Those who reincarnate must die.

Zhang Lang failed to kill the level's lord, Mechanical Heart, with Heavenly Punishment, but he was not disappointed, because after successfully killing it, Xu told him that the thing only had a kill score of one hundred points.

It seems this thing, like the Insect King in Sunset Fortress, is a monster with a low base score but is very difficult to approach. Although Radiant City offered a 3,000 gold coin bounty, that included the layers of mechanical guards protecting it. If the rules were reversed, calculating kill points based on half the mission weight, Zhang Lang would probably have already exceeded 3,000 points from the mechanical guards he killed along the way!

Regardless, having finally defeated the lord of this level, Zhang Lang walked to the teleportation portal and chose to continue.

The portal to the eighth floor slowly opened!

Zhang Lang stepped inside...

Dark, cold, dry...

What appeared before Zhang Lang was a tunnel about ten meters wide and six meters high. The tunnel was flanked by solid, one-piece walls made of a material that was neither gold nor stone, and was extremely hard. He tried to run his Divine Weapon Hand across the walls and was able to make shallow cuts, but when he tapped them, they did not produce a hollow sound. They must be very, very thick. It was not impossible to dig through the walls, but it would probably take a lot of effort.

Every ten meters or so, a torch is installed about three meters high on the walls on both sides, in the middle of the wall. The flames are not strong, but they provide illumination. However, the tunnel is still very dark, and the visibility is very limited. Moreover, the tunnel seems to have a certain curvature, so you can't see very far.

Zhang Lang tried to walk forward, and after about a hundred meters, he came to a fork in the road.

He tried to turn left, but before he had gone far, a strange noise suddenly came from the depths of darkness. Then a black shadow shot out like lightning, aiming straight for Zhang Lang's forehead!

brush!

The divine weapon shot out, instantly cleaving the attacker in two...

The body, torn in two, fell to the ground, spilling blue blood.

This was a very strange monster, somewhat resembling a shaved cat, but larger, with a more pointed head. A row of sharp, knife-like bone plates ran along its spine from the back of its head to the tip of its tail. It pounced with incredible speed, comparable to an arrow from a composite bow. If it had been anyone else, they wouldn't have reacted in time and would likely have had their neck sliced ​​off by its bone blades…

The little monster was quite sharp, but it was still far inferior to the one on the previous level, so it probably didn't have a bounty... Zhang Lang wasn't in a hurry and continued forward, randomly choosing a path when he encountered a fork in the road, killing various monsters along the way.

The monsters on this floor are all extremely bizarre in appearance, as if they stepped out of a horror movie. For example, there is a long snake with a beautiful woman's head but more than a dozen arms; there is a dancer who looks no different from an ordinary human, but whose face splits open in the middle and shoots out strong acid; and there is a bloody monster whose lower body is two long, beautiful legs over two meters long wearing high heels, but whose upper body is a giant meat grinder...

In short, judging from the visual effects alone, the monsters on this floor are more inhuman than the previous seven floors combined...

However, Zhang Lang was a seasoned veteran and used to this kind of scene, cutting his way through. After killing these monsters, their corpses weren't left behind; instead, they were quickly decomposed and absorbed by the moss growing on the ground and walls, leaving only round beads of varying sizes. Since there was nothing else to collect, Zhang Lang picked up these beads and kept them safe, perhaps to exchange for bounty materials when he returned.

He fought his way forward, turning left and right, until finally, at a four-way intersection, Zhang Lang hesitated...

Because this time, there aren't just two paths, left and right, but also up and down...

Indeed, at the intersection in front of Zhang Lang, there are stairs leading up and down respectively.

This damn maze has more than one level!

Zhang Lang didn't know how big this layer was, but based on the dimensions of the previous layer—hundreds of kilometers in length and width, and thousands of meters in thickness—this layer of the maze was six meters high, and if the walls were one meter thick, that would be seven meters. In other words, a maze spanning tens of thousands of square kilometers could be stacked more than 140 layers high!

In theory, this layer will only be larger than the layer above!

If the lord is hiding in a corner of this vast labyrinth, Zhang Lang would have to work for at least fifty days to find him, let alone five...

Thinking this through, he decisively turned back, and based on his memory, found the entrance and returned to the seventh floor...

After returning, Zhang Lang went all the way back to the signal tower, found Lei Ting, and told him about what he had seen on the next floor.

Unlike the fog on the sixth floor, the eighth floor is a complete maze.

Upon hearing this, Lei Ting pondered for a moment, then said, "I know someone who might be able to help!"

Zhang Lang's eyebrows twitched upon hearing this: "Who?"

"Olissis!" Thunder exclaimed an unexpected name. "He has an item that can perfectly solve the problem at hand!"

Zhang Lang narrowed his eyes: "Let's go find him now!"

"Wait..." Thunder hesitated for a moment, "My gun is gone, and..."

Zhang Lang immediately understood: "Let's go get your upgrade pack first!"

After saying that, the two left the signal tower and headed towards the stronghold. On the way, they killed a leader of the machine warriors and seized its rotary machine gun and rocket launcher.

This machine gun, while slightly less powerful per shot than Thunder's, boasts an extremely high rate of fire and readily available ammunition; it's also used by ordinary robots. The two had collected a considerable amount of ammunition on their way to the nuclear power plant in exchange for usable ammunition from the residents of the outpost; they had at least 30,000 to 50,000 in their storage space.

As for rocket launchers, there weren't that many rockets, but they weren't too rare either; we had kept more than twenty before... With these two weapons, we could make up for Thunder's lack of firepower.

The two then returned to their base and successfully obtained the upgrade components.

Although the nuclear power plant mission was fake, the two of them did complete it. In addition, Zhang Lang also killed the Mechanical Heart, so the residents of the stronghold had no reason not to deliver this upgrade component!

After acquiring the equipment, the two exchanged some bullets for a considerable amount of standard-caliber ammunition. As for the rockets, they saved them for when exploring the next level.

As for the problem of the exposed stronghold... now that the Mechanical Heart has been destroyed, the mechanical legions outside have become truly disorganized and undisciplined wandering monsters, only attacking any human they see according to their programming, and no longer specifically targeting this stronghold...

With everything ready, Thunder tore open a revolving scroll and instantly returned to the City of Radiance. He went to the exchange office to redeem the bounty and reported the situation on the eighth floor, urging them to issue a new bounty as soon as possible.

It's worth mentioning that it was afternoon, not the peak time for Reincarnators to exchange bounties, so there wasn't much of a queue at the exchange counter. Thunder quickly finished dealing with these trivial matters, then went to the other side of the plaza, found the Hero-level residence, and knocked on the window with his heavy mechanical arm...

Fortunately, these Heroic-level creatures were not hunting in the dungeon at the moment, so Thunder did not come up empty-handed.

"What a rare guest!"

Upon seeing his teammate, with whom he had only worked for a day, Zhao Ying leaned against the window frame, brandishing the throwing knife in his hand, and spoke in a sarcastic tone:

"Why don't you go serve your rich master? You only remembered us now? You've already cleared the seventh floor! That's amazing! You broke the record! Congratulations!"

The red light above Thunder's head was flashing. This was his first time undertaking a Heroic-level mission, and including the time spent introducing himself at the altar, he had only spent less than two days with these so-called teammates. There was no real connection to them. However, interpreting this act of defecting to someone else as betrayal wasn't entirely unfair, especially since he had defected to a sacrifice—a disgrace for a Heroic-level player…

Just as Lei Ting was about to retort, he suddenly heard a deep voice behind him!

"It wasn't him!"

Upon hearing this, Lei Ting immediately stepped aside, revealing Zhang Lang, who had just rushed back from behind.

"I'm here to ask for your help!"

Zhang Lang looked at Olissis behind Zhao Ying:

"May I borrow your lucky pencil?"

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