RBCT Chapter 178 Let's do it!
Chapter 178 Let's do it!
At this moment, the other teams had the same reaction as Xu Si.
This was something they had agreed upon long ago: if they encountered danger, the other teams would immediately regroup and go to their aid.
Because of his advantage in using his sword, Xu Si's support speed was second only to Chen Pei's.
However, the two of them were of little help. By the time they arrived, the deer had already been dealt with by Tashan, leaving not a trace behind.
The two men stood on the rooftop, looking down at the buses driving on the street below; their expressions were grim.
If that deer was attracted by the human presence on the bus, that's fine; otherwise...
Tang Jinxiu's incident was an accident, but what about this one?
"Let's go back first!" Xu Si said.
"Yes!" Chen Pei nodded.
If anything unexpected happens, the hunt will likely have to be called off.
Back at the air-raid shelter, the convoy was not happy about having collected enough supplies; instead, the atmosphere became noticeably tense.
The other teams had all been recalled. The bus from Tashan was the last to enter the shadow of the underground air-raid shelter. The bus was covered in mud and gravel, clearly having gone through some rough handling.
"What's going on?" Fu Xiaojian looked at Tashan, who had jumped off the bus, his brows furrowed.
Tashan scratched his head, a hint of confusion on his rock-like face: "I don't know either. I was halfway through the search when I felt the ground shaking. I turned around and there was that guy rushing towards me from the street corner."
"Is there only one?" Xu Si asked to confirm.
"Yes, just one. I just grabbed him and petrified him, then smashed him to pieces." Tashan wasn't sure if this explanation was correct!
"You fought Lou Mi up close. Do you know what those black things hanging on that strange corner are?" Xu Si asked.
"I don't know, but I feel a pulling sensation, and it's absorbing my supernatural power!" He described it casually, but Xu Si could sense the danger in his words.
It seems that the properties of those shadows are not just defensive.
If they had been shrouded in that eerie level 3 shadow from before, they would have been badly injured, if not killed.
"What if it falls?" Xu Si asked.
"Hehe, there really is!"
Tashan opened his hand, revealing a bead-shaped object the size of a pigeon egg, with a warm, lustrous color like yellow jade, and natural annual ring-like patterns on its surface.
[Strange Drop Detected: Deer Pearl]
[Item Characteristics: Excess Gravity, Slow Growth, Violent Mechanism]
This was completely different from the four strange drops he had obtained before.
Of his four strange drops, three came from Chen Pei, and the other was dropped by the level 3 strange boss.
"Good stuff," he commented briefly, then handed the beads back to Tashan.
"It has a high compatibility with your sequence. Let Wang Hu help process it; it should be able to be made into a decent artifact."
"Here you go!" Tashan grinned, not taking it back.
"I asked Jiao Jiao about the potion you gave me. It's worth at least three drops. So, I still got a good deal!" Tashan explained.
He felt he hadn't been of much help while hunting the [Lou Mi], and felt guilty about accepting Xu Si's enhancement potion.
Since Xu Si needed a strange drop, he naturally wanted to compensate him.
"One code for all..."
Xu Si really wanted it, after all, it wasn't easy to find a suitable strange drop.
However, he couldn't be greedy. It wouldn't be good for anyone to go back on their word after the price had already been agreed upon.
"I said I'd give it to you, so I will! If you don't want it, just throw it away!" Shandong men are straightforward.
Xu Si paused for a moment, looked at Ta Shan's stubborn eyes, and finally accepted the warm and smooth elk bead.
"...Okay, I'll take it."
Tashan then smiled and turned to check the condition of the bus with Wang Hu.
Fu Xiaojian was relieved after counting the number of people.
"Is everyone alright?" He felt much more relaxed when he saw Xu Si looking at him.
"It's alright! And everyone had a good harvest! It's just a pity that we could have taken more oil with us!" Fu Xiaojian said.
Xu Si then thought of Wu Dazhao's money bag, wondering how big it actually was.
"Is there no other way for Chen Pei?" The two of them had personally witnessed Chen Pei removing something from his body.
"His water volume is less than one cubic meter; even if it were completely filled, it wouldn't hold much!"
Fu Xiaojian had already asked.
This is the same predicament that Xu Si's cloak space faces.
If I pretend to, I can't do much; if I don't, it feels like a waste.
"My space isn't very big either, I can't fit much!" Xu Si said with difficulty.
His carriage was completely full, and the space under his cloak was only made up after he disassembled all the packages he had collected.
He still has nowhere to put the several boxes of medical supplies in the space.
Fu Xiaojian looked gloomy; it seemed there was truly no other way.
"By the way, are you going hunting again tomorrow?" He still had to ask because of the accident that happened to the Tashan team this afternoon.
"We'll see when the time comes!" Xu Si was also worried about provoking the "Lou Mi King" that Chen Pei had mentioned, so he hesitated.
If he were to lose all the purification points he had worked so hard to earn, just like last time, he would be filled with deep regret.
The worst thing is that when the time comes to spend purification points, that guy won't even give you the chance.
Because the convoy had plenty of supplies.
So the big pot hanging on the back of Xu Si's car also came in handy.
For the first time since they fled, the convoy had a full meal.
The little girl ate the fragrant rice soup until she cried.
Actually, she wasn't hungry; it's just that she hadn't had a proper meal like this in a very, very long time.
Tashan even stir-fried some shredded potatoes for them, using the last potatoes from the convoy (except for the ones Xu Si had already planted).
After a hearty meal, the convoy felt a rare sense of satisfaction and relaxation inside the air-raid shelter.
Ta Shan trudged over to Xu Si, who was polishing the [Sword of Punishment], and whispered, "Knife... shall we continue tomorrow?"
He has now reached Sequence 3, and he would definitely do even better if he had the chance to do it again.
Xu Si paused slightly and looked up at the others.
After finishing her meal, Su Su did not go to practice boxing, clearly waiting for his reply.
Chen Pei didn't care; whether or not he hunted was fine with him.
"The encounter with that lone deer in Tashan today, though perhaps an accident, shows that the deer's activity patterns are not absolute."
What I'm worried about is...
Xu Si glanced at the remaining purification points and hesitated.
Ten thousand purification points may sound like a lot, but if you encounter real trouble, it might not even be enough to fill a tooth gap!
He wanted more.
Moreover, their hunting team now has another Sequence 3, making their full Sequence 3 configuration quite luxurious.
If this was the setup when they hunted the [Lou Mi] at noon today.
He was even confident that he could turn the entire [Lou Mi] complex into a purification point.
Unfortunately, there aren't that many "what ifs".
"Tomorrow will likely be quite risky!" Xu Si said.
"It's the apocalypse, what isn't risky? As long as you think the returns are good enough, then do it!" Tashan said.
"Let's do it!" Xu Si didn't want to let this opportunity slip by.
How many times in life can one truly fight for something?
If you don't fight today, you'll regret it tomorrow.
That's not his personality.