Surviving the Maze of National Destiny: Hints from the Chinese Characters I Understand

Lin Mo witnessed a horrifying scene: Kabu forcefully pried open the ground, grabbed the tentacles of the burrowing worm underneath, and pulled it out while poking it.

Digging Bug: I suddenly don't think that way anymore.

Kabu's immense strength pulled the 10-meter-long burrowing worm out of the ground like a radish.

However, when it was pulled out, the burrowing worm was already dead, killed by Kabu.

"Boom..." Kabu kicked the burrowing bug aside. "Serves you right for showing off!"

The ground had just cracked in 10 places at the same time, but now the other 9 cracked places suddenly became quiet, and you could even see the cracks slowly closing up.

Kabu noticed that the other person didn't dare to show their face. "Hmm? Not showing off anymore? Don't you like it? Come out here!"

Kabu, at level 15, slammed his claws into the crack, the immense force penetrating deep into the fissure, and a stream of green liquid gushed out like a fountain.

This is too much of a bullying of insects. The other burrowing insects in the crevices could no longer stand this impolite guy and showed themselves, ready to spray "Cyclone Blade" at Lin Mo and Kabu.

Lin Mo drew his sword and unleashed two beams of moonlight, the two blades of light almost completely engulfing half of the cave.

"Click, click..."

This time, unlike last time when the wind blades and the sword light clashed and canceled each other out, the sword light shattered all the wind blades with overwhelming force, and then hit four burrowing worms.

Even though the power of the blade was weakened by the wind blades along the way, this attack still caused all four burrowing worms to lose 25% of their health.

If the wind blades hadn't absorbed a large portion of its power, it probably would have taken half of the opponent's life.

Kabu charged forward almost simultaneously with the blade's edge. The blade cleared a path for it, removing the wind blades. Then, it pushed off with its two hind legs, and the entire toad hurtled forward like a cannonball. As it hurtled towards its opponent, Kabu also extended its claws, leaving extremely horrific wounds on several burrowing worms along the way.

The hard shell on the burrowing worm's exterior is utterly useless in the face of absolute power.

Under Lin Mo and Kabu's relentless onslaught, the 10 burrowing worms couldn't last more than two minutes.

Kabu jumped off the body of a burrowing worm that stood upright, two stories high. Its head had already been cut off. As Kabu landed, the burrowing worm's corpse behind it crashed to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

After landing, Kabu struck a cool pose, its face full of arrogance. It licked the sharp Death Grip with its tongue and said cheekily, "If I hear the Way in the morning, I can die content in the evening!"

Lin Mo: "...Are you misunderstanding something about what you said?"

Kabu's beady green eyes widened in surprise: "Doesn't this mean: If I know the way to your house in the morning (morning enlightenment), you can die tonight (evening death is acceptable!)?"

Lin Mo gasped, "Hiss! Is this Kabu's version of 'Lunyu'?" From now on, every monster in the maze will have a toad tattooed on its back.

The two, one human and one clam, walked side by side into the depths of the cave to retrieve the supplies mentioned in the clues.

"Lin Mo, do you humans have any idioms or proverbs about toads? I want to hear them." Kabu suddenly became vain for some reason.

"Not many good words, but plenty of bad ones," Lin Mo clicked his tongue.

"Huh? You're lying again? How could that be? I'm that strong." Kabu didn't believe it.

"A toad trying to eat swan meat—wishful thinking!" Lin Mo said calmly.

"(งᵒ̌皿ᵒ̌). I swear I will never let swans live!" Kabu jumped up and down.

"A toad trying to do push-ups—it can't turn over!"

"(눈‸눈). Well!"

"A frog tattooed on a tadpole—are you showing off your mom?" Lin Mo continued to stab him in the heart.

"Lin Mo, a frog is a frog, at most a distant relative, don't slander it!" Kabu tried his best to explain. "Lin Mo, let me tell you, toads are actually very handsome, frogs are all just little brothers, hey? Wait for me..."

[Chinese netizens: Haha, Kabu's defenses have crumbled!]

[Chinese netizens: Those two are unbeatable, I'm dying of laughter 2333.]

[A netizen from Pakistan: What kind of creature is Kabu? I'm so curious.]

[Chinese netizens: Isn't it a toad?]

[A netizen from Batan commented: But Kabu is only in its growth stage now. When it reaches its complete form, it might not be a toad anymore.]

Lin Mo ignored Kabu, who had already broken down, and was happily checking the system's reward notification sound.

[Congratulations on killing 10 level 13 burrowing worms (Nightmare difficulty). You have obtained 260 beast cores and a certain amount of life essence. Your life level has increased to 15 (67%). Kabu has obtained a certain amount of maze essence and his life level has increased to 15 (81%).]

Your interaction with Kabu and fighting side-by-side has increased your affinity by 1 point. Current affinity: 102. (52% overall increase)

[Your swordsmanship has increased by 1% during combat. Current swordsmanship level: 22 (81.3%)]

"Use all the beast cores," Lin Mo silently recited in his mind.

[You have successfully upgraded your swordsmanship to level 23 (89.1%) using 260 beast cores.]

"Wow! Level 23 is almost 24. Not bad, not bad!" Lin Mo was secretly pleased. He glanced at the description of Moonlit Slash again, and it had changed.

Currently, I can release two blade beams with a diameter of 7 meters and a range of 200 meters. The interval between using Moonlit Slash has been shortened to 5 seconds.

Lin Mo was speechless that using a beast core at level 23 only yielded a pitiful 0.4% success rate.

Deep inside the cave, Lin Mo found 10 units of refined iron and a blueprint for a battle pet's excellent vest.

"Use the blueprints," Lin Mo silently thought to himself.

[Blueprint successfully used. You have mastered the crafting technique for your battle pet's excellent armor.]

Lin Mo glanced at the materials required for this vest: 10 units of refined iron, 2 fire elements, and 1 copper element.

The fine vest can grant battle pets a 40% damage reduction, which is the same defensive level as Lin Mo's alloy armor.

Lin Mo looked at his personal space: Thunder: 3, Wind: 1, Wood: 3, Fire: 12, Iron: 4, Copper: 2, Gold: 1.

Wow, we have all the necessary conditions to build it. Let's get started.

Lin Mo immediately began making a vest for Kabu on the spot.

On the system interface, the familiar hammer symbol once again sparked with fire.

Kabu, standing to the side, clapped his hands with anticipation, exclaiming, "Yay! Yay! Hurry up, hurry up!"

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Tianzhu Kingdom Live Room 01, Level 17 Tianzhu Kingdom's First Explorer, Highest Level: Kazhuo.

He then killed a level 18 maze monster and obtained a silver treasure chest, from which he opened a strange item: What a coincidence!

[What a coincidence! You will be randomly selected to visit 5 maze explorers. You can choose to briefly travel to their location (limited to 30 minutes; regardless of what happens, you will return to the original location after 30 minutes). This item has countless uses.]

Kadjo, through his limited understanding of the divine inscriptions, felt this was a good opportunity, so... he used the item.