Chapter 440 It's an honor to let you live.
Thirty minutes ago, the surviving players of the 'Xiaoyue' guild gathered here. Because there were too many people to stand in, some of them had to stay on the beds inside the room.
Most of them were injured and depressed, but their faces showed a sense of exhilaration at the prospect of taking revenge on the monster.
Is everyone here?
"Um."
"Everyone is here."
After a few responses, the players' emotions became high:
"Blow those little bastards to death!"
"Amitabha Buddha, Holy Mother Mary... bless us so that we may succeed!"
Zhou Longmao reassured everyone, "The location where the bomb was planted was personally calculated by Chairman Tao, so there is absolutely no problem."
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Actually, they had already met once last night to get the escape pods and leave the cruise ship.
The time between the night shift and the day shift is the perfect time to take action.
As for the 'escape pod placement' and 'key to the room where the escape pods are stored', they are all clearly written in the guide, so they can just go and get them.
Tao Cheng had worried that the escape pods on the ship, like the helipad, were traps left by monsters specifically to deal with players.
But apart from the escape pod, they didn't know any other way to get everyone out of the instance together.
The monsters on the ship have all been acting a bit dazed these past two days, making the key-stealing operation incredibly smooth.
A cruise ship the size of the 'Pioneer' would not have just one escape capsule.
Zhou Longmao, Tao Cheng, and ten other players carefully investigated the patrol routes of the monsters on the night and day shifts and chose the most difficult-to-discover escape pod storage location.
But as luck would have it, they weren't the only ones eyeing that lifeboat.
The 'Breaking Waves Guild,' which had been quiet since boarding the ship, was also plotting the same thing.
As a force that had cooperated with the 'Xiaoyue Guild', 'Polang' naturally knew the information that 'Xiaoyue' knew.
Fearing further unforeseen events at the third day's zombie outbreak point, both sides unanimously chose to act on the evening of the second day.
And that's how the coincidence came about.
Originally, the 'Breaking Waves Guild' had 24 members, making it the guild with the most members entering the instance, but when they encountered Zhou Longmao, Tao Cheng, and others, they only had five members.
The man named Xiong Chi from the Fourth Heavenly Ladder was not among them.
Despite being outnumbered two to one, the notoriously troublesome "Breaking Waves Guild" calmly set aside their grudges after the two sides met and cooperated to complete the preliminary preparations.
In the final stage, Tao Cheng's worries indeed came true.
Although what awaited them wasn't a trap, it almost dashed their hopes of escaping the instance using the escape pods.
When everyone opened the door to the room where the escape pods were stored, they discovered that the escape pods, which were supposed to be inflatable and easy to carry, had been replaced with hard steel!
And it's firmly welded to the floor!
Even if they could separate the escape pod from the floor, they wouldn't have enough storage space to hold the entire escape pod.
If the escape pod cannot be installed, the large, bulky, and steel object simply cannot pass through the corridor leading to the deck.
They now only have two choices left.
The first method is to work together to disassemble the escape pod and then put it back together on the deck.
Not only is the method time-consuming and laborious, but if the splicing process takes too long, there is also a risk of exposure.
Therefore, the two groups once again tacitly chose the second method.
Since the escape pods can't reach the edge of the cruise ship, let's bring the edge of the cruise ship to the escape pods!
Thus, the plan to 'bomb the ship to divert water' came about.
By simply opening a large hole in the hull on the side where the lifeboat is located, players can ride the lifeboat directly into the ocean without having to go through a corridor.
The theory exists; let's begin to put it into practice.
Planting bombs sounds simple, but in practice, it's fraught with difficulties.
Making too obvious arouses the monster's suspicion; a well-placed bomb will be discovered if not disguised.
In short, fifteen people, or thirty props that can be used as bombs.
They worked from dawn until now to finish the installation; only those with the scars on their bodies can truly understand the hardships they endured.
As long as you aren't seen by any living monsters, then it's a successful infiltration.
They waited patiently in the small dormitory for half an hour, and the planned explosion occurred right on time.
The explosion not only successfully tore a gap in the side of the ship, but also inadvertently rescued a rabbit on the thirty-first floor, sparing it from physical pain.
Amid the continuous explosions, Tao Cheng led the remaining nine people out of the dormitory inside the ship's cabin in batches, mingling with the passengers who were wandering around in a panic.
Some people, feeling it wasn't chaotic enough, even secretly yelled twice in the area with the most monsters, "The ship is sinking! Everyone run!"
Upon hearing this, the monsters became even more panicked. They abandoned their human skin and fled using their most agile and comfortable bodies.
What was originally just the sounds of monkeys and birds from the monster itself has now turned into real sightings of monkeys, chickens, dogs, and sheep running all over the boat.
The players were secretly pleased, and didn't mind if they accidentally guessed that one of the passengers had incontinently urinated or defecated.
Tao Cheng kept silently counting the explosions, only to find that they stopped when he counted to twenty!
At dawn, they had agreed with the 'Breaking Waves' guild that each of them would use two homemade bombs.
Logically, there should have been thirty explosions.
Even if someone couldn't find a suitable opportunity to plant the bomb, the explosion ultimately stopped at the number twenty! Isn't that too much of a coincidence?
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Thirty-one floors.
The moment the explosion occurred, 'Red Eyes' rushed down with his bowl in hand without the slightest hesitation!
Zuo Cheng'an followed closely behind. He could see clearly what was happening on the way. 'Red Eyes' quietly swallowed the sticky pus in the bowl in one gulp.
Only when there was a little left in the bowl did he feign annoyance and smash it on the ground: "Oops! I accidentally broke it!"
"That guy who caused all that trouble on the boat is really despicable! Brother Mo Cheng! I'm so sorry! I'll definitely get you another drink next time!"
If it weren't for the fact that he really didn't want to feign excessive craving for the pus in the bowl, Zuo Cheng'an would have pointed to the water stain on the ground, which wasn't even as big as a spittle, and asked, "Are you sure this is a bowl of water?"
"Brother Red Eyes, you should drink more so that you can help us out in the future."
"Hmm~ Don't worry, once I've made it big, I'll never forget you. I remember you like fish, I'll get you another one later."
Zuo Cheng'an cooperated fully: "'Again'!? Could it be that the 'Seven-Colored Rainbow Fish' I received before was...?"
"That's right, it's from me."
'Red Eyes' nodded in agreement.
There aren't many monsters in the entire Heavenly Ladder City that can truly win its favor. Most of them only come to curry favor with it occasionally because of its past identity.
But that's limited to treating someone to a meal or giving them a chair or similar item; that's about it.
As time has passed, in recent centuries, former identities have become increasingly irrelevant.
But Mo Cheng was an exception. Although he had forgotten that they had ever done business together, Mo Cheng was willing to associate with him at least because of his talent.
What they value is its 'red eyes' itself, not its identity.
This deeply moved 'Red Eyes'.
Of course, while I'm touched, I won't give up even a penny of my own interests!
But it genuinely wanted to acknowledge this younger brother named Mo Cheng, and was even somewhat reluctant to let him go to his death.
Therefore, it planned to put the antidote for the 'zombie virus' into the second fish and then take Mo Cheng with it.
Red-Eye: Ah, it's so amazing.