Why is my territory in a 2D anime art style?

"I'll go in first, you can provide support at any time!"

This time, Erhu was not as casual as he had been the first time; usually so unrestrained, he was quite serious.

He slowly approached the strange dimensional portal, not rushing to peek inside, but instead peering through the portal to make sure there was nothing wrong with the direction before cautiously passing through.

As soon as he entered, he turned around and looked at the back half of the cave, but his eyes swept up and down and he did not see the dark figure from last time.

After thinking for a moment, he took out the energy spotlight from his pocket and checked it again.

However, this time the cave was indeed normal, and there was nothing unusual about it.

After confirming that there were no problems, Erhu waved towards the door, and Wang Zhen and Zhao Feng quickly went inside. The three of them checked again before finally letting out a sigh of relief.

Erhu stepped out of the secret realm, took out his communicator, and said, "You can leave now. It's safe for the time being. Hu Zi, you should go back first too."

Sui An sat in the transport vehicle parked on the riverbank and breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the communicator.

"Okay, I'll pick you up at 3:30. Be careful!"

"The same to you!"

……

This time, Wang Zhen and his two companions went down into the secret realm to mine, and they mined until the afternoon. Surprisingly, no accidents occurred again.

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"Clang~ Clang~ Clang~"

The sound of the alarm clock echoed through the secret realm, immediately drawing the three people's attention back from mining.

Erhu slowly straightened up from the ground, twisted his upper body, and laughed happily:

"It's time to pack up and get ready to leave!"

"Okay, I'll sort the ore and put it all into bags."

"This mining work is really tiring; my old back is starting to give out."

Zhao Feng straightened up, pounded her lower back, and started complaining.

Wang Zhen finished sorting the ore, picked up the bag, and looked thoughtfully at the passageway.

Erhu turned his head to look over, but didn't find anything unusual, so he asked in a low voice, "Old Wang, what are you looking at?"

"I'm thinking, should we bring down some more Shadow Lizards to give Xiao An more resources and reduce some obstacles for clearing the secret realm later?"

Wang Zhen spoke softly, glancing at Erhu and Zhao Feng: "Xiao An's territory has such high-quality buildings, it could clearly grow rapidly, but it's limited by the surrounding resources, so its improvement is a bit slow."

"You call that slow?" Erhu rolled his eyes at Wang Zhen. Whoever is slow is not that guy Sui An.

"It took the He family two years to build their level 3 territory. Sui An's territory definitely won't take two years. He just upgraded to level 2 territory and then wiped out a huge wave of Rift Source Beasts. Even excluding the ones we killed, there must have been at least seven or eight hundred of them. This one wave is equivalent to half a year for others."

"However, what Old Wang said about bringing down a batch of source beasts is not bad. I'm just afraid that if the blood moon hadn't come today, all the beasts that were brought down would have run back."

"Indeed, not to mention helping Xiao An's territory, there are just too many source beasts in this secret realm. It would take us forever to grind them down with just the few of us."

Zhao Feng had finished packing her things. Her heroic brows furrowed slightly as she looked up at the top of the cave, as if she could see through the rocks to the ground.

"I agree with Wang Zhen's suggestion to lure another batch of source beasts only after ensuring our own safety. However, I've always had a question: why does the Shadow Lizard King never come in with us?"

Erhu stroked his chin and said softly, "Perhaps it came down here, knows the situation, and is too lazy to chase us?"

"I'm not sure. Perhaps there's something about this cave that it doesn't like?"

Wang Zhen shook his head. There are too many unknowns about this world for the creatures of the Origin Realm. Even scholars who specialize in studying the Origin Realm may not be able to know the cause and effect here.

"Since everyone agrees, let's take the items out of the secret realm first, and then make the trip!"

"good!"

"OK!"

The three of them carried their tools and bags full of ore to the door, and then they heard Sui An's voice coming from the communicator placed outside the door.

"Feed~ Feed~ Feed~"

"Are you ready to come out?"

Erhu picked up the communicator and replied, "Wait a few minutes, we'll go back to the ground and bring you some resources!"

Sui An sat on the transport vehicle with the communicator in his hand, somewhat stunned. He didn't really want the three of them to go on an adventure, but he didn't seem to have a good reason to refuse.

After thinking for a moment, I could only say again, "Thank you very much, but please be careful and don't take any risks!"

There was no sound coming from the communicator, and Sui An guessed that they had already headed towards the passage, so he could only silently wait above.

Wang Hu sat quietly to the side, his face expressionless, lost in thought.

About five or six minutes later, a voice came from the other end of the communicator: "We're out!"

"Okay, we'll wait outside!"

Soon, the three of them, each carrying two large bags, ran quickly out of the cave entrance.

Erhu placed the bag on the cart bed and hurriedly urged, "Hurry up, hurry up! There are so many shadow lizards, are we really going to kill them all..."

"This thing is really prolific! Xiao Anzi, what kind of luck do you have to find a place like this?"

Sui An didn't rush to reply. He simply started the car quickly, turned the steering wheel, made a sharp turn, and sped off. This time, the car was quite heavy, leaving a deep axle mark on the yellow earth as it turned.

Perhaps due to repeated provocations, this time the group of shadow lizards even tried to catch up with the transport vehicle after rushing out of the cave.

However, these ordinary shadow lizards are still much slower than the transport vehicle.

Erhu sat upside down in the back of the cart, his eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

"Why are these shadow lizards so aggressive this time? They usually don't chase after us much when they get close to the cave entrance."

"Did you provoke that big guy too much?"

Sui An turned his head and glanced at the Black River in the distance. If it were a blood moon night, this scene would be quite normal, but it was really rare to see during the day.

Suddenly, Erhu shouted, "Hey, there's a big guy coming out too!"

"Are they in a hurry to send money to Xiao Anzi?"

"Come on, Erhu, you drive!"

Sui An glanced at it, then reached out and patted the erhu sitting in the truck bed. The erhu looked confused but still turned over and went to the front of the truck, replacing Sui An.

As Sui An faced the approaching Shadow Lizard team, a phantom orb of light quietly appeared in front of him, immediately attracting everyone's attention.

Wang Zhen rubbed his eyes. They were still about a hundred meters away from the territory. He felt something was strange: "Huh? How can you summon the territory core outside the territory?"

"It's that purple core tower from last time. It can give me a secondary core inside my body. I've tested it and it works as long as it's within 500 meters of my territory."

Sui An casually explained, and the light sphere transformed into a territory projection. With his mental manipulation, a burst of fire shot into the sky from the territory behind him.

"Feed~feed~Little Anzi."

Erhu raised his head and looked at the distant sky. He immediately understood Sui An's plan and half-jokingly tried to persuade him.

"Isn't it a bit of a loss to use this thing to fight Shadow Lizards? The meat will all be burnt and you won't be able to sell it!"

"I recently developed a new feature, I'll give it a try!"