Hyperthermal Hell || Apocalypse Paradise #1 [Complete]

77: Please Check Your Individual Prizes

The air was filled with steam, making it a little difficult to breathe. Everything looked hazy like when in a bathroom during winter. The warm rain had tapered off, leaving only a hair-fine drizzle wafting through the white fog, and this made everyone uncomfortable as their half-dried clothes clung onto their bodies.

Under such a peculiar "hot bath"-like weather, everything seemed like it would take double the effort to complete. It created an atmosphere where everyone couldn't help feeling a little lethargic. This was the reason why Li Zhijun was lazing around like a sloth, doing nothing.

"Are you going to come with me?" Hei Zeji, standing not far from him, shouted. Hei Zeji's body was surprisingly dry.

"Come on... Let me rest for a while more..." Li Zhijun showed his listless face. "Besides, being soaked is super uncomfortable..." Li Zhijun had always hated rain. Without the same abilities as his companion, Li Zhijun had no choice but to squint his eyes as he suffered the torture of each raindrop. There was no sign of his usual poise; instead, he looked like a wet little dog. He scanned the area in his sorry state. "Why don't we look for a place to shelter ourselves from this rain?"

"There is currently only one activated pocket dimension nearby. Do you want to enter it?" Hei Zeji asked as he lifted a brow, expressing some tolerance toward Li Zhijun.

Li Zhijun's eyes immediately brightened. "What sort of pocket dimension is it?"

"It's a game-type pocket dimension. I'll wait for you at the entrance."

Li Zhijun's face instantly reverted to its previous listless expression. Entering a game-type pocket dimension meant directly walking into a trap. He would have to clear every stage with those unlucky people who were currently in it before he could come out... Even having a high combative advantage did not mean much in such a pocket dimension.

He pulled himself up, sighing in despair. He took out a single small lens from seemingly out of nowhere and peered through it with one eye into the white fog just some distance away. "Huh? It is an open-air game-type pocket dimension. The host of this pocket dimension must be a cheapskate... Oh, it looks quite interesting. It seems like they're celebrating the New Year... Huh?"

He put down the lens in his hand and turned to look at Hei Zeji, saying, "Your kind is in there."

His bad-tempered companion retorted with throbbing veins, "Don't use a term like 'kind'!" Pausing for a moment, Hei Zeji's eyes drifted afar. "Isn't that woman too unlucky? She actually got drawn into two pocket dimensions in such a short time..."

Even though both were discussing Lin Sanjiu who was trapped not far from them, they didn't show any intention to go over and help. Li Zhijun put away the lens and started walking in the opposite direction of the pocket dimension. Just then, he commented lazily, "Anyway, it must be difficult for you Growth-types."

"Huh?" He Zeji answered curtly, sounding surprised.

"Each of you has so much Potential Growth Value, but you're all weaklings during the initial phase. Your abilities are really useless... That woman, what was her ability? Umm, storing items into cards, right?"

Hei Zeji wanted to refute what he said, but when he thought about it carefully, he realized that Lin Sanjiu's card ability could only be used as a glorified backpack.

"I heard a rumor that many Growth-types don't survive past three worlds because they're too weak at the start..." Li Zhijun looked over at Hei Zeji inquisitively. "Is that true?"

"Yes," the man answered even though he was clearly offended.

"What was your first ability?" Li Zhijun edged closer to Hei Zeji, his eyes sparkling with interest. "Aren't there quite a few Growth-types in some of those high-level worlds? How did they survive? And... how did you survive?"