Free Web NovelChapter 90: Chapter 90: We Can Avoid Those SSS-Rank Dungeons and Develop Steadily
As soon as these words fell, before Jiang Che had any reaction, Xiong Jie’s heartbeat suddenly pounded harder.
He could hear that intense thumping in his chest cavity.
Now everyone thought he was unwilling, unwilling to let a lunatic like Jiang Che take the chance that should have been his.
Only he himself knew that he didn’t care at all; the initial growth at Tier Two Peak had already made him thrilled.
"Miss Flying Tiger, may I ask what level you are at now? Can you reveal it?" Xiong Jie looked at Flying Tiger.
"Tier 0. I haven’t entered any dungeon yet." Flying Tiger didn’t hide it. This was something everyone inside knew, you only needed to ask around.
"Why?" Xiong Jie was stunned. The heiress of the Flying Tiger Organization was still Tier 0? He couldn’t believe this answer at all.
"Just as I said earlier, the initial experience value determines the subsequent growth curve." Flying Tiger looked up at the sky; the walls of Red Pearl Mental Hospital were tall, the view filled with earthy gray high walls topped with metal barbs, seemingly to prevent lunatics inside from escaping.
The trees outside only managed to sneak in sharp shadows along the wall’s top; the sunlight was bright, and the air in the suburbs was also very clear.
The swirling storm of black clouds that had been spinning overhead had also disappeared.
The Red Pearl Mental Hospital hadn’t changed at all; the buildings hadn’t collapsed, but one thing was different.
The people inside had decreased; out of 398 people, only two survived. The only two left were still talking to her about things like luck.
The higher the dungeon’s level, the harder it was for a Tier 0 human to survive inside.
"But aren’t dungeons random? You can’t be sure you’ll randomly enter any particular dungeon, right?" Xiong Jie had just asked when he wanted to slap himself.
Because he felt his question was redundant. The opening of this Red Pearl Mental Hospital dungeon had, aside from a few Tier 0s like them, at most a few Tier One Survivors.
Not a single stronger person above that showed up.
Was it just coincidence no one else came? He didn’t think so. Now thinking about it, it was precisely because many knew Red Pearl Mental Hospital was about to open as an SSS-level dungeon, a certain death trap, so no one dared walk in.
"Seems you’ve guessed it." Flying Tiger didn’t hide it. With the livestream turned off now, she could tell the two of them a bit of an open secret.
"So, you know the level of the dungeon before it opens?" Jiang Che suddenly interjected.
Flying Tiger looked thoughtfully at Jiang Che. She’d noticed before, Jiang Che wasn’t stupid. It was like he’d really spent a long time in the mental hospital; no one knew exactly what kind of mental problem he had, but his intelligence was fine.
Now just from a few words, he had already connected the dots that the Flying Tiger Organization knew the level of the dungeons before they opened.
"You guessed right." Flying Tiger nodded. "Before a dungeon opens, there’s an indestructible magnetic field in the area."
"Many organizations have detection tools. Even though you can’t be exactly sure which dungeon is opening, you can detect its level."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Che’s breathing started to grow rapid.
He had always wondered how he could get home, how he could go home and see his family again.
Now, hearing there was a way to detect this, his excitement couldn’t be restrained.
Flying Tiger just found it odd. After she’d given Jiang Che clear confirmation, his mood improved a lot.
He seemed... happy?
"Don’t think that after clearing Dungeon 9, you can just enter it again and survive every time."
"We can only ensure the energy level matches a Tier 9 dungeon; so next time you see this level, it could be a different SSS-level dungeon." Flying Tiger assumed they wanted to farm Dungeon 9 over and over.
Escaping the same dungeon could repeatedly give experience points too.
Xiong Jie ignored Jiang Che. All he needed to know was that he and Jiang Che were in the same boat. Whatever was going on in Jiang Che’s head, he didn’t get it.
"So you mean, before the Red Pearl dungeon opened, you already knew it was going to be an SSS-level dungeon?" Xiong Jie’s face didn’t look good.
He realized he’d almost died in there. He was lucky, but surviving had cost him a lot.
"This kind of thing could be made public. An SSS-level dungeon, isn’t that just sending people to die?" Xiong Jie’s voice was angry, hands clenching tight.
"You’re right. SSS-level dungeons, you can avoid risk, but if everyone always avoids risk, we’ll never know what’s really inside an SSS-level dungeon, or even understand the terrain."
Flying Tiger knew she’d be scolded after revealing they could detect this.
"Evading Red Pearl was your choice. There’s always someone lucky enough to clear it, just like you."
"So long as you clear it, you become an invaluable source of experience for humanity." Flying Tiger’s eyes were cold; when she spoke of the countless ordinary people sacrificed in various dungeons, it was as though she were mentioning some trivial matter.
"It’s not easy for strong survivors to grow. Dungeon information, every bit of it is paid for with lives."
"Even the tutorials and dungeon guides you studied—aren’t they all information paid for with lives?" Flying Tiger’s voice was firm, her eyes full of resolve.
When Flying Tiger spoke, her squad mates stayed silent.
Qin just raised his head, giving Xiong Jie a complex look. "General Manager Xiong, you don’t even need energy detection; Flying Tiger’s magnetic detectors are just more accurate and sort the energy into levels."
"You’re Tier Two now. Next time a dungeon opens, you’ll be able to feel it. There’s always a distinct energy before it opens—the higher the level, the stronger you sense it."
"So many Survivors, but none would talk about this." Qin sighed.
Xiong Jie froze. He suddenly remembered that the reason he’d come to Red Pearl Mental Hospital for recovery was because a kid in his family who’d reached Tier Two had said Red Pearl Mental Hospital had always been safe, and told him to come and continue learning.
He’d said staying at the Red Pearl Mental Hospital could buy a lot of time.
He probably hadn’t thought Xiong Jie would actually make it back alive?
"All right, I get it." Xiong Jie waved his hand.
"Good you get it. It’s so much easier talking to smart people. Every strong survivor is hard-won..." Flying Tiger looked at Xiong Jie. Before coming, she’d looked into his background and knew what happened to his family after he entered the dungeon.
She paused, suddenly realizing she’d forgotten about this point.
"So you mean, now I can sense the energy of dungeons opening?" Jiang Che poked his head forward, eyes sparkling as he stared at Flying Tiger.
"Yeah. If you join Flying Tiger, we have precision measuring equipment. We can avoid those SSS-level dungeons and level up slowly at first."
