Chapter 257: Gamble or Not?

Thus, working together with Su Ba and Su Wenhao, and also Su Sheng's hatred-driven crowd control.

Among them, Lin Huan's Shock Arrow and Li Wenwan's Resisting Flame, some restriction skills also proved useful.

Of course, this time's MVPs are Su Ba and Su Wenhao! The Yin-Yang Diviner's various restriction skills are really quite many.

This time took about 20 minutes, and we directly passed through the training spot of this batch of level 60 wild monsters.

"We were indeed mistaken before; we don't necessarily have to fight those monsters. The earlier scorpion area could probably also be passed quickly using this method." Li Wenwan said somewhat emotionally.

Su Sheng nodded slightly, watching the Iron Hammer dwarf squad stop to catch their breath; we also need the dwarf squad's speed to keep up.

This time, mainly because these rock monsters themselves are relatively slow.

Anyway, this stage is considered passed.

"Let's go, keep moving forward."

Everyone rested a moment; those dwarves also basically recovered their strength.

Then, under the leadership of the Iron Hammer dwarves, everyone again advanced deeper into the mountain range.

Along the way, aside from occasionally encountering one or two demon trees, there were hardly any other monsters.

However, the demon trees here are also high-level, around level 62 to 64; although they are demon trees too, Su Sheng and the others find them truly hard to deal with, and it's laborious without reward, the experience protection cap is only level 5; even if equipment drops, who knows when in the year of the monkey and month of the horse we'll be able to use it.

With prior experience dealing with those rock monsters, plus understanding of the demon trees, everyone stayed wary and kept distance, making avoidance still quite easy.

Even if we occasionally bump into them, since these demon trees don't move, just pulling back distance lets us avoid them.

Thus, we pressed on smoothly and went deeper.

Until the group, after half an hour, reached the bottom of a cliff deep in the mountain range.

"We're here."

The Iron Hammer dwarf looked at this massive cliff face, his expression somewhat complex as he spoke.

Su Sheng looked around dubiously at the surroundings: bare rock, and looking up was a pitch-black mountain wall with no vegetation at all.

Su Sheng originally thought this endpoint would give a whole guard boss or something.

After all, this mission isn't simple; the difficulty has already been off the charts all the way, so even a bit more hardship, Su Sheng was mentally prepared.

Now not seeing any boss figure, Su Sheng didn't know what to do, actually feeling a bit disappointed.

Well, it seems I've made a habit of seeking discomfort for myself.

After glancing at the game time, just going deep into the mountain range this way took nearly five and a half hours, leaving six and a half hours of game time.

I estimate that finishing this mission today is already enough to be arrogant.

Let's continue then.

Divine Artifact… I'm coming!

"Next, we need to break open an entrance here; the mine cave's entrance is behind this rock wall, and it's quite thick."

"So we need to spend some time here calculating the blast points, ensuring we can blast out that mine cave entrance while also guaranteeing we don't cause a collapse." The Iron Hammer dwarf said to Su Sheng.

Su Sheng nodded upon hearing that: "Do we need to help?"

"As for the blasting, you don't need to help; you explorers just need to stand guard here and clean up any wandering monsters that come."

"We need a little time." The Iron Hammer dwarf replied.

"Understood."

Su Sheng nodded.

Afterward, the team of ten dwarves including Iron Hammer put down the bamboo baskets on their backs and began to pound.

Su Sheng even saw two dwarves pull out a set of climbing gear and start climbing that steep cliff wall.

This time there was no progress bar, and Su Sheng also didn't know how long those dwarves need to pound.

Afterward, Su Sheng then led Lin Huan and others to guard this position.

No monsters came over, making us seem rather idle.

Afterward, Su Sheng took out tools and materials and began to work on his side profession.

After this period of effort, there was still some effect; Su Sheng's cook side profession experience had reached half of that of an ordinary cook.

Another half of experience would basically allow promotion to intermediate cook.

And Su Ba, seeing Su Sheng's actions, likewise took out a chair from his pack and began drawing talismans.

Since Su Wenhao switched to talisman master, his pack has always been ready with a heap of various strange materials.

No one knows exactly how many weird talismans Su Ba has drawn.

At least just now, while dealing with those rock monsters, besides his own Yin-Yang Diviner skills, Su Ba also tossed out a lot of weird talismans.

Lin Huan, Li Wenwan, and Huang Mingxin, the three girls, basically felt nothing about side professions and hadn't prepared any materials in advance.

Then they gathered together, chattering away, and then opened the game's built-in forum interface to browse the game forum.

Time, bit by bit, passed.

This spot had no monsters wandering over.

Su Sheng and company also kept busy with their own affairs.

Thus, quietly, more than an hour passed.

Those dwarves still have pretty strong mobility.

In just one hour they had already made various preparations on that rock wall.

"Explorers, we're ready."

Game time, still a bit over four hours left, Iron Hammer found Su Sheng and spoke.

"Can we now break through the mine cave?" Su Sheng stopped his actions.

"It's possible, but there's a problem I need to clarify first."

Tie Chui Airen murmured and spoke.

"What is it?"

Su Sheng hesitated; we've already reached this point—what else hasn't been clarified?

"It's Chi Yan City; by now it's completely the Demon Race's domain."

"This mine tunnel leads directly to the central furnace of Chi Yan City."

"But the Demon Race probably hasn't discovered it; although I said those demons might not be much, this is done without rousing any Demon Race strongmen."

"Deep within Chi Yan City, there must be Demon Race strongmen."

"Our operation this time must be swift; we must rush through the tunnel to reach Chi Yan City's furnace, and after forging, we must quickly withdraw from Chi Yan City and completely destroy this tunnel."

"That's also why I need you to prepare five hundred doses of Gunpowder."

Tie Chui Airen said gravely.

"What if we can't retreat in time?"

Su Sheng hesitated briefly and asked.

"The Demon Race will march through the tunnel and invade Zhu Que City; then Zhu Que City will become the front line, and this place will be the new Demon Race invasion battlefield," Tie Chui Airen said.

"Gurgle~"

Su Sheng swallowed.

Unavoidably, Su Sheng thought of the Demon Suppression series missions and then prematurely triggered the Demon General's siege.

This place won't be another spot that prematurely triggers the Zhu Que City Demon Race expansion, right?

But now Zhu Que City has only us few; if such a trigger really happens, we'd be total Muggles.

But…

Divine Artifact…

How to choose?

Su Sheng felt conflicted…

"Bet? Or not?"

But letting Su Sheng simply abandon the chance to get the Divine Artifact feels truly hard to bear…