CHAPTER 1139: CHAPTER 1139: SPIN-OFF - THE WORLD OF LIVE STREAMING 108

The subway glided smoothly.

Now and then it would halt at a station, a small group of passengers would disembark, and the carriage grew increasingly empty.

Nick watched the blinking lights of the subway station, only two more stops to their destination.

He glanced at his teammates beside him, feeling somewhat odd, never having imagined he’d be running a dungeon with these folks... Although that man named Shen Mo was very skilled, this mix didn’t quite look like a proper combat team, especially since he had just been discharged from the hospital and was not fully recovered.

"Shouldn’t there be one more person?" Ada muttered, "With just four people, won’t we be short for the evaluation?"

Nick cleared his throat softly and said, "A team without records has no future."

Ada: "Just say you were ditched by your teammates."

Nick replied nonchalantly, "It’s not only they who ditched me, if you guys hadn’t come for me, I might have quit and jumped ship to another team."

"But it’s a team with the fewest remaining dungeons, isn’t it a pity to give up?" Ada sighed, "Reliable teams are hard to find in the competitive area these days."

Nick chuckled, "Having fewer remaining dungeons only gives us a timing advantage, but the record, even by just 1 point, is an insurmountable barrier."

Having said that, he paused for a moment and then slowly continued, "Moreover... as people in the competitive area keep accumulating experience and improving their skills, clearing dungeons will only get easier. Why else do you think those guys up there regularly introduce a new dungeon?"

Ada sighed lightly: "That makes sense."

"Have you been in the competitive area for a long time?" Shen Mo asked.

"About a year," Nick smirked, "not many survive over three years in the competitive area; after this year, I’ll be an old-timer there."

As they chatted, the subway arrived at another station, only one stop away from their destination.

Nick looked at the name of the station, dropped his frivolous attitude, and spoke with a slightly formal tone:

"Our team is short of 18 dungeons; today, we’re heading to the Sun Temple.

The difficulty of this dungeon is upper medium level, but it’s quite easy to clear as long as we avoid certain traps set inside.

About half a year ago, I ran this dungeon with another team, I’m very familiar with the traps inside, just follow me closely later and act according to my directions."

"What’s the record score for this dungeon?" Bai Youwei asked.

Nick answered, "Over seven hundred, less than eight hundred."

Bai Youwei nodded thoughtfully.

Nick narrowed his eyes and said leisurely, "While the score isn’t high, breaking through is quite tough. You previously mentioned you’d help my team break the record; I’m very much looking forward to it~"

Bai Youwei cast him a peculiar glance: "Looking forward to what? Looking forward to others outperforming you and making a fool out of you?"

Nick was momentarily speechless.

Bai Youwei, with her arm around Shen Mo’s, whispered, "To have such a strange hobby, that’s really unheard of."

Shen Mo responded indifferently with a "Hmm": "I’ve never seen it either."

Nick: "..."

Suddenly, he felt as if instead of edging out a rival, he had pried away an entire wall, and it was suffocating.

The subway slowed down, reaching the station.

Nick collected his mixed feelings, stood up quietly, and gave a final reminder, "There are many traps inside, make sure to keep up with me."

"Got it," Ada patted his shoulder, "Just wait for us to boost your scores."

Outside the subway station—

A dense tropical rainforest came into view.

Conglomerations of towering trees, lush and bizarre plants, shrill and unsettling insect cries, and... a temple ruin resembling a pyramid in the distance.

"Over there, that’s the Sun Temple," Nick said, "Our mission target is to defeat the Demon God inside the God Temple."