77: Always be one step ahead and keep moving forward!

For the next few hours, Su Mo and Xiao Wu used this 'grab and run' rogue tactic to ascend floor after floor.

On each floor, no matter what monsters they encountered, Su Mo only let Xiao Wu take the few wooden boxes closest to the Double Elevator, then immediately left, never lingering.

He didn't even bother to look at the ordinary monster corpses and scattered materials.

This behavior would seem like incomprehensible luxury and waste to other players.

But for Su Mo, who possessed the Lord of Greed talent, even if these low-level materials were picked up and duplicated nine times, they wouldn't sell for much money, making it a complete waste of time.

His goal from the very beginning was clear: to rush through the floors!

He wanted to reach higher floors as quickly as possible to find truly valuable items in this four-star dungeon!

Fifth floor, LV6 Poisonous Spiders.

Su Mo had Xiao Wu take four boxes, fed four cores, and headed straight for the sixth floor.

Sixth floor, LV7 Gargoyles.

Su Mo had Xiao Wu take four boxes, fed five cores, and headed straight for the seventh floor... As the floors continuously rose, the level and strength of the monsters also steadily increased.

The number of wooden boxes also grew.

From the initial ten, it gradually became fifteen, then twenty.

However, the items opened were still the same monotonous energy cores and Double Elevator upgrade materials.

Occasionally, some low-level crafting materials like iron ore and copper ore would be found, but to Su Mo, these were no different from junk.

"Damn it, is this four-star dungeon really that stingy?"

Su Mo sat on the soft sofa, looking at the nearly two hundred energy cores and upgrade materials in his storage space, and couldn't help but complain.

"We're almost at the tenth floor, and I haven't even seen a shadow of a silver treasure chest, let alone equipment or skill books. This drop rate is miles worse than my starter village!"

He regretted it a bit now.

If he had known this Double Elevator dungeon was so poor, he would have gone with Shen Yufu and the others to the Mist Ghost Ship dungeon instead.

At least it was ocean-themed; maybe he could have upgraded his Noahs Ark.

"Su Mo, why are you unhappy?" Xiao Wu asked, handing a cup of water to Su Mo, tilting her head with concern.

She, on the other hand, was having a lot of fun.

This kind of game, where she didn't have to think, just run around and carry boxes, was too easy for her.

"Nothing, I just feel a bit bored." Su Mo took the cup and took a sip.

"Bored? I think it's quite fun." Xiao Wu sat beside him, her straight, slender long legs casually crossed and swinging.

"Oh, right, Su Mo, when will we see the powerful BOSS you mentioned? These small monsters are too weak; I can stomp one to death with one kick, there's no challenge at all."

Looking at Xiao Wu's innocent and 'Versailles' expression, Su Mo felt a slight agreement.

He was worried about the low drop rate, while she found the monsters too weak.

"Soon." Su Mo sighed, "According to typical game settings, there should be a guardian BOSS every ten floors. We're already on the ninth floor, so the next floor definitely has good stuff."

As he spoke, he fed all the more than one hundred upgrade materials he had collected from these floors to the Double Elevator.

The Double Elevator's level soared.

It finally stopped at LV9.

[Ding! Your Double Elevator has been upgraded to LV9!]

[Space expanded to 200 square meters, movement speed increased by 50%!]

Just then, the Double Elevator also arrived at the ninth floor.

As soon as the door opened, a strong smell of blood rushed out.

The entire stone chamber floor was covered in a layer of dark red, viscous liquid.

And in the center of the room, four disfigured player corpses lay haphazardly!

These corpses must have belonged to the previous group of players who entered before him!

It seemed they tried to emulate Su Mo, rushing through the floors.

As a result, their strength was insufficient, and they were wiped out by the monsters here on the ninth floor.

And surrounding these corpses, dozens of sturdy, red-maned Hellhounds with two sharp fangs in their mouths were gnawing on their flesh.

[Hellhound (LV10)]

"Wow! So disgusting!" Xiao Wu covered her nose, a look of disgust on her face as she saw the bloody scene.

"It seems this dungeon isn't so easy to clear." Su Mo's expression, however, was calm.

In Gaia Game, death was the most common thing.

If one's skills were inferior, there was no one to blame for dying.

He scanned over the Hellhounds, then his gaze fell upon the scattered wooden boxes.

"Twenty boxes, take ten and leave."

"Okay!"

Xiao Wu took the order and once again transformed into a pink afterimage, rushing out.

The Hellhounds, who were eating, were startled by Xiao Wu's sudden appearance and let out a series of low growls, pouncing towards her.

The result, of course, was that Xiao Wu, using her 'weapon-like' long legs, kicked them all flying, one by one.

Five minutes later.

Su Mo and Xiao Wu, with ten wooden boxes, left the ninth floor satisfied.

Not long after they left.

The Bald Strong Man and the Bewitching Woman's Double Elevator also arrived at the eighth floor.

Looking at the empty stone chamber, with only a few rabid wild boar corpses and seven or eight obviously opened wooden boxes.

The Bald Strong Man's face was so gloomy it looked like it would drip water.

"Damn it! It's like this again!" He punched the Double Elevator wall, making a loud noise.

"What kind of team is that pink-haired girl's? Why are they always one step ahead of us?!"

"Tiger, calm down." The Bewitching Woman said with a frown, "I observed just now, they seem to go through every floor, and on each floor, they only take a portion of the boxes, then immediately leave."

"Only take a portion?" The Bald Strong Man was stunned, "What exactly do they want to do?"

"I suspect they're in a hurry." The Bewitching Woman analyzed, "Their goal is a BOSS on a higher floor, or... the legendary final reward."

"Hmph, just them?" The Bald Strong Man said with disdain, "If it weren't for that pink-haired girl's abnormal strength beside him, he'd have died eight hundred times already!"

"No matter what, we can't be so passive anymore." A fierce glint flashed in the Bewitching Woman's eyes, "Next floor, the tenth floor, there will definitely be a BOSS! We can't keep taking even-numbered floors; let's go straight to the tenth floor and confront them!"

"Even if we can't beat that pink-haired girl, we have to find a way to kill that man! If he dies, we can all deal with that pink-haired girl together; she's nothing to fear!"

"Good! Let's do it!" A sinister smile also appeared on the Bald Strong Man's face.

Two minutes later.

On the other side, the Long-Legged Woman and Xiao Ai's team also arrived at the ninth floor.

Looking at the player corpses scattered all over the ground and the opened wooden boxes.

The Long-Legged Woman's brow furrowed even deeper.

"Sister, they've been here again." Xiao Ai's voice was still cold.

"Hmm." The Long-Legged Woman nodded, her gaze lingering on the player corpses for a moment.

"It seems we all underestimated that 'rookie'." She said slowly.

"He's not stupid; he's filtering resources in a way we can't understand."

"He only takes what's useful to him and discards everything else. This kind of decisiveness and courage doesn't seem like something a rookie would possess."

"And his 'guard' has unfathomable strength."

"Sister, then what about us...?"

"The next floor is the tenth floor." A sharp glint flashed in the Long-Legged Woman's eyes, "If I'm not mistaken, they should be on the tenth floor by now."

"We'll go to the tenth floor too."

"I want to see what this guy, whom we've been treating as a 'rookie', is really up to."