CHAPTER 446: CHAPTER 414: SISTER YU

When Li Cheng and Gray Rain arrived at the temporary camp, the whole camp was quite... chaotic.

The sounds of arguing, questioning, and shouting were interwoven with noise.

The dining area was unattended, the dishes in the pot were burnt, emitting a strong charred smell.

"What happened?"

Gray Rain scratched his head in confusion, looking around to find no one paying attention, he immediately ran to the buffet area, muttering "I guess no one wants this either."

As he used tongs to pick up lobsters, abalones, and Kobe beef steaks, placing them on his plate.

He even had the leisure to put on an apron for himself.

Li Cheng was also puzzled, he could only see the players on the open ground arguing incessantly, some people after a struggle, simply disappeared on the spot.

Obviously, they logged out of the Slaughter Field, returning to the real world, giving up this exploration.

This involved the issue of sunk costs, a group of players risking crossing buildings filled with eerie presences like Vietnamese Female Ghosts, finally finding the entrance to the Secret Realm,

seeing that they could find the Hidden Room and divide the spoils, but at the crucial moment, they directly quit, equivalent to throwing all their early investments away. Totally unreasonable.

"Brother Pifu?"

Tie Gu of the World Nuclear House, relying on his height advantage, saw Li Cheng from afar and waved to signal him.

Li Cheng pulled the still gorging Gray Rain, walking towards the members of the World Nuclear House, puzzledly asking, "Who’s in charge here now."

"Theoretically, nobody’s in charge."

Tie Gu shook his head with a bitter smile, his eyebrows showing an unhidden urgency, explaining the current situation as briefly as possible.

Twenty minutes ago, the Whale Song Guild’s Breach Differential Machine successfully breached the Secret Realm, opening a Teleportation Gate on the surface of the Inverted Pyramid.

Players successively sent in drones, fiber optic robots, servants, shikigami, but there was no response.

The fiber of the robots sent in would break, and the servants and shikigami would lose connection.

It was speculated that it was an undefined space behind the Teleportation Gate, to some extent not following the constraints of physical laws.

After discussion and prophetic divination, the Temporary Committee selected nine players, including Zhangsun Yao, the president of the World Nuclear House, and the Binary Tree of the Whale Song Guild as the first sent force, to enter the core of the Secret Realm.

Soon Binary Tree sent back a message, indicating it was still safe below, advising to send down the second batch, third batch of players.

The subsequent players who arrived also sent messages of being well.

But a Whale Song member left on the surface keenly picked up a deviation in Binary Tree’s word choice in communication, probing with a mathematical problem concerning a partial differential equation of fluid motion,

the answer to which is extremely difficult with just the human brain, requiring the unique skill of the Whale Song Guild.

Then, on the other end of the intercom, there was silence.

Not only Binary Tree, but no further messages were received from the second batch, third batch of players.

The answer was evident, including Binary Tree, all players who went to explore were controlled by something and attempted to lure more players to go.

This was very horrifying, as the people like White Horse Tombstone who went down in the first batch were skilled individuals with an average Level of 27, and for the potential Hidden Room,

people like Binary Tree and Blood Lion Roar, backed by the guild, even temporarily rented Epic-level items from the guild.

If this group of strong individuals could be quietly controlled by some unknown existence within a few minutes after going down, unable even to exit the Slaughter Field...

Then for others to go down would be no different from blindly helping out at random.

"We must rescue the president, no matter what."

You Anjian struggled with his expression, taking a deep breath. Other members also nodded silently.

They were all failed ones screened out by big guilds, it was Zhangsun Yao who gave them a second chance, helping to plan their Power System and properly settle their families.

People have feelings, and now that Zhangsun Yao’s life or death is unknown, they have no choice but to take a desperate gamble.

"The elixirs are ready."

In the corner tinkering with gourds, the round-faced young man, Today I Didn’t Take Medicine, stood up wearily and distributed the pills to his companions.

Information Integration Glasses showed these medicines as Bloodthirsty Level, which could overdraw life to gain temporary strength.

"Although it’s a bit presumptuous..."

Tie Gu paused, embarrassed, "Brother Pifu, would you like to come down with us to find the president? We can pay you, even now."

At this, You Anjian, Ozaki Aozora, Today I Didn’t Take Medicine and the others hesitated in their actions.

They often heard Zhangsun Yao mention Li Cheng, with quite some admiration and regret in his tone.

This kid could rise from an Ordinary person to Level 20 in such a short time without relying on any guild, repeatedly playing important roles in major events like Noah Tower,

it’s quite a loss indeed that Zhangsun Yao was unable to entice, ahem, to sign Li Cheng into the World Nuclear House.

"We’ll talk about the payment later, let me see what’s going on first."

Li Cheng shook his head, he was willing to participate in this exploration because he received intelligence from Zhangsun Yao, coming for the Insect Master infectee.

Now that the purpose is achieved, the remaining exploration proceeds are all pure profit.

He walked through the people of the World Nuclear House, heading straight to the steam-driven Breach Differential Machine.

Below the differential machine on the ground of the Inverted Pyramid, a three-meter square pitch-black surface stood open.

All lights shined on it would be absorbed, the surface rippling like lake water at all times.

And beside the surface, representatives of various guilds were arguing passionately, especially the more than twenty medium guilds organizing this exploration—

they had invested more sunk costs, making the psychological burden of giving up exploration even heavier.

"Can the ministers of the court, crying from night to the morning and morning to night, cry Dong Zhuo to death?"

Li Cheng’s loud shout interrupted the argument,

all guild representatives turned their heads towards the source of the sound, many with a "who is this" expression on their faces.

"You’re here."

Fuding Hualong saw Li Cheng appear, sighed in relief, and proactively introduced to the others, "This is the famous Pifu who single-handedly took down two deep crimson danger level specters before."

Name of a person, shadow of a tree.

The landing of Noah Tower on Earth could be viewed as a landmark event marking the entry into a new stage of the Slaughter Field Game.

Guilds with channels to see confidential documents naturally knew the crucial role this player with the ID Pifu played in it.

"And this one is even more heavyweight, Sister Gray."

Gray Rain, seeing no one introducing her, slapped her chest to introduce herself, "I can stand on my fist, a horse can run on my arm, lifting mountains and seas, full of courage and meritorious service in protecting the kingdom!"

Isn’t it Sister Rain, isn’t it Sister Rain, isn’t it Sister Rain?

Fuding Hualong and the Red Driver, who sat in the corner serving as a backdrop, twitched at the corners of their eyes,

But they saw Li Cheng take out his phone, showing everyone the cartoon painting of a cherry tree and chili tree, "This is a mural I accidentally discovered while exploring the building cluster. It doesn’t fit the surrounding buildings.

Has anyone found anything similar?"

The players looked at each other, a member of the Whale Song Guild hesitated, "I saw a similar cartoon painting at the beginning of entering the building cluster, it’s a bunch of ducks."

He digitized his index finger, inserted it into his temple, pulled out a green line from his brain, waved it casually, and threw it onto the television screen, projecting the scene of a group of cartoon little yellow ducks swimming past a bridge hole.

"Any more?"

Li Cheng’s eyes lit up, the style of these little yellow ducks was identical to the chili tree, obviously left by the same person.

"No more, just this one."

The player shook his head, frowning, "Do you have any guesses?"

"Can’t say guesses, just find it suspicious."

Li Cheng took back his phone, used an Electronic Pet Egg to retrieve Gray Rain, and strode towards the pitch-black surface.

"Wait,"

Fuding Hualong and Red Driver both stood up at the same time, "The situation inside the Secret Realm is unknown, it’s too dangerous for you to go down alone."

"I didn’t say I would go down alone."

Having already predicted the probability of death with the Suicide Notebook, Li Cheng smiled broadly, pulling out a Sheepskin Scroll, "I’ve got someone to take the lead."

With that, he tore open the Summoning Skill: Manor Guard, and as a flash of white light passed, the cowboy-hatted manor owner with a revolver in his left hand and a whip in his right hand emerged from thin air,

warmth shining in his smile, subtly glancing over a few dark-skinned players before diving into the pitch-black surface headfirst.

Li Cheng followed closely behind, performing a 360-degree twist in the air before diving into the black surface.