Chapter 41 Lost World, 41st Floor

An elephant-shaped giant Constructor, its building-sized feet moving, strode through the ruins littered with wreckage.

Each step caused the ground to tremble violently.

Squeak!

The Constructor stretched out its trunk, effortlessly snapped a five-meter diameter metal pipe blocking its path, and stuffed it into its mouth. It crunched and chewed like it was devouring chocolate.

Then, it opened its abdomen, revealing the blazing power furnace and mechanical forging device within.

It extracted new metal components from the mechanical forging device, regardless of aesthetics, and directly installed them on the broken pipe.

Dismantle—recycle—construct.

This was the Constructor's mission. Day after day, year after year, it labored in this silent world as if tireless, modifying the environment and terrain.

On the back of the elephantine Constructor, a large bamboo basket was secured with ropes and nails. Four girls were sitting inside.

Qin, the blonde girl chewing gum with a bored expression;

Eva, the red-haired girl wearing glasses, quietly reading a thick book on her lap;

Nina, the dark-skinned Indian girl sitting in the corner of the bamboo basket, silently controlling a reconnaissance drone;

And Pei Youzhen, the Asian girl with delicate features like a doll;

These four were all members of the seventh group of the "Wan Jia Xiong Meng" program. Because they were not far apart during the teleportation,

And because Nina had a special item that could contact companions from mid-to-long range without the signal being absorbed by the Lost World's walls,

The four were the first small group to reunite, and relying on their numerical advantage, they had defeated four other players from other factions within half an hour of the game's start, and harvested their belts.

Qin sat on the bamboo basket seat, swinging her legs, looking at the dim, dead city below, and sighed, "It feels so quiet. There aren't any wandering Mecha Beasts on the street. It's a world of difference from the 40th floor."

Sitting next to her, the younger, darker-skinned Indian girl, Nina, echoed softly, "Ah, maybe this elephant-shaped Constructor is so aggressive that ordinary Mecha Beasts are afraid to get close."

Qin leaned back, lying on the edge of the bamboo basket, and said lazily, "But that has nothing to do with us anymore."

Nina was taken aback, "Eh? Why?"

"Everyone's saved,"

Qin said matter-of-factly, "If we had encountered Mecha Beasts when we first entered the Lost World, it might have been troublesome.

But after testing, we know that Mecha Beasts like to slaughter creatures of flesh and blood, using scent, sound, and light to lock onto and chase players.

Our [Swinging Camping Bamboo Basket] can seal off breath, sound waves, and light, perfectly shielding against the Mecha Beasts' detection methods. It will definitely not attract their attention.

As long as we hitch a ride on the Constructor, we can travel freely through the floors, and we can also use drones to scout the surrounding area.

As for the Identity Verification Particle Emission Device, we just defeated two players, so we're not short on powder in the short term.

The next task is to find the Teacher and that kid with the talent, or other companions,

Gather our strength, leave the Constructor, go to other locations on the map, look for powder, and the comic book that serves as a key hint..."

"Wait."

Eva, who had been reading, raised her hand, stopping Qin from continuing.

She looked up, looking at a high spot. The others followed her gaze and saw the system detector that had appeared before.

Eva frowned slightly. Qin and the others instantly reacted and silently picked up their weapons.

Pei Youzhen rubbed the metal baseball bat covered with various anime stickers and whispered, "Nina."

"Mm."

Nina nodded, tapping several times on the tablet computer. The reconnaissance drones flying not far in front, behind, and to the sides of the Constructor immediately transformed, taking out machine cannons larger than themselves from the void, and surveyed the surroundings.

The appearance of the detector meant either the current number of battles was less than ten, and they were randomly selected,

Or they had already entered a combat state...

Hopefully, it wasn't the latter.

The four girls waited quietly for five minutes.

The elephantine Constructor continued to move forward on its own, completely unaffected,

And the Constructor in the sky hadn't disappeared.

"It seems we were randomly filmed..."

Only then did Qin breathe a sigh of relief and waved friendly towards the detector—the four of them were unexpectedly popular in the real world. Their fan clubs were all over the country, and their traffic was higher than movie stars and idols.

To some extent, they were a top-tier girl group—endorsed by the Global Supernatural Alliance, no one dared to badmouth them.

"Don't rush to wave yet."

Eva said calmly, "There are probably still a lot of players alive. It's lucky to be selected.

Hurry up and tell the outside world what we know."

Unlike players who only needed to be responsible for themselves,

Players with official backgrounds like Ash and Eva had a responsibility to disclose all the information they knew when the camera was pointed at them, in order to help the outside world make better judgments, even if the process of providing information carried a certain degree of risk.

"Mm."

Nina nodded, raised her hands, and released soft, sinuous beams of light from the tips of her fingers, weaving hundreds of lines of dense text, detailing the actions of the four of them in the Lost World.

Among them, she focused on the fact that after they defeated three other faction players, they had obtained a key piece of information from the other party.

The other three had also defeated a player, obtained a belt,

And conducted an experiment around the belt,

That is, removing the square box device on their own belt and replacing the radioactive powder in the diamond-shaped container in another belt's square box device.

To test whether this so-called [Identity Verification Particle Emission Device] could really protect the player,

And if so, from what it was protecting the player.

And whether the player would be attacked during the powder replacement process.

The three players conducted the experiment, and as a result, they were indeed attacked by humanoid puppets during the powder replacement process.

The humanoid puppets had no special abilities, but their body strength far exceeded the average of Lv20 players. They appeared in clusters and did not attack those with [Identity Verification Particle Emission Devices],

They only attacked the player who was disassembling and replacing the particle emission device.

They were likely the so-called [Security Guards].

The three players encountered a surprise attack by the Security Guards and hurriedly fought back. Relying on their own strength, they successfully stalled for a while, allowing their teammates to replace the belt again—the moment it was replaced, the Security Guards suddenly stopped attacking, allowing the three players to successfully use the teleportation tool to escape from the battlefield.

During the attack, the belt that the three players had previously seized was destroyed,

However, they also found a brand new colored comic called "When the Stars Return" in the body of a Security Guard that had been smashed to pieces. The number next to the title was ⑨.

What Nina showed to the camera this time was the content of the comic.