Chapter 2239: Found You

The risk far outweighed the reward, so Su Xiao decided not to use the Cursed Gold Coin.

Walking in the black fog, the super-sized White Fat Candle in Su Xiao's hand was very useful. This thing not only dispersed the black fog quickly, but the passage formed was a full five meters high and nearly three meters wide, illuminating nearly six meters ahead, making the passage much more spacious.

Even if a sudden situation occurred now, Su Xiao could fight in the black fog.

Su Xiao's speed increased. After moving forward for about ten minutes, a wooden house appeared ahead. It wasn't that he was lucky, but that the illumination range of the White Fat Candle had increased, raising the probability of finding a wooden house.

Just as Su Xiao was about to push open the door of the wooden house, he heard a conversation inside.

"How is it?"

"Hmm, ready. Just waiting for this batch of people to come."

"Your chain is still long enough. Kill one for every one that comes. We have nothing to trade, and we can't get Shadow Stones through trading."

"If we obtain a Shadow Stone..."

"Of course you first. We are brothers, after all."

Hearing this conversation, Su Xiao basically determined that the two Dead in the wooden house were ill-intentioned and very poor.

Su Xiao wasn't afraid of the Dead being ill-intentioned, but he was afraid of these Dead being poor. In that case, even if it were a fight, it would be a waste of the White Fat Candle.

Su Xiao pushed the wooden door open a crack. It was pitch black inside. The two Dead inside didn't even have a White Fat Candle.

Seeing this, Su Xiao turned and left. He had only walked a few meters when the wooden door behind him was pulled open.

"Wait, we have a bone tablet! As long as you give us... Bastard, wait! Don't go!"

Amidst a desperate roar, the black fog around the wooden house gathered again. At most two or three seconds later, a roar came from inside—it should have been infighting. The brotherly bond of these two Dead was very "deep."

Facts proved that sometimes good luck couldn't compare to the advantages brought by resources, just like Su Xiao now.

After leaving the wooden house of the "surface brothers," Su Xiao had been moving forward in the black fog for an hour. During this period, he found five wooden houses in total. It was precisely through these five wooden houses that he gained a certain understanding of the Dead: most of the Dead were quite poor.

Su Xiao previously thought High Priest Nuer was poor enough, but after meeting other Dead, Su Xiao discovered that High Priest Nuer, who had a White Fat Candle, clearly belonged to the middle-class among the Dead.

As for Saintess Tracy, she was a little rich woman, and the hunchbacked old woman was at the super-tycoon level.

Among the Dead, only a small portion still held onto their self, advocating for the exchange of knowledge.

After Saintess Tracy, among all the Dead Su Xiao encountered, only one Dead had no chains binding him. Although he was very poor, he reached a knowledge-based transaction with Su Xiao.

Su Xiao used some alchemy knowledge to exchange for a method of making an amulet. This thing belonged to one-time equipment that could be worn, but one amulet could only be used once, and none of them were lethal abilities, but they were also very practical.

There were no materials at the moment, so Su Xiao planned to try to see if he could manufacture this type of amulet after returning to the Samsara Paradise.

Trading knowledge with the Dead who could be interacted with was a quite good gain. Unfortunately, such Dead were too few.

And Su Xiao suspected that when the number of transactions with such Dead reached a certain level, they might be able to leave the wooden house, because according to what that Dead said, as he continuously traded knowledge with visitors, the wooden house he was in would gradually become larger, just very difficult to notice.

The White Fat Candle had burned a quarter, and the time was still ample. Su Xiao sketched a rough map on the ground. Although it was difficult to judge the direction in the black fog, he could barely judge in which direction he was moving.

Just as Su Xiao was about to continue moving forward, a white dot appeared more than ten meters away. After careful observation, Su Xiao discovered that it was actually a candlelight.

Besides Su Xiao, only five people were known to be able to act in the black fog: the hunchbacked old woman, Mengde, Dilin, Shangyue, and Nita of the Singing Language tribe.

Su Xiao quickened his pace. At the same time, the white dot ahead began to move into the distance, clearly having also discovered Su Xiao.

However, the speed at which that white dot dispersed the black fog was much slower than Su Xiao's. In less than a few minutes, he caught up.

The black fog around them was dispersed, and Su Xiao saw Shangyue holding a small piece of White Fat Candle.

As the saying goes, there is no harm without comparison. The White Fat Candle in Shangyue's hand was only as thick as a thumb and about ten centimeters long. In contrast, Su Xiao was holding a White Fat Candle nearly a meter long and as thick as an arm.

"You..."

Shangyue's mouth opened and closed, looking at the exaggerated White Fat Candle in Su Xiao's hand.

Seeing that Shangyue was not with Nita, Su Xiao frowned.

"Feather tribe, where is that Singing Language tribe girl?"

"I don't know."

Shangyue's tone was flat, but she was very nervous inside.

"Is that so? If you see her, tell her to come to me to get the follow-up reward. In the black fog, you can consider paying her with White Fat Candles."

"Reward?"

Shangyue muttered. Suddenly, she remembered something on Twilight Island. When she was bombed to a semi-conscious state, she seemed to hear someone shouting, "Why betray us?" If she remembered correctly, the person shouting this was a Dream Spirit girl.

Shangyue had always been unable to figure out one thing: on Twilight Island, why did Su Xiao know they were going to the lake, and why did he set up a sniper point in advance, just waiting for them to arrive?

Nearly everyone died. She survived by feigning death, but how did Nita survive?

Not only that, when she was feigning death, she vaguely heard shouts of "reward, revenge, slave," but at that time, she had reduced her vital signs to the minimum, even her vision was blurred, and her hearing was reduced to the limit.

Shangyue wasn't stupid. She had sensed something was wrong before. The one who said she discovered Su Xiao's trail was Nita, and the one who took them to the lake was also Nita.

In the maze of the Death House, Shangyue was somewhat repulsed by Nita, but forced by the situation, they could only cooperate temporarily, though they were wary of each other, and later they were pursued by the Demon race's Mengde.

Helplessly, the two had to continue fleeing. The problem lay here: Nita could change her appearance. It was this ability that saved Shangyue more than three times.

Not only that, just as they were about to reach the banquet hall, the dying Nita even wanted to help her lure away the "Axe Monster." Under such circumstances, not to mention certain death, it required the determination to face death directly.

Thinking of these, Shangyue, holding a small piece of White Fat Candle, felt extremely conflicted. After confirming that Su Xiao had walked far away, she turned back into the black fog. After a while, she saw a wooden house and pushed the door open to enter.

"How was the exploration? Are there any other wooden houses nearby?"

Nita sat up from the ground, stretching while yawning.

"Nita, on Twilight Island... was it you who betrayed me?"

Shangyue asked in a deep voice.

"Yes."

"Eh?!"

Shangyue was stunned. She didn't expect Nita to admit it so easily.

"What? Are you going to kill me? Not just you, I've betrayed many, many people."

"..."

Shangyue was silent. Just at this moment, the wooden door was pushed open.

*Creak*, the wooden door was pushed open completely, and Su Xiao was standing outside the door, looking at Shangyue and Nita with a smile. ===== CHAPTER 2240 =====