Chapter 68 68. Traces
"Please stay, a routine check is required."
Aiden adjusted the copper badge on his chest. His iron gauntlets and chain mail shone with a cold light. He stretched out his arm to block five adventurers who had just come out of the dungeon and whose leather boots were still covered with mycelium.
"Check? Why?"
Several adventurers frowned. No one liked having their luggage checked, but they didn't choose to ignore Aiden. They just waited for him to give a reasonable reason.
Aiden also knew that this mission was unpopular, so he patiently explained: "We recently received a report about a raider attack."
Aiden took out a parchment scroll and unfolded it, revealing the guild's seal clearly visible.
"We are searching for equipment left behind by the victims. Please cooperate. Finding the looters will benefit everyone."
The robed sorceress in the team snorted and was about to say something, but was stopped by the captain.
They unloaded their badly worn cowhide bags, and the metal buckles made a dull sound when they hit the stone floor.
Aiden nodded to the two guards behind him, then opened the sheepskin-covered record book, squatted down and began to compare the items in the package one by one.
Soon, a rusty dwarf helmet was pulled out from the bottom of the bag by the guard.
Also found was a pair of iron shoulder armor.
Aiden stood up calmly, took two steps back, and quietly raised three fingers to the commander who was wiping his sword under the shade of the elm tree.
After the gold-level commander came to his side, Aiden straightened his back and said:
"This helmet and shoulder armor match the equipment the victim had. I'm afraid I'll have to delay your questioning for a little longer."
"What!?" As expected, these words immediately elicited a reaction from the adventurers.
A heavy axe warrior angrily asked: "You mean, we are looters?"
"I'm not doubting you. I'm just following orders. Please cooperate with the guild."
Aiden stood behind his own gold-class and spoke neither humbly nor arrogantly, like an emotionless law enforcement machine.
The commander pulled out a part of the sword at his waist, and his meaning was quite clear.
Seeing that a quarrel was about to break out, the leader of the adventurers quickly stepped in front of his teammates.
He is just an ordinary adventurer team, so how could he dare to conflict with the guild?
"Everyone calm down, everyone calm down.
Hey guys, this is what we got from that fat guy Puji on the fifth floor. He is not a predator. "
Seeing that his attitude was quite good, Aiden comforted him:
"I guess so. Don't worry. There were some adventurers in the same situation as you before.
But routine inquiries still need to be made.
We won’t wrongly accuse you. The previous groups were also released after questioning.”
Hearing that they were not the first group to be stopped in this way, the adventurers felt relieved.
They are not really predators.
On the side, Dylan, who was carrying a large package, did not stop to watch the fun like the others.
Instead, he walked past several people and went straight into the dungeon—no inspection was required to enter the dungeon.
Aiden rubbed his nose. He seemed to smell some blood, but the smell of blood was obviously not something worthy of attention.
This is the entrance to the dungeon. It is normal for the adventurers coming out to smell a little bloody.
He has smelled anything that smells like manure!
——
On the first floor, Dylan squatted on the ground, scraping his fingers across the cracks in the wall.
A large amount of mycelium was attracted.
And like this, mycelium growing in the cracks of the wall can now be seen everywhere on the first floor.
Boss, are you planning to slowly occupy the front few floors as well?
While Dylan was guessing, he walked along the passage with the most mycelium.
About half an hour later, we finally found a fungal mat in a remote compartment far away from the strategy route.
He threw his backpack on the ground and stretched his back vigorously.
I am old and still have to carry such heavy things. It is really a torture.
Drop the contents of the package onto the creep.
The mycelium will naturally take care of the remaining steps.
To be honest, if the opponent only asked for two more gold, he would have accepted the loss.
20 gold right out of the box?
Some retired adventurers don’t even save this much for their retirement!
Of course, the information dealer asked for 20 gold, but that was just a high price and he was waiting for bargaining.
However, Dylan had no interest in getting entangled with him because of his attitude that showed he wanted to squeeze as much water out of him as possible.
Now, I got the information and earned 8 gold coins for free...
But Dylan really couldn't be happy.
Because Bella really went to the Islands...
According to intelligence, Bella seemed to have come to Dumb Wind Town before the Demon Tide to inquire about her whereabouts.
At that time, Dylan was still extracting spores on the fifth floor and had been living in seclusion for a long time. There were not many people in the entire Yafeng Town who knew him.
Even people who knew him, like tavern owner Cole, had no idea where he was.
In the end, Bella got nothing.
But it was also thanks to Bella's stay in Dumbwind Town for some time.
The intelligence dealer successfully collected information about her subsequent destination - Yinsha Bay.
The territory of Grosa, one of the three major slave owners in the archipelago.
A villain notorious for illegally kidnapping people.
The news said that my daughter went to rescue someone! ?
This undoubtedly made Dylan worried.
Who can you save by going to that kind of place? It must be some unfortunate person who has become a slave!
What if my daughter and Glosa come into conflict...
Is it possible for him to just stay here and pray that his daughter is safe?
After throwing away the things in the package, Dylan simply threw the package in the corner and prepared to leave.
"It seems like your life outside is also colorful."
"Boss!?"
This is the first time I heard the boss' voice from beyond the fifth floor.
However, there was silence for more than a minute. Just when Dylan began to suspect that he was hallucinating, the boss's voice sounded again.
“The delay is still too high, so I won’t chat with you any more.
Since you are on the first floor, please do me a favor.
Go out from here, walk three intersections to the right and then turn right.
There's a big slime over there, go kill it."
"No problem." Dylan nodded in agreement.
This is one level. The highest level of monsters is only LV5, so Dylan can easily deal with it.
But he didn't think so when he got there.
Two scaleless Pujis were besieging a giant blue slime that was almost as wide as the entire corridor.
The mushroom cannon fired, blasting a small piece off the big slime, but it didn't seem to hurt.
There was another half-melted Puji floating inside the slime.
Seeing this scene, Dylan couldn't help but become alert - is this slime so strong?
I tried to use [Spin Slash LV5] at the maximum attack distance.
The large slime was not only cut open, but its core was also blown out by the sword wind.
Dylan took two steps forward with an incredulous look on his face, and killed it with one more sword strike.
So it’s not that this slime is too powerful, but that these puffs are too weak?
He knew very well the power of the Cannon Mushroom. The power was so small just now that he thought the slime had neutralized all the damage.
So what is the boss doing?
Why is the first layer of Puji so weak?
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
