Terrible news! My deskmate's first chapter is gone!

"What's that pattern under your feet?"

Assam asked curiously.

"It's somewhat like an element of ritual or magic circle."

"At this distance, we can only see a few lines; we can't make out any specific pattern at all, unless we fly up into the sky."

"However, even if we could fly, we would be restricted by the gray fog here."

Lin Fan is good at studying and also quite good at games. These things are everywhere in games, so they're not unusual.

"Is this what you guys call magical elements when you chat?"

"More or less," Lin Fan replied. He knew Wang Qingqing didn't play games, so he didn't bother to explain any further.

"Do you think this gray mist might have originated from the magic circle beneath our feet?"

Assam suddenly had a brilliant idea.

"But when I first dispelled the gray mist, there wasn't a magic circle under my feet!"

Wang Qingqing quickly retorted.

"It's probably because it spread out," Lin Fan explained. "After all, it's fog, so it's not surprising that it spread out."

Then, as if remembering something, a smile appeared on his face:

"Normally, the gray matter is invisible and cannot be broken apart, so no one knows exactly what is under their feet."

"Now, thanks to the power of your Wild Card, we can see this clearly: from the outside, Grey Ridge looks very large, but its actual size probably far exceeds that of a large international metropolis."

"Judging from the treasure-hunting rat and the magic circle beneath our feet, we've probably reached its core!"

"The treasure must be inside this magic circle, most likely in the very center!"

"This treasure might even be the source of all this gray fog!" Lin Fan's thoughts grew bolder. "If we got it, wouldn't we be able to build a city?"

"A foggy city of my own!"

"In this way, we can say that we have a place of rest inside the Black Tower."

The information about the Black Tower was naturally given by the long-legged beauty earlier.

Similarly, Lin Fan also learned that the Black Tower was closed. If he really wanted to stay here for 50 years, he would need a place to settle down.

He was just a little curious: if the Black Tower was already closed, why were the actors heading towards it?

Is it because they don't know, or do they have other motives?

Unfortunately, this was not the answer Lin Fan could think of at the moment.

All he can do now is survive, and help those around him survive!

"The direction has changed again; this treasure really knows how to move!"

Assam made a comment.

"It's alright, even if this treasure is easy to escape, theoretically it can't leave Graymist Ridge."

"Also, the one leading the way is a treasure-hunting rat. Even if it gets sent away by the portal, you can summon it back immediately."

"Therefore, we won't get confused by the portals here."

"And the strength here isn't enough to kill us. In short, this treasure isn't going anywhere!"

Lin Fan and his group were trapped in Gray Mist Ridge for a long time. He didn't have any summoned beasts, but fortunately, there were many of them. Their large numbers allowed him to discover the secret of the teleportation portal.

Unfortunately, he couldn't bring everyone back. Now that so much time has passed, those people are long dead.

"squeak!!!"

The treasure-hunting mouse suddenly let out a shriek.

"We've caught up to a certain area!"

"Although the treasure is moving, it looks like we're faster!"

Assam exclaimed excitedly, "I didn't expect to find a new treasure so soon after losing the drawing board. Now we don't have to worry about running into that old devil again."

Lin Fan and the other person nodded in agreement.

And so, the three of them sped up their pace.

A few minutes later, the treasure-hunting mouse suddenly disappeared.

Under the dispelling effect of the wild card, the three of them could see clearly that it had simply disappeared.

"The third portal."

Assam muttered to himself, his face expressionless, and after summoning the treasure-hunting rat again, he changed his perspective and continued forward.

Including this time, they encountered a total of three portals along the way.

Fortunately, thanks to the Treasure Rat's scouting and the Wild Card's dispelling effect, all three are currently fine.

Furthermore, just in case, Lin Fan kept a faint purple light around the three of them, allowing [Great Void Rhythm] to be activated on them in the lowest possible energy consumption mode.

Ta-da-ta-da...

Perhaps because they were moving at the same speed, the footsteps of the three people and the mouse were surprisingly synchronized.

Suddenly, the three of them seemed to be moving forward in an endless tunnel, and then an exit suddenly appeared.

The space that was originally 5 meters in radius was instantly expanded a hundredfold, turning into an open space of several hundred meters!

"this......"

The three of them stopped at the same time.

"How come there's such a place in Gray Mist Ridge that isn't covered by gray mist?"

As soon as Wang Qingqing finished speaking, her eyes lit up, and she nudged Assam: "Have we arrived at our destination?"

"Is this where the treasure is located?"

The treasure-hunting mouse on the ground squeaked, providing the answer.

"No, we haven't arrived yet; there's still quite a distance to go."

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Suddenly, Lin Fan stepped forward, disrupting the team's initial formation.

He stepped past the treasure-hunting rats and stood at the front of the group, his expression solemn and calm.

Lin Fan's actions also caught the attention of Wang Qingqing and Assam, who noticed that there was another person present besides the three of them!

The person sat on a huge, protruding stone sculpture in the distance. She was short, less than 1.5 meters tall. It was for this reason, and the sudden vastness of the world around them, that Wang Qingqing and her companion did not notice her presence at first.

This short person had a childlike ugliness on his face, with the skin and features of an old man, but with the face of a little girl, and in a drooping state, he looked both old and ugly.

It's hard to imagine that the idiom "men, women, old and young" would appear as an adjective on a person's face.

"Are you also an extraordinary being?"

Lin Fan said in a deep voice.

He didn't want to cause any more trouble and planned to just leave.

Because this place is really strange, the "auspicious day" information has been blocked!

The moment Lin Fan entered this place, he felt like a "lonely man".

It's hard to imagine that a safe zone of Gray Mist Ridge with such strength would have a place like this.

But he discovered that the other person was also looking at him.

Lin Fan's intuition told him that if he had no other choice, he should just leave.

Moreover, the other party is definitely not an ordinary person. If you look closely, you will find that the huge stone sculpture sitting under this person's buttocks is actually a giant gray worm!

It is nearly 8 meters tall!

In this place, the size of a gray worm is equivalent to its strength. Lin Fan has never seen such a huge gray worm before, so he doesn't know how strong it is.

"Extraordinary beings..."

The three words were uttered calmly by people of all ages and genders. Their voices were neither male nor female, and their figures were unremarkable, which is why Lin Fan still doesn't know whether this person is male or female.

"A superhuman?"

"That's too low-class." After saying that, she glanced at Lin Fan with a hint of interest, "I'm the same as you, a 1."

Assam, who understood instantly, covered his buttocks with his hands and instinctively took a half step back. Wang Qingqing didn't understand, but she followed suit.

"I am the number one symbol, the original symbol, and what I symbolize is..."

"Eternal!"