Minecraft: Steve came to the back room

Yang Bo stopped what he was doing again and looked at the woman with one foot on the ground.

This was the first time he had truly looked at the other person.

His skin was clean, and his appearance was only average, but he had a good physique. After all, in a place like the back room, it wouldn't be long before a fat person could become thin.

"Have you thought this through? Do you know what this means?"

"I know, but... I want to live, at least I don't want to die right now."

Yang Bo put away the board in his hand, walked up to Anna, and stared into her eyes with sky-blue pupils.

"That…"

"Congratulations, you are now my employee."

A bucket of lava appeared in his backpack.

"Hiring Employees"

"Having juggled multiple roles, you've finally realized it's time to hire someone to share the burden."

"After hiring employees, the special procurement time will increase by 2 hours."

He extended his hand to Anna.

Anna reached out and shook hands with Yang Bo, somewhat bewildered.

"staff?"

"Yes."

Yang Bo glanced at Anna's still somewhat swollen ankle, took out a piece of sushi from his backpack, and handed it to her.

"Eat."

"Oh…"

Anna stretched out her dirty hand, and Yang Bo frowned slightly upon seeing this: "Open your mouth. You'll have to wash it properly when we get back."

"Oh…"

Taking a bath? Anna had forgotten how many days she had gone without a bath since arriving in this ghost world. The clean water she collected was enough for daily drinking and washing her face, which was already quite good.

The puddles in a level 1 habitable warehouse are not necessarily clean, or even safe.

Anna opened her mouth and ate the sushi.

'This is... strawberry flavored?'

After she ate the sushi, she could clearly feel an energy appear in her body and spread from the inside to her limbs. Soon, she felt a comfortable sensation like soaking in a hot spring.

Yang Bo squatted down and looked at Anna's ankle; the redness and swelling subsided almost instantly.

'The effect is outstanding, but... is a sprain considered a negative status effect?'

Chapter 31 Level 2 Pipe Nightmare

Climbing down the sewer ladder for about thirty meters, I finally saw a faint light coming from below.

A sweltering, putrid, and rusty smell rose up from below.

Stepping onto the brick-paved ground, Yang Bo took a torch out of his backpack and handed it to Anna, who was following closely behind him.

"Take this, be careful, and call me immediately if you encounter anything solid, understand?"

Anna gripped the nuclear-powered torch and responded.

Level 2 Pipe Nightmare

Survival Difficulty: Class 2

Unsafe

stable

Relatively few entities

Level 2 is the third floor of the rear chamber.

Similar to Level 0 and Level 1, Level 2 is one of the few floors that can be directly accessed from the anteroom.

Currently, approximately 2-5% of homeless people report that Level 2 is the first stop on their back room journey.

Level 2 is a tunnel network complex constructed of concrete, brick, and light metal, with numerous rusted and faulty pipes laid on the walls and ceilings of the floors.

According to available information, the original Level 2 consisted of only one straight corridor running across the entire floor.

However, the number of corridors within the floors had been increasing steadily since the 19th century, until it suddenly increased in the 1980s.

There were some dim yellow light bulbs on the ceiling, which looked somewhat similar to the basement of level 1.01, except that the light bulbs were spaced further apart, creating many dark areas.

"Be tight, watch out behind you, and tell me if you hear anything unusual."

"it is good."

Yang Bo stepped forward, the surrounding metal pipes attracting him, but with Anna around, he felt it was better to play it safe.

The gray stone brick floor was covered in oil stains, and it felt sticky when you stepped on it.

Soon, the two arrived at an intersection. Three of the roads were unobstructed, but one was blocked by a tangled mess of electrical wires.

'copper…'

As the saying goes, heroes are judged not by their origins, and cables are judged not by their source.

As long as there's copper, who cares about this or that!

Looking at the sparks dancing in the wires, Yang Bo hesitated for a moment.

'It's almost time to deliver the goods. Let's take Anna back first, and then come back to remove these wires after we've made sure everything is fully prepared…'

Anna reached out and wiped the sweat from her forehead, but her hands were so dirty that they quickly turned into a mess.

"Boss, there seems to be a tool table on the left."

The temperature in Level 2 Pipe Nightmare reaches over 40°C, and the steam from some ruptured pipes can even reach 95°C. This is the most dangerous part of Level 2. If you don't leave quickly or find a suitable water source, ordinary homeless people can easily become dehydrated.

It also affects the rate at which homeless people lose physical strength.

Therefore, for the wanderers, escaping the entity's pursuit in level 2 is not very difficult, but if they do not leave this level, they will eventually be captured and killed by the entity due to exhaustion.

Yang Bo looked in the direction Anna pointed and saw a dusty tool table placed against the wall of the side corridor.

A few tools were scattered on the table.

"Let's go take a look."

After walking over, Yang Bo reached out and picked up the wire stripper on the table: "It's alright, we might need it later."

He took a wooden box full of various tools out of his backpack and casually tossed the tools on the workbench into the box.

This way, putting the backpack back won't take up any extra backpack slots.

"Let's explore slowly forward; we're already here anyway."

Yang Bo glanced at Anna, somewhat puzzled: "Are you hot?"

Anna nodded gently: "It's at least ten degrees warmer here than at level 1."

She took out the survival manual issued by MEG from her backpack and flipped to the page introducing level 2.

"This is an introduction to the Pipe Nightmare level."

"I know."

Yang Bo smiled and reached out to take out an identical "Survival Handbook," waving it in front of Anna: "I have this too, but... I didn't notice any change in temperature at all."

Steve's constitution is amazing. As long as no temperature mod is added, he will not be affected in any environment, including the Nether, snowy mountains, and the End.

"Don't worry, I'll take you to a safe place in a little while."

"Ah."

Anna waved the "Survival Handbook" in her hand, as if that would cool her down.

As he walked, Yang Bo took out an iron axe from his backpack and stared at the ventilation duct on one side of the wall in front of him.

A human arm was sticking out of the narrow ventilation duct and waving gently.

"Be careful, it's probably another group of limbs."

This is the normal hunting method of limbed limbs: using their arms to extend out their hiding places to attract some clear-eyed wanderers.

"Be careful yourself, I'm going over to check the situation."

According to the MEG survival manual, if you encounter this situation, do not hesitate to turn around and leave. If there are no other roads or entities chasing you, you can make noise to attract the attention of the limbs and pass through quickly.

It is clear that Yang Bo is not an ordinary homeless person.

As he stepped forward, Yang Bo noticed the ground tremors and footsteps. The arm that was sticking out of the vent swayed noticeably less, as if it was gathering strength.

Five meters, four meters, three meters...

The moment Yang Bo stepped into the three-meter range, the arm suddenly shot out, its large, well-defined hand reaching out to grab him.

'Is this instantaneous refining?'

Ah!

With a thought, Yang Bo switched the iron axe he was holding in his right hand to his left.

Snapped--!

The two hands are clasped together.

Hey man!

A tremendous force struck, and Yang Bo was not going to back down. He immediately used all his strength to pull at the arm that was sticking out of the ventilation duct.

In an instant.

A chilling scream echoed from the ventilation duct.

"Since we're already here..."

Push harder!!