74: Chapter 74 Me

Although Wen Wan's driving skills weren't particularly good, she had a habit of flooring the accelerator.

She sprinted at a speed of two hundred kilometers per hour the entire way; only an armored vehicle with such significant weight could handle it—any other car would have taken flight long ago.

Accompanied by a flurry of flying sand and stones, Chen Mo successfully completed another foot-brake maneuver.

"Awesome!"

Three consecutive hours of speeding seemed to have activated something deep within Wen Wan's bones; the once gentle, rabbit-like girl was now excitedly pumping her fists.

"We are still thirty-seven kilometers away from the Centurion Herb Garden, so we will walk the rest of the way."

"We have already encountered several Scout Squads along the way. The bloodstains on our car are too thick and the smell is too strong, making it far too easy to be exposed."

As the brains of the team, Su Qingyue immediately formulated the next battle plan.

"Wen Wan, you stay in the car. Xia Li, you are responsible for staying behind to protect Wen Wan and the vehicle."

"Chen Mo, you and I will take Lin Ye and Shen Zhou to the Centurion Herb Garden. Try not to make too much noise."

"Did you all bring your things?"

Su Qingyue took a crumpled, grey snakeskin bag out of her waist pouch.

"Of course we brought them."

Lin Ye and Shen Zhou exchanged a glance and pulled out identical snakeskin bags.

Chen Mo also patted his waist pouch; it was bulging, clearly stuffed with the same type of snakeskin bags.

"Very good. Do you still remember our mission objective?"

Su Qingyue nodded with satisfaction; at critical moments, these people were still quite reliable.

"Of course we do!"

The three men nodded and spoke the mission objective in unison.

"Once we get in, we just put our heads down and loot! We'll rip up the sod! If we can't fit any more, we'll just take a few bites—whatever we can fit in our stomachs counts as profit!"

"...?"

A question mark appeared over Su Qingyue's head again. How did she not remember the mission objective being like that?

"Let me repeat it one more time..."

"The mission objective this time is to be swift, cautious, and silent!"

"That is the Centurion's territory. It is equivalent to a fourth-rank Steel Skin warrior. Even if we all banded together, we might not be able to defeat it!"

"The mission objective is to steal, steal!"

"I didn't tell the three of you to go and pillage!"

Su Qingyue was about to explode with anger. Men just shouldn't be allowed to get together!

Once a few men get together, a 'master of ideas' is bound to emerge, and it's always the worst kind of idea imaginable!

"Oh..."

The three men nodded, temporarily suppressing the thought of eating the sod.

"Alright, Xia Li, Wen Wan, you two take care of yourselves."

"If the situation becomes critical, you can retreat first; we will be fine on our own."

Su Qingyue sighed and led the three men off the vehicle.

Watching the backs of the four people walking further and further away, Wen Wan couldn't help but feel uneasy.

...

An hour later, the four of them appeared behind a small earthen mound outside the Centurion Herb Garden.

The entire herb garden only had a dozen or so first and second-rank Abyss Warriors patrolling, while the rest were ordinary Abyssal Race serfs with no cultivation.

The only one that could pose a threat was a third-rank Abyss Warrior, who appeared to be the leader of the patrol team.

"Are we really not going to just kill them all?"

Chen Mo rubbed his chin, feeling restless once again.

Su Qingyue didn't say anything this time; she actually felt that Chen Mo's suggestion was quite constructive.

"No, absolutely not."

But Su Qingyue quickly sobered up; she had actually been drawn into the thought process of these three men just now.

"I will go and attract..."

Su Qingyue had intended to say that she would go and attract the attention of the guards, while Chen Mo and the others took the opportunity to steal the medicinal herbs in the garden.

But then she reconsidered—if she didn't keep these three men under control, they would probably get carried away...

"We will take turns in pairs. Chen Mo, you and Shen Zhou go and attract the guards' attention first, while Lin Ye and I go to the perimeter of the herb garden to steal the medicinal herbs."

These medicinal herbs were extremely valuable, and the vast majority could only grow in the environment of the Abyssal Rift.

Apart from the wild herbs in the Abyssal Rift, the only way to obtain them was to snatch them from the hands of the Abyss Warriors.

"Got it."

Chen Mo put away the snakeskin bag, nodded, picked up a few stones from the ground, and approached the patrol team.

Shen Zhou didn't waste any words and immediately followed behind Chen Mo.

"Alright, once Chen Mo and the others attract their attention, it will be our turn to move."

Su Qingyue's palms were sweating, and blue light flickered continuously in her eyes as she waited for the most opportune moment.

But most of the time, things do not go as predicted...

When they were only twenty meters away from the patrol team, Chen Mo and Shen Zhou stopped.

"Say, Shen Zhou, since your Time Dilation can accelerate yourself, can it also accelerate inanimate objects?"

Chen Mo rolled his eyes, weighed the head-sized stone in his hand, and asked.

"It should be possible, but I have never tried using it that way."

Shen Zhou frowned. Chen Mo's words had reminded him that the usage of innate talents wasn't a fixed routine.

"How about this, give the stone in my hand an acceleration boost."

Chen Mo loosened his wrist and held the grey-purple stone out in front of Shen Zhou.

Shen Zhou did not refuse and quickly applied time acceleration to the stone.

Weighing the stone in his hand, Chen Mo's right arm compressed instantly!

"Creak! Creak! Creak!"

Super Compression activated, and Chen Mo's right arm emitted its signature metallic grinding sound.

"Wait a minute, what are you doing!?"

Shen Zhou panicked a little. Looking at Chen Mo's appearance, it didn't seem like he was just trying to attract the patrol team's attention, right?

"Hehe, just watch!"

Chen Mo swung his right arm with all his might, and the stone in his hand smashed into the center of the patrol team with the precision of a cannonball.