Post-apocalyptic game: I survive at sea by scavenging for trash.

The dead vines were quickly set ablaze. The vines seemed to be sentient, immediately cutting off the burning parts once they caught fire.

Lin Zhaoyin noticed that once the dead vines were burned, they could no longer freely extend and retract their branches.

Although the fire from the musket cannot directly cause damage, it can affect the properties of the dead vine, which is a very successful method.

The non-retractable deadwood vines were much less of a threat, and Lin Zhaoyin took advantage of their condition before they could recover to immediately begin cutting them down.

Zhou Shiyun didn't stop setting fires either. Whenever she saw a dead tree or vine that was intact, she would immediately go up and add a fire to it.

The two worked together seamlessly, and flames rose from the swamp. The dead vines, after being burned, were no longer as tough and could even be cut off occasionally.

The stone axe was less effective, and it took Lin Zhaoyin a lot of effort to finally kill all 20 dead vines.

[Congratulations to the player team for clearing the eighth floor! Each player receives the following rewards: 800 experience points and 20 vines]

Because they were constantly using muskets, even the virtual battle scene became quite hot, and the two of them were drenched in sweat after clearing the eighth floor.

The monsters in the swamp are not easy to fight, so the ninth floor will definitely be challenging as well.

The ninth floor is filled with swamp monsters, which look like muddy slimes.

These swamp monsters seem to have grown out of the swamp itself, able to merge with the earth at any time. They're similar to the snow spirits encountered during the blizzard disaster; a single slash will cause them to spawn clones.

只是泥沼怪的分身还能继续分化，一只9级泥沼怪被砍就会变成2只8级，8级的被砍又会变成2只7级，一直循环。

To kill these swamp monsters, you need to let them split to level 1 before you can kill them.

At first, Lin Zhaoyin thought that she would need to cut a level 9 monster into countless level 1 monsters and then kill all the level 1 monsters to make it effective.

However, after Lin Zhaoyin killed the first monster that split into level 1, there were suddenly fewer monsters on the field.

Since there are 20 swamp monsters at the start, with so many monsters mixed together, it's impossible to tell which ones split off from the same level 9 monster.

Due to the initial misjudgment, the field is now almost overflowing with monsters.

That attack just now gave Lin Zhaoyin the right idea: as long as one of the swamp monsters that had been split down to level 1 is killed, all the swamp monsters from the same source, regardless of their level, will disappear.

Lin Zhaoyin quickly figured out the fastest way to kill the swamp monster.

"Xiao Shi, pay attention to the levels of these swamp monsters. We'll only fight the lowest level one!"

Instead of wasting time and energy downgrading the swamp monster, they only need to let the swamp monster split into a level 1 one and kill it.

Zhou Shiyun understood Lin Zhaoyin's intentions and quickly put them into action.

There are quite a few level 2 swamp monsters on the scene right now. The two of them each randomly find one and then chop it with a couple of axe blows.

The swamp monsters have very low attack power; all their attribute points are invested in defense. As long as you're careful not to get touched by these swamp monsters, you won't take much damage.

After Lin Zhaoyin and Zhou Shiyun killed a level 1 monster one after the other, the number of swamp monsters decreased significantly.

The two continued searching for level 2 monsters to kill, and after killing the level 2 monsters, they would look for level 3 monsters, and so on.

Sometimes you might get unlucky and find two of the same origin, but this strategy can still save a lot of time.

The two fought these 20 swamp monsters for nearly two hours before finally finishing, and their stamina was almost depleted.

It's almost 3 p.m. now, and given Lin Zhaoyin's personality, she should be wrapping up and leaving by now.

However, they have now completed the ninth floor. Generally speaking, clearing floors 10 or 20 will grant some extra rewards.

It would be a real shame if we failed at this stage.

Moreover, the two of them hadn't used up much energy on the first nine floors, so they still had the strength to continue fighting.

Using skills can significantly increase combat speed.

The only difficulty now is not knowing what the tenth floor will be like, or what kind of monsters they will encounter. If it's another long battle, it will be getting dark by the time they finish, and they will have to head back. Once it gets dark, they might not be able to find their way back.

"Xiao Shi, can you still hold on? Should we take a gamble?"

They've fought 20 level 10 monsters before. And these monsters are much stronger than when they fought those 20 Ice Crack Birds; at least they're confident they can defeat them.

"Let's fight! We're already here!" Zhou Shiyun also felt that giving up on the ninth floor would be a waste.

So the two of them started eating and drinking like crazy to recover their strength as quickly as possible.

Because their stamina had dropped quite a bit earlier, the amount that could be restored by eating was limited, and for the time being, both of them could only recover to 600 stamina points.

Although her stamina was in a precarious state, her energy was currently almost full. Therefore, Lin Zhaoyin devised a tactic.

Zhou Shiyun can save all her energy for using the shield skill, and they can fight from a distance inside the shield.

Lin Zhaoyin's Ice Soul Needle deals 1 point of health per second upon impact, and she can continue using skills inside the protective shield, thus reducing stamina consumption. Moreover, once this tactic proves effective, it won't take too long.

However, the prerequisite is that this time the monster cannot be the kind that requires special methods to kill like the previous two.

With everything ready, Lin Zhaoyin opened the tenth level of the pyramid secret realm.

Good news! The new scene is an ice field, and the monsters are the same ice giants we've encountered before. They have experience with them and know how to deal with these monsters.

The bad news is that both of them have ice-based weapons at their disposal, so the tactics they just devised can only be used in half of their current form.

"Little Poem, a protective shield!"

Although Ice Needle is unusable, it's still possible to survive one round of skills.

"Retreat, retreat, retreat!" Zhou Shiyun immediately walked together with Lin Zhaoyin and activated their defensive skills.

Lin Zhaoyin started using the match-3 puzzle, first maximizing the skill's attack power to reduce the Ice Giant's health as much as possible.

In the early stages, as long as you can use the match-3 skill to hit all 5 of them each time, and with Zhou Shiyun also continuously firing long-range shots, Lin Zhaoyin can reduce these Frost Giants to low health within 3 minutes.

Lin Zhaoyin always calculates the positions carefully when using her skills, making sure she can hit five enemies at once before attacking, never wasting any.

After the 3-minute protective shield expired, Lin Zhaoyin asked Zhou Shiyun to set up another protective shield so that she could stay inside and continue remotely.

Lin Zhaoyin herself took the White Tiger Beast out to fight. The White Tiger Beast hadn't been of much help in the previous rounds, and now it had digested the skills and monsters it had eaten, so it was time for another hearty meal.

With Mimi around, Lin Zhaoyin didn't have to worry about being attacked by the Ice Giant's skills and could fight with peace of mind.

"Big ice blocks, prepare to die!"