Wasteland Hideout: Upgrading from the Sewers

Chapter 345: [Blood Clone], The End of the Firefly Land

Yu Yuan looked at the prompt information on the virtual light screen, his gaze filled with amusement.

"One hour, just enough time to finish the fight!"

Yu Yuan opened the commander system and sent a message to Fang.

[Wolf Den · King: An enemy has just entered our world. Keep an eye out. Notify me if you spot them.]

As a Gold-tier item, the commander system possessed the function of communication that ignored distance and world barriers.

Therefore, from the very beginning, Yu Yuan hadn't taken the invasion of the Firefly Earth Shelter seriously.

He had the advantage of being able to contact Fang and the others anytime, anywhere.

Whether he was at the shelter or not made no difference.

Furthermore, Moss Cottage was now imprisoned by him. Even if something happened, he could kill Moss Cottage and return to his own world at a moment's notice.

However, as the first player world Yu Yuan had invaded, and one that had even fused with a civilization shard, Yu Yuan planned to properly interrogate Moss Cottage for information about this world.This would be the first step in preparing for the formal invasion and conquest to come.

Fang's reply came quickly.

[Fang: King, I've already seen them. They appeared right within the surveillance range at the street corner.]

Yu Yuan hadn't expected such a coincidence.

[Wolf Den · King: Oh~ How many people? What's the current situation?]

Soon, a surveillance screenshot was transmitted by Fang. Yu Yuan opened it and couldn't help but let out an unkind chuckle.

The photo showed only one person, fully armed, but they were incredibly unlucky.

Due to the continuous three-day blizzard in Green Forest City, the snow and ice on the city streets had accumulated to nearly 1.5 meters. This person was tall and slender, and appearing in the snow and ice, they looked like a bamboo pole stuck into the snowy ground.

[Wolf Den · King: Good, continue monitoring.]

After giving the instruction, Yu Yuan paid no more attention to this Firefly Earth.

He had taken a look at the clothes the other person was wearing; they were quite thin. This person was undoubtedly doomed to die.

After quickly patrolling the area once more to confirm nothing was missed, Yu Yuan headed back the way he came.

He soon disappeared into the underground passage.

The area that had just witnessed intense combat once again fell into silence.

Several minutes later, Yu Yuan's figure emerged from the darkness once more. After giving a final sweeping glance around, he let out a soft laugh and left.

Another dozen or so minutes passed. Among the pile of bat corpses on the ground, one bat that should have been dead opened its eyes. The wounds on its body rapidly healed, and its eyes turned a bright crimson red.

Watching Yu Yuan's disappearing figure, a look of contemplation and fear appeared in this bat's eyes.

"Who exactly is this guy? Wasn't the one invading me Yu Yuan? What level of creature is that rat? Why do I sense an aura from that rat similar to my older sister's?"

"To think I'd end up using [Blood Clone] here..." This was actually Xiao Wu's clone.

It was also his final life-saving measure. But now, he didn't dare linger here and immediately prepared to leave.

Just as it flapped its wings, lifting off from the ground.

A large net woven from shadows enveloped the bat from all directions.

"How could this be..." Xiao Wu was incredulous.

The shadow net rapidly contracted and was finally caught in Yu Yuan's hand.

Perched on his shoulder, Zhi Zhi looked at the bat trapped in the net, a gloating expression in its eyes.

Seeing Yu Yuan's amused expression.

Xiao Wu, possessing the bat, seemed to understand something. He completely broke down.

He screamed hysterically at Yu Yuan, "Yu Yuan, you are Yu Yuan, aren't you?"

Hmm~~

Yu Yuan didn't answer his question. The Loser's Cube appeared again. As the containment light flashed and then faded.

This bat actually appeared in a new grid.

Yu Yuan raised an eyebrow slightly.

He had originally thought the bat would appear in the same grid as Moss Cottage. It seemed now that this bat possessed some characteristics Yu Yuan wasn't aware of.

But it didn't matter. Since it had fallen into his hands, these secrets could be interrogated together later.

Drawing from previous experience, Zhi Zhi animated dozens of shadow rats, gathering all the bat corpses together, including those with missing body parts.

As fuel oil was poured over the bat corpses, flames leaped up.

Accompanied by fire and thick smoke, the bat corpses began to burn.

With that, all potential threats were eliminated. Yu Yuan had no more concerns. He entered the Shadow Dimension and headed towards the direction of the Moss Cottage Shelter.

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As the invasion countdown ended, Firefly Earth only felt darkness before his eyes. The next moment, he felt as if he had entered a frozen wasteland, the piercing cold stinging his flesh painfully.

When he opened his eyes and looked around, he was utterly dumbfounded.

His earlier feeling wasn't an illusion; he had truly arrived in an icy, snowy land.

He was completely stuck in thick snow and ice, buried up to his chest.

Bone-chilling cold seeped through the gaps in his clothes. His body temperature melted the snow, and his thin wool sweater and underwear immediately felt icy.

Then, under the effect of the whiteout blizzard, the temperature on his body's surface was rapidly stripped away.

In just a few short seconds, Firefly Earth already felt a cold, tingling numbness on the skin of his arms. His body couldn't help but shiver.

A wave of panic from the depths of his soul swept over him.

"Didn't they say the temperature here was around eight or nine degrees Celsius? Why is it so cold!" Firefly Earth was truly panicking now.

He realized he had been tricked!

"Damn bitch, slut..."

Although filled with immense rage in his heart, Firefly Earth knew now wasn't the time for that. What he needed to do was quickly leave this place, find a dry spot, and warm up as soon as possible.

As for destroying the Yu Yuan Shelter or anything like that, Firefly Earth had already tossed it to the back of his mind.

All he wanted now was to quickly start a fire and get warm. Otherwise, at this temperature, he would freeze to death here in an hour at most.

His clothes offered almost no insulation in this environment, which was clearly minus twenty or thirty degrees Celsius.

Only by getting a fire going did he have a chance to survive.

Firefly Earth immediately started moving his legs towards the nearby office building. But his equipment was too heavy, especially the backpack. With snow and ice all around, he could only use both hands to constantly shovel the snow in front of him to the sides, struggling to move forward.

His progress was incredibly slow.

With his movements, snow and ice continuously got into his clothes and quickly melted.

Soon, his thin wool sweater, pants, underwear—everything was soaked. Even worse, Firefly Earth realized the skin all over his body had lost sensation. The skin on his arms was shaking and turning bluish-purple.

Coldness engulfed his entire being.

"Faster, faster. If I can't get warm soon, I will definitely freeze to death here."

"Faster, faster!"

Firefly Earth's voice screamed internally.

He discarded his weapon, threw his backpack forward, and took off his bulletproof vest.

With the load lightened, Firefly Earth's speed increased considerably. He grabbed his backpack and desperately crawled towards the office building.

Finally, he emerged from the thick snow and ice.

But just then, with the snow no longer shielding him, a gust of white wind carrying snow blew past his body. In an instant, Firefly Earth felt as if he had fallen into icy water.

His body began to tremble uncontrollably, as if shaking with a fever.

He knew if he didn't get warm now, it would really be too late.

He quickly pushed open the office building door with his backpack, one hand already digging inside, searching for the lighter.

But his trembling hands couldn't find the lighter no matter how hard he searched.

"Achoo... Achoo....... Achoo...."

One sneeze after another appeared.

Firefly Earth, holding the lighter he had finally found, dropped his backpack and went to search for combustible materials.

But he couldn't find anything flammable at all. Forget tables, chairs, or benches; even the wallpaper on the walls seemed to have been torn off. The entire building was bare.

Feeling his head growing heavier and heavier, Firefly Earth went mad.

"Damn it! Why isn't there anything? Why isn't there a single thing I can light? Why?"

He staggered around searching for combustibles. The piercing cold wind blew through the broken windows, sweeping over Firefly Earth's body.

He could feel his body temperature draining away explosively. His core temperature was rapidly dropping.

He searched room after room.

Nothing... nothing... still nothing.

Thud—

Finally, while climbing further upstairs, his foot slipped.

Firefly Earth's head slammed heavily against the stairs.

The blood that seeped from his skin quickly congealed and then froze.

Firefly Earth wanted to get up, but he couldn't feel a shred of warmth within his body. His body felt frozen stiff. Darkness swam before his eyes.

Gradually, he began to feel as if his body was getting a little warmer. The tense expression on his face relaxed slightly.

Until he fell to the ground once more. Firefly Earth only felt the world spinning. With a strange smile on his lips, he collapsed onto the floor.

Whoosh~~~

The wind howled.

Snow and ice blew into the building with the cold wind, finally covering Firefly Earth's icy body.