NOVEL WEB Chapter 318: Is He Very Famous?
Yet...
Chen Miao and the others had recently evaluated this wax figure's combat power, and the conclusion was that it couldn't even defeat the unarmed Tomb Guardian gunmen.
These wax figures' combat power could only be said to be slightly stronger than that of an ordinary person.
Actually relying on them to fight was basically pointless, to say it was of no use wouldn't be an exaggeration, or perhaps the wax figures' combat power was just incidental—the real purpose of the wax figures was to help the host resist a rule attack once.
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Several minutes later.
Everyone couldn't help but let out exclamations of surprise; they saw countless giant spiders, spewing liquid from their mouthparts and rushing toward the small town entrance in groups with blood-red eyes!!
The scene was incredibly horrifying.
What was even more fatal was the discovery by everyone that these giant spiders were laying eggs while running, and those white eggs were scattered on the ground, appearing harmless, but it was imaginable that before long, these eggs would hatch, and new monsters would join the battlefield.
If there was no way to resolve the fight immediately.
What they would face would be an assault as relentless as the tide, never-ending.
"Ah!!"
A girl, terrified of spiders, upon seeing this scene, couldn't help but cover her mouth and scream out loud, even though she knew the timing was inappropriate.
"Tch."
Standing behind Chen Miao with his hands in his pockets and a cigarette in his mouth, Hungry Monkey glanced at the girl and then grinned, saying, "What's there to be afraid of? Those monsters just haven't seen Miao before. If they had seen Miao before, they would've turned and fled by now."
Chen Miao smirked slightly but said nothing; he simply brought out a Gatling with a reverse hand, ready to show everyone what a fireworks feast looked like!
The boring events of the past few days had bored him to the extreme!
He couldn't wait to use his firepower to tell everyone what kind of performance a powerful Supernatural could display in a secret realm!
However, before he could fire a shot!
The spider army, still hundreds of meters away from them, suddenly stopped as one, braking sharply, leaving trails of several meters on the ground before Chen Miao and others could figure out what was happening.
They saw the spider army turn around without hesitation and hurried back the way they came, with a speed even faster than their approach, giving the illusion that they were fleeing in panic.
When fleeing, they didn't forget to take along all the eggs they had just laid on the ground.
They came fast and left even faster.
In just a short minute, the once fierce spider army had vanished without a trace, not even a single hair to be seen.
"..."
With a dumbfounded and vacant look, Hungry Monkey murmured while staring into the distance, "What's going on? Why did these monsters flee as if they saw something terrifying? Could it be a sign that there's something more fearsome in this town?"
"And that this thing makes these monsters feel outmatched?"
"Is this setting the scene for the next boss?"
"I'm feeling uneasy..."
But at that moment—
A notification sounded in everyone's ears.
「Ding, monsters retreat, all players successfully survive the fifth day's random event.」
「And leave a message—」
「Chen Miao, we mean no hostility toward you, and no one told me to pick a fight with Chen Miao before coming here.」
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"..."
A message that seemed all too sentient, hard to believe it was from these creatures that seemed void of Spiritual Wisdom, and everyone looked at each other with complex and strange expressions after hearing these words, turning their gazes toward the young man with a cane in the crowd.
What kind of reputation is this?
Was it merely his reputation that scared off these seemingly fearsome monsters?
Was this young man famous?
Had they been out of society for too long? Why hadn't they ever heard his name?
"Um..."
The tattooed strong man among the crowd cautiously approached the 11th-level Magician: "I don't pay much attention to Supernaturals. You're a Supernatural, so you must have heard of Chen Miao. Is he famous?"
"Ah?"
The Magician also shook his head in confusion: "I haven't heard of him either. I've been in retreat recently and haven't kept up with the community's news for a long time. It just seems I have come across the name Chen Miao somewhere."
"But I forget where exactly."
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"Not bad, Miao."
Looking out at the empty wilderness outside the town, Hungry Monkey spoke with a strange expression: "Has your fame spread so far now? Even the monsters in the secret realm have heard of your name?"
"I don't know either."
Chen Miao was equally baffled and confused. Logically, how could a bunch of monsters in a secret realm have ever heard of him? And these monsters seemed to possess high intelligence, which made it even stranger to him.
But at that moment, he had no idea that even stranger things were yet to come.
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In the following five days, all the way up to the tenth day, the events were battles against monster invasions.
Every time at noon sharp.
Telling them to be prepared.
Large numbers of monsters would invade the entrance to the small town.
But aside from the first day when they saw the spider monster army fleeing in panic, in the days that followed they didn't even catch a glimpse of the shadow of a monster, hearing only the announcements that the monsters were coming. Find adventures at empire
Then, after waiting patiently for ten minutes, the announcement would ring out again.
Monsters have left.
This repeated for several days, leading to Chen Miao, who hadn't fired a single shot since entering this secret realm, being looked upon with awe and a slight fear in everyone's eyes.
Having such a person around made them feel much safer.
But this person was too strong, and they were a little afraid he might suddenly turn on them.
"Don't wait any longer."
Feeling helpless, Hungry Monkey looked at Chen Miao, "It's definitely the same as the previous days; no monsters will come. Logically, each day the arriving monsters should be different. Could it be that these monsters have all heard of you, Miao?"
Sure enough.
After ten minutes, the announcement sounded again, informing them that the monsters had gone.
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What Chen Miao and the others didn't know was.
In the deep wasteland outside the small town.
Many monsters were gathering there, and on a table in the center there was a photo of a person, which was precisely an image of Chen Miao.
"Is this... the person that was mentioned?"
"It looks exactly the same, and he's even holding a staff. Didn't expect to meet him here."
"The Fifth-Level Civilization 'Great Qin' explicitly announced that this person belongs to them, and anyone who dares to cause him harm will be declaring themselves an enemy of 'Great Qin'. Millions of iron cavalry will surely flatten the land in retaliation!"
"But how could we meet him here? We were only coming over for a cameo."
"Well, that's unknown."
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The following period could be described as peaceful and uneventful.
And so came the thirty-sixth day.
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'Survival Day 36!'
'Random event of the day: Arrest the traitor.'
'Perhaps you have not noticed, but this secret realm can accommodate a maximum of 100 players. However, there are actually 101 people who have entered, with an unknown creature in human form hiding among you.'
'You need to arrest this traitor before dawn tonight.'
'ps: Although the traitor is not human, all its behaviors are indistinguishable from humans. Without some special means, it is impossible to find this traitor.'
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Not many players died these days, with thirty continuous days of combat-type random events, where not even a shadow was seen, resulting in them having no chance to explore other buildings.
They remained on the streets near the hotel.
The previous days' push-ups and frog jumps, as long as they were completed above the standard, were rewarded with an opportunity to explore, but the combat events offered no such rewards. This meant their exploration progress had barely changed from the start.
And nobody was in a hurry.
Nor was anyone eager to physically explore the remaining buildings to discover their rules, or to put it another way, everyone didn't care what the rules for the rest of the buildings were, as long as they could survive.
The secret realm would last for 79 days in total, and now 36 days had passed, the end was approaching and they could return home soon.
Today's event.
Finally, it was not a combat-type event, but the capturing of a traitor, to find the one they had detected from the start.
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"I have a method."
Zhou Shen was the first to speak up, having been contemplating this problem, even without the event, he hadn't forgotten that there was an extra person among them: "I've already questioned everyone during this time."
"Most came in with friends and family."
"Only seven people came in alone."
"The traitor must be among these seven people. In this case, we simply need to kill these seven people, and we will have resolved the issue."
"Hm?"
Hungry Monkey furrowed his brows and spoke, "Why do you think the traitor is definitely someone without social ties? What if the traitor replaced someone and came in along with friends and family?"
"It's possible, but not likely."
Zhou Shen shook his head, "Having been with the Tomb Guardians for so long, don't you think you would have felt something if there were something off about any of them? No, between friends and family, if the relationship is familiar enough, you'd be able to tell if something was off."
"Especially when entering the secret realm, which is almost like the last stop in life, everyone would enter with their close ones, unless disrupted. Otherwise, that's how they would enter."
"The probability is highest among these seven people who entered alone."
"If not, even if killing these seven doesn't eliminate the traitor, we will have eliminated a wrong answer, and we could conduct a final screening."
"Such as?"
"Such as killing everyone outside of the Tomb Guardians."
"..."
With an expressionless face, Hungry Monkey looked at Zhou Shen, "Brother, aren't you a bit too bloodthirsty?"
"Don't rush."
Chen Miao suddenly thought of a better solution, his eyes narrowing slightly as he spoke calmly, "I may have thought of a better way to resolve this."