[Mutant Beetle: Tier 2 Contaminant, Health 1000, Attack 100, Speed ​​30, Defense 300.]

"Holy crap! This Beetle's stats are insane!" Xu Kun exclaimed, quickly drawing his weapon and charging forward.

“Indeed, the levels are much higher than the first-tier pollutants we encountered before.” Jiang Bai stood at the rear, continuously attacking with his bow and arrows.

"This beetle's shell is so hard! I couldn't even break it with two cuts!"

Xu Kun gripped his long knife, dodging left and right between the two beetles, occasionally seizing an opportunity to strike.

Jiang Bai suggested, "Try attacking other parts of the body."

Despite the mutated beetle's high defense and health, even with the two working together, it couldn't withstand the attack for more than a few minutes.

A flash of white light appeared, and two silver treasure chests fell from the mutated beetle's body. Then, the corpse gradually decomposed and disappeared.

Xu Kun waved to Gu Mian, who was quietly hiding behind, "Little sister, come here quickly, there are two boxes here."

Gu Mian walked over without any hesitation and put the two silver treasure chests on the ground into her backpack.

Then, without any emotion, he said, "Keep it up."

Xu Kun choked: "Little sister, you're so cold and heartless! Am I your box-scanning machine?!"

Gu Mian opened her eyes wide in surprise, thinking, "You're only just realizing this now?"

Jiang Bai coldly interrupted their conversation, "Gu Mian, you should hide in the back. The pollutants are back, and this time there are quite a lot of them."

"Okay." Gu Mian decisively retreated, leaving the fighting area between the two.

Five mutated beetles burst out of the thick fog to the left. There were quite a few of them, so Xu Kun didn't dare to rush in directly.

Jiang Bai held a bow and arrow, looking at the beetle with indifference and disgust, continuously shooting arrows at the beetle's abdomen.

When its relatively soft abdomen was attacked, the beetle immediately raised its head and let out a painful hiss.

Before he could even utter a second sound, Xu Kun chopped off his head with a single blow, instantly emptying his health bar.

The foul-smelling blood accidentally splattered onto his clothes, and Xu Kun immediately started cursing, "Ugh... this bug blood really stinks!"

Having learned his lesson, Xu Kun decisively stopped cutting off the beetle's head and instead only stabbed it into its abdomen.

Soon, all five beetles were taken care of.

Five gleaming silver boxes were scattered on the ground. Just as Gu Mian was about to walk over and pick them up, she heard a series of irritating squeaking sounds coming from the thick fog.

His face instantly turned grim. Had a swarm of mutated beetles arrived?

Xu Kun and Jiang Bai's expressions also turned serious. The two slowly retreated to Gu Mian's side, and the three of them stood back to back, warily watching the thick fog around them.

The hissing of beetles filled the air, making it impossible to tell which direction we were coming from.

Gu Mian looked warily at the thick fog ahead. Just as she was about to speak, she saw a large group of mutated beetles suddenly crawl out from underground.

His pupils contracted instantly, and without thinking, he immediately pulled out a stun spray and sprayed it at her.

The next second, a group of beetles that had climbed halfway up the mountain suddenly stopped in mid-air.

"Hurry up! The spray is only effective for one minute!" Gu Mian shouted, and charged forward with her long whip.

Xu Kun followed closely behind, long knife in hand. "Damn! These bedbugs are disgusting!"

Jiang Bai frowned, gripping his bow and arrows and firing relentlessly. "Stop talking nonsense, try to kill as many as possible."

The stun spray is only effective for one minute, while the beetles crawling out of the ground seem endless.

After using three bottles of the stun spray, the number of beetles began to decrease rapidly.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Gu Mian moved about, collecting all the treasure chests that had fallen to the ground into her backpack, and then loudly reminded the two:

“We’ve been on the island for a long time, so be careful about the pollution levels.”

After slashing the beetle in front of him to death, Xu Kun took a moment to open his personal panel, only to be startled and let out a scream: "Holy crap! When did my pollution level reach 90?!"

Jiang Bai frowned and opened his panel to take a look. "I only have a pollution value of 65. It must be because you were attacked by the beetle. Being attacked by pollutants will also increase the pollution value."

Gu Mian, holding a long whip, stood in front of Xu Kun, saying, "I'll cover you. You go to the back and drink the purification potion to lower the pollution level."

Xu Kun: "Okay, I'll be right back."

With Xu Kun gone, Gu Mian's pressure increased instantly. Fortunately, the number of mutated beetles had decreased significantly, otherwise she really wouldn't have been able to withstand it.

...

Two hours later, the mutated beetles were wiped out.

The battle had lasted too long, and Gu Mian was exhausted and hungry. If it weren't for the fact that the boxes on the ground hadn't been put away yet, she wouldn't want to move an inch.

"The team card is about to expire, so take your time collecting the treasure chests here, and don't miss a single one!"

The box will be ready when we get back...

Before they could finish speaking, the team card expired, and Xu Kun and Jiang Bai were teleported back to their respective rafts.

Looking at the spot where the two had disappeared, Gu Mian sighed silently and dragged her aching legs to continue picking up the boxes.

...

"There are a total of 80 silver treasure chests. After deducting the 15 chests used to exchange for cigarettes, there are 65 left."

The 65 boxes were divided equally among the three of us, with each person getting 21 boxes, and there were 2 boxes left over.

Gu Mian nestled in the recliner, crunching on potato chips. "What do you guys need? I'll trade you my supplies for these two boxes, okay?"

Xu Kun, on the other end of the video, immediately said, "No need to change, no need to change, you can take the two extra boxes."

"If it weren't for you dragging us over to grind monsters, we wouldn't have gotten even one, let alone 21 silver treasure chests!"

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