Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 603 Beast Lord's Treasure Trove

"Thump!! Thump!!!"

With a tremendous roar, flames shot out along the corridor like fiery serpents.

Amidst the scorching flames, the butcher held the bronze bell and smashed it down again and again.

The bronze bell clanged and banged, showing no signs of deformation or damage, while the enormous iron furnace in front of them was smashed and deformed, with a large portion of it knocked out of the wall.

Looking at the severely deformed remelting furnace, Xiao Ran's face was full of satisfaction. Don't be fooled by its rough appearance; this thing is actually very precious. Many materials require master forging to handcraft them bit by bit. Not only is it time-consuming and labor-intensive, but more importantly, Changchun Society doesn't have enough resources to build a remelting furnace right now.

If we smash one of these things, it'll be enough to give Changchun a toothache for a while.

After the butcher slammed the furnace a few times, the steel bars supporting the furnace broke off, and the furnace burst through the wall and flew off, falling directly from the fourth floor.

After a series of loud bangs, thick smoke billowed out. Xiao Ran stood by the wall and looked down. The huge furnace had been smashed into pieces.

"What a pity. It's because you're so big. If you had made something more exquisite, I would have taken it with me."

Xiao Ran looked regretful, turned around and patted the butcher on the shoulder: "Well done, come back now."

Xiao Ran patted the [Gourd of Yin Soldiers] at his waist and put the butcher inside.

Now that things have escalated to this point, I believe that Ghost Doctor and Pumpkin, unless they're fools, should understand what's going on by now.

I reckon they've already rushed upstairs this time.

I can't use the same methods as the Corpse Stitcher to deal with Pumpkin. Her profession is a counter to me, and if I release any zombie slaves, she can easily control me. So I still need to keep the Butcher under control. Otherwise, if the Butcher gets controlled, I'll really regret it to the core.

As Xiao Ran stepped out of the room, a chilling wind swept over her in the hallway.

In an instant, a chilling aura filled the air, and the temperature plummeted; the change was so swift that it caught everyone off guard.

This result is not surprising.

The patients in this building have undergone reconstitution several times, suffering immense torment and driven to madness.

Now that Xiao Ran has destroyed the regeneration furnace, the physical bodies of these patients will also vanish in a short time. Freed from the constraints of their physical bodies, these patients will immediately turn into vengeful ghosts, and their wails and screams will echo throughout the entire inpatient building.

Only now did Xiao Ran realize that the hospital in front of her was slowly returning to its original state.

At that moment, Xiao Ran heard a commotion coming from downstairs. She didn't know what was going on down there, but she was certain that the Ghost Doctor and the others had returned.

At this moment, Xiao Ran had no intention of confronting these people head-on. He was quite strong, but the opponent's pumpkin was also quite powerful.

Their infighting will ultimately benefit Zhang Qi and his group. The story of the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind, will not happen to Xiao Ran.

So Xiao Ran didn't go up to the fifth floor, but turned around and rushed to the third floor.

When they reached the third floor, Xiao Ran could clearly hear Pumpkin's voice. He raised an eyebrow and quietly retreated to the corridor behind him.

Just then, three pink skulls flew out of the stairwell. These skulls were extremely fast. After rushing up to the third floor, they immediately began searching the stairwell.

This is also a spirit cultivated from a pumpkin; it doesn't have any particularly strong abilities, except that it's quite fast.

Pumpkin often throws them out as scouts.

The three skeletons scattered and quickly circled the corridor. After confirming that they had not found any living people, they immediately turned back and headed straight for the fourth floor to raid it.

With the feedback from these skeletons, Pumpkin and his companions didn't stop when they reached the third floor; instead, they sped up and headed straight for the fourth floor.

But after they left, at the end of the corridor, an inconspicuous little door slowly closed its last crack.

"Thank goodness I closed the door quickly; any slower and they would have noticed."

Xiao Ran breathed a sigh of relief. The room in front of her was Beast Master's room, his private rest room.

Each of the four leaders of the Changchun Association has one of these rooms, which is under a separate contract with the hospital. Even though Beast Master is dead, the hospital cannot take back the room.

Xiao Ran remembered that Master Beast had kept many of his treasured possessions here.

Based on the principle that "whatever belongs to Beast Master is also his own," Xiao Ran had no reason to let this treasure trove go.

The room doesn't look big, but the interior space is comparable to a small single-level apartment, and it's even a duplex.

The room hadn't been cleaned in a long time, and a thin layer of dust had covered the table.

Even so, it cannot conceal the luxury of this room.

He walked to the wine cabinet, opened it, and saw that it was full of rare and fine wines. He didn't like drinking himself, but these wines would make excellent gifts.

This huge cabinet was filled with Moutai and Wuliangye liquor, and Xiao Ran took them all into her storage space.

Keep rummaging.

Xiao Ran stuffed every possible item into the space, including silver tableware, gilded porcelain, and ivory chopsticks.

Before long, Xiao Ran had looted all the odds and ends in the room.

However, these are just appetizers; the truly valuable things are hidden in the bedroom.

Xiao Ran pushed open the bedroom door.

The first thing you see is a black and white photo of Beast Master hanging on the wall.

Xiao Ran found the photo very familiar. It included not only her grandfather, but also Zhao Qingming, the bald-headed old man (Li Qing), Zhou Shang, Xie Yutang, Yang Fengchui, and Beast Master, making a total of seven people.

The seven brothers, wearing vests, stood in the sunlight, their faces beaming with smiles.

This photo must have been taken before they headed to that great tomb. Beast Master keeps it by his bedside, showing that he still longs for that time. Back then, the seven brothers were together, and even though their lives were quite different, no one ever looked down on each other.

The brothers helped each other out, and their lives became more and more prosperous.

If it weren't for Beast Lord's infatuation back then, these old guys would probably be gathered together now, howling and eager to venture into the Lost City.

Xiao Ran stepped forward, took the photo off, and looked at it from the back. Sure enough, there was a big "regret" written on the back of the photo.

It seems that Beast Master regrets it, but some things are useless to regret. When he made the choice, Beast Master had already severed ties with his past self and completely abandoned Sun Miao in the old tomb.

The regrets I feel now are nothing more than a fleeting memory for the old Beast Master in his later years.

Xiao Ran tossed the photo aside, and there, where the photo had been, appeared a safe.

This safe is a small to medium-sized safe, about 1 meter or 1.2 meters in diameter. Xiao Ran didn't know what model it was, since it wasn't written on the safe.

Xiao Ran took out Beast Lord's memory book and searched through it. It was very easy for her to find Beast Lord's memories inside.

Following the instructions in Beast Master's memory, the box was then slowly turned to reveal the password.

332951.

This is Beast Lord's mother's birthday, so Beast Lord remembers it most clearly.

As Xiao Ran pressed the confirmation button, a crisp "click" sound came from the box.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran's eyes also began to look expectant.

Although Beast Master has a list of items in the safe in his memory, these items were collected by Beast Master at different times.

Xiao Ran couldn't possibly see all of Beast Lord's memories, so he only knew the general names of the things inside, but didn't know what they actually looked like.

"Om..."

The safe was opened, and the items inside were neatly arranged.

Everyone has their own space. There are quite a few things in front of you, but they don't actually take up much space when put together. Why doesn't Master Beast put these things in his personal space, but instead hides them in this place?

In fact, the reason is very simple.

Beast Lord is very strong, but he is not an all-around expert. Carrying these important items on his body, if something unexpected happens, he is afraid that it will be too late to regret it.

As for what kind of accidents might happen, well, there are many, the most common being theft.

Professional thieves can use cursed objects to steal under certain specific conditions.

This thieving skill allows you to steal cursed items carried by the other person, but if the cursed item is strong enough, it would be even easier to steal items from their spatial storage.

Therefore, experienced experts will find a place to store certain and very important items.

This is clearly a nice place.

If he didn't possess the memories of the Beast Lord, even if he knew there were definitely treasures here, he would be helpless and could only stare blankly.

The first item she took out was a crystal box. When Xiao Ran opened it, she found a rhinoceros beetle inside.

This thing was about the size of a palm, completely black, and had a strong dark luster on its body.

This thing is called the "Hercules Beetle".

It is said that at night, one can summon the power of the stars to empower oneself.

Their functions are similar to those of other vessels; both are necessities needed for leveling up.

Xiao Ran wasn't particularly interested in this thing, but she believed it must be quite expensive.

Continuing to take things out, Xiao Ran pulled out a file folder.

Xiao Ran opened the file bag and took a look.

His eyes lit up immediately, because the information inside was actually a complete set of manufacturing blueprints for a reprocessing furnace.

This document can be considered a confidential document of the Changchun Association.

The reason why Changchun police relentlessly pursued Doujiao was precisely because Doujiao had mastered the method of regenerating furnace.

They were afraid that he would leak the method to other forces, which would then allow other forces to imitate the Changchun Society's model and spread everywhere.

This is very important. Even if I don't need it myself, I can hand it over to the company in the future to exchange for some corresponding resources.

Xiao Ran continued to take things out, and the next two were C-grade cursed items.

A [Thunder Fork] is a cursed object with extremely high destructive power, but it is not very suitable for Beast Lord's attributes, so it is kept here.

The other cursed item, the Scorching Staff, is a rare gem even among C-grade cursed items. It requires a mental strength of over 80 to use, and clearly, Beast Lord doesn't have that much mental strength.

But while Beast Lord didn't have it, I did.

Xiao Ran happily pocketed both items.

"what?"

At this moment, Xiao Ran suddenly noticed that there was also a map inside. When she opened it, she found that it was the location of an ancient tomb.

After examining the location carefully, Xiao Ran initially didn't understand, but as she looked, a sudden thought struck her: "Could this be the tomb that Grandpa and the others buried in back then...?"

(End of this chapter)