A three-person squad, originating from three different teams, all of whom had lost their original teammates due to various factors. They were a temporary group formed just to keep advancing, so how could there be any trust or synergy to speak of?
At this moment, no one was willing to trust anyone else, causing their ascension speed to become the slowest among the four teams.
Everyone was worried that the others were secretly hoarding treasures, and they also feared a sudden attack from within.
Even in such an urgent moment, when they needed to quickly throw away the treasures in their hands, the other two were still being stubborn and wary of each other.
Threeking really wanted to lose his temper but was left feeling helpless. His luck was truly terrible—he had transformed into a sea snake, while the other two were a hard-shelled scallop and a highly poisonous jellyfish.
He couldn't afford to bite either of them! This luck was just ridiculous. He wanted to team up with someone else, but it was impossible.
With no other choice, since brute force wouldn't work, he had to rely on his brains. After much instigation and provocation, he finally managed to get the two of them to fight each other.
Taking advantage of the situation, he threw all the treasures off the iron cage. Unexpectedly, this completely enraged the two of them, and Threeking was immediately besieged by both.
Fortunately, as a sea snake, he was agile enough. He darted up and down wildly, calmly waiting for an opportunity...
The other two were not united; given the chance, they would naturally tear each other apart. He just needed to wait.
Sure enough, the moment the scallop opened its shell, the poisonous jellyfish thrust a tentacle inside, injected venom using its nematocysts, and then swiftly withdrew, retreating to a safe area.
It didn't take long for the scallop to stop breathing. Without any hesitation, the jellyfish tossed its corpse out of the iron cage.
It turned around to look at Threeking with an air of immense arrogance, feeling as if it was already in an invincible position.
But right at that moment, the iron cage suddenly shook violently and began to ascend rapidly. Since the jellyfish was already near the edge of the cage, Threeking seized the opportunity.
He dove down from above, intending to use the massive downward momentum to ram it straight out of the cage.
The jellyfish's body was indeed knocked outside the iron cage, but its tentacles tightly gripped the bars, barely steadying itself. It then quickly tried to wrap its tentacles around the sea snake that had ambushed it...
Threeking feigned a retreat, but the moment he turned around, he launched another attack aimed at the base of the jellyfish's tentacles. This was his only chance; a small sea snake that could only transmit venom by biting was no match for a jellyfish covered in poison.
The base of the tentacles was the spot Threeking had noticed the jellyfish desperately protecting during its fight with the scallop. Every living creature had a weakness.
As expected, the moment the jellyfish was struck, it was as if all the strength had been drained from its body...
It had thought that by becoming a sea monster with almost no weak points, it could completely turn the tables and make it to the end. It never expected to be outsmarted by a tiny sea snake!
Threeking had no way to kill the jellyfish completely, but he took the chance to push it all the way out of the cage.
Then, he pressed himself tightly against the bottom of the iron cage!
Sure enough, the next second, the cage's ascension speed increased again, becoming absurdly fast. If he hadn't prepared in advance by moving to the center of the cage and lying flat, he might have been thrown out instantly.
Such a huge commotion caught the full attention of the other three groups. By this time, they had almost finished throwing away what needed to be thrown, and they were all intently watching the situation over here.
They could roughly guess that Threeking was the only one left in his iron cage...
The brief moment of peace was instantly shattered, with everyone babbling away, completely unable to understand what the others were saying.
Jinwen Xingmangyue quickly made a decision and threw out the last treasure they had kept. Seeing the cage's ascension speed double once again, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
However, because of this, within an hour, Threeking's iron cage caught up to be parallel with Qi Xu's group, and it was only a matter of time before he surpassed them.
Xie Shaoning's group fell straight to the very back, and the three of them couldn't help but panic a little.
Cheese Foam quickly calmed down and thought it over. Jinwen Xingmangyue's trio wouldn't turn on each other, nor was there any sound of fighting from their iron cage, or any sight of someone falling. Yet, their cage's ascension speed was noticeably much faster now.
That proved that the other two people in her own team had very likely secretly kept some treasures.
She directly smacked Xie Shaoning's turtle shell with her pincer, desperately gesturing to convey her meaning. Secretly hoarding a treasure was absolutely something this fool would do.
Xie Shaoning roughly understood Cheese Foam's meaning, but he was truly wronged!
When they were throwing the treasures, he had wanted to keep one, but Cheese Foam had stuck her shrimp pincer right into his shell to search. How could he hide anything? He had no choice but to throw them all away.
And now she was coming over to falsely accuse him!
Seeing the defensive breakdown of the large turtle, Cheese Foam finally understood that it wasn't him. He couldn't act that convincingly...
Just as she wanted to turn and look at the usually silent and taciturn bighead carp, she suddenly felt a palpitation. Cheese Foam 80% Sugar hastily dodged to the side, and Xie Shaoning also instantly retracted his body into his shell.
However, the bighead carp spat out numerous golden threads from its mouth, firmly and completely entangling Cheese Foam 80% Sugar, who was currently a lobster monster.
Cheese Foam hadn't been idle either. Having pretty much adapted to her current body by now, she didn't panic. Instead, she quickly used her shrimp pincers to slice apart the golden threads on her body.
This time they had truly judged a book by its cover. The muscular man in Xie Shaoning's team had always seemed very good-tempered, and even after transforming into a monster, he appeared to be the clueless and cute type.
They never expected this person to be so ruthless!
It was almost certain that he was still hiding a treasure on him, a treasure that he was desperately determined to take out, even if it meant risking killing her and Xie Shaoning.
Xie Shaoning was even more bewildered at this moment. Because he had turned into a sea turtle, he didn't have a single offensive method. He couldn't even manage to charge over and ram the bighead carp out of the iron cage.
His forward speed was remarkably slow...
After hearing no commotion outside, he had just poked his head out half an inch when the bighead carp caught him red-handed. His head was completely wrapped in the golden threads it shot out.
In just a few short seconds, he felt a strong sense of suffocation! Countless golden threads almost entirely enveloped Xie Shaoning's head.
Cheese Foam cursed angrily in a monster language that even she couldn't understand. If you don't have combat abilities, just hide properly and don't cause trouble... Unbelievable, I'm never teaming up with Little Xie again!
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