Locked Up Together

Slaughter, plunder, ambushes, backstabbing—endless battles unfold.

It wasn't until the third day of the Third Era that the area quieted down, realizing that fighting was pointless.

No fighting, no injury, no fall—everyone's Essence is automatically and irreversibly dissipating at a constant rate.

The bigger the action, the more abilities are used, and the more intense the struggle, the faster the Essence is lost.

Even Silk Woman stopped attacking when the Essence dropped by killing other Survivors became more valuable than the Essence consumed in the process of killing them.

Everyone finally came to a complete and cruel realization:

This airspace may itself be a "digestion field" specifically designed by Large Dungeons to devour the Essence of Survivors.

In essence, Essence falls away after the death of each era.

The group suspects that the Survivors were swallowed up here after they died, and that they had encountered a bug that caused them to be swallowed up here directly.

While conscious, they were imprisoned on a slaughtering table and bled continuously.

We'll all go to jail together; it won't matter who comes.

[Dick Lang] himself said that there was a bug in the Large Dungeon. Although he was very fierce in the chaotic battle, as a member of the Rainbow Badge faction, everyone still reluctantly believed him.

Patrick Star is the only one who can use the role-playing template from the previous era—namely, his Nai Zi —because it has already been removed by Large Dungeons. Currently, he is the only role-playing template Essence has been unlocked.

"This can't go on!"

After Hibernation for a long time on the verge of death, the pink starfish finally managed to crawl to its feet, its empty and withered body struggling to rise.

He was going to the place where he had sensed the explosion, to a place where there was hope.

Ten minutes later, Patrick Star, who had crawled for two kilometers, let out a desperate wail and turned into a withered, petrified starfish.

"SpongeBob, where are you...?"

They left their hometowns, but remained in the surrounding villages.

A gaunt, old-man-like Survivor saw the petrified Patrick Star and tremblingly reached out his hand to him, wanting to devour him for energy.

In this place, it's not just the Survivor's Essence that's being devoured; all their energy is constantly being consumed as well.

If it shuts down due to the depletion of its energy before its Essence is completely consumed, then it is truly beyond saving.

But just as the withered hand was about to touch the petrified starfish—

The cracked stone shell suddenly shattered and crumbled.

The original starfish form disappeared, replaced by the figure of a child with a mushroom haircut and an eerie demeanor.

"Damn it! Get lost, you beggar!"

Dora, who had just been devoured and was playing the role of the Essence, looked grim and punched the old man-like Survivor away.

"Waiter! Give the old man in the cell next to mine an euthanasia, and use my medical insurance!"

The old man chuckled, and a withered starfish appeared out of thin air in his hand, which he greedily stuffed into his mouth.

Dora's complexion was slightly dark.

It seems that this Survivor's main ability is stealing. Just now, his Patrick Star Essence wasn't swallowed by the Large Dungeon, but stolen by this old man.

He couldn't make a move either; every time he did, he was risking his life, which was too perverse.

Taking a deep breath and ignoring the old man, Dora followed her previous senses and continued searching for the faintly visible explosion.

The explosion did not involve any fluctuations in energy or matter. He was able to know this simply because he had an extraordinary love for explosions when he played Patrick Star, and he sensed a violent fluctuation in some kind of spatial structure.

His search continued forward, with the Survivors around him staring intently at him.

Regardless of the ability activated, it will further weaken the survivor 'Essence. No matter how many tricks Survivor has, they will remain Jingjing when they are exhausted.

Dora searched for a long time before her gaze finally pierced through the desolate wilderness and landed on two extremely conspicuous figures in mid-air.

One is Silk Woman suspended low in the air, her body adorned with countless fine threads.

Thanks to her unique characteristics, she effectively prevents the loss of her Origin, making her the most stable Survivor in the entire game.

Above the Silk Woman, in the even higher sky, a tragically pitiful figure hangs upside down, suspended in mid-air, forever suspended.

[The Silk Woman] floated in mid-air; she went up there herself, and no one else could interfere.

But [Food] was beaten up by a group of Survivors and then hung up by Song Shige himself.

The available energy in this place is already scarce, the ground material is not normal material, and the energy after the microscopic particles are released is extremely low. Survivors with the [adaptive] ability have been trying, but to no avail.

This [food] didn't fight at all; it just kept absorbing the overflowing energy while others were fighting, and it also absorbed the remaining energy on the field, only taking in and not giving out.

Even after being killed Resurrection, he obediently continued to Devouring Heaven and Earth, eating even when others were beaten to a pulp, showing no demeanor of a strong person.

There are quite a few strong individuals who are mad.

However, Dora still felt sorry for this guy. He was immature and might be the only child, or even an infant, on the Dark Survival World stage.

[Food] had become a complete human pig, its head cut off and stuffed into its anus, and its small head cut off and stuffed into its nostrils. It was unknown which Survivor had done this. Only the esophagus and stomach remained connected, like an endless Black Hole.

Above the [Food] is a dilapidated, miniature Blood City, small in size but incredibly detailed, like a Small World, Jingjing serving as Anchor for the silently suspended [Food].

The tiny town served as Anchor, firmly pinning his broken body to the ground, leaving him permanently suspended beneath the sky and on the desolate earth.

Because [Food] kept swallowing things on the ground, it was rendered useless and Sealing up, suspended in mid-air.

The Survivor next to him, seeing him staring at [Silk Woman] for a long time, laughed:

"Hehe, tempted? The Silk Woman absorbed so much power and energy in the previous battle. As long as you go up and take her down, you'll definitely be able to survive this era."

Dora ignored him.

"Useless! You can't even do this? You're just staring at people. You won't even know when you've been tricked." The Survivor said sarcastically.

Dora turned her head and pointed at him. "If you're so awesome, why don't you do it yourself?"

The Survivor merely gave Dora a strange look, chuckled, and didn't reply.

Dora stood there for a long time, then suddenly gave up.

The increase in energy across the entire world doesn't necessarily mean anything; it might simply mean that some Survivors are running out of steam and are drawing energy from the System Space's backup resources.

The drastic change in the spatial structure was more likely caused by thunder in [Food]'s belly, after all, his stomach itself was a strange spatial structure.

There is no hope, no turning point, and no way out.

"This bug is truly hopeless. I vaguely heard that Scholars don't have Sanctuary. How did they survive the early game?"