There is One New Rule Every Month Globally

By now, it had swallowed yet another batch of players into its stomach.

What made the monster even more irritable was that this batch of players also proved indigestible.

Two consecutive hunts had ended up with inedible food, stretching the monster's patience to the limit. Its enormous body shook incessantly, cracks spread across the ground, and a collapse seemed imminent at any moment.

"Hmm..."

Suddenly, Tuberculosis Rabbit turned its head to Li Yide with curiosity, "You just said your flesh was corroded to the bone by stomach acid, and then it regrew because of the December rules, right?"

"Yeah, yeah."

"If that's the case, then this monster shouldn't be starving. After all, the chunks of flesh from your body that were dissolved in the stomach acid have already been melted; the flesh regrows and dissolves again, essentially giving the monster an endless supply of food."

"Turning into a perpetual motion machine, continuously feeding the monster."

"The reason this monster is so frenzied now could be due to the fact that as soon as it gets a taste of your regrown flesh, it's yanked back by the game's mechanics."

"In that light, it also explains why the boss is so irritated."

"Anyone would struggle not to lose their temper under such constant provocation."

...

"Aaagh!!!"

"It hurts, it hurts!!!"

"Kill me, I want to die, just kill me!!"

Finally, with a somewhat irritable toss of its head and an utterly open throat, the small flesh cap was flipped open too. The agonizing, struggling, and screaming voices of the countless players trapped in the monster's stomach blended together, emerging from its throat.

It sounded extremely unnerving and screechy.

Not even the eighteenth layer of hell could compare.

From just these tormented screams, one could imagine the inhuman torture those players were currently enduring.

This caused the other players, who were still trying to dodge the monster's path, to each feel a chill creep into their hearts as they imagined the excruciating agony that awaited if they were swallowed.

Especially since the monster's skin was semi-transparent!

They could clearly see the players struggling in pain within the monster's stomach.

The ones trapped at the very bottom were not only experiencing the torment of near-drowning and suffocation but also enduring the intense corrosion of highly concentrated stomach acid, all the while countless feet above relentlessly pressed down on them.

They couldn't see, they couldn't speak!

There was no hope of escape.

Under such circumstances, the will to survive is alarmingly low. If, at that moment, these players could freely decide their fate, a majority would likely choose death.

Death is indeed fearsome.

But under such intense and hopeless pain, those of weaker will might choose to prematurely end their lives.

...

The second batch of people swallowed had a slightly stronger desire to survive compared to the first.

After all, they had seen the first batch of players being spit out, so they waited with a faint hope that they might be expelled as well. The first batch, however, had no idea what would happen to them next, and not seeing an end to their situation could completely extinguish their will to live.

"What do you think?"

Tuberculosis Rabbit stood on the rooftop with a complex expression, looking towards the nearby monster, "Yi, shall we make a move?"

Truth be told, this was the most troublesome creature they had encountered yet.

No, to be precise, a boss.

And an unexpected boss at that.

A boss merged with a tumor; otherwise, it wouldn't be this twisted with such exaggerated defensive power.

"We have to make a move, of course."

Chen Yi, resting on his cane with one hand, faced the breeze and calmly said while looking at the monster blocking the view of the sea and the rising sun, "If we don't handle it, nobody else can. We can't just let this creature run rampant on Blue Star, right?"

Although this claim sounded a bit arrogant.

It was indeed the truth.

If they didn't intervene, indeed no one could handle this monster.

It should be an unknown-level entity, one which logically shouldn't appear during the Novice Period.

Currently, due to the December rules, there have been no player deaths, only some damage to the city and some unlucky souls in pain.

But if this drags on until the December rules end.

It won't just be about pain.

The presumption is that you'd be dead the moment you were swallowed.

Never mind being eaten, just approaching that pink magnetic field is practically a one-way trip to hell.

He had tried it himself. Although there was essentially no damage after activating the Septagon Badge, mainly because the percentage damage was immune, the boss's skin still suffered a bit.

Of course, it healed quickly.

But it still meant that a defense breach was possible.

And to him, as long as a defense could be breached, no matter how high it is, it's killable; it's just a matter of time.

When the number reaches a certain level, it incites a drastic change!

...

"Team leader, team leader, this is bad!!!"

In the Snow Sea project office above Blue Star.

An employee, with a frantic expression raced into the team leader's office. Barely stabilizing himself, he began to gasp and shout urgently, "An accident has occurred on Blue Star, those weird survivors have fused with a tumor on Blue Star."