Chapter 325: Chapter 324: Conspiracy and Encounter
The dark sky.
The edge of the sky was burning red.
The roiling Molten Giant Snakes wandered at the border.
The astonishing heat of the lava at the bottom of the pit seemed unable to change the weather of the remaining map.
On the last day before the map’s collapse, the Blizzard had stopped, but now heavy snow was falling from the sky again, and the cold wind in the air began to blow, heralding the start of the next Blizzard.
Under the dim light of the sky, in a sparse forest, at the edge of the woods, there was a low cliff with a faint firelight shining outward from a point in the mountain wall.
"Captain, what should we do now, should we rest for a while or continue towards the center of the map?" A male humanoid race with a single horn on his head sat by the campfire in the cave and asked.
There were five figures gathered around the campfire in the cave, and from their appearance, it could be seen that they all came from different races.
The words of the horned man did not elicit a response from their captain.
Beside him, a green-haired, snake-eyed woman said, "Hiss, we’re really out of luck this time. As soon as we entered the map, we fell right at the edge. We’ve been on the road for days, and now the temperature is dropping again. Sleepiness is coming over me, hiss."
She kept sticking out a thin, forked snake tongue while speaking.
Finally, the human male who had been sitting above the campfire pushed the glasses on his nose, the lenses reflecting the firelight in front, making it difficult to see his expression clearly.
"I want to take out that Mist Warrior squad."
Upon hearing their captain’s words, the others turned their heads to look at him.
A girl with snow-white skin next to him slowly turned her head and said, "But, we might not, be able to beat, them. Your warning, wasn’t it warning you before?"
When the girl spoke, her expression was stiff, her mouth opening and closing as if her voice was stuck, not flowing smoothly.
"That’s why I don’t plan to face them alone with just our squad. That Mist Warrior squad isn’t something we can eliminate by ourselves, and it’s bad if our squad loses members." The glasses-wearing captain explained his thoughts slowly to his teammates.
Upon hearing their captain’s words, the last silent figure by the campfire spoke up, "So, you’re planning to find a few familiar squads to join forces and eliminate them?"
"Yes, that’s exactly what I’m thinking."
After hearing their captain’s plan, the others pondered for a while, then nodded in agreement.
Seeing his teammates agree, the glasses-wearing man turned to the previously silent teammate and said, "Then, I’ll leave it to you."
The teammate stood up reluctantly, revealing his appearance. He had dark red skin, two slender horns on his head, and blood-red slit pupils.
"You know, I can only use a Dungeon 5 times, so how many squads are you planning to contact to encircle them?"
The glasses-wearing man held out a palm, then folded his thumb, making a gesture of four: "Four should be enough, and there are only four Explorer Squads around us."
"Well, then let’s go." The Purgatory Demon waved his hand beside him, a red Teleportation Gate appeared, and then everyone stepped in.
...
At this moment.
Beside a pile of boulders on the plain.
After resting for a night, Kane and his group decided to set out again towards the center of the map. Although they weren’t exactly at the map’s edge, they were still in the outer area.
After the map’s collapse at the edge yesterday, their outer area naturally became the edge.
They planned to advance a bit further and then stop to rest for another day.
After every map collapse, the next collapse map’s range appears in the air the next day, allowing them to decide on their next course of action.
The snow in the sky was getting heavier, and soon the Blizzard would come again. If they didn’t move now, it would become impossible to move later.
They reached the outskirts of the boulder cluster, and Kane started setting up a vehicle by the roadside.
At this moment, Lilulu suddenly pointed at the sky and said, "Hehe, Lilulu’s face is hanging in the sky again, so cute." She then turned to look at Kreya beside her and asked, "Right, Kreya?"
Seeing Lilulu’s actions, Kreya had already looked up at the sky but quickly looked down, sighing.
After hearing Lilulu, she turned her head, pinched Lilulu’s cheek with her index finger and thumb, and said, "Yes, yes, Lilulu is the cutest."
"Hee hee!"
Upon hearing Lilulu’s words, Kane also looked up at the sky, and, unsurprisingly, their wanted portraits were hanging in the sky again.
Wasn’t it agreed to only hang for one hour?
He took out some documents from the Space Equipment and flipped through them.
Darn!
It turns out it hangs for an hour every day until someone claims Kane and the others’ bounty.
The more they looked at this thing in the sky, the more uncomfortable and ashamed it made them feel.
"Can’t we just stop it from hanging there?" Longbei’s voice was full of worry.
Yesterday, he was still beaming with pride about his face being in the sky.
Because although everyone’s portraits were in the sky, they looked quite normal, except for Longbei’s, which was grinning widely, impossibly bright.