Chapter 436 - 179: The Beauty Snake’s Allure, Speedrunning the Secret Path

Although he had mastered immense power and could enter easily, he still had to be extremely careful. Within the special areas, death meant you were gone for good, and the rule that all inherited abilities would vanish for one day, every other day, still made Shen Fei wary. There was no guarantee that on a day his abilities disappeared, he wouldn’t just be taken out.

So, entering a special area required extreme caution. The utmost caution.

. . .

No rush! I’ll handle other things first!

He had decided to enter a special area, but he needed to plan this out for the long term. Shen Fei didn’t dwell on it further, his attention returning to the present reality.

Gazing into the distance, he saw that under Zhao Li’s command, the monster tides spawning around Ye City were being easily repelled. Although they couldn’t inflict much damage on the NPCs hiding behind the Boundary Wall, defending against small monster tides—even ten of them—was no problem at all for Zhao Li.

WHOOSH!

Seeing that Zhao Li had the monster tides under control, Shen Fei had a thought. He once again set up a Teleportation Gate Tower and, with a shimmer, headed for Hang City.

Now that he knew how special the bosses and NPCs who had gained sentience were, he didn’t hesitate and went straight to Hang City. There, he happened to have a sentient boss who was completely obedient to him.

WHOOSH!

His vision blurred, and Shen Fei soon arrived in the Hang City region.

Lin’an City, which became a Secret Realm, hasn’t changed much!

After glancing at Lin’an City, which he had turned into a Secret Realm, Shen Fei nodded and flew towards another city, the monster-occupied Mist City.

Where in the world did that group of girls go?

On his way to Mist City, Shen Fei thought of No. 0 and her group, who used to live in Mist City but had been missing for a long time. At this moment, he felt a sense of urgency to contact No. 0. He wanted to contact her not because of the monster-occupied Mist City, but because he wanted her to help him log back into the Tower Defense of Ten Thousand Realms game world to handle some things there and to verify a certain suspicion he had.

Unfortunately, that wasn’t possible. There was no sign of No. 0 anywhere, and no way to contact her.

SWOOSH!

Just as he flew into the range of Mist City, a smooth, white figure suddenly rushed toward him.

No monster tide erupted! It’s just staying put?

Seeing the charging Beauty Snake boss and the perfectly quiet Mist City with no monster tide in sight, Shen Fei understood. Even if there was a Monster Nest in the city, because there were no targets, no monster tide had erupted here during the outbreak that occurs once every three days.

"Um... have you received any new rules or voices?"

Looking at the Beauty Snake beside him, with her lithe, coiling body and delicate, moon-white face, Shen Fei asked slowly. He was worried the Beauty Snake might have inherited some new memories, and that asking the wrong question would get him killed instantly. So, Shen Fei didn’t directly ask the question that was on his mind.

"No~~" the oblivious Beauty Snake obediently answered. "The rule that appeared in my mind is still to occupy Mist City and then just wait..."

"Alright."

Hearing that nothing new had appeared, Shen Fei understood that she couldn’t answer his questions. It was obvious that the sentient NPCs and bosses inherited from the game were different from this Beauty Snake, a monster tide boss who gained sentience because her tide successfully broke through a city’s defenses.

"Alright! Then just keep waiting!"

This Beauty Snake boss didn’t have the need for Devouring others of her kind. Shen Fei didn’t know how she could increase her strength, and she probably didn’t know either. Therefore, having failed to get an answer and after confirming that the monster tides here weren’t erupting, Shen Fei, without another word, quickly summoned the Teleportation Gate Tower and left again.

I have no idea how Xu Xian could bring himself to do it! What a legend!

As he left, a thought surfaced in Shen Fei’s mind.

. . .

WHOOSH!

He reappeared on the walls of Ye City. Shen Fei didn’t have to wait long. Soon, the monster tide spawn period ended, and all of Great Xia’s Neutral Cities where monsters spawned had successfully defended against the tides. After all, they had experience fending off large monster tides. This time, with the smaller tides, everyone had made it through without any real danger, even without Shen Fei’s intervention.

Should I reopen the connection nodes to the Ninth World for them?

Without paying much attention to the new posts appearing on the Forum after the monster tides ended, Shen Fei’s main focus was on the Ninth World. Just now, to teach the NPCs in the Pacific Ocean special area a lesson, he had directly retracted all the connection nodes leading to that region. Now, having gathered quite a bit of intelligence from that NPC, Shen Fei was contemplating his next move.

I should still reconnect them! It’s not just a matter of resource exchange. More importantly, I need to stay on top of the information in this largest of special areas!

After thinking for a few seconds, Shen Fei quickly made a decision.

WHOOSH!

The moment he made his decision, he re-released the hundreds of connection nodes belonging to the Pacific Ocean special area. However, this time, they weren’t connected to the same people as before. Instead, new people were chosen at random.

Since you have hundreds of millions of sentient beings in there, I’ll just randomize the connections every few days. That way, the more new people I connect, the greater the chance of gathering all sorts of information.

Having made his decision, as he re-established the connection nodes, Shen Fei also sent a message to the "Room Managers" who had activated their personal panels, telling them,