The mechanical creatures in the second stage began to reveal certain problems.
After the apocalypse arrived, a mad scientist awakened certain abilities and began conducting insane experiments to solve the Balance Curse.
His experiments failed, creating a stage area overrun with mechanical beasts.
But he himself had been trying to solve the problem.
In fact, when Wen Xishu thought back carefully, he could see that something had been wrong with the first stage too. The enormous spherical creature there, the one that sprayed mucus after dying and injured Colonel Devin...
It had actually been a fused creature. As it crawled slowly along, it had swallowed four creatures.
Thinking about it now, Wen Xishu suspected that this, too, might have been connected to the Balance Curse. There had been four of them when they arrived in the supermarket area.
In other words, four people had entered the supermarket... so that monster had to swallow four monsters inside it.
The SSS rating for the second stage brought Wen Xishu's total to seventy thousand tavern coins.
Among the tavern's upgrade options, Wen Xishu could spend fifty thousand to improve its recovery effects.
Once he selected that upgrade, even Devin, who had lost an arm, could be restored to full health with all four limbs intact.
Simply put, the tavern was like a miniature Bunker, and the stages were like a miniature Strange Tower. Whatever injuries they suffered, returning to the Bunker would restore them completely.
The next option was recruitment probability. It increased the chance of recruiting a high-tier hero through ordinary recruitment by fifteen percent, and the chance of recruiting a superhero through advanced recruitment by five percent.
Wen Xishu did not immediately purchase either upgrade.
There was no need.
"If the perfect ending means leading everyone to a safe area and