My Apocalypse Territory

Chapter 162 - 161: The Damage from a Top Student

Under the dim light, the ferocious beast bared its huge maw.

Seeing this scene, a knot formed in many mercenaries' hearts, and they suddenly had a bad feeling.

But there was no turning back now, they could only keep moving forward. Some of the more optimistic ones thought that surely, unimaginable treasures awaited at the end of the road.

"Lead... Boss, which path should we take?" Shay glanced around, noticing that besides the differences in the beasts, there seemed to be no other distinguishing features.

Tang Yu pondered for a moment, "Since we don't know which path is best, let's... go through the bear's mouth passage. At least it's not as ugly as the other three."

The passages connected to the beast mouths were like underground tunnels, enclosed all around but maintaining a similar spaciousness to the square, with walls that emitted a faint luminescence.

The group headed straight for the bear's mouth passage.

The other Awakeners did much the same; the square was large, but after making a round, they found only this exit and each made a judgement to choose different paths.

Tang Yu noticed that the Silver Wolf and Warhammer, two of the large mercenary corps, joined forces and entered the tiger mouth passage, followed by several other mercenary teams.

He glanced back, hmm, there were quite a few mercenaries from Lindong following behind as well.

This wasn't surprising; the performance they had just demonstrated outside was noted by these mercenaries. They might not have the gall to cozy up directly, but following at a safe distance to ensure greater safety was probably what most mercenaries were thinking.

Including many foreign Awakeners inside the passage who saw Tang Yu and his group taking the lead, each slowed their pace, trailing far behind.

Tang Yu was well aware of what these people were thinking, but he didn't want to concern himself with these matters.

Only the weak needed to scheme and strategize. For him, finding the Sky-splitting Crystal as soon as possible was key.

'Besides, our team might not be leading the way. Maybe others entered the Secret Realm even earlier. Not to mention that gold-swallowing beast is nowhere to be found; it must have followed the passage and run off somewhere.'

Thinking of this gave Tang Yu a bit of a headache. He could only hope that no one had stewed the gold-swallowing beast, as alive, it was worth more than dead.

Throwing out a few round Puppets to scout ahead, the group walked through the passage.

Alert and silent, the atmosphere became still in an instant, and the only sound in the passage was the light sound of footsteps.

"There seems to be something carved over there."

After walking for a while, Shay suddenly pointed at the stone wall ahead.

Tang Yu stepped forward and saw a series of crooked and twisted patterns etched onto one side of the stone wall.

"Perhaps this is some form of writing?"

He concentrated and had a moment of clarity.

These patterns that looked like ghostly talisman drawings, he could actually understand their meaning!

"I, Thief King Zuofo, have stolen endless treasures in my lifetime. Alas, I cannot steal my own lifespan."

"Do you want my treasure? If you do, I'll give it all to you. Go

For the Patrol Team members and Yan Dazhuang, this tough job naturally fell into their hands. Receiving Longswords, high in Quality, they managed to cut through these hard walls with the sharpness of Advanced Equipment. After some effort, the large section of the wall cut out was divided into several stone slabs and stored in Space Backpacks.

'Bringing these rune texts to Kevin should help him decipher quite a bit. It seems like a promising start.'

However…

He glanced at the now significantly excavated wall, and it seemed somewhat… somewhat damaging to his image.

After all, he was still seen as a big shot by the Mercenary Corps in Lindong. A big shot shouldn't stoop to digging stones, right?

He needed to do something to compensate.

Thinking it over, Tang Yu had a brainwave, "I've got it! Since there were originally inscriptions here, why not just carve some new text in their place, and incidentally do some advertising…"