LWGP - Chapter 114
Chapter 114: Mutated Dark Crystal
After everyone had gathered, Wang Jiu activated the invitation card. A short, skinny, green-skinned goblin merchant appeared in the open space of Wang Jiu's large homestead. It carried a strange, complex box on its back, which seemed to be full of clattering things, but it looked like a flowing halo of light.
It sized up Wang Jiu and the others with its beady little eyes, its expression full of disdain. "Your levels are so low, and you still dare to summon me? What good stuff could you possibly have to trade? A bunch of country bumpkins!"
Everyone: "???"
So full of himself. He was asking for a beating.
But when Wang Jiu checked its attributes, they were Unknown.
This meant it was an NPC above level 10, the kind you couldn't fight.
"How do we trade?" Wang Jiu didn't bother arguing and got straight to the point.
"Click the box on my back, look at the goods inside, and operate it on the screen. Everyone can click at the same time; it supports multi-user operation. Don't take turns one by one and waste my time. I make several hundred gold coins a minute."
Arrogant indeed!
Everyone began to operate the interface. Wang Jiu also opened the shop and was immediately met with a view of densely packed goods.
The value seemed to be arranged from high to low. She coveted the items in the top few rows; she would have been happy with any one of them. But comparing them to her points, she had a feeling they were things she couldn't afford even if she went bankrupt.
As expected, Wang Jiu first placed a pile of resources she didn't currently need or want into the bottom pane. With so many resources, even including a set of non-attribute silver equipment she had replaced, she only got 300 points. Wang Jiu glanced at the goods and fixed her eyes on one of them.
Blazing Light Fire Mine (Explosive thermal-arcane damage item, single-use.)
Attribute: Possesses an explosive force comparable to nearly 3000 Strength in damage.
Usage: Can be controlled remotely.
Current exchange price: 1200 points.
Wang Jiu threw in all her low and mid-tier resources, then scrolled through her inventory and took out her most valuable item, the Dragon Light Gem. Her 300 points jumped to 600. Then she added 「Summon Heroic Spirit」, and the points jumped to 1100.
Just 100 short.
Wang Jiu added a class skill book she had gotten from a chest that she didn't need.
It reached 1200.
She exchanged for the Blazing Light Fire Mine, then threw in the other four books, getting 500 points. She searched the shop again, and her eyes lit up.
Revenant Aura (Special Item)
Attribute: Forces a dead player to return to the city or revive on the spot within 10 seconds, unless their Agility is 1000 points higher than the user's.
"This is really good stuff," Wang Jiu praised to the System.
The System rolled its eyes and said nothing.
But it was quite expensive, 250 points each. She could only get two.
Wang Jiu frowned slightly, but her expression quickly relaxed as she sent a private message to Roy, whose friend request she had accepted.
"If you kill someone repeatedly, will all their resources drop?"
"Yes."
Roy had just finished off Ian tonight, so she was certain of this outcome. She didn't ask any further questions. After glancing at the now-quiet chat box, she closed it. But she took out an audio file saved with a special item from the pioneer period and listened to it several times, her eyes growing deep.
Initially, when Wang Jiu had taken care of Ian for her, she had worried that Wang Jiu wouldn't clean up properly and the Benroy family head would find out. Later, after she secured her position as heir, the Benroy family head did indeed find a few clues. She sensed this and had to strike first, contacting Wang Jiu again. She then went to great lengths to lure and incite the families of Ian and Lynn to rebel in an attempt to seize the Benroy family's immense wealth, using their hands to severely wound the Benroy family. In the end, she did the killing and pushed the blame back onto the two families… Of course, it wasn't her own hands, but Wang Jiu's.
Yet the latter had a perfect alibi, which meant she had a blade for killing at her disposal.
Coupled with the exorbitant resources she squeezed from their circles during that period, which in the end, didn't flow back to her country.
They seemed to have vanished, used by her in some mysterious place.
Many years later, after repeated investigations, she finally found a clue—the one the Benroy family head had discovered was very likely left deliberately by Wang Jiu, and it pointed directly at her.
In that case… Wang Jiu was waiting for her to have no choice but to team up with her again.
"Was she after that old man from the start? Layer after layer of planning, using the inheritance dispute to use me… using the three most powerful families under the Benroy family to turn against him."
"But why? There doesn't seem to be any connection."
Even though it was the apocalypse, this secret still gave Roy a headache. This was why she had wanted to kill Wang Jiu all these years.
Wang Jiu was a bomb that could go off at any moment.
"Scarl," she murmured. The rhythm of the syllables between her lips was like a narrator's voiceover in a game dungeon's background, drawing one into a desolate monastery of withered trees, dim crows, and blood sacrifices.
Wang Jiu was like a blood-soaked monastery.
She looked full of sacred light, but inside, she was rotten and flowing with blood.
Wang Jiu exchanged for two Revenant Auras, and with that, her trading was finished. But the others weren't as decisive as she was and were still fiddling around, likely squeezing out points like milking a cow.
In any case, when the time was up, the goblin merchant would leave on its own.
Wang Jiu went out and set up the territory's return point right in the center of the territory.
As her disciple, Wang Shu was a child left to fend for himself. He could only complain to Dao Dao and the others.
However, Wang Jiu saw that the number of residents in her territory had soared to over thirteen thousand. Many people had applied through her profile on the social network.
One thousand households had moved into the ten-thousand-unit residential area.
This was like a direct link, allowing for immediate joining, but it also depended on distance. It was impossible for someone far away to join directly, as the return range of a medium territory was limited to roughly the Luoyang area. It was impossible for someone far away in the capital to just cross boundaries into her territory and use a return scroll to get there.
For a small territory, the return range was much smaller.
But for the Luoyang region, it was enough.
"So fast, Master. It seems what happened on the social network last night had its benefits."
People are drawn to the strong. It didn't matter if you were good or bad; being able to contend for supremacy in the apocalypse was enough to make people submit.
Wang Jiu hadn't expected the effect to be this good, but she also knew that more people were still watching from the sidelines. She glanced at the territory account.
Territory Gold: 950. Territory Spirit Energy: 13,000.
Wang Jiu alone accounted for nearly a third of the territory's spirit energy, which showed that not many of the new residents had homesteads yet. Wang Shu and Qiao Xuejing had also contributed a significant portion.
After all, it was only the second day.
After a moment's thought, Wang Jiu placed one of her extra small territories next to the medium one. The system prompted her about fusion, which required a 100 gold coin fusion fee, plus ten thousand bricks and a thousand bags of cement for the system's fusion costs.
What a huge appetite.
Wang Jiu sighed but had no choice but to pay.
Wang Shu and the others learned that territories could be fused…
"No, we can't fuse, only affiliate. Let me see the notification… After affiliating, we can share the medium territory's building defense system and accept residents, but we must pay 50% of our income to the affiliated lord. That's so much." Wang Shu complained subconsciously, but when he noticed Wang Jiu's light gaze sweeping over him, he immediately launched into a wave of flattery, spouting things about utmost devotion until death, burning himself out like a candle, and not hesitating to go bankrupt.
Wang Jiu ignored him and returned to her room. Thirty minutes later, the goblin merchant disappeared, and the night's excitement died down. Everyone left Wang Jiu's homestead. As he was leaving, Wang Shu saw Xie Lu placing his homestead. He was stunned for a moment and blurted out, "Handsome Guy Xie, are you settling down in Master's territory?"
Xie Lu's back stiffened slightly. He grunted in affirmation.
Wang Shu said, "Oh, that's too bad. We've already taken all the homesteads near my master."
Xie Lu: "I don't care about that."
Wang Shu: "Then why are you wandering around looking for the closest empty spot?"
Xie Lu fell silent. He turned and glanced at Wang Shu. That one look, combining the cold sharpness of a soldier with the cool aloofness of a noble scion, was quite lethal.
After habitually running his mouth, a habit picked up from being addicted to watching drama all night, Wang Shu was so frightened by that look that he shivered and scurried back into his own homestead like a scared cat. A thought flashed through his mind: Holy shit, how high are this little bro's attributes? That was terrifying.
"Such a coward!" Dao Dao complained. Beside her, Qiao Xuejing smiled, gave Xie Lu a slight nod, and then led Dao Dao back to their homestead.
Xie Lu turned his face away. In the dim world illuminated by the territory's light, only God knew that his ears were slightly red. He remained silent, and after setting up his homestead, he also arranged his territory. He noticed that Jiang Kaikai and the other two had also affiliated their territories. This meant that Wang Jiu's main territory consisted of one medium and one small territory, but she had six affiliated territories.
Now seven.
Xie Lu placed his own small territory. Although he was late, he made it onto the rankings.
He collected the reward for being in the top fifty of the Ninth District's small territory exchange speed rankings—a 120-square-meter homestead. When he thought of Wang Jiu's 610-square-meter homestead, he felt no joy or pride.
"Is the gap really that big?"
He had grown up among the elite. The qualities of a soldier were loyalty and faithfulness, but also a strong will and a refusal to admit defeat.
He muttered to himself, but quickly began to organize his resources and… plant vegetables.
At the same time, Wang Jiu sat cross-legged on her bed and began to browse the social network. Oh, not the main social feed. She didn't bother with the gossip-mongers on the main channel, who were still buzzing with terrifying enthusiasm. She scrolled through the posts in the Luoyang section, consciously collecting information on three things.
1. Famous experts within the range of novice villages 300-500 in the Luoyang region.
2. Which of these experts had attributes over 1500.
3. Those who were secretive, fierce, cunning, and ruthless, preferably those who were often red-named and from whose clutches few people escaped.
These were three pieces of information, but they were actually search criteria. She was filtering through people layer by layer.
The first criterion's scope was based on the fact that Bian Moshu was only the lord of a small territory. If someone wanted to support him, the fastest and most reliable way would be to join his territory and use the return function. Wang Jiu was searching for targets based on the return range of a small territory.
The System couldn't help but retort, "Couldn't he find someone from outside the Luoyang area?"
Wang Jiu: "He won't. Bian Moshu knows about me and will judge my progress curve from when I was a solo player without a fixed team. Combined with the information leaked on the social network, he will raise his assessment of the danger I pose. He's very nervous and wary right now. If he competes with me for time, he will definitely lose. He will also judge my personality and know that I'm definitely trying to build up my own power. In that case, he will either withdraw from the Luoyang region and not fight me, or he will try to take me down quickly and decisively to accelerate his own annexation process."
System: "Maybe he'll prioritize peace."
Wang Jiu: "I let Mei Qingshu stay, and he's clearly aware of this fact. If he were going to say something, he would have private messaged her or me. Given Mei Qingshu's fiery but responsible personality, she wouldn't have waited for me for hours. Since nothing was said, it's either 100% trust or he has other plans. Bian Moshu's personality is egotistical and cautious. He won't act unless necessary, and if he does, it will be well-planned. This is evident from his plan to annex these novice villages. Most importantly, the attitude of Qi Shuanghan and the others towards Mei Qingshu was only superficially respectful; they mostly treated her as a hired thug. When she wanted to stay, their suspicion and annoyance were hard to hide. But as a suave diplomat, Qi Shuanghan couldn't have been unaware of such a hidden problem within the team, yet he did nothing to ease his subordinates' attitude towards the team's second-in-command. This suggests he was condoning it, but that wouldn't benefit him unless the intention came from the number one—Bian Moshu is deliberately sidelining Mei Qingshu."
They didn't know how strong Wang Jiu's attributes were. Once they were far away, they started badmouthing her, not even bothering to use the team channel, which showed their dissatisfaction with Mei Qingshu.
"For such a mature and efficient team, in its most crucial development stage, to have such an internal problem and not deal with it—that in itself is a huge problem."
Unless they were elites, ordinary people's expressions and body language don't lie. Those few people's attributes were inferior, and their minds and dispositions weren't outstanding. Their behavior was a very public display of Mei Qingshu's situation in Nevernight.
She could even tell that Mei Qinghe's team wasn't part of Nevernight's management structure; they seemed more like a semi-detached unit. This meant the Mei siblings were either being ostracized or didn't have a strong sense of belonging to Nevernight and were just staying there for shelter.
Based on all this, she could deduce Bian Moshu's leadership style and a bit of his personality. She could also roughly infer that his strength could suppress Mei Qingshu's, but not by much.
A leader's ability to control their subordinates is fundamentally determined by their own strength.
But this was all just information gathering; it wasn't complete, but she could use it to speculate on the worst-case scenario—if Bian Moshu prioritized peace or decided to act later, she would still be the one to win.
As for the third search criterion, there was only one reason.
"If you don't kill them completely, it's not a real win. Dying once, returning to the city, and dropping some equipment and resources—the threat of them starting over is still there. He won't want to leave any loose ends. Roy's methods would also give him some ideas."
"So am I."
That's why she bought the Revenant Aura. So what about Bian Moshu? What kind of outside help would he bring in?
Perhaps an item, perhaps a skill, or perhaps an ability like the Bloodthirsty Tribal Chief's?
Wang Jiu began to sift through a large amount of information and started a detailed screening process. She wasn't a god; she couldn't be 100% certain of the other party's identity, but she could create a suspect list of less than a dozen names and then gather more in-depth information on their abilities and previously displayed skills…
But before that, it wouldn't be good if Bian Moshu's personality exceeded her predictions and he killed Mei Qingshu directly.
"She was, after all, a cub I'd invested in," she sighed, and sent a private message to someone.
Mei Qinghe was about to sleep when he suddenly received a non-friend private message from Wang Jiu. It was just one sentence, but it woke him up instantly.
"Tell me, who in this world can best protect your sister?"
Mei Qinghe was stunned, then he exploded.
Fuck, no matter how awesome you are, you're still a player king. Are you really treating my sister as just another fish in your trans-Pacific sea!
Pah!
On the other side, Wang Jiu, having closed the private chat, said calmly, "This Balala should understand my good intentions now."
System: "…"
I think he's going to get the wrong idea. Your persona is already well-established, my player king lord.
About three hours later, at midnight.
A black shadow silently left the territory, flitting through the dark domain of the novice village area. It quickly deviated from the novice village's revival point and entered the desolate borderlands.
The novice village area was actually very large, just much smaller than the wilderness. But this vastness was a perception skewed by modern life with its various modes of transportation and urban architecture. People's cognition hadn't shifted yet.
Wang Jiu was the same.
"So far." Wang Jiu sensed the red dot's position, which marked the Ratling Sub-Boss, and judged the distance and surrounding environment. She avoided some mini-bosses to prevent making any noise that might alert these sensitive little things.
However, the fishy, rotten smell in the air was becoming quite noticeable. After all, there had been no rat tide attacking the village tonight. While it was possible the rats were resting or gathering strength, they still needed to eat.
"Rat players don't have cooking methods, so the place with the strongest raw, fishy smell must be their feeding spot…" Following the red dot and her sense of smell, Wang Jiu found a place after half an hour.
A sewer?
This place seemed to be on the edge of Luoyang's city construction, along a river mouth, where there was a large sewer outlet with a diameter of five meters.
The river mouth had long since dried up, and the ground was covered in disgusting patches of algae and moss, as well as years of accumulated garbage and sludge.
Wang Jiu felt something was off.
1. Before the game loaded, the traces of the modern city were almost completely destroyed, leaving many ruins, but even those were in the process of rapidly disintegrating. She had noticed today that there were far fewer ruins in her line of sight, yet this sewer was still here.
2. The size of the sewer outlet didn't quite fit the national standards. In any case, a city of Luoyang's scale wasn't large enough to have such a massive sewer outlet. It was more like the sewer systems in some foreign countries.
"A game-constructed scene," Wang Jiu mused, but the stench was intensely foul. Without hesitation, she went in.
While maintaining a rapid pace, she also activated the Demon's Eye's insight state. A hundred meters in, three hundred meters…
After three thousand meters, the air had thinned considerably, and the stench was overwhelming. Of course, even stronger was the foul odor of the rats themselves.
There were many branching pipes in the sewer. She discovered something—the location of the red dot and the area with the strongest smell, where the largest rat colony was, were separate.
One to the left, one to the right.
This was interesting.
"A class distinction, representing the allocation of resources… Many of the pipes in here have started to break down, exposing the earth walls. The pebbles the rats carry in their bodies probably come from here…" As Wang Jiu was guessing this, she took out a medium-sized puppet, molded it into the shape of a shifty-eyed, incredibly ugly rat, and sent it into the fork where the large rat swarm was gathered. She herself entered the left fork where the sub-boss was.
Her agility was so high, far surpassing these rats, that she wouldn't be detected even if she got closer. But she also knew that if she were surrounded by a rat swarm of this size, she would die, especially in the confined space of the sewer.
Five minutes later, the puppet Wang Jiu was controlling saw a huge crack.
It was a crack because the sewer tunnel had fractured, and another opening had been dug out. Judging by the claw marks on the walls, it was clearly dug by these rat players. Inside, some fragmented skeletons could be seen, some very old, some relatively fresh.
The small puppet rat rolled on the ground, picking up the scents and traces, then ran into the cracked tunnel. It didn't move cautiously but ran brazenly. Soon, she saw a terrifying, densely packed swarm of rats.
Tens of thousands? That was a massive understatement.
Anyone with a phobia of dense clusters would die on the spot just from looking at it, let alone trying to blend in.
Even someone like Wang Jiu felt her heart tremble, but she still had the puppet brazenly enter the rat swarm. Some of the other rats saw it but paid it no mind, because they were all busy—mining!
They were frantically digging at the ground and the cavern walls, searching for spirit energy pebbles.
Some ate what they found, but the low-level rats had limited digestive capacity. Many couldn't eat much, so the excess pebbles they dug up were piled in the center of the vast cavern.
The pile was as high as a small hill, with at least tens of thousands of pebbles.
However, their strength was indeed increasing rapidly. If given a few more days, they could launch a major attack.
Wang Jiu had her puppet pretend to mine while she thought about how to take all these spirit energy pebbles.
First, the puppet had no inventory.
Second, the puppet's combat power was only 30% of her own. It would definitely be torn apart by this huge swarm of rats. It was just an item, so it wasn't a big deal, but she wouldn't be able to succeed that way.
What to do.
While Wang Jiu was pondering, her real body was still moving deeper—the area where the sub-boss was seemed to be deeper than the rat swarm's location, and also further down.
She could see traces of groundwater seeping from the cavern walls.
Wang Jiu frowned slightly. Suddenly, the strong smell of blood assaulted her nostrils. She stopped in her tracks and abruptly hid in a dark corner.
A moment later, a black shadow crept forward from behind her. The instant it passed the corner… a slender, snow-white hand suddenly clamped over its mouth and pulled it to the side!
Xie Lu instantly sensed three things.
1. The hand covering his mouth was slender and soft.
2. The body pressed against his back was even softer.
3. She wasn't wary of him, but of…
Xie Lu became alert but didn't struggle. He remained quiet and waited for a moment.
Just a moment later, a small rat scurried past the tunnel ahead.
It was just a rat, was this necessary?
No, this rat was different. Its ears were particularly large, its nose was particularly sharp, and its eyes were blood-red.
Both Wang Jiu and Xie Lu used an insight skill on it. Wang Jiu didn't know how much the latter saw, but she saw right through this rat.
Scout Rat Chieftain (Level 18, a spirit rat about to evolve into a Silver-grade mini-Boss)
Attributes: Strength 350
Agility 900
Stamina 230
Talent Skill: Reconnaissance Art, a talent evolved due to the Mutated Dark Crystal. Can detect the aura of experts far stronger than itself.
Oho, Mutated Dark Crystal?
Wang Jiu got this piece of information.
Rats were a race with a naturally huge population but a far inferior evolutionary path compared to humans. But quantity produced quality. Their terrifying reproductive ability allowed them to undergo a frighteningly fast transformation and evolution in the naturally spirit-rich underground environment.
At this moment, Xie Lu and Wang Jiu did not reveal themselves, because they both sensed that this rat was extremely cunning. It was patrolling back and forth. Since they knew about it in advance, they could naturally avoid it, because even Xie Lu's average attributes were over 1300.
It was also a good thing that both of them were cautious and had previously smeared the filthy substances from this place on their clothes to mask their scent.
After a while, once the Scout Rat Chieftain had completely left, Wang Jiu finally released her hand. Her palm was scorching hot, not from her own temperature, but from someone's face.
Glancing at Xie Lu, Wang Jiu raised an eyebrow slightly.
Such a strong reaction. First time?
Fortunately, the situation was tense, and she was in no mood to tease him. She directly added him to her party.
In the party chat, to cover up his hard-to-hide embarrassment, Xie Lu said, "The situation is critical. Their evolution speed is terrifying. If we don't solve this, all hundred villages in this area will be destroyed, and even the whole of Luoyang might not be safe."
Wang Jiu said, "What a great place. There's a decent-sized spirit energy mine down here."
They spoke at the same time. Hmm, and fell silent at the same time.
A typical difference in worldview.
But it didn't matter. All roads lead to Rome.
Xie Lu was very capable. He knew Wang Jiu's mind was sharper than his. "What's your plan?"
Wang Jiu: "You're my good luck."
Xie Lu was stunned for a moment, then quickly understood—if he weren't here, her plan would probably be difficult to execute, but now that he was…
"I lure the enemy? You go in and get the good stuff?" Xie Lu asked, using the logic that best fit Wang Jiu's usual methods.
Wang Jiu: "No, we each get the good stuff. But I want half of what you get."
Xie Lu figured that this person had arrived earlier than him and had gathered more information. Moreover, she was far stronger than him and was coming up with the plan, so this distribution wasn't unreasonable. Of course, he also knew that he wouldn't get a share of whatever was in the left fork, because he wasn't confident he could come out alive from the sub-bosses' gathering place down there.
"Tell me the plan."
Wang Jiu explained. Xie Lu thought for a moment, agreed, and carefully made his way back towards the right fork where the rat swarm was. But he left a message in the party chat: "Be careful."
Wang Jiu didn't reply. After he left, she didn't move, but released a small cockroach puppet that crawled along the wall to scout ahead…
Through the cockroach's vision, she gradually saw the situation below.
How to put it, she had long known that although rats reproduce quickly, they couldn't possibly replenish their numbers by tens of thousands in one or two days. It was highly likely they had gathered through an underground network, meaning the rats that had previously attacked many villages had probably all gathered here.
It was just her damn luck that 443 was the closest.
However, the rats from several areas had gathered, each with its own Ratling Sub-Boss. These sub-bosses had then gathered, forming a small group of twenty. They were currently fighting around a small, faintly glowing piece of iron.
It was a strange fight. They were tearing at and killing each other, but they didn't dare get too close to the small piece of iron. It seemed… they enjoyed the light it emitted but didn't dare to endure more of it.
Wang Jiu: "A racial bloodline limitation?"
System: "Yes. Rats are too low-grade. The small rats don't dare to eat more pebbles, and the sub-bosses don't dare to endure more of the radiation emitted by the Mutated Dark Crystal."
Wang Jiu was thoughtful. "But they're greedy and want it all for themselves, even though none of them can fully possess it. The best method would be group evolution, but they don't have that much self-control. Ah, no wonder those low-level rat swarms aren't here. If they were, it would have led to internal racial slaughter."
The scout sub-boss from just now was one of them, but it was a bit strange. Why wasn't it participating in the fight? And why was it so diligently searching everywhere?
"Unless a higher-level Rat Boss has enslaved it."
Wang Jiu's heart skipped a beat. She didn't dare let the small cockroach get any closer and immediately withdrew it. Then she stood there and thought for a while.
Small puppets couldn't use the Demon's Eye like medium puppets could. A strategic error. She had underestimated the strength of the rat race.
Wang Jiu immediately sent a medium-sized puppet over. She wouldn't act rashly without being certain of their strength.
She could afford to lose a medium-sized puppet.
Just then, Wang Jiu received a message from Xie Lu in the party channel. He had arrived and was hiding at a safe and suitable distance, asking when to coordinate with her puppet to make a move.
"Wait a moment."
Wang Jiu waited for the medium-sized cockroach puppet to get closer. With a sweep of the Demon's Eye, the insight data for the twenty sub-bosses appeared.
Hmm, none of them had data as good as the scout sub-boss.
Where was that other one?
Wang Jiu was very meticulous and scanned the entire cavern. Finally…
"This damn thing thinks it's Spider-Man," Wang Jiu couldn't help but complain, because clinging to the ceiling, directly above the Mutated Dark Crystal, was a rat.
This rat was rather disgusting. Its body was long and flat, like a lizard's. Its climbing ability was very strong, and it was even flicking its tongue.
It had mutated. A very obvious mutation.
Mutated Lizard Rat (Level 20, Silver-grade mini-Boss.)
Attributes: Strength 600
Agility 1400
Stamina 530
Skill: Catalyzes the rat swarm's frenzy, increasing the entire swarm's speed.
Eh, that skill?
Wang Jiu frowned. She would have preferred a specific attack skill rather than something like this.
However, she still measured the size of the space and the distance, then calculated the distance between the left and right forks, and then the agility of these sub-bosses and the rat swarm…
"Xie Lu."
Wang Jiu called out to Xie Lu.
Xie Lu: "Is it starting?"
Wang Jiu: "In a bit. My puppet will lure away most of the rats over there, you grab the pebbles…"
The two of them communicated the details of the plan, confirming the timing for each other.
If they timed it right, neither of them would have to fight.
Five minutes later, Wang Jiu said one word: "Go."
The puppet rat in the left tunnel suddenly released a human aura and attacked the rat swarm with a skill, then quickly used Shadow Step to flee.
With the chieftain gone, the rat swarm lacked control and immediately became agitated. A human!
They gave chase frantically!
At least eighty to ninety percent of the rats chased after it.
Xie Lu sensed the commotion inside, hearing the sharp shrieks.
The sharp shrieks of the rat swarm echoed through the tunnel and faintly reached the right passage. The 20 sub-bosses were somewhat confused, and the Lizard Rat was the first to notice. Just as their attention was diverted…
The Mutated Dark Crystal underneath them suddenly vanished!
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