Those who reincarnate must die.

After resting for a while and finishing up, the heroes found the huge cave dug by the Rat Emperor Callest in the vicinity, according to the location on the map!

"Looks like even this rat king has been driven crazy by the previous reincarnators!" Zhao Ying chuckled. "It's gone so far as to crawl out of its burrow and take the initiative!"

The group descended into the cave, which was quite spacious, a circular space with a diameter of several tens of meters. In the center of the space was a large door that was seven or eight meters high and four or five meters wide!

This must be the gate to the second-level dungeon mentioned in the mission description!

The heroes walked to the gate, raised their hands, and gently pushed it open. (Google search reading)

"Huh? Wasn't it supposed to be either closed or open?" Olissis asked, somewhat puzzled. "Why did it just open already?"

"Maybe pushing it open is a choice!" Zhao Ying walked up and peered inside. He could clearly see that on the other side of the gate lay a vast desert. Beneath a cloudless blue sky, undulating sand dunes stretched out…

"This...is the underground city?" Olissis exclaimed in surprise, "It's even sunnier than outside!"

With that, he stepped directly over the gate and onto the soft sand!

The others followed, and when they saw this "underground city" that was even more spacious than the outdoors, they all showed expressions of surprise.

"I'll give it a try!" Murong Lan changed the Gauss sniper rifle to a homing bullet and then fired a shot into the sky!

boom!

In an instant, a cloud of light and mist exploded about two hundred meters in the sky!

"That's not the sky!" Murong Lan analyzed, "It should be a ceiling that magically simulates the sky..."

Since the sky is fake, this desert probably isn't that vast either; it's still a finite space!

However, the wind blowing, the sand underfoot, and the surrounding high temperature all felt incredibly real. Although there was no sun overhead, the dazzling sky was no different from that of a desert...

It seems this dungeon is far more complex than the reincarnators imagined...

Just as they were marveling at this, a sand dune suddenly bulged up, and a giant sandworm burst out of the sand, opening its mouth full of fangs, and pounced straight at the reincarnators!

"Rat-a-tat-tat..." Thunder raised his machine gun and sprayed bullets at the monster, tearing its skin open and splattering blood everywhere. The others also joined in the attack. Finally, before the giant worm could get close, they broke it in half at the waist. Its huge body fell down, covered in sand, and rolled in front of them.

"Worth fifty points!" Thunder, the killer, announced the score, seemingly possessing the ability to gauge his monster kill score: "On par with the giant centipede in the sewers!"

"Encountering monsters like this right off the bat, this level definitely seems more dangerous..." Mane Wolf sheathed his lightsaber, then suddenly his eyes lit up as he pointed to the spot where the sandworms had emerged: "What's that?"

As the group approached, they discovered that when the sandworm emerged from the sand, it had unearthed a mutilated corpse. The corpse resembled a large rat, but it was larger and stronger than the rat emperor on the previous level. Not only did it have stiff hairs covering its body, but it also had a row of thorns growing from its back. Its claws were longer and sharper, and sharp bone blades had grown from the elbows of its front paws and the ankles of its hind legs...

However, the large rat had some missing skin and flesh, which looked like it had been eaten by sandworms... but the most fatal injury was to its head!

To be precise, this thing didn't have a head at all; everything above the neck was gone. But the cut was jagged, not like it was cut off, nor like it was bitten off by sandworms. It was more like... someone stuffed a grenade in its mouth and blew its head off!

"This... he seems even stronger than the Rat Emperor, Karest!" Tuka swallowed hard, recalling the fear of being pierced through steel skin by the Rat Emperor: "Could it be that on this level, even the Rat Emperor's level was taken down so easily?"

"Impossible!" the maned wolf scoffed. "The Rat Emperor is far more powerful than that giant sandworm! The difference between the two levels can't be that great. If this dead giant rat was truly stronger than the Rat Emperor, it should be a monster close to boss level on this level... It couldn't have been killed by the sandworm!"

"How did they die?" Murong Lan frowned. "The body still looks very fresh!"

"Wait a minute..." Thunder's electronic voice suddenly rang out: "Do you think it's possible that what we killed wasn't the Rat Emperor, but this one?"

Everyone was stunned...

…………

Earl Hunter's Imperial Capital Villa.

Le Xinyi and Ye Peng were enjoying their dinner when they suddenly heard a servant outside the door greeting them, and then a tall figure walked into the dining room.

"Zhang Lang?" The two stood up in surprise. "You're back?"

Zhang Lang nodded, then turned to the butler and instructed, "Prepare dinner for me, enough for ten people!"

"Yes, sir!" The butler did not question Zhang Lang's good appetite at all and immediately ordered someone to prepare.

"If you're hungry, you can eat mine first!" Le Xinyi handed over her own steak. "I haven't touched it yet!"

"It's nothing!" Zhang Lang waved his hand and looked at the two of them. "Where's Su Mingda?"

"He's in the study!" Ye Peng leaned closer. "How's it going? Is the sewer dangerous? Did you see that Rat King, Carest?"

Zhang Lang pulled out two sharp bone swords from his bosom. They were over two feet long, sharp, and hard.

"What's this?" Yue Xinyi picked up a sword. "Why is this sword a little bent?"

"These are Carrester's front teeth!" Zhang Lang took the plate that had just been brought to the table from the butler, used his "divine weapon hand" to pick up a steak, stuffed it into his mouth, and swallowed it in one gulp.

"Ah?!" Le Xinyi was so startled that she dropped the front tooth on the ground.

"You've already killed the Rat Emperor?" Ye Peng wasn't afraid, picking up his front tooth. "But the bounty required a head, right? Do front teeth count?"

"I don't know, so I haven't reported it yet!" Zhang Lang said while eating, "I blew his head off, there was no trace of it..."

That's true. In order to gain the attribute, Zhang Lang ultimately used the Heavenly Punishment to kill the enemy, but he overlooked the bounty on the wanted head. Now, the only intact thing left are these two strongest front teeth.

Fortunately, Karest's strength was recognized by Tianzhu, and Zhang Lang finally got this attribute!

Karest's bounty of 1,000 gold coins can be seen as a kill reward of 1,000 points. If you convert that to a level 2 world, the same monster should be worth around 1,500 points.

This aligns somewhat with previous speculations. It's likely that the Heavenly Punishment system will be judged using a score system based on second or third-tier worlds, awarding attributes for scores exceeding one thousand. However, the exact score threshold for awarding two or even three attributes remains to be tested…

"So you chose to open the door?" Yue Xinyi asked. "Did you go down to the next floor? What was it like?"

"It's a desert!" Zhang Lang answered crisply. "It's much wider and bigger than the sewers on the first floor, and there are quite a few monsters there. The monster guarding the gate is a giant lizard!"

"You took care of it too?" Le Xinyi and Ye Peng asked in surprise.

"No!" Zhang Lang shook his head: "I haven't reported the news about the second floor yet, the bounty hasn't been released, and I don't know what kind of body parts the authorities will want as evidence, so I didn't kill it yet, and just killed some monsters randomly."

"By the way, do you guys have any spatial abilities, the kind that can hold more things?"

Zhang Lang frowned. Although this mission changed the kill reward to gold coins, indirectly removing the kill limit, the body parts needed to exchange for the reward could not be carried indefinitely. Each time he entered and exited, he could only bring up a limited number of body parts, which was too inefficient.

Otherwise, given his temper, he wouldn't have stopped until he wiped out all the monsters in the sewers! The reincarnators who went in later only found corpses everywhere.

Faced with Zhang Lang's question, Ye Peng and Le Xinyi both shook their heads. Spatial equipment is very precious even to heroes, and the two of them obviously didn't have that kind of luck.

"Alright..." Zhang Lang didn't have high hopes either. He ate another piece of steak, looked up, and asked, "So, did you two find anything on the ground?"

"About this..." The brother and sister exchanged a smile: "Perfect timing, you have a dance party later!"

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