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Chapter 27: Tiger (Seeking Follow-up Reads~)

The group turned a corner, and at the end of the corridor ahead, faint flickers of firelight appeared. As they continued forward, the scene in the distance gradually became clearer.

"Tents" constructed from animal hides and bones stood in a tangled array, with bizarre bone-made torches symbolically placed at the corridor's exit. Dozens of figures, all exhibiting "beast-like" characteristics, came into view.

Behind the torches, two robust, strange men stood.

One, resembling a kind of upright lizard, was the first to spot Ma En and the others.

"Oh, I didn't expect you to return not empty-handed one day," the lizard strongman said in surprise, looking at Ma En and the girl behind the old man. "Your luck's not bad, bringing back two top-quality goods."

The old man said with a flattering tone:

"I want to take them to see the Queen."

The lizard man said impatiently:

"Go in."

He nodded and bowed a few times, then led the others into the cluster of tents, heading towards the giant tent in the center.

After putting some distance between them, the old man began to explain to Ma En and the girl:

"They are soldiers, on the third floor. The status of warriors loyal to the Queen is second only to the ruler. Beautiful newcomers like you should be handed over to the Queen, while the more ordinary ones will be offered to these warriors for a cannibalistic ritual.

"As fresh flesh is torn apart, bodies like ours will grow from it. Newcomers will gain the ability to survive here and become one of us completely.

"Except for the ogres on the eighth floor, they think that as long as they eat enough meat, they can return to a pure body that can leave this place. Legend has it that when the Queen first came, she encountered several cannibals and had her limbs chopped off by them.

"Then they died."

As he said this, all three of them showed more or less respect for this ruler.

"Are we looking for her to help us get back?" the girl asked in a low voice.

Ma En nodded:

"That's what I think."

In his heart, the old man sneered at Ma En's promise. There had been no shortage of ability users appearing underground, and they were often too confident in themselves.

After all, on the outside, these ability users were existences above everyone else, and in their eyes, residents like them who had already settled down were just ordinary people. They all felt that they would continue to maintain their status when they arrived here.

But the reality proved that their original strength was indeed an advantage here, but not as obvious as they imagined. What really determined strength in the ninth underground level was the power they gained after becoming beasts.

And this only depended on their inner selves: brutality, courage, bloodlust, madness, confidence, arrogance, majesty, darkness, greed, desire...

These were the keys to determining a person's strength.

The central tent appeared before them, supported by the skeletons of several different giant beasts. The highest point was nearly eight meters, and the animal hide draped over the bones looked like it came from some terrifying beast.

"This is the palace," the old man quickened his pace and lifted the curtain.

No one was guarding here.

Ma En and the girl followed.

The interior of the tent had thousands of square meters of space, but the moment they walked in, they saw the bone-forged throne and the woman on it with furry paws stepping on the skull of a fierce beast.

Almost the only obvious signs of beastification on the Queen's body were on her forearms and calves, looking like she was wearing yellow, white, and black fur boots and gloves, but with sharp claws.

Beside her, several beauties nestled on her body and on both sides of the throne, with two men and three women, almost without any signs of beastification.

She looked at Ma En with a haughty expression.

The old man almost reached her, his body becoming hunched:

"Queen, we found them. I wanted them to perform the finger-breaking ritual, but that man didn't listen to my explanation at all and started..."

His voice stopped abruptly, maintaining his previous posture like a statue.

Ma En raised his hand and said:

"Maybe you should listen to what I have to say?"

The woman looked at Ma En, casually patted the chest of the woman in her arms with a paw that had retracted its claws, signaling the beauties to step back.

Tiger claws whistled past like the wind.

Blood splattered with brain matter. The immobile old man could only watch as the sharp claws attacked his head, while the insect woman and the fat fish man were so frightened by this scene that their bodies stiffened, and then their bodies began to tremble uncontrollably.

"This is a greeting gift," the tiger woman grinned with arrogance. "I respect the strong, and he offended the strong. What's your name?"

No, she didn't even know who he was. Could it be that she had already left after she became the ruler? Or had he never met the ruler before?

But this wasn't bad news.

Because the other party didn't recognize him, they wouldn't know that he had left before.

"Ma En," he introduced himself. "You are the..."

"Queen, that's what they call me here. You can also call me King," she paused. "Sit down."

The beauties who had just retreated brought two beautiful bone chairs and placed them naturally in front of Ma En and Ning Changkong, as if the old man's sudden death was not an unexpected event for them.

Ma En and the girl sat down one after another.

"Here, beast bones are one of the most important renewable resources," she explained. "And here, using bone products also symbolizes honor and power."

"Your Majesty," Ma En said sincerely, "We came here because..."

She leaned casually on the throne, flicked her claws:

"I can guess what you want to say. Yes, you still have a chance to leave here.

"But I want to tell you that the rumors are not accurate. What they didn't say is that those guys guarding on the second underground level have all lost hope.

"That's why they invented the finger-breaking ritual. They don't want anyone to have a chance to get out.

"No matter how you get to the second underground level, they will never let you return to the surface intact. In fact, whether there is a passage at all is a mystery.

"So don't worry, let's talk about other things, for example, would you like to join my kingdom and rule these thousands of ability users with me?"

Saying this, the tiger woman licked her lips, her eyes full of desire as she sized up Ma En's body.

Only then did he realize that the other party's attitude was so friendly, and there was probably a second reason.

"No," Ma En said, "If possible, I still want to try to leave."

She regretfully retracted her gaze, then shook the tiger tail behind her:

"Too bad. If you really want to go to the second underground level, I can arrange a test for you, but it's not a simple matter for me either.

"What are you going to trade for it?"

Saying this, her gaze drifted to the girl behind him, and then she suggested:

"I can trade two of my own consorts for your woman and the test, what do you think?"

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