However, even so, they would not rashly attack unless they continued to approach within fifteen or even ten steps, or got close to the spider eggs and juveniles.

Could it be that his rapid leveling led the officials to secretly change the aggro mechanism?

No—

Yiye Zhiqu carefully observed the Earth Cave Spider den in front of him and finally noticed something.

"So that's how it is..."

"What's up?" Hu Wan quickly gave him an inquiring look.

"Look at those webs," Yiye Zhiqu pointed forward with the spear in his hand, "Don't you see something extra?"

"Extra? Are you talking about... those 'cocoons'?"

Hu Wan also noticed, at the dense part of the webs, there were some grayish-white cocoons hanging.

Unlike the basketball-sized spider eggs, these cocoons were about half a person tall.

Due to their shape resembling that of spider eggs, it was easy to overlook them without careful observation.

"If I'm not mistaken, those should be yesterday's ratmen."

Hu Wan stared at him in astonishment.

"Do you mean, these Earth Cave Spiders are not only full but also lost their hunting desire because they've stockpiled a large amount of food?"

Could that really be possible?

As a professional player, he was more inclined to think that the staff had increased the difficulty seeing them leveling up too fast, while also reducing the leveling difficulty for other players.

After all, due to the Earth Cave Spider's slower movements, the yield from the traditional strategies of four or five-player teams had relatively increased.

From a biological theory perspective, it was the first time he heard about this in the game.

"That's exactly what I meant."

Gazing at the lazy spider and those white cocoons, a light of excitement surged in Yiye Zhiqu's grave eyes.

"This game... is more realistic than I thought."

It wasn't just the relationship between predators and prey; the game developers had also set different hunting habits and life habits for various creatures!

This made him feel an unprecedented excitement.

What he saw was not only the meticulous settings but also the developers' full sincerity!

Fascinating.

Utterly fascinating!

He couldn't help but start to look forward to what other creatures in the dungeon would be like, whether they were also like those "beginner monsters" lurking at the entrance of the newbie village.

At that moment, a popup message appeared in front of him.

[Quest: Lord Demon King summons you!]

[Description: Lord Demon King plans to hunt in the dungeon and is now recruiting 5 level 3 followers. Will you accept the invitation?]

[Rewards: Depends on participation in the group battle.]

[Note: During the quest, death penalties are waived.]

"I've received a summoning quest here, how about you?" Hu Wan looked up at Yiye Zhiqu.

"I received it too." Yiye Zhiqu nodded, pressing the accept button, "Yeah, let's take it. There's no loss in it."

The condition for accepting the quest was to be above level 3, and currently, there were probably only a handful of players across the server who had reached that level.

Clearly, the quest was aimed at them.

"I was thinking the same thing, in this closed beta, actively cooperating with the developers' work is always beneficial... let's wait for them a bit."

The quest's assembly point was at the first level entrance nearby, and it was still over ten minutes before the quest was set to begin.

Hu Wan also pressed the accept button and hung his short sword on the leather sheath at his waist.

Just then, he suddenly remembered something and looked towards Yiye Zhiqu before asking.

"By the way, how much longer until you level up to LV4? I remember you were quite close, weren't you?"

Yiye Zhiqu nodded.

"Still need a bit more than 3000 XP."

"Why still 3000 more?" Hu Wan looked at him surprised and puzzled, "I thought you were almost leveling up last night?"

Since Yiye Zhiqu was responsible for dealing the lethal blows to the monsters, he tended to gain a bit more experience.

Hu Wan had leveled up to LV3 this morning.

He had thought that after grinding all morning, even if progress was slow, Yiye Zhiqu should have reached LV4 by now, but it turned out he was still hovering at LV3 like himself.

"Last night I was short by 5000... Now, killing one Earth Cave Spider grants me only slightly more than half the XP it did at LV1."

"I see... I thought the decline in XP gain was because I didn't play much of a role today, turns out you're also earning less." Hu Wan curled the corner of his mouth and said smilingly, "Seems like getting stronger really does require challenging higher-level monsters."

Yiye Zhiqu touched his nose and cast his gaze towards the spider webs on one side.

"Measure our strengths... Right now, Earth Cave Spiders are the most efficient choice for us."

"Apocalypse OL" had been officially open for only a day and two nights, and most players had just reached LV1, some content players were even still at LV0.

In comparison, their pace was already fast.

It seemed slow, but that was purely because the game required a lot of grind.

While the two were chatting, the other three high-level players who received the quest also gradually arrived at the scene.

In this game, it was almost impossible to level up so quickly by solo grinding; these three must also be team players.

From their equipment, their classes were an archer, a Sword Shield Warrior, and a double-axe warrior... with a very clear division of labor.

Although using a double axe might be a bit difficult for skeleton soldiers, it looked like that guy must have equipped that weapon after reaching LV3.

Moreover, he must have, like himself, allocated all his skill points to strength.

Gazing at the double-axe warrior approaching from a distance, Hu Wan said with a slight surprise.

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