Chapter 872 Time Frozen!

Slaughter City instance.

This is a neon-lit city shrouded in night.

In a dimly lit room on the thirteenth floor of an apartment building.

Liu Xi stood quietly by the window, looking at the system tasks that appeared before her.

Dungeon Name: Slaughter City

Difficulty Level: Hard

Main mission: Survive for 60 hours.

[Introduction: You have arrived in a city shrouded in night, a city teeming with monsters, where all you need to do is kill...]

[Task Duration: 60 hours]

[Failure Penalty: None]

[Note: The player's starfield time flow rate is 1:1]

Liu Xi closed the panel and touched the space ring on her finger, but there was no response.

Not only that, her attempts to sense her Level 9 sports car also failed.

"It was banned as expected."

As described in the dungeon guide, this is a special dungeon that disables all external vehicles, items, and weapons that players can carry.

Liu Xi took a deep breath and quickly adjusted her mindset.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Just then, there was a knock on the apartment door.

"Sister Liu, it's me! Qingyan!" Jiang Qingyan's voice came from outside the door.

Liu Xi didn't open the door directly, but instead asked, "What's your sister's name?"

"Ginger Red Fish".

Upon hearing this answer, Liu Xi breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Jiang Hongyu is her best friend and also Jiang Qingyan's older sister. If someone were impersonating her, they wouldn't know her name.

If Jiang Hongyu were still alive, they would meet again in the player star field.

"Click".

Jiang Qingyan slipped into the house and locked the door behind her.

Although she cannot use props, vehicles, mechs, or other equipment, she is skilled at using them.

Upon arriving in the City of Slaughter, she immediately used her Detective Eye to locate Liu Xi.

"Did you encounter any danger on the way?" Liu Xi asked.

Jiang Qingyan shook her head and said, "Sister Liu, when I arrived, I found the other eight teammates."

"They're currently gathering in a shopping mall three blocks away from us. I glanced at their ranks: three Rank 6, three Rank 5, and two players without any specialization!"

"They seem to be discussing how to cooperate. Should we go and join them?"

Liu Xi shook her head and said, "Don't worry about them."

Through the dungeon guide, she learned that teammates are both collaborators and competitors.

Although vehicles, weapons, and items are disabled, a temporary shop has been added to this instance, where players can spend points to buy various equipment.

Each player starts with 100 points, and to gain more points, you need to kill more monsters, especially bosses.

According to the dungeon guide, a monster wave will occur every 3 hours during the 60 hours in Killing City.

Furthermore, the monsters' strength will increase over time. In the final round, monsters may even reach the early stages of Tier 7!

Facing a level 7 monster was a hopeless situation for Liu Xi and Jiang Qingyan, who were only level 5.

However, with 1000 points, one can exchange them for the qualification to enter the "Little White House" in the city's central square. According to the system's rules, the Little White House is a safe zone, and even level 7 monsters cannot enter.

With time running out, Liu Xi and Jiang Qingyan quickly selected their initial equipment from the shop.

Liu Xi spent 100 points to redeem a high-energy sniper rifle and 100 sniper bullets.

Jiang Qingyan spent 50 points to buy a Tang sword that could cut through iron like mud, and used the remaining 50 points to buy an electromagnetic control pistol (with ten bullets).

Just as the two were putting on their weapons, a system notification suddenly sounded.

[Ding! The first wave of monsters is about to attack! Players, please prepare!]

"They're here!"

Liu Xi, carrying a sniper rifle, quickly walked to the window, smashed the glass with the butt of the rifle, and rested the barrel on the windowsill.

"Qingyan, give me your location!"

"Hmm!" Jiang Qingyan immediately activated [Eye of Reconnaissance], then reported to her guide:

"Sister Liu, about three hundred monsters are spawning two kilometers to the southwest."

"The first boss is a mid-tier 6th-level ram-headed, humanoid monster!"

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[The Great Escape from the Shelter] instance.

"Well......"

With a low groan, Haz suddenly opened his eyes and found himself locked in a small, enclosed space of less than ten square meters.

The enclosed space was very bright.

There were four surveillance cameras overhead, watching its every move.

"This is... a shelter?"

"I've been taken in as a monster?"

Haz considered his mission and, taking into account his surroundings, immediately made a judgment.

then.

It began to wonder how it could escape from here.

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the other side.

Three-day world instance.

"Ding! Current map exploration progress: +1%!!"

The system notification sounded simultaneously in everyone's minds.

Although it was only a 1% increase, it was a huge boost for Gray and his team. It proved that their decision to enter the city was absolutely correct.

"Everyone stay alert. What's inside might not be weaker than the red-haired creatures outside," Gray, the temporary leader, whispered a reminder.

The group nodded slightly and, by the crimson moonlight, began to survey the city.

The place is dilapidated, with cracked asphalt roads and exposed steel frames in the buildings, and not a trace of greenery.

Lin Hui discovered that this city was strikingly similar to the cities on Earth, from the size and style of the buildings and the street layout to the abandoned cars...

However, although the neon tubes on the GG sign were off, the characters pieced together on it were a kind of alien script that looked like tadpoles twisted.

"This isn't Earth, just a planet with a similar level of civilization as Earth in 2026. But where have all the intelligent beings in this city gone?"

"what?"

Just then, the middle-aged law enforcement officer Gray suddenly stopped. He squatted down, rummaged through a pile of rubble, and picked up a dusty object.

Everyone immediately crowded around.

It was a mechanical watch.

The hands are frozen at a certain point in time.

[March 21, 12:00 PM.]

"I also found a mechanical pocket watch."

Blue Fox emerged from the wreckage of a car, holding a mechanical pocket watch in his hand: "The time is exactly the same, stopped at 12:00 on March 21st."

Gray's voice was solemn:

"In this type of mechanical watch, as long as it is not damaged and the mainspring still has some power, the hands will usually keep moving for a while."

"This can't possibly be a coincidence!"

Gray said in a deep voice, "This timing is definitely a key clue. If I'm not mistaken, this is very likely the exact time when that red moon appeared in the sky."

That makes sense.

Iris, a direct descendant of the powerful conglomerate with golden eyes, nodded slightly: "I've read the family's guides for other Nightmare-level exploration dungeons. These kinds of exploration missions offer a very high degree of freedom."

"But reaching 90% map exploration is definitely not something you can achieve by simply strolling around the world and checking off landmarks."

She paused, then continued:

"The mission description clearly states: 'On the day the red moon appears, the anomalies will begin to resurface.'"

"My personal guess is that the Red Moon is the core of this instance! We need to find out why the Red Moon appeared and figure out what exactly happened in this world. Only by touching the core secrets will our exploration progress increase significantly."

This analysis was reasonable and well-founded, and everyone nodded in agreement.

Lin Hui also agreed with Iris's statement.

As for Toby and Bailey, they were too weak to even speak.

They could only nod silently.

Gray added, "And did you all notice? This time, the mission panel doesn't show a deadline."

"But this instance is called 'Three Days World.' I suspect the system has already given us a hint—we might only have three days!"

"Three days?" The voluptuous and sexy Mara gasped. "Explore over 90% of this world in three days, and find out the truth? How is that possible!"

"Therefore, we need to change our strategy."

Gray took a deep breath and glanced at everyone.

"Eight people gathered together is extremely inefficient for exploration. I suggest we split into pairs, break up into smaller groups, and search different areas of the city."

"Agreed," Blue Fox was the first to speak.

"I have no objection." Iris nodded slightly.

Lin Hui nodded as well.

Seeing that everyone agreed, Gray took out seven black communicators from his spatial ring and distributed them to everyone in turn.

"This is an anti-jamming communicator with an effective communication range of 100 kilometers, which is sufficient for our use."

Gray put the communicator on his ear and whispered, "Now, begin grouping."

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