“Quack!”

“Quack!”

Gu Mian didn't have to wait long before the third wave of frogs spawned.

A total of 20 mutated frogs have spawned this time.

There were so many frogs that the cave became crowded.

Gu Mian frowned, held her breath, and attacked simultaneously with both staffs.

[Defeat the Tier 2 pollutant to earn 100 points.]

[Defeat the Tier 2 pollutant to earn 100 points.]

[Defeat the Tier 2 pollutant to earn 100 points.]

...

Although there were many frogs, she cleared them out even faster. In less than three minutes, all 20 mutated frogs were wiped out again.

“Quack!”

Before I could cover my mouth and nose again, the croaking of frogs came again.

What?

Gu Mian looked over in disbelief. She had clearly eliminated all the mutated frogs, so how could there be any that had escaped?

A massive figure leaped out of the shadows of the cave.

“Quack!”

[Mutant Frog Commander: Tier 3 Pollutant, 600 HP, 80 Attack, 60 Speed, 100 Defense.]

Gu Mian's pupils contracted as she stared in disbelief at the black frog, which was over a meter tall.

It's a third-order pollutant!

Wow, that's a really thick health bar!

"Whoosh!"

A black shadow rushed towards Gu Mian at lightning speed, so fast that Gu Mian couldn't react at all.

With a loud "bang!", the frog leader's tongue slammed heavily against the protective shield.

“Quack!”

[You despicable humans! You've killed so many of my subjects! I will not let you get away with this!]

Gu Mian: ...

Is she hallucinating?

Otherwise, how come it sounds like I'm hearing a frog talking?

Gu Mian looked at the roaring frog commander with a puzzled expression, then raised her staff to attack without hesitation.

Just kidding, so what if you can talk?

Can you reason with it and make it leave the instance?

[Health -200]

[Health -200]

As expected of a Tier 3 contaminant, its health bar is incredibly thick. Even with two staffs attacking simultaneously, it still had a third of its health remaining.

“Quack!”

[Ouch! You despicable human, you killed me! The frog race will never forgive you!]

"It's so noisy!"

Gu Mian coldly uttered a sentence and waved her staff again without hesitation.

The white halo enveloped the Frog Commander once again, instantly emptying its health bar and causing it to dissipate into photons in the air.

[Defeat the Tier 3 pollutant and gain 1000 points.]

[All mutated frogs in this instance have been cleared; players are exiting the instance...]

The cave before me was still familiar, but it was no longer filled with an unbearable stench, and the traces of the fight with the frogs had disappeared.

Gu Mian thought to herself, "It seems that the instance is a separate space."

Push aside the vines and step out of the cave.

Gu Mian took a deep breath of the fresh air outside and felt as if she had come back to life.

Damn it!

I almost died from the stench of the frog's saliva!

Thinking of that stinking cave, Gu Mian immediately opened the trading channel and bought the gas mask.

Seeing the gas mask in its own compartment in the backpack, I finally felt completely relieved.

The mutated frog's saliva was so smelly that she now has a deep psychological trauma from it.

But disgusting as it may be, the gains this time were truly substantial.

Three waves of second-tier mutated frogs, plus a frog commander, earned her 5500 points.

Adding to what I earned before, I now have almost 10,000 points.

She believed that even if she didn't encounter any pollutants in the following days, she wouldn't be at the bottom of the standings.

With more points accumulated, Gu Mian felt an urge to try her luck at opening blind boxes again, and she had to suppress the urge several times before she could barely hold back.

Blind box collecting is addictive!

real!

...

With a large number of points to back her up, Gu Mian was no longer in a hurry to grind dungeons.

She opened the chat window, just about to ask Xu Kun and the others how their battle was going, when the system notification sounded again.

[Announcement: Three-tenths of the monster instances on the island have been cleared, the island's size will soon shrink, and players will be re-teleported!]

What?

Before Gu Mian could even be surprised at how quickly the instance was cleared, her vision blurred, and she was in another location.

Suddenly, everything blurred before my eyes, and my vision focused on mid-air. My feet had no foothold and were wobbling.

Gu Mian: ...

That's ridiculous! They actually teleported her up in a tree...

Fortunately, the tree's branches are quite sturdy and can support her weight. As long as she doesn't move around too much, she shouldn't fall.

After visually estimating the distance between the branch she was on and the ground, Gu Mian abandoned the idea of ​​jumping down directly.

It's too high; she would definitely get hurt if she jumped.

As for climbing down the tree trunk?

emmm

Apart from the branch she was sitting on, there was nowhere else to hold onto; she was afraid she would slip down halfway down.

She didn't want to get hurt and couldn't think of any good solutions for the time being, so she could only continue to sit still on the branch.

Gu Mian sat listlessly on a branch, thinking to herself that the players were really fast at clearing the dungeon; it seemed that none of them were exactly easy to deal with.

I wonder if the points race will end early once all the dungeons are cleared.

Thinking about it, she opened the chat channel to see how the other players were doing.

"Teaming up to run dungeons is so much fun! The points are practically free."

"The island has shrunk again, increasing the chances of encountering other players, making casual players even more hesitant to venture out..."

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