?" Currently, the firepower of the Shadow Squad was still quite fierce: the G36 had 65 bullets, Forest Wolf had 10 bullets, and everyone else had two handguns each.

Maya replied, "We’ll be distracted by the first four waves of zombies, so it’s highly unlikely that we can destroy the Blood Heart before the fifth wave. We need more assault rifles, more bullets for them." If there were five people, each armed with an automatic rifle, they indeed could quickly destroy the Blood Heart. Assault rifles were also selective; bullets of 7.62 caliber had always been deemed by players as overkill, but they were absolutely the best when it came to destroying the Blood Heart.

Shana asked, "Retreat?"

Maya pondered for a long time. Except for Lin Wu, it would be difficult for the others to avoid infection by zombies during the fight. She had forgotten to instruct Lin Wu to build an infirmary before delivering building materials. If Stone hadn’t built a hospital, even if they took down the Blood Heart, it could lead to the infection and death of several people.

Lin Wu said, "The strength of the BOSS on the previous floors was weak; there’s no reason to place a Blood Heart here." It had a hefty health pool, could summon allies, and heal itself.

"Let’s retreat," decided Maya, also considering the cost. Even if they could successfully kill the Blood Heart, they’d likely deplete all their resources.

Lin Wu asked, "Do we continue downwards, or leave the instance?"

Maya said, "Our purpose in descending the instance was to strengthen ourselves. Now that we control the Hidden Portal, we should aim to send as much material back to base as possible."

"All right," Lin Wu agreed.

Maya scanned the surroundings and asked, "Can we lay out material from the office to make a path leading to the Hidden Portal?" Lin Wu might avoid electric eels, but that didn’t mean others could.

"What if we dismantle the office desks and use the tabletops to bridge over the rockery stones?"

"The rockery stones are unstable and uneven."

Little Knife asked, "Can’t we just drain the water?"

This question stumped everyone, until Snow Egg said, "Although I don’t know if we can drain the water, we can use a hard water pipe to make a simple siphon for drawing water. There’s a roll of hard water pipe in the cleaning room on the 53rd floor. However, we need a lower position." If the bottom of the pool was at 0 meters, to drain the water, they must find a location lower than 0.

Lin Wu said, "There is one. There’s a drainage hole near the pond, probably put there because they were worried about the electric eels splashing water out, making it hard to clean. It’s covered by a circular grid."

"Good, let’s drain the water first. The key is to be careful of the Titan and not make too much noise," Maya advised.

"Many people might not necessarily be helpful. Snow Egg and I will go," Lin Wu suggested.

The process wasn’t complex. After getting the water pipe, one end was placed at the bottom of the pool, and the other end into the lower drain. Snow Egg sucked water with her mouth to fill the pipe, sealed the end with her finger, and then quickly inserted it into the drain. The process was a bit convoluted and thrilling but ended well. The two of them not only returned safely, but the drainage system also began to work.

This system had two issues. The first issue: even though they used tape to secure it, the Titans might still stumble upon it and tear it open, since it obstructed their path. To address this, they covered the water pipe and the ground with tape, making a smooth, slight ramp.

The second issue: due to the presence of fish and other objects in the pool, they could not ascertain the diameter of the water pipe or the drop between both ends of the pipe, making it impossible to know how long it would take to drain the pool completely.

They had done all that could be done; the rest was up to fate. If worst came to worst, they all would learn to swim backstroke from Lin Wu. As long as they sealed their mouths with tape before doing so, they could avoid screaming after getting electrocuted.

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