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A flurry of activity from all sides.

Inside the cable car, Su Mu sat cross-legged next to the planting platform, holding the blood ginseng that had been tormented several times.

Dark golden liquid seeped from the broken ends of the roots, dripping into a small cup in his palm. After taking a few sips, he confirmed through introspection that the angelic blood had completely fused into his bloodline. He could feel his body emanating a subtle aura... a blend of violence and holiness, like two ropes forcibly twisted together.

Then he suppressed that aura and returned to his usual calm state with little fluctuation.

"The two bloodlines have been fused."

He said something in a low voice.

He opened the panel and glanced at it; there were no new attribute entries or new skill prompts.

The merging did not bring about a leapfrog qualitative change, but rather pushed the bloodline to a critical point...

The entrance to the next stage has appeared, but he still needs an opportunity to cross it.

He weighed the Lotus of Creation in his hand, thought for a moment, and then put it back.

He felt that breaking through this threshold didn't require forcibly stimulating him with something like this, and it would be better to save it for when he reached a higher level.

He glanced down at the remaining angel blood... about three-tenths remained.

This thing is useless to him now.

He picked up the small bottle, twirled it in his hand, and then waved it at the blood ginseng.

"Here, take the rest."

The blood ginseng, which had been lying in the soil looking utterly dejected, suddenly perked up after hearing those words. Several roots sprouted from the soil and tentatively waved in the air. Su

The shepherd tilted the bottle, and a small drop of dark golden liquid fell onto the soil, only to be instantly swept away by the roots. The entire blood ginseng plant sprang out of the soil, lying there as if savoring the moment.

But it drank very restrainedly.

After drinking less than a tenth of it, the roots retracted, the whole plant burrowed back into the soil, and the leaves unfurled slightly, as if it had reached saturation.

Su Mu looked at its stuffed appearance, then glanced at the little bit left in the bottle, and then turned his gaze to the large bird's egg in the corner.

He dripped a few drops of the remaining blood from the bottle onto the surface of the eggshell.

The dark golden liquid seeped into the eggshell the moment it touched it, and something inside the eggshell stirred slightly.

A notification popped up on the panel: "Hatching progress: 1/3. Evolving."

Su Mu stared at the line of text for a moment, then a slight smile appeared on his lips.

This angel's blood can actually help it hatch earlier.

However, this thing also has its limits.

Once one-tenth of it is used, it cannot be absorbed anymore.

Su Mu carefully collected the last bit of liquid remaining in the bottle, then stood up and began packing his backpack.

Recovery potions, antidotes, hemostatic bandages, spare ammunition... one by one, they were packed in, and then the zipper was zipped up.

After doing all this, he didn't teleport immediately, but instead opened the chat channel to see if he could get any information.

After all, I've already wasted at least two hours here.

During this time, people in the channel started discussing the Ash City dungeon.

Some people went in, some were still hesitating, and some were asking what was going on inside... But none of those who went in first were willing to share the information they had obtained.

Su Mu looked around but didn't get any valuable information.

He wasn't surprised.

After surviving seven days, no one was as willing to hand over information to others for free as they had at the beginning.

But he noticed something else...

The chat channel on the 7586 cable next to it was still open.

He clicked in and glanced at the chat; the people there were also discussing Ash City.

"Ash City? What's that place? I've never heard of it before."

"It looks like a large city that was previously besieged by the monsters. The direction from which we saw movement in the distance in Oasis Village should be that place."

"The question is, why can the people from cable line 886 get in now, but our side shows we have to wait another day?"

"I just observed their chat, and it seems like they've been to that city before, so the instance was specifically opened for them."

"Doesn't that mean we didn't experience it, so we don't have it? That's so unfair!"

"No wonder some people over there were able to obtain resources for a level-five cable car. It turns out it's due to the accumulated wealth of a large city, not their strength."

"So what if it's a big city? It depends on who's exploring it. Give us the same opportunity, and we'll definitely find far more than they do."

"Exactly. Our American fighting strength and organizational capabilities are undeniable; they didn't even have a proper command structure, they survived purely by luck."

"Besides, that last challenge was a really humiliating loss. It was clearly a problem with the rules. If it were fair, would we have lost to them?"

"Forget it, we'll get into this dungeon eventually anyway. We'll see who's truly the one who gets the resources then."

"That's right. Let them be smug for a few days. Once we're in, our accumulation speed will be much faster than theirs. Then we'll see who has the last laugh."

Su Mu frowned slightly as he looked at the information.

From these fragments of information, he pieced together some details he hadn't noticed before...

Not all cable lines will pass through major cities like Ash City.

The cable he was on, or rather, the hundred cables that his cable was connected to, happened to pass over this city, which is why this city came into being, and this city experienced the strange tide, which is why this instance exists.

In other words, it was a random coincidence.

The probability of not encountering such a situation is probably the norm for cable lines that have never experienced a city of this size.

Indeed, in a crisis of Ash City's magnitude, a normal cableway would basically be wiped out.

Most cables should only stop near small towns or medium-sized settlements, like the 7586 cable where the Americans are located. They only have twenty or thirty cables merged together, so they should have encountered a larger town.

This means that there is a great deal of randomness in this world.

Some people will never encounter a crisis of Ash City level in their entire lives, and naturally they will not have the corresponding dungeon and resource accumulation.

On the other hand, those who have truly experienced it will also achieve a growth rate far exceeding that of ordinary people.

Su Mu absorbed the message, then turned off the American's channel and started checking his unread private messages.

Lin Yuwei's message, sent half an hour ago, read: "Have you entered Ash City yet? Want to go together?" It was followed by: "I've already gone in, but you haven't replied for ages."

Su Mu replied, "I was dealing with some things just now. Can we do it together?"

The reply came quickly: "You're randomly assigned a spot once you're inside. I've tried. But if you come in too, you might get lucky and land in the same area. I'm already in the regular area."

Su Mu asked again, "What's the situation inside?"