Shen Ming killed several humanoid monsters, and his serious little face could hardly contain itself anymore. He held the crystal core with joy in his eyes and handed half of it over to Gu Mingyue.

Seeing this, the other pets whispered and barked at each other, then turned their rear ends toward Shenming.

This little human is used to currying favor with its master. They usually only hand over a third of the money, so why is this kid getting involved in the competition?

No wonder the owner roasted a pheasant for him today and fed him the drumsticks while letting the others eat the wings!

But they were so eager to improve that they began to grind their teeth at the monster, striving to win by sheer numbers.

In one day, the person and multiple pets managed to kill over a hundred monsters. This wasn't because the monsters weren't working hard, but because there were too few monsters during the day!

Shen Ming leveled up by half a level in just two days. After that, he didn't feel hungry even though he didn't eat much. He had absorbed too many crystal cores, and his body was saturated with energy!

At night, it's time for Gu Mingyue and Xinghe to coordinate their attacks.

The level 1 late-stage monsters were no longer enough to satisfy Gu Mingyue's ambition to level up, so she set her sights on the level 2 monsters that were closer to the cave entrance.

Recently, the number of late-stage level 1 humanoid monsters outside the cave has been decreasing, while the number of early-stage level 2 humanoid monsters has been increasing.

It seems the suicidal upgrade inside the cave is nearing its end!

The vegetation on the mountain had been devoured by mutated animals and monsters, and coupled with the lack of water, most of it had withered, leaving the entire mountain bare with very little cover.

Fortunately, there has been a lot of sandstorms lately, and the wind is strong at night, which has greatly weakened the monster's five senses.

Gu Mingyue and her companion, dressed in brown overalls and wearing goggles to protect against wind and sand, secretly followed a level-two long-necked monster.

That guy has a three-meter-long neck. Relatively speaking, it's the least evolved one. Its hearing and sense of smell are not outstanding, but its larynx is well-developed. It's a natural singer among monsters. With just one roar, monsters from within a hundred miles can gather around.

Its long neck swings nimbly, allowing it to see whether it is safe behind it without turning around.

Amidst the wind and sand, there were soft rustling sounds.

The long-necked monster felt that the surrounding environment was a bit strange. When it turned around, it saw rocks of different shapes, so it shook its head back to the front.

It scratched its eyes with its sharp claws, probably because the wind and sand were too strong and it had misheard!

The sound continued. The long-necked monster took a few steps and quickly turned around. What it saw was still the brown stone. This time the stone was closer, about several tens of meters away.

It stretched its neck in confusion, its two sharp toenails digging into the ground, and ran a few steps to get close to the stone, sticking out its long toenails to poke it!

The soft texture surprised it even more; stone didn't seem to have this feel. Ignoring its sharp teeth and claws, it actually looked rather cute.

Before it could poke at it again, the stone was suddenly flipped open and slammed into the long-necked monster's head, feeling incredibly light.

Enraged, the long-necked monster stretched out its sharp claws and smashed the 'stone' in front of it, only to suddenly see two clean-cut, living people appear before it.

Long-necked Monster: !!!

food?

Aww~

The long-necked monster stretched its neck, opened its huge mouth, and unleashed a powerful sonic attack, while simultaneously notifying its companions.

After calling out twice, and still not seeing a single fellow monster come running, the long-necked monster's cries began to weaken, and a look of confusion appeared on its face.

Gu Mingyue picked at her ear, looked at the fake stone prop on the ground being torn to pieces, and revealed a sly smile.

"Keep yelling, no matter how loud you yell, no monster will come to save you!"

The sound was a bit strange, but the monster could see the woman's provocative gaze. It stopped shouting, quickly stretched its neck in front of the woman, and tried to quickly entangle her and strangle her.

Gu Mingyue curled her lips into a cold smile, calmly took out her meteorite longsword, and swiftly slashed at the charging face. The monster's skin was rather thick, not as easy to cut as a level one monster, and only managed to scratch it a little. So it immediately cried out in pain and tried to run away.

Seeing this, Xinghe stepped forward and grabbed the neck of the struggling long-necked monster.

Seeing that it was being controlled, the long-necked monster quickly changed its target, running around the Milky Way on its two legs, its long neck coiling tightly around the man like a python.

Xinghe, who was bound, showed no sign of pain. Instead, the monster became the obvious target of attack.

Gu Mingyue stepped forward and stabbed the monster's blue face hard with the meteorite knife, then slashed downwards with force, breaking its coiled neck into several pieces with a single stroke.

Because the wounds were caused by the meteorite blade, the long-necked monster's wounds not only did not close, but instead made a hissing sound.

Sensing intense pain sweeping through its entire body, the monster let out a shrill scream, and its black eyes gradually dimmed.

Gu Mingyue plunged her blade downwards into the monster's brain and stirred out the crystal core.

The two worked together flawlessly that night, easily defeating the first level-two monster. They used the same tactic from then on: first, they would disguise themselves as a large rock and slowly approach, then combine their mental and spatial domains.

They quickly dealt with more than twenty level-two monsters in one night.

Two days later, the two used this method to assassinate more than fifty scattered early-stage level two monsters outside, and the monsters in the cave finally noticed something was wrong.

Why are there fewer and fewer companions patrolling the perimeter of the cave?

Something was wrong, but their simple minds couldn't understand it. They had no idea that humans had infiltrated their monster community.

How could a mouse possibly get into the cat's nest!

When Gu Mingyue secretly mined crystal cores at night, she would fire one shot and then switch to another, quickly running several kilometers away to kill another monster before the other monsters realized their companions had disappeared.

In just five days, Gu Mingyue advanced from the late stage of level one to the late stage of level two, just like Xinghe.

Then Black Bear advanced to the early stage of level two, followed by Shenming Little Pet, who also reached the late stage of level one, just one step away from level two.

These past few days, the three of them have been spoiling each other, doing nothing but eating and killing, and collecting crystal cores to their hearts' content. Shen Ming even has dozens of level one crystal cores in his pocket.

The monsters in the cave became increasingly restless. All the level one monsters had been devoured and evolved, leaving only level two and three monsters.

Finally, a level 3 monster with a membrane on its back flew out of the cave, ran around the city for a while, and then flew back into the cave. The whole cave was in an uproar.

It emitted strange roaring sounds.

"Retreat! The monsters' advancement has ended, and they're about to swarm out. Let's go back and defend our base!" Gu Mingyue said to Shen Ming and the ferocious pets.

The group quickly took advantage of the sandstorm to sneak back to the Junyue Mansion residential area.

The black bear was too big to fit through the building entrance, so Gu Mingyue simply put it in a parking garage on the first floor of Unit 4.

The black bear easily flattened a car, threw it out of the garage, and then urinated on the spot.

He turned to Gu Mingyue and nodded, indicating that he was very satisfied with the little house.

In the days since the monster left, many residents have left the community after hearing the broadcasts from the military withdrawal point.

Of the 32 high-rise buildings, fewer than one hundred people remain.

Among them were some vicious individuals who were unruly and disliked the base's security terms.