After Gu Rong jumped into the cave… no, flew into the cave, he heard a “Ding!”.

[Congratulations on completing the second task. Reward: 100,000 points, Child Protective Suit set *1.]

[Child Protective Suit: Can perfectly cover the entire body’s skin except for the head and face. Can enlarge or shrink according to the wearer’s size, controlled by thought.]

[Mode 1: Luminous Mode (Seven colors to choose from, can be used for illumination, brightness has three levels, adjustable.)]

[Mode 2: Temperature Control Mode (Can raise or lower temperature, for warmth or cooling.)]

[Mode 3: Cleaning Mode (Can automatically clean dirt, making it look brand new~)]

006 said: [Little host, should we put on the protective suit now, or store it in the system backpack first?]

Gu Rong received new equipment, like getting a new toy. His small voice was excited: [Wear now!]

Gu Rong was still in mid-air, falling, not yet landed. The moment the child protective suit appeared on his body, he, a tiny little cub, started glowing.

The people who had jumped into the cave earlier all looked up at the little dumpling that suddenly started glowing as it fell. They were all stunned, nearly blinded in their titanium alloy dog eyes.

Gu Rong: (⊙o⊙)

Everyone: … Σ(O A O丿)丿

Gu Rong landed steadily on the ground, and the light from his body extinguished accordingly.

Everyone had their headlamps turned on. At this moment, they couldn’t help but turn their gazes towards Gu Rong.

Gu Rong’s child protective suit was like a layer of transparent shell, perfectly wrapping around his clothes. From the outside, you couldn’t see any difference at all, couldn’t even detect the existence of the protective suit.

The protective suit and the small helmet fit perfectly together, completely enclosing Gu Rong’s entire body from head to toe, leaving no gaps.

Gu Rong gained another 100,000 points and had now unlocked his personal livestream room.

The aunties finally didn’t have to leech off players’ livestreams anymore and flooded into Zaizai’s stream. Because too many people rushed in at once, the livestream even lagged for a moment.

[Ahhhhh, congratulations Zaizai on unlocking personal livestream! [Gift Points]]

[Hahaha, did it lag just now, or was it my internet?]

[Mine lagged too! Can’t be helped, too many aunties!]

[Zaizai descending from the sky, glowing, isn’t that too high-profile? Dying laughing, everyone is dumbfounded! [Gift Points]]

[Cool cub! [Gift Points]]

Comments scrolled rapidly, and donations poured in overwhelmingly.

Shen Hanxiao came over, picked Gu Rong up, also extremely surprised: “Little ghost, your entrance was quite cool!”

Gu Rong himself also found it quiet novel. He touched his body with his small hand. This protective suit was invisible and intangible. Only when it glowed just now did he confirm that he really had an extra protective suit on.

The cub controlled it with his thoughts, adjusting the luminous mode of the protective suit, cycling through the seven colors one by one, and finally mixing all seven colors, turning into a little rainbow person.

Gu Rong: “Wow, Zaizai changes color!”

Everyone: “…”

Okay, okay, we know your equipment is awesome, stop showing off!

Everyone guessed it was the equipment on Gu Rong emitting light, but they didn’t know what kind of equipment it was. No one was foolish enough to think it was Gu Rong himself glowing and changing color – except perhaps the dumbfounded Xiaoshan.

However, thinking about it, many children’s toys have this kind of flashy but useless color-changing effect, probably just to amuse children. Everyone didn’t pay too much attention.

The whole cub glowing brightly was indeed eye-catching. In an underground cave full of unknowns, it was almost like being a moving target.

Gu Rong turned off the protective suit light, only turning on the headlamp of his small helmet like everyone else.

The group was currently in a relatively large cave. The entrance on the surface was very narrow, but who knew that after jumping down, it could actually accommodate nearly a hundred people.

The distance from here to the surface was at least two hundred meters. The temperature was much lower than on the surface, the air thinner, the ground damp, and the air quality very poor.

Looking up, the cave entrance was far above, just a tiny point of light, creating an inexplicably oppressive feeling.

Soon, Zhuang Yu and Lin-dalao also jumped down from the entrance.

Everyone had arrived. Next, they would begin exploring the cave, searching for the so-called God’s Heart.

There were six players, one cub, one fool, four tourist NPCs, and four villagers. A total of sixteen people.

Everyone present was of a thin and slender build, except for Jones, who was short, stout, and almost spherical. This body shape was clearly disadvantageous for crawling through passages and could easily get stuck.

But Jones himself seemed completely unaware of this, acting arrogant due to it being his second time in the cave.

There were two branching paths leading in completely opposite directions. The rock walls each had markings, indicating both paths had been explored before.

Villager A took out a cave map. The map depicted the currently explored areas of the cave: “These two paths, we have explored both. Under normal circumstances, starting from both sides simultaneously, we can meet at this location after an hour, which is Cave 1.”

He pointed to a relatively spacious cave on the map, “This is Cave 1. So far, we have only explored two caves. This is Cave 2. Any place we have explored will be marked. Let’s reach Cave 1 first.”

The map only showed the route to Cave 2; the rest was blank.

Everyone looked at the map.

Gu Rong, held in Shen Hanxiao’s arms, also tilted his little head to look. He didn’t understand it, but nodded along with everyone else.

The livestream chat died laughing.

Zaizai is such a treasure. You don’t even understand, why are you nodding?

Villager: “The left path has more forks, it’s easy to get lost. We suggest taking the right path.”

A player said: “That’s not right, is it? The left path has many forks, indicating more exploration value. Maybe God’s Heart is hidden somewhere there? The right path is straight; obviously, the heart isn’t on this path, otherwise, you would have found it already.”

The villager rolled his eyes at him speechlessly: “How do you think this map came about?”

Player: “…”

Correct. Although the left side was complex, it was mapped after the villagers explored it, meaning it had already been explored. If they had found the heart, why would they need to come down into the cave now?

Their purpose in entering the cave was to explore the areas that hadn’t been explored yet, the blank areas on the map.

The player’s face turned green and white. He actually needed someone to point this out before realizing it.

Lin-dalao rarely spoke but now asked: “What do you mean by ‘normal situation’?”

Hearing this, the others were stunned for a moment.

Right, what did ‘normal situation’ mean? Could there be abnormal situations?

The villager pondered for a moment, his voice grave: “Under normal circumstances, following the passages on the map will lead to Cave 1. But if you encounter abnormal situations, these passages will move.”

“…”

As soon as these words were spoken, the air fell silent for a second.

Lin-dalao, however, seemed to already understand. He raised an eyebrow slightly and said no more.

But the others were still confused. A player asked: “What does ‘passages will move’ mean?”

This time, it wasn’t the villager who spoke, but Jones, who snorted coldly: “Literal meaning. These tunnels change position, even suddenly becoming a fork. If you encounter this situation…”

He grinned, clearly taking pleasure in their misfortune, “Then just wait to die.”

Hearing this, everyone fell silent.

In horror games, under normal circumstances, one usually encounters abnormal situations.

If the passageways can “walk,” can God’s Heart also “walk”?

Everyone’s face turned grim.

The four villagers took the lead, crawling into the right passageway first. This passage was extremely narrow, only allowing one person through at a time, requiring them to crawl forward close to the ground.

The sixteen people lined up and crawled into the cave.

When it was Xiaoshan’s turn, he waved his hands, his face pale with fright, trembling all over, refusing to enter no matter what.

A tourist NPC beside him pressed down on his neck, forcefully trying to push him to the ground and stuff him into the cave entrance.

Xiaoshan struggled constantly, unable to speak, only crying out yiyi ah ah.

Shen Hanxiao said: “Talk properly, don’t use force.”

The tourist glanced at Shen Hanxiao, then at Zhuang Yu and Lin-dalao, and finally at Gu Rong, who was filled with righteous indignation while waiting in line. He released Xiaoshan and pursed his lips: “He refuses to go in. Isn’t this just delaying things?”

Gu Rong stomped his little foot, raised his small palm, and made a gesture as if to hit the tourist: “Beat you, bad guy!”

Tourist: “…”

So tiny, yet dares to shout provocatively at an adult?

But looking at the people behind the cub, the tourist wisely chose to back down, crawling into the passage first, no longer bothering with the big fool.

Xiaoshan shrank into a corner, curled into a ball, wildly waving his hands in front of him, clearly terrified.

Jones glanced mockingly at the group, then also got down and crawled into the passageway entrance.

Unexpectedly, despite Jones’s round and stout figure, he slipped into the passage entrance with a whoosh, quite agilely, even more nimble than many people much thinner than him. It was truly unknown how he managed to be so flexible, or how he could crawl so easily into a cave entrance narrower than himself. It was truly unbelievable.

Zhuang Yu said, “Rongrong is Xiaoshan’s only friend. Why doesn’t Rongrong talk to him nicely, get him to enter the passage himself?”

If Xiaoshan were left alone here after everyone else left, it would be even more unsafe.

Gu Rong said: “Okay!”

Dadada, he ran in front of Xiaoshan, patting him with his small hand. Xiaoshan was startled, his body jerking violently, but seeing it was Gu Rong, he finally raised his face slowly, gradually calming down.

Gu Rong gently patted Xiaoshan’s shoulder with his small hand, as if coaxing a child, unaware that he himself was the child. He pointed at the passageway entrance, saying tenderly: “Xiaoshan Big Brother, we crawl inside!”

Xiaoshan looked at the passageway entrance, then at Gu Rong, hesitated for a long moment, and finally nodded. The others breathed sighs of relief.

Xiaoshan had a thin and frail build. If even Jones could crawl in, it was even less of a problem for him. He crawled in easily, almost effortlessly.

Shen Hanxiao followed closely behind, then Gu Rong, and finally Zhuang Yu and Lin-dalao.

The passageway, wide enough for an adult man, was overly spacious for Gu Rong. He could not only crawl inside but also crawl on all fours, moving very flexibly and easily. Besides, crawling was inherently a strong suit for toddlers.

[Heavens, looking at this narrow passage, I’m almost suffocating, can’t breathe.]

[People with claustrophobia really can’t watch this at all. Too suffocating! If it weren’t for Zaizai, I would have left the livestream long ago.]

[Watching for the thrill! Cave exploration is indeed more interesting via livestream! No high energy warnings, the scarier the more exciting, hehe]

[However, Zaizai is so tiny, crawling looks so easy for him! [Gift Points]]

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The cave walls were very slippery, covered with a layer of white milky substance, resembling grease or paste, or perhaps solidified animal fat. This milky substance was smooth as jade and looked quite translucent.

A player scraped off a bit of the milky paste with a fingernail, brought it close to his nose to sniff, let out an “Oof!”, and nearly threw up. “What the hell is this stuff? It stinks! Smells like a rotten corpse.”

Jones’s voice echoed with a chuckle: “These are bug corpses, emulsified on the cave walls to form this paste. When hungry, you can even scrape it off to fill your stomach.”

Everyone: …

Oof, stop talking, shut up!

Thinking about the roasted insect skewers Jones ate earlier, which were this type of bug, perhaps he really had eaten this paste before. Everyone felt nauseated.

The livestream chat was also disgusted by this Jones.

Gu Rong wore his small helmet, his entire body covered by the protective suit, and even his small hands were covered. His actual skin had no contact with the outside world, so naturally, he didn’t touch the milky substance.

But the others weren’t so lucky. Wearing long sleeves and pants didn’t feel like much, but their hands inevitably came into close contact with the milky substance.

006 said: [Luckily, the little host has the protective suit and doesn’t have to touch this stuff.]

Gu Rong crawled and crawled. Just as he was about to say something to 006, suddenly, Shen Hanxiao, who should have been in front of him, disappeared.

The passage was narrow; adults couldn’t turn around. But Gu Rong could barely turn his head slightly. He discovered that Zhuang Yu and Lin-dalao behind him were also gone.

Only he, one cub, was left in this passage. And the single path ahead had branched into three.

006: [Not good! We’ve really encountered the abnormal situation.]