Tick, tick.

Cold sewage dripped continuously from the top of the sewers into the wet ditches.

In the sewer, there was the greasy sound of the soles of leather boots stepping on the mud, as well as the obviously heavy and tense breathing of the two people.

The man in front wears a wooden mask with a detailed depiction of the face of a clown, with a tear on the left cheek and a star on the right.

In this dark, cramped, damp, and dead environment, the corner of the mask's mouth still had a flattering smile—the Jack-level mask "Court Jester" turned his head and said to his companion behind him, "Man, we may have won the lottery."

"Winning the lottery", a term for explorers, means that the actual danger of the task exceeds the expected danger.

This kind of thing happens often in the industry, and it is not exclusive to that reporter.

This two-person team is on a Jack-class mission to "Explore the Leeland Sewers." After discovering that there was a black hand behind the pollution, they faintly noticed that the difficulty of the task seemed to have risen to the Queen level.

The court jester's companion has a hideous mask—a brass visor with one corner broken, revealing a rotting face carved out of wood.

Jack-class mask "Leper Prophet".

The flashlight in the Prophet's hand wobbled as he walked: "It is not yet possible to completely say that you have won the lottery..."

However, he still stopped and stared at his partner seriously: "Dude...

"After encountering the group of rats that were about the size of wolves...my spiritual power has been consumed by half.

"Presumably you are too."

Their spiritual power smelling salts have also been exhausted.

"Going forward, we may be at risk...

"I can't do this alone - do you want to go any further?"

The court jester fell silent.

They encountered huge challenges in their previous explorations, but at this time they have already explored 90% of the area.

Going back now means that the previous efforts were in vain.

Thinking of the mortgage payments I still have to make in real life...

The clown gritted his teeth: "We don't necessarily have to be so unlucky—there is the last sewage pool, go check it out and we'll go back."

The Leprosy Prophet nodded.

The two moved on.

In the dark, they pushed open the door of the last cesspool.

The clown had already gotten used to the stench of the sewer, but unexpectedly, after opening the last door, he smelled a stronger stench than before.

Almost want to vomit.

"It may be the core of some kind of proliferating body that involves evil..." the Prophet judged, "We just need to be able to see it - if we want to purify this place, we must have a Queen-level team."

Gathering their minds, they continued to move forward. After walking along the edge to the deepest part of the sewage pool, they bumped into...

There are a few green lights dimly shining here, making this already weird space even more terrifying.

A test bench with all kinds of weird organs, a rotting figure bound to the table, a huge glass tank with dirt floating in it...

and a man in a blood-splattered mask.

Queen-level fallen explorer, "Tacheng's mentor".

He has been waiting quietly, as if waiting for someone to send fresh experimental materials.

After seeing two obviously nervous explorers, he released the concealment of spiritual power, and said in a voice as thin as a mosquito: "Maybe you will be interested in my process of exploring the mysteries of life?"

When the two explorers were secretly thinking something was wrong, the Tacheng mentor had already thrown a bottle of strange solution into the sewage pool behind them.

With the help of the faint green light, they saw that large fishes with rotten bodies and white eyes floated up from the sewage pool.

"Run!" The Leprosy Prophet yelled, and the two turned around almost at the same time, stepped on the slippery ground, and fled towards the door.

The fish in the sewage pool bounced up like cannonballs, and for a moment, the whole pool of sewage seemed to boil.

They crashed into the two fleeing questers, gnawing at their flesh with their dirty teeth.

In a short period of time, the two of them have been completely changed, and they are in pain.

Even if Gu Yan was a leprosy prophet who would experience burning pain all the time as long as he put on a mask, he was tortured to the point of going mad by this torture-like attack.

There are still about ten meters away from the exit!

Under the "baptism" of the violent fish school, they were already covered with cuts and bruises, bleeding profusely...

Dying.

"I can't escape." Due to blood loss and pain, the court jester's eyes were full of golden flowers.

He regretted it terribly.

I regret that for such a small task reward, I still choose to move on when I have a bad feeling.

What flashed before his eyes was the appearance of his wife holding the child.

"Use that bottle!" Suddenly, he heard his teammates shouting behind him.

that bottle?

Oh... Before the mission, at the Shenpin distribution office, I saw a medical type of Shenpin that claims to have excellent effects...

To ensure safety, they each purchased a bottle.

What is the "Mist of Elixir"?

The injury is already so serious, can that thing be useful?

Protecting his neck, his hand was bitten by a fish again, and the phalanx can already be seen on the back of his hand...

do not care.

The two crisp sounds were covered by the hopping of the school of fish.

The jester and the leper broke the hourglass-shaped vial almost simultaneously.

A soft mist of yellow-green light quickly licked their horrible wounds...

After about five seconds, the two rushed out of the sink room and quickly closed the door behind them.

At an unprecedented speed, he drove all the remaining spiritual power and fled towards the exit of the sewer.

In the sewage pool, the Queen-level explorer frowned deeply: "What is that?"

He clearly saw that the two Jacks were covered in bruises and were about to fall...

As a result, a burst of yellow-green mist swept across, and the two seemed to have recovered, and escaped alive and well.

Chase, but I can't catch up.

Shame on him, he let two Jacks escape.

This also made his base unsafe—

The next "visiting" will no longer be a rookie, but a fully armed queen-level explorer who is specially targeting him.

With a sullen mood, he shook a brass bell in his hand.

Then, the ground he was standing on, the ground carrying the glass tank, the experiment table and the operating table, suddenly shook.

The giant tortoise, which is festered, full of parasites, rough skin full of mold, and pale-eyed, began to swim towards the depths of the sewage pool, carrying the teacher of Tacheng and everything he owned...

"Yellow-green aerosol?" The instructor fell into deep thought~lightnovelpub.net~It seems worth studying deeply..."

1.5 kilometers away, next to the open mouth of the sewer in the Liland District, two Jack-level explorers looked at each other, panting, and their eyes were full of disbelief that they had narrowly escaped death.

After a while, their breathing calmed down.

In the light of the dim street lamp, the Leper Prophet spread his wet palms—

Due to excessive nervousness, he has been clutching the things in the palm of his hand tightly.

The broken glass bottle.

With an expression of disbelief, he stared at the new type of artifact that he bought out of curiosity.

"This thing..." He shook his head, staring at the two glasses, as if staring at two diamonds, "fucking..."

"Only $10?"