Everyone was silent.

How would they know what the Dung Beetle was thinking?

Now that they had all been wiped out, they had grievances they couldn't voice.

Damn it!

As everyone was discussing this, more people emerged from the Respawn Point. Junlin and Old Mo's team also came out one by one, their faces the color of pig liver, evidently also victims of the Dung Beetle's rampage.

"I just died like that? I was sent out before I even had a chance to activate the Eight Gates Escape Armor?" Old Mo was completely bewildered, still not having processed what happened.

The Giant Python Demonic Beast's massive body crushed down, giving almost none of them a chance to fight back.

Junlin saw that Flourishing Flowers and I, Xuanqing were also there and couldn't help but be stunned.

"You guys too?"

Flourishing Flowers and I, Xuanqing nodded. Apparently, this tragic experience wasn't unique to them. It seemed all players had suffered through this ordeal.

Eliminating one hundred Demonic Beasts—they could manage that initially by ganging up on them. But now? Thanks to the Dung Beetle, the task's difficulty had invisibly been raised to a nightmare level.

[Task complete. Reward distributed.]

[Congratulations to player Flourishing Flowers for receiving a reward of 1,000 Contribution Points.]

[Task: Kill one thousand Demonic Beasts.]

[Description: Follow Sect Leader Xu Nian to the Celestial One Daoist Sect to kill Demonic Beasts.]

[Reward: Contribution Points * 1,000.]

The task is completed? And a new task has arrived?

All the players were befuddled. Nearly all of them had been wiped out, which was practically a Team Wipe.

How could the task still be completed?

Chaotic Dance Steps thought for a moment and frowned, saying, "It's probably because of Dung Beetle. He tore around with the Giant Python Demonic Beast, not only wiping us out but also dragging in the Demonic Beasts on the periphery."

HISS—

Is that so? So everything Dung Beetle did was to complete the task? But isn't this method a bit too much? Trading a player Team Wipe for task completion seemed excessive, no matter how you looked at it.

And now this new task to eliminate one thousand Demonic Beasts had appeared—a tenfold increase.

Just how many Demonic Beasts are there in the Dense Forest of the Back Mountain of the Celestial One Daoist Sect?

"Holy shit, the task is just completed like this? Am I a nouveau riche now?"

"Are one thousand Contribution Points a lot? I feel it's just mediocre."

"What are you, a Second Test player, comparing with us Third Test players? You should get lost."

"One thousand Demonic Beasts... maybe we should just stay Outside and let Dung Beetle clear them himself? We'd still get the reward eventually!"

"Forget it. This is a new task. You have to participate to get the reward, which means we need to kill at least one Demonic Beast."

"..."

Kill one Demonic Beast? How are they supposed to go kill Demonic Beasts now? So many of them had been sent out. If they go back in, won't they just get crushed again? But there are one thousand Contribution Points at stake here, a windfall. Are they just going to miss it?

"What do we do now? Are we not going in?" Flourishing Flowers asked, her face dark.

Everyone else was also hesitant. Dung Beetle's tactic was indeed disgusting, not distinguishing between friend or foe.

Junlin, at the side, said solemnly, "With the commotion he caused, the Demonic Beasts on the periphery are probably going to be cleared out. If we want to kill Demonic Beasts, we'll have to go deeper."

Go deeper?

The deeper they went, the higher the Realms of the Demonic Beasts. The ones Outside were only at the Qi Cultivation Realm; they could still gang up on and bully them a bit. But what about the ones Inside? The weakest were probably at the Foundation Establishment Realm, right?

The aura that the Giant Python emitted was far beyond the Foundation Establishment Realm. For Dung Beetle to escape in such a situation showed he really had some skill.

No wonder he's the second-strongest player. Truly impressive!

"Actually, I'm more curious about what he did," Chaotic Dance Steps frowned and said. "The Giant Python seemed fixated on him, but it also seemed to be merely chasing him, not intending to kill Dung Beetle."

He had been frozen with fear by that aura but managed to calm himself. He confirmed the Giant Python was only after Dung Beetle and didn't intend to kill him, which made him wonder about the reason.

If such a terrifying Demonic Beast wasn't trying to kill, then what was it after? Could Dung Beetle have something on him that attracts Demonic Beasts?

"Could it be that Dung Beetle stole something from the Giant Python?" Flourishing Flowers turned and asked. "Is the Giant Python chasing Dung Beetle just to make him return what he took?"

That could be possible! Everyone fell silent for a moment. If that was the case, it would explain things. But what exactly could Dung Beetle have stolen to make the Giant Python so desperate?

「In the Dense Forest.」

Dung Beetle himself didn't know where he'd run, but seeing smoke rising from the woods ahead, he charged over recklessly. Bursting from the bushes, he saw Little Boss leading a few players sitting together. In front of them was a boiling Big Black Pot with the Corpse of a Black Wolf Demonic Beast inside. Next to it was a Barbecue Grill, with a player squatting beside it, sprinkling Seasoning.

"Strange, there's been constant shaking for a while now. What's going on?"

"Hard to say. It feels like a beast tide from a novel."

"Hey, isn't that Dung Beetle? Why did you run here alone? Want to join us for some food?"

"We just made Wolf Meat Hot Pot. We've tried it, and it's quite good. And over here, we have Wolf Meat Barbecue!"

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