After quitting the team, the adventurers regretted it

"What? It's nothing like what the newspaper said! He's not a gentle [Eye of True Knowledge] at all! How rude!"

"That's right, this kind of person turns out to be an excellent adventurer in Baige City. In my opinion, this kind of city is not worth my father's investment at all."

"I also want to tell my father to cancel his investment plan in Baige City."

The three eldest ladies spoke loudly, as if they were deliberately letting Linda hear them.

But Linda didn't care about them at all and didn't go back to slap the three of them, even if his temper was good.

The magic elevator is closed, blocking out the noisy sound.

Linda's ears finally calmed down.

Peina saw that his expression was not good, and she smiled helplessly: "Captain Linda, don't mind, the three of them are children and cannot influence adults' decisions."

"I heard them mention the 'investment plan'. What's going on?" Linda asked casually.

"That's right, because the Luanweihua Team was published in Adventurer's Weekly and attracted some rich and powerful nobles.

They are considering investing in Baige City to build more training grounds, entertainment facilities, and high-rise buildings.
This is beneficial to the urban development of Baige City.

President Viren was so busy that he was dizzy because of this matter.

But Captain Linda seems to have encountered some difficulties, right? Please don't pay attention here. Even if something happens, President Willen and I will firmly support you! "

Pena said plausibly.

As a close confidant of Velen, Velen once told her privately that Luanweihua was an adventure team with the potential to become a Chaoyang-level adventure team and that she must be friends with them.

The nobles' investment was important, but it was not as important as the Chaoyang-level adventure team.

Linda nodded, indicating that she understood.

After coming out of the trading house, he took his team members in a carriage and went to the Adventure Guild to meet Bai Luo.

"It's done. Xuanfeng City will send out moon-level adventurers to deliver the [vibration detector] overnight."

In the office, Bai Luo occupied Weilun's leather chair. He wore the red-rimmed glasses he used at work on his small face, like a stern female teacher, and said to Linda:

"This dean orders you to have a good rest tonight. At noon tomorrow, the teleportation array of the cultists will be opened in the Barren Grassland. You must face it in the best condition!"

"Thank you, Dean, for your concern." Linda looked solemn and bowed to express her gratitude.

Without Bai Luo, it would be difficult to execute his plan.

This favor was kept in his heart.

Sooner or later, Linda will go to Cangqing City to repay the little kitten in front of her.

After that, he went back to the villa to rest.

The night outside the window is already dark.

Linda tossed and turned, her mind filled with things to do tomorrow, and she couldn't sleep.

It’s not that I’m afraid of entering the cultists’ lair.

His main concern was Monica's mental state.

Open the team panel again for dream guidance, and the prompt that pops up remains unchanged:
[It is detected that the mental space of the team members is closed and they cannot fall asleep! 】

There are two possibilities.

Monica hasn't slept.

Or, the inner heart is closed, and the child becomes a complete autistic child, unable to enter the dream world to communicate with him!
Monica was already a bit autistic, but after being captured by Herus, she became even more autistic!

Linda's heart was full of murderous intent, and she wanted to cut Herus into pieces.

I got up and washed my face with cold water before calming down.

"There are 6 skill points left, use them all."

Linda sat on the sofa in the living room, opened the panel, and started to play.

[Consumption of 4 skill points, the guardian sword level lv2 → lv4, can cause 'substantial' damage, and apply a guardian shield of 60% → 80% of the maximum health value. Those blessed by the Guardian Shield will immediately recover 50% of their maximum health! 】

[Consumption of 2 skill points, intermediate treatment level lv1 → lv3, treatment amount +30%! 】

In order to ensure that he could persist until reinforcements arrived, Linda chose to strengthen his recovery skills.

The shield attached to the special move of the Guardian Sword is enhanced, greatly improving the survivability.

Intermediate treatment can restore about 6500 health points after changing the star level equipment and adding points.

A normal level 30 warrior profession only has 6500 health points.

Equivalent to Linda's mid-level healing technique, it can restore the blood volume of a level 30 warrior to full instantly.

With these two powerful guarantees, Linda felt much more at ease.

Noon the next day.

Barren grassland.

Although it was noon, the sun could not be seen.

Dark clouds rolled overhead, as if a black sea was roaring in the sky.

From the bushes of the barren grassland, blue, jelly-like slimes poked out. They looked up to the sky with joy, waiting for the sweet rain to fall.

Paji.

Linda looked cold and stepped on a level 3 slime.

He directly stepped on the monster until it exploded, and its transparent entrails splattered on the ground and grass blades.

The slimes around him were so frightened that they fled away.

Linda had a stern face, wore a brown coat, and carried an epic earth dragon sword on his back. This sword was polished from the scales of an earth dragon. It was about one and a half meters long, brown in color, and had an earth dragon entwined on the hilt.

The powerful magical aura spread out from Linda's body without concealment.

All the monsters on the barren grassland, slimes, vampire bats, black-armored scorpions... all instinctively sense that a terrifying existence is coming.

Each one was like a migrating beast, running wildly away from Linda.

The level of monsters in the barren grassland is around 1-10.

The appearance of Linda, a level 33 star-level adventurer, is tantamount to a dimensionality reduction attack.

But today, he ignored the monster and allowed it to escape.

He led Lulu and others directly to the teleportation array.

This is a door-shaped teleportation array.

Inside is a colorful twisted space, as if all kinds of dyes were thrown into a vat and mixed together.

No one knows where the other end of the teleportation array leads.

"We're ready here."

The person who spoke was a strange male elf.

He has pointed ears and wears a blue scholar's uniform, white gloves and glasses.

Next to the elf were cat girl Bai Luo, who was much shorter, and President Velen, who was much taller.

Velen introduced: "Linda, this is the scholar responsible for escorting the [Vibration Detector] in Xuanfeng City, a moon-level adventurer named Wenqi."

"Mr. Wenqi, could you please deliver the instrument overnight." Linda bowed.

"That's right. Baige City is in trouble. How can we, Xuanfeng City, sit idly by and do nothing?"

Wen Qi had no expression on his face and nodded slightly.

If Bai Luo hadn't spoken, Xuanfeng City might not have been so enthusiastic and sent Yue Jie overnight.

Linda sighed in his heart: The origin of an adventurer is indeed important. If he were a native adventurer in the royal capital, Wenqi's attitude would definitely turn around.

Excellent cities can receive imperial support.

The dream land of all adventurers is the royal capital.

Only in the royal capital, there is a holy tree that can reach above the 40th floor.

The world tree in a small place like Baige City only has an upper limit of 20 floors, so it cannot attract outstanding adventure teams at all. To increase the upper limit of the World Tree level, you need the [World Tree Dettol] rewarded by the goddess.

But there are not enough resources in a small place, so it is difficult to cultivate high-level adventurers, forming an endless cycle with no solution.

A strong city becomes stronger and a weak city becomes weaker.

All human and material resources are concentrated on the upper level. Although Xuanfeng City ranks 56th in Cangqing Province, looking at the entire continent, it is actually just like that.

There are only three in Cangqing Province that can truly be called first-tier adventure cities.

Linda retracted her thoughts, patted her cheek, and walked to the portal.

Lulu said: "Be safe."

Linda nodded and looked at everyone: "I'm leaving."

Bai Luo and the others looked serious.

"Junior, you have to come back alive." Bai Luo said.

"Ah."

Linda stepped into the portal.

In an instant, the ground buzzed and shook.

Everyone nearby felt slightly dizzy.

Elf Wenqi controlled the [Vibration Detector] with a solemn gaze.

There is a screen above, and all kinds of magic numbers pop up crazily.

Wen Qi's fingers manipulated the buttons below at a dizzying speed.

The instrument makes a beeping sound.

After a breath, the portal and Linda disappeared.

A small crater was left in place.

Lulu and the others moved nervously behind Wen Qi.

The faster the location on the other side of the portal is detected, the safer Linda will be.

Boom!

At this moment, thunder sounded in the night sky.

Within seconds, heavy rain poured down.

The bushes on the barren grasslands crackled and the dry soil quickly turned dark brown.

More and more water slimes poked their heads out from the ground, happily welcoming the heavy rain.

Bai Luo frowned and waved his hand gently, and the blue water fighting energy condensed into a big umbrella, covering everyone's heads.

"How's it going?" she asked Wen Qi.

Wen Qi wiped the sweat from his forehead and said slowly: "Not too optimistic."

Due to thunderstorms, the vibration detector was affected.

A few minutes passed, and the detection progress above only jumped to 1%.

At this rate, wouldn't it take more than an hour to locate the other side of the portal?
Bai Luo's expression changed: "Stupid instrument, why is it so slow!"

She was so angry that she beat the instrument with her fists.

Everyone felt uneasy.

Lulu's body felt weak and she couldn't stand.

Tasia was the calmest: "I believe the master can definitely bring Monica back safely!"

Viren sighed: "All we can do now is pray."

Inside the portal, colorful lights turned into whirlpools and poured into Linda's eyes.

Severe dizziness, my brain seemed to be stirred up.

Then I suffocated and felt like vomiting.

Linda bit the tip of her tongue hard, knowing that she was about to face a dangerous situation and must not relax.

About ten seconds passed.

The feeling of weightlessness after entering the portal disappeared little by little, and his feet were firmly planted on the ground.

The colorful vortex disappeared, replaced by a flickering dim light.

The air is moist, like at the seaside or underground.

There are hundreds of miles around Baige City. Are there any similar places?
Linda thought in her mind.

Looking around, it was a huge, empty circular stone platform with a circle of ancient stone pillars on the edge and torches on top.

Under the stage were a group of men in black robes, all wearing white ghost masks, with only their eyes exposed, staring at him playfully.

At a rough count, there were about fifty people.

Linda used his magic power to sense it, and after scanning around, he came to the conclusion that there were 10 star-level cultists among them, and the others were all around level 20.

'Tricky. '

Linda shook her head inwardly. Although he felt it was troublesome, he didn't have much fear. His mission was to wait until reinforcements arrived, so he didn't have to kill all the cultists by himself.

"Crack, snap."

Clear applause sounded from the front.

At a height of about twenty meters, the stone wall was hollowed out and a grandstand was built inside.

There was a man in black robes sitting on a chair with his legs crossed.

He was not wearing a mask and was slowly cracking melon seeds. There was a cup of steaming black tea on the stone table.

Linda looked far away and saw clearly the appearance of the man in black robe.

"Herus!" He growled with red eyes.

"I didn't expect Captain Linda to welcome me so much. Just in time, I have something to show you. You will definitely like it."

After Herus finished speaking, a hole opened in the ceiling above the circular stone platform.

Accompanied by the sound of the iron chains twisting, a dark, heavy iron cage was slowly lowered and hung in the air about twenty meters.

As a star, Linda has sharp eyesight and can see everything in the cage.

There was a petite brown-haired girl inside, huddled up with her knees in her arms, her dress was dirty, her exposed arms had many pinholes, and her eyes were empty.

When her eyes met with Linda's, the girl was stunned for a moment, then showed a fearful expression and said in a hoarse voice: "Captain, captain, let's go!"

The moment she saw the girl, Linda was in a trance and almost didn't recognize who she was.

It wasn't until the girl spoke that his head buzzed, and he suddenly realized: that dirty girl who looked like she was dying and almost out of breath was his team member Monica!
It was completely different from the Monica in his impression who had big watery eyes and often lowered her head timidly.

Linda could not imagine the kind of abuse his team members suffered within this month.

Monica's aura is also very strange, with a bit more of an evil flavor than the simple earth type.

What happened to the pinhole in the arm? Was it injected with poison?
The healing magic power in Linda's body instinctively resisted Monica, as if Monica had turned into a bad boy covered in filth.

"You injected Monica with the magic potion!"

After a slow beat, Linda finally woke up and stared at Helus in shock.

"As expected of Captain Linda, she is really smart. Yes, not only did I inject Monica with magic potion, but I also injected it once a day. The amount each time was three times that of other experimental subjects."

Herus stroked his mustache and said with a smile:
"Monica is such an obedient and good child. She won't complain even if it hurts. You know, there are many other experimental subjects who directly hit the cage and died because of fear of pain. An obedient child like Monica, He was born to be my experimental subject, hahahaha."

Talking about Monica's excellent performance in the experiment, Herus smiled from ear to ear.

"Lao Deng, die!"

Linda was so angry that she raised her hand and released the whip of darkness, shooting at Herus on the high platform.

Bang!
At this time, a majestic figure jumped up from the ground.

The steel-like hands grasped the whip of darkness and forcefully counteracted the blow.

"Yes, Not Bad."

Herus nodded with satisfaction and said calmly: "Rhode, kill that kid, and I can forgive you for betraying me."

The person who resisted the whip of darkness for Herus and jumped onto the stage, making a rumbling sound, was the leader of the Rock Adventure Group, Rhodes! (End of chapter)