Upon hearing this, everyone, including Wen Zuo, pressed the power button. The phone remained silent, still with a black screen. Soon, the screen disappeared completely, leaving only a black wristband wrapped around their wrists.

Everyone was stunned and subconsciously looked at Mo Shuwan.

Mo Shuwan was typing when she noticed everyone's gazes and asked, "Still not working?"

"...Captain, our cell phone is gone, and now all we have is a bracelet."

Mo Shuwan's typing fingers paused slightly. She turned her head in surprise to look at Wen Zuo's wrist. The mosaic was no longer there, and the back of her hand was clearly visible. Her gaze swept over the black bracelet. She then looked down at her phone, which was emitting a bright light, and frowned. "How could this be?"

“We’ve thought about it and believe it’s the monster’s fault. The phone started malfunctioning after it appeared, but now that the phone is gone, we’re a bit uncertain. The monster has run away, and we don’t think it has that ability.”

The phone rang again, but Mo Shuwan didn't look at it. Compared to that, the problem of the phone disappearing was more worthy of investigation.

“Hmm.” Mo Shuwan nodded. “It’s most likely that something happened to the bus. There shouldn’t be any monsters in this world that can affect the bus.”

This was the most reasonable guess, and no one disagreed. But soon they started to wonder what exactly happened to the bus that made it unable to even supply their cell phones.

Mo Shuwan silently looked down at her phone, which hadn't disappeared, and felt she had found the truth. It was probably because she was the team leader that her phone hadn't disappeared like Wen Zuo's.

Despite feeling nauseous, the passengers managed to drink a mouthful of dinosaur blood. The fact that they were no longer showing signs of dehydration relieved them, and they were less resistant to drinking the dinosaur blood. When the meat was grilled and everyone had a piece to eat, this feeling of relaxation reached its peak.

"Don't relax, everyone!" Yang Zhou shouted anxiously.

Mo Shuwan glanced at him and handed him five defensive talismans.

Yang Zhou didn't feign reluctance. He took the defensive talismans, his eyes welling up with tears. He desperately needed these life-saving items. It took him a good half minute to remember to thank them. "Thank you, Captain!" He put away the talismans and then went to remind the passengers not to let their guard down, even more enthusiastically.

Seeing this, Lu Xingkai leaned closer to Mo Shuwan and said, "Captain, I used quite a lot too."

Mo Shuwan didn't have a good impression of him, so she didn't force herself to be nice to him and said indifferently, "Thank you for your hard work."

Lu Xingkai quickly replied, "Of course, of course." Then he looked at Mo Shuwan, waiting and waiting for her to continue, but she didn't say anything more. His expression turned grim. "Captain, have you forgotten something?"

"No."

"you……!"

"ah!!!"

bang bang bang

"Grab something to steady yourself!"

The world suddenly seemed to tilt upside down, and everyone tumbled down with the tilt of the ground. In the chaos, some people grabbed onto something to hold on, while others lost their grip and screamed in terror, desperate for life, before helplessly letting their bodies fall into the darkness.

The change came suddenly and ended quickly. When the ground returned to calm, almost everyone was scattered. Caught off guard, their only option was to save their own lives. Fearful voices screamed in the darkness. Mo Shuwan pulled her fingers out of the tree and heard several unfamiliar voices crying. She frowned and replied, "Stop screaming."

They must have recognized Mo Shuwan's voice, because the previous pitiful voices instantly became much lighter, "Captain, Captain, where are you? I'm coming to find you."

Mo Shuwan took out a flashlight and shone a beam of light. Wen Zuo, who was searching for her in the distance, saw the light and immediately ran in that direction. People in other directions were also moving quickly. No one expected that the tilting of the ground was just the beginning.

"ah!"

"Help! Help! Help..."

"Captain! There's a monster! Help me!"

"Waaah, I don't want to die."

Mo Shuwan's expression suddenly changed. Just as she was about to run towards the direction from which the sound came, her ankle was suddenly wrapped around. She quickly activated the defensive talisman in her pocket. Then, a huge pulling force appeared. Just as her fire-attribute longsword appeared in her hand, her wrist was also wrapped around it, and then her whole body was engulfed in vines.

The defensive talisman broke quickly under the attack of countless vines, and the sensation on her skin made Mo Shuwan clearly realize that the one grabbing her was the Thousand-Eyed Centipede Monster.

After a chill ran down her spine, she was about to use the same trick she had used against the Bloodthirsty Demon Vine when, before she could even make a move, the Thousand-Eyed Centipede Monster trembled and released the vines that were binding her. Before she could even realize what had happened, Mo Shuwan heard her phone ringing incessantly.

That sound wasn't a message coming in, but rather—a side quest!

Side quests that have already been triggered won't be triggered a second time. That means, just a moment ago, countless monsters we haven't encountered before appeared here? What's going on? What happened to this world?!

All sounds around her disappeared, but Mo Shuwan understood that the sounds hadn't disappeared; rather, her senses were weakening infinitely. The bloody hole piercing her stomach caused her consciousness to gradually fade. Perhaps sensing that her prey was about to die, the things wrapped around her loosened their grip, and a bright light shone in. It took Mo Shuwan, who was in a daze, a long time to understand what was happening.

It was dawn.

The rise and fall of her chest grew weaker and weaker. In her blurred vision, she saw strange plants, whose appearance she couldn't recognize, stirring her wrists with their leaves. She could no longer feel the pain.

"trouble."

"...If you didn't lose your temper, the world wouldn't be like this."

"snort."

"Didn't I apologize to you? He didn't know those were your donuts."

"What's the use of an apology?"

Who is speaking?

With her eyes already closed, Mo Shuwan used the last bit of strength in her body to finally open her eyelids. She saw a long-haired woman walk up to her with a cold face. The woman's eyes were full of impatience, but at that moment, Mo Shuwan inexplicably felt that she had been saved.

In the last second before losing consciousness, she saw a blue-glowing metal ball float above her face, something was thrown into her mouth, and a mechanical voice drifted into her ears like a breeze, lingering in her mind.

It says, "There are others."

...

Mo Shuwan sat up abruptly, and the first thing she did was reach out to check the bowl-sized wound on her stomach. However, it was completely intact. She looked down at the bloodstains on her clothes and remained silent for a long time.

Suddenly her wrist was grabbed, and Mo Shuwan was startled, throwing a punch in return. The other person dodged to the side, and only then did she realize that the person grabbing her was Wen Zuo. She also saw the bloodstains on Wen Zuo's clothes and breathed a sigh of relief, "I've been saved."