On the edge of the stinky pool of blood, Bai Ye collapsed on the rocks and gasped for breath, and the ghoul corpse next to him was gradually cold and stiff.

"White ...... White Nights. ”

Joey shouted weakly, then stepped forward with a torch in his hand and squatted down beside Bai Ye.

The aftermath of the catastrophe made it difficult for her to control her emotions, and she shed two lines of tears, and two lines of tears were washed out of her blood-stained face.

"Are you alright?"

"I can't die, it's just a little out of strength."

Bai Ye smiled at her, the expression on her bloodstained face was also stained, and the white teeth in that row were quite eye-catching.

"Give me something to eat and drink, hungry......"

Hearing this, Joey nodded hurriedly, took out the canned food from the backpack he carried, opened it, brought it to Bai Ye's mouth, and fed him bite by bite.

The situation just now was quite dangerous, so he killed 3 ghouls, and immediately fell into the pursuit of the army of ghouls, and Bai Ye's physical energy consumption was very serious.

This was followed by a fierce battle under the pool of blood, which almost drained his physical strength.

By the time he came to Joey's rescue, he had already started to deplete his health due to the depletion of his stamina.

Now that I've rested for a few minutes and been fed by Joey, I've finally recovered 10% of my stamina.

"Along the way, I've gained a lot of posture proficiency. ’

He checked the attribute interface, and his active stance had reached level 5 and 1500 proficiency.

'Looks like you just accepted a side quest?' ’

Switching to the task interface, Bai Ye noticed that a side quest called [Cleaning Up Pests] appeared under the main quest.

【Pest Cleanup】

[Description: These half-human, half-beast monsters are cruel and bloodthirsty, they feed on corpses, are the embodiment of evil, often haunt underground tunnels, empty cemeteries and sewers, and some are said to know how to disguise themselves and infiltrate human society to carry out some ulterior conspiracy. 】

[Objective: Kill 5/10 ghouls in total.] 】

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After his physical strength returned to more than half of it, Bai Ye got up from the ground and prepared to leave this foul-smelling ghost place with Joey.

They searched around and eventually found a small crack in the rock face.

For this gap, Joey can easily drill through, Bai Ye is more difficult, he is much larger than Joey, and if he wants to enter the gap, he must be bent on his waist all the way, and slowly squeeze through it in a strange posture in the shape of a 'bow'.

Joey walked ahead and explored the way, and it took the two of them a while to get out of the gap and into a dark passageway.

"There's no monster smell here, I can smell it."

Joey's little nose wrinkled, and he nodded affirmatively.

Bai Ye muttered in his heart, is your body a husky?

Casually threw a recognition to Joey.

- You've used 'Identification' on the target, and you're observing......

- Identification success! You've got some information about your target.

Name: Joy Fox

Personality: Agile Stalker (extra speed increases, difficulty getting caught, increased camouflage in cautious stance)

Stance: Contemplative LV2, Cautious LV7, Active LV7.

Ability: Keen sense of smell、???

- Your actions give you +100 Concentration Stance proficiency.

'No wonder ......'

Joey carries a skill that increases the sense of smell.

'Why didn't you use this ability earlier?' ’

Bai Ye pursed his lips and took out the flint and steel to light the extinguished torch in his hand......

After the torches were burning, the two finally got a good look at their surroundings.

It's an abandoned subway platform, with broken equipment and cracked marble floors.

This is the subway platform area mentioned in Thurber's letter. ’

The entrance and exit of the platform are blocked by mud and rocks, and it is impossible to get out of these places. Underneath the platform are two heavily rusted subway tracks, one of which is blocked by a half-derailed subway car in one of its directions - an obvious feature of the system to clearly delineate the play area.

"I can only go in that direction."

Joey stretched out his hand and pointed in the other direction of the railroad tracks, where a thick darkness shrouded and everything was unknown.

"Let's go, remember to alert me early when a monster is approaching."

With such a good nose to explore the way, Bai Ye also saved himself from summoning the embroidery girl.

"If there are too many smells, my sense of smell may fail."

Joey shrugged her shoulders and spread her hands, explaining why her sense of smell was useless just now.

"And...... As long as it's more than twenty meters away, I can't smell anything. ”

There are a lot of limitations, but it's better to have than to have nothing. ’

The two jumped off the platform and walked along the tracks.

But after a few steps, a number of wooden cages appeared in front of them, which were placed against the walls of the cave, and some of them seemed to contain living creatures.

"There's a lot of smell here, but there's no monster smell."

Joey wrinkled his nose vigorously and reported to Bai Ye.

Bai Ye walked over to one of the cages and brought the torch closer to illuminate the inside of the cage.

In the corner of the cage was a human with long beard and ragged clothes, and he was alive, his eyes hidden under the messy hair, looking at Bai Ye in horror and inexplicably.

Cuckoo?

Seeing that Bai Ye was looking at himself, the man in the cage let out a strange cry full of doubts, and then reached out and picked up a very clean bone next to him, and the baby seemed to be hugged tightly in his arms, as if he was afraid that Bai Ye would take away the bone.

'What's the matter with this man?' ’

Bai Ye continued to observe the several wooden cages in the back, and found that these cages were all held by humans—humans who had been kept in captivity.

Some are dead, their bodies are badly decomposed, and some are still alive, but they are all insane and very afraid of light.

Inside the third cage, he also saw a man in the cage munching on an arm, chewing with relish.

"Oh my God! What do I see? Is this hell? ”

Joey was so frightened by this scene that he covered his face with his hands, not daring to look at these fellow citizens again.

"The voice is...... Is it Joey? ”

But just as Joey's words fell, a man's voice suddenly came from the end of the wooden cage, and then there was a sound from shaking the cage.

"It's me! I'm Rodman! Thank goodness for coming and get me out. ”

The man who called himself Rodman shouted excitedly, shaking the cage even more violently, for fear that he would not be able to attract the attention of his teammates.

Bai Ye and Joey hurriedly leaned in that direction, and by the light of the fire, they found that it was indeed Rodman with a line of mustaches.

"Why are you here?"

Joey's expression was shocked.

"I thought you were buried by a collapsed layer of soil?"

"It's a long story, you better let me out first."

Rodman looked around nervously, speaking with fear, "This should be the food pantry of those monsters, there is an old man in charge of this place, while he is not here, we ......"

"No, he's here, and ...... Looks like we've already been discovered. ”

Bai Ye sighed slightly, stretched out his finger and pointed to the position of the left side of the cage five or six meters past.

At some point, an old man with a white beard and a gray robe appeared.

"Intruder!"

The old man stretched out his hand and pointed at Bai Ye and Joy with trembling, and screamed in a sharp voice.

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