After I quit the team, they chased me

Chapter 17 Dungeon

The Haizhen underground city was opened twenty years ago. It was previously estimated to be only seven floors deep, but later it was discovered that there was an eighth floor after the seventh.

In the tenth year, people defeated the final boss of the eighth floor and discovered that there was a ninth floor below.

It was not until half a year ago that the adventure team reached the tenth floor and discovered the secret realm of earth dragons.

Now no one can tell how deep the city below Haizhen is.

However, after investigation by several professional organizations, they believe that the tenth floor should be the limit, and it is impossible for this place to have an eleventh floor underground city.

Because once you reach the eleventh floor, the strength of the wild monsters will reach a new level, and even professional adventurers will have a hard time fighting them.

Since these things were too far away from Simon, he would not mention them for now. At the moment, he was only paying attention to the corresponding pattern between the depth of the dungeon floors and the strength of the monsters.

In theory, the deeper the floor, the stronger the monsters.

Similarly, the deeper the floor, the greater the value of the materials produced.

The sixth floor, where Simon is about to go, theoretically corresponds to monsters that are in the middle range between apprentice and full-time strength.

Isn't this very subtle?

Simon's sea of ​​consciousness just happened to have the shape of the third star, but it couldn't be lit up.

This is very similar to the positioning of the sixth level. Simon is in an intermediate transition state, lacking an inspiration or a trigger.

"That is to say, you need the Screaming Wandering Soul as the lead for the Alchemy Reagent to guide your advancement."

Sister Bai Tang, who was standing by, showed a look of enlightenment upon hearing what was said.

On the way to the sixth floor, Simon took the time to explain why he was going to the sixth floor.

In fact, it doesn't matter if he doesn't say these reasons. The nun herself followed because of personal admiration, and the other one came for the reward, so they won't care too much about Simon's purpose.

However, after Simon gave his reasons, both of them had clear fighting goals, and they felt that the fight was more powerful and had more direction.

All their previous battles had the same characteristic: they were fighting only for an overly vague long-term goal, and could not see the progress after their efforts, which led to a lack of motivation during the battle.

After hearing this, the little blind girl had a confused expression on her face. It was obvious that her brain was not big enough to understand such things.

"The sixth floor? I've never been there, so I don't know if I can do it... But I will try my best!" She clenched her steel sword and said with all her might.

"Ah, we've reached the first floor." The nun suddenly stretched out her little hand and pointed forward.

As they were talking, the three of them walked through the crowded crowd, left the long staircase, and arrived at the first floor of the dungeon.

The dim world suddenly became bright. Looking up, you will find that the sky is very high, at least two or three hundred meters above the ground, and the ceiling is covered with various glowing crystals and plants.

Although the light they emit is not as bright as the sun, it is enough to illuminate the first floor of the dungeon as bright as day.

Here, the luminous crystals and plants on the ceiling will glow periodically, with the duration of the glow roughly matching the length of day and night on Earth.

When it gets dark outside, the glowing crystals in the dungeon will also dim, emitting only a dim glow, like the starry sky in the night.

It was still daytime and the ceiling was as bright as day.

Below was green grass and rolling grasslands that undulated up and down. Various small wild monsters were surrounded by the adventure team and killed like cutting leeks, one wave after another.

Please note that the wild monsters here are not suddenly refreshed out of thin air like in online games.

Instead, they are born in piles by the mother through asexual reproduction.

Generally speaking, the mother body has little attack power. Once the mother body dies, it is equivalent to losing a reproductive machine.

Once these reproduction machines are killed, no more monsters will be born on this floor, which is equivalent to the artificial extinction of the wild monster resources on this floor.

The same is true for the floors below. In any area with renewable resources, there will be a mother as productive as a sow.

Whichever adventure group can control this thing can use it to train soldiers continuously, or make it into materials and move it to the ground to sell.

Here, the old adventure groups that have worked deep in the dungeons have a status similar to that of warlords, with soldiers and power, and run a monopoly-like business.

If your team is not strong enough, it is best not to think about fighting anyway.

Of course, these veteran adventure groups are not all fools. They clearly know the importance of leeks.

Water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn it.

No matter how strong the adventure group is, they cannot withstand the attack of a large number of people.

If all resources were controlled by them and the leeks were angered, it would only lead to an irresistible mass riot, so there are public resource areas set up by major adventure groups on each floor.

In public resource areas, no adventure group is allowed to monopolize them by force. This is a way out for individual teams.

At the same time, there are some resources that are slightly higher in value but have complex, time-consuming and labor-intensive collection processes. Even if the land is not connected, they are also classified as public resources.

The screaming wandering monster that Simon was going to look for happened to be an enclave in the public resource area on the sixth floor, and its surrounding area was almost entirely privately controlled territory by the Great Adventure Group.

"Let's go." Simon pointed to the coachman who was parked at the edge of the grassland and said.

In the dungeon, if you want to go to the next level, you can either walk, pay to pass through an expensive teleportation magic circle, or take a carriage.

It takes a long time to walk. If you don’t consider the time for rest and sleep, theoretically it will take two days to complete the first level, one and a half days for the second level, one day for the third level, and a full day for the fourth level. The rest will take about a day each.

In fact, it is possible to walk from the first level to the sixth level, including the transition time of setting up camp and resting, for ten days or half a month.

It only takes a few seconds to walk through the magic circle, but the cost is one thousand blue essence blocks, which is equivalent to half the salary of an ordinary trainee adventurer.

Taking a carriage is much more economical, costing only one to a dozen essence blocks, depending on which floor you go to.

The process of riding in a carriage is equivalent to running around in the game. Although you are also walking on the ground, it is much faster than walking.

It only takes half a day to get to the sixth floor from here.

The horses here are stronger than those outside, their coats are purer, and their flames are purer.

Simon knew at a glance that it was a Flame Horse breed from the third level. Its bloodline was purer than the horse worth a piece of gold that he rode on land, and its physical strength and speed were doubled.

"Where are you three going?" the driver asked cheerfully, touching the burning flaming horse, his hands not feeling any heat at all.

"The sixth floor." Simon handed over eight blue essence blocks, and the two people behind him got on the car immediately.

The coachman was a little surprised when he heard this.

The sixth floor?

Only three people?

Are you sure there is no problem?

But seeing Simon's affirmative expression, the coachman said nothing more.

After everyone got on the carriage, the flames on the Fiery Horse immediately burned more vigorously, its hooves caught fire, and it immediately galloped on the dirt road on the grassland, leaving a trail of flaming footprints.

The carriage was driving on the official road created by the Adventurer's Coachman Association. There were no monsters along the way and the road surface had been carefully maintained, so the horses only needed to run at full speed.

The speed of the carriage gradually increased, reaching about several dozen kilometers per hour.

The little blind man held the sword and did not put it into his backpack, and he was extremely alert.

But seeing the nun beside her, she felt at ease and had the rare leisure time to look at the scenery outside.

Sister Bai Tang was secretly looking at Simon, and when she found that Simon turned his head away, she closed her eyes, held the cross in her hand, and prayed scriptures silently.

She looked very pious, as if she was saying to the air: Please, Our Lady, bless us with a safe journey.

But if you listen carefully, you can faintly hear a vague note similar to "Simon".

Simon didn't think much about it. He looked at the nun's flowing golden hair, then looked at the skinny girl who was staring blankly outside the car, and nodded imperceptibly.

Outside the car, green fields stretched out in stretches, wild monsters were eating grass slowly, looking up at the sky, even the light shining on the face felt gentle.

As the cool grassland breeze blew past, Simon emptied his mind, and his heart was clear and peaceful, a rare moment of tranquility.

Chapter 18 Return to the Sixth Floor

Half a day later.

The carriage Simon was riding in drove into the cave passage on the fifth floor. After a while, it drove out of the cave entrance and arrived on the ground on the sixth floor.

It didn't take long to go down from the fifth floor.

But the sky here is higher than that on the first floor. It is estimated to be several hundred meters higher. The height of the rock wall next to it can be estimated, giving a sense of expanding space.

Simon turned his gaze from the sky to the ground. The ground was all hilly areas of varying heights. Wild monsters lived in their respective controlled areas, and the people who controlled them were adventurers.

In the sixth layer, only the large plains in the middle and a few hilly areas are public resource areas.

Most of the rare renewable resources are basically in the hilly areas. If you don’t have the approval of the big adventure group, you will basically be driven out if you enter.

Because of this incident, the Great Adventure Group needs to recruit many trainee adventurers to patrol near the resource area to prevent any unsightly people from breaking in and stealing.

If there are people guarding it, there will naturally be people stealing it.

These apprentices are not very powerful people, so as long as the full-time adventurers want to steal, they can still sneak in by using some special stealth skills.

This also leads to an increasing number of people in the adventure group, most of whom are used for patrolling, which increases expenses and makes the group overly bloated, which in turn slows down the growth of the adventure group.

The White Fruit Adventure Group that Simon originally belonged to was a new team, and its membership had not yet expanded to such a terrifying level.

Also because the group was young, he was able to lead the main players into battle time and time again, breaking through ten levels and reaching the tenth floor, creating a local miracle, and only then was he able to join the monopoly alliance of the first-line adventure groups.

After entering the tenth floor, the White Fruit Adventure Group took control of various resource areas. In order to protect these resources, they began to rapidly expand and recruit non-staff personnel to guard the resource areas.

Simon now wants to go to the resource area where the screaming ghosts are located. On the way, he will inevitably encounter some private territories that are not allowed to be passed.

At this time, you have to take a detour. You have to first go to the large flat land in the middle of the sixth floor, then detour to the left, along the narrow mountain road, and slowly advance through the gaps in the territories of several major adventure groups. Only in this way can you reach the resource area where the Screaming Ghost is located.

It sounds troublesome, but in the human world, it is unavoidable.

Otherwise, if you cross someone else's territory for no reason, who knows if they might secretly steal some resources.

It would be fine if you were very strong, but others would just have to bear the loss.

If they are not strong enough, they might just kill the nanny and then kill you.

Closer to home.

Simon continued to sit in the carriage until the driver took him to his destination.

It seems that the path to survive in the cracks is difficult to walk on, but that path only appears small on the map.

In reality, there is still enough space to accommodate ten carriages.

The driver waited until the Flame Carriage took the three of them to their destination. He looked at Simon who had gotten off the carriage and asked, "Do you need me to take you back?"

The coachman was thinking about Simon's return fare. After all, Simon was willing to ride in the carriage, so he definitely didn't need the return fare.

"You can come and pick us up around this time tomorrow," Simon estimated.

"Ok."

The driver said happily, and then drove his horse to the large flat land on the sixth floor to find work.

Besides, the area where the screaming ghost is located is a dense forest with a pond. Green vegetation covers the surface, enveloping the entire pond.

When Simon arrived here, he didn't see any other adventurers.

The hidden poisonous snake flashed past the pool of water, and the little blind man walking in front quickly retreated.

Even though she walks a little unsteadily and looks like she could be blown down by the wind, she is still able to dodge flexibly when the real fight comes.

This is a survival instinct. Without this reaction, she would have died at the bottom.

"Now obey my orders and follow me," said Simon.

"Hmm? Follow you?" The little blind girl was stunned. How could she perform? Shouldn't a soldier go forward and be cannon fodder?

"I'll give you an advance warning. Don't worry, just follow me." Simon said as he walked towards the dense forest path on the left.

Sister Bai Tang was also a little puzzled, but thinking that Simon was the strongest apprentice, she naturally chose to trust his intuition.

"Hurry up and follow me, little blind man." The nun said to the skinny man behind her.

The little blind boy can only see with his left eye, and the range he can see is not as large as Simon's.

She wondered if Simon disliked her for this and that was why he didn't let her walk in front.

She subconsciously tightened the sword in her hand, feeling despised.

But she followed anyway.

No matter what, this was the first person who dared to use her, so she had nothing to worry about.