There's a skull dungeon attached to my basement

Level 20 isn't actually low, especially in some smaller worlds.

You should know that in the cultivation system, a level 20 God's Game player has another name: Foundation Establishment True Cultivator.

And now, the situation Xiao Yang is facing, if you were to describe it:

Five Foundation Establishment True Cultivators jumped out from the roadside. The first three and the last two surrounded Xiao Yang. Oh, and they brought a Qi Refining Great Perfection dog.

It became inexplicably subtle.

Of course, these guys aren't actually a particularly big problem for him.

The last one to fall was the bandit leader. The first to be hacked to death was the Qi Refining Great Perfection dog.

During the battle, this leader pulled out something Xiao Yang didn't expect: a crude, sawed-off blunderbuss.

Made of cast iron, the barrel was extremely thick, loaded with many broken iron pieces.

The power upon firing was fierce. With a loud bang and dissipating black smoke, dozens of damage notifications popped up on Xiao Yang's body, but alas, they couldn't penetrate his defense at all. The damage was zero.

Xiao Yang picked up the sawed-off blunderbuss. It was a blue quality weapon, and Xiao Yang couldn't put it down. Things that go 'bang bang' and 'coo coo' are always particularly endearing.

Continuing forward, the area Xiao Yang was stepping into should be a wilderness.

Subsequently, after successfully dealing with the initial ambush, all sorts of things suddenly popped out.

Starving wild dogs, slowly crawling rotten corpses, fishmen moving along the river, long-hand disease patients, crazed heretic god believers, and some groups of starving refugees.

On this short stretch of road, Xiao Yang had already fought several rounds with all sorts of strange things.

Most of the things weren't difficult to deal with; one or two axe blows were enough to kill them. But fighting these guys really didn't yield anything.

With a higher level and rank, killing these level 20-ish miscellaneous monsters wouldn't get him anything except some miscellaneous junk.

And it wasn't just these miscellaneous monsters that appeared on this road.

He also saw many messy ruins during his journey.

Ruins from destroyed towns, fallen fortresses, and some crude settlements.

Most of the ruins were occupied by monsters, generally of a not-low level. Xiao Yang saw several level 40 elite monsters among them.

However, he didn't rush over excitedly.

What's more important now is to get to Windmill Town.

And not all the ruins along the road are occupied by monsters.

Some people also move around in these ruins, although they are people in not-so-good condition.

In the ruins of a town that was obviously newly destroyed, among the large area of charred house remains and corpses, Xiao Yang found a large group of guys sitting blankly.

A group of poor eggs infected with long-hand disease.

They were all infected, with fingers and nails constantly growing on their bodies, but generally they seemed oblivious, just sitting blankly, without moving.

Xiao Yang saw a few playing children at the edge of the ruins. He took out a few candies, which Xiao Yang brought from the real world using the Hag's Backpack.

With the bribe of a few candies, these children with nails growing on their bodies happily chatted with Xiao Yang.

"What are you doing here?"

"Waiting to die, big brother!"

The first answer given by the little boy with nails growing on his face caused Xiao Yang to pause briefly.

"Do you know this is a disease? Do you know this will kill people?"

"We know, but big brother, monsters with hands won't come near us if we have hands growing on us, and we won't be hungry either."

"Oh, right, big brother, you should leave quickly. If the Hand Priest comes back later, he won't let you go."

"You can't become like us!"

For a moment, Xiao Yang was speechless at such an answer.

Standing in front of this group of guys, Xiao Yang was silent for a while. In the end, he still didn't swing the weapon in his hand at these guys.

Even if he left them alone, after a while, a truly heavyweight long-hand infected person would be born from these poor guys.

Xiao Yang and the Pale Hand aren't close friends with close interactions. Their grievances and entanglements can be described as having a long history.

These truly heavyweight fanatics would probably still come looking for him. Taking action now would be a preventive measure.

Even though Xiao Yang quickened his pace, the sky gradually darkened. He probably wouldn't be able to reach Windmill Town before dark.

Xiao Yang hadn't experienced the night in this Rotten Land, but it was certain that the night here wouldn't be very safe, especially since he was still in the wilderness.

Regarding this soon-to-be-dark Rotten Land, Xiao Yang had two plans to deal with it.

One was to spend the night in this wilderness, to taste the saltiness of the night in this Rotten Land.

The second was to temporarily advance through the Dungeon Door.

The former was too dangerous, the latter was safe, but Xiao Yang wasn't sure if he would arrive in this world again after returning.

Yes, although this Rotten Land is classified as a dungeon in the definition of some gods, Xiao Yang is more inclined to regard it as a real world.

A Rotten Land polluted and corrupted by many heretic gods.

Although Xiao Yang is indeed proud of preparing himself for the identity of the Dungeon Lord, he now feels that he is more and more like:

"Adventure King, Ace Investigator, Folklorist."

And it's a single-player, no-cooperation version.

He really wanted to say to God's Game:

"Did you even ask me if I wanted this kind of gameplay upgrade?! Am I the Dungeon Lord?! Am I really the Dungeon Lord?!"

This dungeon crawl has completely evolved into an open-world dark land exploration for him.

"God's Game is still too much. It really needs to be controlled properly."

Thinking so fiercely in his heart.

But thinking like this, in the end, Xiao Yang could only sigh helplessly.

"Have to admit, this game is still fun. He has forgiven this God's Game again and again."

If he were to advance through the Dungeon Door, Xiao Yang was worried that he would once again appear at the crossroads when he returned to this Rotten Land.

If that was the case, it would be too much of a waste of time.

Although this is not without benefits. If he anchors at the crossroads, he can avoid danger after a strategic retreat when encountering an irresistible enemy.

And if the teleportation anchor point is bound to Xiao Yang himself, although it is convenient for himself, there is the possibility of being corpse-camped.

Which type does the Dungeon Door anchor belong to? This still needs to be tested.

At the same time, regarding whether to spend the night in this wilderness, Xiao Yang chose to do both.

First try to spend the night in this wilderness, and as soon as he encounters danger and something is wrong, he immediately calls the Dungeon Door to collapse and sell out.

Now he can be considered bold because of his skills.

He also has a Holy Light Blessing in his hand, no big problem. At worst, he will open the Holy Light and blow up these monsters.

And if even the Holy Light Blessing can't get through, then he still has the God's Form to save his life.

Although Xiao Yang now has a full set of equipment and his attributes are surprisingly good, his true combat power and combat form still have to be placed on the God's Form displayed after shaking.

If you simply come from the strength and rank, his current state can be described as:

"The me on the surface is only a part of the real me, like the skin I put on."

It can be described with such a strange sentence.

Although Xiao Yang himself does not admit such a description.