The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

Chapter 127 This is a gold mine!

But if it's truly impossible, then you can't force it.

It's better to find another way.

Things are static, but people are dynamic; there's always a way.

With this in mind, Li Can mentally simulated the possibilities of synthesizing earth-type armor, as well as the limitations of the operation.

Back in Shangcheng, he had seen a young man named "Azhu" among Yang Mo's group, who seemed to specialize in this area.

The mechs they wore when attacking the city lord's mansion were mainly developed by him, and their power goes without saying; their battle record is verifiable.

When fighting, it can switch forms at will; all the mechanical devices on its body are both weapons and defensive shields.

Its attribute is "Gold".

To avoid the metal generating water, the next step in making the armor I require cannot use this material.

Now that the personnel have been selected to go back, the supply and selection of building materials is a problem.

How sturdy must the earth be to hold those things down...?

As he was deep in thought, Xiao Guai, who had been silent for a while, suddenly spoke up: "There's something else I've been thinking about, and I think I shouldn't keep it from you."

"Actually, on the day I returned to drill into the underground mine for the second time, I had already died once..."

His words quickly aroused everyone's doubts.

Li Can immediately frowned.

"Hahaha, if you think about it carefully, you'll realize that since I know there are gaps in the underground mine that can be occupied by those things, I'm probably in grave danger."

"But the amazing thing is, I seemed to be dead, yet I also seemed not to be dead."

"My body has long been corroded and riddled with holes by them... That's why I went back to the human city once halfway through."

"I went back to see a doctor, but there were no results."

"Later, I wandered back here and settled down here permanently, never to leave again, until I wait for you to come back once more."

The younger version of Xiaoguai speaks with a nonchalant tone, and no matter what he does, he lacks the childishness he had in his younger days.

Judging from his slightly mature face alone, no one would have guessed that he would so directly strip off all his clothes in front of them.

That was true nakedness, without any embellishment.

He acted too quickly, without much hesitation, thus exposing himself to nature.

Shen Yuan and Li Lan, the two young girls, choked up on the spot.

It wasn't his act of stripping naked that terrified me, but rather the shock and sadness I felt upon seeing the corrosive holes in his body.

Yang Mo: [So that's how it is. He was pierced by something outside the barrier around this time, which is why he knew its power was not to be underestimated and thus kept everyone captive.]

If they were to examine the monster's corpse in the main hall of the Upper City Lord's Mansion, they would find it to be exactly the same as it is now.

Anyone who sees this will be shocked and jump up, then immediately retreat and run away.

Li Can observed carefully and saw that the ulceration started from below the collarbone and spread all the way to the thigh.

Only the limbs and the area above the head remain intact.

But in reality, it's all show and no substance.

It's all an illusion.

His main body was covered with hundreds of tiny holes, and black granular material was wriggling around the edges of the holes, exhibiting the same parasitic state as them.

The flesh inside is devoured and consumed, yet it constantly regenerates fresh human tissue to repair itself, until it is spread again...

In this way, a delicate balance was achieved.

So the monsters haven't died yet.

If one day his body loses this terrifying regenerative ability, he will be instantly destroyed, just like the fish and birds he threw into the darkness for experiments.

Not even a dreg was left.

Shen Yuan: [No wonder I've felt itchy all over since I woke up this time. It's a persistent, tingling pain, like the feeling of repeatedly picking at a scab that has formed on a wound...]

Now that I've seen it with my own eyes, I'm no longer sleepy. My whole body feels uncomfortable. The city lord's life must be too agonizing.

Li Lan: [Yes, I felt the same way, but since no one else mentioned it, I subconsciously ignored it. After all, risking one's life is insignificant compared to our important business.]

Yang Mo: [Me too.]

Li Can was surprised; it turned out everyone was the same.

That's what he thought too.

But more than anything, everyone was highly focused on the event, since this was the last flashback scene, and they were about to enter the final individual Q&A session.

The little monster stood casually in a sunny spot, his body warmed by the sun. He looked at the edge of the dark sky in the distance, stretched his body, and did a few warm-up exercises.

Then, while putting his clothes back on, he said, "Now that you're back and know what I've accomplished, I have no regrets."

After getting dressed, he kicked off his slippers and put on a pair of cloth shoes that were easy to walk in.

"Since you say I'm the future city lord, and even created things like barriers, and even in this ghastly state, those things can't kill me..."

"I've decided to step into the darkness completely this time and give it a try."

"No longer passive, but active."

"This is the energy converter I developed. Any energy that is converted by those dark particles in my body can be stored and used by me."

As he spoke, he pulled out an irregular cylindrical tube from his backpack, which was about the size of a regular 550ml plastic water bottle.

One end is about the size of the mouth of a mineral water bottle, and it looks like an inlet for drawing water.

The other end has a recessed backflow inlet device, about half the diameter of a fist.

He shook the golden liquid that had accumulated inside the transparent bottle, and it floated gently.

It looks like...

Shen Yuan: [This, isn't this the golden river we saw during the transition in the mirror space? So it turns out they were transformed from the city lord's own body?]

Li Can: [That's right, he's using himself as a vessel. The results are already quite impressive, even though it's only preliminary. So he's not bothered by the numerous wounds on his body; on the contrary, he's excited...]

This is a highly profitable business; you win more than you lose.

[But before we returned, he hesitated, worried that he might overexert himself and die before we arrived.]

Yang Mo: [There's no need to hesitate now; he seems incredibly eager.]

Li Lan: [If I knew the ending would be perfect, I would also go crazy like that; the profits are really considerable.]

No matter how you look at it, from any perspective, what Xiao Guai is planning to do now will indeed benefit him a lot in the future.

Li Can estimated that the [Mirror of the Past] and [Coordinates] he received from the gashapon shell were probably related to the golden energy transformed by the city lord.

There's something very mysterious about this.

They used to think the darkness on the other side of the river was a raging flood or a ferocious beast.

But if you look at it from another angle, it's practically a gold mine.