The two cities had already seen nearly 25,000 people!
And more teams were pouring in endlessly, simply because they had learned that within the Mordo Fang Chambers, treasure chests could be opened by defeating monsters. However, most teams planned to open one chest and then flee.
But the rotating gear rooms of the Mordo Fang chambers would not allow them to backtrack; they had to continue moving deeper from one room to the next, all the while bumping into later teams as they tried to return, resulting in various chaotic disturbances.
“Ahhh, run for it!”
Rumble! A giant beast resembling an iron hippopotamus crashed toward the small team in this Mordo Fang chamber, which was about the size of a public square.
The discounting model of the financing simulation instantly expanded from the captain’s body.
[Everyone, please help me with an investment!
Whoosh! Whoosh!]
[Uncle East City has invested 1000N in me!]
[Zhang Xingfan has invested 500N in me.]
[Zhao Mo has invested 327N in me.]
A rapid succession of investments appeared on the man’s chest, and in the next second, with a loud bang, the giant hippo crashed through the disintegration force field and sent the people behind it flying.
The Mordo Fang Chamber slowly rotated. In the next room, a team equipped with a Demonic Nightmare Cutter had already brought the giant ape before them to the ground. The captain, panting heavily, was covered in blood on his hands and body.
The man didn’t rest but instead looked excitedly at the treasure chest in the grass ahead.
“Captain, what do you think we might get?”
{If there is a Timeline Weapon available, I can place an order and lock in the price right now.}
{As long as it’s a Timeline Weapon of fifty years or more, even if a vast number of them appear in this Demon King Hall, I’ll pay the current price for all of them!}
Recent prices for Timeline Weapons have already soared; spotting one such weapon guarantees a risk-free profit.
Hearing the bids in the Financing Model, the captain of this small team looked very excited.
“We must get one, a Timeline Weapon!”
Several men gathered around, watching as their captain reached out to touch the lid of the wooden box.
Click!
The moment it opened, a spring-mounted fist popped out, holding a ribbon like a lottery ticket, and hanging from it was a small, pale golden, curved piece of iron with a sharp edge.
“Ah! There’s a gown inside.”
“Who wants this piece of junk? My Timeline Weapon ~”
Amidst a chorus of groans, the Mordo Fang Chamber slowly rotated.
Under the setting sun, in the room behind, a tall, graceful figure leading a drowsy little girl was inserting her longsword back into the scabbard on her back.
In her hand, she held a treasure-blue, curved iron barb.
[I, the Great Quadrilateral, have obtained a “Jaw Claw.”]
[Upon use, qualification for the trial will be lost, and after five seconds, protection of the Magic Gear will be granted. Activation requires 1R.]
[Collect five foreign-colored Jaw Claws to open a gate somewhere.]
A glimmer of light flashed in her bright eyes.
“Diudiu, this is for you. Remember, use it if you’re ever in danger, okay?”
The girl rubbed her eyes and took the small object.
“Sister Morrie, what is this?”
“It’s something to jam the gears.”
Diudiu looked up at the older sister’s wise and gentle light-blue eyes. With her straight nose and slightly swaying strands of hair, she exuded an elegance and confident charm no matter what.
“Thank you, sister. Are we continuing tonight?” the little girl asked.
The woman straightened up.
She glanced beyond the scene at the twilight, where a slowly rotating cliff was crashing toward them.
“We have to continue. Only the fastest can clear this arena first and have their name… spread throughout all the cities.”
The girl, who had slept all afternoon, jumped up joyfully.
“Great, sister! I want to open the next treasure chest!”
“Alright~”
……
A spreading fold-line carried more surprises, echoing through the space.
“Everyone hurry up and get in! I just got over a hundred years’ worth of Virtual Zero Sequence from a treasure chest—it lasts until the end of the month!”
Inside the cube, Yang Zicang sat cross-legged on the ground, watching these figures rushing in busily.
It was hard to tell whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.
But as he watched, the young man’s brows furrowed with confusion.
“That’s not right. Why is the layout a bit different from what I designed?”
Several others who had participated in the construction of Plectra Star also noticed this.
Outside the cube, the crowd was buzzing noisily.
Jiaoma looked at the young blond guy and said, “Bobo, do you feel something off about this Hall of Mana?”
“You mean the arrangement of these Hall of Mana structures?”
“Yeah, the Mordo Fang Chamber we swapped seems to have changed a bit again, and… there seems to be something extra inside the water curtain.”
Soon, a team passed through the second water curtain, revealing a platform stretching out before them.
As more clearing teams went deeper, the specific scenes inside the Hall of Mana were gradually revealed!
“Th-that is!”
After these people passed through the third towering pillar-like Mordo Fang building and exposed the other side of the isolating water curtain—a hellish landscape of sharp, jagged fangs—Boboli was already stunned.
Densely packed rooms exuding an overwhelming demonic aura; their numbers were no fewer than what the group themselves had deployed.
And the monsters within them seemed starved for ages, like madmen desperate to devour people. They pressed against the force-field walls, their blood-red gazes fixed on the outside world with utter indifference.
“These aren’t ours!”
……
Lü Bu looked at the ribbon-like item in his hand.
“A lottery ticket?”
“Xiao Bu, what’s this?”
Beside Lü Bu, another young man with an equally heroic face and wearing a baseball cap asked.
“Take a look.” Lü Bu handed the item to Zhao Yun.
The moment he received it, a telepathic voice echoed in Zhao Yun’s mind.
[I have obtained the [Boboli Roulette Special Invitation Ticket].]
[Using the “Boboli Roulette Special Invitation Ticket” gives you a chance to win a mysterious rare prize at the “Boboli Roulette”!]
“Boboli?”
Zhao Yun looked at Lü Bu. “So the stuff written in that newspaper they distributed last night wasn’t fake?”
Lü Bu’s eyes narrowed into slits.
In the 23rd City, Cheng Yunze gripped a lottery ticket that resembled a ribbon.
The moment the telepathic voice sounded, a vague, persistent feeling that had built up throughout the journey finally gathered full force and burst forth.
“Damn it!”
Cheng Yunze, who had always tried to project a calm, leader-like image, finally revealed an exasperated and furious expression.
“Boboli!”
He looked at his seven-member team, all staring at him. “These prizes… Could they be?!”
“Boss, you’ve finally figured it out too.”
Seeing Cheng Yunze, who had been silently advancing, finally bring up the prize issue, the Four-Phase Team members, who had already been unable to hold back, couldn’t help but chime in one after another:
“These things really look like they were left by Yang Zicang and his crew!”
“Bastard!”
Cheng Yunze raised the ribbon he was gripping and clenched it fiercely… tightening his hold on it.
“I finally know now… where those tens of thousands of Ability Spheres that were purchased last month ended up!”
“Could these prizes have been bought out of pocket by that kid from the subway group?”
Cheng Yunze looked at several small Ability Spheres reappearing in the box.
“Fine. We make the demands, they build the competition venue. Good, good, I guess that makes us even.”
A few seconds of awkward silence hung in the air.
They exchanged glances, realizing their chief captain hadn’t fully lost control.
Zhang Quantou spoke with difficulty: “The captain is right.”
“This must be… support for the weak.”
“That way, they can say we won fair and square… right?”
Some wiped cold sweat from their foreheads.
……
In the Demon Hero Hall, those who had drawn prizes and intended to slip away grew hesitant upon receiving these special prize vouchers.
More and more Mental Links kept coming in—some even from Hubville. Security team members had already appeared in both cities, acting as relay stations to spread Hubville’s investment information throughout the two cities.
“Go ahead and press on; we’ll buy up any good finds you get!”
Though no one knew what the mysterious prizes might be, even the common treasure chests contained Ability Spheres and Chrono Weapons. Since this was the prize of the specially made “Invitational Draw” at the mysterious draw location, it couldn’t possibly be a pile of junk.
The confidence of having a backstop fueled more boldness in these people clinging to life on the edge.
“Let’s gamble!”
“We’ll keep going!”
By evening, aside from teams aware that their own strength didn’t suit this place and seeking a way back, many teams that had originally planned to cash in and run had decided to press forward.
Information about the outskirts of the Mordo Chamber was also being exchanged in the ever-expanding model.
Even though they’d obtained the Invitational Draw tickets, not a single team had found the location of the “Big Wheel” in an entire day. So naturally, they turned their attention to the more dangerous-seeming Mordo Fang Chambers behind the second water screen.
It was highly likely the Big Wheel lay right beyond this cluster of Mordo Fang Chambers!
Boboli watched the people flooding into the two cities and the teams deciding to press onward.
“Just moving our spinning wheel and adding the description of ‘Mysterious prizes,’ and people… can keep going. This…”
Jiaoma turned her head to look at the boy beside her, who exuded a faint scent of soap.
“Mr. Boboli, your design is truly ingenious,” praised a member of the special action team who had participated in the construction of the Mordo Chamber, sitting down beside him.
Boboli looked at the Demon Hero Hall under the moonlight, wide-eyed, and lowered his head.
“Yeah, the design is truly exquisite. Just by adding a sentence, it ignites people’s passion.”
…….
Blackfish Dreamscape Company.
Yuwen Haowen frowned deeply:
“Why does their secretly built new Demon Hero Hall also have a lottery system…”
……
Dormitory area of the Lost Illusion Company.
The corridor was very quiet at this moment. Having packed his luggage and left his room, Zorro stood at the doorway, gazing down the long hallway.
This is where so many experts aspire to be… thought the young man.
Just moments ago, he had reported his resignation to the Director-General, stating that he was not suited for this place.
Huan Bao’er approved his resignation and informed him that he could no longer stay in the Out-of-Frequency Zone and must head to the new Fate Track.
He glanced back at the bedroom he had occupied for half a year, his hand stroking the wooden door that felt pleasantly warm to the touch.
“Farewell. I hope the next person who moves in brings more peace and happiness to this land.”
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