The end of the world is approaching, I'm handing myself over to the country.

On the edge of the ruined town, the wind whipped up sand and gravel that stung my face.

The information panel in front of Chen Feng displayed: [FCF-09: Desert Dead Forest].

"Rank F?"

Lei Yue carried the heavy six-barreled Gatling gun, the barrel swaying rhythmically with his steps.

He was full of confidence after receiving his new weapon, a heavy weapon like the Gatling gun.

Although they're ridiculously expensive, bullets are consumables, and their combat power boost isn't as good as top-tier weapons, he just can't resist the fact that he likes them.

He glanced at the panel in front of Chen Feng, his face full of disdain.

"Captain, you're being a bit too cautious. You could at least have chosen a piece of intelligence with a slightly higher reward. Buying the worst one seems a bit beneath you."

Zhou Jian brandished his rock-slicing blade: "That's right, now that we all have top-tier weapons, we should at least hunt down an elite-level one to make it truly satisfying!"

Chen Feng ignored their complaints.

Inside the general store, F-level intelligence is the most expensive, but it has the best chance of being completed.

On the contrary, the CAC-level intelligence that the group of people had earlier was much cheaper.

Because that level of intelligence is simply not challenging at all.

Despite their complaints, the two still followed closely behind Chen Feng.

The zombies and monsters encountered on the road were also easily killed.

After half an hour.

"arrive."

Qin Feng's voice came from the flank of the team.

Ahead, the concrete road abruptly ends.

Instead, there was a barren, yellow sea of ​​sand.

Several dead tree trunks stood like tombstones on the sand dunes, their twisted branches pointing straight to the sky.

A deathly silence.

Even the sound of the wind seemed to be swallowed up here.

Zhao Yunfeng rushed up the high slope immediately and raised his binoculars to scan the area.

"Safety."

He made a gesture.

"There was no sign of any biological activity, not even a fly."

Zhou Jian breathed a sigh of relief and strode forward nonchalantly: "I knew it! What danger could an F-rank be? In this godforsaken place, you'd probably only be able to dig up a few sandworms..."

Click.

A crisp cracking sound interrupted his words.

Suddenly, a section of the sand beneath Zhou Jian's feet sank.

He paused for a moment, then looked down.

It wasn't that I stepped into a hole.

The underground space is empty.

"retreat!"

Chen Feng's roar sounded almost simultaneously with the ground shaking.

Boom—!

The once calm desert instantly boiled over.

The sand within a radius of 100 meters was like a pot of boiling asphalt, churning violently.

Black waves surged forth from underground.

That's not oil.

It's an ant.

Tens of thousands of tiny, densely packed black giant ants.

Each one is the size of an adult wolfhound, its jet-black carapace reflecting a metallic sheen in the sunlight, its massive jaws clicking and sending chills down your spine.

【Sand Ants that Eat Bones】

[Rank: Servant]

Combat Power: 28

[Combat Rank: F-]

"Holy crap!"

Zhou Jian let out a strange cry and instinctively swung his rock-splitting blade.

clang!

The blade struck the head of the nearest ant, sending sparks flying.

The ant merely shook its head, its two antennae twitching wildly, and its enormous jaws snapped directly at Zhou Jian's thigh.

"This is a combat power of 28?! Is that shell made of iron?!"

Zhou Jian used the momentum to jump backward, narrowly avoiding the calamity of having his leg broken.

"The most effective way to deal with this kind of monster is to attack its joints!" Han Bing analyzed seriously.

"Fire!"

Chen Feng drew his rock-splitting sword from his back and cleaved away the worker ants that swarmed at him.

Da da da da da—!

Lei Yue had been holding back for a long time.

The six-barreled Gatling gun spewed out a tongue of fire half a meter long.

The dense storm of bullets instantly tore apart the front row of ants.

Green slurry splattered.

Limbs and severed arms flew everywhere.

"Cool!"

"This harvest is so satisfying!"

Lei Yue laughed wildly, firing his gun indiscriminately: "This is the harvest I've been waiting for!"

"Don't linger! Maintain formation!"

Chen Feng kicked away a worker ant that was trying to ambush Lei Yue, and then inserted the blade into the joint of its segments, twisting it forcefully.

puff.

Green blood splattered all over the ground.

"This is the F-rank mission you all despise."

Lei Zhan and Zhou Jian: "Our captain is brilliant!"

Chen Feng casually kicked the still-twitching ant corpse toward Zhou Jian.

"Don't linger in the fight. Don't forget your mission is to collect the blood!"

Zhou Jian nodded quickly.

This is just the beginning.

The ant colony not only did not decrease, but actually increased.

Black water was gushing out of every hole in the sand dunes.

As far as the eye could see, there were only throbbing black limbs.

"Captain, something's wrong!" Han Bing, who was in charge of reconnaissance, suddenly screamed.

"The epicenter is moving! It's right beneath our feet!"

What?

Chen Feng suddenly lowered his head.

The ground vibrations have changed.

If what happened before was merely a boiling point, then this is an earthquake.

The quicksand beneath our feet began to spin wildly, forming a huge vortex.

"Scatter! Scatter now!"

boom--!

The vortex exploded at its center.

The sun was obscured by a sky full of yellow sand.

A huge shadow rose from the ground into the sky, and the sand and gravel it brought fell on everyone like a torrential rain.

It was a long worm.

Or rather, it is a giant sandworm covered in barbs.

Its forty-meter-long body stands upright in mid-air, like a towering tower.

It has no eyes.

The head is a circular mouth that occupies the entire cross-section, filled with countless rotating sharp teeth, like a giant meat grinder.

"roar--!!"

A nauseating, fishy stench wafted over.

【Lord of the Abyss (Juvenile)】

[Rank: Elite]

Combat Power: 219

Combat Level: F

The scene was deathly silent.

The Gatling gun in Lei Yue's hand was still spinning in the air, making a buzzing sound.

Zhou Jian almost dropped the knife in his hand.

"A combat strength of 219... and this is still F-rank intelligence?"

Zhou Jian's voice trembled: "Did that bastard who sold the information misspell the S-rank?"

Lord of the Sand Abyss slowly lowered his head.

Those rotating, sharp teeth were aimed at the tiny human.

No nonsense.

It crashed down violently.

boom!

The earth cracked open.

"Get out of the way!"

Zhao Yunfeng pushed away Lei Yue, who was still in a daze, and the two rolled around on the sand.

The enormous mandibles smacked their scalps and slammed into the ground, instantly swallowing hundreds of tons of sand and even chewing up dozens of unfortunate sand ants.

"Retreat! Everyone retreat!"

Chen Feng did not hesitate at all.

These are monsters that players cannot fight at this stage.

Even their elite beta testing team couldn't do it.

This is a massacre.

"Run back! Back to town!"

Everyone turned and ran.

But the next second, everyone stopped in their tracks.

Despair is spreading.

The way we came is gone.

Right where they had just stood, at the boundary between the town and the desert forest, the ground completely collapsed.

A deep abyss, tens of meters wide, stretched out before them. In the bottomless darkness, countless faint scraping sounds could be heard.

That's more sand ants climbing.

The escape route is cut off.

Ahead lay a colossal beast, behind lay an abyss, and all around were endless swarms of ants.

Chen Feng gripped his battle knife tightly.

The knuckles are white.

Was the intelligence incorrect?

No.

Old Master Chi said that they could completely trust Lin Mo.