There are too many teammates who are complete losers.

Chapter 15 I'm running away

Lu Ren noticed that the woman's robe had an unfamiliar emblem embroidered on the cuffs, the material shimmering dimly in the moonlight.

Lu Ren swallowed hard, looking terrified. "Sir, my sister and I have only recently become professionals. I don't even have any skills. We can't handle the swamp monster..."

The spoiled woman said impatiently, "Who told you to deal with it? We've already injured that swamp monster; it's probably almost dead, maybe even already. You can earn two thousand yuan by helping me go in and collect some stuff!"

What? It's already dead? If it's dead, why isn't the fog dissipating?

They may have seriously injured him, but he is definitely not completely dead yet.

The swamp fog from the swamp monster is poisonous; inhaling it can cause hallucinations and weakness. Moreover, the power of the 'swamp gas explosion' is terrifying, and they fear being attacked by the swamp monster in its dying moments.

But at this moment, Shen Yaoxing, standing behind Lu Ren, looked overjoyed:

"Wow, we made two thousand yuan just by picking up some things! Lu Ren, our luck is really good tonight! Say yes!"

"..." Miss Shen looked charming and innocent, and the domineering girl opposite her burst out laughing. The two boys next to her also chuckled quietly.

Seeing that Lu Ren remained silent, one of the men with a buzz cut asked, "What, you're not willing?"

The threat in his tone was undisguised.

Shen Yaoxing had told him that in the virtual world, encountering other professionals could sometimes be even more terrifying than encountering virtual beasts.

Lu Ren steeled himself, still hesitant to take the bait: "What if that swamp monster hadn't died..."

This bald man must be a physical cultivator. Just standing there puts immense pressure on him. Lu Ren recalled his bald boss when he first started working in his previous life. He used to be so rude and would put just as much pressure on him every time he passed by his workstation with a thermos.

The two men exchanged a glance, and one of them clicked his tongue and tossed something to Lu Ren. Lu Ren caught it and discovered that it was a gun, somewhat similar to the GLOCK 17 semi-automatic pistol from his previous life.

"Use this to deal with it, and then bring out its remains."

Lu Ren wanted to refuse, but he felt a solid killing intent. Damn it, he didn't understand what killing intent was, but he just felt it.

The other party was telling him that he had no choice.

His eyes were complicated as he said to Shen Yaoxing, "You stay here. I'll go get some things for the older brothers and sisters, and then I'll come out."

"Do you know how to use a gun? I'll definitely go with you!"

"Eh, no..."

"Let's go! Let's go!"

This could kill someone, my young lady! Come back here right now... Lu Ren hurriedly tried to pull her back, but the girl was stronger than him, and he was almost dragged into the swamp mist.

"Won't these two run away?"

"How do we get out? We'll get lost in the swamp fog. No matter which way we go, we'll only get closer to the center. They can't get out until the swamp fog disappears. And if the swamp fog disappears, then the swamp monsters will be dead, and we can go straight in and find them."

"But why do I always feel..." The pampered woman looked at the man and woman who were gradually disappearing into the mist, especially the girl in the robe.

"Why does this feel so familiar?"

……

After walking several dozen meters, Lu Ren felt his strength rapidly draining away. This was because the poison of the swamp fog was taking effect, and the deeper he went, the denser the swamp fog became... This swamp monster was definitely not dead!

"Ahem!"

Shen Yaoxing coughed and her steps became unsteady. Lu Ren steadied her.

"I told you not to come in."

"That woman just now was Miss He from Jizhou, also a member of a prominent family in Qianhu. I can't stay there; she'll be recognized..."

"What are you doing here in Isoshu?"

"I don't know, let's see how it goes."

"Miss..." Lu Ren really wanted to ask her what she was after, but not making assumptions about one's boss is one of the basic skills of an employee.

He's really risking his life to accompany the young lady.

He asked, "What do we do now?"

"We found the swamp monster. It should be badly injured, and it's not very strong. With guns, we can kill it."

"How are you now?"

"This is bad, this poisonous fog." Miss Shen's face was somewhat pale. "I feel so dizzy..."

"Don't you have healing skills?"

"That can only treat external injuries, not detoxify..."

Swamp fog can block [Spiritual Eye], and [Restoration Holy Light] can't cure the poison. This swamp monster is practically Miss Shen's nemesis. No wonder she was so wary just now.

"Wait, why don't I feel dizzy?" Lu Ren looked puzzled as he listened to Shen Yaoxing's description. "I just feel hungry really fast..."

"What time is it? You still want to eat?"

"...No, it's true, I'm so hungry."

My stomach was rumbling with hunger, and my stomach acid was churning. I felt like my stored glycogen, fat, and even muscle were being digested and converted into energy that flowed through my limbs and bones. My newfound strength was rapidly disappearing... but I didn't feel dizzy or lightheaded.

Lu Ren thought of something, pulled up the attribute panel, and looked at the talent - Passerby's Gluttony Sin.

【The Sin of Gluttony by Passersby】: You can absorb spiritual power, recover from injuries, purify your state, and gain 'fullness' by eating food and spirit remains, but your digestive ability is too strong, making you more prone to hunger.

Purification status... This means that he will prioritize reducing satiety over reducing status!

As long as he is full, he has absolute immunity to poison!

After figuring this out, Lu Ren's eyes lit up.

This terrible talent, though, can still come in handy at crucial moments!

He emptied all the dry food from his bag and immediately began to eat voraciously.

He swallowed one compressed biscuit after another, enough for an ordinary person to last a day, and they quickly transformed into the purest energy, generating strength and even a trace of spiritual power.

Shen Yaoxing felt dizzy and stood next to him, swaying from side to side: "It's this late, and you're still eating?"

"Eating makes me immune to the poison gas." Lu Ren puffed out his cheeks and then deflated, swallowing repeatedly, his words somewhat muffled: "Miss, are you hungry? Would you like something to eat?"

"..."

"Young Miss?"

"..."

"Shen Yaoxing?"

Miss Shen looked at him but didn't say anything. She slowly squatted down on the ground, holding her head in her hands.

"..." First came the nighttime debuff, and now the poison gas debuff. The girl was tormented both mentally and physically. It was as if her soul was swaying in the air, leaving behind an empty shell.

She couldn't quite hear what Lu Ren was saying. Time seemed to pass quickly, yet it also felt like a long time had gone by. She was a little confused as to why she was there.

In a daze, she felt someone supporting her arm and gently telling her to stand up. She could barely stand and staggered as if she were floating up from the seabed. She didn't know how long she floated up, but finally she surfaced and landed on a warm beach.

She was carried on someone's back.

Feeling so safe and secure, Shen Yaoxing relaxed completely as she lay on Lu Ren's back, her head drooping limply onto his shoulder.

"I'll think of a way, Miss, you should rest for a bit." Lu Ren, with some dry rations in his mouth, set off again.

However, ordinary food has low energy content and is simply not enough to support his resistance to the poisonous fog.

He ate as he walked, and the situation was worse than he had imagined. They had run out of food, but they were still some distance from the center of the fog.

Oh, right, the spirit remains!

They hunted down six mud monsters tonight, and he still has the remains of six mud monsters on him.

Although he cannot acquire skills, he can gain energy by consuming spirit remains.

Absorbing the remains of spirits also allows him to draw energy from them, but energy cannot protect him from the poisonous fog. Only by eating them can he gain energy. What he eats will be converted into satiety first. He has the sin of gluttony, and satiety is a higher priority energy source. It can heal injuries, resist unclean status, and convert energy.

Is this edible?

Lu Ren wasn't quite sure, but since his talent said he could eat it, he could eat it. He picked up a spirit bone, put it in his mouth, and swallowed it.

Lu Ren felt something rising in his throat from being so full, like he had eaten too much and couldn't wait to vomit, but he couldn't vomit; it was precious energy.

He held the young lady's bottom with one hand and covered her mouth with the other, forcing her to swallow it.

A spirit remnant swallowed into my belly, my fate is in my own hands, not in the heavens.

"Holy crap! Just kidding, it's like swallowing a stone, it's a bit like getting stuck in your throat."

However, he did feel much better. He felt that his stomach was like a furnace, quickly digesting what he swallowed and converting it into energy that could resist the toxic fog.

"Huh? Huh... eh..." The girl on his back had recovered a little, but her beautiful eyes were now spinning like two mosquito coils: "Who are you?"

"Young Miss, I'm your newly recruited underling."

"Really? What's your name?"

"My name is Lu Ren."

"Little Lu...I want to hear it, twinkling, twinkling, little star, how I wonder what you are..."

"..." Who is Xiao Luzi?

The energy of a spirit corpse was quickly depleted, enough for him to advance only 20 meters. Lu Ren inexplicably thought of the Battle of Verdun, where the German army had to pay the price of 2.5 soldiers' lives for every meter they advanced. Now, he had to pay the price of a spirit corpse for every 20 meters he advanced.

"Where's Ayou?" the young lady suddenly asked again.

"That handsome, sunny guy? It seems he went out to look for you."

"What does he want from me?"

"Are you playing hide-and-seek with him?"

Will he be able to find me?

"That depends on whether the young lady wants to win or lose."

Lu Ren didn't really want to pay attention to her, but he was a little worried that this situation was like a completely snowy plain in winter. He had to keep the girl talking to stay awake and prevent her from falling asleep, because if she fell asleep, she might not wake up again.

There are still five spirit remains, and they are getting closer, about a hundred meters away. There are four more remaining.

Three...

Two left...

He swallowed the last one too.

He no longer had any spirit remains in his hands.

"He definitely won't find me!"

"Young Miss is so good at hiding things!"

"I will become a star, twinkling and shining..."

"Wasn't it found right away?"

"The sky is full of little stars, and then everyone can't find me... What are you eating?"

"It's not very tasty."

"Alright, as your underling, you're secretly eating delicious food. I, too, want some..."

"Hey, hey, don't grab it!"

"Pah! Why are you eating dirt?"

"I already said..."

Lu Ren squatted down, scooped up a large basin of soil, put it to his mouth, chewed, and swallowed: "It's not anything tasty."

"Why didn't you stop me from stealing your dirt to eat?"

"I see. I'll be more careful next time."

The food was exhausted, the spirit remains were exhausted, and the energy contained in the soil was negligible, but fortunately, the soil was inexhaustible!

Closer, closer...

On the last stretch of the road, Lu Ren ate his way through. In the deepest part of the thick fog, he saw a monster, its abdomen gushing blood, barely breathing, resembling a lynx.

The monster lay on the ground, its fate unknown, with thick, smoky mist constantly emanating from its mouth.

Lu Ren knew that this was the Swamp Mud Monster.

"boom--"

"Bang bang—"

Outside the woods, the three men heard the gunshot, their spirits lifted, and they looked up into the misty forest.

The pampered woman was somewhat surprised: "Those two guys actually went all the way inside."

"I can't believe it actually happened! Did we run into that swamp monster?"

"That should be right, but I don't know if they can kill that monster."

"That monster was already badly injured by us; even an ordinary person with a gun could handle it."

"Why hasn't this fog cleared up yet?"

"It probably won't be that fast. Let's wait a bit longer. Anyway, they won't come out until the fog clears."

However, what they didn't know was that the fog wouldn't dissipate anytime soon.

Deep within the mist, the lynx-shaped swamp monster was beyond dead, and its brain had been exhumed.

Lu Ren wiped the yellow dirt from the corner of his mouth and looked at his attribute panel.