The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

Chapter 169 The Moment of Near Death

[Special Ability Egg]

[Advanced Swimming Skills]

[You can activate the "Swimming" skill in swimming pools of various materials, ignoring damage and gaining double agility, making you the coolest kid in the pool.]

"Hmm, this thing is quite interesting. It's similar to Old Wang's underground teleportation ability, but the area it can cover is limited."

"Although it has some minor drawbacks, its versatility outweighs them... Does this mean I can swim on dry concrete?"

"No, that could even be described as another way of saying the ability to pass through walls."

After thinking for a while, Li Can solemnly placed the gashapon into the supernatural gashapon toy box.

Hearing Lao Wang speaking to him from outside, he responded without pausing for long:

"Old Wang, well done! Your superpower is amazing. It's been a waste of your talent that you haven't been able to use it properly before. Now, keep up this pace! I'll be busy for a little while longer, and then we'll get ashore."

Wang Defa blushed slightly, feeling a little shy, when Li Can suddenly praised him.

"Really? You're the first person I've ever taken to escape underground, and after the experience, you said you'd never go underground with me again."

"Really? What? There's such a thing? Old Wang, don't listen to them. You have to believe me. Next time, and the time after that, I'll go underground with you."

Wang Defa's face beamed with happiness as Li Can praised him.

Even their speed of movement became more stable.

As the dark particles surging behind him sped up, he slightly increased the distance between them; as the particles slowed down, he deliberately paused and waited.

This assistance allowed Li Can to experience the thrill and fun of a high-explosive lottery draw for the first time.

"So this is the joy of a gambler, huh? Hehehehehe..." Li Can hugged a pile of new gashapon capsules and sorted them into their storage.

This is the first time in so long that he has ever challenged himself to freely draw gashapon during a near-death experience.

Although they initially came to the city empty-handed, intending to cause trouble, after opening a bunch of blind boxes, they've gotten the perfect one from each one, making them incredibly extravagant.

From being penniless to suddenly becoming rich overnight.

Li Can watched as all 1300 gold coins he had converted in the [Mirror of Past Lives] were used up in the gacha pulls.

He stopped immediately.

He roughly counted his winnings from this exhilarating lottery draw: a total of 1300 gashapon capsules.

One gold coin can be used to draw from a fused gashapon machine once.

There are approximately 1,005 empty gashapon capsules, containing nothing.

However, Li Can doesn't lose money either, as he can use the empty capsule shells as small storage spaces and put whatever he wants inside.

Although it is more than ten times more expensive than buying directly from the city's shelves.

But it's better than nothing at all.

125 gashapon capsules remain.

They are divided into three main categories: puppet eggs that have already been equipped with unknown puppets, resource eggs, and ability eggs.

Among them, the number of puppet eggs was the largest, accounting for a large proportion, totaling a total of eighty-eight.

Thirty resource eggs and seven special ability eggs.

Although it might seem like a bad deal in terms of quantity, every single gashapon is useful and not just for show.

This is the true value of a lottery draw at the brink of death. Li Can, having tasted its sweetness, will never use the gashapon machine again without the necessary conditions for such a draw.

Being able to draw gashapon in a safe, near-death environment means that Chun Chun has found the pattern of how the bug works, and she will not be a victim of such a blunder again.

Li Can had inspected each of the resource eggs and the ability eggs, and had a clear understanding of their contents, which would greatly help with the upcoming operations.

As for the eighty-eight puppet eggs, they are basically all the same type of puppet, not much different from the monsters he assembled himself into the puppet eggs.

If I had to point out a difference, it would probably be that the puppets that come directly from the gashapon machine are of much higher quality than the puppets you find yourself.

Li Can only glanced at the puppets to get a general understanding; the rest he would have to experiment with one by one to see exactly how effective each egg was.

"Old Wang, we can stop now. Let's speed up and dig a big hole in the ground ahead. We'll rest for a while and then block up the tunnel." Li Can emerged from his consciousness space.

"Alright!" Wang Defa knew that Li Can had finished his work, so he quickly responded and used his physical abilities to increase his linear speed. In a flash, he rushed into the distance like a cannonball.

The dark particles that had previously spread like thin porridge behind them were now far behind, impossible to catch up with.

They themselves do not have the speed to lock onto enemies; the reason they were able to keep surging and "chasing" the two of them was entirely due to the sheer number of them sinking down on the ground.

Now that they were left behind and Wang Defa had deliberately blocked the tunnel ahead with a lot of mud, they were completely out of commission and posed no threat to them at all.

This is why Li Can chose Wang Defa, who could use earth magic, to conduct this near-death lottery experiment together.

……

In the pitch-black, deep underground cavity, oxygen is scarce.

The surrounding space was cleared by Wang Defa, and the excess soil was directly collected into the empty gashapon capsules by Li Can. The two cooperated very well and were very fast.

Li Can and Wang Defa are currently very safe inside.

"Peach Blossom, what are you doing? It's been so long. Even though I'm protecting your life, and that thing is chasing us at a slower speed, my heart is still pounding. I'm so nervous," Wang Defa said as he took off his mecha suit.

His face was covered in sweat from the heat, and only after he took off the mech that no longer protected him from the dark particles could he feel a little cooler.

Li Can followed his lead and removed her outer mecha armor.

"Of course, it's to prepare for breaking the barrier later. That's my special ability, it's a bit strange, just think of it as building up power in the early stages."

He finally took off the mech and threw it to the ground, instantly stirring up mud and sand.

"I see. So what's our next plan? You said I could help you escape while we're in this area, but once we get outside, I really can't help you. I might even be a hindrance..."

"Don't worry, I still have protective suits." Li Can said, taking out the protective suits from the two supply eggs he had just pulled out and tossing them to Wang Defa.

Whether it was the gashapon machine recognizing something or just good luck drawing a prize at the brink of death, Li Can drew two identical protective suits in a row, which was absolutely incredible.

"You have such good stuff? I thought that mech was scrapped and I was worried about what to do with it. Now it seems that the quality of this protective suit is better than that of the mech."