Ashen God
Chapter 367 - 366: Settled in Bengbu

Chapter 367: Chapter 366: Settled in Bengbu

Thus, compared to scanning the location of enemies, the area Zhang Yanhang could scan at once when searching for Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures was relatively smaller, typically covering at most just under a hundred meters at a time.

Upon reaching the summit of Jiading Mountain, Zhang Yanhang began quietly scanning all the plants on the mountaintop from top to bottom. However, to his surprise, he had just started scanning when he inexplicably triggered a new Multiple Choice, Time Pause suddenly descended, and a large array of textual option boxes popped up before Zhang Yanhang.

[Would you like to go to Shuangshan for a mountain climbing activity?]

[Option One: Stay on Jiading Mountain (Having just found the Sky Demon Crimson Crystal Grass in the outer ranges of Beiling Mountain, which is on the southwest spur of the Lao Mountain Range, you think that if Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures can exist in a place like Beiling Mountain, then perhaps Jiading Mountain, being part of the same mountain system, may also have rare Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that you can’t find in the city.

With this thought, you choose to stay on Jiading Mountain and spend considerable time using the Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil Skill to thoroughly scan the mountain. Unfortunately, though you found many coins and wallets lost by tourists, you did not find the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures you truly desired.)]

[Option Two: Go to Beiling Mountain (After a brief and fruitless search on Jiading Mountain with the Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil Skill, you become somewhat disappointed with Jiading Mountain, and at this time, you begin to think of Beiling Mountain again. Although there shouldn’t be any other Sky Demon Crimson Crystal Grass left there, perhaps there are other Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

With this thought, you return to Beiling Mountain. However, disappointment sets in when you find that, perhaps because a Sky Demon Crimson Crystal Grass has just been picked, there are no other Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. As a result of this disappointment, you feel sleepiness creeping in and decide to go home to sleep.)]

[Option Three: Go to Shuangshan (Even though you had only just begun scanning the plants on Jiading Mountain, you immediately feel that the chance to find Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures on such a desolate mountain would be much lower than on a regular mountain. Therefore, to cut your losses in time, you decide to head to the neighboring Shuangshan in search of the cherished Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

Perhaps because the environment on Shuangshan is slightly better than Jiading Mountain’s, shortly after entering Shuangshan, you discover a piece of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures on the far right side of Shuangshan. This treasure, known as the Sky Demon Green Crystal Grass, is situated next to an old crooked-neck tree and can be used to enhance the Energy Value limit.)]

"Although I was merely trying my luck in searching for Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and didn’t truly expect to find new ones, I didn’t foresee that Jiading Mountain would actually have none. After learning this truth, I’m subtly feeling quite disappointed.

But fortunately, Multiple Choice stopped me right when I started scanning, otherwise I would have wasted quite a bit of time on Jiading Mountain."

While Zhang Yanhang’s time isn’t particularly valuable at the moment, if he could have spent that portion of wasted time on something more valuable, it would have been much better than letting it go to waste. After reviewing the first option, Zhang Yanhang immediately moved on to examine the second option.

"If the first option is a reminder to cut my losses in time, then this second option directly accomplishes my initial aim, assisting me in entering sleep. It’s strangely appealing. Should I choose it? It’s such a tough decision."

But before making a real decision, Zhang Yanhang continued to check the third option.

"Sky Demon Green Crystal Grass? What in the world is this? How does it differ by only one word from the previous Sky Demon Crimson Crystal Grass? Could it be a specialty of the Lao Mountain Range? Although I don’t know exactly what relationship this thing has to the Sky Demon Crimson Crystal Grass, since it can increase the Energy Value limit, it must be good."

Zhang Yanhang truly never anticipated that the first time he encountered Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures capable of increasing the Energy Value limit would be under these circumstances.

"Could it be that Multiple Choice understood my previous hint (or rather, direct statement)? It really brought me an adventure related to enhancing the Energy Value limit..."

Zhang Yanhang’s previous hint was just a casual try, since he could generally only trigger an adventure once a day.

Having already triggered an adventure that day, the chances of triggering another adventure related to improving the Energy Value limit under these circumstances were quite slim, but unexpectedly, Multiple Choice really made it happen.

"Multiple Choice is being too kind to me, isn’t it? Could it be that it’s become more humanized with the advancement in Rank?"

While the overall situation indeed seems like Multiple Choice understood his hint, based on Zhang Yanhang’s understanding of Multiple Choice, he estimated the likelihood of such an event to be not very high.

So, the fact that he could trigger adventures back to back, and exactly the ones he wanted, was most likely coincidence, a fortunate accident.

"So, the question is, which should I choose between the sleep in Option Two and the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in Option Three?"

After a brief moment of indecision, Zhang Yanhang felt that though sleep was his main goal at the moment, increasing his strength definitely had a higher priority than sleep.

"So, I choose Option Three, heading to Shuangshan next to Jiading Mountain to obtain the Sky Demon Orange Crystal Grass."

With Zhang Yanhang making his choice, Time Pause disappeared in an instant, and without any reluctance, he promptly left Jiading Mountain and set off for Shuangshan.

Regarding the use of the term ’next door’ in the options, it couldn’t be more accurate, for Shuangshan was indeed right next to Jiading Mountain. Being one of the outer ranges within the southwest spur of the Lao Mountain Range, Shuangshan was just across the street from Jiading Mountain, just as Beiling Mountain was.

Because three mountains existed within such close proximity, and to save on costs, only Beiling Mountain and Jiading Mountain were developed into forest parks, while Shuangshan remained in its natural state, devoid of paved paths or any artificial facilities, not even a restroom.

Perhaps it was precisely because it was left in such a pure natural state that the environment there mysteriously seemed somewhat better than Jiading Mountain’s.

Even because it was usually completely uninhabited, some wild animals lived there, like squirrels and rabbits—those that looked cute but also tasted delicious.

By the way, the road at the foot of Shuangshan was called Bengbu Road, which has a name that suggests a very livable place.

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