301: Chapter 301 Something dirty ahead!?

"Samba Country is doing well, they've been steady in first place until now."

"Nice job, Samba brothers!"

The members from Samba Country in the Dragon Country Live Stream Room felt quite helpless.

"Friends from Dragon Country, you're joking."

"Our first place is only temporary. Won't we eventually be overtaken by your contestant, An Ke?"

"Yeah! Yeah! Ever since getting close to the middle of the dungeon, our country's contestant's exploration progress has started to slow down."

"While An Ke is still moving like a hot knife through butter, catching up from behind to take first place."

"..."

Even though the Samba Country contestant is still in first place, they have no hope.

Maybe they did before, but after seeing An Ke having a 'guide' to lead the way, they don't anymore.

There's no comparison, none at all.

They only hope that second place also gets a reward.

Not just Samba, even Kimchi Country, ranked second, showed no joy.

After all, the exploration progress of the Kimchi Country contestant has also clearly declined.

If this continues, it's only a matter of time before they are overtaken by An Ke.

At the thought of being overtaken by Dragon Country, the Kimchi Country contestants couldn't stand it.

"Can the officials put in some effort? This is an s-rank instance?"

"There's no difficulty at all!"

"Exactly! S-rank my foot!"

"sibal! It feels like that kid from Dragon Country is just on vacation. I don't think it's even F-rank difficulty."

"F**k! I think so too! I'd believe it if they said it was F-rank."

"It feels like the officials are favoring Dragon Country!"

"The officials have responded to all our protests with silence. In my opinion, it's because we're right."

"..."

Not just South Korea, other countries joined in one after another.

How could the Dragon Country Masses let them get away with it?

"Can you sibal brats use your brains? Are you missing your brainstems, barking like dogs here?"

"F**k your ancestors!"

"Wait! What does this have to do with you Lighthouse people?"

"You always come to join the commotion."

"..."

Compared to the insults from Dragon Country, the Foreigners' cursing seemed like they hadn't even graduated from kindergarten.

Besides, Dragon Country had logic on its side.

An Ke's dungeon doesn't deserve s-rank difficulty?

How could it not? The dungeon has been difficult from the very beginning.

First, they encountered those unknown and extremely dangerous glowing particles.

Then there were hundreds of creatures infected by Double-Coiled Flukes.

Then the Giant Centipede, the giant python, the Hippopotamus blocking the way, and so on.

Which of those encounters wasn't dangerous?

Any other country's contestant would have died countless times by now.

The reason everyone sees the s-rank instance as so easy is that the person who entered is An Ke.

Not only does he have cheat-like abilities, but his IQ is also quite high, making 'local' animals act as guides.

On the other hand, look at the dungeons of other difficulty levels.

Basically, the animals encountered don't directly block the path.

For example, the Kimchi Country contestant, if he didn't choose to take the treasure chest...

He wouldn't have had to face the Piranhas at all; he could have just gone around the lake.

Another example is Fei Hou Country.

Their country's contestant died because he was looking at the bullet comments and wasn't paying attention.

If he had been a bit more vigilant and hadn't turned his back to the dark corner, would he have been killed by the Giant Scorpion?

Most likely not.

Secondly, the dead ends and forks in lower-level dungeons are far fewer than in s-rank instances.

The most forks An Ke encountered before reached over twenty.

If he didn't have animals to lead the way, he would probably have had to spend a long time on trial and error.

Maybe he would only have found the main road after trying more than twenty.

How is this level of difficulty not s-rank?

It definitely is.

Being able to proceed so smoothly is all because An Ke is too outstanding.

If it were any other country's contestant, they probably wouldn't even have reached 10% exploration progress by now.

They might even have died long ago.

With all this, how could the Dragon Country Masses not have the confidence to fire back?

The Foreigners were rendered speechless.

On second thought, they felt what Dragon Country said made a lot of sense.

If it were their own country's contestants, they would probably have met their end during the encounter with the Double-Coiled Flukes.

Would there even be a 'what happened next'?

In the live broadcast.

Seeing An Ke constantly asking about the situation in the cave ahead, Er Ha couldn't help but ask:

"Excellency, do you plan to head to the area ahead?"

An Ke noticed the change in the expressions of Er Ha and the Wolf Pack. "Is there something wrong ahead?"

"That's right, Excellency."

"There are dirty things ahead!"

"Dirty things?" An Ke didn't expect Er Ha and the Wolf Pack to say something like that.

Around them.

Hearing this, the animals and savages all cast curious glances.

"It's not another Hippopotamus, is it?" Old Crocodile's expression changed slightly.

As soon as he said this, the faces of all the animals changed drastically.

They recalled the fear of being dominated by the 'cesspool'.

One could visibly see the animals' expressions of resistance; they all felt like the smell was still lingering on them.

They have to wade through a cesspool again?

Among all the animals, the only one hurt was Barbie.

"We hippos are not dirty things!!" she roared.

Er Ha shook his head. "It's not a Hippopotamus..."

He stared with 'wise' eyes, seemingly in thought.

Just then, Jin Gang hopped over.

Chirping, "What's up, Second Brother?"

"Could the dirty things you're talking about be ghosts?"

"I don't really know what they are exactly..."

"Anyway, they're very creepy, with a hair-raising human face.

They have a pair of red horns on their heads, and below the human face, there's a pair of long golden limbs..."

"Yes, yes!"

The Wolf Pack's expressions were filled with shock and terror as they chimed in one after another.

Every detail they added about those 'dirty things' added a layer of eeriness and horror to the creature.

"The most terrifying part is that they can float in the air, appearing and disappearing unpredictably..."

"Once I saw it with my own eyes, floating right above my head, staring straight at me.

At the time, I thought it was an illusion. I rubbed my eyes and looked again... guess what?"

"That thing just vanished!"

"Another time, we were chasing a group of rabbits. Those rabbits ran into the area where those dirty things are."

"They immediately started struggling, as if they were caught by something."

"No matter how they struggled, it was useless."

"You have to understand, there were no other creatures around those rabbits at the time!!"

"..."

Around them, the animals and savages felt their skin crawl as they listened.

Little Wild Leopard and Little Tiger were so scared they ran to An Ke's side, shivering.

They clutched their heads with their paws, covering their ears so they couldn't hear.

Even Hua Hua, who loved eating the most, had no appetite. She looked at An Ke in terror:

"Brother, do you know what those things are?"

"Does such an eerie and terrifying thing really exist?"

"It's okay, it's okay~"

Before An Ke could speak, Three Hairs started comforting them.

"Heh!" An Ke couldn't help but chuckle. "Three Hairs, if that thing really is a 'dirty thing'."

"No matter how tough you are, it's useless."

"They will suck out your soul!"

Three Hairs' relaxed expression froze, and then he said, on the verge of tears, "Master, Master, don't scare the poop out of this Little Mouse!"