18: Chapter 18: The Treasure Chest That No One Found According to the Intelligence!

"Roar!"

Chu Hong's arrogant dash directly among a dozen or so Lizardmen instantly provoked their fury. Hissing, they thrust their spears right at Chu Hong.

However.

Reinforced by the high-grade exotic beast serum (codename: swan song), Chu Hong's current perception had already reached an exaggerated degree.

It was as if he grew eyes on the back of his head.

The moment those spears thrust out, his figure had already quickly and precisely dodged aside.

At the same time.

The source blade in his hand was once again flung out by him.

"Pfft!"

One of the Lizardmen in mle encirclement met his end on the spot.

Following closely behind, Chu Hong performed another roll, and with his compound bow at close range, he fired two arrows wildly.

"Whoosh, whoosh!"

The encirclement that had just closed was instantly smashed apart by Chu Hong.

Seeing this, a few Lizardmen Warriors saw their vertical pupils turn scarlet one after another, and the spears in their hands immediately began to emit wisps of grayish-blue smoke.

"Roar!"

Carrying a foul stench, clearly some kind of magical attack, it instantly thrust toward Chu Hong.

If he were to be hit by this, it definitely wouldn't bode well.

With a fierce stomp of his feet.

The huge explosive force carried Chu Hong instantly out of the opponent's attack range.

Looking back at the place that had been attacked, Chu Hong's expression couldn't help but change slightly.

The ground, which originally still had turf, had now unexpectedly become pitted and uneven; amidst the pungent corrosive aura, the vegetation on the ground was instantly dissolved into thick liquid.

"Holy shit... Is this how you guys play?"

Chu Hong let out a cold snort, and suddenly two square-shaped objects wrapped in tape appeared in his left and right hands.

"magnetic bomb thrown out!"

With two beeps, the magnetic bombs purchased from the black market had their countdowns activated with a single click.

They were instantly and precisely tossed onto two Lizardmen by Chu Hong.

Those iron armor plates became the best attachment surface for the magnetic bombs.

"Beep, beep, beep—"

Amidst the sharp blasting sound, Chu Hong had already instantly dashed more than a dozen meters away.

However.

Realizing that the thing on their bodies was definitely no good, the Lizardmen hurriedly tried to pull it off, but it was already too late.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Two massive explosions raised a cloud of black smoke while also leaving two pitch-black craters on the ground.

Chu Hong walked over and looked at the severed limbs scattered all over the ground.

Then he looked at two other heavily wounded Lizardman Warriors who were attempting to stand up.

He stepped forward and directly gave them a quick release with his dagger.

Listening to the Thunder-Horned Lizardman Tribe clearly disturbed beneath the cliff, not only was Chu Hong not nervous, but his face also revealed an excitement he had never experienced before in the [Cliffside Epidemic Hospital] map.

"This is fucking awesome!"

Thinking of how timid and overly cautious he had been before, terrified of alerting the boss in that map.

Now this map was truly just too suited for him to display his abilities.

The terrain was good; he could flee and he could fight.

The monsters were good too; they wouldn't be like those zombies where the slightest disturbance was like instantly poking a hornet's nest...

He came over to the southern guard tower that he had already cleared out.

On the map, it showed that there was a small treasure icon here.

Soon, he found a small wooden box at the top of the guard tower, right beside the corpses of the two sentry Lizardmen he had just shot dead.

Searching [Lizardman Captain's Treasure Chest]: kali fruit (purple), medicinal saliva (blue)

Among the two items, Chu Hong took out a fruit shaped like an apple, but whose entire body looked like glassware with liquid flowing inside.

[Item Name]: kali fruit

[Item Grade]: Purple

[Type]: Source Energy Substance

[Weight]: 0.4 kg

[Backpack Grid Capacity Occupied]: 1 × 1

[Item Description]: A special magical fruit from the magic-side world. Consuming it can enhance the user's internal magic power (source energy), and it can also be used during battle to consume and restore energy.

Chu Hong put this 1 × 1 small purple item into his [source energy space].

Turning his head, he unexpectedly saw twenty or thirty frantic Lizardman figures rushing toward his side from the direction of the northern guard tower.

As soon as they met.

Without any nonsense.

Those spears radiating the corrosive magic he had experienced earlier were densely hurled toward Chu Hong.

Chu Hong immediately dodged.

The southern guard tower acting as a cover in front of him was instantly pierced full of holes by those densely packed corrosive spears.

The wooden walls and ladder even began to teeter.

However.

Seeing this scene, the corners of Chu Hong's mouth curled into an eerie smile.

Two more magnetic bombs appeared in his hands once again.

Instead of tossing them at the charging Lizardman Warriors, he directly threw them among the spears scattered all over the ground.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Two massive explosions.

When the smoke and dust cleared, where was there even half a complete spear left in place?

The weapons shattered all over the ground directly dumbfounded the charging Lizardman Warriors, but Chu Hong had already at this moment grasped his source blade and took the initiative to charge toward them.

World mystic realms were bizarre and varied, and their inherent supernatural energies also differed.

Such as the magic power used to release magic before him, the esper abilities of espers, spiritual power, and even the spiritual Qi in cultivation-side mystic realms—these could all be uniformly classified as "source energy" on the bodies of Pioneers like Chu Hong.

With a "pfft" sound.

Infused with this source energy by Chu Hong, the glowing red [saber - source blade] didn't even require Chu Hong to use too much force as it swept past with a single slash like cutting tofu.

A Lizardman Warrior's head was instantly separated from its body on the spot.

With a fierce kick, he sent the corpse still spurting blood blasting backward, knocking down two Lizardman Warriors behind it. Then with a spin, Chu Hong's source blade had already precisely pierced through the throat of a Lizardman Warrior behind him.

The massive amount of combat and fighting experience gained from the 《Tactical Guide of the Epidemic Defense Force》 in his mind was now truly unleashed by Chu Hong in this hearty battle.

He no longer needed to be timid and overly cautious like dealing with zombies.

Fearing that he would kick up too much of a commotion.

Slitting throats, piercing hearts, kicking joints to fracture them, slamming with heavy fists...

In just a few minutes, Chu Hong panted slightly, his body splashed all over with fresh blood.

However, the twenty or thirty Lizardman Warriors who came to reinforce were unexpectedly dead beyond dead, their corpses lying all over the ground.

Chu Hong didn't waste time searching these corpses.

Right now, away from his location, heading north into the jungle at the edge of the map, there was still a small treasure icon.

Compared to looting these corpses that looked like they belonged to paupers at a glance, Chu Hong still preferred to go straight for high-value supplies, and then... battle, awesome!

All the way following the direction guided by the map, he walked into the jungle.

However.

When Chu Hong arrived at the location marked on the map, he wore a look of utter bewilderment.

A patch of dense jungle, a massive boulder.

There wasn't even a decent clearing around, nor even any traces of Lizardman activity.

"Is it really here?"

He searched everywhere, and finally stood on the boulder, only to unexpectedly discover that he was standing right on top of that high-value icon.

"Could it be beneath the boulder? No wonder the archive data I bought didn't mention it at all... Who the fuck could discover this?"

Chu Hong mentally complained.

Yet two more magnetic bombs appeared in his hands once again.

He tossed them directly onto the boulder, then quickly dashed away.

With two "boom" explosions, the boulder shattered and splattered in all directions.

Revealing the fragrant soil beneath, and... a downward secret passage.

At this moment, a ladder was pointing downward, and a glittering, golden treasure chest about forty to fifty centimeters in size abruptly came into view.