The moment he heard Little Lajiao crying, Wu Xiangwang followed the sound and went over.

Brother Bear and Little Pepper were not far away from him, only about three steps away.

So Wu Xiangwang soon saw Brother Xiong covered in blood. His face changed and the nails that he wanted to pierce into Brother Xiong's arm were pulled back three inches. He turned around and grabbed Lin Yuan's hand and pressed it on Brother Xiong.

In Brother Xiong's current state, he absolutely cannot be healed by the [Infection] skill of Aedes albopictus. After all, Aedes albopictus is not a true healing skill. While healed, it will also randomly infect some of the original owner's negative effects. Normally, some negative effects are not a big deal for people with strong bodies, but Brother Xiong is now exhaling more and inhaling less.

Lin Yuan's hand was forcibly grabbed and pressed on Xiong Zhuang, feeling somewhat helpless. However, he did not struggle to break free from Wu Xiangwang's hand. He just tried to raise his other fingers and palms, leaving only the tip of his index finger pressing on Xiong Zhuang's bleeding body, letting the light golden light heal his body.

When the light dissipated, Xiong Zhuang's body, which had almost no good flesh, finally stopped bleeding and slowly recovered a little, but at this point Lin Yuan withdrew his fingers. His strength was so strong that Wu Xiangwang could not press down any further.

"My treatment can only restore him to his current state, no more."

Lin Yuan's voice was gentle, but Wu Xiangwang could hear a hint of indifference and determination in it.

He pursed his lips, but Little Pepper on the other side kept thanking him with tears and laughter.

"Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo! As long as Brother Xiong doesn't die, it's all fine. woo, woo, woo! It's all my fault. I've gotten Brother Xiong into trouble! That exploding balloon was meant for me, but Brother Xiong used his body to block it for me. woo, woo... He said that girls are too delicate to withstand explosions, but he was already injured before... before!"

In the end, the exploding balloon chased almost all of them who were trying to escape from the secret room. At that time, four of the ten people who entered the secret room died, leaving six people left.

In fact, the secret room was not too difficult, but there was a particularly cruel guy among the people who entered the secret room. He killed two people by himself and deliberately blocked her way at the end, making her fall behind. Even though Brother Xiong had squeezed to the front, he still came back to pull her up.

Little Pepper's eyes turned red with anger when she thought of this. She was angry that someone could be so shameless and vicious, and she was also angry that she was not strong enough, did not react quickly enough, and was not vigilant enough. In short, she was very angry at her own incompetence at this time.

Xiong Zhuang finally regained some consciousness at this time. Seeing Xiao Lajiao wiping away tears in anger and anxiety, he grinned and said, "After all, you called me Brother Xiong for five years, so I have to protect you... Ahem... It's okay, it's okay... Aren't you still alive? As long as you're alive, that's all."

Little Lajiao hugged Xiong Zhuang's arm and started crying loudly. At this time, she heard the taciturn Wu Yan's almost out-of-tune roar:

"Someone, come quickly! Someone, come quickly!!"

Little Pepper almost trembled all over when she looked over there, and saw Meng Hulu with half of his arm broken and Hao Youjin with his left calf twisted beyond recognition. But the most terrifying thing was the running guy surrounded by the two of them. His legs became empty, and his two arms and spine seemed to be broken. He could only avoid falling apart by being dragged by someone.

There was no blood on him, but the look on his face had already made Pepper stiff and unable to move.

Wu Xiangwang held Lin Yuan's hand again, but this time he found that he could not pull Lin Yuan no matter what.

Wu Xiangwang looked at Lin Yuan sharply in an instant: "You are a healing ability user. You have to go save him."

Lin Yuan looked at Wu Xiangwang's somewhat fierce expression and lowered his eyelids slightly. Then he slowly raised the corners of his mouth and asked in a soft voice that could be heard by everyone here:

"I can save him once, but I can't save him every time."

"I was able to save his life this time, but what about next time?"

Little La Jiao, Men Hulu, Hao Youjin, and even the trio of financial brothers who had just escaped in a mess, all stiffened and changed their expressions because of Lin Yuan's question.

But Wu Xiangwang once again took Lin Yuan's hand and walked towards Xiaopao: "We'll talk about it next time, next time. If we can save him this time, we'll save him!"

“Not everything can be done best at once.”

This time, Lin Yuan really followed Wu Xiangwang and walked forward, but he did not agree with Wu Xiangwang's words.

"But the path we are taking now requires us to do our best at once."

"Otherwise, there will only be failure and death."

His tone suddenly became heavy at the end, and seemed to carry a faint sense of desolation emanating from his bones.

As if he had experienced the tragic failure and death he mentioned.

Wu Xiangwang held Lin Yuan's hand with a little force, and pressed Lin Yuan's hand on Xiaopao's body. The light golden light appeared again, allowing Xiaopao's twisted body and bones to slowly recover.

However, the legs that he once took pride in and could run very fast were never to return.

At least for now, it can't grow back.

Xiaopao was not as optimistic as Xiong Zhuang, but he was also trying hard to reassure everyone at this time:

"It's okay... As long as I'm alive, that's all I need, right? Every day I live is a day I've earned... I've earned so much just to be able to make it this far with everyone else."

Although he was still comforting everyone, it was obvious that there was no hope of moving forward in his words.

Little Pepper's eyes turned red again, and even Wu Yan gritted his teeth: "Brother Pao was attacked because he was trying to help us fight for the bronze key!"

What's even more abominable is that the ones attacking Xiaopao are not the mechanisms and enemies in the secret room, but the human adventurers who should be cooperating with everyone!

In this secret room, Wu Yan, Hao Youjin and others witnessed the most terrifying evil hidden in human nature.

Fortunately, they entered the secret room together as a group of three, and they managed to hold on by taking care of each other. However, among the twenty people in the secret room, only seven people came out in the end.

At this time, the last monk Liusha, Wang Xiao and others also rushed out.

Liusha came out alone. Probably because of his strange appearance, he was almost besieged by human adventurers since he entered the secret room. Even though he tried hard to say that he was still a human, he was still deliberately targeted in the secret room.

Fortunately, his ability is very suitable for moving and hiding in the secret room, and he has long been accustomed to being targeted and attacked. In addition, his ability level can almost crush all the adventurers in the secret room. Liusha looks the most dangerous but is the safest and most comfortable in the secret room.

Shang Chong and Wang Xiao were also in good condition, but Shang Chong's face looked a little off. Wang Xiao's gold-rimmed glasses had a rather unattractive crack, and although he was still smiling, his expression was extremely cold.

After coming out and taking a look at the status of their teammates, the expressions on their faces became even uglier.

Shang Chong, who is usually a talkative person, looked gloomy and could not utter a word when he saw Xiaopao's missing legs.

Wang Xiao quickly walked to his three finance junior classmates, looked at their embarrassed appearance, pursed his lips and said nothing.

When Wu Xiangwang noticed that the atmosphere had sunk to its lowest point, he closed his eyes and said, "Alright, let's go back to the cabin and rest. Then we can talk about this secret room city."

Wu Xiangwang said this and took the initiative to step forward and carry Xiong Zhuang on his back. Wu Xingyun thought about it and called out his big mushroom, thinking that it might be more comfortable for Xiaopao to lie on it.

Everyone walked silently towards their gathering place at the city gate, but on their way back, they saw many adventurers who had just come out of the secret room, with expressions of fear, anger, or... grief on their faces.

Of course there are also people who are proud and excited, but compared with those who are painful and angry, they are far too few.

When Wu Xiangwang and the others returned to the quest panel, they saw a female adventurer yelling at a male adventurer at the top of her lungs, "Why did you give up on Yuanyuan?! Yuanyuan could still be saved at that time! She could still be saved!! Isn't she your sister?! Why are you so cold-blooded?!"

The male adventurer was clearly also filled with rage and pain. He seemed to have been holding it in for a long time, but finally couldn't take it anymore and roared back, "Am I cold-blooded or are you stupid?! Even if we risked our lives to rescue Yuanyuan, would she still be alive?! Didn't you see that all the bones in her body were broken, even her skull was shattered?!"

"There's no good healer in our team. We only made it to the City of Secret Chambers because we had a wanted warrant! Why do we have to escape the City of Bliss? Staying in the City of Bliss and dying quietly is better than experiencing all kinds of painful deaths in the secret chambers!"

The female adventurer cried without any dignity. The male adventurer's words seemed to have instantly destroyed her defenses. She shouted loudly:

"But the City of Bliss isn't home! I want to go home! I want to go back to Earth!"

The last sentence echoed throughout the entire adventurer gathering place, breaking the defenses of countless people.

Even Wu Xiangwang closed his eyes slightly, while Lin Yuan looked at the sky above the secret city where there was no sunlight at all, and curled the corners of his mouth elegantly.

At this moment, a voice suddenly rang out in the crowd.

"...Actually, the quest to clear the City of Secret Chambers has been changed."

This voice suddenly sounded in the silence, attracting many people's attention.

Wu Xiangwang looked at the person who was speaking and found that he was a middle-aged man with a weathered and even old face. This person looked like a silent mountain, very imposing, but also as if he had not seen rain, dew or sunshine for a long time and was lifeless.

But these are not his most eye-catching features. The most eye-catching feature of this middle-aged man is his exposed left arm. It is not a normal human arm, but a black and hard arm that looks like a tree trunk or a beast's arm.

Obviously, he has begun to become weird.

He was definitely not one of the new adventurers who had settled here.

Looking at his appearance, Wu Xiangwang suddenly thought of old Czech in the carnival city. They were both people with great power, but no vitality and hope in their eyes.

The middle-aged man remained calm amidst the scrutiny, suspicion, and even fear of the crowd. He even raised his non-human arm with a hint of mischievousness.

Then he spoke: "Everyone, I am... a human mutual helper in the City of Secret Chambers. You can call me Uncle Bai."

"Unfortunately, the City of Secret Chambers is a rather unique city among the ten major cities. It is also the only one without a permanent human accommodation. I regret that I cannot provide you with a sufficiently safe place to stay."

"But I think I can set up a big tent here in the future, which will at least help people."

Uncle Bai smiled.

"But what I want to talk about now is not the accommodation issue, but the issues concerning the hero's mission, the secret chamber, and even the entire City of Secret Chambers."

Uncle Bai pointed to the giant quest panel above everyone's heads as he spoke. "You should have seen the Beauty quest. The Beauty quest's duration is (October to November), while the Hero quest and Merchant quest are both (long-term). This means that the Beauty quest is changing, but the Hero and Merchant quests remain the same for a long time, right?"

The adventurers frowned slightly. "Isn't this obvious? Do we even need to ask about this?"

Uncle Bai then said, "But the hero's mission has changed before."

Wu Xiangwang blinked, feeling that the point was coming.

"The previous hero mission was missing two sentences."

Wu Xiangwang looked at the brave mission on the panel.

[Brave Mission: Enter the secret room and escape successfully. (Long-term)

Every time you successfully escape from a secret room, you may get a bronze key. Collect 30 bronze keys, or 6 silver keys, or 1 golden key to get any pass mark.

The difficulty of the escape room varies, but it will not exceed the maximum ability of those who enter the room.

Note: Each secret room has only one bronze, silver, or gold key. However, high-level secret rooms may contain bronze, silver, and gold keys at the same time.

Please strive hard to participate in the escape room and do not let your efforts become a stepping stone for others.

This is the complete description of the Brave Mission. Uncle Bai said that the previous Brave Mission had two fewer sentences than the current Brave Mission. Wu Xiangwang looked carefully at every sentence of the Brave Mission, wondering which two sentences had not appeared before and were added later.

Then Wu Xiangwang opened his eyes slightly.

Uncle Bai also gave the answer——

"Previous Brave Quests didn't have the phrases 'Secret Room Difficulty Uncertain' and 'Participants Please Strive Not to Become Stepping Stones'."

Wu Xiangwang revealed an indescribable smile that was filled with anger and a bit of sarcasm. Some people hadn't reacted yet, but some had already exclaimed:

"What do you mean?! Were the secret rooms previously divided into different levels?!"

"Then why didn't they separate later? What happened? Is this weird thing targeting us?"

Even a fool knows that the difficulty of a graded escape room and an ungraded escape room is completely different for them.

If escape rooms are divided into different levels and types, people can enter different escape rooms according to their strengths and existing levels. Even if they cannot get the bronze key, the mortality rate will definitely be greatly reduced.

But if everything were random and only considered the limits of human beings, situations like today's heavy casualties would probably happen every day or even every moment.

Everyone was looking at Uncle Bai, waiting for him to give an answer.

But Uncle Bai shrugged his shoulders and showed his lifeless look again. "I only know that about seven months ago, the secret rooms in the City of Secret Rooms could be identified by the level and type of the secret rooms according to the street and location."

"But then these two sentences were suddenly added, and it changed all of a sudden."

Wu Xiangwang pinched his fingers and frowned.

Then he suddenly felt someone looking at him, and when he looked up, his eyes met Uncle Bai's.

The latter looked at him as if sizing him up, and then he said, "But I know that seven months ago, the city lord had a partner."

Wu Xiangwang was stunned.

"And now, the city lord wants to make the most beautiful dress that both he and his partner will be satisfied with."

"A few days ago... I seemed to hear the city lord and her husband arguing in the dark of night. The noise was so loud that the whole city shook."

Wu Xiangwang listened to what Uncle Bai said and felt that he seemed to have grasped something.

Some adventurers also spoke up: "What do you mean? Are you saying that the city lord's husband asked the city lord to change the hero's mission?"

Uncle Bai looked at the person who asked the question, chuckled twice, turned and left without answering.

He casually opened a door and walked directly into a secret room. Before leaving, he said, "I didn't say that. I just told you everything I could say and think of."

How to do it specifically depends on you.

He originally had no intention of getting involved.

Because the world is becoming more and more terrifying, and the humans who wake up and challenge it seem to be getting worse with each generation.

He was already feeling hopeless. The road home was getting longer and longer, and hope was getting slimmer. What was the point of struggling? It would be better to just let it die.

But……

But!

That was his hometown that he missed so much. Even if there was little hope, how could he give up so easily?

What are these "living dead" who are waiting in every city waiting for? Isn't it just a little hope that can ignite the fire of the prairie fire?

And this time, he seemed to see a possible hope.

At least the red warrant that reached his ears along with the wind could easily ignite the ashes that seemed to have been extinguished.

Try it again and see.

Maybe this time the red fireworks will explode above the city.

After Uncle Bai left, Wu Xiangwang and the others entered the snail shell hut.

Because of their serious injuries, Xiong Zhuang and Xiao Pao were moved to the second bedroom to rest.

The rest of the people gathered on the shell sofa in the living room, waiting for each other to speak.

The first person to speak was not Shang Chong or Wang Xiao, but Little Lajiao, who rarely spoke in advance.

She looked at Hao Youjin, then at Wu Yan, and finally at Wu Xiangwang. She seemed to be making a great decision. She opened her mouth, closed it again, and finally said through gritted teeth:

"Brother Wangwang, I think... if you can leave this city early this time, I... won't follow you."

Wu Xiangwang's expression didn't change much when he heard this. He just asked softly, "Why?"

Little Chili was breathing in, and her eyes were red again: "Although I really want to go forward and overcome the difficulties with Brother Wangwang, but after going through the secret room today, I realized that I am weak, not strong enough, and I am too weak."

"If Brother Xiong hadn't saved me in the end, I would have died in the secret room and would never have been able to get out."

"I made it through Carnival City and Peace City so quickly before. I always feel that I also contributed a lot to it. I am also a very powerful person."

"But it's not true. I just helped out with some insignificant things. What I did can be done by anyone else. I was just lucky enough to get on your car, Brother Wangwang."

"But now that I'm in this city, I can't deceive myself anymore. I'm not strong enough. If I leave a strong team, it's easy for me to make mistakes and lose sight of things. Even... it's easy to die."

Little Pepper shook her head as if to defend herself. "I'm not trying to give up on myself! I just feel like I can't keep up with Brother Wangwang's speed."

"Although I also want to go home, and I also want to return to Earth before the change. But this road home is ultimately my own to walk. Although the City of Secret Chambers is terrifying, it also made me clearly realize this."

Little Pepper raised her head and said, "No one can walk this path for me. No matter how difficult or hard it is, I have to keep going."

"As long as I still want to go home, I will work hard and keep going."

Little Pepper then revealed a charming yet resolute smile: "So, Brother Wangwang, if I want to stay, I have to slow down, learn to fight hard, and learn to madly improve my strength."

"This way I'll have the chance to continue walking along the path you, Brother Wangwang, have taken in the future!"

Wu Xiangwang sighed softly, but he looked at Xiao Lajiao with a gentle smile.

At this time, Meng Chang and the other two all pushed up their glasses and said, "Brother Wang! We're leaving the boss in your care! Although our boss is calculating, stingy, and always peeking at other people's private information, he's our school's best student and a future legend in the financial world. He's capable of following you."

"The three of us staying with him will only slow him down, so, Brother Wang, please take the senior with you."

"As for us, you don't have to worry, senior. We will work together with Pepper to improve our strength and challenge ourselves in this city, and then follow you forward."

Bao Ben and Bu Die also nodded. "Although we might be a little slower, or even have different arms or legs by the time we get to the capital, as long as you, Senior and Brother Wang, open the door and create a path ahead, we can follow you out."

An escape room experience made them realize the gap between them and the first-tier teams.

If they don't work hard and just follow others to get a pass, they will not only become a burden, but will also be unable to get out of this world.

Therefore, starting from this city, they had to take the initiative to leave.

Wang Xiao wanted to say something but he pushed his glasses hard and couldn't say it.

But Wu Xiangwang looked at Wu Xingyun who was hesitant to speak and Hao Youjin who nodded repeatedly, and spoke before them:

"I understand what you mean. But you spoke too early."

"Even if we really want to keep you in the City of Secret Chambers, we must first restore the City of Secret Chambers to its original divisions by level and type."

If the chambers were divided into different levels and types, then Chili and the others could improve their abilities quickly. Otherwise, staying here would be like sending food to waste.

Wang Xiao finally spoke at this time: "Have you thought of it? Is there something wrong between the City Lord and her husband?"

Wu Xiangwang smiled and said, "It's more than just a problem. It might even be a major ethical and family crisis."

"The city lord is a powerful female monster who owns a city, and a penniless male monster from outside is marrying into the woman's family. He is also very thoughtful and gloomy in persuading the city lord to change the rules.

Tsk tsk, they were inseparable seven months ago, and seven months later the city lord asked for the most beautiful dress to be made..."

Wu Xiangwang, who had acted in and watched countless melodramas, propped up his chin and looked at the people whose expressions gradually became subtle:

"I have to go make the most beautiful dress for the city lord, and comfort that oppressed male ghost at the same time."

"He must be extremely distressed by the city lord's tyranny and unreasonableness. After all, he's marrying into the family!"

Little Pepper: “……???”

Men: "..."

Suddenly, I subtly understood something very important.

Lin Yuan: “.”

He's not afraid of marrying into a family, he has tons of garbage dumps!!