Surviving on the highway, I have a best friend who was reborn.

Chapter 90 The Nervous Little Boy
Anmuya walked towards one of the buildings. The space after exiting the passage had a ceiling height of more than 20 meters, and there were also some buildings around the square.

"It looks like an administrative hall." The translator hairpin at the head of the bridge allowed her to understand the words on the building.

The door was half-open, nothing special, and Anmuya gently pushed it open.

"crunch-"

The sound echoed in the silent hall.

Just then, a clear, boyish voice reached their ears. The four exchanged a glance, immediately becoming alert, and cautiously investigated in the direction of the voice.

They saw the little boy in a corner of the lobby, against the wall, in an office-like spot.

He looked to be about seven or eight years old, thin, and wearing a worn but relatively clean set of clothes.

The little boy was intently staring at a screen map that was floating in the air, tapping it repeatedly with his finger while muttering something to himself.

The lobby was dimly lit, with only the faint light from the screen illuminating the little boy's face, revealing his tense and slightly anxious expression.

The screen map was displayed from a console, and it was probably a map of a dungeon. Yuanqiao glanced at it and saw that the map was layered.

At that moment, the little boy noticed them, and somewhat panicked, he accidentally turned off the screen.

Gao Leyu greeted him, "Hey, kid."

This is the first local I've encountered in the dungeon; there might be a monster-clearing team nearby.

Presumably due to the language barrier, the other party didn't understand and became very frightened. They took out an item from their pocket, activated it, and disappeared into the room.

Gao Leyu was dumbfounded. Where was he?! He had vanished right under his nose?

Actually, Shiliu could have used the Blood Vine to bind the little boy, but she didn't intend to catch him, so she was a step too slow. He took out the prop and ran away too quickly.

Gao Leyu took out a large light bulb and carried it, illuminating the room, which was just an ordinary office.

Anmuya walked to the control panel, found the start button, and the screen lit up again in the air.

Several people gathered around to take a look. All four of them had translation tools, so they could all understand the text on the screen.

"The service hall in the southwest corner of the first level of the Sashara Underground City. This looks like a map of the underground city. Let's all make a note of it."

Shiliu took out a photo printer, took a picture, printed it out, and sent it to them.

After swiping the screen, Anmuya saw a contact number for the guard team, meaning that the survivors in the dungeon were able to maintain communication and could also find the location of guard team members in the service hall.

"These red dots on the map are the guards, and what are those green dots? There are fifty or sixty green dots scattered throughout the entire first floor."

Gao Leyu asked.

Yuanqiao: "I don't know."

Pomegranate: "I don't know."

Gao Leyu then looked at An Muya.

She didn't even look up, ignoring everything, staring at the map and other things, making guesses.

Anmuya: "It might be a rather difficult-to-kill polluted monster."

Gao Leyu: "An officially labeled monster? It must be incredibly powerful, even the guards couldn't clear it out."

"Our mission says to survive for 7 days, but looking at the map, the first level is so big, and we can only go down to the second level after reaching the center. It feels like it will take more than 7 days to clear out the area and walk to the central region."

Yuanqiao offered his opinion, since he felt the game wouldn't simply let them endure the mission time on the first floor. "I guess that deputy city lord is probably on the 4th or 5th floor or something. The lower you go, the higher the monster level. It's not that it's difficult, but to rescue him, we'll have to find the entrance to the next floor first."

Gao Leyu agreed, saying that he had just seen a note on the screen that underground city residents could not freely go to different levels, so most people only knew that the entrance was on Central Avenue, but the exact location was not marked on the public map.

"Let's go and see if there are any other clues. We can also come back here later and use the console to contact the surrounding guard teams. It might have been cleared out, making the path easier to walk on."

The service hall had several offices and rooms, and the group split up to investigate.

Yuanqiao chose the office in the far corner. As soon as she stepped into the room, a rustling sound reached her ears, as if thousands of tiny claws were crawling rapidly.

Yuanqiao's heart skipped a beat, and he also took out a night market stall light from his spatial storage.

I turned on the switch, and the headlight in my hand lit up, its dazzling light instantly dispelling some of the darkness.

She saw a swarm of polluted, monstrous spiders rapidly approaching her from the corner of the room.

"My God, so many!"

These spiders vary in size, the smallest being the size of a fist, while the largest is as big as a millstone, and their bodies are covered with sharp bristles.

Yuanqiao gets goosebumps easily when faced with dense clusters of things. He doesn't know if these spiders are some kind of contamination monster; he can't see any signs of rot or any putrid smell. However, the more they appear, the stronger the stench becomes.

Although her improved strength made her want to fight and show off her skills, every battle was filled with a foul stench, which easily made her lose her will to fight and only want to run away.

Yuanqiao put away the lightsaber hilt he had been holding and took out the area-of-effect weapon.

Multi-functional flamethrower.

"I don't know what species these spiders are. Their shells look quite hard. I wonder if they can be burned to ashes by a flamethrower."

Activate the switch towards the group of spiders. If you can defeat them, clear them out; if you can't kill them all, call for reinforcements.

A torrent of high-pressure flames erupted, terrifying the spiders. The ones in the front row stopped, fearing the flames, while the spiders in the back kept pushing forward.

Hey, it works!
The shell on a spider's back cannot be burned off, but fire can burn it to death if it gets on its legs and head.

The room was small, and after only a short time of spraying, the temperature in the entire office became extremely high. Yuanqiao carried the flamethrower and retreated.

It was unbearably hot, but my physical condition improved significantly, and my resistance to high temperatures increased so I didn't sweat at all.

The room was engulfed in flames. No matter how much silk they spun, it was all burned. Some of the larger spiders let out a hissing scream as they were engulfed in flames, and a burnt smell filled the air.

However, there were too many spiders. Even after the ones in front were burned to death, the ones behind continued to swarm in.

The commotion attracted the attention of the others.

"What happened to Yuanqiao? Did he encounter a polluted monster?"

Gao Leyu arrived at Yuanqiao carrying his psionic gun, but the intense heat made him stop.

"Wow, Yuanqiao, your flamethrower is perfect for cleaning up these kinds of small things in large quantities!"

"I don't know how many spiders are inside. The energy left in my area-of-effect weapon is only enough to unleash one more torrent of fire."

Yuanqiao frowned as he looked at the office door. In such a small room, after killing so many spiders, there shouldn't be many left.

Shiliu also came over to help, taking out some popping fruit and throwing it into the doorway.

(End of this chapter)