The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

As Li Can watched the monsters that had been attracted and gathered behind Wu Xiuyuan and Wang Qing rushing towards the group, countless countermeasures flashed through his mind.

"What other solutions do I have?" Li Can muttered, cold sweat dripping down his forehead.

He was also very troubled. Before, when he didn't need to resort to force to solve problems, he could barely use his half-baked brain to deal with them.

Now, facing this group of mutated monsters with extraordinary combat power, it's impossible for him not to panic.

The last time he was besieged by monsters was when he had just transmigrated and was hanging outside the 24th floor. He finally escaped and ascended to heaven by relying on the puppet egg.

Thinking of this, a mixture of crying and laughing flashed across his face.

Good news, he also has a knack for winning.

The bad news is that if he uses any of the other zombie puppets in the toy box in his head again, he might suddenly faint.

Controlling just one zombie vulture was already exhausting.

But right now, can we still delay? Are there any other options?

No.

Never mind, Li Can gritted his teeth and released all ten zombies at once.

Suddenly, twenty or thirty humanoid spider monsters, belly up, rushed into the open space and formed a circular formation, surrounding the group.

Tentacle attacks from all directions left everyone with nowhere to hide.

Li Can was surrounded by his ten zombie puppets in the center of a safe zone. He was unarmed and could only struggle to break through by controlling the puppets.

【Puppet Egg No. 1】

[Having been attacked normally, its lower body was severed, but thanks to its excellent devouring and absorbing abilities, it drained the opponent's body of all its fluids. The No. 1 puppet egg is currently undergoing limb regeneration. Its second-class zombie skill, extending its arm by two meters, has begun to evolve. This update is expected to be completed in three seconds.]

【Puppet Egg No. 2】

[Having suffered a penetrating chest wound from a normal attack, it managed to drain the opponent's fluids using its excellent devouring and absorbing abilities. The No. 2 puppet egg is currently repairing its body fragments. Its zombie venom attack ability is expected to reactivate in 5 seconds.]

……

【Puppet Egg No. 10】

[Having suffered a fatal attack and severe brain damage, it has lost all vital signs of a zombie. The puppet egg has become ineffective and will soon be collected and sealed in the dustbin.]

The overwhelming attacks caused Li Can's mental energy to become a chaotic mess due to the simultaneous manipulation of the attacks, and the world spun before his eyes.

He could receive one broadcast message after another in his mind. In just three minutes of attack, he lost three of his zombie puppets, all of them dying from penetrating brain injuries.

He felt dizzy and nauseous, but also deeply pained.

It hurts, it hurts too much.

Three great generals were gone just like that. He didn't know when he could refresh and get new puppet eggs again, so he cherished each one.

There are now 7 puppets left on the field that have begun to evolve and repair themselves, which is barely enough to ensure that Li Can will not die.

However, his body was still inevitably cut open by the monster's leg tentacles that reached into the gaps in the encirclement.

"Damn it!" Now he's not only in pain, but his body is starting to hurt too.

The wound was scimitar-shaped, with flesh torn to shreds on both sides, and blood pooled on the ground along the wrist, forming a small lake.

Through his blurry vision, he could see that the other players weren't in much better shape either.

To his main surprise, everyone's special abilities were quite well hidden.

They've only just revealed their true abilities now.

However, upon closer reflection, it becomes clear that without some skill in self-preservation, who would be so foolish as to enter such an unknown and deadly dungeon?

The baby-faced girl Chen Qi wanted to evolve her body from a petite and delicate state to the size of Tarzan with a single click, and her clothes even stretched and deformed with her body size.

Every time she throws a punch, a side kick, or a sweeping leg, a group of monsters are sent flying by the whirlwind, and those things even need a few seconds to recover before they can get back up.

"Awesome..." Li Can rubbed his throbbing temples, his eyelids twitching, and he was as dizzy as if he had drunk too much fake alcohol.

Chen Qi's skills reminded him of cartoon characters from old TV shows: Big Bear, Little Bear, Ultraman, the eldest Calabash Brother...

He felt his thoughts were floating on a marshmallow filled with gaps, made of countless strands of sugar, and he could never find a place to land.

"Li Can, watch out behind you!"

Chen Qi's mouth opened and closed as if he was saying something, but he couldn't hear anything at all.

The translation was all gibberish, like the shrill noise of an old, broken cassette tape playing square dance music.

Immediately, a powerful gust of wind from a punch whistled past his ears, and the stray hairs at his temples fell backward with the airflow.

"Bang!"

A small spider monster almost broke through Li Can's puppet circle, but the next second, it was instantly smashed away by Chen Qi's fist, which was as big as a sandbag.

Its body rolled several times on the ground, covered in dust, and finally got stuck at the edge of the grass.

Li Can's vision was as chaotic as a monitor screen in a surveillance room, with images from nine different perspectives changing simultaneously, making his eyes extremely blurry.

He turned his head, scanned the location of the unconscious monster from the main viewpoint, and quickly controlled the No. 1 puppet to use its newly grown tentacles to slam it into the ground, hollowing out its body and killing it instantly.

"You've learned to ambush people too!" Li Can broke out in a cold sweat. He had just been injured and almost died here. His adrenaline surged wildly.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he led seven puppets to wreak havoc on all sides, subtly forming a counterattack.

Halfway through the killing, Li Can passed by a human-shaped shadow.

After a careful examination, he staggered back a few steps; it was no longer human.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Mo were in a special yin-yang combined state, their two figures overlapping, making it impossible for the monsters to launch any real attacks against them.

Each charge forward would pass directly through their bodies.

It seemed to have truly transformed into a... eerie shadow.

Li Can reached out to touch it, but it felt like she was passing through air; there was nothing there at all.

However, this humanoid figure constantly serves as a reminder of their existence.

"Strange, so strange," Li Can thought to himself. That must be why Xiaoyu and Xiaomo's parents would harm their own children and do that kind of research.

He shook his head, his brain feeling like it was in an empty box, swaying back and forth, with sharp thorns constantly pricking him from all sides.

Li Can wasn't even sure if he was overusing his mental energy, causing him to hallucinate, and he was even less willing to trust some of his own judgments.

Wu Xiuyuan and his apprentice Wang Qing, standing at the edge of the dense forest, were surrounded by countless bright yellow talismans. As the monster attacked, fragments of the talismans fell to the ground and became rubble.

It looks like they can only defend and can't attack.

Because of Wu Xiuyuan's efforts to protect Wang Qing, their situation is now even worse than that of Xiaoyu and Xiaomo.

The only two things on the field that can currently consume and attack the monsters are Li Can's puppet and the mutated Chen Qixiang.

Gradually, Li Can heard the sound of wings flapping in his ears.

Accompanied by the stench of decay and the unique fragrance of leaves in the dense forest, the thing was getting closer and closer.

Looking up, he saw his own vulture finally fly back through his clumsy maneuvers.

He was so moved he almost cried. It's so good to have wings.

If he could fly by himself someday, how convenient that would be! Running away when you can't win is the only way to win, unlike now where you can only fight head-on.

Caught in the vulture's grasp, his gaze rose higher and higher, the man and the bird dangling in the air, rising and falling until finally landing on the highest branch at the edge of the clearing.

Li Can was in a daze. To stay awake, he grabbed the edge of the torn flesh on his left arm with his right hand and ripped another gash outward.

"hiss……"

The sharp pain made him break out in a cold sweat, and his face instantly turned as pale as paper.

Fortunately, his vision finally regained half of its original clarity, and he scanned downwards from mid-air.

The masked figure in white has vanished; no one knows when or how he disappeared...

Li Can searched the area thoroughly but couldn't find him at the scene.

"Master, what's wrong! You can't die! Waaaaah!" Wang Qing's anxious voice came from below.

Seeing that Wu Xiuyuan was already exhausted and unsteady on his feet, spitting out a mouthful of blood, he was still struggling to repair the protective shield made of talismans.

The outer walls were clearly dilapidated, indicating a defensive posture with no offensive capabilities, suggesting an impending doom.

Li Can quickly withdrew his probing gaze, not daring to delay any longer, and controlled the remaining seven puppets to continue the counterattack.

Incidentally, Li Can encountered a monster on the ground that had been temporarily knocked unconscious by Chen Qixiang, and took advantage of its weakness to kill it.

He discovered that his puppet and the monster on the other side evolved in a similar way.

Both of them upgrade their own energy by consuming flesh and blood; it remains to be seen who will gain the upper hand.

The zombies continued to grow, their attack capabilities increasing dramatically, resulting in an overwhelming victory.

"Huh, it's mutated?"

On the surface of the puppet eggs in his mind, deep and ancient patterns began to emerge, with shimmering light flashing within them.

Li Can's muddled thoughts were swept away at the same time, and he felt an unprecedented clarity.

It felt like a dried-up container being suddenly filled with a stream of clear spring water that constantly cleanses and washes it.

Cool and refreshing!

【初级傀儡蛋1号、2号、3号、6号、7号、8号、9号已升级至高级傀儡蛋，解锁七枚物资扭蛋币。】

Upon receiving the new hint, Li Can's heart raced, filled with both nervousness and excitement. Could he finally unlock a new gashapon machine?

He had long been curious about what was hidden inside.

He materialized a gashapon coin in his hand and examined it: "So this is the currency for resource eggs. It looks a bit like a gold sculpture."