Seraphina Sullivan lay on a soft mat, munching on her dinner as she flipped through the diary she had taken from the supermarket.
Night fell.
It was once again the domain of the parasite variants.
Moonlight streamed through the glass window. The distant roars of parasite variants occasionally broke the silence, but none of it could affect her current mood.
’Looks like I won’t have to leave this city for a while...’ she murmured to herself, planning her route for tomorrow’s supply run.
Just as Seraphina Sullivan was finally relaxing and about to drift off to sleep, a deafening explosion suddenly ripped through the quiet night.
BOOM—!
The entire crane shook with the blast. Seraphina Sullivan shot up, nearly smacking her forehead on the control console.
She quickly scrambled to the window. On the other side of town, a pillar of fire stained the night sky blood-red, and thick smoke billowed upwards like a giant beast.
’An explosion? Could a Player have done that?’
Seraphina Sullivan’s heart suddenly pounded.
In this dead city, abandoned by the military, she couldn’t think of anyone other than a Player who could cause such a commotion.
She immediately took out her Analysis Glasses and switched them to night vision and long-range observation mode.
The distant scene came into sharp focus before her eyes:
An abandoned factory was engulfed in flames. Within the inferno, countless twisted figures could be seen fleeing in a frenzy.
It was the parasite variants!
What shocked her even more was that the ground around the factory was collapsing, revealing a massive underground cavern from which even more monsters were swarming out.
In the chaos, Seraphina Sullivan also glimpsed a colossal dark shadow.
’Wait... this location...’ Seraphina Sullivan hastily pulled out the map she’d found at the supermarket to compare. ’Isn’t this the place marked as the "Parasite Nest"?’
A terrifying thought popped into her head: ’Don’t tell me some Player is trying to complete Mission Two and thought they could just find the monster lair, set off a bomb, and reap an easy harvest?’
At this thought, Seraphina Sullivan couldn’t help but suck in a sharp breath.
If that was the case, that Player was on a suicide mission.
Nighttime was already when the parasite variants were most active, let alone having their nest blown up directly!
’This isn’t grinding a quest, it’s just plain suicide!’
It was an act of pure recklessness.
Actually, Seraphina Sullivan was being a bit presumptuous. Because she had found the newspaper about the parasitic creatures and possessed the Eye of Resume, she was among the first to learn that the parasite variants and Parasitic Bloodworms were weak to sunlight and water.
But that didn’t mean every Player knew this information.
It was also possible that this person was just a reckless fool.
Seraphina Sullivan stared intently at the distant firelight when her Analysis Glasses suddenly captured a fast-moving figure.
It was a person dressed in black.
Then, Seraphina Sullivan saw the person throw a red object onto the ground, which then rapidly expanded in size.
It ultimately transformed into a sleek, red Formula 1 race car.
The man immediately leaped into the car and began weaving between buildings at an astonishing speed, with at least twenty frenzied parasite variants in hot pursuit.
What was even more terrifying was that as the explosions continued, every parasite variant in the entire town had been alerted.
’That race car? Nicholas Jensen?’
Seraphina Sullivan saw this through her Analysis Glasses and thought of the person she had met during the day.
’This guy really is an expert at courting death.’
With each explosion, dark figures converged on the blast site from all directions, their numbers so great it was enough to make one’s scalp tingle.
"Crazy... absolutely crazy..." Seraphina Sullivan muttered.
She was suddenly grateful that she had chosen the high ground of the crane as her shelter. If she were still on the streets right now, the consequences would be unimaginable.

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