Chapter 3487: Super Double

Inside the central nest room of the Rage Armor Zerg Nest, after Su Xiao knocked out Rage Armor, the entire Zerg nest fell into a state of having no leader. But the Zerg warriors didn't become chaotic. Losing the mental bondage of Zerg leader Rage Armor, their individual consciousness was stronger, and some Zerg warriors looked like they were about to run away.

This evolutionary method had advantages and disadvantages. The advantage was that the tribe was not easily exterminated and had independent evolutionary ability. The disadvantage was that after having thoughts, there would be emotions like fear and anger.

Inside the nest room, Su Xiao waited quietly for a moment. Through Xiang Bubu Wang outside, he learned that most of the Zerg warriors around the Zerg nest had fled. This was very normal. Even Zerg leader Rage Armor himself evolved from a lower-level Zerg step by step, and finally defeated the previous generation of Zerg leader to win this Zerg nest.

"Baja."

"Understand."

Without too much communication, Baja flew out of the nest room to find the life ore storage point in the Zerg nest.

Su Xiao took out a needle that could anesthetize a top-tier giant supernatural creature at Tier 8 and injected it into Rage Armor. Although Zerg leaders weren't famous for their strong physical bodies, Rage Armor was very valuable. To be safe, he could only spend some capital.

The empty needle was thrown aside, and Su Xiao checked the prompt that appeared just now. His prestige value had improved. Well, it could be considered an improvement. This thing, whether it was positive or negative, as long as the number was large, the ranking would be high.

Su Xiao checked the prestige leaderboard, and a series of lists appeared.

【The ranking has been refreshed, and the current ranking is as follows.】

First place: Kain (Death Paradise), 2,400 prestige points.

Second place: Undead Girl (Reincarnation Paradise), -1,760 prestige points.

Third place: Black Demon (Reincarnation Paradise), -1,685 prestige points.

Fourth place: Bai Ye (Reincarnation Paradise), -320 prestige points.

Fifth place: Priest (Sanctuary Paradise), 290 prestige points.

Sixth place: Lu Ge (Apocalypse Paradise), 34 prestige points.

Seventh place: Hao Mei (Apocalypse Paradise), 25 prestige points.

The leaderboard was much livelier than imagined. Kain in the first place, Su Xiao had heard of him. He was a magic tank from Death Paradise, and he had another identity: the leader of the large adventure group "Hall of Valor."

Kain's strength wasn't weak, belonging to the top-tier echelon of Tier 8. But in terms of his personal strength, obtaining 2,400 prestige points at this time was a bit fantastic. This only explained one thing: quite a few people from the Hall of Valor had entered this world this time.

Prestige value was very special. Sometimes this thing could be obtained by killing enemies, and sometimes it could be obtained by improving status, obtaining high prestige points.

The amount of Kain's prestige points at the current stage was highly likely that the members under his command concentrated the opportunities to obtain prestige points to their own boss.

This was very wise. Prestige points couldn't be exchanged for anything, only giving a reward to the top five every 2 days, and when this world ended, the final first-place holder could obtain a Tier 8 title.

This time, the Hall of Valor represented by Kain had a quite ambitious spirit to win the first place. Thinking about it, the killing ranking guard of the Painting World won by Water Brother in the last world made the Death Rangers, who had been the eternal second in Tier 8, stand up at once and say: 'See, Enzuo is from our Death Paradise.'

If Water Brother heard this, his mood definitely wouldn't be beautiful. The first place he took in the Tree-Born World was a more complicated situation.

I don't know how "Mirror Dad" Water Brother, who welcomed the "Mirror Dad," is doing now. I hope he is still safe.

Su Xiao didn't plan to give up the first place this time. The reward obtained every 2 days for the top five was naturally more generous the higher the ranking.

The situation now wasn't optimistic. Not only did Kain stay firmly in first place with the power of the entire adventure group, but the Undead Girl and Black Demon in second and third place were also hard to catch up with.

Seeing their prestige points now, if you didn't know, you would think this thing was easy to obtain. But looking down, looking at the sixth and seventh...

Su Xiao's gaze focused on the seventh place, and seeing the name Hao Mei, it was a feeling of wealth coming towards him.

Su Xiao's eyes showed contemplation. "Basic Passive: Spirit Toughness" and "Basic Passive: Awakening" were still waiting to be fed. He really needed soul coins.

Normal contractors, after seeing the names of the top five on this leaderboard, would have a great psychological shadow area. If the Tree-Born World was a chaotic battle of gods, then this world was a carnival of top-tier monsters. Normal contractors, let alone participating in it, just seeing the names on the leaderboard would make their mood not beautiful.

Su Xiao closed the leaderboard. Prestige points weren't urgent for the time being. Once the base camp mother nest developed, even if Kain's side was an adventure group, Su Xiao had the confidence to suppress the other party.

For nearly an hour, Baja finished counting the assets of the Rage Armor Zerg Nest. There were a total of 3,150 units of active ore in the Zerg nest. This Zerg leader wasn't as rich as imagined, which made Su Xiao feel worried. This Rage Armor, wouldn't it be paying protection fees to even higher up?

With the Rage Armor Zerg Nest as the center, this large area around was all the territory of Zerg Mother Empress Kara. If Rage Armor really paid protection fees, it could only be paid to Zerg Mother Empress Kara.

Caring about these now was useless. The Zerg nest had already been occupied. If Zerg Mother Empress Kara really wanted to come and exert pressure, then fight with the other party. Zerg Mother Empress Kara's side was also not easy, fighting fiercely with the Third Fleet, and shouldn't have the energy to manage Rage Armor's side.

Su Xiao walked towards the outside of the Zerg nest. Baja, who was carrying Rage Armor, followed behind. Just after exiting the Zerg nest, Su Xiao saw worker-type Zerg crawling on the ground around. They were all mining. After losing Rage Armor's mental network, they entered a "standby state." These worker-type Zerg, unlike combat Zerg, had no individual consciousness.

These worker-type Zerg totaled nearly 100,000. Compared to the life ore obtained, this was a larger asset.

The 9,000-plus Demon Beasts responsible for the pursuit before had achieved good results. At this time, these Demon Zerg had already arrived with 30 Spore Tanks.

Su Xiao left 1,000 Demon Beasts in the Rage Armor Zerg Nest, took the remaining Demon Beasts, Spore Tanks, and let Zhila remotely guide nearly 100,000 worker-type Zerg, and rushed to their own mother nest.

Su Xiao didn't plan to occupy the Rage Armor Zerg Nest for the time being. Although there was a large mineral vein here, waiting for their base camp mother nest to empty the small mineral vein, and then migrating to this place, was the best choice.

The journey was very smooth. Xiang Bubu Wang had been watching the "Kara Zerg Nest" in the west. That side didn't make any reaction to the Rage Armor Zerg Nest being wiped out, as if the Rage Armor Zerg Nest had nothing to do with it.

When the base camp mother nest appeared in his sight, Su Xiao felt relieved in his heart. Although this battle was risky, it could directly pass the fragile early stage.

Worker-type Zerg were decomposed and absorbed by the creep, and the biological energy stored in the base camp mother nest soared rapidly, finally reaching 94,850/85,000. Zhila could promote to "Mother Empress."

After a little consideration, Su Xiao decided not to do this first. During the period when Zhila promoted to "Mother Empress," the mother nest would enter a growth state. At that time, the mother nest couldn't produce troops. With the 12,053 Demon Beasts developed now, they couldn't block strong enemies for long.

Moreover, this was the territory of Zerg Mother Empress Kara. When two "Mother Empress" levels appeared in an area, the mental coverage area of both would definitely have a certain degree of overlap, thereby leading to sensing each other.

Zerg Mother Empress Kara was famous for being cruel. If Zhila promoted to Mother Empress and was sensed by the other party, driving her away would be polite. It was highly likely that she would directly kill her.

Zhila was now a Zerg queen and wouldn't attract the attention of Zerg Mother Empress Kara. Su Xiao decided not to let Zhila promote for the time being. Accumulating some foundation first and then promoting to Mother Empress was the best choice.

Su Xiao's idea was to convert all the life ore, plus the existing biological energy, totaling 126,350 points of biological energy. 126,350 points of biological energy could cultivate 252,700 Elite Worker Scorpions, plus the existing 20,000, which was 272,700 Worker Scorpions.

When the number of Worker Scorpions exceeded 50,000, they could trigger the War Lord's "Full Ability Level Improvement Lv. 12" bonus, thereby greatly improving mining ability.

The original mining efficiency of Worker Scorpions was 0.03 units of life ore per Worker Scorpion per day. After triggering the "Full Ability Level Improvement Lv. 12" bonus, even if this efficiency didn't double, it could at least be improved to 0.04~0.05 units per day.

Moreover, after using Rage Armor as a plug-in, the worker-type Zerg genes obtained could further improve the Worker Scorpions' mining ability.

Conservatively estimated, at that time, each Worker Scorpion could mine 0.05 units of life ore per day. With 272,700 Worker Scorpions, they would mine 13,635 units of active ore per day.

This was only theoretical data. Real mining would have deviations from this, but what Su Xiao prepared to do wasn't normal mining, but swallowing mines.

Conventional mining was to hit mine tunnels first, and then dig bit by bit. Su Xiao prepared to let the Worker Scorpions dig hundreds of mine tunnels, surround the mineral vein, and then carry out 360-degree no-dead-angle invasion from the top, bottom, front, back, left, and right of the mineral vein.

If the Apocalypse miners saw Su Xiao doing this, they would definitely clench their fists in anger and scold him for wasting resources in their hearts.

That's right, the mining efficiency of doing this was fast, but the loss was high. Su Xiao didn't care about this. From the moment he entered this world, he felt uneasy in his heart.

From the very beginning, he had a feeling that the Empire's orbital cannons and space warships weren't as terrifying as imagined. It seemed that something more terrifying was palpitating, waking up.

Su Xiao communicated mentally with Zhila, and Zhila began to control the mother nest to cultivate Worker Scorpions. Cultivating Worker Scorpions was much simpler than cultivating Demon Beasts. One batch could cultivate 5,700, and it only took about 2 minutes to complete a batch.

Worker Scorpions ran out of the mother nest one by one. They began to dig on the creep, carrying out the most violent and direct mining.

In less than two hours, 252,700 Mantis-Carapaces were cultivated. In terms of troop production, Zhila had never been afraid of anyone.

Half an hour after officially starting mining, the base camp mother nest tilted slightly. Below, they dug too fiercely, and the base camp mother nest almost collapsed into the ground.

Zhila was really startled. She wasn't afraid of ghosts, wasn't afraid of the sea, wasn't afraid of perception types, she was afraid of heights. Once the height of looking down exceeded 30 meters, Zhila would be as soft as noodles.

Regarding this, Su Xiao didn't deliberately correct it. No one would be perfect. Whether Zhila's eternal homebody personality was afraid of heights had no effect.

Zhila controlled the mother nest to shrink, moved to 700 meters away, and the mother nest settled again.

Night slipped away quietly. At 6 o'clock in the morning, their Worker Scorpions had developed to 340,000. Not developing combat units like this, only developing worker-type units was risky, but it was also the fastest development method.

340,000 Worker Scorpions mining a small life mineral vein caused a situation of quantity overflow. This scene lasted until 12 noon that day, and mining stopped. The reason was that this mineral vein had been emptied.

Facing this situation, Su Xiao chose to move. This mining, excluding the consumption of cultivating Worker Scorpions, obtained a total of 4,310 units of life ore.

This was just a starting point. With the number of their Worker Scorpions, the theoretical mining data was that they could mine 17,000 units of active ore per day, which was 170,000 points of biological energy per day.

This kind of foundation was enough. After the base camp mother nest stopped at the large mineral vein, they could consider letting Zhila promote to "Mother Empress."

Even if Zerg Mother Empress Kara attacked, they would have the ability to go to war with her. Zhixing Zerg had always been stronger the more they fought.

The base camp mother nest completed the gathering, and after being wrapped by the super-giant Spore Tank, the main force set off.

Su Xiao stood on the super-giant Spore Tank. Looking around, everywhere he looked were Worker Scorpions. What was the concept of 340,000 Worker Scorpions? Even standing on a high place, he couldn't see the edge. Everywhere he looked were the dark red carapaces of Worker Scorpions and the cylindrical long tails.

Su Xiao pressed the wireless headset in his ear. This was Xiang Bubu Wang hacking into the secret channel of the Third Fleet. This channel didn't involve secrets in the war zone, but the communication information was also very valuable. The problem of voice encryption had been solved. It was just that the translated electronic sound was very dull, and sometimes there would be grammatical errors. For example, "two monkeys" might be translated as Monkey No. 2, a typical artificial idiot.

Listening for a while, there was nothing important. Suddenly, a piece of news caught Su Xiao's attention. The inspection troops of the Third Fleet sent a message to the Empire's mother planet that General Sander of the Third Fleet had compromised and agreed to let the remaining fleets enter Pandora Star one after another.

This was big news. Once other fleets entered, the Empire faction would show an overwhelming advantage, causing the Zerg here to only be able to huddle together, unlike now where they only formed a loose alliance.

Hiss hiss~

Signal interference sounds came, and the eavesdropping was cut off. Thinking about it, the technicians of the Third Fleet had almost been hacked bald by Xiang Bubu Wang recently. These few intrusions didn't cause much damage, but the insult was quite strong.

Last night, Su Xiao let Xiang Bubu Wang watch Zerg Mother Empress Kara's side. Up to now, the Kara tribe hadn't made any moves.

After their main force crossed a dense forest, they arrived near an oxbow lake. The smell of water grass drifted over. This was the original location of the Rage Armor Zerg Nest.

The Rage Armor Zerg Nest had long been razed to the ground. Their mother nest gradually unfolded. It didn't sit on the large life mineral vein, but sat on the side. With their violent mining method, it was better for the base camp to be far away from the mineral vein.

The mother nest soon completed settling. Zhila stood at the entrance, looking at the oxbow lake diagonally opposite, breathing the air by the water. She moved to a new home. Even if she was a homebody, she would stand at the door and look, but it was limited to this. If she left the valley where the base camp was located, that would be at the level of an international trip for Zhila.

Worker Scorpions continued to mine. This large mineral vein wasn't so easy to empty, enough to harm for a period of time.

The whole afternoon, Su Xiao was ready to fight the enemy at any time. But Zerg Mother Empress Kara didn't come, the Empire's reconnaissance air force didn't come, and the Company faction, which was most willing to meddle, didn't come either. It seemed that this large life mineral vein had lost its past attraction.

The warm breeze blew past. Su Xiao, wearing a long leather coat, looked at the sunset at the edge of the sky. The early development was too smooth. Except for Rage Armor, no one attacked. Or rather, Rage Armor only attacked because his younger brother was wiped out.

It was interesting to say that before, Zerg Queen Spider-Girl had always been in a state of looking down on life and death, ignoring everyone. But after Rage Armor became her cellmate, Spider-Girl's mentality had undergone a huge change. Her attitude was that she extremely distrusted Su Xiao, but was willing to report on Zhila, this thigh from the Zhixing Zerg Star.

Mining for an afternoon, the biological energy storage of the mother nest reached 85,598/85,000, representing that Zhila could promote to "Mother Empress" at any time.

After accumulating 340,000 Worker Scorpions, this foundation was enough. Su Xiao walked into the mother nest and arrived at the central nest room where Zhila was. This was the safest place in the mother nest.

Zhila was lying on a bed composed of biological tissue, kicking her calves, barefoot, with her chin on a pillow, holding a handheld game console in her hand. Looking at that appearance, it seemed as if she would bite the handheld game console at any time. She was playing a fighting game with Xiang Bubu Wang. Xiang Bubu Wang finally found a vegetable that played games worse than himself, and he was definitely beating him to death.

"It's time."

Su Xiao spoke.

"Ah?"

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. Zhila on the bed was a bit panicked. Seeing this, Baja teased from the side: "You were beaten stupid by Xiang Bubu."

"Life energy is full, is it right now?"

Zhila sat up straight.

"Right, start."

Su Xiao took out a can of Origin Demon Power. The concentration of Demon Power in this can was so high that it appeared in a black liquid state.

Seeing this can, Zhila's little face gradually put on a pain mask. She wanted to say something, but after noticing Su Xiao's gaze, she hurriedly took the can, drank the Demon Power inside gulp by gulp, and tilted her head. She was mainly concerned about the difficulty of drinking. The taste of this thing was hard to describe.

After drinking the Demon Power, Zhila stood up. Her body leaned back, and a large number of tentacles spread out from the wall behind, shrouding her inside.

The entire mother nest was closed. 12,053 Demon Beasts guarded the surroundings. Xiang Bubu Wang, who had just returned, squatted on the top of the wooden shed, sensing the wind and grass around at any time, while Amu was located on the top of the mother nest.

Inside the mother nest, Su Xiao sat on the crystal chair. Behind him was Zhila, who was wrapped in mother nest tissue and in the process of transformation. She was in his perception circle. If an assassin approached, she would be beheaded in the next instant.

Zhila had swallowed 【Abyss Stone】 before, and just drank a lot of Origin Demon Power. This promotion belonged to the water flowing into the canal. As long as she wasn't assassinated, there wouldn't be any waves.

After reaching "Mother Empress," promoting to "Dominator" was the difficulty. At the current stage, there was no "Dominator" level Zerg in this world.

Su Xiao took out a piece of oak. This was 【Sacred Oak】, which he obtained in the Tree-Born World. It had a total of 10 points of durability, minus 1 point for one use, and 9 points left. Moreover, the durability of this equipment couldn't be repaired.

"Sacred Oak: At the cost of sacrificing 5 points of your own body attributes, obtain 1 Golden Skill Point..."

Su Xiao activated the 【Sacred Oak】 in his hand at the cost of sacrificing his charm attribute. After half a day, he didn't feel anything. This 【Sacred Oak】 wasn't very good. He had used it twice, and his charm attribute was still -12 points, not dropping at all.

【You obtained 1 Golden Skill Point.】

Time passed second by second. Night fell. When the stars were all over the sky and the time reached 12 o'clock at night, the base camp mother nest changed.

Gudu du~

Like the sound of boiling water, the volume of the entire mother nest began to grow larger. The height gradually broke through 100 meters from 80-plus meters, and finally stopped at about 110 meters. The area occupied was twice as large as before.

The dark purple armor layer on the surface of the mother nest transformed into black-purple, and the thickness increased from 50 centimeters to nearly 1.2 meters, and the defense power soared. 【3487-1

【Notification: Your permanent summon, Zhila, has been promoted to Zerg Mother Empress.】

【Because Zhila has been promoted to Zerg Mother Empress, the Hive she established has evolved to the eighth tier.】

【The Hive has awakened a new genetic fragment: Elite Demon Beast (all-around enhancement compared to existing Demon Beasts).】

【The Hive has awakened a new genetic fragment: Jellyfish (a detection and early-warning Zerg unit).】

【The Hive has awakened a new genetic fragment: Research Lab (a "Fusion Host Insect" will be cultivated within the lab. The "Fusion Host Insect" will use the existing gene bank to perform gene fusion, thereby creating new Zerg buildings. During this research, biological energy will be continuously consumed).】

【Notification: The "Fusion Host Insect" is extremely fragile; it will die within a short time after leaving the sealed Research Lab. Furthermore, the Research Lab must be protected from attacks. Once this Zerg building is attacked, the activated solution filling its interior will leak, causing the "Fusion Host Insect" within the solution to die.】

【The Hive currently has the following Zerg building gene groups.】

1. Sensor Tower (Eighth Tier): A perception-type Zerg building.

2. Killing Sentry Tower (Eighth Tier): A position-attack-type Zerg building.

3. Lurker (Eighth Tier): Capable of spatial interference, silence, etc., with a range of 30 kilometers.

4. Thorn Star Spiral Tower (Eighth Tier): This Zerg's representative building; it can increase the defense and self-healing speed of the base, the Hive, providing an additional 120,000 health points and 196 points of external defense to the Hive.

5. Biological Reaction Stack (Eighth Tier): Can rapidly recharge all defensive/offensive Zerg buildings (e. g., rapidly recharging Killing Spires).

6. Activated Fungal Net (Eighth Tier): Significantly increases creep strength and biological energy conversion speed.

……

With the Hive promoted to the eighth tier, the only combat unit improved is the Demon Beast. How the combat power of the Elite Demon Beast fares remains to be seen in actual combat. The cultivation cost for each Elite Demon Beast is 50 points of biological energy.

Compared to Zerg troops, the improvements in Zerg buildings are more obvious. Zerg buildings that could not be built before can now be constructed. Without a doubt, the highest priority must be the "Sensor Tower" and the "Research Lab." The former has an ultra-high perception tier, while the latter is the hope for developing plasma weapons.

The "Research Lab" does not need to be managed or controlled—in fact, it cannot be controlled. This Zerg building must be placed inside the Hive. It is a sealed structure as a whole, and the "Fusion Host Insect" inside will collect all existing knowledge and genes to pioneer new Zerg buildings.

After completing the promotion, Zhila lay on the bed made of biological tissue and fell asleep, exhausted to the extreme.

Su Xiao checked the Hive's data and learned that the Hive was still in metamorphosis. To get the most accurate data, he would have to wait one hour.

After exiting the Hive, Su Xiao saw the newly expanded creep. The area of the creep was much larger than before, reaching a diameter of 3 kilometers.

Do not think this is large; all of his Zerg buildings must be built on the creep, otherwise, they cannot receive biological energy supply from the Hive, and it wouldn't be long before those Zerg buildings withered away.

Su Xiao used a mental command to summon hundreds of Worker Scorpions. These Worker Scorpions stopped quietly around him, waiting for orders.

Once the biological energy accumulated to 15,000 points, Su Xiao built the most practical and cheapest Zerg building: the Sensor Tower.

As biological energy was slowly consumed, a Worker Scorpion took a base bud from the Hive. After choosing a suitable location, it placed the base bud. Afterward, they absorbed biological energy into their bodies. Before long, they spat out a kind of gray-green living tissue from their mouths, using this as the main body to build the Sensor Tower.

The tens-of-meters-high Sensor Tower was built by the Worker Scorpions in about half an hour. A fluorescent green light lit up on the creep beneath the Sensor Tower, and under the conduction of biological energy, the top of the Sensor Tower lit up.

Boom—

A wave swept across. Su Xiao activated the Hunter's pursuit authority. What he wanted was a map template. A map appeared before his eyes; most locations on this map were black, and only the places Bennie had explored had simple markings.

As the Sensor Tower's pulse swept through, a large area on the map before Su Xiao's eyes suddenly lit up. With the Hive as the center, the map for a hundred kilometers around all "lit up."

Su Xiao came to the bottom of the Sensor Tower, pressed one hand on it, and attempted a mental connection. The next second, he felt his perception range suddenly increase to an exaggerated degree; this was the perception sharing of the Sensor Tower.

Most of the scenery within a hundred kilometers was in full view, but at the very edge on the west side, there was an area that could not be peered into. That was part of the territory directly under the Zerg Mother Empress, Kara. However, the other party could not detect the range covered by his Sensor Tower either.

Su Xiao could be certain that the Zerg Mother Empress, Kara, had already sensed Zhila's promotion to the Mother Empress level, yet there was still no movement from that side. This was different from the cruel empress in the rumors.

Just as Su Xiao was about to disconnect from the Sensor Tower, he perceived two auras more than ten kilometers away. He had seen both of these people: one was the Priest, and the other was the Undead Girl.

Not to mention why these two were acting together, at this moment, their direction of travel was clearly toward his Hive.

Su Xiao frowned. He had traded with the Undead Girl several times before and they were friends who didn't have very close dealings. However, after entering a world, whether one was an enemy or a friend sometimes really depended on one's stance. Perhaps they were fighting to the death in the previous world, but in the next world, they would cooperate with each other.

Su Xiao had all the Demon Beasts hide. His Hive had just been promoted to the eighth tier and had not yet formed a formidable combat force. Hiding his strength now would make those two even more wary.

Just as Su Xiao judged, the Undead Girl and the Priest were indeed heading toward his Hive. Before long, the two stopped a hundred meters in front of the Hive.

The Undead Girl wore an oversized soft-cloth witch hat nearly 1.2 meters in diameter and a light black robe dress that was slightly slim-fitting, with long cuffs that almost covered her fingers.

"We meet in the original world."

The Undead Girl spoke. Her gaze was clear, without hostility.

"Bai Ye, when treating guests, won't you invite us in to sit?"

The Priest's face still held a kind smile, but this old thing went for the kill as soon as he arrived.

"……"

Su Xiao turned and walked into the Hive, giving Zhila a mental command to hide in the very core of the Hive.

Su Xiao brought the Undead Girl and the Priest into a brood chamber. Under his control, a window temporarily appeared. A transparent biological membrane replaced glass, and the sunlight shining in made the chamber bright.

The three of them sat down. After the Priest and the Undead Girl exchanged a glance, the Priest was about to speak, but was interrupted by the Undead Girl. She said:

"I have traded with Bai Ye several times. In my understanding, Bai Ye is much more trustworthy than you, so I will speak plainly."

"Of course, that is your freedom."

After the Priest finished speaking, he smiled and listened on the sidelines.

"It's like this, Bai Ye, have you... seen this thing?"

The Undead Girl took out a withered heart. This heart was black and had withered until it was only the size of an egg, covered in dense, tiny holes. Just looking at it gave one an ominous feeling.

Seeing this thing, Su Xiao's gaze became solemn. He hadn't just seen this thing; he also had one.

Where did this object come from? The answer is that after using 【Beginning of Nightmare】, one will obtain one of these "Withered Hearts." Su Xiao had used 【Beginning of Nightmare】 to enter this world; he had exchanged for it in the Honor Shop by consuming 1 Diamond Honor Medal.

Some items in the Honor Shop are not unique, such as 【Beginning of Nightmare】. This thing is a double-edged sword; it's not that one would dare to use it just because they obtained it. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a giveaway price of 1 Diamond Honor Medal. The selling price represents that although this thing is rare, it is not as precious as imagined.

One might ask, what is the greatest risk of using 【Beginning of Nightmare】? Awakening the dangers hidden within the world, causing the world to reach Nightmare difficulty? No, the most dangerous thing is encountering someone else who also used 【Beginning of Nightmare】.

At this moment, the Undead Girl taking out the "Withered Heart" meant that she also used 【Beginning of Nightmare】 to enter this world.

The Priest had mentioned before that after using 【Beginning of Nightmare】, one would be called a disaster star. Why is that? Because after someone uses 【Beginning of Nightmare】, they will awaken the dangers hidden deep within the world they enter, thereby causing the world's difficulty to super-double.

"……"

Su Xiao didn't speak. Things had reached this point, there was no need to hide it. He also took out a "Withered Heart."

Seeing the "Withered Heart" in Su Xiao's hand, the Undead Girl sitting diagonally opposite him supported her forehead with one hand. Her head was buzzing.

If it could be said that Su Xiao super-doubled the difficulty of this world, then the Undead Girl, who also used 【Beginning of Nightmare】, provided a strong assist, super-doubling it again on top of the super-doubling. What is certain is that once the dangers of this world erupt, it will definitely not be as simple as Nightmare difficulty.

Su Xiao had been puzzled before why this world was so peaceful in the beginning, yet he had always felt uneasy, as if some danger was throbbing. Now it seemed that two people had used 【Beginning of Nightmare】 to enter this world; how could the sense of danger not throb?

The reason the dangers of this world hadn't erupted was clearly because it was holding back a big move.

"Cough~, you two, there is something, I don't know if I should say it or not."

The Priest spoke. Hearing him say this, both Su Xiao and the Undead Girl looked at him.

"Cough~"

The Priest gave an awkward yet polite cough, and then he also took a "Withered Heart" out of his bosom. This meant... he also used 【Beginning of Nightmare】 to enter this world. No wonder he was so knowledgeable about the characteristics of 【Beginning of Nightmare】 before. Heaven knows where he, as a rule-breaker, got 【Beginning of Nightmare】.

In the brood chamber, the three of them each held a "Withered Heart," looked at each other, and said nothing.