[Coordinate Engraver: Consumes four elemental crystal shards to engrave coordinates onto a successfully created return scroll. Coordinate selection must be within a hundred-meter radius of the engraver.]
"Wow!"
"What is this thing?"
"Ohoho~"
Chen Yu, standing before the engraver, tilted his neck and looked at the little demon beside him, whose fangs were practically grinding, her small face stubbornly furrowed despite her dazed state.
"Huh?!"
"Look, what is this? I can't read, can you help me read it?"
Chen Yu's face was full of laughter.
The little demon, clenching her fists, glared.
"It's a sewing machine!"
"Hiss, really? But I saw a sewing machine when I was little, and it didn't look like this at all." Chen Yu feigned confusion, scratching his head. Then, he subtly twitched his nose, "I feel the aura of a coordinate engraver. Oh dear, could this be the engraver? How annoying, take it away quickly, take it away..."
Chen Yu, turning his face, reached out to push it away.
"Don't let me see it. If you find it, our Great Demon King will lose again, and how could I bear that?"
"You're so annoying!" The little demon glared with puffed-up eyes, raising her small, clenched fist high. "If you don't want it, I'll smash it."
*Swish!*
The engraver instantly vanished, pocketed by Chen Yu into his bracelet.
Before coming, Chen Yu had already planned to empty the city's vaults. He hadn't brought few storage items. Although he had already packed dozens of boxes of elemental shards and crystals, along with low-level blood pills, fitting an engraver was still simple.
"Heh, I won again."
Chen Yu, putting away the engraver, sighed with feigned helplessness.
"It's truly lonely to be invincible."
The little demon standing beside him remained silent, her small face stern, her large eyes fixedly staring at Chen Yu. The way she gnashed her teeth, it seemed as if she wanted to devour Chen Yu alive.
Noticing the little demon's expression, Chen Yu lazily stretched again.
"Gotta take it all~"
Anything he could see, anything he could take.
Chen Yu left nothing behind.
Even a fly's leg is still meat; wealth is accumulated bit by bit. Actually, this city lord's vault wasn't particularly wealthy.
Just a few hundred million resource points.
It was mostly weapons and equipment. As for materials like wood and stone, Chen Yu didn't see any. He guessed these resources were piled up at the resource points.
This place was the vault.
Only the relatively more important resources were stored here.
Judging by the quantities, the resources seemed to be newly entered. They weren't haphazardly piled up, and the quantities were all integers. There were also two boxes of gold coins, which Chen Yu hadn't bothered to count.
He estimated about 100,000 at most.
Chen Yu didn't care about such a small amount of money; it was purely a case of something being better than nothing.
Chen Yu was in a very good mood this trip.
He had obtained a batch of blood pills that could advance his Blood Pill Warriors by another level, elemental shards for expansion, and most importantly, the coordinate engraver.
With it, Chen Yu could truly establish a base camp.
No matter where he went.
As long as he had a return scroll with the camp's coordinates, he could instantly return to the camp. In normal times, he could also explore outwards without any worries.
Moreover—
The little demon had lost the bet again.
"Don't forget, you owe me eight equipment pieces of 'Cai' grade for city defense, and four months of foot washing." Chen Yu chuckled and nudged the little demon with his shoulder. "Don't worry, I'll try to go half a month without washing my feet before finding you, so you can enjoy it thoroughly."
"You're sick, I'm not talking to you anymore!"
The glaring little demon stomped her feet and, with a whoosh, transformed into a miniature version and burrowed into the wristwatch.
Chen Yu's face was filled with smiles.
This little demon?
She was truly his lucky charm.
Looking at the now-empty vault before him, Chen Yu stretched his muscles and slipped out, also remembering to cover the stone slab again.
This place was not suitable for lingering.
Donning his magic cloak, Chen Yu stealthily walked to the door, gently pushed it open, and glanced outside. Noticing that no guards were present, he swaggered out.
How strange!
Chen Yu was puzzled. If it was a vault, why weren't there any guards?
Did they really think the superficial facade could fool others?
Chen Yu was actually a novice in this line of work, with no experience. If it were someone specializing in this, Chen Yu reckoned they could have discovered the secret room even without resource spirit pets.
It seemed this city lord was quite bold.
In that case,
Don't blame Chen Yu for teaching him a lesson.
There was no help for it.
If they didn't guard their treasure mountain properly and just piled it out in the open, wasn't that an insult to others?
"Boss, should we go to the next stop?" Hei Dou, on his shoulder, whispered. "They have quite a few resource points. This is where my senses were strongest, but there are a few other points that are comparatively weaker. Should we just clear out this entire city in one go?"
"Is it worth it?" Chen Yu frowned.
The bracelet he brought this time was already almost full. If it were just basic resources, he felt it wasn't worth another trip.
Bearing the risk for not particularly high benefits.
It wasn't necessary.
"Shouldn't be bad, right?" Hei Dou frowned slightly. "The value is probably about sixty percent of this vault's. What do you think, boss..."
Sixty percent?
Not bad.
"Let's go!"
Just one last grab.
If he found good stuff, he'd take it. If not, he'd retreat immediately.
"Lead the way."
The resource point they were heading to was in the opposite direction of the vault. Dressed in his magic cloak, Chen Yu traversed along the edge of the street blocks.
Suddenly, a shout reached his ears.
"What are you guys doing?"
"Double-crossing!"
Hearing this, Chen Yu and Hei Dou's eyes widened. They exchanged glances. Just as they were preparing to loot, both the man and the cat's eyes revealed an intense curiosity.
Without any need for discussion, Chen Yu followed the sound.
"Gambling houses are open for business. Do the owners not know how to lose?" At this moment, in the center of the central city street, countless beastmen and humans stood on the street.
Facing them were numerous city guards.
The two sides were in a standoff.
At the forefront of the traveler's side was a young girl, her entire being concealed within her robe. She raised her eyebrows and looked at the young man opposite her, who wore a bamboo hat.
"That's not how you do business, is it?"
"Losing means flipping the table."
"Then why weren't you so talkative when you won? If you ask me, either run your gambling house properly or shut it down soon. Don't be so shameful."
The girl hugged her arms, her face full of mockery.
"We're here, we're here." In a corner, Chen Yu and Hei Dou arrived, drawn by the noise. They craned their necks to look into the distance. "Did something happen at the gambling house?"
"Looks like it."
Hei Dou on his shoulder whispered softly, then his eyes suddenly widened.
"Boss, our chance has come!"
"Ah?" Chen Yu, who was engrossed in the gossip, was taken aback, but then a smile involuntarily appeared in his eyes. "That's right, our chance has come!"