Chapter 451: Unable to Use
Old Hassan chuckled softly.
"Officer, you brought supplies to Grulu. You are our guest, so I must advise you: when looking for people in the Giant Devouring Earthworm's territory, you must know your limits. The Giant Devouring Earthworm devours everything."
The secretary relayed Old Hassan's words to Huang Yi.
Ye Zheng, following behind, heard it too and quietly asked Li Qing, "Ever since we came in, this guy has kept going on about the Giant Devouring Earthworm. What kind of monster is it?"
"It should be a Zone Quest generated by the system," Li Qing explained. "Besides Mazes, there are many Zone Quests on the game map. They are less difficult than Mazes, and their bosses are mostly elite or leader-class."
Ye Zheng frowned. "If it is a Contaminant outside a Maze, the Supervision Bureau has dealt with quite a few. But there seemed to have been far fewer in the past two months. There was nothing in the news either."
Li Qing nodded slightly. "Yes. That is because most Zone Quests have already been resolved by Players. After the game system malfunctioned, it stopped generating new Zone Quests. This Giant Devouring Earthworm should be a Zone Quest Boss that Players overlooked."
All the Monsters in the game had been created by extracting and combining elements from local myths and legends, and myths and legends stemmed from humanity's imagination of the world.
Imagination often stemmed from fear.
When exploring outward, people feared mysterious, unknowable outer gods. When exploring inward, they feared digging through Hell and facing Demons.
Humanity had always feared the unknown world, yet had never stopped exploring it.
In Grulu's Mine, workers dug downward day after day. The Mine Caves grew deeper and deeper, while darkness lingered unshaken. Their accumulated fear made them