Chapter 93 Small Gain

  Then three masked men rushed directly into the opposite bush.

  "What are they trying to do? Escape?" Li Wen glanced back at the direction the three were fleeing in and muttered to himself.

  However, almost at the same time Li Wen made such a judgment, looking again at the direction where the masked man threw away the strong tear gas canister, came a fierce **.

  The next moment, the shadows of more than a dozen Lei Xi beasts appeared in Xiao Hong's line of sight. Each face was ferocious and hideous. This kind of spiritual beast, Xiao Hong naturally recognized it. Its combat strength could reach the level of a first-class rider. Its head was large and round, covered with holes all over its body, and its entire body was light pink. Its eyes were only the size of beans.

  This creature is normally gentle in nature and is a relatively easy-to-tame spirit beast, but never provoke it, or else it will become enraged like this. Once it finds its target, it will shoot out the poisonous spines from the holes on its head, dealing fatal damage to its opponent.

  A dozen or so Lei Xi beasts, Xiao Hong and others were almost unable to cope with them, and the distance was so close that turning around to escape was already too late.

  "Everyone, stand still where you are, keep absolutely quiet, hold your breath, and cover your heart with your hands." Xiao Hong whispered, because he was very familiar with the physiological structure of the Lei Xie beast, which had extremely poor eyesight, especially for static objects. It usually relied on changes in airflow to sense the presence of prey.

  Earlier, Xiao Hong had saved them many times with his vast knowledge. This time, Li Wen and the others' trust in Xiao Hong had almost become an instinct, and they began to follow suit.

  As Xiao Hong and the others held their breath, remaining still, sure enough, the originally furious Lei Xi beast slowed down its pace, as if it had lost its target, and began to circle around Xiao Hong and the others, seemingly searching for something.

  Among the most recent ones, a Thunder Rhinoceros was less than one meter away from Xiao Hong and his group. At this distance, once the Thunder Rhinoceros discovered them and shot out its poisonous spines, even if they were replaced with people like Sang Hongyun or Mei Long, it would be impossible to completely dodge. If hit, without a special antidote, within half an hour, the blood vessels in their body would dissolve, and the consequences would be self-evident.

  The situation was so critical that only Xiao Hong and others knew the most clearly. Unconsciously, Yan Nan and Li Wen's foreheads were already sweating, and their faces were flushed with bated breath.

  The rhinoceros that had been wandering around the perimeter had already trampled the bloodthirsty spider's bodily fluids into a muddy mess, completely mixing them with the soil, making it impossible to extract anything.

  Hundreds of thousands, just gone like that. It can be said that their hearts are bleeding, and they also hate those three people from earlier to the core. In fact, the behavior of those three people is also easy to explain. There is a group of people in this world who see others making a fortune and get jealous, wanting to find ways to stir up trouble.

  At this moment, the most unbearable one is Xiao Hong. Not only in his heart, but also because he has a lung disease. Holding his breath was never his strong point, and his normal limit was about two minutes. Xiao Hong could hold his breath for just over a minute at most.

  It had only been fifty seconds or so, but Xiao Hong already felt like he couldn't take it anymore. If his condition were to act up at this time, that would be troublesome. However, the Thunder Rhinoceroses in front of him seemed to have no intention of leaving.

  Helpless, Xiao Hong's mind moved and his pupils scanned the opposite forest. Through his own driving force, he quickly activated the rose battle pattern, randomly aiming at the front, and shot out more than a dozen rose petals.

  Hush, hush, hush!

  Rose petals passed through, like flying knives, passing through the small branches, directly cut off, hitting the thick tree trunk, forming a small light group.

  Such a violent shock, the resulting fluctuations, naturally attracted the attention of the Lei Xī Shòu, for a time Lei Xī Shòu focused their gaze on the place where the rose petal had struck, paused for a moment, and then rushed over, disappearing into the forest.

  After another ten or so seconds, seeing that the Lei Qiu beast hadn't turned back, Xiao Hong finally couldn't hold it in anymore. He took several deep breaths, then half-knelt on the ground, supporting himself with one hand on his chest, and violently coughed several times.

  Others were no better off, and they all sat down on the ground with a thud, constantly wiping away the cold sweat from their foreheads. The scene just now had really scared them half to death, and it would be no exaggeration to describe it as hanging by a thread.

  Looking at the bloodthirsty spider's bodily fluids on the ground, they had already hated those three masked men to the point of gnashing their teeth.

  As for Xiao Hong, his face was equally ugly, he wasn't a broad-minded person either. When they met, they had to split things evenly, if not, they would mix them together. Such shameless behavior, surely no one could tolerate it.

  Unable to help himself, Xiao Hong clenched his fists slightly.

  Fortunately, Xiao Hong had left a trick up his sleeve. The grey spherical object that had just appeared was indeed the Magnetic Dust Sand, the same one that Xin Yu Sheng had used earlier.

  Although this thing is not as good as Yu Run Xing, it doesn't mean it can't be sold.

  He took another glance around, confirming that there was no immediate danger nearby. Xiao Hong then retrieved the rose-patterned tattoo and took out a micro-magnetic detection tattoo from his magic seal bag. It was similar to the one Xin Yu Sheng had used before, which Xiao Hong had imitated during his free time. The effect was not bad, but since it didn't use the "tattoo within a tattoo" technique, the detection range remained at only one kilometer.

  Activating the micro-magnetic detection pattern, a circular pale green screen appeared on Xiao Hong's forearm, with concentric deep green lines representing the distance from Xiao Hong. About ten meters away, there was a small patch of bright yellow, which was where Xiao Hong had just shot out the magnetic dust ball. In addition, at the edge of the light screen, a pinhole-sized light point disappeared instantly in the due north direction, quickly escaping the detection range of the micro-magnetic detection pattern.

  Right north is the location of Dark Fusion Mountain, and it's also the central area. The closer you get to the central area, the higher the probability of encountering precious materials and variant beast cores.

  "As expected." Xiao Hong narrowed his eyes slightly, muttered to himself, then retrieved the micro-magnetic detection charm and handed it over to Yan Nan.

  "Take it, when you have nothing to do, just start it up and pay attention to the moving light spots on the screen." Xiao Hong instructed, because Yan Nan himself had few battle patterns to drive, so he chose him.

  "What is this?" asked Yan Nan in response.

  "Detecting magnetic dust sand patterns. Do you still remember that gray little ball from just now? That's the magnetic dust sand." Xiao Hong responded.

  "I see, no problem, if I find those bastards, I'll make sure to take care of them." Yan Nan said, taking the micro-magnetic detector tattoo, looking slightly flustered.

  "That must be established on the premise that we can beat them." Xiao Hong responded, then stood up and slowly walked towards the Bloodthirsty Spider's nest, with others naturally following behind.

  Arriving below the nest, Xiao Hong first looked down from top to bottom. Li Wen's previous shot was indeed very accurate, directly hitting the center and causing it to bloom.

  However, Xiao Hong still made a discovery among them. He took out the Broken Armor Short Sword and drove it forward. On the edge of the blade, an energy body composed of blades quickly formed, extremely sharp. Then he gestured to Hong Feng to hold onto the tree trunk. After that, Xiao Hong stepped on Hong Feng's shoulder and began to observe at close range. Using the Broken Armor Short Sword, he stirred a few times in the remains of the nest.

  Soon, a flash of light flashed through Xiao Hong's eyes, and he carefully put on protective gloves. Then, Xiao Hong carefully stretched his hand into a small hole in the nest and felt it carefully before pulling out a rolling pin-sized, constantly twisting "big worm".

  As Xiao Hong jumped down from Hong Feng's shoulders, the others had already gathered around Xiao Hong, their eyes wide with wonder, staring at the thing in Xiao Hong's hand. This green and wet big bug, they naturally recognized it - the mother of the bloodthirsty spider.

  It's a top-notch material for making medicine, and one is worth at least 100 gold coins. Due to the difficulty of capture, it's extremely rare, with no more than ten in a nest. As a result, those who need it urgently often pay several times the price.

  "We've finally gotten something." Yan Nan blinked his eyes, and they shone with excitement. Although they were just apprentices of Sang Hongyun, this was the first time they had collected such a precious thing.

  Xiao Hong didn't respond, and with a faint smile, he quickly took out a long cylindrical glass bottle from his backpack, poured some of the sticky liquid from the nest into it, then roughly stuffed the struggling mother insect inside and sealed it.

  "Hongfeng, you first put it away and we'll split it evenly later." Xiao Hong handed the glass bottle to Hongfeng, this was also a manifestation of trust in his companion. After all, here, being cautious and suspicious of each other's companions was equivalent to having one foot already stepped into the Ghost Gate.

  Hongfeng naturally felt Xiao Hong's trust, nodded, and put the glass bottle into his large backpack. Then, without stopping, they headed straight north.

  Due to previous lessons, everyone was extremely cautious during the journey, paying attention to every move around them at all times.

  They also knew that all the teams would probably get closer to Darkmire Mountain, and the closer they got to Darkmire Mountain, the smaller the range would be, and the higher the chances of encountering people and ferocious spirit beasts.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, after more than half an hour of marching forward, a fierce ** came from ahead, and through the branches, one could vaguely see flashes of light with battle scars, flickering constantly.

  Xiao Hong and the others exchanged a glance, their eyes communicating silently. They crouched down simultaneously, trying to tread as lightly as possible, creeping forward while using the waist-high grass to conceal themselves.

  They had moved forward about ten meters, through the dense grass, when Xiao Hong and the others could clearly see that a dozen or so people had surrounded a spirit beast on an open space. The beast was at least two meters tall and four meters long.

  The beast at the center was already somewhat unable to support itself, its hippopotamus-like body covered in scars, with over a dozen deep wounds on its golden steel-like armor, and a huge gash on its front leg that exposed its silver bones. Its long tail had been cut off cleanly.

  "Silver Bone Horse, Golden?" Seeing this scene, Xiao Hong's expression had greatly changed.

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