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Chapter 332: Revised - 304 Collapse

Chapter 332: Revised: Chapter 304 Collapse

Just as the group was chatting, the ground suddenly began to tremble, and the pebbles on the road bounced around.

"Earthquake?"

Bai Jixiong quickly grabbed the car handle and steadied himself. According to Tina and other survivors from the Otherworld, an earthquake often meant the entire area would collapse and disappear.

"It’s more than just an earthquake."

Zhao Zijing opened the rear car door and released the freshly cooled Point Array Detection skill.

One, two, three...

The light spots symbolizing life energy densely lit up, getting closer and closer. Zhao Zijing’s pupils suddenly constricted, and she quickly raised the walkie-talkie, shouting in a deep voice on the shared channel, "Enemy attack!"

Thud, thud, thud——

Dense footsteps broke through the fog; thousands upon thousands of mutated monsters, like wildebeests migrating across the African savanna, surged over the city ruins, including not only flying species but also giant beasts over five meters tall.

’Damn.’

Zhao Zijing’s scalp went numb. If everyone were still in the building, they could rely on the sturdy terrain to hold off the attack for a while.

But here, the area was full of ruins, with no cover around them, and they’d likely be worn down to death by the monster tide.

"This scene is still spectacular, though."

Li Cheng gripped the steering wheel, squinting as he said, "It’s like suddenly remembering there’s a box of cookies at home you haven’t opened in a long time, and when you do, a swarm of dung beetles bursts out."

"Can you not talk nonsense at a time like this?"

Fuding Hualong looked tense but didn’t slow his actions, quickly drawing a machine gun turret to guard the area, while he grumbled, "And why dung beetles and not cockroaches? Did you shit in the cookie box or something?"

"How could I? Even flies know not to shit where they eat."

Li Cheng looked shocked, then suddenly changed his tone, "But you can pee where you sleep. Like if you don’t want to get up at night, you can just grab a bottle. If you have diabetes, be a bit careful not to mix up the bottle with iced tea or something."

"Afraid you’ll drink it wrong? Why do you seem so excited when talking about poop and pee?"

Fuding Hualong’s eye twitched. In the real world, he was an artsy type who studied traditional Chinese painting, calligraphy, philosophy, music, and photography, always talking about George Elliot, Kafka, Joyce, and the like,

but after spending so much time with Pupil, he inexplicably felt polluted.

The tide of monsters poured over the ruins, getting closer. The players set up machine guns and cannons, about to fire when Tina in the rear carriage suddenly said, "Wait, don’t shoot yet."

Thud, thud, thud.

The monster tide surged forward in a hurry, ignoring the long line of armored vehicles and the humans inside, continuing to rush ahead.

It was like animals in a forest fire, too busy fleeing to hunt.

From Zhao Zijing’s perspective, the slowest light spots at the back vanished into thin air.

"Everyone, speed up and move forward!"

Zhao Zijing snapped out of it, grabbed the walkie-talkie, and shouted, "The collapse has already started!"

Two seconds later, a deafening noise came from the fog, and the entire ground suddenly collapsed downward, taking the buildings and the slow-moving monsters with it, leaving a bottomless pit behind.

Li Cheng floored the armored vehicle’s gas pedal, racing forward, as Gray Rain leaned out of the car window, liquefying its limbs into ramps to help the armored vehicle clear obstacles.

This showcased the players’ diverse skills, as Zhao Zijing used telekinesis to clear the path,

while Dorling Gray pulled a potion from the Backpack and smashed it on his vehicle, causing the car to grow four long legs in black stockings and high heels, allowing it to traverse dangerous terrain.

Li Cheng pulled a large speaker from the Backpack and placed it on the car roof, blasting the theme song from the Fast and Furious series to boost everyone’s morale,

drawing frequent side-glances from other players, their expressions odd.

Not, out of all the Fast and Furious songs, why play See You Again? Bad omen, buddy.

They broke through mountains and built bridges over water, fleeing with the monster tide.

’This is definitely not just a simple geological collapse...’

Zhao Zijing spared a thought to look back. As the ground caved in, the slowly floating sky balloons also suddenly vanished,

as if directly erased.

Thinking of this, she turned and asked Tina, "Has this happened before? Flying monsters also consumed by the collapse effect."

"..."

Clutching the handrail, Tina paused before responding hesitantly, "In the previous collapses I’ve seen, it all finished in one go, unlike this gradual collapse. Flying monsters also didn’t disappear."

Hearing this, Zhao Zijing’s mind raced, pondering the possibilities behind the two different scenarios.

Clang!

A sharp explosion sounded from behind. A player named Hyena stood on the car roof, crossbow in hand, continuously firing metal bolts at the high buildings on both sides of the road.

The bolts embedded themselves in the reinforced concrete, the motors inside pulling up a high-strength steel wire, suspended about 1.3 meters above the ground.

The monsters rushing forward without looking ran straight into the wires, getting their heads cut off or bodies sliced in two.

[Unit killed: Infected. Gained 40 experience points and 100 game coins]

[Unit killed: Infected. Gained...]

Listening to the constant system notifications in his ears, Hyena grinned silently.

Opportunities for blatant score farming like this were rare. Just this wave had netted him over 800 experience points and 2,000 game coins, instantly leveling him up.

Seeing this, other players followed suit, bombarding the monster tide while they were distracted, quickly scoring kills.

Some even used special rocket launchers, collapsing a building to block the road behind, causing dozens of monsters to be swallowed by the collapse.

As the collapse neared, a lizard-like monster, severely injured by machine gun fire and unable to move, suddenly opened its mouth, spitting a glob of green mucus straight at the rear wheel of Hyena’s armored vehicle.

The highly adhesive mucus instantly glued the tire to the ground.

Hyena, standing on the roof, wobbled and quickly pulled a liquid nitrogen canister from the Backpack, spraying it at the green mucus, freezing it into shards to free the vehicle.

But the seconds lost were enough for the collapse to catch up.

Seeing this, Hyena didn’t hesitate to kick off the car roof, abandoning his comrades inside the armored vehicle and the ordinary people in the rear compartment.

As cries for help sounded from the back, the vehicle plummeted into the abyss, disappearing.

Still, Hyena threw out a steel cable, hooking onto another armored car and narrowly escaping the collapse.

"..."

Sitting in Li Cheng’s vehicle, Xue Luomeng stared wide-eyed in disbelief. If Hyena hadn’t tried to farm points, the mutated monster wouldn’t have retaliated, and the ordinary people in that vehicle wouldn’t have died.

Instead, the true culprit Hyena had escaped unscathed.

"Treating ordinary people as straw dogs, that’s what players do,"

Gray Rain whistled and casually said to Xue Luomeng, "Welcome to reality."

"That character is pronounced ’chu’, not ’zou’."

Li Cheng cracked a joke as he floored the gas pedal, speeding across the city ruins. In the distant fog, the high tower loomed vaguely.

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