CHAPTER 435: CHAPTER 403: BITING THE TAIL

Thanks to the map guidance, the Dragon Cat Bus skillfully avoided danger zones and uneventfully reached the Inverted Pyramid.

Standing on the ground, one cannot clearly see the specific structure of the Inverted Pyramid; one can only see a massive, mirror-smooth square surface,

made of some unknown black-brown building material, seamless and unified.

However, this couldn’t stump a group of players.

At the very center of the Inverted Pyramid, they erected a differential machine powered by a steam engine, driving numerous gear mechanisms into motion.

[Item Name: Breach Differential Machine]

[Type: Tool]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Special Effect: Breach and enter. When installed on surfaces corresponding to the definitions of "safe," "combination lock," "security door," "safety door," etc., it can automatically operate, consuming spiritual power to violently crack from a rule-based level]

[Consumption: At least 200 points of spiritual power, specifically depending on the complexity of the password and the sturdiness of the lock]

[Cooling Time: 1 hour]

[Use Conditions: Innate Intelligence Attribute greater than or equal to 7]

[Remark: "Not afraid of thieves stealing, just afraid of thieves remembering." So said the diligent bank manager as he threw all the vault money onto the street]

The differential machine operated independently, emitting a cacophony of noise as it cracked the secret realm’s gate.

Meanwhile, outside the differential machine, players had already set up a temporary camp.

A field hospital three stories high, a logistics supply station packed with long guns, short cannons, weapons, and ammunition, a mobile communication base station, and even a specialized area for building a kitchen system for the logistics players to cook.

Dishes like Cosmic Grand Shaomai, Nine Treasures Vegetable French Terrine, Mammoth Meat Soup, and so on, if the chef’s dishes didn’t glisten with golden light, they were embarrassed to meet people.

These dishes not only replenish energy but also apply a series of buffs to the consumer, accelerating the recovery speed of spiritual power, raising the sanity value limit, among others;

there’s even a dish named [Home Flavor], made without any advanced cooking techniques, just a lot of hallucinogenic fungi, which can make one reminisce about the most delicious food they had in childhood,

thereby clearing their mind, making them joyful, and temporarily increasing all attributes by one.

"It’s like the slum’s annual meeting, when has it ever gathered so many heroes and talents!"

"Well said, come, down this cup!"

The camp was bustling, like a party gathering. No diamond ring, don’t pick up porcelain work. The players who made it this far all had skills, were confident in their own strength, and their moods were stable and relaxed.

The Red Driver got off the bus and immediately ran to the field hospital to find doctors to treat his few Pocket Monsters.

Father Andre also went to find other colleagues from the Holy Temple Knights.

"Hey?"

You Anjian, a member of [World Nuclear House] waiting by the roadside, saw only Ozaki Aozora get off and exclaimed in surprise, "How come Pifu isn’t here? Wasn’t he with you guys?"

"He had something come up suddenly and stayed behind in area K12."

Ozaki Aozora said simply, with the man in pajamas being reset, the facial recognition dysmorphia attached to her faded away, and her facial recognition returned to normal.

You Anjian wanted to ask more, but Zhangsun Yao waved her hand, "Forget it, there must be a reason why he didn’t come.

Aozora, you go rest first. You too, Tombstone, come on over; Binary Tree is calling us for a meeting."

The secret realm exploration this time was jointly organized by over twenty guilds, and naturally, those who could participate in meetings were also representatives from all sides, as well as top lone wolf players like White Horse Tombstone.

Just stepping into the soundproof meeting room, White Horse Tombstone heard intense arguing.

The vice president of the medium-sized guild [Mechanical War Thunder], [Blood Lion Roar], was loudly arguing with the Binary Tree from Whale Song,

oddly, no representatives from other guilds stepped in to stop them, everyone had tense expressions, silent and speechless.

White Horse Tombstone quietly tugged at Zhangsun Yao, puzzled, "What’s going on here?"

"Based on the intelligence collected so far, within the entire secret realm, across a 28,000 square kilometer range, equivalent to the Special Affairs Bureau’s yellow alert level monsters, there are five to six thousand,

equivalent to orange alert, there are 1,900,

equivalent to red alert, which is like the man in pajamas you encountered, there are nearly a hundred.

All these abnormal entities are people who died in reality while harboring pain, spanning several decades."

Zhangsun Yao calmly stated, "If Whale Song Organization’s detection results are correct, there must be a complete and constantly operational Hidden Room concealed beneath the Inverted Pyramid.

Its effect likely converts the souls of the deceased, mass-producing revenant spirits."

"..."

White Horse Tombstone took a deep breath, no wonder the guild representatives all had expressions mingled with greed and fear.

It should be known that one of the reasons the Global Supernatural Alliance can suppress other forces and firmly hold the top spot is largely because they occupy a Hidden Room called [Horn Room], which can mass-produce security guard gouzhuang equivalent to mid-level player strength.

If Whale Song’s intelligence is accurate, the value of the Hidden Room in the Inverted Pyramid would be incalculable...

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"By the way, isn’t there a rumor of a Hidden Room over at the Inverted Pyramid? Aren’t we going to join in the fun?"

On the city street, Gray Rain and Li Cheng followed far behind the man in pajamas, chatting leisurely as if taking a stroll.

"Not going for now."

Li Cheng said casually, "This secret realm exploration is restricted by a magic contract, even if individuals discover a Hidden Room, they still have to divide the benefits according to contribution, and won’t be able to gain complete control of the Hidden Room.

A bird in hand is worth more than two in the bush. Finding that Insect Lord Demon infection source first will yield more stable benefits."

He paused for a moment and said, "From the intelligence we’ve gathered so far, if there’s really a Hidden Room in the Inverted Pyramid, its effect is probably collecting the souls of the deceased and forming an undead army."

Gray Rain paused at these words, "Similar to a myriad soul banner?"

"Worse than a myriad soul banner."

Li Cheng shook his head, "From the examples of the Vietnamese woman and the man in pajamas, the more pain the deceased suffered in life, the stronger the evil spirit they convert into after death.

If the ownership of that Hidden Room ultimately falls into the hands of private guilds, I have no doubt they would resort to spreading plagues, creating famines, and inciting wars.

To artificially create suffering and mortal tragedies, thus harvesting souls."

"With a 100% profit, they dare trample all mortal laws; with a 300% profit, they dare commit any crime."

Gray Rain lamented, "Oh wow, how can capital be so bad? It’s all the fault of capital, having too many tricks."

???

Li Cheng’s eye twitched, just as the man in pajamas passed by a dilapidated building with that green ouroboros emblem at its entrance.

Li Cheng didn’t rashly enter the building; instead, adhering to the principle "help people to the end, send Buddha to the West," he used the Assembly Puppet Effect to stick a syringe and charging cord onto the man in pajamas, connecting them to a tablet,

so every time the man in pajamas resets, a portion of his blood would flow out to charge and sustain the tablet.

With the follow-up neatly handled, Li Cheng stood before the decrepit biolab, his brows slightly furrowed.

Gray Rain asked puzzled, "What’s up?"

Li Cheng replied, "Binary Tree dug pretty deeply into the life trajectory of the man in pajamas. In his entire life, the man in pajamas never came into contact with this biolab.

To be clear, in the man’s entire life, he never had any contact with a biolab."

"Do you mean..."

"Unlike the Toronto Building or the Vietnamese Stilt House, there are no prior records of this place in real life," Li Cheng continued as he approached a decaying biolab with a smirk, "Come on, I can’t wait to see my Divine Calamity brother."