Chapter 160 160 Chapter - You Dare To Steal My Spoils!
160 Chapter - You Dare To Steal My Spoils!
Bai Cheng was full of confidence; although two employees had left, relying on Chi Yan and Zi Yuan should be completely sufficient.
Name: loot altar
Current Loot: 0 / 3
Route Guidance: Demon Ant Nest 100km away
Prerequisites: None
“There’s an extra piece of loot, but it doesn’t matter.”
Fortunately, a distance of one hundred kilometers was not far; at the train’s current speed, it would only take a little over an hour.
However, Silent Night had already descended, and Bai Cheng did not want to leave the train under such a disgusting abnormal state.
Helpless, she chose to rest early, planning to depart the next morning.
In a flash, time came to the early morning of the next day.
At this time, Leng Ningxue and Yu Nian had not yet returned. Bai Cheng left Chi Yan and Huang Yu to guard the train, while she took Zi Yuan off the train to search for the Demon Ant Nest.
After all, it was just a prerequisite collection task to activate the Advancement Platform, and acquiring these loots would not actually be too difficult.
Her feet trod in grass up to her calves, and the surroundings were eerily silent. Apart from the rustling sound of her footsteps, it was strangely abnormal here.
“Demon Ant Nest… their burrows should be underground.” Bai Cheng’s gaze sharpened, observing the tall trees and weeds around her, but the observable range was very limited.
Zi Yuan proactively cut a path for the two of them with her blade, while constantly remaining vigilant of her surroundings.
It seemed somewhat difficult to find the ant nest, and by this time, the train behind them was already covered by weeds and trees, completely disappearing from sight.
Bai Cheng was slightly stunned. She had just been worrying about whether she would get lost, but now she was surprised to find that the positions of these trees seemed to be subtly changing.
They clearly hadn’t walked very far, yet the train behind them had already vanished!
Bai Cheng was certain this was absolutely not her imagination.
This Rainforest was far from as peaceful as it appeared on the surface.
“Miss, those brightly colored plants around here are highly poisonous. You need to be careful.” Zi Yuan was still reminding her from the front, completely unaware of the abnormality behind her.
“Zi Yuan…” Just as Bai Cheng was about to speak a warning, a giant pink man-eating flower suddenly emerged from the ground beside them, then opened its massive mouth and lunged at the two of them.
But Zi Yuan seemed to have eyes in the back of her head. With a flick of her long blade, she instantly cut it in half.
Then the pistil exploded, spreading a cloud of poisonous mist.
Zi Yuan instantly released her Aura, simultaneously dispersing the mist.
At the same time, this invisible aura instantly spread from around her to the surroundings. In the blink of an eye, the vegetation that had been hiding murderous intent around the two also seemed to be intimidated, falling into complete silence.
However, both knew that this calm was only temporary, and it wouldn't be long before these plants would awaken again.
In this Rainforest, not only do trees move silently, but all vegetation hardly emits any aura before launching an attack, making it impossible to guard against them.
Moreover, these plants seemed to possess only the most primitive hunting instincts; they showed no fear of Zi Yuan’s War General-level strength.
“I should have brought Lü Duo or Chi Yan.” Bai Cheng frowned.
But Zi Yuan was unhappy when she heard this: “Miss, you have to trust Zi Yuan, woo woo…”
“I trust you, I trust you.” Bai Cheng comforted her, while making up her mind.
After returning to the train, she would definitely have Chi Yan burn this entire place down, burning everything wherever they went!
This Rainforest was too disgusting, with hidden dangers everywhere.
The two continued searching the surroundings for another ten minutes before Zi Yuan finally sensed the presence of living creatures.
“Miss, over there!” She quickly pointed in a direction, and at the same time, her blade swung out several flashes of light, instantly cutting down the surrounding large trees along with the vegetation.
The view suddenly opened up, and a man-high, slightly protruding cave immediately appeared before the two of them.
“These ants seem a bit big, don’t they?”
Fortunately, Bai Cheng didn't have too much instinctive fear of insects; otherwise, entering this narrow and dark cave would have been a nightmare for her.
Taking out the flashlight she had prepared, Zi Yuan still led the way, and the two entered the cave without any hesitation.
The narrow, loose dirt path extended downwards, leading into the ground, and a nauseating stench echoed in the air.
Soon, the path gradually widened, now able to accommodate Bai Cheng and Zi Yuan walking side by side.
And it was here that they first encountered these Demon Ants.
“Miss, the wound on this ant is unusually clean. Zi Yuan concludes it was cut by some sharp weapon and died instantly.”
Zi Yuan squatted on the ground, carefully examining the ant’s corpse, which was the size of an adult male, and reached her conclusion.
The flashlight beam hitting the pitch-black ant also made Bai Cheng slightly stunned.
Although the ant’s mouthparts looked sharp, they clearly wouldn't cause such a clean wound. Moreover, there were no signs of a struggle around, suggesting it was likely killed instantly by an opponent.
“Could it be that this group of ants was attacked by some unknown enemy?” Bai Cheng’s eyes narrowed, but she quickly shook her head.
This place was related to the loot task, so the greatest possibility was that a Survivor had already arrived here before her!
Bai Cheng immediately became anxious: “Damn it, how dare someone steal my loot!”
She immediately took Zi Yuan and accelerated their pace, hoping to find this person.
However, as they delved deeper, the number of ant corpses increased, and the intricate paths within the ant nest made it difficult for them to find the other party for a while.
The reason they were still certain that this place hadn't been completely wiped out was because the biological aura Zi Yuan sensed was still present.
But apart from their footsteps, it ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) was eerily silent here, with no sounds of a struggle whatsoever.
“Miss, over here.”
At a five-way intersection, Zi Yuan pointed to the leftmost direction.
“Zi Yuan can feel that aura is not far away!”
“Good!” The two did not hesitate and immediately entered.
After passing through this narrow and winding underground tunnel, they arrived at an unusually spacious underground plaza.
But before she could observe the surroundings, Bai Cheng noticed several giant Demon Ants had already surrounded the two of them.
“Finally, I see some living ones!” Bai Cheng’s expression brightened, but before she could order Zi Yuan to kill them, she noticed the abnormality of the ants before her.
Fear was evident in their emotions.
Rather than saying they were ambushing Bai Cheng and the other person here, it was more like they were afraid of something and wanted to escape, and just as they were about to enter the cave entrance, they happened to run into the two of them.
It was that unknown Survivor chasing them!
Realizing this, Bai Cheng immediately wanted to warn Zi Yuan.
But the next second, the Aura of a War General-level expert, accompanied by a fierce blade light, had already arrived first!
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