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"Most of the buildings in the regular area remain unchanged, but the monster density is higher than before, with many of them having escaped from the other half of the area."

If you're lucky, you might find some injured monsters, making the fights a bit easier.

I haven't been to the eerie occupied area yet, but I've heard that the eerie creatures aren't very active during the day, mainly concentrating in dark areas. However, there are exceptions... some powerful eerie creatures can roam during the day, and encountering them is basically a death sentence. "Also, ordinary monsters in the regular area no longer attack people on their own initiative, and killing them doesn't give experience. Only those monsters with red characters in their names will attack you on their own initiative, and they seem to have been corrupted by eerie creatures."

Su Mu said he understood and thanked her for the message.

The other party responded with a "humph". Su Mu didn't understand what the "humph" meant, but he didn't ask.

Immediately afterward, Lin Xiaohe's message popped up: "Are you going to Ash City? Do you need me to bring anything?" Su Mu replied, "Take care of yourself first."

The other end replied with an "Oh," and then there was no further communication.

Su Mu turned off the communicator, took out the secret realm map he had obtained from Proxiu from his backpack, and unfolded it to take a look.

The problem is that the teleportation is random; he doesn't know where he will land.

He took a deep breath and pressed the confirmation button.

The light beneath my feet illuminated, and the scenery in my field of vision began to distort, collapse, and recombine.

After the feeling of weightlessness subsided, he found himself standing on the top of a tall building.

The surrounding area was shrouded in white mist, and although it was broad daylight, visibility was less than 100 meters.

He glanced down at the map... Red zone, the area occupied by the monsters.

Moreover, it is still quite a distance from the entrance to the secret realm.

Su Mu frowned slightly. His luck wasn't too good, but it wasn't so bad as to be unacceptable either.

He confirmed that there were no direct threats around him, and then began to plan his route... He would first move towards the entrance of the secret realm, and if he encountered any monsters that he could deal with along the way, he would accumulate kills.

Before he could take his first step, a new system notification came to his ears.

[Entering the City Secret Realm area. Guild messages are now open. As the guild leader, you can accept guild quests. Current quest: Kill a total of 100 monsters.]

Upon completion, the guild feature "Group Teleportation" will be unlocked... Guild members can now teleport together within this city instance.

Su Mu glanced at the number and accepted the task without hesitation.

Chen Jun's message popped up in the guild chat: "Brother Su, is there anything I can do to help in Ash City? I can handle the low-level monsters, but I really can't handle the monsters."

Su Mu replied, "You should focus on leveling up first; the strange creatures will come as they will."

Chen Jun replied with an "okay," and then fell silent.

Neither Lin Yuwei nor Lin Xiaohe spoke again.

Su Mu put away the communicator and began moving along the edge of the rooftop toward the street.

Visibility was very low in the thick fog, and the buildings on both sides of the street looked like old photos submerged in water, with blurred outlines and grayish colors.

He walked for nearly half an hour without encountering any strange objects or monsters.

Lin Yuwei's statement that "monster density is high in regular areas" doesn't seem to apply here...

What left Su Mu speechless was that he didn't encounter a single treasure chest along the way.

He could only dismantle some high-value electronic products and mechanical parts along the way, breaking them down into materials that could be sold in World Currency. Graphics cards, motherboards, motor parts... he collected these odds and ends into his backpack, which at least amounted to some income.

When Su Mu reached a crossroads, he suddenly stopped.

He heard no sound and saw nothing, but his body sensed something amiss even before he did...

The feeling of being watched was different from the oppressive feeling of being locked on by countless eyes in the Ghost Realm. It was more like a needle gently touching his skin at extremely close range.

I'm confused.

His parrying talent was triggered in that instant.

A very faint, sharp sound of something cutting through the air came from his side and behind.

He didn't turn around or dodge; the invisible shield had already expanded outside his body, as if he had anticipated the trajectory of the attack.

The attack struck the shield with a dull thud, like a wet cloth hitting a stone slab, and then dissipated.

Then came the second, third, and fourth waves... attacking simultaneously from all directions, without warning, at such speeds that their trajectories were impossible to detect.

But Su Mu stood still, and all the attacks were blocked by his blocking talent, as if they were hitting an invisible wall.

He vaguely discerned the attacker's location from the remaining traces... It wasn't fixed; it was moving at high speed, constantly changing direction in the fog, like an agile primate circling its prey.

Su Mu heard that laughter, sharp, fragmented, and intermittent, like pieces squeezed from the depths of his throat. It rang out after each attack, as if testing his reaction, or as if enjoying the sight of him being hit again and again without being able to fight back.

Su Mu was somewhat irritated by the laughter, so he reached out and summoned a spear from the void, sweeping it horizontally in the general direction from which the laughter came.

He originally just wanted to intimidate it, to let that thing know that it wasn't completely powerless to fight back.

But the instant he swung the spear, he noticed a faint glimmer of light as the spear tip swept through the air... golden, with an extremely faint pure white aura, like a thin halo wrapped around the spear.

When that layer of light touched a certain spot in the air, a sharp scream exploded out.

The laughter stopped abruptly, replaced by a hissing sound, as if it had been burned.

The mist briefly dissipated at that spot, revealing a blurry outline... the shape of a monkey, but its proportions were distorted, its limbs were excessively long, its head was flat, and where the eyes were, there were only two dark red indentations without eyeballs, but Su Mu could feel that those two indentations were looking at him.

Misty Monkey. Lv10, Blue Quality.

Its body was shrouded in a layer of dark gray mist, as if its skin itself was constantly evaporating something.

It was injured, with a smoking scorch mark on its belly, the edges of which showed signs of burning.

Without hesitation, Su Mu thrust his spear forward again. Once this thing's health bar is up, it's practically a monster.