The sun in the sky began to dim until it disappeared completely, and the whole world was shrouded in thick darkness.
Under the tense gaze of everyone, the blood moon resembled a pair of slowly opening eyes, its crimson light tearing through the darkness and spilling onto the ground, continuously spreading and expanding.
A blood moon, about the size of a washbasin, hung high in the sky.
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"Something's not right with this moon. It's gotten so big. It's almost the size of a washbasin."
Mo Ran lay back in the command chair with her legs crossed, looking at the moon in the sky through the panoramic view in front of her.
The moon's current size made him realize that something was amiss.
Under the red moonlight, all the monsters began their second stage of evolution. Their skin and bones became harder, and their size became much larger than before.
At the same time, their special abilities began to emerge continuously within their bodies.
Of course, that's not all that happened. The blood and rotting flesh left behind after the monsters died were now boiling like water.
Then came the continuous merging and growth, eventually forming one monster after another.
This time, the monsters no longer looked up at the moon; they roared incessantly, their eyes flashing with a chilling red light.
All the monsters became restless and extremely violent, and the slightest sound would attract their attention.
Even an unintentional collision between their own kind can instantly ignite a war, with each side fighting to the death.
"Huh? What are those monsters doing? Why are they killing each other?"
Seeing the monsters' reactions outside, Mo Ran was momentarily confused. However, without much thought, she immediately unleashed her mechs and robots to wreak havoc.
But no matter how the mechs and robots destroyed the monsters, the monsters seemed to be blind to them, only focused on killing their own kind and completely oblivious to their surroundings.
This unusual and bizarre scene immediately caught Mo Ran's attention.
Something's not right, there's a problem!
Mo Ran opened the chat channel and found that messages were scrolling rapidly, with many people discussing what would happen that evening.
"Am I seeing things? Have these monsters all gone mad? Why are they all attacking their own people?"
"That's right, I stood right in front of it, but it acted like it didn't see me at all. No matter how much I tried to cut it, it wouldn't budge."
"Is something going to happen? I feel like these monsters are behaving strangely."
"I have the same feeling. These monsters exude an eeriness, as if some conspiracy is about to unfold."
"I think you're overthinking it. These monsters dropped a lot of cores after killing each other. You can just pick them up for free without doing anything."
"This is awesome! I'm not going to sleep tonight. There are cores everywhere, I can pick them up by the handful!"
Many people in the chat channel were celebrating, but some noticed something was off, though such messages were quickly drowned out.
The channel gradually fell silent as players became engrossed in collecting the cores, paying no attention to anything else.
Mo Ran had the rats release a large number of hummingbird drones to begin scouting for any unusual activity in the surrounding area.
At the same time, it began to absorb the core at full speed, and the progress bar of its superpower level also began to rise rapidly.
The core of a second-tier monster was as big as a basketball. The command room couldn't hold too many of them, so Mo Ran simply went outside and immersed herself in the core.
The mechs and robots collected more and more cores, accumulating into a small mountain. This mountain then continuously shrank and rose again, repeating this cycle.
Five hours passed in the blink of an eye.
"Ding~".
Suddenly, a notification-like ringtone sounded.
Mo Ran, who was absorbing the energy with her eyes closed and legs crossed, suddenly opened her eyes, her two scarlet eyes flashing with an eerie red light.
"Hoo~".
Mo Ran exhaled a breath of stale air, then looked down at her body, feeling as if some kind of earth-shattering change had occurred.
"Was that sound... a message notification tone?"
"But I haven't looked at it for so long, I wonder what level my ability has reached."
Mo Ran opened her ability panel, which currently displayed a large "Ex" ability level.
"I'm quite shocked that I've actually reached the (EX) level. I wonder how many cores I've absorbed and what new skills I've unlocked."
Mo Ran immediately checked it, but the next second she was dumbfounded, staring blankly at the screen and blinking her eyes.
"What...what is this?"
At this moment, all the skills on Mo Ran's ability panel disappeared, leaving only a short line of text.
Have fun, my &%#”
"What does this mean? What does 'have fun' mean? Wait, am I going to lose all my skills?!"
Mo Ran was startled and helped test all her skills. When she found that everything was normal, she breathed a sigh of relief.
The next second, the entire ability panel suddenly disappeared, and no matter how many times you clicked, you could no longer find the panel.
Mo Ran was completely stunned and didn't know what to do for a moment.
However, remembering the notification sound she had just heard, Mo Ran immediately searched the panel but found no information.
Just as Mo Ran was wondering about the source of the voice, his gaze drifted to the Blood Moon stage located directly above the panel.
Upon opening the panel and seeing its contents, Mo Ran's pupils constricted, her face filled with disbelief.
10 days remaining until the final blood moon.
"How is this possible! Five hours ago, there were 15 days left, how come there are only 10 days left now?"
Just as Mo Ran was racking her brains trying to figure it out, a string of scarlet characters suddenly appeared on the panel.
{To reach the real moon 30 days before it arrives}
Upon seeing this, Mo Ran suddenly looked up at the sky and discovered that six moons had appeared there at some point.
These six moons are distributed in six different directions, with the blood moon in the middle as the center.
These six moons are in different shapes and show different states.
Mo Ran also discovered that the blood moon in the sky had somehow become even larger than before, and the blood-red light it emitted was even more intense and alluring.
A dense, blood-red light filled the entire world, and unless someone was paying special attention, no one would have noticed that six moons had appeared in the sky at some point.
"Mouse, what's the date today? What's the moon's phase?"
"Report to the train commander, today is January 30th, and the moon is in a full moon state."
The cold, mechanical voice of a mouse rang in Mo Ran's ears.
Mo Ran looked up and searched the sky, quickly fixing her gaze on the round and full moon in the north.
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