"Hehe!" Mount Tai chuckled, ignoring the Moon Rabbit's argument, and focused on protecting the Guide Bee's advance.
Despite being made of metal, this thing is actually quite fragile. It's not so much that it can be corroded by a single punch, or even by being exposed to dark energy for too long.
Unfortunately, this thing flies so slowly, not much faster than a regular bee. If we were to follow it, it would take ten days or eight months to find it.
Leaving aside whether the fat man could wait, Ye Chen wasn't even sure if the guiding bee could fly for that long. After all, it was just a small gadget with 10,000 merit points; how long could it last?
Ye Chen pinched his brow in annoyance, interrupting Taishan and the others, telling them to rush forward ahead and then bring out new guide bees to confirm their location.
"It's just merit, right? Do I need it? There are plenty of dark creatures around here. If I don't have enough, I'll just go kill them!" Ye Chen thought resentfully. He really felt bad about losing these merits.
Each one costs 10,000 points, and he only has a few hundred thousand merit points in total. Even ignoring the energy crystals in the energy furnace, he only has a few dozen chances to try and fail.
This isn't much for a planet; if the location were on the other side of the planet, he probably wouldn't have enough merit points even with these hundreds of thousands.
Fortunately, the wasteland planet was full of dark creatures. Taishan and his group killed more than 10,000 dark creatures without moving once. However, Ye Chen was still heartbroken when he thought that this money, which should have been his, had been squandered.
Fortunately, this approach was quite effective. In just over half a day, using more than twenty guide bees, they successfully found the traces left by the fat man.
It was a huge sinkhole, uncommon on wasteland planets, but not uncommon either. However, upon closer inspection, one could find that it was different from other sinkholes in one way: the metal shell casings scattered around it.
These are clearly fragments of eggshells left behind by firearms. They have been gradually weathered by the erosion of dark energy, and can even crumble into powder with the slightest tap.
However, it was still clear from its appearance that it was an abandoned goblin armor. Moreover, a few demonized goblins appeared around it, indicating that the fat man had suffered a great loss here.
"Kill them all!" Taishan said. There weren't many of these goblins, and they weren't very strong either. They could be dealt with easily. However, the guide bees continued to fly towards the deep pit, as if these things were not their target.
"That's it. As a lord, Fatty couldn't possibly leave his territory to come to this planet in person. So what's left here must be some item that carries Fatty's aura." Ye Chen thought to himself, his heart sinking slightly. Although he didn't know what it was, judging from the surrounding situation, even if something was left behind, it would probably be completely rotten by now.
Indeed, that was the case. When the guiding bee finally stopped, Taishan and the others dug at the ground beneath their feet, and what they found was just a multi-treasure trading disc. Only something like this would have passed through Fatty's hands and left its mark.
"Wait, there's something else over there!" Ye Ling suddenly exclaimed. After searching around where she had found the treasure trading disc, she pulled out a rotten iron box. With a gentle tap, a crisp sound came from inside.
"An iron box? Could there really be something inside?" Everyone asked in confusion. The Moon-Holding Rabbit took the box from Ye Ling's hand, tapped it lightly, and the iron piece fell off, revealing a faint aura of light emanating from inside.
"What is this?" Everyone exclaimed in surprise. Ye Chen could not sense this aura through the projection, but he vaguely realized that something was different.
"There's a protective aura of light here. There must be a light-element energy crystal placed nearby, as if it's protecting what's inside?" The Moon-Holding Rabbit muttered, its fat paws digging inside, and pulled out something that looked like Ye Chen's pager from his previous life. Of course, the material wasn't plastic; it was made of a rare metal.
"This thing?" Ye Chen was stunned when he saw what the Moon-Embracing Rabbit was holding, and then his face lit up with joy.
"Quick, bring this back! We need news about Fatty!" Ye Chen said excitedly. After confirming that it was true, Taishan and the others returned to their territory.
As the primordial star departed, the dark creatures on the wasteland planet gradually calmed down, while Ye Chen kept fiddling with the pager handed to him by the Moon-Embracing Rabbit.
"Damn, this thing is actually quite useful. It's only been out for less than a month, and it's already managed to get this thing out. It even knows how to leave a message. It seems that the coordinates weren't given out casually!" Ye Chen thought excitedly, turning on the pager in his hand in the familiar way.
This was something they had tinkered with in middle school. On Earth, wristbands were the only thing used. Ye Chen explained the history of Earth's communication development to him and even made a model of this old-fashioned pager. Unexpectedly, he actually managed to tinker with it in his territory and left it on the wasteland planet he would inevitably pass through.
There aren't that many coincidences in the world. The fact that Ye Chen found this pager on this wasteland planet means that Fatty had foreseen that Ye Chen would most likely pass through this area. Otherwise, this pager should have been abandoned and hatched like those armors, instead of being protected by the Light Crystal and having its lifespan extended by the erosion of dark energy.
However, Ye Chen could imagine the enormous price the fat man had paid just to leave behind this pager. There were hundreds of demonized goblins around him alone, and countless others had died elsewhere. These were the fat man's kin, his subjects.
"My lord, we searched around for a while and found some goblin souls. What do you think we should do with them?" At this moment, the Black and White Impermanence of Fengdu City walked over and bowed to Ye Chen.
Both of them were recruited in Fengdu City and have reached the fourth level of strength. They also have a high resistance to yang energy, similar to ordinary day-roaming gods. Therefore, when Taishan and others go out to fight, they are usually accompanied by these two to collect souls.
Unexpectedly, this time they managed to bring the goblin's soul back.
"Goblin souls? Can souls from non-territory members be collected too?" Ye Chen was taken aback. This was something he had never expected. Wasn't it said that only members of a territory could enter Fengdu after death? How come members of other lords could too?
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