After falling, Yan Zi took advantage of the momentum to do a somersault in the air and landed steadily on the ground. Then she turned her gaze to a blue treasure chest in the distance.

Just as she was about to move closer, a message popped up in front of her.

You are cursed by the desert, losing 10 health points per second.

Yan Zi was stunned when she heard the system announcement.

She immediately stepped back, but the curse remained, dripping down second by second.

"Hurry up and level up my skills!"

The thorn gourd had already landed on her shoulder and used its first and second skills on her.

Yan Zi's health points slowly rose and then slowly fell, fluctuating in a constant stream!

"No wonder they threw it down! So entering this place means you're cursed."

Prickly Gourd: "Master, what do we do?"

Yan Zi looked at the four girls not far away, "Is there any way to apply the skill to those four girls?"

The prickly gourd tried to use its skills, but soon the skills locked onto them.

However, they were in very poor condition.

"Master, their condition is very poor, and there's no way to heal them. They're stuck at the lowest point of defense!"

Yan Zi nodded, and then decisively walked in that direction.

Along the way, there were traces of bones everywhere, and a strange smell emanated from the area...

As she approached, she noticed that they were all bound with ropes and their eyes were covered with cloth.

Yan Zi frowned, cut the ropes binding them, and the girls fell to the ground with thuds.

Yan Zi took out four healing potions, which greatly restored their condition.

The four of them groggily opened their eyes and were met with this bizarre scene. As soon as they stood up, they realized that they were in very bad shape.

Yan Zi: "Who are you people? Why were you dumped here?"

The four looked at each other in silence for a few seconds before someone spoke up: "We are from the Rescuers Guild. We came down to open the treasure chest, but we were used as bait to lure others into the pit to commit suicide. Now we are probably being used as nourishment to weaken the elite monsters."

Yan Zi: "Weakening the nutrients for elite monsters?"

"This elite monster has been attached to the treasure chest. It has 10,000 health and a strong anti-poison effect. Anyone who gets close to it will have their health reduced by the same amount. Even if the health is very low, given enough time, this elite monster can be eliminated!"

Upon hearing this, Yan Zi felt completely bewildered.

"Why don't you all focus your fire on it together? There are over 100 people up there, can't you kill an elite monster?"

Her face was filled with disbelief, and she found the testimonies given by these four people somewhat unbelievable.

"This elite monster is different from the others. It recovers the same amount of health as you deal damage to it. We simply can't keep up with its speed. If we focus our attacks on it, it will quickly recover its health and launch an even more severe Devouring effect. Moreover, it's a single Devouring attack; whoever attacks it will be devoured. It's not unfair at all."

"We won't lie to you. Our status is already locked at 10. We won't die, but we won't have an easy time either. This elite monster's health has been reduced to only 5000 after these few days of nerfs."

After speaking, one of the girls with pigtails took out a lucky charm from her pocket, which had the words "Locked" engraved on it!

Yan Zi glanced at them and believed what they were saying.

only!

She asked, somewhat puzzled, "Are you in cahoots with them?"

After those words were spoken, everyone fell silent.

Yan Zi understood and simply nodded slightly.

"goodbye!"

She then leaped away and quickly disappeared from their sight.

The four people had different expressions on their faces.

"Shouldn't we go tell the boss?"

"He already wants us dead, why are we still looking for him?"

Why didn't that girl lead us away?

"Maybe we're not exactly good people either!"

"..."

Their voices echoed in the empty cave, while Yan Zi donned an invisibility cloak and hung on the cave wall, quietly watching their actions.

To her surprise, the girls all chose to rest on the spot instead of going to warn others!

Of course, they might also be sending messages secretly...

Yan Zi didn't care; she was just curious about what those people would do next.

She wanted the treasure chest, but she needed the elite monster to appear first, so she had to wait.

Fortunately, the waiting time wasn't long.

Just as Yan Zi was about to turn her neck, the people above started to move her downwards.

The four girls below were all pale-faced.

Yan Zi watched with great interest.

The number of people who came down this time was still five, but the genders were different. This time, all of them who were left behind had bruises and swelling on their faces.

Because they came here to farm monsters using teleportation scrolls.

Therefore, their condition was much more miserable than the others; it felt like they would be going to meet the King of Hell soon after they stayed a little longer.

Yan Zi: "Ci Gua, restore their condition as well, just keep them half-stuck, as long as they don't die."

Thorn Melon unleashed several skills, instantly giving the few dying guys a chance to catch their breath. They then got up and formed a small team.

Over the next period of time, people were sent down one after another.

Yan Zi, on the other hand, kept refreshing her skills.

Her "Plant Spirit" had always been soloing, but now that she had the chance to farm experience from others, it was a good way to do so. In just a short while, her level was almost Lv3.

Yan Zi was happily grinding for experience points while keeping an eye on the health of the elite monster.

Just as the four girls had said, the elite monster's health had dropped to 4000 after such a long period of life steal and damage reduction.

During this time, some people tried to attack it, but the elite monster only recovered 10 points of health in one go. Later, it was the four girls who came over to remind them that they stopped their attacks.

"It's not like it's truly beyond saving!"

Yan Zi continued to observe the surrounding situation, during which a constant stream of people came down. Basically, a group of people would come down every five minutes, and after she treated them, they would quickly form a team. Now the team has reached 50 people.

She breathed a sigh of relief; she had leveled up enough, and the elite monsters' health had dropped to 2500.

If Wei Tianxiang's more than 100 men had attacked it simultaneously at that moment, perhaps this elite monster would have been completely killed.

Unfortunately, they were still not at ease and continued to send in more and more people.

Seeing this, Yan Zi was also helpless and had no choice but to accept it with a smile.

"It's not that I don't want to stay! It's just that time waits for no one!"

"Thorn Gourd, ramp up the healing to full for those 50 people!"

Yan Zi immediately took out her several Desert Guns, filled them with a lot of Earth Crystals, and ran straight towards the location of the elite monster.

...