As time passed in the game...
Players in many Starting Towns faced increasingly difficult circumstances.
Even Shell Town, where several thousand players had gathered, now had many players questioning their lives.
Qin Xiaoyou was one of them!
She respawned in the town center in a daze, listening to the noisy chatter around her...
"I fucking died again! Where did all these bosses in the Starting Town come from?"
"Some people say wild monsters advance after absorbing our lifespan! They must have evolved from regular monsters, right?"
"Our team was about to kill a Silver Grade boss, but it turned around and ran. Running was bad enough, but then it brought back two more Silver Tier bosses and wiped us out!"
"Boohoo, could some expert please help me? I only have one day of lifespan left. If I die again, I'll die for real, but I still need 20 experience points to level up..."
"Boss Wang, it's me, Iron Man! Don't you remember me? I've done jobs for you... I'm out of lifespan now. I know you bought quite a bit. Could you lend me a few days first?"
"Recruiting an elite squad! After midnight, we'll take the free teleport to a newer town and kill regular monsters!"
Players came and went within the town.
Almost everyone hung their heads, their faces clouded with gloom!
Shell Town had so many players that many of the regular monsters had been killed off. Yet for some reason, numerous Silver Tier and even Gold Tier bosses had appeared!
These bosses...
Were simply beyond what ordinary players could handle!
Killing one ordinary Crawler gave three days of lifespan. It sounded as though this game was handing lifespan to its players...
In reality...
The players died over and over, losing more than half of their