No strange things are allowed to evolve!

This anomaly naturally reminded them of the strange changes that had occurred in the [Warcraft Hunter] before.

"No way, it's that one again?"

"Could it be that one of them triggered some hidden plot again?"

This conclusion was quickly refuted.

"No way, neither of them has done anything out of line so far."

"Yes, and last time it was upgraded only after it left the incubator, but this time, things changed right from the beginning."

"Could it be that the incubator they entered was already an upgraded one?"

Incubator upgrade?

These words, filled with surprise and disbelief, made Blueberry Dip Sauce keenly realize that something extraordinary must have happened in the Anti-Incubator before he arrived, something illogical enough to overturn the public's previous understanding of the Anti-Incubator.

So he immediately asked himself if he had missed something.

No one kept it from him; they immediately told Blueberry Dipping Sauce about the strange things that had happened before.

When the blueberry dip heard that the supposedly unchanging competitive hatchery had become more difficult, it was quite unbelievable.

"real or fake?"

Someone immediately replied, "It's absolutely true. We all saw with our own eyes that the description of the incubator had changed, and the difficulty level was clearly marked after the change. How could it be false?"

These words also served as a reminder to everyone.

Someone immediately asked the referee if the description of the hatchery had been changed.

At this moment, the referee was no less shocked than the others.

As the exclusive referee for [Mysterious Dreams], he understands this incubation ground better than these contestants who have only competed here for one season.

He had never seen such harmless researchers use Middle Eastern tactics.

In fact, he reacted faster than everyone else and realized earlier that this might be another change in the incubator.

Therefore, he had already checked the situation on the communicating vessel immediately.

However, no changes were found in the text.

"No, I already checked."

"So what's going on?" everyone asked, puzzled.

"I do not know either."

The referee was on the verge of tears.

Yesterday, he was just a bystander, happily watching the incubator run into problems that his colleague was in charge of. Who would have thought that something like this would happen to the incubator he was in charge of today?

Hearing the referee's answer, everyone was a little confused.

"So, did it get upgraded or not?"

Just when everyone was puzzled by the current situation, a confident and resolute voice suddenly came from behind the crowd.

"It's not that it's already been upgraded, nor that it hasn't been upgraded yet; it's that it's currently being upgraded!"

"Upgrading?"

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw a seemingly frivolous young man slowly step forward, stand with his hands behind his back in front of the viewing screen, and say calmly:

"Once they come out, the incubator's text will change immediately, and melatonin will probably be facing the next difficult version."

Looking at this arrogant man, Blueberry with Sauce asked the person next to her curiously, "Who is this?"

"Sugar Knight, currently ranked second in points, a master among masters," the other party introduced.

His words revealed his envy and admiration for the Sugar Heart Knight.

This person was indeed quite prestigious in the final arena, and everyone believed him to a large extent after he said that. Although they didn't know what he meant, they all trusted his judgment.

However, despite their belief, everyone couldn't suppress their curiosity and asked questions.

"What does this mean? What does 'upgrading' mean?"

Sugar Knight was waiting for everyone to ask, and upon hearing this, he smiled slightly and explained, "I entered Warcraft Hunter as soon as possible today, wanting to find out what changes have occurred after the difficulty was changed."

Although I've only been inside once and only have a basic understanding of the process, and I'm not very familiar with many of the techniques, I'm still quite confident, even if I haven't eaten pork, I've seen pigs run.

To my surprise, once inside, even I sometimes felt completely lost and unsure of where to begin.

Not only are the ways to acquire equipment completely different, but the difficulty of acquiring skills is also higher than before. This means that many times, you have to find ways to deal with level 15 or even level 20 monsters using the same methods you used to use to deal with level 10 monsters.

There's no concept of cost-effectiveness, no way to skip class by spending money, no blacksmith shops, no market trading houses, and none of the equipment blueprints and skill manuals that we used to take for granted. We have to figure everything out on our own. All equipment must be crafted by hand, and all skills must be acquired by chance.

Forget about finding ready-made equipment and materials left over from ancient times; finding even a few incomplete design blueprints would be considered extremely lucky. Everything must be created and discovered by oneself.

In such circumstances, survival is already incredibly difficult, let alone constantly facing the threat of traitors. Those traitors loyal to the monsters have branded all monster hunters as poachers and bandits. In such a world, even one's own kind cannot be trusted; one could be betrayed at any moment.

Hearing Sugar Knight's description, everyone couldn't help but grit their teeth.

Isn't this making us an enemy of the whole world?

Even at his lowest point, de Gaulle could at least earn a salary in Britain and conscript men in the colonies; he wasn't making cannons by hand in German-occupied territories.

Is this a level of difficulty that a normal person could possibly overcome?

But to my surprise, that wasn't the end of it.

"If that's all there is to it, then so be it."

Sugar Knight continued:

"The main storyline is still about defeating the King of Beasts and leveling up. Although it has become much more difficult, it is still similar to before. So I thought, could I try to achieve my goal indirectly by following that man's previous method?"

You mean...?

Everyone's eyes lit up.

"The Hero's Route?"

“That’s right.” The Sugar Knight nodded. “But guess what I discovered?”

Seeing that he suddenly became mysterious, everyone was itching to know what to say.

"What was discovered?"

"Hurry up and tell me."

"That's a long story..." Just as Sugar Knight was about to keep them in suspense, an impatient voice rang out again.

"Stop being so mysterious, it's just a simple question: the Hero's Route no longer exists."

Sugar Knight looked at the person who spoke, and it was the man who had watched Jiang Shu's match with him last time.

He rolled his eyes at the other person with a hint of complaint: "Why are you undermining me?"

Seeing this, the blueberry dipping sauce user asked again, "Who is this now?"

"Zu Baidao, who is third on the leaderboard, is also a formidable player. He is both a rival and a best friend of Sugar Heart Knight."

As they were talking, Zu Baidao began to explain: "Because it's a pioneering effort, although we entered together as competitors, we actually joined forces immediately and worked together to figure out how to conquer the area."

After we figured out the changes, our first thought was to take the shortcut of the hero's route.

Although the kingdom has been occupied by monsters and traitors, the royal family still survives, though they are scattered abroad, and they have also established an armed force to resist the monsters.

Even though the two sides were vastly different in strength, and the royal family was often beaten into a corner, they were still able to hold on because they had enough resources, including readily available equipment and monster cores. Even after the abolition of the monster hunter system and the decline in global military strength, they were still able to hold on.

We wanted to start from this direction and see if we could trigger the Heroic Path and quickly level up to a level where we could fight against the King of Monsters.

To our disappointment, despite our various efforts and every possible method we could think of—whether it was cultivating personal charisma, flexing our muscles, using the emperor to command the princes, or even drawing the so-called sword of the hero in front of everyone—no one regarded us as heroes at all.

Those royalty and impoverished nobles would only say one thing: 'Even if we starve to death, are slaughtered by monsters, or jump off into the ground to die, we would never consider people like you heroes. In our hearts, the only hero is the first Prime Minister, that great man who fed the demons with his own body. You filthy beggars shouldn't even come near us.'"

"Uh..." Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.

The first prime minister, the only brave one, wasn't that Jiang Shu?

So, those who witnessed the incubator's upgrade could become part of the setting?

Without a doubt, Jiangbei is the demon who offered himself to the demon.

"So how did you finally win them over?" someone asked curiously.

Upon hearing this, Sugar Knight and Foot Hundred looked embarrassed.

"No...no walkthrough."

"We searched for ways to trigger the Hero's questline until we found the birth of the King of Monsters, and then we were killed along with the royal family."

"Hmm..." Everyone hesitated, wanting to say something but then stopping themselves.

"In short!" Sugar Knight suddenly shouted, changing the subject: "What I want to say is that although we failed to conquer this hatchery, we are certain that we have discovered the secret to upgrading the hatchery!"

"What secret?"

Zu Baidao continued, "That is, the upgraded hatcheries will have some traits that the more stable hatcheries don't have, such as the hero line for Warcraft hunters, and these researchers who are now starting to become aggressive."

"So, the appearance of the Hero route was completely inevitable. That guy was just lucky, and it had nothing to do with him. The same goes for melatonin now?"

“That’s right.” Sugar Knight nodded. “After our verification, this is the most reasonable and only possibility. As for how to trigger the upgrade of the hatchery, after researching with Zu Baidao, we still feel that there are probably deeper mysteries involved. But in any case, it is not something that can be driven by human power. All we can do is passively accept it.”

Everyone suddenly realized, feeling as if the clouds had parted to reveal the clear sky.

However, there is still one problem.

"But why is the hidden route of the Hero route supposed to benefit the triggerer, while the current hidden route is worse for melatonin?"

"Well..." Sugar Knight thought for a moment, "After all, it's unstable, so it's normal to have both advantages and disadvantages."

Everyone nodded in agreement, and after figuring out the mystery of the hatchery's upgrade, they began to discuss it amongst themselves.

"It seems we were putting the cause and effect in the wrong order before. The hidden thread was actually the result of the hatchery upgrade, not the cause."

"Yes, and hidden lines aren't necessarily all good."

"That melatonin is really unlucky. If it had triggered a good outcome, wouldn't it have been like adding wings to a tiger?"

At this point, everyone couldn't help but feel sorry for melatonin.

It's all about timing and fate. Being stopped by these researchers will waste so much time, which will reduce our advantage.

However, there are also optimistic views.

"Actually, it's not so bad. It's all about the rising tide lifting all boats. Melatonin is already so difficult to deal with, so how could that kid be any better off?"

Upon hearing this, everyone's initial anxiety gradually subsided.

"That makes sense."

"Besides, he's been stuck at the spawn point the whole time, and he didn't get any combat abilities, so wouldn't that make things even more difficult?"

As they talked, everyone turned to look at the light screen on Jiang Shu's side.

Ever since Jiang Shu lay dead in the morgue, they only glanced at him occasionally, and after Sugar Heart Knight began to decipher the mystery of the hatchery's upgrade, everyone stopped paying attention for a while.

Unexpectedly, as soon as everyone looked over, they saw a scene very similar to the one for melatonin.

Many researchers, carrying makeshift weapons and various equipment, rushed forward shouting "Banzai!"

"Look, it really is..."

Before the word "like" could be uttered, the man shut his mouth, his expression gradually becoming serious.

The others also frowned, trying to figure out how to explain what they were seeing.

Although they were all charging forward, their target was not Jiang Shu, but the military personnel blocking his way.

At this moment, Jiang Shu also looked completely innocent and felt at a loss.

So what if there were over a hundred people escorting me, disguised as a corpse, to the next level? How could that arouse suspicion? Was it that obvious?

Also, why are these guys so temperamental?

They just said they wanted to check, so why did you rush up and start yelling at them?

Outside the hatchery, everyone looked at Sugar Knight with puzzlement.

The latter was also somewhat confused, but still tried to remain calm as he explained, "There are pros and cons. Since the con is in melatonin, then this must be the pro..."

Chapter 264 Some are enemies of the world, while others are allies in this grand undertaking.

While everyone else was surprised, the blueberry dipping sauce knew exactly what was going on.