Chapter 189: Rapidly Increasing Dungeon Count!

Just now… did I see wrong?

Once again appearing in his rented apartment, Qin Chuan couldn't help rubbing his eyes.

He quickly opened his panel, but unfortunately the panel after leaving the dungeon does not display the Time Stop.

This instantly added a hint of regret to Qin Chuan's face.

At the moment of clicking 【Leave Dungeon】 and being teleported away, he faintly seemed to see that after using two seconds, his Time Stop had gone from 46 seconds to 47 seconds.

But he wasn't sure; it might have been his eyes playing tricks.

If it's true, this could be considered another piece of good news for him.

Before this, Qin Chuan knew that the only way to increase Time Stop was to gain one second each time he left the Dream World.

Now he can enter a dungeon once per day; if each exit from a dungeon also added one second, his accumulation speed of Time Stop could double.

As for whether this is true, we'll have to wait until he enters the Dream World this time and checks the Time Stop again to confirm.

Temporarily suppressing this exciting guess, Qin Chuan entered the dungeon list again.

Having used up his daily attempts, he intended to check how others' strategies were going.

Calculating the time, it had already been three hours since Blue Star's 2.3 update.

A moment later, his smile faintly stalled.

The situation, it seems not looking good.

At the top of the list of conquerable dungeons, Qin Chuan saw the collapsed status of conquered dungeons; with the passage of time, twenty-two dungeons have now been conquered.

Besides the B-rank dungeon he conquered, there is another B-rank dungeon conquered by Long Ji and his two companions, and the remaining twenty conquered dungeons are C-rank and D-rank.

178 dungeons, conquering this many in three hours should be a good thing, but Qin Chuan discovered that the total of conquerable dungeons and those currently being challenged still amounted to 182.

This means that during his conquest of the Milian Evil Demon Forest, the number of dungeons increased by 26.

Judging by the remaining attack time of the dungeons, it seems that dungeons increase once per hour.

This speed is somewhat frightening.

Qin Chuan casually opened the Dream World forum and checked the discussions there.

At this moment, the forum is almost entirely about dungeon discussions, and he quickly obtained the information he wanted.

"The first hour increased by 3, the second hour by 7, the third hour by 16?!" Qin Chuan's expression instantly turned grave.

Uniform growth and increasing growth are different concepts.

If the dungeons continue to grow this way each hour, with the increment amount growing each time, the difficulty of clearing all dungeons within 72 hours would increase dramatically.

By then, Blue Star will welcome the descent of dungeon creatures.

"Ding-ling-ling—"

The phone rang; as Qin Chuan answered, he belatedly noticed that there were several missed calls on his phone.

Those several calls were all from Chang Jinze.

"Finally got through."

Chang Jinze's voice came from the other end of the line, making Qin Chuan inexplicably feel a bit guilty.

After all, he had refused the other's invitation, using the excuse of wanting to pick an 'easier dungeon' to brush them off; now the whole world sees that he conquered the Milian Evil Demon Forest.

However, Chang Jinze's following words made Qin Chuan have no time to think about that.

"Among the 22 conquered dungeons, 8 were cleared by Special Affairs Group personnel, and another 47 dungeons ended in failed attempts but still yielded some clues."

"We'll hold an online meeting later to discuss the dungeon-related situation, mainly concerning the so-called high-dimensional unknown beings revealed by the dungeons."

"Do you want to join?"

In his mind flashed the Moon Spirit Clan and the true culprit Half Demon Clan that surfaced from the final words of the dungeon's boss; Qin Chuan nodded without hesitation, "Okay."

The dungeons appearing now are certainly not randomly generated.

They might originally be part of the world inhabited by powerful high-dimensional beings.

Besides conquering dungeons and obtaining corresponding rewards to strengthen oneself, restoring through the background information revealed in the dungeons as much as possible the enemies eyeing Blue Star is also of utmost importance.

Under Chang Jinze's guidance, Qin Chuan quickly found the encrypted meeting feature in the app he had previously downloaded, entered the meeting code given by the other party, and joined the meeting.

At this moment, many people were already participating in the online meeting room, chatting freely with their microphones about their dungeon experiences; however, as soon as Qin Chuan entered the meeting under the nickname 'Luo,' the entire room fell silent within a few seconds.

The eerie silence made Qin Chuan's mouth corner twitch slightly.

Come on, keep talking; I still want to listen.

Fortunately, not long after, a voice came through, easing the meeting room's awkward atmosphere.

"We can start the meeting now; those who haven't arrived won't be waited for."

That was a calm and steady voice; just hearing it gave Qin Chuan a sense that this person was very reliable.

Seeing the nickname flashing beneath the other's avatar, Qin Chuan's eyes flickered with a hint of realization.

Feng Yin, Second-Generation Insight.

Although I had heard of this person before, he mainly liaises with Chang Jinze, and this is the first time I've directly heard his voice.

"Let me first briefly introduce the background of the dungeon we conquered." Feng Yin spoke at an even pace, "We conquered the B-rank three-star dungeon: Liliweian Port; the main race in this dungeon is a kind called Dwarf Demon."

"They are very short, not exceeding 1.2 meters in height, their shape resembles humans, but they look more ferocious."

"Dwarf Demons seem to be a race skilled in construction and forging; in the dungeon scene we saw many creations, some of which are also very advanced from our perspective."

"In this dungeon…"

Feng Yin quickly finished his introduction; through it, the other participants gained a certain understanding of the Dwarf Demon race.

"Has anyone come into contact with this race in the dungeons?" Feng Yin asked his final question.

"The dungeons I've contacted are also related to Dwarf Demons." A voice quickly spoke up, "Although I and my colleagues didn't succeed in conquering it, during the process we discovered…"

He quickly stated the findings of several people, which matched many aspects of the traits Feng Yin mentioned.

"Anything else to add?" Feng Yin continued asking; soon two more people indicated they had also encountered the same race in the dungeons.

Afterwards, including Qin Chuan, the other participants also shared their respective findings.

But after all the participants finished sharing, the atmosphere in the meeting room became somewhat solemn.

Because, through comparing the instance information, everyone discovered many contradictions.

For example, in Qin Chuan's case, the Half Demon Clan used a plot to turn the Moon Spirit Clan's elder chief into a monster, and the two sides clearly have a grudge.

But in the case of another player who had contact with the Half Demon Clan, the Half Demon Clan and the Evil Ghost Clan have a great grudge, while they actually get along well with the Moon Spirit Clan.

There are still many similar situations.

This makes the instance's background seem especially fragmented.

(End of chapter)