"Holy crap!"
"At a time like this, Ethan, what the hell are you still thinking about!"
Ethan was almost speechless at himself.
He was clearly surrounded by danger right now, yet he had already started thinking about how to make money in bulk.
'That damn shady merchant trait is seriously affecting my thinking. All I can think about is making money.'
'This is wrong!'
'I should be factoring in the risk cost too.'
After all, this job was so dangerous. On top of material costs and labor fees, he should also add an insurance fee. That would make sense... make sense my ass.
'Damn it, how did my thoughts circle back to doing business again?'
'Get out first, talk later!'
Ethan stared up at the sky in silence...
[Your luck is not bad. The monster in the mist has just happened to leave.]
[This is the best opportunity for you to escape. Otherwise, once true night falls, those truly terrifying existences will devour you until not even bones remain.]
'Holy crap!'
'According to the prompt... the thing that sucked the Snow Monster Queen dry into a mummified corpse was only an appetizer among the mist monsters?'
∑（〟〇О〇）!?
'That is terrifying!'
Ethan's face turned completely pale from fear.
No, he had to get out of here fast.
Ethan hurriedly crawled out of the snow, using both hands and feet.
Sure enough, the moment he climbed out of the snow, everything around him was pitch black, and the mist was already so thick that he couldn't see his own hand in front of his face.
It had long been dark. Relying on his sense of direction, Ethan took just one step forward.
Bang!
He suddenly tripped over something underfoot.
He faceplanted straight into the ground.
'What the hell was that?'
[Large Snow Monster corpse. Decompose and collect?]
'Another Large Snow Monster corpse?'
But it was pitch black everywhere, and Ethan couldn't see clearly.
He quickly took out an oil lamp and used flint to light it. Only then did the surroundings finally light up.
And what he saw was—
In front of him lay the corpse of a Large Snow Monster.
Its manner of death was exactly the same as the Snow Monster Queen's. All the blood in its body had been drained, leaving only a shriveled corpse. If it weren't for the thick layer of fur on its body, it would probably look like nothing more than skin wrapped around a skeleton by now.
'It has to be the work of the mist monster.'
Ethan did a quick inspection and found that this Large Snow Monster also showed no signs of having fought.
Aside from having its blood completely drained, there wasn't a single wound on its body.
'That is a bit unreasonable.'
'Could it be that the mist monster is so powerful that the snow monster didn't even have the ability to resist?'
'Forget it.'
'Now isn't the time to analyze this stuff.'
'Better to run first!'
But since he had run into this Large Snow Monster, there was no way he was letting it go.
'Collect!'
[Advanced Beast Hide +20]
[Snow Monster Bones +365]
[Advanced Beast Tendon +1]
[Water-type Beast Core +2]
This one was dual water-type. No earth-type beast core.
And not only was there no earth-type beast core, there was no flesh either. Just like the Snow Monster Queen before, no meat could be decomposed.
No idea whether it was because the mist monster had sucked it dry and the flesh was already gone, or because it was no longer edible.
Either way, it couldn't be decomposed.
Ethan didn't dare waste any time. After decomposing the Large Snow Monster, he left immediately.
After all, no one knew, when the things in the mist would come back.
Ethan didn't dare rely too much on the prompts either. These prompts weren't all that reliable.
Especially earlier, when he was being toyed with by the dwarves on Magnetic Mountain, the prompt turned stupid. It was like a bug. It just kept saying there was danger 87 meters ahead.
And just now...
'Damn it, there was an avalanche, and it didn't even bother to warn me.'
In the end, relying on others means they'll run. Relying on mountains means they'll collapse. In the end, you can only rely on yourself.
[→→→]
And yet, at this moment, a whole row of red arrows appeared in front of Ethan, pointing toward a certain direction.
[Walk in the direction of the arrows. There is a safe place there that can help you avoid attacks from the mist monsters.]
Ethan had originally planned to take out his map and seriously study how to get back to the villa.
But since there was a prompt, there was no need to go through all that trouble.
'Even if the prompts aren't very reliable, sometimes, it doesn't hurt to rely on them a little, hahaha!'
He quickly moved in the direction of the arrows.
Along the way, Ethan kept discovering mummified Large Snow Monsters!
[Large Snow Monster corpse. Decompose and collect?]
'Collect!'
[Advanced Beast Hide +20]
[Snow Monster Bones +365]
[Advanced Beast Tendon +1]
[Earth-type Beast Core +2]
'Collect...'
Along the way, Ethan had no idea how many Snow Monster corpses he had collected.
It was as if they were packed densely together, endless no matter how many he collected.
And, the postures of the Snow Monsters at the moment of death were bizarre and varied.
Some had their eyes wide open, as if they had seen something horrifying. Their expressions were full of terror, and even in death their eyes were still bulging, dying with their eyes open.
Others seemed to be fleeing in a certain direction, yet were frozen in place.
In the end, it was as if their blood and flesh had been completely sucked dry, and they collapsed to the ground.
There were even pairs of Snow Monsters that seemed utterly terrified, clinging tightly to each other as they died.
'What exactly happened?"
A deep sense of confusion arose in Ethan's heart.
'These Snow Monsters should have encountered an avalanche just like me, and most of them are probably buried. But with their abilities, an avalanche shouldn't have been that big of a deal.'
The real problem lay in what happened after they escaped from the avalanche.
It seemed that before nightfall, they couldn't make it back to their nests, and so they were tragically attacked by the mist monsters.
If Ethan's guess was correct. In this Mist World, whether it was low-level creatures like wild rabbits and chickens, or higher-level monsters like Snow Monsters and Lightning Leopards.
They should all have places similar to the players' wooden cabins, or their spawn points.
And these places were precisely the safe shelters they used to avoid attacks from the mist monsters.
Because of this, Ethan had been able to catch small creatures like wild rabbits during the daytime.
And the Lightning Leopard he encountered last time was probably fast enough to avoid being killed by the mist monsters. But it ended up severely injured, and that was why it ultimately couldn't escape Ethan's blade.
[!!!]
And at this moment.
Several red exclamation marks suddenly appeared before Ethan's eyes.
[Extreme danger ahead. Hide immediately!]
[The mist monster has returned. If you cannot hide in time, you will end up just like the Large Snow Monsters, dying a miserable death!]
'Holy crap!'
'Am I playing a Mist World, or am I playing a paranormal horror game?'
Ethan was almost speechless.
He hurriedly scanned his surroundings, searching for a suitable hiding place.
But this was an entire stretch of snowfield. Everything was bare and smooth. It felt like hiding anywhere would work, yet nowhere was suitable at all.
'How the hell am I supposed to deal with this?'
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