Qian Bao finally chose the energy dumpling reluctantly.
But he did not struggle. After both of his arms were covered with extremely itchy mosquito bites, he decisively chose the energy ball that was difficult to describe in any beautiful words.
Although he wanted to explode on the spot, he thought it was better to live than to die, and he brainwashed himself over and over again——
Just a few days, just a few days! As long as he could persevere through these few days and create enough explosive devices to blow up the entire Four Seasons Cage, he could escape those horrible bumps and weird-flavored energy balls and regain his wonderful life!
A real man can certainly endure hardship for a while. What is he afraid of when he has so much money?!
But...嘤嘤嘤, this energy ball is really disgusting now. He has never eaten anything so disgusting!
Inside the ice cage, there was a warm stove, barbecued meat and bread that could replenish energy and nutrition. This place that had previously caused immense pain for the quasi-adventurers had now become a small space where they could stay in peace.
Wu Xiangwang quickened his pace and spent most of the night collecting nearly a hundred energy balls and piling them up in the underground snow house. The mountain of energy balls made Qian Bao's face turn green. Then he prepared to leave in Qian Bao's completely relieved and complicated eyes.
"Brother Bao, you stay here and make our comeback weapon. I'll go up and discuss with Minister Tu and the others what to do next."
"To rescue you, we have to go through the third level of the Autumn Cage. However, there are many weird guards there. If we can't escape immediately, they will attack us frantically. So, Brother Bao, you two stay here for now. When the time is right, we can rush out together and rescue everyone in the Four Seasons Cage."
Qian Bao and the other five adventurers nodded.
"Wangwang, go ahead. Your choice is right. Auntie supports you. The energy coins you leave behind will be enough to sustain us for a long time. We will also make enough weapons when the money increases."
"Yes, yes. I'll dig a passage and an underground igloo a little further away and hide our weapons and stove there. I suspect some strange guards will come down tomorrow morning to check if we're alive. We'll wait in this room for them to check, and then we'll go to the other igloo."
In comparison, the ice and snow cage is the most laxly guarded layer, because the prisoners on this layer are basically frozen into ice sculptures and there is really nothing they can do.
However, when Wangwang came, things were different.
Wu Xiangwang nodded and said, "Brother Bao and Aunt Jiang, you must take good care of yourselves. Someone will come down to notify you when action is needed."
Aunt Jiang nodded. Over there, Brother Bao, glumly devouring his energy balls while crafting weapons, asked, "So, what are you going to do when you get up there? Give me seven days, which is enough time for me to create enough explosive devices to detonate the entire Four Seasons Cage. But if you want to disperse these explosive devices throughout the Cage without them being discovered immediately by the monsters, you need the best timing."
But Qian Bao felt that there didn't seem to be such a good opportunity.
Wu Xiangwang smiled and said, "Brother Bao is right. Isn't there a good time right now? In five days, the Natural City's Weird Beauty Contest will begin."
"I consider myself to be quite good-looking, so I'm ready to participate in this beautiful event."
Qianbao: “……???”
"You? A human? Participating in a weird beauty contest???"
Qian Bao wanted to ask on the spot, "Boy, is there something blocking your brain because of the energy balls?" But when he looked at the mountain of energy balls and the pile of energy coins and the stove that Wu Xiangwang took out from the space, he changed his mind and said something else.
"So, do you have any surprises that your brother doesn't know about?"
He had originally wanted to call Wangwang "Dad." This kid, two or three years his junior, was indeed quite capable. But the energy balls tasted awful, so awful that Baoge didn't want to acknowledge him as his father. So, Wuxiangwang finally didn't have another son.
But now, Brother Bao began to consider whether he should reconnect with them.
Wu Xiangwang laughed twice and walked out directly: "That's a lot. After all, I am a naturally handsome man with a variety of looks."
Qian Bao: "..."
Forget it, it's better not to acknowledge this kind of person as your father. If he's not careful, he might end up getting himself into trouble. He should just stick to his weapons and be the king of blasting.
Wu Xiangwang quickly arrived at the entrance from the fourth floor to the third floor, and quickly transformed back into a big mosquito that could buzz and fly.
But this time his luck was slightly fluctuating, and when he flew up, he happened to bump into a monster that was observing at the entrance.
Bang!
When the monster heard the sound, it subconsciously clapped its hands to kill him. Fortunately, he was not an ordinary monster. The mosquito quickly rose up and flew away.
The strange guard was left standing there, puzzled: "How come there are mosquitoes at this entrance, which is the coldest place?"
It’s true, but never mind. Mosquitoes have a very strong vitality. Just look at the captain of the guard at the west gate of the Natural City.
Wu Xiangwang returned to Xia's cage safely.
When he first flew up, he almost thought that the Summer Cage had been ravaged by the strange guards again, and that the adventurers he had rescued with great difficulty by gnawing at the chains had been sent back again.
The adventurers who had gathered together had all returned to their own cages, and the chains on their hands were still hanging there, not looking like they had been bitten off at all.
Wu Xiangwang was almost on guard to use his ultimate move.
In the end, it was the captain of the Feiyu Legion who noticed him and spoke up, "Don't worry, we're just camouflaging. Everyone is in good condition now."
After all, they still have to stay in the cage until the most important thing is done. Although the Summer Cage is so hot that few weird guards will come down to check, there will still be the necessary guards.
Among the more than one hundred adventurers who were rescued, there were some who were very good at disguise and had skills related to disguise and deception. With a little cooperation, they basically disguised the Summer Cage, which seemed to have no changes at all.
Wu Xiangwang even saw a fake version of himself, dying, in his own extremely hot ice pond.
He was quite surprised when he touched and examined it. Apart from the fact that the aura was extremely weak, he didn't feel anything wrong?!
"Hey, our team is really full of talented people!"
Minister Tu nodded in agreement from the opposite side. "What a coincidence! This is Xiaoou's specialty, making all sorts of doubles and dummies out of lotus roots."
"It's like Nezha, but the combat power and intelligence of the dummy made in this way are not very high. It can only be used for pretending at times."
But obviously, it is very suitable for use in this place.
Wu Xiangwang was still thinking about how to make a fake substitute for himself and freeze it in the cold pond. He thought about using Wangwang Xiaoqiang's clone technique, but... it was more like a racial summoning technique than a clone technique. It was basically impossible to create only one of his own.
So, now that he has the lotus root dummy, he feels relieved.
"So, Wangwang boy, did you see the money explode? How many people on the third and fourth floors are still alive?"
Wu Xiangwang's originally good mood became a little depressed after hearing Minister Tu's question.
He smiled and said, "Brother Qian Bao and Aunt Jiang are still alive. They are very lucky."
"Brother Bao has already started making the explosive device. I also made a lot of energy balls for him, enough for at least three days. After three days, I will find a way to replenish his energy."
He said this was good news. Minister Tu smiled happily and relievedly at first, but soon the wise middle-aged soldier restrained his expression: "So, Wangwang, what did you see in the third level of the Autumn Cage?"
Wu Xiangwang shut his mouth.
But in the end he still said: "...I saw the evil that should be completely burned."
Minister Tu and his Dragon Fang Legion had collected and inquired about the information of the Four Seasons Cage in detail, but almost all adventurers who entered the Four Seasons Cage never returned, so the information they were able to gather was only superficial.
They only knew that the Four Seasons Cage was a cruel punishment and cage derived from the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, but they had no idea what it looked like specifically.
Wu Xiangwang's expression is like this now. Perhaps the Autumn Cage is a place that humans dislike very much.
Minister Tu was silent for a moment and didn't ask any further questions. As the commander and decision-maker of the legion, he actually had an obligation to get more detailed information. This would help the adventurers who came later.
But he now had a premonition that he didn't need to inquire into the details any further. This prison, this extremely evil place for mankind, would inevitably be destroyed in the end.
He firmly believes it.
"Then we will work to destroy it."
Minister Tu spoke in a deep voice.
"So, are you planning to go out next?"
"Are you going to go out through the exit?"
Wu Xiangwang nodded. "Aren't there more mosquitoes in spring? I've already seen the three cages in summer, autumn, and winter. Of course, I have to take a closer look at the spring cage as well."
Minister Tu sighed and then smiled: "The Spring Cage is not a pretty sight, you better bear with it."
"However, even Li Yinyang himself probably didn't expect that he would only lock you up for less than two days, and you would be able to walk out openly from under his nose."
I also plan to pull out the roots of the entire Four Seasons Cage.
"We discussed it again after you left, and we always felt that it would be best to act when the beauty contest reached the finals."
"The ones who stayed in the castle square after that were all powerful and important monsters."
When Minister Tu said this, there was a wolf-like light in his eyes.
"If the explosion we design is powerful enough, those important monsters will be killed or seriously injured in this beauty contest.
If this happens, the Lord of Natural City will definitely be held accountable by those important weird tribes, and it might even trigger various wars and robberies among the weird tribes."
Minister Tu looked at Wu Xiangwang and said, "So, Wangwang, you must try your best to stay until the end and see the locations of those important weird participants. Even if the initial explosion cannot kill those weirds, we will go all out once we get there!"
They had already been tortured since they were captured, and if they did not choose to become traitors to humanity, the only way out was death.
So when they were caught, most of the human adventurers here had already made up their minds to die.
Even though they unexpectedly met Wu Xiangwang and were rescued like a miracle, each of them knew that they could not leave this city.
They were destined to have neither the time nor the qualifications to complete the three major city-wide tasks assigned by the city. If they could not complete the tasks, even if they escaped from the Four Seasons Cage, they would have no way to continue.
So after Wu Xiangwang left, Minister Tu and the others gathered together to discuss what to do next in detail.
They decided to give a big gift to these weird creatures who regarded human life as worthless when the beauty contest reached its climax!
A ritual of indiscriminate killing, with their own lives at stake.
Killing one will break even, killing two will make you a profit.
This city that has silently swallowed up countless human adventurers must be turned upside down by them!
Therefore, even though they already knew their final fate would be death, every human in this cage was extremely excited and determined.
Dying in torture, miserably, and powerlessly and dying while striving to achieve one's goals are both deaths, but they are completely different.
So everyone looked at Wu Xiangwang with light and joy in their eyes, but such eyes made Wu Xiangwang sigh softly.
"Okay, Wangwang, don't be upset. We are all very happy. Just go up and get ready for the beauty contest!"
"But there are still five days until the beauty contest. With your strength, you can definitely complete the Hero Quest. You must hurry up and complete the Hero Quest and the Merchant Quest! That way, when we start a fight, you can quickly take your teammates and run out of the city.
Hehe, by that time the whole city would be in chaos, and you could still leave Natural City early! That's a good thing! The sooner you leave Natural City, the better. The longer you stay in each city, the harder it will be to find your way home.
Wu Xiangwang listened to the words of advice and concern coming from the cage, feeling helpless and a little sad.
He really wanted to tell everyone that he had already left four cities in advance and had originally planned to go to the fifth city honestly.
But who could have thought that in the end... he wouldn't be able to stay for long?
However, he had other plans in mind, but he was not completely sure at the moment, so he decided to listen to everyone's opinions first.
"Don't worry, I'll do my best to stay until the end. You all must also stay in the best condition. I'll sneak back in a few days to smuggle some things for you.
Everyone, don't take your own lives lightly. If I get incredibly lucky and become the beauty contest champion, I can still make demands on the city lord or this city. Maybe then I can take you all away in one fell swoop!"
The deputy commander of the Demon-Slaying Legion burst into laughter.
"Oh my goodness, kid, you're making me laugh. You're so ambitious! I admire people like you who are so confident in themselves!"
"Then you better work hard, kid, and try to get us all out!"
Then laughter and expectant voices began to rise and fall in Xia's cage.
However, everyone's laughter at this time was filled with good-natured jokes and encouragement. No one really believed that Wu Xiangwang could win the strange beauty contest and take them away from this extremely beautiful yet extremely desperate city.
Wu Xiangwang flew up amid everyone's kind laughter and flew directly upwards from the entrance of Xia's cage.
Just as he said, the area of the Spring Cage was full of vibrant green, and there were also many kinds of strange mosquitoes.
Wu Xiangwang, who turned into Mosquito, felt almost no sense of incongruity in the Spring Cage. He could fly to any area of the cage without any worries.
But the more he saw this, the angrier he became.
He saw those strange mosquitoes, with strangely intelligent gazes and laughter, biting and tearing at the human adventurers as if they were food and nests for their larvae. He saw the strange guards nonchalantly whipping and torturing those stubborn human adventurers.
Most of the adventurers on this floor were quite afraid of the strange mosquitoes. They probably didn't have such firm beliefs or the momentum to scare the strange mosquitoes. They were just ordinary adventurers. Some of them screamed and chose to surrender, while others were unwilling to surrender in extreme fear and chose to commit suicide.
Compared to the agonizing summer, the quiet autumn, and the freezing winter, the vitality of spring is another kind of extreme cruelty here.
Wu Xiangwang couldn't bear to watch any longer, so he flapped his wings and flew straight to the exit.
There was nothing he could do at this time; he couldn't save his suffering compatriots.
But he hoped very much that these fellow adventurers could hold on a little longer.
Hold on a little longer.
Just wait five more days, seven at most, and this nightmarish torture will be over.
Please hold on until then.
Wu Xiangwang broke out of the cage of the four seasons.
When the rising morning light of the third day shone on his face, he looked at the morning light which was almost the same as that on Earth and pulled the corners of his mouth.
No matter how beautiful it is, this will never be the home of mankind.
This day was the fourth day since their team arrived in the City of Nature, and there were still four days before the beauty contest officially began.
Wu Xiangwang thought about it and chose the chameleon's strange transformation form, walking silently and invisibly in the City of Nature. No matter where he went, the fine scales on his body would automatically change color, allowing him to hide in this colorful world.
However, he had only been locked in the cage for two days when he felt that the atmosphere in the City of Nature seemed to be getting more depressing.
Of course, that dullness did not belong to the weird ones, but to the human adventurers.
If two days ago there were still many human adventurers in the City of Nature who came out to do missions, then now he had been walking on the road for a long time and had hardly seen any human beings.
It was as if all humans had disappeared in this city.
But of course that's impossible.
Wu Xiangwang soon arrived at the joint human gathering place of Longya, Feiyu and the Demon Slayer Legion.
He was in a strange state at this time and could clearly hear the voices of humans coming from the gathering place, but the doors of the buildings of the three legions were all closed, and humans locked themselves in a place they temporarily thought was safe.
But in fact, this is just another way to escape from the cage.
"Hey, brother, don't worry. These weak humans won't come out in the next few days. If you really want to eat them, you have to actively lure them out or go to the mission point and obey. I, a brother, once hid three humans at the mission point and ate them all with great pleasure!"
Wu Xiangwang curled his lips and said, "Oh, your brother is quite lucky. But why did they retreat? We didn't do anything to them openly."
"Haha, maybe those humans are scared by our weird picking on them! They're weak and timid bugs to begin with. But it seems they think a very powerful human adventurer has been captured, so they're particularly upset."
"Plus, there have been more and more monsters in the city recently. Although the city lord has publicly ordered that humans not be killed without reason, the monsters that come here are more brutal and powerful than each other. When they are interested, they don't care about the rules. Kill them if they want, eat them if they want. Humans are just free-range chickens that are walking in front of us!"
"Hey, brother, I see your camouflage skills are pretty good. Do you want to come with me to hunt humans? You'll be in charge of luring them and I'll be in charge of killing them. I'll get 60% of the people you're assigned, and you'll get 40%."
Wu Xiangwang blinked his eyes and said, "That's not good. Why not split it in half?"
The mantis, holding its two gleaming scythes, moved its triangular head strangely. "Of course it's because you look like you can't beat me! We weirdos still rely on strength."
Don’t forget each other and just look at Him and smile.
"you're right."
Then he stretched out his palm and slapped the mantis's strange core to pieces.
“You, you?!”
Wu Xiangwang: "To be weird, you still need to rely on strength. You are too weak. So I decided to go it alone."
As the mantis fell strangely into the corner, Wu Xiangwang glanced at the legion building with its doors tightly closed and thought that this was a good thing.
If these humans continue to lock themselves in the building and do not come out, they will be separated from the adventurers in the Four Seasons Cage.
This way, even if the Lord of the City of Nature wants to do something later, he cannot openly vent his anger on these relatively weak adventurers.
So now, he needs to think carefully about what form he will use to participate in the weird beauty contest?
Aedes albopictus, poisonous cone snail, big-toothed ant, yin-yang beauty butterfly, panther chameleon, wandering spider, and... Qiangqiang.
Which of these seven fierce creatures can win the first place in the beauty contest?
Or maybe... he needs a new, "beautiful new look" that will make all the weirdness speechless.
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