Mu Zhong: "Huh!?"
Looking at the large hand near his mouth, gently pinching a ripe red strawberry, Mu Zhong's eyes almost turned cross-eyed.
Finally, he slightly opened his mouth and carefully sucked the strawberry.
"Thank you." Mu Chong bit into the strawberry, savoring the hint of sweetness amidst the tartness, and spoke softly.
"No need," Wei Huan said, then took another strawberry and offered it to Mu Chong's lips.
Mu Zhong wanted to say no, but looking at his hands and the strawberry, he finally opened his mouth again.
This one seems sweeter.
Mu Zhong couldn't help but raise his hand and touch his emerald green earring.
The wound is itchy and hot.
After feeding the last one, Wei Huan asked, "How much longer? Should we get up and rest for a while?"
Mu Zhong shook his head: "I'm almost done."
"Um."
Mu Zhong slurped up some strawberry juice, fiddling with the parts in front of him. After a while, he said, "Do you want to do something else?"
Wei Huan paused for a moment, noticing Mu Zhong's unease.
Is it because I'm here? Why am I so uncomfortable? The room is only so big, where else can I go?
After glancing at Mu Zhong with a puzzled expression, Wei Huan decided to get up and say, "I'll make lunch."
Mu Zhong didn't even look up: "Just heat up the food from the refrigerator."
"good."
Before lunch, Mu Chongzhen had already made a small water collector.
He placed the items on the dining table, taking a few bites and glancing at them every now and then to observe the water collection efficiency, constantly mentioning his plan to upgrade the small water collector to a medium-sized one.
He said that Wei Huan listened, glancing at Mu Zhong's bright smile from time to time, and before he knew it, he had eaten an extra bowl of rice for lunch.
Around 2 PM, the smart home system notified us again that a ruin had been discovered.
Wei Huan returned to the cockpit and looked out.
This ruin was different from the two ruins he had seen before.
It's very big, like a mountain.
The entrance is located below the sand dunes, and there are several caves.
The edges of the cave were stained with an ominous red, and when the wind blew, it made a mournful "whoosh whoosh" sound that could be heard from a great distance.
Wei Huan was quite familiar with these ruins.
Like the Scaled Serpent, they were all abducted by their entire clan and became unlucky NPCs in the challenge trials.
The number is not large, but the style is distinctive.
Wei Huan called it the Sandworm Ruins.
The sandworm is a giant desert worm, about the size of a bus, with huge mouthparts on its head covered with fine teeth. It lives deep underground and can easily dig out an underground palace far larger than the ruins of the Scaled Serpent.
Meanwhile, the sandworm is also known as the "desert engineer" by humans. Its underground palace has good air circulation, a suitable temperature, and is very spacious, large enough for vehicles to enter, making it a favorite ruin for challengers.
If you can drive, nobody wants to explore the ruins on foot.
Of course, once the combat power of vehicles is added, it is conceivable that the sandworm's strength is not weak either.
But after confirming that this was the Sandworm Ruins, Wei Huan did not hesitate to order the butler to drive the car into the ruins.
up close
The grandeur of the sandworm ruins pressed down even more directly.
The entrance, built on one side of the sand dune, had two large openings. Wei Huan did not hesitate and chose the most convenient passage to drive in.
Sandworm burrows are mostly interconnected.
The interior walls, unobstructed by the sand and gravel, reveal layers of horizontal stripes, tight and regular, as if carefully stacked.
The light gradually dimmed.
Wei Huan turned on the car lights.
The level 2 headlights do more than just illuminate the road ahead. When adjusted to [full illumination mode], they shine like a radiant sun, illuminating the entire passageway in perfect detail.
Wei Huan drove manually, very slowly.
He also unleashed the undead army.
The ruins could barely hold the cave beasts, so his vehicle was almost completely filled with the undead army.
The crows flew the fastest and went to explore first.
This time, the wolf didn't wander around aimlessly, but instead followed the rarely summoned army of bears, moving forward at a leisurely pace.
The Bear Skeleton has always been the main force among the "cannon fodder" units summoned by Wei Huan.
They are both tanky and capable of fighting, making them excellent at tackling tough situations.
However, the passageways in the ruins explored so far are too narrow to be suitable for the Bear Skeleton expedition.
Now these bears have been summoned and are walking in pairs down the passageway, with plenty of space between them.
The grandeur of the Sandworm Dungeon can even instill a strong sense of oppression in challengers.
This wasn't the first time Wei Huan had faced sandworms, and he still proceeded with great caution.
The terrifying mouthparts of the sandworm remained a vivid memory for him.
Before long, he reaped the rewards.
Ghost Crow opened a black iron treasure chest, and inside was the water collector that Mu Chong had been longing for. Although it was still a small one, every little bit helps.
They do have some problems with water supply in their vehicles right now.
The desert map affected the operation of the water collectors, reducing them to less than half of their normal efficiency. It took six water collectors to barely meet the needs of the two of them.
It's hard to imagine the predicaments that those less developed challengers are facing.
He led the water collector out directly, and one of the transmission ports was in the driver's cab.
First, turn on the water collector to start collecting water. By evening, it should have collected about half a mineral water bottle's worth of water.
After doing all that, Wei Huan returned to the driver's seat.
Just as I was about to switch to manual driving, I heard a rustling sound from ahead. A facehugger was hanging upside down from the ceiling, its forelegs gripping a black metal block the size of a basketball. Finally, it landed in front of the car.
Wei Huan rolled down the car window, took the treasure map fragment, and seeing the facehugger's dazed look, reached out and patted its head.
Facehuggers are actually quite disgusting to look at. They have eight legs, an oval-shaped body, a gaping mouth on their abdomen, and are covered in densely packed teeth and corrosive saliva, making them unappealing to most people.
But Wei Huan found these little things inexplicably cute.
Wei Huan patted its head, and it clung tightly to the wall, shaking its body. Its two forelimbs, which were offering up the treasure map, were raised high and waved back and forth.
Stunned.
Green flames lit up one after another on both sides of its back.
There are ten of them, all of them are its.
Eye.
However, when replaced with the flames of death, it became a jade-green decoration, which was quite beautiful.
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The facehugger was very happy after Wei Huan touched it, and for a long time, it followed the car side by side.
It gripped the wall as if it were flat ground, and Wei Huan could see it from the driver's side window with just a turn of his head.
At first, Wei Huan didn't pay attention, but after being followed like this for a long time, he suddenly realized that he had seen this situation before.
Both Little Dot and Anal Scoop Bro like to stick to him.
Is this person also an elite?
Thinking of this, Wei Huan opened the car window again and beckoned to the facehugger.
The facehugger suddenly jumped onto the car, its limbs gripping the window, facing Wei Huan's abdomen, revealing its gaping, ferocious mouthparts.
There was no saliva inside, but because of the biting, the entire mouth was scarlet, and a bloody smell wafted out.
From this perspective, it's not cute anymore.
Human aesthetics always have certain bottom lines that cannot be trampled upon.
Wei Huan frowned, waved his hand, and shooed it away again before quickly rolling up the car window.
This time, the facehugger didn't follow him. Instead, it nimbly stepped on the wall, finally hanging upside down from the ceiling, and then rushed ahead and disappeared without a trace.
The facehugger is a summon of the cave beast, and the death fire on its body also comes from Wei Huan.
Wei Huan had even greater control over these facehuggers than the mother of the cave beasts.
Distracted for a moment, I unknowingly arrived at the fork in the road.
However, the ghost crow was already waiting there, cawing as it led the way.
At each crossroads, the undead army would scatter a group to explore.
However, the number of the undead guards surrounding Wei Huan remained unchanged.
His current number of summons is enough to easily fill this dungeon.
"Quack quack quack".
The crow cawed again, and Wei Huan looked out of the carriage and saw the box emitting a faint golden light in the huge underground cave.
Wei Huan sat up straight.
A golden treasure chest?
It's a golden treasure chest?
With experience from two lifetimes, Wei Huan also possesses the ability to "plow the land" in this life. He has encountered two wild gold treasure chests in total, including this one.
This is certainly related to the fact that he was not strong enough in his previous life to explore ruins that were too dangerous.
But it is a fact that golden treasure chests are rare.
It is almost universally accepted that the golden treasure chest can only be obtained by ranking high.
The Golden Chest reward from the [Champion Challenge] on the first-class highway is the easiest to obtain. Although it's only a one in a thousand chance, the large population and number of regions in the Great Xia region mean there are naturally more resources.
Almost all major challenger legions in various countries have set population growth as an important strategic goal.
Because there are people, there are "zones," and only with "zones" can there be golden treasure chests.
As for global competitions like the combat power rankings, they are extremely difficult to compete in.
This also shows how rare the number of golden treasure chests is!
But after the initial excitement, Wei Huan quickly calmed down.
Sandworms are difficult to kill.
Its enormous body, tough skin, and mouthparts capable of devouring everything are enough to make most challenge teams sigh in despair.
This is also what Wei Huan would say.
The reason why Ghost Crow was instructed not to open the silver treasure chest immediately after discovering it, but to take him there first, is ( ).
The original plan was to assess the combat environment, make the most suitable combat deployment, and then retreat in advance, regardless of how fierce the fighting was, as long as I could sit back and reap the rewards.
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Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a golden treasure chest.
The monsters that appear in the treasure chests inside will only be more terrifying.
Wei Huan then realized that the sandworm ruins were indeed very large.
He always thought that his memory was blurred because he hadn't explored for too long.
The main cave, in particular, with its golden treasure chests, looked as if it were preparing for a fierce battle.
Wei Huan thought for a moment, then left the driver's seat once again and returned to the living room.
"Mu Zhong".
After finishing lunch, Mu Zhong was still engrossed in optimizing the water collector and didn't look up until Wei Huan called him a second time.
Wei Huan said, "I need to go to the Undead Ranch to open a golden treasure chest later, and I need your help."
Mu Zhong's eyes were beautiful, bright, and expressive double eyelids. When he opened them wide and looked over, they were round and luminous. "A golden treasure chest!?"
That's when I finally came to my senses.
The water collector in Mu Zhong's hand suddenly lost its appeal. He helped himself back into his wheelchair and looked around.
The light outside the window was dim, with an ominous scarlet hue, layered upon layered, forming concentric horizontal stripes, as if looking out from a tightly bound cocoon, creating an extremely uncomfortable and suffocating feeling.
Then, Mu Zhong saw the golden box.
His face was almost pressed against the glass as he exclaimed in amazement, "What incredible luck! To actually find a golden treasure chest!?"
Wei Huan had already reached the top of the stairs when he heard this: "I'll go get ready and come down in a bit."
"Good, good, good." Mu Zhong stared intently at the golden treasure chest.
Wei Huan went up to the second floor and walked to the left along the corridor.
The first room is the train conductor's master bedroom, and the room opposite is the guest bedroom.
Wei Huan and Mu Zhong lived in rooms facing each other, each with a semi-circular balcony, like a pair of symmetrical little wings.
Wei Huan entered the master bedroom and headed straight for the balcony.
On the left side of the balcony stands a black coffin about two meters long.
This is the Undead Ranch.
After upgrading the vehicle, Mu Zhong placed the Undead Ranch directly on the balcony of his room.
This is a good arrangement. People will continue to ride in the car, and he also needs private space.
"Professional Training Grounds" are extremely rare, with probably only one for each profession. They are like strategic weapons, capable of mass-producing stronger professionals.
However, he was the only necromancer in the world, and the Undead Ranch was in his hands, so he naturally had no need to hand it over.
To avoid attracting envy, it's best to hide it.
Wei Huan raised his hand and placed it on the black coffin. The dark power that only necromancers could use activated the black coffin.
The black coffin slid open from the middle, revealing a white circle on the ground engraved with dense runes.
The power of the underworld stained the white circle black from the outside in. When the last ray of white light was corrupted, Wei Huan's vision blurred and he found himself in the Undead Ranch.
The desolate land was covered with rotten, scorched soil, so fertile it looked as if it had been soaked in water.
It is formed by the accumulation and fermentation of proteins and fat deposits from countless organisms.
The pitch-black liquid, like maggots, crawled up the edge of Wei Huan's shoes, but because of its owner's displeasure, it restrained itself from going any further.
Even so, with each step Wei Huan took, thick, black threads would be drawn out from beneath his feet.
On this eerie land, rows of menacing trees, the kind that only appear in horror movies, grow.
The trees had no leaves, their branches were outstretched, and each tree had a twisted black burl hanging from it.
From the cracks, you can see that they are filled with a thick, yellow liquid, which seems unable to support itself and flows down, hanging in the air in strands.
In Wei Huan's glasses, the properties of the tree closest to him were displayed.
[One-Star Pasture] Durability 2010br10000.
There isn't enough energy.
Wei Huan walked around it and continued walking.
After walking through seven or eight rows, I finally saw a single, fully-energy-rich patch of pasture.
Wei Huan stood in front of the tree's burl, and with a flick of his wrist, a green flame appeared in his palm.
[Netherfire]
The explosive power varies depending on the amount of Nether Force Wei Huan inputs.
However, the summoned Netherfire is only at a basic level, and the amount of Nether power it can contain is limited, which also means that its explosive power is limited.
At its current stage, its maximum power is equivalent to that of an intercontinental ballistic missile, with an blast radius of about half a kilometer, which can easily destroy a reinforced concrete high-rise building.
However, in Wei Huan's view, this power was far from enough to deal with the sandworms in the golden treasure chest.
With a somewhat tentative idea in mind, he sent the Netherfire to the "pasture".
Unexpectedly, the Netherfire he had forgotten about upgrading actually reacted to the pasture.
Its flames tilted towards the grass, eventually sticking to it. The flames transformed into countless hair-thin objects, burrowing into the grass, much like a parasitic process.
Until finally, his entire body was immersed in the pasture.
The durability of pasture is decreasing rapidly.
1 point per second.
Five minutes later, there was still no sign of it stopping.
Wei Huan could only wait.
But this wait lasted for more than two hours.
A Netherfire with a bloodline of two stars as displayed in the glasses actually requires more nutrients to upgrade to the second tier in the Undead Ranch than a Shuraman with a bloodline of four stars.
The nutrients for the one-star pasture were depleted until only 2000 points remained before the Netherfire, which had advanced in strength, finally came into play.
"Bang!"
It exploded from the inside out.
The remaining 2000 stamina points suddenly dropped to 1.
The tree burl shattered, liquid sprayed all over the ground, and even two branches were blown off.
If it weren't for the main trunk still being there, this tree would look like it's been destroyed.
But at this moment, it's not far from being completely destroyed.
The upgraded Netherfire leaped out like a Calabash Brother and pounced directly into Wei Huan's arms.
Wei Huan sidestepped and easily dodged it.
Then, when he looked at the tree that had been blown up, his expression instantly turned cold.
My heart aches so much I'm trembling.
He has plenty of hay, but that doesn't mean he...
Willing to waste.
It will take him almost two days to recover his 2,000 nutrition points.
Moreover, two tree branches have been blown off, who knows if this will affect the nutritional quality?
His gaze turned coldly to the upgraded Netherfire.
He vaguely sensed a trace of consciousness within that ghostly fire; though it wasn't strong yet, it was no longer an empty shell.
However, Wei Huan did not like this change.
The Netherfire was his strategic reserve, a trump card to decide the outcome of a battle at a crucial moment. He didn't need something with its own consciousness that might disobey him, especially something that could explode.
After a long stare, the flickering ghost fire quieted down and floated motionless in mid-air.
Wei Huan then took the Netherfire and quietly sensed it; the overly active factors completely quieted down.
That's right.
After accepting the Netherfire, Wei Huan did not leave.
He waited a while longer, and then one after another, the tree burls were blown open, and all five ghost fires became excessively active.
After waiting for the Netherfires to calm down after their upgrade, Wei Huan collected them and returned them to the tomb before leaving.
Before leaving, Wei Huan looked at the tree with its broken branches with a pained expression.
They're just like a bunch of idle, spoiled kids.
Once back in the car, Wei Huan went straight out and downstairs.
This time, Mu Zhong didn't tinker with his pile of "garbage." Instead, he lazily leaned back on the sofa and fiddled with the microscopic world in his hands.
Having just completed his professional driving training, he is now focusing on enhancing his spiritual power, never allowing himself a moment's rest.
It's hard to imagine how hardworking and self-reliant Mu Zhong must have been if he didn't know the ultimate fate of this world.
There's a reason why he was able to become a "Light of Challenge University" and a reserve member of the Dragon Group.
I wish he could get back on his feet.
Wei Huan eagerly awaited that day.
Wei Huan's appearance startled Mu Zhong, who looked up and asked, "Is it alright?"
"Um."
"Let me guess, you went to upgrade your Netherfire, right?"
clever!
Wei Huan nodded: "Slower than planned."
"But this also shows that the value of ghost fire is higher than we imagined."
"Yes." Mu Zhong was always good at speaking and thought further ahead.
The two then went to the cockpit together.
At Wei Huan's command, the car turned around on the spot and left the cave containing the golden treasure chest.
Soon, guided by the smart assistant, they returned to the ground.
But that wasn't the end of it. They drove another two kilometers, approaching the limit of Wei Huan's control over his summoned creatures, before finally stopping.
Looking back, the eerie sandworm ruins were completely out of sight.
The endless yellow sand swirls and the golden dunes reflect the sunlight.
The rising heat distorted the view.
Wei Huan sat on the single sofa behind the driver's seat, next to Mu Zhong.
In front of them was a windshield that filled their entire field of vision, making them feel as if they were sitting in an IMAX movie theater, waiting for a visual feast.
Wei Huan's lips were somewhat dark in color.
Her eyes were pale, and there were slight bloodshot streaks around them.
He looked a little tired, but was in good spirits.
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He picked up his water glass, took a sip, and tilted his head: "Let's begin."
Mu Zhong hummed in agreement, his face full of anticipation: "I really hope to see it up close."
Wei Huan said, "The sandworm's underground palace is very large. Even here, the power of the explosion..."
As they were speaking, the earth suddenly trembled violently.
It was as if some enormous creature had thrown a powerful punch from the ground upwards.
Sand grains scattered everywhere, and sand dunes collapsed and sprayed water.
Immediately afterwards, the ground seemed to split open like a gaping maw, rapidly swallowing the sand dunes and plunging them into an endless abyss.
Only then did the sound of the explosion follow.
"Boom!!"
The sound was deafening, like thunder.
The noise was so loud that it even caused tinnitus.
Wei Huan vaguely heard Mu Zhong shout, "Not dead!?"
Yes, he didn't die.
Two Netherfires, infused with all of Wei Huan's Nether Power, were thrown into the gaping maw by the Ghost Crow, yet they failed to kill it.
The materials dropped by killing sandworms are valuable and are the main materials for upgrading level 2 vehicles.
These kinds of rare and important materials are not even sold in the store; they are extremely precious.
Now that they've met, how could Wei Huan possibly let it go?
Besides, the treasure chest monster and the chest opener are mortal enemies. If we wait for it to recover and chase after us, it would be a pity to lose our rare advantage.
Wei Huan immediately decided to take the initiative.
"go back!"
He gave orders to the smart assistant.
The intelligent assistant skillfully avoids all cracks and obstacles, driving at full speed.
The advantages of autonomous driving are obvious, even in such a broken and devastated environment.
In less than twenty seconds, they arrived near the original sandworm ruins.
If you continue forward, all that remains is a huge, bowl-shaped pit.
The large pit was filled with cracked red soil and flying red gravel, almost completely obscuring the view.
But at the edge of the field of vision, where the red mist thinned slightly, one could vaguely see a columnar body, roaring to the sky and dancing wildly.
"Awooooooo—"
The piercing screams could be clearly heard from miles away.
Wei Huan took a deep look at the blurry figure and had vaguely judged the other party's size and strength.
It was indeed a very difficult creature to deal with.
This must be the strongest monster in this area, the Sandworm King.
Wei Huan couldn't imagine who could open this box at this stage.
I'm afraid even if I open it, I won't survive to take it out.
No, there are exceptions.
Take myself for example.
Meeting oneself is the tribulation of this sand worm king.
Wei Huan no longer hesitated and seized the opportunity while the man was ill.
Four portals appeared on either side of the vehicle, and the undead army poured out like wildfire, rushing into the thick red fog!