As time passed, everyone successfully wore down the remaining three skeletons using the 'replacement flow' strategy.
The moment the last skeleton was eliminated, Sakura excitedly hugged Sasuke and gave him a big kiss on the cheek.
"Sasuke, I knew you could do it!" the girl cheered loudly, clinging to him like a koala, almost making Sasuke fall onto his bottom.
The faint fragrance that wafted into his nose, and the soft, intermittent touch on his body, this sudden 'high-level treatment' stiffened all of Sasuke's muscles. He stood there like a pillar, unsure of what to do.
At this moment, Sasuke continuously reminded himself that he was an avenger, and he still had a great vendetta to settle... *cough cough*, romance and such were all fleeting clouds.
To make Sakura stop pestering him, Sasuke decided to subtly mock her.
"Sakura, is your family very rich?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"If your family isn't rich, then how do you have an airport at such a young age?"
"Sasuke, you're so naughty, but I like it!"
Sasuke:???
Well, it seems he shot himself in the foot.
Watching Sakura and Sasuke interact, Naruto felt a pang of jealousy and said, a little sourly, "I was clearly the one who contributed the most..."
To be fair, Naruto indeed deserved the most credit for this battle's victory.
If he hadn't held off a skeleton at the beginning, someone in the team would definitely have 'died'.
Later, when heading to the top of the altar, he was also the one who covered their retreat, being the first to kill a skeleton.
Without the tough-skinned Naruto, even if they had won this battle, it would have been a Pyrrhic victory.
Of course, this isn't to say Sasuke had no merit.
Without Sasuke's summons, they wouldn't have been able to seamlessly take turns tanking the skeletons.
It's just that when it came to contributions, Naruto was undoubtedly the greatest.
Sakura didn't care about any of that; in her eyes, Sasuke was the coolest.
Hearing Naruto's jealous grumbling, Sakura not only didn't let go of Sasuke but hugged him even tighter.
Not only that, she even squirmed on Sasuke's body.
Honestly, no matter how much Sasuke told himself he was an avenger and needed to get revenge, first and foremost, he was a man, and it was impossible for him not to react to Sakura's embrace.
Just as Sasuke felt his body temperature rapidly rising and was increasingly trending towards becoming a big bad wolf, Kakashi waved his hand, interrupting them.
What are you doing? The monsters in the cave haven't been cleared yet, and you're already showing off your affection?
Don't you know the saying,'show off affection, die fast'?
...Having dealt with the four powerful skeletons, and with corpse explosion not appearing, the Evil Cave was now unable to resist the looting of the eight people.
After three hours, they finally cleared out all the small monsters here.
Looking at the massive amount of points, everyone showed happy smiles.
"Kakashi-sensei, should we challenge corpse explosion?"
At this point, it was almost the end of the six hours.
If they wanted to continue increasing their points, they would have to go outside the cave to find small monsters.
Seeing the little time remaining, even if they went to farm, they wouldn't get many points, so Naruto thought it would be better to challenge corpse explosion.
"You want to die, but we don't."
Before Kakashi could answer, Sasuke directly rejected Naruto.
"That's right, with our current stats and equipment, going to find corpse explosion is suicide."
Sasuke refused, and now even the squad leader Kakashi refused. Naruto sighed and gave up on the idea.
"What exactly is this 'corpse explosion' you're talking about?"
"corpse explosion? That name sounds strange."
As gaming novices, Guy and Rock Lee fully embraced the 'ask if you don't understand' style.
Hearing this question, Naruto enthusiastically answered them.
"corpse explosion is the final BOSS of this cave."
"This BOSS is ridiculously strong."
"Hmm, just saying it like that might not give you an impression, so I'll use an analogy."
"It's like this cave is our Konoha, those small monsters are Ninja, and corpse explosion is naturally the Hokage."
Hearing this analogy, everyone inwardly exclaimed that Naruto was a Genius.
Comparing the dark and sunless cave to Konoha, the small monsters to Ninja, and the leader of these small monsters to the Hokage.
Although the meaning was clear, it still felt a bit off.
"The Hokage, huh? Since it's the Hokage, it must be very powerful."
Guy and Rock Lee easily understood Naruto's words.
"In that case, let's log out of the game first. I really can't stand it here anymore."
Seeing Tenten acting as if she would log out even if they disagreed, everyone else also agreed to log out.
After all, the environment here was indeed too harsh... All eight people logged out of the game, which meant their activity had ended.
The moment all eight people exited the game, their scores were recorded by the System. After the full five-day activity period ended, rankings would be determined based on the total points of all teams.
The top three teams would naturally receive rewards, while the others would just have to be content with participating.
"Huh~ What are you all doing gathered around us?"
"Aren't any of you participating in the event?"
As soon as he exited the game, Kakashi saw a group of people gathered around them.
Among these people were Asuma, Kurenai, and others he was familiar with, as well as some less familiar Anbu members.
"No rush, no rush, the event time is still long. We need to gather intelligence first."
Asuma's words made Kakashi understand what this group of people was doing here.
It turned out that after Ge Liang increased the points and added one-time rules, all these people participating in the multiplayer group wanted to first see how others played, gather firsthand intelligence, and then enter the game based on their own team's situation.
They had witnessed Kakashis Squad clearing out the zombie horde and also saw them wear down four skeletons.
With the experience provided by Kakashis Squad, they believed their own team would definitely surpass the former.
Kakashi wasn't bothered by these shameless people and seemed quite calm.
He understood that observers and firsthand participants were two different concepts.
He estimated that only when they entered the game and faced a large group of 'zombies' and those four skeletons would they truly understand.
There was still a certain gap between fantasy and reality... And things turned out exactly as Kakashi had thought.
Facing hundreds of 'zombies', even with some preparation, these people suffered heavy losses due to the 'zombies'.
Not to mention the disgusting smell, just the sheer number was enough to make one's scalp tingle.
It wasn't that no one played in normal mode to avoid the nauseating smell.
However, such teams actually performed worse than those who entered the game in immersive mode.
There were two reasons for this...