267 Cat Dad’s Dungeon Material Hunt
Chapter 267 – Cat Dad’s Dungeon Material Hunt
“PUTAAAA!!”
The scream of Gata alarmed Marcus and his team. They immediately turned around and formed a phalanx formation. The mages chanted their spells and buffed their tankers.
But when Gata reached them, it was too late for them to react. She stomped the ground, and all fluorescence light turned red. A loud siren deafened the maze. Then, every player received a piece of bad news.
DING
<You are inside Gata’s Stellar Constellation Domain!>
<Warning! Every non-feline intruder in Gata’s domain will instantly lose half of their sanity. If she inflicts damage on you, your sanity will drop to zero!>
<Warning! All mannequins in Gata’s domain are 200% stronger.>
<Warning! All female intruders under level 4000 cannot inflict damage on Gata for one hour!>
<Warning! All male intruders under level 4000 are inflicted with [Estrus] and [Charmed]!>
“WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!”
“Constellation Domain?! WHAT?!”
When a cultivator or player reached level 701, they were eligible to learn a domain ability, which was unique from person to person. It gave a different perk or ability to the user, depending on their personality, principle, mindset, or Dao.
Constellation Domains were the upgraded version of such power. This power was the staple power of immortals or NPCs with a level of 1,000 or above. They could enforce unfair rules, restrictions, or buffs in their domain influence. It could only be negated by fellow immortals or destroyed by special weapons.
Gata, who was created from Meowmeow’s blood and precious ore, also inherited a Dao from the creator, and she tested the ability on them for the first time.
No player had experienced the full power of an immortal first-handed, and they didn’t know what to do. Because of the abnormal status, all men dropped their weapons and stared at the incoming mannequins in a daze. As for the female players, their legs were petrified from fear and shock.
Gata’s nails extended and ejected from her fingers. All ten claws turned into needle swords and automatically stabbed every player nearby.
Marcus, Master Yeet, and the male players couldn’t even resist when the needle swords stabbed their foreheads and inflicted seven digits of damage. Their consciousness returned to the real world while their corpses remained in the dungeon.
Because of the confusion, the horde of mannequins swarmed the crowd. Using the number, they pinned all intruders in the party and tore their limbs apart. The desperate screams were so loud that the survivors from Butter Tank’s units elsewhere could hear them.
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Meanwhile, Explorer trembled in fear in a dark corner. He covered himself with a cardboard box and peeked outside through a small hole.
The rotten smell of seaweed and the thick-iron smell of blood mixed together, almost making Explorer vomit. But when he thought of the mannequins, he swallowed all vomit back and held his breath.
He saw everything. Female mages from the Spartan Guild ran away from the mannequin hoard, but they got caught. The dolls pulled off all their arms and legs and dragged them by the hair, abducting those players elsewhere.
10 minutes after the commotion, the sound stopped. A thousand mannequins dragged their feet and carried dismembered arms, legs, and heads of the victims back to the dark area.
Seeing the remains of the victims, Explorer accidentally wet his pants. His body couldn’t stop shaking.
He glanced over his head and noticed that the white bar was blinking.
5%
He was about to go crazy. He could barely think straight!
Because of the shaking and his pee, he caused a subtle ripple in the water.
“BAD?”
One of the mannequins, who was carrying a torso with a head of a female player, stopped walking. She turned toward a dark corner, where a stack of cardboard boxes was located.
“BAD?”
She walked toward the stack of cardboard boxes.
As this place was commonly used to store digging tools, some of the shovels and small equipment were kept in boxes. The mannequins didn’t pay attention to them as they were used to seeing the cardboard containers.
Because they saw the boxes every day, they remembered the placements. One of them was out of place.
“BAD, BAD?”
The approaching mannequin dropped the trophy in her hands and grabbed the box, planning to move it back to its previous location. But as soon as she touched it, she froze.
Around the box, the water turned yellowish.
“BAD!?”
The mannequin immediately kicked the box and sent it flying.
However, it was a cardboard box with many digging tools. Small shovels, broken pickaxe heads, and worn-out shafts were scattered all over the place.
“BAD-BAD?”
The mannequin tilted and scratched her head. She patiently collected the junk and put them into the cardboard boxes. Then, she lifted it up and put it back where it belonged.
When the work was done, the mannequin nodded in satisfaction. She then grabbed her loot and returned to the dark room.
Meanwhile, on top of the cardboard box stack, Explorer had been hiding inside the topmost box. He had been frozen in fear when the mannequin checked the cardboard box, which he had used as a stair to climb there.
It was a close-call experience. He let out a sigh of relief.
‘I’m alive! I’m still alive!’
Because of the relief, his mind was clearer. Explorer finally remembered that he was in a game, and logging out was also an option.
‘That’s right. I can log out. This is not reality. This place is not the real backrooms. I can go back to my world!’
Explorer opened his game menu and pressed the logout button.
DING
<Warning! You are inside a dungeon. You can log out, but your game avatar will remain inside the game, and monsters can still attack your game avatar. Are you sure you want to log out?>
Explorer hesitated. But when he thought about the horrifying fate that he might experience if he got caught, he chose to proceed.
“Log out!”
<Affirmative. Logging out!>
WHOOSH
Explorer’s consciousness faded. He smiled as his soul finally returned to his real body on Earth.
PA
As if strings were cut off from his body, Explorer’s avatar collapsed while it was still inside a box. It caused a subtle sound and another ripple in the flooded floor.
“Puta? (Anybody there?)”
Unfortunately, a certain someone’s hearing sense was sensitive. Gata peeked from a corner and stared at the cardboard box on the top of the stack.
“No puta? Puta! (No bitches? Shame!)”
Gata hummed and strode toward Explorer’s hiding spot. She leisurely pulled out the cardboard box, revealing the unconscious man inside.
“PUTA! (Oh, an intact specimen! Big haul!)”
Gata hurled Explorer’s body over her shoulder. Then, she carried him to her hideout.
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The mannequins couldn’t express their feeling with their expressions. However, over 10,000 low-level mannequins danced as they brought pieces of human organs to the B1’s boss room, located at the northwest section of the B1 floor.
The northwest section was a mannequin factory that Undine and Meowmeow had built while Xiaomao was away. Each machine could smelt and compress any mineral and material into ingots, which could be used to make new soldiers.
Not only material could be used to make soldiers, but mammal organs, flesh, innards, and blood could be recycled as well. They simply had to condense them into Flesh Ingot and transferred them to a different factory, located in a deeper part of the northwest factory.
Aside from Undine and Meowmeow, the only ones who knew about the factory were Torrent and Gata.
The mannequins turned all limbs, innards, blood, and random organs into flesh ingots. Then, they gathered them in the room.
The dripping and juicy flesh was stacked into a small mountain. Torrent stared at the grotesque ingots with a wide grin.
“Very savage, such raw, much wow!”
Torrent nonchalantly poked an eyeball, which became one of an ingot. She pursed her lips and mumbled, “Will this really work? I’m not a dwarf, but I don’t think the 3D printers can create new lifeforms with these.”
Testing things out, Torrent picked one of the ingots and walked toward a green pool behind the mannequin-printing machines.
The pool was the wastewater from the mannequin-printing machines, which poured leftover substances after they had created a soldier from various materials. Torrent collected them here as materials for bio-soldiers that Meowmeow had instructed her.
She dropped her blood on the ingot and tossed it into the pool. It melted and sank into the bubbling green chemical fluid.
RUMBLE
The green liquid slowly shrank as the ingot absorbed the fluid to the point that it was bloated. The flesh ingot turned into a cubic block.
Torrent clapped her hands and ejected the block from the pool. The cube changed color into yellow, and it slowly shapeshifted.
“What should I name you?”
Torrent observed how the yellow cube regenerated its legs and arms. However, it couldn’t become a complete creature.
Like the mannequins, it had no facial features. It had long arms, but its palms became its mouths. Their feet were round and flat as if they were horse hooves. As for the monster’s skin, they were leather-like and thick as if its entire body was covered by a layer of a leather coat.
The yellow monster with mouth-hands was born.
Torrent pondered as he slowly guided the newborn monster to the boss room. She wondered what she should call it.
“Let’s make it feisty! Your name will be Party Girl!”
DING
A name appeared. It hovered over the creature’s head.
Party Girl, Level 300
Torrent snickered as she dibbed her index finger to the pool of blood on the ground, which leaked from the ingots. She wrote a smiley face, mimicking the mannequins.
“The party can’t be perfect without a balloon. Let’s make you one!”
Torrent walked to one of the machines and reprogrammed it to make inflatable balloons with an intestine. She used wind magic and condensed air inside. After tying the intestine, it became a weird flesh balloon. Torrent gave the finished product to the Party Girl.
The newborn creature stared at the red balloon in a daze. It gently reached out and softy hugged it.
Something changed inside the Party Girl’s body. She let out a soft giggle before it turned into a cackle.
“Good girl! Now, move along. I’ll create your sisters!”
Party Girl laughed and carried the balloon out of the room. She met the mannequins along the way.
The mannequins stared at the yellow humanoid monster with leather-like skin. They tilted their heads in confusion as she had a weird “Aura” that they didn’t have.
“Kikikikiki!”
The creepy laughter of Party Girl resounded in the room. Even the mannequins were afraid of this new girl.