"That is to say... maybe there is only an altar in the protected area of ​​Area 188, which is just for the two of us?" Xu Xin said to himself.

"That should be the case. Maybe it's just that the two of us happen to be next to the two altars, or maybe... the altars only appeared in our protected area after we obtained the golden treasure chest and expanded the scope of the protected area." Ji Chaoyang analyzed and gave two possibilities.

"...So what are you talking about?" Li Wenxi and Qi Xuefei were confused, as if they were listening to a conversation between two riddlers.

Xu Xin explained the situation of the altar to them.

"Ah! No wonder you scored so many points in the hunting activity! So you killed mutant beasts back then! Five hundred points for each one, holy shit!" Li Wenxi exclaimed, "What a profit!"

"What's the point of saying profit or loss? With our abilities back then, it was incredibly difficult to kill a mid-level mutant beast," Xu Xin said to Li Wenxi unhappily. He pointed to his left shoulder, "That rabbit pierced my shoulder. If it weren't for the iron armor you gave me and Sister Xuefei's blue-level hemostatic grass, I'd have died there."

"Sacrifice... and then the stone statue shattered and resurrected, transforming into a mutant creature?" Qi Xuefei was also shocked by what happened at the altar. "What you experienced is truly magical."

"You have blue-level armor, which is pretty good." Ji Chaoyang couldn't help but smile bitterly when he thought of the scene when the wild cat attacked him like crazy as soon as it was summoned.

"I didn't even have the blue-level leather armor back then, and the white horse was smaller and much slower than it is now. I finally killed the blood-marked cat, and both of us had deep wounds on our bodies. If it weren't for Qi Xuefei's hemostatic grass, neither it nor I would have survived." As he said that, he touched the white horse's head.

The white horse also cried out in response to Ji Chaoyang.

"Oh... I was wondering," Qi Xuefei said, a look of sudden realization on her face. "I was wondering why you asked me for so many hemostatic herbs during the hunt. So that's why. I was so confused at the time. I wasn't seriously injured, so why did something happen to you? I thought you were just smart but not very physically capable."

"There's nothing wrong with what you said," Ji Chaoyang said with a smile, "Compared to Xu Xin, my combat power is indeed weaker, not to mention Wen Guixin. I can't do any of the things she does."

"Sister Gui Xin is special. Her abilities are definitely combat-oriented, and we can't compare. But, you guys were in such a dangerous situation that time..." Li Wenxi's voice was a little worried, and he touched Xu Xin's left shoulder. "No sequelae left?"

"Of course not. The hemostatic grass is quite effective."

Compared to the more advanced hemostatic pills that Qi Xuefei can make now, which can quickly heal injuries all over the body after taking them, the hemostatic grass does have great flaws. It needs to be ground and applied, and can only repair wounds in a certain part of the body.

But it was completely sufficient for the penetrating wound at that time.

"From what you said, isn't this altar a special existence? The two top bosses in your district are both by the altar."

Xu Xin is actually more inclined to believe that the two altars nearby have always existed.

After all, when the Changyin family came out of the underground, they were looking for this altar. They had learned from a mysterious voice decades ago that there was an altar on the ground.

So the altar should not have appeared recently.

Or in other words... sometimes there, sometimes not?

The group was now less than a kilometer away from the hills. Because the surrounding trees were all bare, their visibility was much better than before, and they could now see the entire hills more clearly.

"Huh?" Ji Chaoyang was the first to let out a surprised sound, looking at the hill of the salt mine not far away.

Xu Xin glanced at him out of the corner of his eye and noticed that his expression was a little solemn.

It seems that he has discovered something unusual.

This guy's observation ability is really strong. It took him a long time to discover it at first. Of course, there was dense jungle blocking the view at that time, and the vision was poor. If you don't find a good angle, you can't see the whole picture from a distance.

Soon, they were within 500 meters.

"There are a lot of metal mines here, almost the same as over here!" Li Wenxi said, looking at the hills ahead.

"Metal mines? Where are they?" Xu Xin thought of something and asked her immediately.

"Hmm... it's a bit strange. The metal mines are not in the mountains, but underground inside the mountains. There are no metal mines in the mountains of this hilly area. Why is that?" Li Wenxi was a little confused.

There are no minerals in the mountain, but there are...

Xu Xin felt a little uneasy again.

He thought that during the rainy season, these hills disappeared without a trace, and came back after the rainy season ended without any change. Even the crooked trees on the hills had not changed.

But now, as the weather turns colder, those crooked trees have all withered and become bare.

These hills really might be alive.

"Okay, here it is."

The Silver King stopped a hundred meters away from the salt mine, and the white horse stopped with him.

"What's going on here?" Li Wenxi looked around. Ahead was the entrance to the hilly resource area. She had thought she'd go straight in.

"The mine in front is where I mined salt before. I told you it was very dangerous here."

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