"Hey, where did he go?"
Sister Pear and her group of five were stunned.
They looked around but couldn't find any trace of Qin Feng.
The tall male assassin in the team was a bit puzzled: "Is this an invisibility skill? Having invisibility as a starting skill, what kind of class is this, so cool?"
He had chosen the 'Assassin' class, but it didn't come with an invisibility skill at the start.
After searching for a while without finding Qin Feng, and not daring to leave the safe zone, they reluctantly retreated back to Shell Town.
Sister Pear said solemnly, "It's too dangerous outside. We've already died once, and our remaining lifespan has been halved. Let's search the town first to see if there's any chance to improve."
The soft-spoken long-haired girl brightened up: "Yes, yes, yes. Let's look for treasure chests or NPCs."
The tall male assassin had a good attitude and laughed: "Look at you all being so nervous. Although this Abandoned Gods Game is a bit strange, saying it can affect our lifespan is absolutely ridiculous... In my opinion, since we've revived, we should just go out and take down that Crawler."
Another male warrior said, "I agree. We almost got it to half health; it would be a shame if that guy just now got the benefit."
Sister Pear sneered, "Our combined output barely got the Crawler to half health. Him alone, relying on invisibility to save his life, dreaming of killing the Crawler?"
***
Qin Feng, of course, didn't know about Sister Pear and her group's choices.
Even if he did, he wouldn't care.
Because in the initial town, there was nothing that could help improve one's strength; it was just a safe place for players to rest.
At this moment, Qin Feng activated the 'Subshadow' skill, walking on the dark scorched earth.
Once invisible, the sounds of footsteps, breathing, heartbeat... all were eliminated!
Apart from having a collision volume, everything else was as if the person didn't exist.
To see an invisible unit, there's only one way.
And that's with an anti-invisibility skill.
Of course, Qin Feng's class, Shadow, comes with '+1 invisibility level.'
In the early stages, there's no way any player or even wild monsters could detect his invisibility...
Soon, Qin Feng left the town and walked over a hundred meters, arriving at a sparse forest.
From a distance, he saw the silhouette of a Crawler resting in the woods.
***
[Crawler (Lv1)]
[Grade: Common (Evolving...)]
***
"This thing just killed those five players and is digesting their lifespan?"
Qin Feng squinted his eyes.
He had seen this kind of thing many times in his previous life.
Monsters needed time to evolve after hunting down players' lifespans, and this Crawler was evidently greedy.
Having hunted five players, it could have found a safe place to evolve, but it stayed here, clearly wanting to kill more...
"In that case, spit out the lifespan for me."
Qin Feng found a hidden corner.
When the invisibility time ended, he activated 'Subshadow' again, seamlessly transitioning between the two invisibility phases.
Qin Feng held the Scrap Iron Dagger and quietly approached the Crawler.
As he got closer, he could even smell the rotten stench from the Crawler, which was quite unpleasant.
The silhouette became clearer, revealing a faceless figure with gray skin, long and thin limbs, crouched beside a tree, surrounded by gray-white mist.
The gray-white mist was the visual representation of lifespan.
It indicated that this Crawler was consuming lifespan, attempting to evolve.
"The lifespan not yet digested by the monster will, after the monster's death, be converted into loot at a certain ratio..."
Qin Feng didn't hesitate.
Maintaining his invisibility, he approached theCrawler from behind and struck instantly!
The Scrap Iron Dagger emerged from the darkness, turning into a flash of cold light, landing accurately on the Crawler's nape.
The 'nape' was one of the Crawler's weak points; hitting a weak point increased damage by 50%, or 1.5 times the damage.
-372 (Weak Point Attack)!
With just one strike, gray-white blood flowed from the Crawler's nape, and it collapsed instantly!
"This Shadow class is too powerful!"
Even Qin Feng was shocked.
But he knew very well that it wasn't just because of the Shadow class.
Most of his damage came from the twice-evolved skill 'Subshadow.'
The 90 points of additional attack power tripled or quadrupled his damage.
If it were just the initial inferior 'Subshadow' skill, the damage wouldn't even be half of what it was now.
[You have killed 'Crawler (Lv1)'.]
[You have gained 10 experience points.]
In addition, a fist-sized orb of gray-white mist formed on the Crawler's body, representing the visualized lifespan, ready to be collected.
Qin Feng reached out and grasped the gray-white mist in his hand...
[You have gained 3 days of lifespan (tradable).]
[You have gained 54 years and 155 days of lifespan (non-tradable).]
The system notification came, and Qin Feng shook his head.
"Those five people were killed, and each lost at least twenty or thirty years of lifespan, totaling over a hundred years.
After passing through the Crawler, only fifty-four years were dropped... But it doesn't matter, non-tradable lifespan isn't of much use for now."
Qin Feng understood this well.
As long as one is alive, they consume [non-tradable lifespan] every second, with no other immediate use.
Only [tradable lifespan] is crucial!
"Consuming tradable lifespan allows you to extract equipment, skills, and classes into reality! But killing a small monster only gives three days of tradable lifespan, which is too little.
Not enough to extract any equipment or skills. Better keep hunting."
Qin Feng didn't ponder for long.
Around him, the gray-white mist swirled, gradually being absorbed by him.
Then he reached out and picked up two pieces of loot from beneath the Crawler's corpse.
One piece of equipment, one skill book.
[Rotten Skin Boots (Inferior): Gray Quality. Physical Defense +3, Movement Speed +5%. Equipment Requirement: Level 1]
[Skill Book · Icicle Spell (Common): White Quality. Mage Skill Book. Learning Requirement: Level 1]
The Crawler was a level 1 common monster.
The loot dropped after killing it was mostly inferior, with a small chance of being common.
"Getting two drops at once, not bad luck. Too bad they're not of much use to me..."
Qin Feng put on the Rotten Skin Boots.
He felt a bit regretful.
The monster didn't provide him with any Evolution Points, nor was it enough for him to level up.
Qin Feng could only continue using 'Subshadow,' heading deeper into the forest...
***
Meanwhile, back in Shell Town, other players began to venture out for exploration.
Some formed teams, while others, fearless like newborn calves, ventured out alone or in pairs.
Before long.
A young couple arrived at the spot where Qin Feng had just killed the Crawler, immediately spotting the Crawler's corpse.
"Someone killed a monster here?
Seems like this game isn't that hard, I told you not to be so nervous, haha.
Xiaoya, watch me, when a monster appears, I'll take it down for you!"
However, the couple didn't notice...
Above them, in the trees, a massive shadow appeared!