CHAPTER 342: CHAPTER 289: SUBSCRIBE AFTER SOME TIME, WAIT FOR THE TITLE TO BE MODIFIED_2

Didn’t they say each one would be stronger than the last?

How come this guy named Li Zheng has led his team to kill two already?

Is the intelligence incorrect?

Should I form a team and get involved too?

Over at Kunlun, the thought is: Have we been preempted? Could the intelligence gathered by Kunlun’s exploration team have been leaked to them?

Logically speaking, Kunlun should be the one most familiar with the information on most mutants right now.

Where does Li Zheng, leading a few freelance players, get the confidence to continuously participate and kill?

Aren’t they afraid of getting hurt?

Don’t they need healing and rest after getting injured?

The captain of the Hidden Dragon Squad sent Liu Shaoqi a message: "Sir, what should we do now? Go directly to Room 37 and seize the initiative from him?"

Liu Shaoqi snapped out of it: "No rush, the warriors heading to Room 37 haven’t returned yet, the intelligence on that mutant isn’t detailed enough. Let’s wait."

Liu Shaoqi thought that Li Zheng being able to kill two mutants in a short time probably involved some luck.

It can’t be that these well-trained warriors from Kunlun couldn’t match a few ’laymen,’ right?

The current score situation is like the three heroes fighting Lü Bu.

A famous general getting beaten up by a bunch of heroes...

Where can you go to reason about this?

Within two minutes, the warriors who went to gather intelligence on the mutant in Room 37 finally returned.

This time, they made good use of the time, quickly briefing the Hidden Dragon Squad on the characteristics of the mutant in Room 37, then entered directly without much delay.

At the same time, after a brief rest, Li Zheng and his team found that their consumption wasn’t as much as it was when dealing with the mutant in Room 39.

Li Zheng immediately decided to strike while the iron was hot and head to Room 37 to earn more kill points.

Yan Guang and Phoenix Mountain coincidentally checked their remaining exploration attempts, discovering they each only had two left.

Phoenix Mountain said, "Let’s fight two more times; once we’re done, we’ll run out of exploration attempts, and we’ll have to wait until tomorrow."

Yan Guang said gloomily, "Every time the terminal causes trouble, it’s at noon, catching us off guard. If we’d known there’d be events, we would have slowed down our exploration pace."

Li Zheng took out a ticket, glanced at the two of them: "You guys don’t have much left, and others probably don’t either, so there won’t be much of a gap."

He knew these two’s exploration attempts were few, so his initial plan was to fight one or two more times, then stop and wait for the exploration chances to refresh the next day.

"Let’s go, quickly!" Activating the ticket, Li Zheng exited the event instance.

Since he already knew someone was weakening the mutants by challenging them, how could Li Zheng miss the chance?

Of course, he had to hitch a ride on this wave.

In just a minute, the team regrouped and teleported into Room 37.

This time, they encountered a mutant of a heavily armored and cumbersome type.

Such an enemy, in Li Zheng’s and his team’s eyes, was the best to kill.

To save time, upon entering the instance, Li Zheng had Xiao Ying use her old trick and trap the mutant.

Then everyone surged forward, engaging in close combat, while Lin Fengjiao and Yan Guang shot arrows from the top of stone pillars.

The fight lasted five minutes, with the final blow still belonging to Zhan Zhouzhou.

When the information that the mutant in Room 37 was defeated spread, Kunlun fell silent.

Especially the Hidden Dragon Squad, as they watched the mutant, after a series of bombings, on its last breath, only to be snatched at the last moment.

It was hard not to feel frustrated.

Perhaps only Li Zheng’s team missing out on Ito Miho’s kill points could compare to this feeling.

What made Kunlun most upset was not getting the kill points, but also wasting a lot of high-tier ammunition.

Obviously, Yan Guang felt this deeply as well...

Liu Shaoqi took a deep breath and asked in the discussion group, "Have any of the other participating warriors returned?"

Someone answered, "Reporting, Sir, not yet!"

"Hmm." Liu Shaoqi thought for a moment: "Send them a message, have them all withdraw and temporarily stop participating in the event."

Having something snatched once is a coincidence; twice means there’s a big problem.

Liu Shaoqi deeply suspected that someone in the organization had a mental lapse and was selling Kunlun’s investigation results.

Which was indeed the case.

Only the recipient of the information was not Li Zheng, but personnel from other organizations.

No matter the group, there are always bad apples.

Some within Kunlun had succumbed to temptation, and it’s quite normal for other organizations to obtain some "trivial" intelligence in exchange for certain benefits.

"Sir, if we stop now, those already injured mutants will likely recover, and our efforts over the past hour will be wasted," a subordinate tried to persuade Liu Shaoqi to reconsider.

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No attacks occurred.

However, a strange atmosphere seemed to spread through the jungle, giving Li Zheng an eerie sense of being watched.

"It’s not safe to stay here."

Li Zheng emerged from the dead leaves and took off running.

However, he didn’t get far before turning back to push a half-eaten ball along with him.

This was the only food he had found, and without it, who knew how long he could last.

As the saying goes, better to die full than be mocked in the underworld for dying hungry.

With his head down, Li Zheng fled, but the irregular shape of the ball made it hard to push quickly, frustrating him so much he had to stop and bite off the uneven parts.

So, nibbling and pushing, Li Zheng was forced to take his food on an... escape?

Moments after Li Zheng left with the ball, a pitch-black beast emerged from a jungle shadow nearby.

The black beast’s round eyes watched the tiny brown bug leave, with a strange sheen in its gaze.

It then looked towards where the bug departed, apprehension filling its eyes, as if it feared something.

After a while, the black beast glanced compassionately at the bug’s retreating figure before turning away, swaying its plump body as it disappeared back into the depths of the jungle.

Meanwhile, as Li Zheng pushed the ball, he suddenly felt his body stiffen, sensing a tangible gaze fixed upon him.

It only lasted a moment before he relaxed again, turning to see what looked like a short, thick tail among the distant trees, vanishing as the body it was attached to turned away.

"Holy crap! There really was something!"

Li Zheng shivered with fear, breaking into a cold sweat. Without looking back, he pushed the smoother ball harder and sprinted off.

Due to his intentional munching on the ball along the way, it had returned almost to its original smoothness, making pushing easy and running fast.

Even though he’d seen the tail disappear, Li Zheng wasn’t about to relax; who knew if it might come back and turn him into a snack?

Not knowing how far he’d sprinted, Li Zheng suddenly felt his grip slip, the ball propelled forward on its own, rolling rapidly ahead.

"Eh???"

Startled for a moment, Li Zheng wondered what was going on.

Then he heard a splashing sound, and upon closer inspection, realized he was at a gentle slope leading down, and the ball was rolling towards the water below.

Raising his head, Li Zheng was astonished to find himself unknowingly at the edge of a vast lake, his antennae detecting faint moisture in the air.

"My food!"

Not bothering to survey his surroundings, Li Zheng scrambled to the riverbank, only to watch in vain as the half-shrunken ball bobbed twice with the ripples and dissolved...

"Damn!"

Staring at the murky spot left on the water’s surface, Li Zheng was frozen in place, despair washing over him.

His only food, dissolved just like that?

Glancing at the clear water beside him, his reflection sending his soul trapped within his insect body into a fit of sobs.

The water reflected an image of a brown beetle, only the size of a human fingernail, with a small slightly blackish spoon-like head.

"What the hell..."

He had turned into a Mordo Sheng, otherwise known as a dung beetle???!!!

At that moment, Li Zheng wanted nothing more than to die...