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Chapter 422 - 390 Chemistry

Chapter 422: Chapter 390 Chemistry

"What’s the job? Let’s hear it."

Li Cheng typed with great interest. The toy factory was now running 24/7, continuously producing items, equipment, and skill scrolls, providing stable profits every day.

Even if he didn’t want to work anymore, living a lavish life in bars and nightclubs wouldn’t lead to bankruptcy anytime soon—considering that players live on the edge, the entertainment venues in the slum offered VIP monthly services.

Zhangsun Yao knew his financial strength, so if it was just a mercenary-level commission, she wouldn’t contact him without a good reason.

"Two weeks ago, we, alongside several other medium and small-sized guilds, discovered a giant teleportation gate in a killing field. After spiritual prophecy, tarot divination, and predictions from high monks,

we all believe that something extremely valuable lies behind the door, at least equivalent to a Secret Treasure of Legendary quality, or even the core component of a Hidden Room.

However, there are quite a number of hostile units wandering inside the complex, so we need some help. I’ve sent you the details."

Zhangsun Yao sent over a document with pictures providing a detailed explanation.

Everyone knows that Hidden Rooms are the most precious strategic resource in a killing field, bar none.

The Star Simulation Corridor supplied unlimited energy to the Special Affairs Bureau,

while the Horn Room, capable of mass-producing simplified security guards, has established the Global Supernatural Alliance as the largest guild.

Precisely because of its powerful functionality and rare attributes, whether a guild can occupy a fully functional Hidden Room has always been an important criterion for large guilds.

Various factions invest massive resources internally to organize manpower to explore killing fields. Externally, they offer exorbitant bounties, collecting any clues about Hidden Rooms.

Information of value: 10,000 Game Coins.

Information of significant value: 80,000 Game Coins.

Critical, real, and reliable information: 500,000 Game Coins.

If the information directly points to a Hidden Room, the offers from major guilds include but are not limited to providing core guild positions, free choice of Epic Equipment, and transferring powerful skills to Level 35, etc.

For these reasons, a new profession—Bounty Hunter—has emerged within killing fields.

These people, like prospectors, stay in the killing fields year-round, risking their lives to explore ruins and collect Hidden Room clues, which they then exchange with major guilds for money.

They live a life of licking blood from the blade, dreaming of getting rich overnight.

Some region-based powers, such as medium and small-sized guilds in Brazil, Thailand, and South Korea, don’t have enough strength and resources to cast a wide net to catch more fish like the major guilds do,

nor do they wish to be pure bounty hunters working for the big guilds.

They’re stuck, unable to move up or down.

Because of this situation, medium and small-sized guilds worldwide, including Zhangsun Yao’s World Nuclear House, chose to form cooperative organizations, where those with money contribute money, those with strength contribute strength, to explore the killing field together.

If rare resources, or even a Hidden Room, are discovered, the final gains will be divided based on each person’s contribution through a Magic Contract with mandatory execution power—this model is also known as "Piecing Together." (拼好间)

Li Cheng quickly scanned through the text materials. According to exploration records, the teleportation gate leads to a location unknown massive architectural complex, allowing only life forms below Level 30 to enter, and each teleportation lands at a different location.

For the past two weeks, a coalition of twenty medium and small-sized guilds has been sending robots, robot dogs, and drones inside,

with most being destroyed within an hour, and only a few managing to conduct partial exploration, sending back video footage.

After detailed examination, the teleportation gate can only last for another 48 hours. If they wish to obtain the Secret Treasure, this is their last chance.

’A man dies for wealth, as a bird dies for food.’

Li Cheng mused sincerely. A single Game Coin could be exchanged for fifteen to sixteen thousand cash on the black market. Any player past the novice stage was a multimillionaire, if not a billionaire,

yet, desires are endless. Under the threat of the killing field, everyone must strive to strengthen themselves and survive arduous tasks.

It didn’t help that the average lifespan was not as long as a ’medicated lady.’ It’s quite unlucky, when you think about it.

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"Sorry, I’m not interested. You should look for someone else."

Li Cheng politely declined.

The PPT from the other side did look very tempting; there were only a handful of Legendary-level items in the entire killing field, all held by top-tier players,

and a complete Hidden Room was even harder to value monetarily.

But given that he owned a toy factory and didn’t lack money, and he could gather high-quality artifacts to attempt crafting Epic items, there was no need to take unnecessary risks.

"Hold on, take a look at this video first."

Zhangsun Yao sent over a thirty-second video taken by a robot dog. The robot dog was walking slowly through an abandoned, dark building resembling a biochemical lab,

where night vision equipment showed severed limbs and dried blood stains clearly on the ground.

Bang!

A loud noise came from ahead, and the robot dog, there to gather intelligence, immediately moved forward silently toward the sound, arriving at a staircase.

It was a seven-meter-tall, double-headed horse-headed humanoid creature wearing heavy metal armor, with chains around its two hands connected to a large axe and a wolf fang club,

moving up the stairs in a bizarre crawling posture.

Judging from the weight of its armor and axe, the physical strength of this humanoid creature must at least be equivalent to a Level 20 pure melee player.

The robot dog didn’t alert the creature, instead crouched down, opened a panel on its back, and released a hummingbird-like micro drone, which quietly approached it.

As the gap closed, the two-headed centaur’s crawling posture became increasingly strange until the hummingbird drone moved to the front, revealing the full picture—

The centaur’s chest armor had a gaping hole with a clean, neat wound at the heart, clearly dead for some time.

A beetle-like creature over three meters tall, covered wholly with chitinous red shell, stood on its hind legs. Its four robust front limbs, like human arms, easily lifted the seven-meter-tall centaur’s body, moving in the stairwell.

Perhaps noticing the air flow’s disturbance, the beetle raised a forelimb and shot a chitinous spike from its palm, accurately hitting the airborne hummingbird drone,

then suddenly snapped off a dead centaur’s arm and seized the large axe, throwing it fiercely backward, smashing the robot dog.

The signal cut off there, lingering on the image of the axe slicing through the camera.

Li Cheng’s pupils shrank suddenly. Even through the night vision, he felt a strong... thrill from that beetle-like creature.

Just like a Northeast tiger sensing a fellow creature’s presence through faint scents carried by the wind from hundreds of kilometers away.

The other side, just like him, was also an Insect Lord Demon infection host, perhaps even closer to the source of the Divine Calamity.

"This footage was captured by a robot dog I sent in. According to expert identification, the insect individual in the footage is a direct bloodline of the Insect Lord Demon. For some unknown reason, it is also trapped behind the teleportation gate."

Zhangsun Yao said, "Are you interested?"

"You know, Divine Calamity infection hosts are my brothers. The Insect Master’s infection effect is unbelievably strong, and it reacts very well with me,"

Li Cheng replied without hesitation: "I’ll take the commission."