"Tap, tap..."
Driver Lao Liu was a bit annoyed.
He pulled another cigarette from his pocket, but this time his lighter wouldn't ignite.
He suddenly missed that kid who played with fire.
He wondered if that kid had managed to escape.
If he had followed Lin Ye here, smoking wouldn't be such a hassle.
"So, I met Liu Shifu in the Horizontal Cave, and we brought you along to hide here."
Lin Ye looked at Chen Bugu and recounted everything that happened after he awakened and fainted.
Chen Bugu listened with some trepidation; those Scarlet Hounds were strong. Lin Ye and Lao Liu's escape was due to both their abilities and a certain element of luck.
Of course, looking at it this way, Chen Bugu was probably the luckiest one.
"I still have to thank you, Teacher Lin, thank you for not abandoning me."
Chen Bugu didn't speak after standing up. He lowered his head, silently processing the information from Lin Ye.
Driver Lao Liu finally managed to light his cigarette and quietly resumed smoking on one side. He had also listened carefully to Lin Ye's recent retelling.
After all, from the very beginning, he had only focused on escaping for his life and didn't have much energy to pay attention to what happened afterward.
The Unicorn Rock Sheep had already vanished like smoke just now.
According to Lin Ye, he could only randomly summon a Sheep Family demon beast for 5 minutes at a time, and it would consume 5 points of spiritual energy.
After summoning the Unicorn Rock Sheep, Lin Ye also discovered that he could consume double the spiritual energy to consistently summon a species he had already summoned.
For example, next time he could use 10 points of spiritual energy to ensure he could summon a Unicorn Rock Sheep instead of other random creatures, although there was no need for it temporarily.
Firstly, because the Sheep Attribute should also be able to summon other, more powerful sheep-type demon beasts.
Lin Ye clearly remembered that the Unicorn Rock Sheep was only a Black Iron Grade Low-Rank demon beast, which meant there must be higher-grade ones.
Secondly, because 10 points of spiritual energy was also a considerable burden for Lin Ye.
He had already learned from Chen Bugu what would happen if his spiritual energy was exhausted.
If there were no teammates he could trust with his life, then exhausting spiritual energy on the battlefield was no different from committing suicide.
After a simple exchange of information, Chen Bugu had a basic understanding of the current situation.
It could truly be described as a hellish beginning.
Chen Bugu was sweating profusely, far from as calm as he appeared.
He remembered that the Great Disaster in his previous life wasn't like this at all!
There were Scarlet Hounds, but only one!
From Lin Ye and Driver Lao Liu's descriptions, the number of Scarlet Hounds in this Great Disaster was clearly more than one.
Four eyes on the head, pitch black all over—it was basically confirmed to be a Scarlet Hound.
Currently, there were at least three Scarlet Hounds, or even more.
Scarlet Hounds were top-tier demon beasts among the Black Iron Grade Low-Rank, and even just one posed a risk of total annihilation for this group of Awakeneds who had just comprehended their abilities.
If three appeared at once, Chen Bugu basically felt he could lie down and wait for death.
Why was this happening?
The difficulty this time was too high; it clearly didn't intend for him, a reborn person, to leave Yu Tan Tunnel alive.
"Speaking of which, Liu Shifu, why didn't you just fly out? You could have flown out of this tunnel in one go, right?"
Lin Ye had never quite understood this point.
Lao Liu glanced at Lin Ye, and the spark from his cigarette at the corner of his mouth grew brighter.
"Do you think I haven't tried? I simply can't escape."
Yu Tan Tunnel was no more than 10KM long; Lao Liu knew this all too well.
But just now, as he was floating forward, the sign indicating "2KM to exit" appeared again.
Lao Liu was certain he hadn't misread it. After awakening, his eyesight seemed to have improved, and he had seen that sign, indicating 2KM to the exit, from afar.
Although he didn't know the reason, he was certain that even if he continued to float forward, he wouldn't be able to leave the tunnel.
And he would eventually have to land due to exhausted spiritual energy. In that case, rather than landing and waiting for death, it was better to find a place to hide.
"So that's how it is."
Listening to Driver Lao Liu's explanation, Lin Ye gave a wry smile.
He didn't doubt whether Lao Liu had misread it.
For him, a person who couldn't move an inch without glasses in daily life, the increase in eyesight was too obvious; he had felt it long ago.
"Then this is a ghost wall, truly magical."
"Are there too few magical things?"
Lao Liu took a deep drag, then threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stomped it out.
Lin Ye smiled bitterly, "Yes, are there too few magical things?"
He couldn't believe it; he had even become a Summoner, a term often mentioned by those game-loving students.
"Hey, young man, what's your ability?"
Hearing Lao Liu speak, Lin Ye also looked at Chen Bugu.
"My ability is Breaking."
Chen Bugu sat on the ground, recalling the description of Breaking during his awakening.
"A thief stole the authority of the gods and quietly forged it into a virus kindling. Unique ability, non-upgradable."
However, he not only hadn't figured out how to use this ability but almost lost his life because of it.
The joy brought by his rebirth had long been worn away by the many twists and turns before this. Chen Bugu was now only worried about whether he could leave alive.
"Breaking? What's it for? You've used it, right?"
"As you said yourself, your fainting just now was entirely due to spiritual energy overdraft, so you must have used your ability, right?"
Chen Bugu looked up at Driver Lao Liu. This man seemed much more meticulous than he appeared on the surface.
"Yes, I used it. I used Breaking on the black space of awakening."
"Unfortunately, perhaps my ability was insufficient; at least, nothing happened before my spiritual energy was exhausted."
Chen Bugu still told a small lie. Thinking back carefully, actually, not nothing had happened at that time.
Before Chen Bugu fainted, he vaguely remembered a silver light flashing in his consciousness world, and something flew towards him at the last moment.
But Chen Bugu didn't know what was going on, and he even wondered if he had mixed this scene with the elemental awakening light that had disappeared during his previous awakening.
However, none of that was important.
At least, it wasn't important right now.
If he couldn't survive Yu Tan Tunnel, nothing else mattered.
Lao Liu shook his head, feeling only disappointment.
"So what exactly is your Breaking for?"
"Maybe it can open locks or something."
Chen Bugu laughed at himself self-deprecatingly, although he wasn't entirely joking.
Just now, when Chen Bugu glanced at the doorway where miscellaneous items were piled, he had a sudden impulse, a vague feeling that although the door was locked, he could open it.
He had heard of such impulses before; a few Awakeneds would suddenly have an impulse during battle, leading to new developments in the use of their abilities and the comprehension of new skills.
"Open locks? What about that box? Can it be opened too?"
"What box?"
Hearing "box," Chen Bugu's heart seemed to skip a beat.
"It seems to be a treasure chest."
There's a treasure chest here!?
Chen Bugu quickly stood up.
Lao Liu said, walking towards the iron door of the storage room, moving the clutter in front of it one by one.
Seeing this, Chen Bugu quickly went to help.
Underneath a pile of messy things was a completely black treasure chest.
The overall shape of the treasure chest was identical to common treasure chests in games. The entire chest was about the size of a desktop computer, with a circle of metallic white trim inlaid around the opening, and a keyhole in the center of the white trim.
Black Iron Treasure Chest!
There's actually a Black Iron Treasure Chest here!
