28: Chapter 28 Enter the village quietly, don't fire!

"Boom——!"

A sudden, muffled sound, like distant thunder exploding within the mountain, caused the surroundings to tremble slightly while also startling the entire Lizardmen tribe.

At this moment, after entering the secret realm, two Pioneer Squads had been assigned to the river valley entrance and the southeast cliff-top intersection respectively.

One squad was originally keeping low, using protruding rocks in the river as cover to cross it.

Amidst this explosion, the Lizardman Warriors who were originally just conducting routine patrols on the bridge

suddenly turned their heads, and with their peripheral vision, unexpectedly spotted them in the river.

"Enemy! Enemy spotted! (Lizardman language)"

Amidst the piercing shouts, a spear carrying magical light had already fiercely blasted toward the turbulent river water.

The expressions of the Pioneer Squad in the river changed drastically.

"Quick! Dive down quickly!"

Meanwhile,

another Pioneer Squad, which was taking advantage of the jungle cover in an attempt to uproot the Lizardmen at the southern guard tower, was also suddenly discovered by the alert Lizardmen.

The original sneak attack instantly turned into a frontal assault.

"Charge! Open fire!"

"Da da da..."

...

"If ordinary bullets are still quite useful for dealing with certain technological factions, such as ordinary zombies in the apocalyptic era, or martial artists from the ancient martial arts faction who haven't even entered the threshold yet, they actually don't have much effect anymore when dealing with magical creatures like the Thunder-Horned Lizardman."

"Of course... bombs are the exception!"

Inside the deep pit filled with smoke and dust,

Chu Hong smiled and pointed at the [Thunder-Horned Lizardman Priest] who had been mortally wounded in the premeditated bomb blast just now, not letting it suffer for too long.

He directly thrust his source blade into its head,

instantly killing one of the bosses in this map.

Wang Suming watched this scene in utter shock from beginning to end.

"Brother Hong, you, where did you know all this from, you..."

Wang Suming couldn't help but start imagining things: during these dozen or so days when he had been working hard to prepare, what kind of risks his brother had taken and what a huge price he had paid just to collect this intelligence.

Wang Suming felt a sour sensation in his nose.

"Brother Hong, don't worry, I, Wang Suming, will definitely never let you suffer this kind of grievance again in the future! Definitely!"

Chu Hong: "？？？"

Looking at Wang Suming, whose face simultaneously displayed sympathy, shock, regret, heartache, shame... and all sorts of other emotions, he couldn't figure out for a moment what was going on in that dead fat man's head again.

"Stop fucking wasting time standing here, time is tight. I'll loot this corpse, you go loot the treasure chest!"

Hearing this, Wang Suming finally remembered that there was business to attend to.

He hurriedly wiped his eyes and rushed excitedly in front of the treasure chest.

Gently shaking his head as he looked at the fat Wang Suming's back, Chu Hong naturally had his reasons for choosing not to loot the [kasar secret treasure (High-Value Supplies)].

To this day, he still couldn't forget that before dying at the hands of the Lizardman Priest that time, he had seen a 3×3 grid searching inside that treasure chest.

Even though he entered the map over and over again afterward, and was even born at slot number one of this treasure chest several times,

but... that 3×3 that had brushed past him never appeared again...

He let out a wistful sigh in his heart.

As if completing a nostalgic first-love flashback in this split second, Chu Hong shifted his gaze to the black box searching in front of him.

Searching [Thunder-Horned Lizardman Priest Casar's Corpse]: ...

[Ding!]

Golden light, accompanied by a pleasant sound.

[Item Name]: Thunder Storage Ring

[Item Grade]: Golden

[Type]: Crafted Collection

[Weight]: 0.01 kg

[Inventory Slot Capacity Occupied]: 1 × 1

[Item Description]: A common low-level magic ring in the magic-side Orc Empire, storing a thunder-elemental magic spell inside that can be triggered instantly to deal massive damage to the target.

His expression lit up with joy, and he murmured happily in his heart.

"A little golden one~"

On the other side, that scoundrel Wang Suming suddenly let out a howl resembling a slaughtered pig.

"Holy shit Brother Hong! Holy shit Brother Hong! Holy shit Brother Hong!"

With black lines on his face, Chu Hong listened to this scoundrel's passionate yet vicious words. His eye twitched, and his big foot was just about to kick hard onto this scoundrel's ass, only to see the latter suddenly turn around.

Holding a massive nugget of dog-head gold in his arms.

His flushed fat face, illuminated by the golden light, looked like a laughing Maitreya Buddha.

"Brother Hong! We're rich! We're rich! I looted a high-grade collection item! I fucking looted a high-grade collection item! A four-slot big gold!"

[Item Name]: Dog-Head Gold Nugget

[Item Grade]: Golden

[Type]: Crafted Collection

[Weight]: 5kg

[Inventory Slot Capacity Occupied]: 2 × 2

[Item Description]: A natural gold nugget with an extremely high gold content, shaped like an open-mouthed, roaring dog's head, possessing good collectible value.

Chu Hong was truly stunned this time.

Looking at the dead fat man Wang Suming, who was already so excited that he was incoherent, he couldn't help drawing a sharp breath at this moment.

"Is this... beginner's bonus for you?"

He couldn't believe that Wang Suming had looted such a big gold piece on his very first container search.

However,

compared to his current ordinary shock, that scoundrel Wang Suming was somewhat exaggerated.

The joy of unboxing an item quickly turned into deep worry and anxiety just a few seconds later. His fat face, which had been flushed red with excitement, unexpectedly turned somewhat pale again rapidly at this moment.

"Bro—Brother Hong, let's retreat. Th—This item dropped! Such a four-slot big gold is enough for us to exchange for quite a lot of Source Energy Points, and we can even get ourselves a Source Energy weapon each."

Chu Hong was speechless.

Did this guy instantly turn into a battle-frightened lizard?

However, he understood this, though of course, he wouldn't actually do as he said.

With a snap, he slapped the other's back of the head and glared at him irritably.

"What are you running for? Put the item into your inventory. With me here, could we possibly fail to retreat?"

"Besides..."

Chu Hong's face revealed a confident, mysterious smile.

"Our position right now is absolute rat-eats-well territory! Follow me, enter the village quietly, and no firing shots!"