"Pant... pant..."
In the dim mine shaft, Scarlet King's blocky avatar was down to half a heart, and his hunger bar was about to run dry.
He was like a dying old man, inching toward the surface one difficult step at a time.
In his inventory lay the set of iron armor Di Tian had dropped earlier, an iron sword, and five diamonds more precious than his own miserable life.
"Please don't let anything spawn... Please don't let a spider drop down from above..."
In the real-world internet café, Scarlet King's middle head stared fixedly at the Screen, while his left and right heads had shut their eyes from the tension long ago.
In his current state, if he fell off any staircase, even losing half a heart, or if a bat suddenly spawned and bumped into him, he and his boss would have to settle things with their fists in real life.
After nearly ten minutes of this nerve-racking "Hell-difficulty stealth mission," a sliver of square sunlight finally appeared above Scarlet King's head.
"Boss! I made it out alive! I saved the diamonds too!"
Scarlet King had barely crawled out of the mine when he saw Di Tian standing beside the spawn point, clad only in a blue T-shirt and empty-handed, his face brimming with murderous intent.
"At least this stupid dog has some sense."
Di Tian snatched the equipment and diamonds Scarlet King tossed over, then skillfully put the iron armor back on and let out a long breath.
The joy of recovering what he had lost calmed Di Tian down a little.
He first looked over the grassland cratered by Creeper explosions, then glanced toward Ice Empress and Snow Empress's side, where the Northern Ice Palace had already taken rough shape. The dragons' instinctive competitiveness and territoriality