My players are too fierce!

In the knowledge hub, the maintenance passageway was dimly lit by flickering incandescent lights, barely enough to make out the road beneath one's feet.

The floodgates were wide open, discharging wastewater from the canneries in the neighborhood into an unknown area.

The maintenance passage where Emma and her group were currently located was built around this huge drainage pipe. At the end of their field of vision, they could vaguely see a filter screen with some indescribable substance attached to it.

The entrance behind them was closed.

"It stinks..."

David frowned. He had rarely even seen a stinky ditch in real life, so he really couldn't handle this kind of intensity right away.

"Wear this," Emma said, handing David a homemade air filter. "The air here is toxic."

David Day was the last to come down, and at that time, Emma felt something was off about him.

Somewhat like Roland in the tavern...

But there were too many people who had surpassed that lazy couch, which gave Emma an inexplicable sense of fear.

Therefore, Emma had to be on guard, lest David be possessed by some strange thing when they couldn't see him.

David was so choked up that he almost cried, and he didn't even have time to care why his good brothers hadn't shared this good stuff with him right away.

Inhale—

Although it still has a sour smell, it's much better than the stench.

Damn it, I'm logging off, I really need to smell some perfume to calm myself down!

"Do you know how to find them?"

Hakimed asked Emma, ​​who was leading the group.

"I know, but I don't really know either."

Emma said.

"Our neighborhood mainly handles food processing, uh, you should understand what that means, right?"

Emma explained, but then seemed to realize that these savages were not from the city and might not understand some of the concepts.

For example, industry, such as food processing.

But judging from their appearance, they seemed to be doing much better than Emma had expected.

A strange superposition of barbarity and ignorance coexisting with broad knowledge?

"Therefore, all the maintenance access roads on this street, at least the ones that can be directly accessed from the ground, are built around this sewage pipe."

Emma pointed to the huge sewage pipe next to her.

"Once this block is closed, not only will the entrances to the maintenance access be blocked, but the maintenance access between different blocks will also be closed."

"If he doesn't want to stay on the surface and wait to be questioned by his mentor and others about why such a big mess happened, or simply be killed on the spot by the guardian golem, he won't survive on the surface."

"He could only survive if he were repairing the pipes."

Emma then cleared her throat and drew her final conclusion: "It's not just us who's eager to kill him; he's also eager to get rid of us."

"This maintenance pipeline system is our octagonal cage; we have no way out."

The swordsman suddenly understood.

"Oh, so our mission now is to kill all the enemies, right?"

"Yes."

"Hey, you should have said so earlier."

Gollum—

Ahead, a soft thud came from behind a pile of debris around a corner, instantly putting the group on high alert.

"Shall I go take a look?"

Toad lowered his voice and said that he had already somewhat accepted his role as a scout.

At least we don't have to fight on the front lines; if he can't survive, nobody can either.

Hakimed nodded emphatically.

The toad gripped the homemade knife tightly and carefully reached out.

The further we went, the stronger the stench became, and even our homemade masks couldn't block it anymore.

By the dim light of the corridor, the toad saw a dark, blurry thing extending from the sewage all the way to the shore.

goo-dong-

The toad swallowed hard.

It's not human, it's some kind of monster.

He didn't stick his head out directly because he had seen too many horror movie supporting characters who were courting death like that.

Their respawn point is gone, and now they have to clear the dungeon in one life, so they have to be careful.

He picked up a wrench-like tool from beside his feet and carefully passed it over the pile of clutter.

Swah——

A dark, tangled tentacle, covered in some kind of highly corrosive slime, tangled around the tool in the toad's hand.

Luckily he let go quickly, otherwise he would have been dragged over too.

The others behind her, seeing what was happening, all cast questioning glances at Emma.

"I never said this place was safe."

Emma's lips twitched. She had indeed forgotten to mention that, apart from the cannery's giant cauldron, the most dangerous place in their neighborhood was this maintenance driveway.

The maintenance access road is built around the sewer system.

Besides the fact that the main industry on this street is food processing, the sage who controls this place is also a biological sage.

She couldn't guarantee that the sage and his students had the good habit of sterilizing before discharging wastewater.

The toad picked up another tool and waved it from the side to test whether it would trigger the tentacle trap.

Good, safe.

The toad waved its hand, indicating that the area was safe.

David Day just didn't understand why Ah Wei next to him seemed so disappointed.

The group glanced at it as they passed by.

It was a lump of black flesh with a plant growing on it that looked remarkably like a giant Rafflesia flower.

That cluster of tentacles is very likely its flower stamen.

"Are our enemies not just the displaced people, but also the environment...?"

Hakimed squinted and spoke to his teammates.

The group continued forward, believing that if they spotted each other first, they would gain the upper hand in the battle.

stop!

The man at the front, Gale, gestured for the group to stop.

He vouched for himself with the honor of a veteran, saying he had just heard footsteps ahead.

Then came a series of extremely rapid tactical hand signals, instructing the team members to find cover.

But...why didn't I hear my teammates making any moves?

Kuangfeng suddenly turned around and found several pairs of clear eyes staring at him.

Damn it, he forgot that these people are just ordinary folks who wouldn't understand what he meant.

Kuangfeng, his face contorted with exasperation, gritted his teeth and whispered, "Take cover. There are people ahead."

Just as he expected, a group of ragged gangsters appeared at the corner ahead!

They generally had bluish-purple complexions and showed signs of suffocation.

None of them had a filter prepared.

Kuangfeng gripped his pistol tightly, making a mental assessment.

"Don't do it!"

Behind me came the voice of Hakimed.

He wasn't worried that his words would be overheard and reveal his location.

Since the person on the other end was almost unconscious, what good would it do to hear them?

"They're human radar; if we take action, we'll be exposed!"

After hearing this, everyone held their ground and let them pass through the ambush area.

puff-

Behind them, someone fell.

Soon, there was a second one.

The third one was a bit unlucky; he fell on that pile of flowers and died a horrible death.

They've almost reached each other's position!

However, before they could even catch their breath, they heard a fight and shouting coming from ahead.

"Is this your companion? He's almost turned into a cat, how pitiful!"