29: Chapter 29 Let them fight! After they're done, they'll eat our leftovers.

"Quick, run faster! When we reach the exit in a moment, listen to me. Don't hesitate for a second, turn left immediately. Did you understand?"

Inside a narrow mountain secret passage that even the Pioneers Guild had no records of, Chu Hong and Wang Suming were running wildly at top speed.

Twisting and turning through the maze, Wang Suming kept slamming heavily into the walls from time to time because he couldn't stop his momentum.

On the other hand, Chu Hong was running ahead.

He was so familiar with the path as if he were walking home, making Wang Suming almost doubt his life.

"Bro—Brother Hong, c-could you slow down... Is this your house?!"

He panted as he complained.

"Hurry up! If you slow down any more, we won't be able to steal their guaranteed loot box!"

Steal a guaranteed loot box?

Wang Suming thought of the four-slot big gold item he had fished out the very first time he touched a treasure chest, and his physical exhaustion instantly vanished.

Heaven knows what purpose the Lizardman priest had in building such a winding secret passage that definitely required a massive amount of engineering work, but Chu Hong had no intention of researching that.

After all... who could have imagined that the direction Chu Hong and the others were heading, the exit on the other side of the secret passage, actually connected directly to a major guaranteed loot box on the map?

[Sacrificial Altar]!

At this moment.

Outside, the Pioneer Squad that had originally attempted to swim across the river, along with another team discovered by the Lizardman sentries on the southern watchtower, had successfully drawn away the active forces of the Thunder-Horned Lizardman Tribe for Chu Hong and the others.

As clear gunshots, accompanied by the angry roars of the Lizardmen, reached their ears,

Wang Suming crouched low, closely following behind Chu Hong.

"Brother Hong..."

"Shh! Crawl out! Keep up! Don't stand up when you get out..."

Chu Hong reminded him with plenty of experience, his figure already rapidly crawling out from the small hole blocked by weeds and stones in front of them.

The moment he got out, he rolled on the spot and hid directly among the boulders between the [Sacrificial Altar] and the cliff face.

The instant Wang Suming crawled out of the hole, he saw the massive sacrificial stone imbued with the crude aesthetic of the Orc Empire right before his eyes, as well as the treasure chest in the middle of the altar.

"Go on, you go touch the treasure chest! Mind your concealment, just hide behind the stone statue and reach out to touch it..." Chu Hong lowered his voice. Wang Suming nodded repeatedly in excitement, immediately crouching down according to Chu Hong's instructions and sneaking to the back of the altar.

The moment a hand touched that treasure chest,

he even saw through the obstruction in front of him a Pioneer Squad engaged in a fierce battle with a group of Lizardman Warriors on the opposite cliff.

The excitement and thrill on his face simply could not be suppressed.

"Holy crap, Brother Hong, you're simply a god! How did you discover this route..."

Searching [Sacrificial Treasure Chest Dedicated to the God of Thunder (High-Value Supplies)]: ...

Wang Suming was full of piety.

Offering all sorts of prayers.

However,

the items that appeared abruptly poured a bucket of cold water over his expectant mood.

There were only two small purple items.

One kali fruit and one bone horn, both of which were magic-side collectibles.

"Brother Hong, nothing good dropped..."

Rejoining Chu Hong, he wanted to say something in disappointment, but Chu Hong patted his shoulder and pointed to the other side, in the direction close to the extraction point.

"Let's go, to the Chieftains Council Hall..."

"Brother Hong, I heard that the Warehouse and the Granary Area have the most supplies, and almost all Pioneer Squads coming to this secret realm go straight there first."

Wang Suming hurriedly blurted out the intelligence he had spent money to collect over this period.

Hearing this,

Chu Hong sneered while quickly walking toward the next major guaranteed loot box.

"Yeah, the Warehouse and the Granary Area indeed have a lot of supplies, but... if you search every single container so poor they couldn't even scrape together bird droppings, getting a single purple collectible out of it would mean smoke is rising from your ancestors' graves."

Chu Hong didn't want to explain. Once upon a time, he had also thought about gambling on his own luck.

After all, it wasn't like he had never encountered fishing out small gold or small red items from some inconspicuous containers.

But... the [Granary Area] and [Warehouse] of the [Thunder-Horned Lizardman Tribe] map taught him a harsh lesson.

Five hundred searchable containers!

Not a single one dropped anything good!

Thinking back to that damn memory, Chu Hong's entire face turned pitch black.

Seeing this, Wang Suming didn't dare say anything more and obediently followed behind.

Along the way, they passed through the core area without any Lizardmen guarding it.

"The big guaranteed loot box is in this wooden house on the left, and the small guaranteed loot box is under the bed in that small house opposite. I'll go loot the small one, and you loot the big one. After looting the big one, remember to check the windowsill inside the room to see if there is a fruit basket; it will spawn several magic-side fruits all at once... Except for these few containers I told you about, don't waste time on anything else you see!"

Wang Suming could only nod repeatedly. At this moment, his brain was completely incapable of processing questions like "Why does Brother Hong know this so clearly?", and he could only quickly memorize the things Chu Hong instructed and the containers to search.

The two immediately split up and entered this core building area.

"Big guaranteed loot box under the bed, big guaranteed loot box under the bed..."

This was obviously the Lizardman chieftain's private residence. As soon as he stepped through the door, what came into view was a pair of ibex horns hanging on the wall that clearly looked quite valuable.

As well as the animal-skin armchair directly facing the door; right now, on the table, some exquisite small boxes were unexpectedly placed.

Wang Suming merely glanced at them,

then immediately dropped to the floor, instantly spotted a dark golden treasure chest under the bed, and reached out to touch it.

The black search frame immediately appeared.

Meanwhile, on the other side,

Chu Hong was also rapidly collecting portable items within the room.

This was a building similar to an advanced Warehouse; besides searchable wooden boxes one after another, the rest were some messy weapons.

The container shown to be high-value supplies was also a long black wooden box.

Searching [Treasured Weapon Box]: ...

A 1×4 black frame appeared, and the search icon began to spin. As time passed, Chu Hong's eyes gradually became burning with excitement and tension.

"Holy shit, are—are you fucking dropping loot?! Laozi has done knife-running loot runs on you a dozen or twenty times in the Special Service Department, and it's hard to even get a blue-tier supply, yet you drop loot on the very first try in this real secret realm?!"

He was complaining inwardly.

Amidst a burst of golden light, a slender, ornate Western-style longsword appeared before his eyes.

[Item Name]: lost knights relic longsword

[Item Tier]: Golden

[Type]: Weapon Tool

[Weight]: 8kg

[Inventory Slot Capacity]: 1×4

[Item Description]: Fortuitously purchased by the Thunder-Horned Lizardman chieftain from a merchant passing through the tribe, rumored to be the personal sword of a human empire knight, capable of cutting through iron like mud, embedded with a magic gemstone, both gorgeous and dangerous.

When an ornate longsword embedded with a deep blue sapphire appeared before Chu Hong's eyes,

Chu Hong, who wasn't experiencing item drops for the first time, actually drooled uncontainably at this moment.

"Holy shit! A golden-quality weapon!"

Chu Hong quickly stowed the weapon into his backpack, unable to conceal the look of pleasant surprise no matter what.

Outside, the battle between the Pioneer Squad and the Lizardman Warriors was still ongoing fiercely, with gunshots ringing continuously.

However,

if these firearms, weapons, or bullets were collectibles obtained from the secret realm, then with just this firepower right now, two or three times as many Lizardman Warriors would have been dealt with.

The reason was nothing else.

Source Energy!

Any weapons and equipment collected from the secret realm inherently possessed source energy affinity effects, except that the affinity varied depending on their own tiers.

But even with the differences, this source energy affinity was enough to increase the weapon's lethality by several fold.

Searching [Coin Box]: Orc Empire Silver Coin (Purple), Orc Empire Silver Coin (Purple), Orc Empire Copper Coin (Blue)...

Searching [Common Weapon Box]: Lizardman Spear (Blue)

Searching [Treasured Medicine Box]: Intermediate Mana Recovery Potion (Purple), Lizard Sharp-Eye Potion (Purple)

Searching [Iron Supply Box]: ...

Under Chu Hong's rapid looting, the 45-slot oversized backpack quickly filled up, and Chu Hong's load also began to noticeably increase.

Amidst excited footsteps, Wang Suming ran over carrying an oversized backpack that was obviously also filled with collectibles.

"Brother Hong! I'm fully packed! We're rich, we're really going to be rich this time!"

He was so excited that he was a bit incoherent.

If the assessment a dozen days later could be this exhilarating, he and Chu Hong might really be able to get close to that Longming Sacred Academy!

Chu Hong smiled and waved a hand.

"Withdraw!"

Right by the small bridge across the river, the conditional extraction point's riverbank boat did not appear in this match.

However, it did not affect Chu Hong and the others; encountering no obstruction, they sprinted directly along the dirt road toward the eastern intersection of the river valley.

The gunshots behind them were still ringing.

White light had already lit up on Chu Hong and the other's bodies.

As the scene before their eyes changed, the next second, the two of them already appeared in that gathering camp before entering the secret realm earlier.

"Swish!"

The guard looked at the two in surprise, then looked at the watch on his wrist.

"Ten minutes? So fast? Did they just run straight toward the extraction point after going in?"