Yuze pursed his lips and pointed in a direction, "That way."

Josh nodded, immediately turning in that direction.

Rob: "Oh no! The giant beast is enraged! Run run run!"

Yushi said quietly: "They told us not to go that way. It’s dangerous."

Rob looked at him strangely: "How do you know? Did you hear them talking?"

Yushi slowly turned to look at him: "No."

Rob shivered and turned his head back: "Be good, don’t talk to me like that, it’s creepy."

Josh: "Even if it’s dangerous, we have to go. The more dangerous the place, the more likely clues will appear!"

And the clue on that sign, "I’m waiting for you in the deep sea."

This clue should have been left in the dungeon.

But she always felt something was strange about this dungeon...

Couldn’t put her finger on it.

Almost like...

A sense of story!

Yes!

In all other dungeons, after entering, they would more or less encounter some NPCs, learn some background stories, and experience some plotlines.

But in this dungeon, there was almost none of that.

Since they entered, they’ve just been dealing with monsters, constantly fighting, and fleeing.

Except for the brief conversation they had with these fish monsters in the fish’s belly, there were almost no opportunities for interaction.

It felt like they had entered some kind of fast-food mode, understanding the story’s background while being pushed forward continually.

Another mermaid call echoed.

She was sure, it was the sound of a mermaid.

But...

It was a bit different.

There was an indescribable strangeness about it.

She looked at Yuze: "Captain, did you hear that?"

Yuze nodded: "I heard it, but something feels off."

Yushi suddenly said in a quiet voice: "That’s not a mermaid’s voice. Someone recorded a mermaid calling its kin using a sea conch from the depths, and then used special techniques to amplify the sound."

The group suddenly turned their heads to look at him in shock.

Yushi blinked, his back slightly tense: "Wha... what’s wrong?"

Rob exclaimed in shock: "You just spoke a long sentence, and you didn’t stutter!"

Yuze: "You breaking character so suddenly makes it hard for me to explain to Joyce."

Outside the dungeon, Joyce: "..."

Jiang Can: "Yushi, is your stutter cured?"

Yushi, under the watchful eyes, held back for a while before saying: "I’m not a stutterer!"

Josh’s mouth twitched slightly: "Don’t bully him."

Yushi looked up emotionally at the little red jellyfish.

Josh: "Who tears open people’s wounds and rubs salt in when they’re right there?"

Yuze wanted to argue.

Josh continued: "Even rubbing in sweet water isn’t okay."

Yuze closed his mouth.

Yushi sulkily sat down, turning his back to them: "I’m not a stutterer! I just speak very slowly!"

Josh agreed: "That’s right."

Yuze: "Exactly, our Little Ghost in the team is the quickest talker, don’t bully him, it’s about the quality of words, not quantity, or he’ll shoot back at you!"

Yushi slowly turned his head to look at him: "Captain."

Yuze smiled and looked at him: "Shut up, dare to talk back to me, and I’ll toss you out of here."

Yushi silently closed his mouth; the captain knew him too well, leaving him no chance to act.

Don’t think he doesn’t know, the captain is after the Little Tactician.

Humph!

If provoked, the bite from a little stutterer hurts as much as a normal person’s!

Rob was a bit confused: "So should we go over there now?"

Josh: "Of course, we’re going."

Jiang Can looked confused: "Even knowing something’s wrong, we still go?"

Josh: "This is a dungeon, not the real world. The more something’s wrong, the more likely there are clues hidden."

Rob blinked in confusion, suddenly asked: "So what exactly did you guys hear? I didn’t hear anything."

Jiang Can nodded along: "I didn’t hear it either."

Yushi: "It was the mermaid, calling."

Rob gave him a strange look: "It’s one thing for the captain and the Little Tactician to hear it, but why can you also hear the mermaid’s call?"

Yushi looked at him quietly, about to speak.

Next to him, Yuze quickly covered his mouth with his hand and glared at Rob: "If you can’t hear it, you can’t hear it, are you proud of that?"

Rob cast a deep grievance-filled glance at Yuze: "Captain, you’re biased."

Josh suddenly said: "Hold on tight, we’re about to pass through the whirlpool current."

Rob: "A little whirlpool can’t do anything to m—ahhh!"

Coming out of the whirlpool current, Rob lay down by the edge of the red lantern vomiting: "Urgh... what’s this crap, I never want to go to sea again, this whirlpool... urgh..."

Josh carried the teammates deeper; since this dungeon is the deep sea, the thing must of course be found in the deep sea.

The beasts roared, closing in on the group, trying to knock them away.

Josh deftly utilized the principle of using a small force to overcome a large one, quickly leaving the beasts behind, rushing through the whirlpool straight to the deep sea.

[Ding! Congratulations to Golden Shit Stirrer for completely lighting up the Death Sea map, dungeon progress has been updated.]

As the system report finished, Josh saw his body transform into human form.

Besides their team, other surviving teams were also updated to this new map.

This seemed to be an enclosed area under the sea, with no seawater coming inside, and they could breathe normally.

"What’s going on here?"

"Weren’t we still at the table looking for a traitor?"

"We were just fighting with piranhas, how did we suddenly end up here?"

A look of understanding passed through Josh’s eyes, it seemed that the dungeon’s map update encompassed all players. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

It appeared that their team advanced the progress, and the other teams won lying down, following them to the new map.

But in reality, it was disadvantageous for the other teams.

Because they hadn’t had time to completely gather the information and were brought here.

It was like forcibly dragging a small account into a high-intensity dungeon; they missed the process of accumulating experience, and the difficulty actually increased.

Without the accumulated clues from before, the exploration ahead might not go well for them.

"Welcome to the Deep Sea Fishing Village, please follow me." A mermaid walked out from the reef, smiling as she looked at them.

Rob was startled and screamed, hiding behind Josh.

The mermaid’s face was completely decayed, her body covered in moldy moss and rust, one side of her face was nothing but rotted flesh and sparse seaweed growth, while the other was decayed to just a skeleton, without eyes or ears.

The lower half of her face was intact, better left incomplete...

Josh and Yuze exchanged a glance and followed the mermaid into the reef.

The other team players seemed at a loss but had no choice but to follow.

They knew nothing, and sticking close to Golden Shit Stirrer was a better option.

Josh and the others followed the mermaid through the reef, and the scene suddenly brightened.

In front of them was a small undersea village; calling it a village might be a stretch, more like a place built with trash.

It was a sunken ship, broken in two, with each half settled on opposite sides, with some trash cans, oil drums, and various discarded vehicles piled up to form small houses in between.

Inside the trash cans, some sort of underwater creature’s tentacles were wriggling.

The dilapidated, discarded vehicles were home to various deformed fish and shrimp monsters.

The ship’s two split-section hulls had many small windows from which bright light reflected, resembling tall buildings constructed under the sea, each building housing a small family.