A perfectly good dungeon had become a place for the team to open pet eggs.

Fortunately, with Lin Chen and his team's current equipment and strength, they easily breezed through the Difficult difficulty dungeon.

Moreover, their completion time was always the fastest.

The same was true for the Nightmare difficulty dungeon.

Three more Supreme Treasure Boxes were added to their collection.

At the Nightmare level, they were rewarded with two Supreme Treasure Boxes.

The Hell level, on the other hand, gave four.

Zhang Chunlin also joined the ranks of opening pet eggs.

However, luck wasn't something everyone possessed.

Indeed, many people were opening pet eggs now...

*New World* had been around for twenty years, but because the in-game prices were too expensive, almost every player had been frugal for those two decades. Even wealthy players would save on items and resources whenever possible.

After all, in-game items were too valuable.

Therefore, a considerable amount of resources had been accumulated over the past twenty years.

Now that the servers were about to shut down, hoarding resources was meaningless.

Whether it was out of players' nostalgia or the frenzy of content creators chasing trends…

In short, in the days since *New World* announced its closure, the rate at which various resources and items were being consumed in the game was almost equivalent to the previous ten years!

There were indeed many people opening pet eggs at this time, and everyone was indeed increasing the probability together.

However, after opening 150 Dazzling Eggs, Xue Mo only got one Extraordinary pet, and it was only of Epic grade.

Zhang Chunlin, on the other hand, only opened fifty, and after getting a Legendary one, he also felt a pang of pain.

"Damn, I'm not opening anymore. A Legendary is enough. I wouldn't even dare to dream of this before! Forget it, forget it, the game is about to shut down, why am I spending this money?" Zhang Chunlin knew when to stop.

Xue Mo and Bai Shuyi were still not convinced and had people mail another batch of Dazzling Eggs over.

It was possible to receive mail in the dungeon.

Then, the two continued opening.

Anyway, they had plenty of money.

Dazzling Eggs were also very cheap now.

At a fire-sale price, the latest market price was eighty yuan each.

Lin Chen asked Zhang Chunlin's studio to hoard another thousand for him.

In addition, Lin Chen also had Zhang Chunlin hoard ten thousand equipment identification scrolls for him.

This was only possible in *New World*.

It was too massive.

If it were any other game, how could in-game items still be sold for money when the shutdown was announced?

Next was the Hell difficulty Heavenly Palace Chaos dungeon.

Lin Chen said, "Alright, open eggs later. We're on Hell difficulty now. Don't even mention completion time; we might not even be able to clear it. Everyone, perk up."

With the experience from the previous dungeons, although the difficulty was different, everyone was familiar with the strategy for this dungeon. Lin Chen selected the difficulty and once again led everyone into the dungeon.

Then came the various storylines of the Twelve Demon Heads. The five of them cooperated to eliminate the small monsters and push through to the Boss of the stage. When they finished the first Boss, something different happened.

The Twin-Headed Monster guarding the first level was killed and resurrected, shouting, "You dare to defeat my physical body! I will never let you go!"

Then, the Twin-Headed Monster fled.

It was heading in the direction of the final map.

"What's going on?"

Zhang Chunlin said in shock, "Could it be that we made a mistake somewhere, so we can't kill the monster?"

"No."

Lin Chen said in a deep voice, "That was just its soul form… It seems that there's something hidden in this updated expansion. Could it be that a new gameplay will be unlocked after level 120?"

"After clearing this dungeon, you and Yao Yao will be level 120, right? Then you'll know, won't you?" Bai Shuyi was very interested in the new gameplay. She immediately said, "If you have any new discoveries, you must tell me immediately!"

"I won't tell you!" Liu Mengyao joked.

As expected, the following Bosses were all the same. After being defeated, they all escaped in soul form, and everyone could feel that these level 120 Bosses seemed to be less powerful than the Giant Ape King in the level 100 dungeon.

"Is this really Nightmare level? It feels… a bit easy!"

Even Xue Mo couldn't help but doubt it.

The five of them had been in the dungeon for about an hour now.

On average, it took them about five minutes to defeat a Boss. The final Giant Ape King was next.

"Never mind, let's clear it first!"

Lin Chen took the lead and stepped into the map where the Giant Ape King was located.

The team was all in position.

At this time, the storyline appeared.

On the huge central throne, the Giant Ape King was high above. In front of it were the souls of eleven Bosses, who were complaining to the Giant Ape King.

"Giant Ape King, you must avenge us!"

"We were all for you, and our physical bodies were destroyed by those people!"

"Fortunately, we cultivated soul forms, or we would have been completely finished!"

"We are very weak now…"

"At least, we need a month to recover!"

"Now that the Heavenly Palace has been taken down and you have ascended to the throne, shouldn't you avenge us?"

"Revenge?"

The Giant Ape King seemed to be a little hard of hearing. It mistakenly heard "revenge" as "reward…"

Then, the Giant Ape King went berserk!

It roared, its eyes, bigger than lanterns, glowed green, and then it opened its mouth and sucked in with all its might.

"Giant Ape King, you!"

"No!"

"You… do you want to devour our souls?"

"No!"

"…"

In the storyline, wails rose all around.

Soon, the Giant Ape King cruelly devoured the souls one by one, and every time it devoured one, its health increased significantly. In the end, the Giant Ape King's health reached a full three million!

"Haha, souls… these are great tonics!"

The Giant Ape King roared triumphantly, "I feel full of power now!"

…

The storyline was about to end.

But at this time, Zhang Chunlin swallowed and couldn't help but say, "So… so powerful. I feel like it could kill me with one punch… Are we really going to fight this big guy?"

The Giant Ape King was nearly a hundred meters tall now.

Just like King Kong in the movies!

"We've come this far, how can we not fight?"

Without saying a word, Bai Shuyi directly picked up the spear in her hand and said, "I'll go first. I'll give it a 강화 충돌 (ganghwa chungdol/enhanced collision). Knight, remember to keep up and pull aggro!"

"Let's do it!"

Lin Chen also spoke.

However, at this time, Lin Chen looked at the five giant thrones around the map.

With extreme speed, he found one and rushed over.

Roar!

Over there, the battle had already begun.

Everyone was releasing skills.

But after only a few seconds, everyone saw that Zhang Chunlin's health bar of over 100,000 suddenly disappeared by half. Zhang Chunlin's voice followed, "Damn, it knocked off 50,000 health from me in one hit. Who can withstand this!"

It was too terrifying!

With Zhang Chunlin's Knight defense, coupled with equipment damage reduction, the damage caused by the Giant Ape King was so terrifying. There was really no way to withstand it.

This wasn't a problem with Zhang Chunlin's equipment.

"It seems like its damage ignores defense; only damage reduction is useful."

Lin Chen immediately began to command, "Yao Yao, give Zhang Chunlin Divine Light Protection, time the skill cooldowns well, and then give him Holy Shield. Try to alternate between the two skills. Then, you all fight and retreat, and each of you find a throne to stand on."

"What for? To indulge in the thrill of being a god?"

Bai Shuyi didn't know about the bug in this dungeon. She thought Lin Chen was messing around!

This was normal.

After all, the dungeons in *New World* had never had these fancy things before. They were completely cleared with strength. However, Bai Shuyi still listened obediently and found a throne.

Zhang Chunlin gritted his teeth and also found a throne to stand on.

All five of them were in position.

At this time, Lin Chen continued to command, "Chunlin, don't pull aggro anymore. From now on, you're not allowed to use a single taunt, and no one is allowed to use their pets! Then, we'll all stand on the highest point of the throne and release skills at the Boss. Remember, only release output skills! Yao Yao, don't release any heals or shields. Just use Holy Light Baptism to hit it. All melee pets stand by and don't leave the top of the throne!"

Although they didn't understand what Lin Chen meant, everyone did as he said.

Then, everyone discovered that the Giant Ape King, which had been so invincible, seemed to suddenly lose its target. It didn't know who to attack and kept running back and forth between the five giant thrones…

Its huge body had also become a giant target.

Faced with such a large target, even a brain-dead person could hit it with skills.

"What the heck is going on?" Zhang Chunlin was stunned.

"It seems like a bug?"

"Lin Chen, how did you know about this bug?"

Xue Mo and Bai Shuyi looked at Lin Chen curiously.

"You only know how to open pet eggs. Actually, I tried it last time we were in the dungeon. The Giant Ape King, the Boss of the new dungeon, seems to be unable to see the targets on the throne."

Lin Chen casually found an excuse to explain it away.

With the help of the bug, the Giant Ape King with three million health was also killed by Lin Chen and his team.

Then, an announcement immediately sounded in the game.

[Congratulations to the Linzhong Chenxi team for successfully defeating the Giant Ape King (Hell level) and guarding the Heavenly Palace. To commend their achievements, the gods have specially granted each of them two Supreme Gift Boxes. In addition, the team is rewarded with two Rare Class Boxes!]

[Announcement, due to the Giant Ape King (Hell level) being defeated, the Reputation System is now open!]

[Announcement, the Heavenly Palace Chaos has ended. To thank the brave adventurers, the gods have bestowed upon everyone the method of soul cultivation. Please level up to 120 to view the details!]

[……]

A series of announcements caused the world channel, which had already become a trading market, to explode.

"rnm *New World*, the servers are about to shut down, and you say you're opening the Reputation System and new gameplay?"

"Go play it with your mom, you dog planners!"

"I'll be damned, are there still people going to dungeons now?"

"Linzhong Chenxi, it's him again? You need good equipment to clear a level 120 Hell dungeon, right? And it seems like he got two more Epic pets?"

"Hehe, Linzhong Chenxi is from our school. I heard that he mortgaged his house to play this game and borrowed several million yuan…"

"Brain-dead, right? The game is about to shut down, and he's still spending so much money?"

"…"

Lin Chen didn't expect that he would become famous after all.