Chapter 1 The Entrance

The entrance to the dungeon seemed to have taken into account larger-sized warriors. The downward corridor tunnel was quite spacious, and even the Kui Niu mech didn't seem crowded inside.

"There's a thick layer of natural dust on the corridor steps, and no footprints other than ours—no one's been through here for a while.

Hmm... the wall bricks and ground materials are also very special,"

David walked down the steps, casually tapping the wall with the Judgement Spear. In the long sound of the spear tip vibrating, he calmly said, "The hardness is similar to that of special alloys in the real world, making it a bit troublesome to destroy."

"Moreover, the surface of this stone material has light-absorbing properties, and the sound absorption effect is similar to that of soundproofing panels..."

Hohenheim glanced at the dimming light of the Kui Niu mech's searchlights, snapped his fingers, and released the most basic light spell.

Under the use of a high-level mage, the [Dancing Lights] spell, which should illuminate an area with a ten-meter radius as bright as day, could only produce a faint light like a candle, barely covering Hohenheim himself.

In the empty, dark space, only the sound of footsteps and breathing remained.

"The absorption effect on spiritual energy is also stronger than on the ground..."

Hohenheim frowned slightly, did not cancel the Dancing Lights spell, but released another light spell, creating ten light spots around everyone.

At the same time, he released a Fireball spell toward the sloping corridor.

The basketball-sized Fireball spell flew down the steps at a relatively slow speed, illuminating both sides of the corridor. After flying a hundred meters, it shrank to the size of an orange, crashed into the wall brick, burst into a faint light, and finally disappeared silently.

Hohenheim turned his head and looked. The entrance to the cave in the distance behind them had become a window emitting white light. Substituting the trajectory of the fireball's flight into it, after a rough estimate, he concluded, "The steps below are becoming gentler.

Hmm... is the mental link network off?

Li?"

His gaze swept toward Li Ang, but he found that his dragon-headed white-coat companion was squatting on the ground, using a metal file he didn't know where he'd found to scrape the wall back and forth.

Hohenheim was stunned for a moment, "What are you..."

"Collecting some material samples."

Li Ang said without turning his head. He laboriously scraped off some wall dust, used a hard piece of paper to wrap all the dust into a square packet, and then stood up, twisting his neck.

"Phew, done."

Li Ang raised the small paper packet in his hand and smiled, "What are the four hottest and most sought-after majors of the 21st century? That's right, it's Biochemenvmat.

Biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, environmental science, and materials science, these four majors have a limitless future and become more valuable with age.

Even if the rewards from the mission aren't generous enough, bringing this very special material back to the real world can add bricks and tiles to the development of material science in the present world, and incidentally sell it for a good price to support the family.

Alas, people like you who have the protection of large organizations and don't have to worry about food and drink won't understand the suffering of the poor."

...If we remember correctly, you seem to be the owner of a very profitable private shop, right? You really are as rumored to pluck feathers from a passing goose.

The expressions on the faces of David and others were a little strange. All the players present, except for Li Ang, belonged to large organizations. They had naturally received similar requests,

Such as collecting various items from the script mission world, animals, plants, minerals, books, technological creations, and so on.

For large organizations, these are the real wealth, and even to some extent, more valuable than the low-level players they cultivate themselves...

David and others had long passed the stage of being required by the organization to collect supplies, which would affect their strategy in the script mission as newbies. So even Ding ZhensI had not stopped to collect samples encountered along the way—he was still struggling with the high altitude reaction of low free energy.

"This wall ash powder has a very good absorption effect on energy, but its own stability is very high, so it takes more spiritual energy to interfere with it, such as using alchemy to transform it.

It's very good for building materials for houses."

Li Ang patted the dust off his palms and said leisurely, "In addition, this kind of wall ash can also be used in actual combat.

If you collect a little more, you can suddenly sprinkle a handful of wall ash at your opponent during combat, like lime sticking to the opponent's eyes, nose, mouth, and ears, causing a double blow to their physiology and psychology.

If it can flow into the lungs along the opponent's respiratory tract, it may even directly squeeze the opponent's lung spiritual energy operation system,

Causing serious interference to internal force, chakra, ripple, and other power systems that require breathing.

Hmm... not bad, if there's enough time later, I can collect more and put it in the store for sale.

The price will be marked at 999 game coins per pack."

???

No, in such a short period of time, you've even figured out how to make money from this thing?

Did you come to conquer the dungeon, or did you come to purchase goods?

"Sprinkling lime in the eyes of the opponent in a fair duel? It's really a despicable and disgraceful means that makes a glorious and aloof warrior like me despise it."

Anboly frowned, suddenly drew out the pirate scimitar, held the hilt in his right hand, and held the tip of the knife in his left hand, and went to the wall to scrape the wall ash like Li Ang.

???

Why are you playing along too, and didn't you say you were a glorious and aloof warrior? Aren't you afraid of losing face for your Syndicate by being so stingy?

Seemingly noticing the strange expressions on the faces of David and others, Anboly explained with a straight face: "You can't have the heart to harm others, but you must have the heart to guard against others.

Since we're here, and we encounter something that might破坏 the fairness of combat in the future, of course we have to keep a copy on our bodies for future needs."

Anboly's Tidecaller Pirate Scimitar is a perfect quality weapon, and the blade is extremely sharp, scraping off a lot of wall ash with one scrape.

She was also very familiar with herself, and asked Li Ang generously for several stacks of kraft paper, wrapped the wall ash, and gave a pack of dust back to Li Ang as a reward for the kraft paper.

'I feel like if there were no system restrictions, these two could move the entire dungeon away...'

David and Hohenheim exchanged glances, their eyes clearly conveying emotions of pain and speechless.

"Ahem, are you done?"

Hohenheim coughed lightly and said to Li Ang, "Is the mental network off?"

Li Ang said, "It's already off, it consumes too much."

"Good."

Hohenheim nodded and looked at the Kui Niu mech next to him and asked, "Is electromagnetic communication affected?"

Ding ZhensI, who was using a respirator to calm his heartbeat, was stunned for a moment, pressed the cockpit broadcast button, and replied, "It's affected, but it's still within an acceptable range."

"Then, let's start using this to communicate."

Hohenheim took out a few rectangular yellow and black walkie-talkies from his backpack and adjusted them slightly.

[Name: Lightning Eleven Walkie-Talkie]

[Type: Communication Item]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Effect: Remote communication. Press the button to maintain a stable communication network in any environment. The maximum range is 10km]

[Consumption: Special Battery]

[Cooling Time: None]

[Usage Condition: None]

[Note: The walkie-talkie consumes the special battery power when it is turned on, which can last for up to 3 hours of talk time. Turn off the switch to stop power consumption. All the power can be naturally recovered within 24 hours after it is exhausted]

[Note: In 2077, humans invented a large-scale sports event that integrates wilderness survival, comprehensive fighting, gun shooting, vehicle driving and other factors, called "Wilderness Rugby". Participants need to find a way to survive in a 60 square kilometer wilderness environment and escort the ball to the opponent's goal. Due to the long time span and wide competition area, participants need to carry walkie-talkies to communicate with their teammates—but be aware that the walkie-talkies do not have a friend or foe identification system, so be careful of enemies who will take the walkie-talkies]

Hohenheim threw the walkie-talkies to his companions,

Based on his strategy experience, this vast underground palace will definitely not be fully explored in a short time. After all, he can't use summoning spells or use drone swarms to scan and map.

Due to the mission time limit, the few of them may explore separately,

Even if there may be several stone walls that weaken the signal at that time, it is still much better than them consuming a huge amount of spiritual energy to establish communication.

These walkie-talkies are not bound to individuals, so others can read the item description when they get them and use them directly.

"Press this yellow button to hear the voices of other people in the communication network. You can turn off the walkie-talkie when you don't need it to reduce power consumption..."

Hohenheim briefly introduced the precautions for the [Lightning Eleven Walkie-Talkie], while talking, he continued to walk down the steps.

The light in the corridor became darker and darker, and the light emitted by the Kui Niu mech's searchlights could only illuminate a short distance in front. The light spots summoned by Hohenheim also swayed like candles in the wind.

Finally, after walking down the last step, everyone stepped on flat ground.

This was a vast hall with six gently curved pillars in the middle. Two of them had been broken, and the broken half pillars fell on the ground, mixed in a pile of stone.

At the back of the hall were two rectangular wooden doors, connecting the ground and the ceiling.

The doors were simple and heavy, and the material used was some kind of dark and deep tough wood, which immediately gave people a sense of indestructibility and destruction.

Some candlestick brackets were hanging on the beams. Hohenheim released a Fireball spell toward the remaining brackets, but unexpectedly, it was able to successfully ignite them—the remaining fuel in the candlestick brackets burned slowly, illuminating the hall slightly.

"There are murals here."

Liu Wudai's calm voice echoed slightly in the hall. Everyone looked at the walls, only to see carvings and paintings on all four walls and the ceiling, as well as deep and narrow beast claw marks.

There were a total of five paintings, perhaps due to the age, they were dilapidated, and the pictures appeared relatively blurry,

Vaguely, it could be recognized that the first picture was of six warriors wearing armor and holding weapons, with determined faces, entering the dungeon entrance—that is, the plain gap that Li Ang and others had seen before.

In the era depicted in the mural, the plain was not a scorched and cracked land, but a lush grassland,

In the center stood four stone pillars, and the stone pillars' center was the corridor of stairs leading to the dungeon.

The faces of these six warriors were not very clear, but their professions could be vaguely recognized based on the clothes they were wearing.

Two warriors, two casters, one priest, and one archer.

The second mural was of this group of warriors standing in the hall where Li Ang and others were at the moment, working together to push open the stone door at the back of the hall.

A black gas symbolizing bad luck continued to pour out of the door crack, but this did not affect the determined and resolute expressions on the faces of the warriors in the slightest.

The third mural was of this group of warriors being surrounded by a group of hideous and ugly monsters on a wide platform.

The female priest in the warrior team (face unknown, wearing a white hooded costume) was sitting on the ground, with her head down, holding a warrior wearing blue armor whose chest armor was torn apart.

Not far in front of the female priest, the two casters and an archer in the team were doing their best to resist the monsters' siege.

One of the two casters should be a traditional mage, constantly summoning fireballs and ice,

The other was a necromancer—it could be seen that standing around him were many scarred monster corpses that should have died, and their eyes had turned blood red, fighting with other monsters.

And behind the female priest was the leader of this six-person warrior team—a burly warrior wearing scarlet heavy armor,

He stood with his back to the others in the team, standing in the very center of the platform, slowly pulling out a treasured sword from the ground of the platform.

The part of the sword that was exposed above the ground was emitting a radiant light like moonlight.

The fourth mural was of the warrior who pulled out the Moonlight Greatsword, killing the surrounding monsters like cutting melons and vegetables,解除 the siege, leading the others to break through the encirclement, and even carrying another warrior who was unconscious on the archer's back, they left the dungeon.

As for the mural on the ceiling, which was also the last one,

It depicted this group of warriors standing in front of another stone door, waiting for the stone door to open automatically—above that stone door, in the middle of a stone brick, there happened to be the flowing cloud pattern that Li Ang and others saw in the village chief's house.

It is worth noting that the wounded warrior wearing blue armor did not die, but was lying on a stretcher, unconscious.

"A total of five murals..."

Hohenheim looked around and murmured: "Judging from the content of the murals, it should depict the things a normal warrior team has to go through.

Entering the dungeon to explore, killing monsters, completing trials, getting rewards,

Obtaining the qualification to enter the sacred mountain—the stone gate depicted in the last dome mural is the gate to the sacred mountain.

But it's a bit strange..."

Ding ZhensI asked, "What's strange?"

"If it's for propaganda, shouldn't it be that this group of warriors goes smoothly and safely?"

Hohenheim pointed to the ceiling, "Why paint scenes of people getting injured?"

"To remember?"

Li Ang said casually: "Maybe this group of warriors was the first to enter the sacred mountain, and there may be special commemorative significance."