Magnifying her senses, Xiao Jin slowly walked forward, step by step, taking more than a dozen steps, but still no unusual phenomena occurred.
Xiao Jin did not let his guard down, but instead mobilized all the muscles in his body.
'Click, click!'
Um?
Xiao Jin's ears twitched, and then she suddenly turned her head to look to the left.
At the corner of the building, the light suddenly dimmed, and two Zerg appeared at the edge of the corner. Their size was comparable to that of a discarded car tire, and their bodies were covered with a cold metallic luster, shimmering with an ominous glow in the dim light.
Clearly, this is a new Zerg.
Although its movements seemed slow, each step was as heavy as a thousand pounds. Dark red liquid slowly seeped out from the tiny cracks between its shells, and after drying, it congealed into shocking bloodstains, silently telling the story of the tragedy that had occurred here.
Xiao Jin focused his attention and became vigilant; it seemed that the Zerg they were encountering this time were primarily defensive in nature.
Just as she was about to make the first move, several fine and rapid sounds came from her side and rear at the same time, like countless tiny pebbles rubbing against each other in the darkness, quickly approaching and quietly tightening the net that surrounded her.
Xiao Jin turned around abruptly and saw that the insectoid figures had appeared all around him at some point. They converged from all directions with an unbelievable tacit understanding, trapping Xiao Jin in this small space.
Two insects were precisely positioned in each direction, their bodies crouching low, their eyes gleaming with greed and bloodlust. There were about twelve of them, forming a perfect encirclement.
Xiao Jin narrowed his eyes slightly, not expecting that the Zerg would actually cooperate to set a trap for someone.
If an ordinary person came here and saw that there was no blood or corpses, they would definitely think that this place was safe. But once they stepped in, they would become food in the insectoid swarm.
"Heh~"
A tense and oppressive atmosphere filled the air, but a soft laugh suddenly rang out. Xiao Jin's tone was contemptuous as he looked at the insectoids that were constantly approaching him, his eyes filled with disdain.
"A bunch of worthless trash! Since you're insects, you'd better stay in the mud!"
Xiao Huai's eyes seemed to burn with flames, each gaze as sharp as a hawk's.
She kept her eyes fixed on the swarming beetles around her, the long knife in her hand gleaming coldly in the afterglow of the setting sun, each swing accompanied by a whistling sound of wind cutting through it, like the Grim Reaper.
The beetles emitted a piercing buzzing sound. Their shells were as hard as iron. Xiao Huai's movements were swift and precise. Every collision between the blade and the shell produced a piercing metallic clang. However, due to the beetles' strong defense, the longsword could only leave shallow marks on them.
Dodging the sharp spikes that were about to pierce his body, Xiao Jin leaped backward and jumped out of the beetles' encirclement.
Seemingly sensing the threat posed by Xiao Jin, they immediately launched a frenzied counterattack.
One of the large beetles suddenly bulged its abdomen, and then a sharp, needle-like bone protruded from its abdomen with a whistling sound, heading straight for Xiao Huai's vitals.
But Xiao Jin reacted with lightning speed, instinctively dodging the fatal blow by sidestepping the bone spur. The spur whistled past his clothes, embedding itself deeply in the ground and kicking up a cloud of dust.
Immediately following, Xiao Jin used this force to leap up, her long sword drawing a dazzling arc in the air, aiming straight for the back of the attacking beetle's head—the only weakness she had keenly observed after several battles with the beetles.
"Crack!" With a crisp cracking sound, the beetle's head was cleaved open by a knife, green fluid splattered everywhere, and its massive body crashed to the ground, struggling a few times before losing all life.
[Slay a level 2 Iron Beetle, +3 points]
So they're called iron beetles. They're definitely not level one. Twelve of them, that's 36 points, which is equivalent to her earnings in two hours.
Xiao Jin was confident of victory. With the first dead iron beetle, his guess had been confirmed, and killing the remaining beetles was only a matter of time.
The other beetles seemed to be stunned by this scene, and their attack instantly became chaotic.
Xiao Jin seized the opportunity, her figure moving like a ghost through the swarm of insects. Her long sword flashed up and down, and it took her twenty minutes to get all the armored beetles to lie quietly at her feet, no longer able to make a sound.
Standing still, Xiao Jin was slightly out of breath, with a thin layer of sweat on her forehead.
Great, 36 points have been successfully credited to your account.
Stepping out of the circle filled with insect corpses, Xiao Jin walked into the office building. It was getting late, and it was already getting dark outside. It was time to find a safe place to stay.
After entering the office building, Xiao Jin paused for a moment, then calmly walked away without looking to the side and headed straight upstairs.
She asked why she hadn't seen any bodies; it turned out that the beetles had taken the human corpses they had killed into the building and hidden them there.
Naturally, these people were all dead. There were about twenty human skins lying in the hall, each loosely covered with clothes, except for a hole the size of a ping-pong ball in the center of the chest area.
Recalling the bone spurs that appeared on the bellies of those iron beetles, Xiao Jin already knew how these people had died. No wonder they were so clean!
Not knowing whether there were any Zerglings above, Xiao Jin carefully examined each area bit by bit.
The office building has twenty floors, and the rent for each floor is exorbitant. After choosing the second floor as her place of residence, Xiao Jin began to inspect the situation on the second floor.
The second floor is just right; it avoids the corpses on the first floor, but isn't too high to make escape difficult. If anything unexpected happens, Xiao Jin can simply jump out of the window.
As he passed by the wide-open doors around him, Xiao Jin raised his sword and used the handle to knock on the closed door. Listening carefully, he could indeed hear a sound coming from inside.
There seemed to be heavy breathing coming from inside the door, and someone had even knocked over a stool in their panic.
Xiao Jin had no interest in taking over someone else's place. She checked all the rooms with open doors and killed any insectoid creatures she encountered.
Finally, she found a small office, which contained a desk and a small room with a single bed.
I don't know whose place it is, but after rummaging through the drawers, I found quite a bit of cigarettes, alcohol, cash, and the like.
But just as Xiao Jin went inside and was about to lock the door, a 'click' sound came from the door on the other side.
"Hey? Don't..."
"It's nothing, I just wanted to say a few words!"
A man and a woman were talking behind the door. The woman seemed to be trying to stop the other person from opening the door, but she was blocked. Although their voices were very soft, Xiao Jin could still hear them clearly.
He slightly lifted his eyelids. Looking for me?
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