200: Chapter 200 A Crow's Mouth

Tang Yao: "What is this thing?"

Hu Gualing shook his head: "It looks like a glass bead to me, but since it's of Blue quality, it should have some use."

Xiao Niao: "I think so too. Generally, the more mysterious the description of an item, the more useful it tends to be."

Tang Yao: "Then you two keep it for now. My backpack is a bit cluttered, and it's hard to find small things like this if I put them in there." As she spoke, Tang Yao tossed the 'monster essence' to the more meticulous-looking Xiao Niao.

Although the specific use of this third item was unknown and it couldn't be used at all for the moment, it was, at the very least, a mysterious item of Blue quality, so its value certainly wouldn't be low.

Moreover, the two items before this, the 'pants of the vibrant white boar' and the 'Recovery Spell', were both quite excellent things.

One greatly enhanced Hu Gualing's resistance to blows and recovery ability, while the other directly transformed Xiao Niao, who had been slacking off in the team, into a powerful healer, giving their sustainability—which had previously relied solely on euphorbia humifusa for healing injuries and restoring health—a qualitative leap!

"With the pants I'm wearing and Xiao Niao's 'Recovery Spell', I dare say that even if this Mutated White Wild Boar resurrected at full status one more time, I guarantee we could successfully kill it without needing a single Resurrection!" Hu Gualing, who had just been very disappointed with the 'Recovery Spell' skill book, had his resentment over not getting a martial arts manual disappear significantly after learning that Xiao Niao's Spirit value was twice his own and realizing the effect this skill could have in Xiao Niao's hands. Instead, he spoke with full confidence after re-evaluating the team's overall strength.

"You jinx, say less." Recalling that Hu Gualing had said exactly this before the boss resurrected last time, Xiao Niao couldn't help but tease him.

However, thinking about it carefully, even if the Mutated White Wild Boar really did resurrect again, the green juice on its weak spots could inflict a continuous Bleeding poisoning status on Gualing, which would keep triggering the injury-recovery characteristic of the brand-new leather pants Gualing had just put on. Based on this alone, Gualing's health could be continuously restored, not to mention that Xiao Niao himself had already become a mobile medical station; his healing amount of a full 266 health meant Gualing didn't need to worry even if he stood still and traded damage with the Mutated White Wild Boar. Therefore, if it really were as Gualing said and the Mutated White Wild Boar resurrected one more time, it wouldn't pose any threat to them; on the contrary, it would allow them to kill it again and drop a few more items. Unfortunately, the kill notification for the Mutated White Wild Boar had long since appeared, and the dropped items had already been picked clean by them; there was absolutely no such good fortune of it standing up from the ground to let them loot it again.

Thinking this way, Xiao Niao actually felt the same lingering sense of unfulfillment as Hu Gualing. He licked his lips and said: "But having said that, although this Mutated White Wild Boar was hard to fight, the items it dropped were truly generous. It dropped three Blue quality items all at once; it would be great if it could resurrect and stand up again so we could fight it a few more times."

Tang Yao: "..."

Seeing both of them being such jinxes, Tang Yao was speechless for a moment, but she didn't say much. Although none of the three items dropped by the boss were useful to her, and naturally none were distributed to her, she was the one who had personally dealt the final blow to the boss. When she killed the boss and saw three blue light orbs 'pop' out from the boss's body, she had already experienced the feeling Hu Gualing often talked about—killing a boss and having it drop equipment. Later, when she used her longsword to personally pick up the three items to check them, the uncertain feeling, just like a lottery, made her mood fluctuate like a rollercoaster. So at this moment, in her heart, perhaps she was vaguely the same as Hu Gualing and Xiao Niao, looking forward to the boss resurrecting and standing up again so they could kill it a few more times and have it drop some good things.

However, this time the boss was truly dead, dead as could be. Even though both jinxes, Hu Gualing and Xiao Niao, were expressing that they hadn't had enough, the corpse of the Mutated White Wild Boar had already begun to slowly fade away.

Hu Gualing shook his head with some disappointment and sighed: "It looks like that's it. We can only search further inside to see if there are any other bosses."

Xiao Niao, however, also shook his head and said: "I'm afraid we basically won't find any."

Hu Gualing looked at Xiao Niao with curiosity and confusion. He hadn't dealt with Dungeons little when playing games in the past; it wasn't uncommon for a single Dungeon to contain four or five bosses. And the Dungeon they were in now was also quite large, so why couldn't it contain a few more bosses? "Why do you say that? It looks pretty big here; it should be able to hold a few more bosses, right?" Hu Gualing asked, looking at Xiao Niao.

Xiao Niao didn't answer immediately, but instead looked around. Seeing Hu Gualing's confused gaze following him as he looked around, he then spoke: "Look here. Although the space is very open and large, there isn't even a single small mob in such a large place, which shows that there are no gregarious monsters here. Furthermore, our current location, which is similar to a large hall, appears to be exactly in the middle of this Dungeon. Such a singular focus in the layout suggests that the game Development Team likely only set this one Mutated White Wild Boar as a boss here."

Hu Gualing nodded as he listened. Just as Xiao Niao said, this Dungeon did look very large and open, but apart from the endless ceiling above, the borders of the strange-looking earth walls could barely be seen all around. Looking around, it seemed to be a square field with no cover and a full view. Except for the area they were currently in, which had a circle of unclosed hexagonal earth walls forming a hall-like place, other areas didn't look like they could possibly hide monsters at all. Moreover, whenever there is a boss, its appearance is usually quite unique and arrogant; it would never hide or skulk around, allowing people to notice it from far away.

Hu Gualing looked around and indeed found no traces of any monsters. He couldn't help but think that this Dungeon probably only had this one boss. "Sigh, forget it if there are no other bosses. Anyway, the things dropped by this Mutated White Wild Boar are rich enough. It's just that I don't know if the boss will respawn, and when we can come and kill it again?" Although Hu Gualing sighed as he spoke, he couldn't hide the joy in his heart, and when he finished speaking, his tone couldn't help but reveal deep anticipation.

Xiao Niao followed Hu Gualing's line of thought and said: "The boss will definitely respawn. Otherwise, why would the game Development Team carefully design such a large Dungeon only for us to enter once and then abandon it? That definitely doesn't make sense. However, I just don't know how this respawn time is calculated." Speaking to the end, Xiao Niao couldn't help but shake his head. He was indeed good at wild speculation and reasoning, but for something like boss respawn times where he hadn't come into contact with any useful information, he had no way to infer it out of thin air; otherwise, that wouldn't be inference, but fortune-telling.