Dream Travel

Chapter 248 A maximum of fifty million!

“It’s just a broken door, watch us destroy it!” A member of another squad stepped forward.

Everyone present tacitly avoided finding out each other's affiliations. They figured that keeping it out of the way might allow them to work together temporarily, and bringing it up would only amplify their ulterior motives.

Sharing information is fine; we can take action covertly if we encounter other teams, but taking action openly is obviously inappropriate.

This strange dream is under state supervision. If they maliciously cause deaths, it is tantamount to harming the national interest. If the holes in the strange dream widen, it will be bad for everyone.

If someone is focused on escaping and manages to bring the news back, their company won't protect them in this matter; instead, they'll cut ties with them at lightning speed.

However, it doesn't matter if there's no evidence. This gradually dying city is fraught with danger, especially the important military base.

It's normal for a few people to die.

The explorer took out a bottle and poured out its contents evenly.

It must have been some kind of highly corrosive liquid. It made a hissing sound when it landed on the door, but the door withstood the corrosive liquid.

"Great stuff! Give us more!" another exploration team leader exclaimed. They had put a lot of effort into this door before being forced to give up.

Now that we have a chance to break through, we can't afford to miss it.

Judging from the warehouse that was found, those mechanical limbs were very powerful and should be some kind of large combat weapon component.

This factory may not produce all the components, but once the research data is obtained, it can try to acquire the corresponding manufacturing and usage methods.

Even a robotic arm can unleash enough power!

Those robotic arms are equipped with weapons, and they are huge robotic arms that are over four meters long. You can imagine how big they would be when assembled.

“…That’s it.” The explorer cursed under his breath. This bottle was all he had brought. It was acid he had obtained in a dream world.

It is the blood of a demonic creature, a very dangerous creature, so the production of this acid is not large.

However, even this one bottle is enough to damage many defensive doors. But this door is too thick. Even if it can corrode some of it, it still cannot be completely opened.

"Let's find a way to power this thing," Bai Mu suggested, looking at the person who had been working in vain.

"Hehehe, we've already tried it, it's internally powered," the exploration team leader said with a laugh. "Of course, you can try it too."

"What a nuisance." Bai Mu glanced at his weapon case, where the decoder was located, but it was now unusable because the device he needed to decode was out of power.

Electronic devices are so inconvenient!

He kicked the door, the sound of which shook the door, but the door remained completely still. Bai Mu's eyes twitched slightly.

"I'll go look somewhere else."

He didn't believe the facility was without any vulnerabilities.

“Let’s go check out other places too.” The other team also didn’t waste time here. They first scanned the area with a map projector and then marked it.

"Captain, should we wait here?"

"What are you waiting for? You don't really think they can break down this door, do you?" The captain of the exploration team who remained looked at the corroded marks on the door.

The acid was sprayed in a semi-circle, corroding several centimeters deep. They couldn't break the door using many methods, but the acid did.

Although the damage to the door was not deep enough to break through, it at least caused effective damage.

If we had special weapons, we might be able to blast this door open!
The squad leader thought of the robotic arm in the warehouse; they could try it, but not now.

They can only try after Bai Mu and the others have given up.

White Curtain tried to find a loophole in the facility using the Observer Imperial Arm, but it was to no avail.

This Imperial Arm has a strong X-ray vision effect, but it turns out that it is not an unlimited X-ray vision device.

Ordinary buildings can be seen through, but the materials used in this building are stronger and more special, which makes the Imperial Arms' see-through effect very weak.

However, this also gives the white screen an idea: it's definitely not good to make a hole in the parts that can't be seen through, but the strength should be weaker in the parts that can be seen through to a certain extent.

That might be the breakthrough point.

Moreover, White Curtain discovered that a new exploration team was on its way.

Wow, this place is quite lively.

At least it was lively at this moment; in just one hour, Bai Mu spotted three exploration teams.

These teams ranged from six or seven people to as few as three.

There were no lone travelers like him, and these exploration teams didn't have any corresponding markings on them.

Clearly, they were exploring here without intending to immediately reveal their allegiance.

Bai Mu never expected that the explosion he caused would attract so many exploration teams.

He returned to the gate, where people had already started setting up camp, and others were fiddling with the robotic arm in the warehouse, connecting it to a computer with cables, seemingly preparing to start it up.

"It's so lively."

Having spent several days traveling alone, Bai Mu found it quite lively to see over twenty people gathered together. However, since everyone else was in small groups, and he was all alone, it was inappropriate for Bai Mu to take the phantom out of his weapon case to join in the fun.

He found a place to sit down and silently watched the people talking, planning to make his move quietly later.

Why are so many people working together?
With fewer people, cooperation is possible, but with so many, forget it. There are countless factions alone, and it's like playing Werewolf when everyone's together.

Bai Mu just wanted to complete the mission quickly, instead of scheming against each other here. He thought it would be better for everyone to get together and set up a arena instead of scheming against each other.

Whoever wins can leave on their own.

Besides, Bai Mu also noticed that some people here were looking at him with a subtle gaze, as if they recognized his identity.

It seems his head, worth over 30 million, is so valuable that it can be used to gain recognition in many places.

A robotic arm was brought over, and Bai Mu began to disassemble it using the Dream Eater Greatsword. The robotic arm was very strong, but if you looked carefully, you could still find some weak points.

He disassembled the thing purely to pass the time; judging from the shape of the mechanical arm, it should be a humanoid combat weapon.

Unlike the autonomous defense robots we've encountered before, this robot's form suggests it's not designed for close combat.

Logically speaking, isn't the purpose of making them into robot form to make it easier to use those gigantic weapons?

Otherwise, it would be more appropriate to make it into another form. As for why the human form was chosen, it is naturally because the pilot is human and the weapons are produced by humans.

This form actually suits people's usage habits.

Bai Mu looked around the warehouse that anyone could enter, but didn't find any large-scale firearms.

They couldn't even find a few decent energy blocks.

They waited until nightfall before Bai Mu left with his weapons case on his back.

Some of the exploration teams here began to exchange ideas.

"What's wrong with him? You all seem to be paying a lot of attention to him?"

“His head is worth over thirty million. Should we team up?” Another member of the exploration team didn’t hide the truth about Bai Mu.

"When did this happen?" The exploration team gathered here was surprised; they were all exploration teams that were stationed here regularly.

They hadn't left this strange dream for at least two months. Although more than a month had passed in the outside world, that amount of time was enough for them to miss a lot of information.

Moreover, they didn't live in Rota City, nor were they close to the Golden City. Even if White Curtain's head was very valuable, they lacked the opportunity to immediately access this information.

Unless Bai Mu causes something earth-shattering that gets newspapers in every city reporting on him, and people start to pay enough attention to him, they won't realize how valuable Bai Mu's head is.

Currently, those paying attention to the White Curtain are mostly from the bounty hunter community, or from the Golden City and Rota City.

“Just these last few months,” Cortes said, his voice not loud.

"Such a high bounty in just a few months? What big things did he do?" The other members of the exploration team were surprised.

If the White House is involved in something significant, there will definitely be related information in the news and newspapers.

"It's not a big deal. He's offended a lot of people, and the bounty is from the Golden City."

"Oh—" someone realized, so it was a semi-illegal bounty, no wonder they didn't know about it.

Bai Mu did not break the law. Local newspapers would not arbitrarily produce such news. Otherwise, if Bai Mu found out, he could directly sue those places and make them go bankrupt.

This is a sure thing; even if Bai Mu doesn't actively cause trouble, the local judicial authorities won't turn a blind eye.

The City of Gold is an illegal place. What do you loudspeakers mean by cooperating with the City of Gold?
Instead of being a local gossip, why are you trying to seduce outsiders?
Cortes' words tempted the other exploration teams, who felt obligated to offer a legal bounty.

Everyone can instantly become a crime fighter, ensuring that no head worth 30 million goes unpunished!

As for the illegal bounty, it's still 30 million heads. It's illegal elsewhere, but legal in the City of Gold.

Is it normal for someone to die in a dream world?
Some people wondered, "He's so valuable, how could he have lived this long?"

Cortes hesitated slightly, then said under the skeptical gaze of the exploration team, "It is said that in order to avoid being hunted down, he often enters the Otherworld, and spends most of his remaining time in the upper city of Rota City."

"We intend to capture him. There's a bounty on his head: if we capture him alive, we'll get an extra 17 million. With that bounty, his total bounty could be as high as 50 million!"

"Your voice is a bit too loud," a team leader said to Cortes with displeasure. "It's harder to divide the money when there are too many people."

Cortes' voice was indeed quite loud, and even the exploration team that wasn't originally there became interested in their conversation.

Coltes, however, was cautious: "It's safer with more people. With such a bounty, it's quite an achievement that they've survived this long, even though they frequently enter alternate dreams to escape being hunted down."

I want the bounty, not nothing at all.

"Hehehe, friend, you underestimate yourself and us too much." The somewhat dissatisfied exploration team leader laughed.

He looked at the robotic arms not far away: "My people will soon be able to use those robotic arms, and we'll be able to handle the money splitting."

He didn't intend to drive away the other exploration team, nor did he conceal his purpose; he didn't plan to kill, but rather to capture them alive.

(End of this chapter)