Chapter 40: Departure

  After Ling Lei was completely erased, Jiu Ming suddenly felt a little regret...

  It's really a waste to use this sealed card here, but who would have thought that the power of the ability inside this sealed card is so unexpectedly strong!?!

  As for relying on the introduction of card notes to estimate power?

  Don't be ridiculous, this isn't a game, the power can be explained by a string of numbers, but reality can produce different fluctuations based on various situations!

  Do you think you can give an absolute value that applies in all environments?

  The best way to determine is to see the power displayed by the original user, such a huge thunderball was eliminated so neatly, this thing is simply against the sky! What kind of identity does that unlucky hedgehog-headed boy have!?

  The Thunder Snake King was stunned and remained motionless for a long time, even the surrounding Thunder Snakes were temporarily quiet. At this moment, not running away would be unforgivable to oneself!!

  In an instant, Jiǔ Mìng burst out at full speed, trampling a large number of thunder snakes and instantly leaving the snake pit. Fortunately, those thunder snakes had just released a large amount of thunder and lightning earlier, so they were somewhat weakened now. Jiǔ Mìng stepped on them without encountering any electrical conduction that would harm himself.

  "Ah!!!!!!"

  Then, a hoarse roar of the Thunder Snake King echoed in the snake pit. The nine lives had already escaped and would not make the same mistake again. These thunder snakes had suffered greatly from the previous attack, their overall combat strength had dropped significantly, and it was even more impossible to catch up with him now. What they needed to worry about next was what to do...

  How could humans possibly let go of such a large high-energy crystal mine?

  Even if it's just because of the geographical location, it must be sealed off even if it's not used. Otherwise, after cleaning up the Thunder Snakes here, who knows whether another nest of Thunder Beasts will appear again due to the minerals here after a period of time...

  Leopards, leopards, and leopard cats, all have them!

  The alien beast absorbs the high-energy crystal mine, unlike humans, they can just eat it, and what makes humans even more envious is that once human abilities are activated, they are basically a fixed type, which can be improved but cannot be changed.

  But the heteromorphic beasts, apart from their inability to transform, can also produce variant transformations through a large amount of high-energy crystal mines. Without the ability to transform, they possess extremely powerful physical bodies, and some of them even have the ability to transform... Hmm!

  Moreover, apart from absorbing minerals, there are also alien beasts that have special abilities after mutation.

  In other words, all exotic beasts can possess special abilities or choose to do so on their own initiative, provided that they can ingest a large amount of high-energy crystal minerals.

  Everyone, a high-energy crystal mine was discovered. Even ordinary humans without attributes can't let it go, even if they can't mine it themselves, they can't leave it for the alien beasts to exploit.

  If the high-energy crystal mine here is very valuable, and humans don't mind dispatching troops to forcibly clear out a piece of the Death Forest, they can establish a massive base here!

  Warfare, resources are quite important, even if the target is not human.

  "For the time being, let's defend and retreat. I've already applied for military support from above." After seeing the strange disappearance of the movement in the snake pit, the camp leader immediately gave orders. The students have all been found, now escorting them out is the main thing.

  Although there are not a few people in the outer camp, compared to the entire Death Forest, it is not many at all. Now even if they go up to clear those thunder snakes, the battle with a large number of people will definitely make the Death Forest boil over. The number of people they have now is still not enough to make the alien beasts in the entire forest fearful, and when the time comes, being surrounded by the alien beasts in the entire forest and being overwhelmed will be a foregone conclusion.

  It's common sense that no mineral resources can be left to the alien beasts, and there is a big difference in combat effectiveness between the alien beast group occupying a mine and the alien beast group without a mine.

  The entire retreat process was unusually smooth, and the pursuing Rattlesnake Corps seemed to have weakened a lot, being easily repelled by the troops, leaving behind many Rattlesnake corpses. This was still under the circumstances of them being tied up, fighting too fiercely, with severe consequences.

  "These thunder snakes seem to be deliberately driving us away." On the road, Li Ruiming said to Wang Hai beside him, "And they all seem a bit weak."

  "It's probably related to the attack earlier... I'm telling you, it's better if office workers like you don't follow us, okay?"

  "What's wrong with clerks?" In response to Wang Hai's 'look down', Li Ruiming gave him a very unhappy glance, "Monks are also 'clerks'."

  "Go! You've seen enough." Wang Hai turned his head and took a glance, "You said that with so many of us taking advantage of the weakness of the snake group..."

  "Many? You dare to compare with the beasts in the entire Death Forest?" Li Rui understood him at a glance, "I roughly calculated that if you want to intimidate all the beasts in the Death Forest, there should be at least 5,000 people coming, and this is not even considering the Death Forest as a large forest."

  The strange beast is not brainless either, if the gap between their strengths is too great, they will not act rashly.

  "So, even if there's a good opportunity, it's better to observe the situation clearly before making a move." Li Ruiming shook his head and said with some regret that he had missed the good opportunity when the snake group was weakened overall, and also missed the chance to find out which powerful deity had managed to withstand such a strong attack.

  It's easy to counterattack, but without letting that attack burst and dissolve the intangible... The technical content of doing this kind of thing is higher.

  "What time did you come back!?" As soon as he returned to his own tent, Wang Hai saw the Nine Lives who had become quite transparent sitting on one side yawning, which suddenly shocked him.

  "It's just five minutes earlier than you guys." Rubbing his eyes, Jiǔ Mìng replied somewhat weakly, high risk and high return, this time was not much different from the weakness of the last time.

  Wang Hai carefully examined Jiuming, and at this time, he had a lot more fatigue than usual. He stretched out his hand to pull up the door curtain of the tent, "How did you become so... transparent?"

  Previously, the nine lives were ghosts, but that high degree of opacity didn't seem like a ghost either. Now looking at his body's transparency, it suddenly looks like some kind of special stealth ability.

  "Being crippled, of course it's become dull." Jiǔ Mìng waved his hand, "The internship has been interrupted?"

  "En." Wang Hai nodded and began to explain, "Providing students with original, unaltered internship locations is a new rule this year, but we didn't expect the internship location to have such a rare situation."

  "What should I do?"

  "Well, in any case, changing venues is a must." Wang Hai shrugged his shoulders, and all he could say was that these students were lucky!

  "By the way, how were you crippled? There shouldn't be many powerful beasts in the Death Forest that can threaten your existence, right?" Wang Hai was a bit puzzled, as the Death Forest wasn't particularly large, so it wouldn't have many strong beasts.

  "Lured away a large group of Thunder Snakes, and got beaten up." Jiǔ Mìng said with some helplessness. No matter how high his combat power was, under the siege of a group of Thunder Snakes with not much lower combat power, he would still get beaten, even if he could one-shot any single Thunder Snake, but he couldn't one-shot a whole group.

  "Really?"

  "...What are you suspecting?" Jiǔ Mìng rolled his eyes, of course knowing what Wáng Hǎi was suspecting, "I certainly wouldn't do something like abandoning the army at the last minute."

  "This I believe, but you come to me with such a weak and sickly appearance...?" Wang Hai raised an eyebrow, wasn't it him who had previously clashed with the Thunder Snake King?

  "Cough cough, look at me putting in so much effort I almost got myself into trouble, can the pay be increased?"

  Wang Hai's eyebrows suddenly furrowed together, damn it! Are you here for workers' compensation?

  "Uh... our previous contract didn't have this clause, and the number of student discounts this time is also..." With a serious expression that was utterly at odds with his words, Wang Hai clearly intended to sidestep the issue.

  "Don't tease me! There aren't many students from Changhe College who kneel there."

  "How did you know?"

  "Time to check the name list." Jiǔ Mìng pointed to a list that had been thrown to one side in Wáng Hǎi's tent, "Although there are several hundred people and each person is not easy to remember, having followed them for so long, it's still possible to leave an impression. Let's take a look at the photos on the list...it's almost done."

  Wang Hai's mouth twitched violently, "Do you think the academy's funds are picked up from the streets? In short, the final reward and the number of students' calculation method cannot be changed... However, you lack money... Oh, you like high-energy crystals."

  Wang Hai thought for a moment, "If you lack that thing, it won't be long before someone takes over the matter here. I have some connections and can let you participate in this action as an employee, and the pay will definitely not be low. However, your identity..."

  "Never mind, I'll just go protect the students instead." Realizing what Wang Hai was about to say, Jiǔ Mìng's mouth twitched slightly as he hastily interrupted him. Wanting to obtain more high-energy crystals to convert into source power wasn't wrong, but the feeling of being a 'human punching bag' was something he didn't want to experience again.

  If it weren't for the fact that the end of the month is just around the corner... he wouldn't be making such a big fuss!

  Is he the most unqualified store manager?

  What a large and mysterious shop, yet there is only him, the lone store owner, without even a single employee. Hmm, it seems like it's time to find a clever wife?

  He took a glance at his own status, and shook his head. Forget it, he shouldn't do something that would mislead others. The title of boss's wife was out of the question, but maybe being a shop assistant could be an option if there was a chance?

  "Suit yourself, it's just a fake skin, why are you so particular about it." Wang Hai shook his head in slight puzzlement.

  "Really?" Jiǔ Mìng's expression turned slightly darker, "Why don't you try it on yourself?"

  "How cheap do you have to be to do this?" Wang Hai's words had just left his lips when he slightly froze, yeah, so even if he himself had nothing better to do and suggested this to Jiuming out of kindness, but thinking carefully... how cheap is that?

  In fact, Jiǔ Mìng not going to participate in the snake pit's affairs still has other reasons. He dares to say that as long as he dares to go there again, the Thunder Snake King who was robbed of its treasure by him will dare to go berserk and fight with him to the death!

  But he alone cannot monopolize the mine area, and it's better not to do something that is not worth the effort.

  Trouble.