Will that bunch of idiots follow?

Probably not...... When faced with unspeakable danger, human instinct only scatters them.

The injuries caused by the explosion continued to ache with his footsteps, and together with fear, he kneaded people's souls like invisible giant hands, but fortunately, his consciousness was not blurred, and he could still drag his body forward...... After a distance of more than 100 meters, the monster's footsteps were inaudible, and the wreckage of the road piled up in front of it into a ramp. Although there is a drop of more than ten meters between the cracks and the inclined plane of the steel bars, it is not difficult for Wang Julin, who has experience in surviving in the wild, to climb.

Intuition, however, sounded a sharp alarm in my head.

It's too quiet.

It was an eerie silence, and for a moment the footsteps of the drumming monster were completely gone, and only his own breath was in his ears.

From extreme silence to loud noise, just a moment-

Thunderous vibrations filled the hearing, terrible vibrations came from beneath the feet, and then the wind rushed in the face! He had to stop to support his body so that he didn't stumble and sit down.

Earthquake?

The dimming light around him made him look up - above the ramp, the ruins of the towering building were trembling, and the huge crack that ran across the entire building disrupted all its balance, causing the top half of the dozens of meters high to struggle and collapse in a cacophony of friction, topple, and then collapse!

"......"

I don't know how to describe the scene in front of me...... The tall building that slid down smashed headlong into the building next to it, so the second and third followed...... Dust erupted from the feet of these behemoths like waves, and the wreckage of human civilization melted away like snow sculptures in the sun. With an indescribable horror of annihilation, a breathtaking grandeur and sadness.

Cannon? Dynamite? Or is it the monster?

Why just attack the building?

Biting the tip of your tongue and gathering all your energy with the pain - there was no time to think about it anymore, and the domino-prone building had completely blocked the only path! Even if he climbed the slope, he wouldn't be able to find his way through the crumbling dust, let alone compete with the troll in the ruins!

Another path must be found as soon as possible.

Have it?

By the time the problem emerged, Mr. Wang had no hesitation rushing to the side of the asphalt ramp, where the concrete columns had pierced the ground and ripped out cracks in the pavement more than three meters wide.

There is no shortage of underground structures, sewers, pedestrian streets, subway lines in modern cities...... Regardless of the tentacle monster that came out of the ground before, its body structure with suction cups was not suitable for digging. So the only explanation is that there are ready-made passages for it to live in.

What's more, there is also the 'base' mentioned in the mission.

The collapse must have destroyed some of the underground structure, but the other part could be intact, and as long as you can enter it, you can not only avoid the threat of the monster, but also get one step closer to the mission.

It's just a thing of the world, and those who are unsatisfactory are often eight or nine.

When he ran a distance of more than ten meters, Wang Julin noticed that the inside of the gap poked out by the column was actually shrinking layer by layer, revealing a deep and hollow gap, but the width of more than ten centimeters was definitely unable to allow people to pass through!

With a long breath, he gritted his teeth and raised his sword, stabbing fiercely!

Seems to work...... The clod of earth was pierced by a sharp blade, and then it fell like rain with a single prying, and the width of the gap was expanded by half! However, as if he had a little hope that could not be ignited, the long sword in his hand had broken from near the root along with the falling earth and stones!

Give up?

…… Never!

Throwing away the hilt of the sword in his hand, he reached into the depths of the gap with both hands, and exhaled!

Even in his own opinion, it was almost a desperate madness......

However, it worked – or was the structure not being re-extruded? With a single exertion, the huge asphalt clot shook in the rising dust, and then as the metal creaked and deflected, the crack widened inch by inch in the explosion of rubble!

Wang Julin could barely hear this pleasing voice—the pain in his shoulder and arm was as severe as a burn...... Time was as sticky as elongated syrup, everything in front of him and everything in his ears was blurring, except for the roar of the troll's limbs hitting the ground behind him...... Falling to the ground, it pierced into the depths of his mind like the murmur of death, coldly mocking his incompetence and making him give up struggling.

Yet humanity stubbornly rejected the erosion.

In the blank thoughts, only the fierce and expanding obsession remained, invoking the power of every inch of muscle, little by little, to press it into the huge mass of concrete.

One centimeter. One decimeter. Half a meter......

Silently, the three entangled human legs cut through the dust and mist flying in the air, and together with the back half of the human body and more carrion, they formed the tip of the long articular limbs of a huge monster, and the carrion overflowed on it like mud, scattering into dozens of arm-thick tentacles, pouring down on Wang Julin from all directions! One of them has already swept his back!

Rumble!

Heavy rocks smashed down a large cloud of dust and gray mist!

……

Suddenly there was a whistling of the wind in his ears, whining, as if it were the wailing of a distant world, which made people's spirits tremble and wake up. Wang Julin blinked vigorously, but all that caught his eye was a hazy beam of light falling in the darkness. It took him a moment to remember that it was the light of the sky that had shone through the cracks—and he had plunged headlong into the dark cavern before the monster attacked.

The hot pain all over his body became distinct, making him moan. The turquoise panel unfolded in his eyes, and he noticed that the red slots under his name had turned yellow, a total of 4/12, and two short warning windows stacked on top of him.

"Warning, you've been hurt by an unknown cause, with unknown attributes."

"Warning, you took 3 damage. Entering the Slander state, Strength is affected by -1 impairment, Agility is affected by -1 impairment, and the upper physical strength is reduced by 45%. ”

He turned off the two warnings and glanced at the time of the main quest, which was 2:28:26 remaining. Luckily, fainting was only a matter of minutes. Although the height behind the crack is higher than expected, it is probably the sand and gravel of the roadbed that cushions the impact, and the damage is not as serious as imagined?

No. He wasn't hurt because he was now hovering a few dozen centimeters above the ground - not suddenly comprehending the Void Dance or something, but a silver rope pulled him from above. This is where the sensation of pain all over the body comes from

"it...... It turned out to be really a 'magic' rope...... But what does this tortoiseshell tie mean, damn it! Ah! ”

With a quick movement of thought, the rope had slipped from the zenith, slamming him to the ground, retracting from the state of the five flowers and wrapping around his waist again.

After touching his dizzy head, Wang Julin got up and looked around.

The dim light that emerged from the gaps overhead could only illuminate the gravel beneath his feet, and beyond the light was a darkness that could not be seen beyond his fingers, and even if he blinked hard, he could not see the range of a meter around him.

How much difference is there between exploring in the darkness and expecting the remaining lighting equipment to be available in front of you and sending them to death? You know, not long ago, it was still the mobile path of the giant tentacle monster down here, although the previous collapse may have smashed the monster into meat sauce, at least it can't move, but who can guarantee that there is only that monster?

But even if you go back and look for the lighting, it's ......

He subconsciously turned his head to look at the hole where he had fallen, but suddenly a cloud of blurry white light appeared in his sight!

This surprise was really extraordinary, Wang Julin almost gritted his teeth and didn't scream. An arrow stepped out a few meters, and he raised his hand with a sour hemp, only to remember that the broken long sword had been abandoned, so he could only put on a boxing guard and look at the shining thing.

Is that...... The white-blonde hair illuminated by the hazy skylight, and the pale and indifferent little girl's face underneath.

I'm going to scare people to death and not lose my life!

Wait, this girl...... How did you get in?

Exhaling a breath, he gritted his teeth and glared at the little trickster who had somehow come behind him...... The latter obviously didn't feel the slightest guilt for scaring him, just stared at the deep darkness ahead and walked slowly.

"Well, I said, Your Excellency, instructor, can you lend me a lamp? Or can you have night vision devices? Wang Julin opened his mouth, his voice was not high, but it obviously stopped the little girl's movements: "I'm not an instructor." After a pause, she said.

However, Wang Julin only laughed at this:

"At the beginning, with the addition of those two instructors, the total number is twenty-one. If it is two people leading the team, it will be alone. Then, the bear ...... Well, Miss Lucia casually killed an unlucky guy, but later, the guy who was infected by a mutated dream or something, she didn't shoot, but the Miss Mary Sue did it, obviously snipers are not suitable for close-range execution...... So I guess there's only one place they can kill, right? It is more suitable for the so-called scene with newcomers. A captain takes six people, and five of them are taken to the place to complete the task. Of course, the most obvious thing is that with the famous 'phone booth gun' like the Ingram M10 (which can only be guaranteed to hit something the size of a phone booth at close range), you just hit the monster in the brain, and I didn't suspect that it was stupid enough. ”

The little girl was silent. The footsteps did not stop, but the reddish and bright light spread out from all around the body, and in an instant it almost reflected the end of the line of sight. Reflect everything around you.

Wang Julin raised his eyebrows.

Messy sand and gravel piled up behind him, and the space ahead was as large as expected, but it was not the mall or garage that I expected—the passage more than 50 meters wide had a smooth and rough surface, and the 10-meter-high vault was only hung with rows of old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs, making the whole look more and more empty. Like an underground base used to hide weapons in war. Moreover, it was already tightly sealed more than 100 meters away, and only an iron ladder meandered down the wall from a few dozen meters away, leading to the only door at the lower end.

The mottled pattern on the door made him stunned - it was a famous ...... Or rather, the infamous three-bent crescent around the ring: "I'll go, which brain-pumping organization puts this kind of facility under the city, or is it such a shallow place?" Is it the kind of clumsy drama of mad scientists colluding with greedy politicians to deceive the ignorant people? ”

"You're not afraid?" The little girl didn't stop, but suddenly asked.

"Scared?" Wang Julin nodded:

"I'm not a self-proclaimed artist writer, how can I not be afraid? But at least there is no archangel coat of arms here, no bloody mirror glass, no need to dig out the toilet bowl or the belly of an animal to find the key with your bare hands, and no hanging fans and people wearing triangular headdresses and dragging large knives around. Of course, these are nothing, at least they still follow the general laws of physics, chemistry and physiology, they will break when they are blown up, and they will break when they are cut, and if a gray rabbit with long legs and a big face and a small carrot comes out now, and asks me what's wrong, man, it's really scary......"

His voice stopped suddenly.

A voice was passing through his words...... Like the murmur of electricity passing through a loudspeaker. It is extremely thin and disappears without paying attention.

Originally, he might have been able to hear what it was, but just when he wanted to listen attentively, the little girl suddenly asked him, "What is one thousand minus seven?" ”

“…… Why don't you ask the magic conch? ”

"Answer seriously!"

The little girl turned her head suddenly, and her blue eyes seemed to be burning with two bright red flames at this moment, and the crisp voice echoed in the darkness, gradually turning into a palpitating buzzing echo.

But someone didn't seem to notice the change at all, just looking at the door in the distance:

"Well, considering you didn't tell me the question was mathematical, philosophical, physiological, or anything else...... Or, the answer is 42. Oh, and you haven't seen the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series? In short, 42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything...... It should be more proof of my sanity than 993. Well, since I answered you a question, shouldn't you answer me one? ”

"That monster just now is a large mutation dream, a fourth-level mutation, very dangerous, ordinary people will go crazy as long as they see them." The red light in the little girl's eyes disappeared and she said softly.

"That's not what I want to ask? Well, so it's not the virus that makes the monster, but the ...... Crazy thoughts, you can be infected when you see it? And then...... Death's mental changes can cause physical changes - like the monsters you just encountered? Wang Julin's question is actually not one, it is a string: "So what? You gave up those people to chase me in order to kill me before I turned into a monster? ”

"If necessary."

"It's okay to leave me alone, right?"

“……”

There are many more questions I want to ask, such as the truth of this world, or what is the resurrection and what is the guide...... But after a moment's hesitation, he didn't continue.

None of that was urgent—even if he didn't ask, he had already sketched a rough outline of events in his mind at this moment.

To put it simply. He is now a man who has been resurrected by chance. Belonging to a 'great, unnamed business entity' is called a 'Moderator', and the price of these Moderators being resurrected is that they must enter the 'sandbox' and complete various tasks as specified, and the 'Moderators' can level up and use various weapons and props, a bit like a character in the game, but if they die, they will be defeated...... Hell?

So the important question at this stage is, what does this little girl, the 'instructor' want to do?

If it was to 'escort the newcomer', she should have taken Wang Julin away just now, even considering the clay spider flesh crab outside or something...... The best option should also be to bring all the survivors into this tunnel—just like Wang Julin had planned a moment ago.

Or did she contact the other two instructors to deal with the others before chasing them? But she didn't seem interested in interfering with her own actions.

Don't they want something out of the ordinary?

Of course. There is no need to ask this question - she is willing to say that she has already said that she planned to kill someone and will do it just now, since she is willing to follow, Wang Julin is of course willing to explore when there is an instructor by his side as a bodyguard.

"How much time do I have?"

"Stay awake, you may be alive to complete the mission."

"It's kind of hard, you see, if the world, you, and what kind of guide there is. What if everything is my hallucination? After all, humans are so fragile...... So can you tell me ......"

"I can send you straight back to hell too. Right away. ”