[Phantom] Chapter 24 (Perseverance)

The dark clouds in the sky wrapped around lightning, and after a muffled thud, silver light enveloped the land... Countless insects of various shapes surged toward the Freedom Tower from all directions in the forest, stepping over the four-story tower's tall corpses, continuously gathering beneath the tower, and as their numbers increased, the height kept increasing... The buzzing sounds in the sky grew denser, surging wildly toward the tower's windows... Meanwhile, underground, a huge serpentine monster looked like a soil drilling machine, stirring the soil and the insect corpses. The three antennae of its tail wandered about, taking countless lives with it... Inside the tower, the three gathered at the supply point, and the influx of insects from the windowsill left them overwhelmed... In just the time it took to reload, Yu was overwhelmed by the insects spraying out the window. "Ah!" The tactile system accurately transmitted the body's condition to the brain. "Damn, what's the point of making the game so serious?" Yan heard Yu's howl, turned his gun and smashed the reptiles on Yu's body one by one. At this moment, Yu's clothes were torn apart, flesh and blood mangled everywhere... "Yan, watch out behind you..." Yu cried out in pain, but it was already too late. Just as Yan was about to turn around, a massive tentacle pierced his abdomen. His lips moved slightly, and blood slowly oozed from the corners of his mouth... "Yan..." Ying took several high-explosive grenades from his waist and threw them through several windows, using the tongues of fire from the muzzles to block the flying bug's assault. One bug, in its final moments, twisted its abdomen and spat hard through the window, then was torn apart by bullets. Ying didn't think the saliva was wrong; when his arm touched the liquid, it instantly corroded and fell off... Outside the window, the massive pile of insect meat was stirred again by the grenade, and the bug's corpse had piled up to six layers... The peace brought by the grenade gave everyone more time to desperately shuffle the red bottle. Suddenly, Yu thought of something, took out his notebook, and read aloud... The giant serpentine insect once again extended its tentacles into the window, this time bringing poisonous mist, killing the attacking bugs along with the surrounding ones. Although drinking a large amount of supplies saved their lives, the wounds didn't heal. Combined with the poisonous mist, the three's health dropped rapidly... Yu threw the summoned bandages to Shadow, while he quickly wrapped Yan with the remaining left-right weapons, took off the grenade from Yan, pulled the safety ring, and threw it out the window again. After the poisonous mist cleared, the attacking bugs shattered into fragments again. Controlling Yan's health, Yu helped himself tie a few bandages. Fortunately, the supplies saved from these stages were sufficient, though most had already been used up earlier.Yu stubbornly stood up, gripping the gun and shooting out the window, but after just a few shots, a huge tentacle pierced his chest, and he slowly lay down. Another tentacle was releasing poisonous fog at another window. Ying struggled to crawl toward Yu, bandaging his body, while Yu drank the last few blue bottles to get some bandages, allowing the three of them to survive in the poisonous fog. Thanks to the bandages' hemostatic and healing effects, Yan and Yu recovered quickly, but Ying felt somewhat weakened... The three of them sat together, breathing heavily. After the fog, there would be a frenzy of insect attacks. By now, the insect corpses had piled up to seven layers tall, and many remains were flowing in through the windows... "I really didn't expect that playing a dungeon would require such desperate effort, hahaha," Ying said with a slightly crazed laugh. Yan coughed up the blood in his throat, "If there's a next time, even if it's a dungeon with guaranteed legendary gear, I won't do it!"