168: Chapter 168 The little bird is truly our good player!

“Why is a melee fighter like you at the very back?” Xiao Niao was extremely sensitive to positioning. As they reached the cave entrance, he noticed that only Hu Gualing was ahead of him, while Tang Yao—one of the team's only two main combatants—had somehow fallen behind.

Xiao Niao turned his head to look back and realized Tang Yao wasn't hiding on purpose; she was struggling with her pet. Tang Yao held a Fire Starter in one hand and pulled the Taming Rope with the other, while the Sharp-toothed Piglet dug its legs into the ground, refusing to move forward. Tang Yao thought it was hungry and pulled a handful of Pig Grass from her bag to toss over, but Sharp Tooth didn't even approach it, clearly uninterested in food.

“What's wrong?” Tang Yao wondered. Little Sharp-Teeth had always been quite obedient; this had never happened before.

Hu Gualing also turned around to observe for a moment and guessed, “The little guy seems to be afraid.”

“Afraid?”

“Yeah, there might be something inside the cave that scares it, or maybe a monster.” Hu Gualing was a child from the countryside and was no stranger to pigs and dogs, so he judged based on experience.

Tang Yao: “But it didn't seem afraid when we faced that huge wild boar before.”

Xiao Niao judged, “That only means there might be a monster even more terrifying than the wild boar inside the cave.”

“More terrifying than the wild boar?” A look of worry appeared on Tang Yao's face.

Hu Gualing said indifferently, “Who cares how powerful the monster is? We've already come this far, there's no way we're not going in to take a look. Even if there's some ultimate boss inside, at most we'll just die once and return to the village for Resurrection.”

“Yeah, true.” Even a cautious fellow like Xiao Niao nodded repeatedly upon hearing this.

But the worry on Tang Yao's face did not lessen.

She wasn't worried about how many times she would die; after all, character death in the game could be resolved by spending game points to buy revival coins for Resurrection. With her savings, she didn't really need to worry about that. What she was worried about was Sharp Tooth.

It was true that she had brought Sharp Tooth back from the pigpen to raise as a pet, and it had a dedicated pet panel. However, this pet panel only showed Sharp Tooth's name and basic attributes; other than that, no more information could be found. It seemed no different from an ordinary monster. Therefore, Tang Yao couldn't help but worry about Sharp Tooth's safety. If its health hit zero, would it be able to undergo Resurrection like a player, or would it just be gone forever like a monster?

Tang Yao didn't understand and didn't dare to experiment. Thus, she had been very careful about Sharp Tooth's safety along the way, fearing it might be killed by monsters outside. This was why Sharp Tooth hadn't suffered any other damage, except for being bounced back when it ran into a monster, reaching this point safely.

But now, in front of this mysterious cave entrance, Sharp Tooth was shivering and didn't dare to go in. This indicated that there might be something inside that it was very afraid of, perhaps a monster much more powerful than the wild boar. If that were the case... Tang Yao had no confidence at all that she could protect Sharp Tooth's safety.

However, Tang Yao wasn't very comfortable with leaving Sharp Tooth outside the cave instead of taking it in. While the entrance to the corridor could block the wild boars outside from entering, it couldn't stop Sharp Tooth from leaving. Who knew if Sharp Tooth would get bored in this corridor and go out to 'reunite' with those wild boars? So she felt... it would be better to keep Sharp Tooth by her side.

After thinking it over, Tang Yao picked up the Pig Grass from the ground, tugged the rope, and dragged Sharp Tooth into the cave...

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Inside the Main God Space, Chen Mo and Xiao Wan watched the entire adventure of Tang Yao, Hu Gualing, and Xiao Niao after they left the village. When they saw the Black Wild Boar ram Xiao Niao to death, both Chen Mo and Xiao Wan showed knowing smiles, because the plan to recover main god points was finally showing initial results.

As for later, when Xiao Niao's single arrow lured five wild boars to chase them relentlessly, Chen Mo and Xiao Wan couldn't help but look at each other for a few seconds before bursting into loud laughter, making the entire Main God Space echo with cheerful laughter.

Xiao Wan commented appreciatively: [Xiao Niao is truly a good player for us!]

Chen Mo was also full of praise for Xiao Niao: “Daring to challenge and brave enough to challenge, he truly is a wonderful Dreamer.”

While the man and the sphere were celebrating, they saw Xiao Niao discover a corridor and lead Tang Yao and Hu Gualing inside, temporarily avoiding the charge of the wild boars.

At this, both Chen Mo and Xiao Wan felt it was a bit of a pity, remarking that Xiao Niao had good luck and decent eyesight. Even while running in a panic, he actually noticed this corridor and led his teammates inside, temporarily escaping the fate of being wiped out by the five wild boars.

However, Chen Mo and Xiao Wan weren't too disappointed about not seeing the three players wiped out for the moment, because hiding in the corridor might not necessarily be a good thing for Xiao Niao and the others.

If Xiao Niao hadn't stopped because he found this corridor while being chased by the wild boars earlier and had continued to run for his life, there would have been a certain chance of escaping the wild boars' pursuit range. Only the two slower people at the back would have suffered, which would still be better than a total wipeout.

But now that all three of them had hidden inside the corridor, it seemed they were safe for the moment, but at the same time, they had trapped themselves. The wild boar pack was waiting right outside the corridor, and sooner or later, they would have to come out one by one from that corridor entrance which could only accommodate one person. The five wild boars outside could kill a player in a single round of combined attacks. The three of them had no ability to resist at all; they couldn't avoid the fate of being wiped out.

“Sigh, what a pity. Even running in separate directions would be better than hiding in this dead end.” Chen Mo hypocritically lamented for his three lovely players, while in his heart, he was dying to see them wiped out soon.

And speaking of this corridor, it wasn't something he had designed intentionally.

When he consumed main god points to generate the wilderness map out of thin air, he only planned a general outline in his mind. It was impossible for every stone and every grain of soil to have its details fully imagined by him. If he did that, regardless of whether his brain's memory was sufficient, the consumption of time and energy alone would not be something an Apprentice Main God like him could afford.

So this corridor, which seemed like a coincidence and was thought by Xiao Niao and the others to be a deliberate setting by the Development Team, was actually not something Chen Mo had created on purpose.