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

The live stream chat erupted in gasps because the monitor lizard was incredibly fast. Even more bizarrely, when the monitor lizard pounced, its crotch was blurred out.

Everyone was puzzled: What is this? Why is it censored? What is it trying to do? It's not like we only censor things when the third brother is doing *that*.

Suddenly... everyone seemed to understand something, and a terrible thought began to grow wildly.

Could it be that this monitor lizard prefers that type? Is this monitor lizard native to India? Holy crap!

No, no! Netizens from the Rising Sun Kingdom feel that this isn't the scariest part. The scariest part is, what if this thing actually happens?

"Come fight!" In the scene, Inoue, full of fighting spirit, wields his sword and slashes directly at the giant lizard that pounces on him, while his battle pet bares its fangs and roars beside him. "Roar..."

However, in the next second, the battle pet was flung away by the giant lizard's tail, Inoue's heavy battle sword was knocked off by the giant lizard's slap, and Inoue directly pinned the giant lizard to the ground. Then... the giant lizard thoughtfully flipped Inoue over so that his back was facing up.

Subsequently, the battle pet was also dragged away by the giant lizard, flipped over, and the screen was filled with a lot of pixelation.

The live stream chat exploded.

[Russian netizens: Holy crap! Holy crap!]

[Chinese netizen: Ah, my eyes! I'm blind, blind!]

[A netizen from India: I'm so envious...]

[A netizen from the Rising Sun Kingdom commented: What kind of monster is this? It's disgusting and so perverted!]

[A netizen from the Free Nation: Why hasn't it arrived yet? When will it arrive?]

[A Pakistani netizen commented: "It's probably because the person is still alive; the other party was only trying to sexually assault her?"]

Only then did everyone realize that the expected monster arrival notification had not appeared.

Although Inoue suffered a lot, it was also good news. What if the monster was just... well, you know, and didn't kill anyone?

[A netizen from Japan commented: Inoue-kun, hang in there! The entire nation of Japan owes you a proctology treatment package.]

[A netizen from the Land of the Rising Sun: Inoue sacrificed himself for all of us in the Land of the Rising Sun, and I think he deserves respect.]

[A netizen from India: I know you're a little happy, but isn't it a bit too soon?]

[Netizen from the Rising Sun Kingdom: Damn it! Can you just die?!]

The live stream was all pixelated, and all you could see was Inoue's utterly hopeless expression. He was grabbing at the ground with his hands and kicking his legs, tearing up all the grass around him.

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Lin Mo, on the other side, didn't get to see this fun. He was focused on roasting potatoes, and the fish and rice stew in the iron pot smelled delicious.

The fish meat is from that strange fish from last time, weighing 600 jin (300 catties), which will last us a long time.

Lin Mo also thoughtfully listed 200 catties of strange fish meat on the trading platform, which was limited to Dragon Kingdom explorers. Five catties could be exchanged for one fire element, or two units of refined iron or wood. In short, it was a freebie.

Since you've already returned all your food, and you can't finish it anyway, what use is it if you don't use it to help your fellow countrymen?

At the same time, Lin Mo was also acquiring Transformation Pills to prepare for Kabu's second evolution.

Lin Mo had no idea that his usual practice of crafting equipment for free and trading resources cheaply had already earned him a good reputation among the explorers of the Dragon Kingdom, and that the people of the Dragon Kingdom were inherently united.

The fact that everyone was shocked to see that Lin Mo was already level 18, because Lin Mo's name had only appeared recently, was even more surprising.

Therefore, everyone concluded that Lin Mo must be a powerful new generation of explorers who have just risen in the Dragon Kingdom, and he must be taken care of. The supplies he needs will definitely be given to him first.

So, only 20 minutes after Lin Mo acquired the Transformation Pill, someone traded two of them to Lin Mo for the price of 5 catties of strange fish meat.

To put it bluntly, this was also a gift from their compatriots to Lin Mo. They could have used fire element to exchange for the monster fish meat, but they still gave Lin Mo the Transformation Pill he needed.

Lin Mo was deeply moved. In times of peace, people in the Dragon Kingdom might think that trivial matters are just petty squabbles, but when faced with a crisis of survival, the people of the Dragon Kingdom are truly selfless.

With the one Transformation Pill left over from the last evolution, Lin Mo now has three, but that's definitely not enough. You see, Kabu used eight for the first evolution, and the second one will definitely take even more, so he needs to prepare in advance.

Huh? Kabu is so strange. Usually when roasting potatoes, it will squat on the side and keep poking the potatoes with its fat fingers, urging, "Lin Mo, the potatoes are ready, the potatoes are ready."

But today, Kabu didn't go near the campfire at all. Instead, he bent over and dug around in the dirt near the ice cellar.

"What are you doing, Kabu?" Lin Mo asked curiously.

"(Kakiwa!) I'm looking for ants!" Kabu said without turning his head, his face full of focus.

"Haha, there are no ants here. If there were, they would have alerted me." Lin Mo laughed.

"Kajikagu. (That's not necessarily true. The hints are only for creatures with levels in the maze. There are also many ordinary maze creatures here.)" Kabu, possessing telepathy, naturally also learned a lot about mazes through Lin Mo.

"What's the use of those little ants? Killing them won't increase your life essence," Lin Mo said dismissively.

"Kaku. (I'm just playing with it!)" Kabu didn't turn around, but gave a sly, sideways smile.

Sure enough, after digging through a layer of soil, it found a nest of ice ants the size of a fist. These ants are not even considered level 1 maze creatures and are not worth killing.

But for Kabu, that's enough! All he needs to do is lay eggs.

It searched for a long time but couldn't find any ant eggs, which made it very angry. It pointed its sharp claws at a group of trembling ice ants and shouted: "Attention! Stand still! Lay eggs within 10 seconds, hurry up!"

Glacier ants are also helpless, saying that they are male and only defecate, but they really don't lay eggs. Isn't this forcing good people into prostitution?

Ten seconds later, the glacier ants failed to get what Kabu wanted, and Kabu slapped a group of glacier ants to death.

Suddenly... Kabu noticed a lump of substance being squeezed out from behind the flattened glacier ant's rear end. It couldn't tell if it was feces or eggs, but to Kabu, that didn't matter. As long as it was produced by an ant, that was enough. It would let Lin Mo taste the saltiness later.

"Kabu, time to eat potatoes!" Lin Mo put some of the roasted potatoes into his space, leaving 10 for Kabu, while he ate roasted meat rice with honey water.

"Kaki! (Here I am!)" Kabu hopped over, looking very happy.

Just then, a system notification sounded.

The "Perfect Wind and Thunder Wings" have been completed.

Lin Mo put down the rice, his gaze fixed on Kabu, and silently chanted in his mind, "Equipment!"

The next moment, a high-energy metal rock background music suddenly rang out in the sky.

Is the sound system on? Oh no, is Kabu really going to take off?

Accompanied by energetic rock music, a very magnetic male voice rang out, sounding exactly like a telemarketer's announcer: "Left thunder! Right hurricane! A dashing figure cuts through the sky, who wouldn't be stunned?"

Kabu: "Kaji-gu! (Wow! I have my own background music now!)"