Chapter 475 [(*^▽^*)]

Xue Rui looked at his puppet. "Mine is 12% damaged. It will take 12 hours to repair." He had broken it himself.

As he spoke, Lin Leyou stared intently at him. Xue Rui blinked and then looked over as well. For a moment, the place fell silent.

In the end, Lin Leyou gave in, "Don't you have anything to say to me?"

Xue Rui was silent for a moment before saying, "That was one of my talents, which I got in another dungeon. It's called Golden Body. It grants you 30 seconds of invincibility after use, with a 24-hour cooldown."

Lin Leyou: "It's not that it can be used once a day, but rather that there's a 24-hour cooldown period? That means I won't be able to use it again until this time tomorrow?"

Xue Rui nodded, "That's right, but I think it was fine to use invincibility just now."

Lin Leyou: "It's definitely not a problem. This puppet is too fast. Fortunately, my air attack is powerful enough to repel it."

Otherwise, Lin Leyou felt he might have been caught off guard and his efforts would have been in vain. This showed just how powerful these two puppets were. They were forced to use one of their talents and the other needed to use gem-encrusted weapons to fight them!

Lin Leyou waved his hand, "Alright, they're all dead. Let's throw them into the thief's pit behind here."

Xue Rui: "Shall we go by ourselves?"

Lin Leyou blinked. "How about we just give it to the villagers? Oh, right, the monitoring ball... let's sink it to the bottom of the pit and take a look."

Xue Rui nodded, "Okay, I'll give it a try."

The monitoring ball was just floating above the thief's pit. Because they were dealing with these two people, it was temporarily suspended there. Now the people are dead, and they even managed to get their hands on the two puppets while they weren't paying attention.

With the matter settled, it was time to explore the thief's pit. They were eager to see what lay at the bottom.

Under Xue Rui's control, the monitoring ball slowly sank down and soon arrived near the resentful and yin energy that looked like it had liquefied. Even through the screen, they could feel a chilling aura.

Xue Rui suddenly said, "The monitoring ball is damaged. This yin energy and resentment can actually damage the mechanical instruments."

Lin Leyou said, "That's for sure. Quickly sink down and take a look. Once you have a clear view, bring it back immediately. Don't stay down there for too long, or the damage will definitely be greater."

Fortunately, these monitoring balls can be automatically repaired if they are damaged.

The monitoring ball quickly sank into it, and the monitoring screen went completely black. Xue Rui only realized that it had hit the bottom when it could no longer descend.

"I can't go any further, it must be the bottom, but I can't see anything..."

Lin Leyou said, "This pit is probably seventy or eighty meters deep. It seems that the villagers must have put in a lot of effort to dig such a big and deep pit back then."

Xue Rui: "I've retrieved the monitoring ball."

Lin Leyou nodded, "Let's take it back. It looks like it's damaged a bit more, and we can't see anything... Hmm? Did something white just flash by?"

Xue Rui controlled the monitoring ball to retrace the route they had taken earlier, this time at a slower pace. They did indeed discover something: a person dressed in white lying below.

Although it was very dark down there, you could still see a little bit if you got very close.

Lin Leyou gasped when he saw it clearly. "This person was actually lying on top of piles of corpses, with his eyes open and staring at the sky. He was limp and listless, as if he had lost his soul."

Xue Rui had already controlled the monitoring ball to quickly ascend into the air and slowly retrieve it. When the monitoring ball flew out of the thief's pit and saw the light of day again, some black marks appeared on its body, making it look pitted and uneven, clearly indicating that it had been damaged quite a bit.

At this moment, Xue Rui suddenly thought, "Isn't this thief's pit supposed to be a place where once you go in, you can never get out? Is there an exception for the mechanical ones?"

Lin Leyou then thought of what the village chief had said, "Maybe so. Anyway, we're already out, so let's quickly take the props back and restore them to their original state."

Xue Rui nodded, stopped thinking about it, and controlled the monitoring ball to fly back, once again flying openly through the middle of the village. Of course, this time it was seen by many people in the village.

"These balls are going to break."

"They must have fallen into the pit. How could those two kids be so careless?"

"Let me clean it up, otherwise the two kids will get sick if they touch each other."

Then an unseen breeze swept across the monitoring sphere. Xue Rui had initially thought he would see a sphere that looked as badly damaged as the one shown on the monitor screen, but when the sphere came back into view, they found it to be perfectly clean…

Although the surface was still full of potholes, the black stuff that had stuck to the thieves' pit had completely disappeared, and the two of them blinked in surprise.

Lin Leyou suddenly said, "Could the black thing be resentment that has materialized?"

Xue Rui, "It will dissipate along the way?"

Lin Leyou glanced at the tranquil mountain village in the distance. "Perhaps it's because someone helped us when we passed through the village?"

Xue Rui also thought this made sense, so he casually put the few monitoring balls that had turned white but were still damaged back into the box and put the item back into his backpack.

"Now it's time to deal with these two bodies. Shall we throw them into the pit behind?"

Lin Leyou blinked. "Didn't we just get two new puppets? We can have these two puppets carry the corpses and dump them in the pit behind. We should move them there while the corpses are still warm."

He then took out his puppet to activate it, but Xue Rui stopped him, saying, "Forget it, if we send the puppet, it will take at least ten minutes to go back and forth, which is more than ten thousand points. It's too wasteful."

Lin Leyou nodded in surprise after hearing what he said, "That makes sense, it is indeed too wasteful."

Xue Rui put away his gun. "Here's what we'll do: you stay here and guard this place, I'll go..."

Lin Leyou waved his hand, "How can that be? You went just now, I'll go this time. Anyway, there are only two corpses, I still have the strength. You stay here."

Xue Rui thought for a moment and then didn't object anymore, "Okay then."

Lin Leyou followed Xue Rui's method and dragged the two corpses toward the village. When he reached the village entrance, he ran into the village chief. He immediately thought of the village chief's appearance when he was in the thief's pit, as captured by the surveillance camera. The difference between the two and the current state was truly enormous.

"village head?"

The village chief nodded, glanced at the two corpses in his hands, and said, "They're still fresh. Just have Dazhuang throw them into the pit behind. You two little kids shouldn't go near there. It's not a good place."

Lin Leyou knew perfectly well. "I understand, thank you, village chief."

Dazhuang is the very strong-looking person tending the vegetable garden at the village entrance. Of course, he's not a living person. He looks very honest and simple, but he's not very smart.

He walked over and picked up the two corpses as if they were chicks. "Then I'll go."

The village chief waved his hand, letting him go, and then slowly looked at Lin Leyou, "What are you two kids doing? Let those people come into the village, there are plenty of people to take care of them."

Lin Leyou blinked. "We'll come back when it gets dark. We won't go out tomorrow."

The village chief nodded in satisfaction, "Alright, go have some fun."

Lin Leyou watched the village chief slowly walk away, then turned and walked towards Xue Rui. As he walked, he didn't forget to check the situation of the whole village through the mechanical spider that he had casually released earlier.

He saw it through this method... When he walked into the village, the black mist that filled the village would automatically avoid him. The same was true for the house he lived in with Xue Rui. The house looked like a safe house in the village, with no black mist around it.

Lin Leyou quickly retrieved his little spider and found that the mechanical spider was not contaminated with anything bad. Sure enough, it was fine here, but that thief's pit... that was truly a dead end!

This is a place that residents, players, and the like absolutely must not approach!

After finding Xue Rui, Lin Leyou told him what the village chief had said and what he had promised before.

Xue Rui didn't object, "That works too, we won't come out tomorrow."

Lin Leyou said, "It's fine to ambush them when there are few people, but it's not good when there are many. Our mission doesn't recommend that we confront them head-on."

They waited there for another whole day, but to their surprise, no one came. They spent their free time eating the food from their lunchboxes to pass the time. As evening approached, they gave up and decided to go back to the village.

Looking at the red dots on the map, some of them should have been able to arrive before dark, but for some reason, they stopped moving on the cliff, as if they wanted to rest there.

So much so that they hadn't even crossed the canyon by nightfall, and since that was the case, they stopped paying attention to it.

After returning to the village, they didn't linger outside. They quickly found some vegetables and went back into the house to prepare a meal.

Looking at the food in the kitchen, Lin Leyou said, "I feel like I've only eaten all day."

Xue Rui's lips curled into a smile, "It's not that bad..."

The two were chatting and laughing as they prepared the meal, but the scene in the thieves' pit on the back mountain was quite different.

Jiang Changdong originally planned to quietly take a detour to the place that looked like a village when he met Lin Leyou and the others, but it was a bit far away and he couldn't see it very clearly.

And he wasn't sure if he was seeing things, but he felt like there was a dark aura rising into the sky from that desolate village covered in vegetation, but upon closer inspection, he couldn't see anything at all...

"Is it just my imagination?" Jiang Changdong murmured, but quickly realized that this was not something he should be thinking about now.