Chapter 29 Unexpected Separation
"The chat area and online store functions are locked."
As soon as the torch went out, Jiang Baiyue suddenly spoke, startling everyone who turned to look at her before realizing what she had said.
"It really is. Is there no internet?"
Springtime Girl: "We can't exchange supplies with others in time to replenish our supplies. It seems we have to be conservative today. If we run out of supplies, it would be best if we withdrew."
That makes sense. Although the spatial rift might seem to offer great benefits, survival was the top priority that everyone agreed on from the beginning.
Thirty minutes later, Tian Tian Xiang Xia's health stopped decreasing and stabilized at 86, and they continued their journey.
When they came to a fork in the road, the group decided to stick to the main road to avoid getting lost if they encountered any unexpected situations and had to escape.
However, after walking for more than 10 minutes, they came to a dead end. At the end of the road ahead, there was only a pile of bones, a dead tree, and two wandering zombies.
After dealing with the zombies, they retreated back to the fork in the road.
The road was quiet and peaceful, without a single zombie. They walked along the winding road for a long time, so long that everyone was getting impatient and even wanted to talk to relieve the pressure.
Jiang Baiyue glanced at her stress level again; it was already 32.
"My stress level is 32, what about yours?"
Stress level is also a crucial attribute; she needs to assess whether her teammates are reliable.
The sunflower was the first to speak: "15".
Jiang Baiyue was slightly surprised; this person seemed to have an exceptionally strong mental fortitude.
The other characters' stats are similar to Jiang Baiyue's, all around 30.
Noticing Jiang Baiyue's surprise, Bu Chicai couldn't help but chat, "Yangyang used to love watching horror movies, but she was never afraid."
"When we first arrived here, it was Sister Yang who helped us wake up on the first night. Otherwise, I would have really thought there was a little girl crying outside and wanted to go and save her."
Beauty is not a mistake. Thinking back to her first night, she still gets chills. She doesn't know why she became obsessed, even though she's not a particularly virtuous person.
At that moment, I thought about sacrificing myself to save others.
"Monster!"
He shouted that he wouldn't eat vegetables, threw a wooden axe, and knocked the unknown thing back.
A strange animal roar rang out, sending chills down everyone's spine, especially the white clouds that had their backs to the monster.
Jiang Baiyue, her hands trembling, suppressed her fear and held up the torch, trying to get a better look at the monster.
A huge stinger appeared in the darkness, its head and tail illuminated by the firelight—a scorpion!
Run!
Sunflower rushed over, pulled aside the stunned white clouds, and yelled for everyone to back off.
The scorpion was enormous, dozens of times larger than an ordinary scorpion, with a sharp, dripping stinger and large, blood-red eyes on its head.
Just one glance between them was enough to send chills down one's spine.
Bang!
As the scorpion monster's tail hook struck, the ground shattered, and its footsteps split the group into two groups, with those in the back desperately trying to retreat.
Sunflower switched weapons, wielding an iron sword and slashing down at the foot soldier in front of her.
when!
The sound of metal colliding with a hard object rang out; the attack failed, and the defenses were not breached.
Jiang Baiyue rushed forward and slashed at its joints, while Mercenary No. 2 fired at the scorpion's huge red eye in the air.
The scorpion turned back to defend itself with one of its tentacles and hissed.
【Red-Eyed Scorpion (Lv2: 298/300)】
Only 2 points of damage!
Without thinking, Jiang Baiyue wanted to dash over and teleport to the other side to leave, but Sunflower's shout and running inside made her pause.
The red-eyed scorpion seized the opportunity to strike with its tail hook, while simultaneously turning around and blocking the passage on the other side.
Its enormous body, with just a slight movement, completely blocked the narrow passage.
From the darkness surrounding the road, a dense, crawling sound echoed, accompanied by the overlapping roars of scorpions.
Hesitation leads to defeat!
Jiang Baiyue turned around and found that another intersection was about to be blocked by the little scorpion. She quickly teleported in and caught up with Sunflower and the other two.
The flames on the torches were blown down by the wind as they ran, the flames shrank, and the visible range narrowed.
However, the bad luck didn't end there. After running a short distance, the passage widened and three more forks appeared. They also found two body sacs ahead, surrounded by five or six zombies.
Xia ran ahead every day, but stopped running slowly when she saw what was happening ahead. She heard footsteps behind her and turned around warily: "Shall we go that way?"
"Whatever, we can't go back now anyway."
The three ran towards the left passage, which was farther away from the morgue, avoiding any confrontation with the zombies, for fear that the scorpion would catch up with them.
After running for a few minutes, another fork in the road appeared.
The three stopped and looked at each other in silence.
The three of them were alone, and even after running quite far into the area, they were unable to contact anyone else. They now only had two options.
First, go back and clean the corpse sac to fight the scorpion monster. Either wear it down to death, or... maybe find a chance to get past it and run to the exit.
Second, go all the way down this path and explore further; there may be failure, but there may also be hope.
Both options are very risky.
Scorpions are large, and there may be other scorpions among them, so it won't be easy to get past them.
"Let's explore! We might find some powerful weapons or a new exit if we go forward. If it's too dangerous, we can retreat... or your teammates can find someone to rescue us."
Sunflower offered a guess, looking back but not seeing the scorpion chasing after her: "Is it possible that the scorpion is fighting with the zombies?"
The three walked back, but in the distance they could still see that only zombies were wandering and patrolling aimlessly around the body sack.
The scorpions didn't catch up, and they didn't see the two sides fighting in a way that was advantageous to them.
Just then, the torch in Sunflower's hand went out, and she quickly took out a new torch.
"We have one torch left. We wasted one by throwing it out earlier. Let's go inside."
Sunflower turned to comfort Jiang Baiyue and said, "I brought a lighter; if all else fails, we'll have to burn wood."
Seeing that it was pitch black here yesterday and today, they prepared to collect lighting supplies, and each of them even took out one or two backpack compartments to store torches.
However, very few people in the exchange area, the mall, and the base are willing to trade torches; as of the time rift, only 19 torches have been traded.
Each person received 3 torches. Sunflower received an extra torch because she was ahead and scouting the way, and gave one to Jiang Baiyue.
In order to conserve torches, it was decided that Tian Tian Xiang Xia, who was walking in the middle, should temporarily put the torches into her backpack.
At the two forks in the road, the three people chose the leftmost path to avoid getting lost.
After rounding a bend, they encountered only one corpse sac. Instead of fighting the zombie, they quickly ran over, dealt with the stubborn zombie that was chasing them, and continued on their way.
"There are signs of human activity here. This is a bread wrapper."
Jiang Baiyue accidentally stepped on something, which broke as soon as she stepped on it. She looked down and found that it was burnt wood, with some debris and food packaging bags next to it.
"Someone else has entered this instance."
They set off at 7 a.m. and arrived at Space Station 1 around 7:30 a.m.
The existence of quarantine zones is only possible if Space Station 1 also has camps or bases that they are unaware of.
Therefore, it is very likely that this instance has other exits.
Jiang Baiyue had played this game and felt that there was a high possibility that there were other ways out.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com