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Those little creatures are not large in size, and their flight posture is somewhat stiff, but they are fast and their numbers are steadily increasing.

Lin Yuwei stared at it for a while, a hint of shock appearing on her face.

"It will also automatically generate flying monsters?"

She instinctively took half a step back, then stopped.

On second thought, this seems to be Su Mu's cable car.

That guy had all sorts of rare and precious treasures on him. The cable car contained Blood Ginseng, Melting Heart Grass, and the Cloud-Piercing Vine that almost exhausted the Ghost General. He had also just unleashed a guild weapon.

It's not surprising that there's another building that can produce flying monsters.

She was lost in thought when she suddenly felt a very faint spatial fluctuation behind her.

Su Mu is back.

Lin Yuwei turned around and saw him standing in the center of the cable car, still surrounded by the residual light traces from when he exited the guild challenge space.

He flexed his wrists, looked up and saw her standing by the window, so he asked, "What's wrong? What are you looking at?"

Lin Yuwei snapped out of her reverie and pointed out the window: "There are monsters attacking the cable car down there."

Su Mu walked to her side and glanced outside.

Just then, another dark red light flew out of the fog and hit the lower part of the cable car wall, making a barely audible sound.

The thing didn't bounce off after it hit the target; instead, it stuck together like a puddle of liquid for a moment before dissipating into a wisp of very faint red mist.

"This attack is interesting," Su Mu said.

He brought up the cable car control panel, first checking the durability, which indeed hadn't decreased. Then he checked the auto-attack status and found it hadn't been triggered.

"It wasn't a direct attack by a monster," Su Mu concluded.

Lin Yuwei looked at him.

"This is a projectile," Su Mu pointed out the window in a certain direction. "It was thrown from a distance. The automatic attack wasn't activated, which means the opponent's attack range is at least over 100 meters."

"So what do we do now?"

Su Mu leaned against the window, watching the occasional red lights outside, and remained silent for a moment.

It is indeed a bit troublesome.

The cable car is now like a lamp floating in the fog. Those things are hiding in the distance and throwing things at us. He can neither see them nor hit them that far.

Frowning.

Unintentionally

He glanced at the wooden portal in the corner, the otherworldly portal through which he had locked himself.

Through the crack in the door, several gray-black bats were squeezing out, their wings fluttering in the narrow gap, making a soft rustling sound.

They were overflowing from the portal; they first circled around the cable car, and then flew downwards.

Su Mu's gaze lingered on the bats for a moment, and a thought popped into his mind.

Instead of looking out the window, he closed his eyes and focused his consciousness on the faint connection he had with the bats.

The scene shifted abruptly. Darkness, cold, and the smell of sand.

Bats have extremely limited vision; when flying low, they can only see blurry outlines and the undulations of sand dunes. But as their altitude rapidly decreases, thick fog swirls around them, enveloping everything in a chaotic mess.

It passed through the thickest layer of fog, and its vision suddenly became clear.

Sandy ground. Grayish-yellow gravel and cracked clods of earth swept swiftly low overhead, with clumps of withered grass occasionally visible through the cracks. A bat's wings skimmed along a sand ridge, then it veered and disappeared into a depression between two dunes.

Then Su Mu saw them.

The grayish-brown figures crouched in the sandpit, each one roughly the same size, short and stocky with short limbs, like flattened toads. Their skin was a dull, scaly texture, covered with fine, worn lines, as if it had been polished by wind and sand for too long, with dry, grayish-white edges.

The most striking feature was their heads. They no longer resembled the faces of normal living beings.

Above the flat skull, it looked as if another face was embedded, with crooked features and an unnatural upward grin at the corners of its mouth, like a smile that was forever frozen in place.

They were each holding something in their hands.

It was round, a little larger than a fist, and covered with a layer of dark green slime that gleamed damply in the dim night light.

The thing was shaped like a head, with indistinct features, but you could vaguely make out a smile.

The eye sockets were empty, with only mucus dripping down from the hollows, forming thin, long threads.

The monster crouched in the sandpit, lifted it high, and then hurled it into the sky.

A dark red arc streaked through the night fog, striking the outer wall of a cable car in the distance with a very soft thud.

The bats continued to descend.

The second one, the third one, the fourth one.

They were scattered in different sand pits, some digging new clumps of slime, others having finished their throws and retreating into the shadows to await the next round.

There was one every ten meters or so, like some kind of malignant tumor growing on the sand, densely packed. Within the range that bats could see when they flew low overhead, there were at least thirty crouching there, and further away, there were many more blurry outlines appearing and disappearing in the fog.

Su Mu couldn't make out how many there were in total, but from the bat's perspective, as it moved quickly, the same figures were almost everywhere it could see.

They were scattered every ten meters, every twenty meters, and in some places they even huddled together in groups of three or five. The entire sandy area seemed to be covered by them, like a layer of grayish-brown scales slowly wriggling.

A system notification pops up at the edge of the field of vision: [Crypt Skull Thrower (Lv7·White)......Monster/Low-level Throwing Unit. Short and stocky build, short limbs, rough scales, and slow movement.]

Attack method: Throws a "smiling skull" that has been tainted by the energy of the monster. Upon impact with the target, it releases a slightly corrosive monster mist that has a cumulative damage effect on low-level cable car armor.

Attributes: Low strength, average constitution, extremely low agility. Danger level: Not a significant threat individually; often appears in large groups.

The bat flew a little further, over a sand dune, and a more open area came into view.

The density there is even higher; in denser areas, you can even see dozens crouching, digging, and throwing things at the same time, like a turbulent gray-brown river.

Su Mu opened his eyes in the darkness. His gaze fell on the fog-shrouded sand outside the window, and he remained silent for a moment.

"There are a lot of them," he said. "A single level seven monster isn't much of a threat, but the density of them below is very high."

"But in this situation, there's no other way but to passively take the beating," Su Mu said, shaking his head.

Lin Yuwei was silent for a moment, then glanced at Su Mu and suddenly spoke up: "I have some information. When the cable car is attacked, the location of the attacker can be determined."

Su Mu turned his head to look at her.

"The cable car control panel," Lin Yuwei gestured towards the front cabin, "it automatically scans and marks the location of the attack source the instant it is attacked."