Warning! The evil god's minions are invading the eerie dungeon.

Qi Xie, holding the Blood Axe in one hand, was panting heavily, his eyes fixed on the mountain of flesh that had collapsed at the bottom of the elevator shaft.

For a moment, the air fell silent, with only the flames on the flesh-and-blood insect nest still crackling and burning.

"Finally dead?"

Qi Xie restored the Blood Axe to a tattoo on his body and squinted slightly as he observed the motionless mountain of flesh.

The next second, a lightning-fast steel coil slammed straight down.

Boom!

Pfft—!

It was accompanied by a scene resembling ten thousand packets of ketchup exploding under a hydraulic press.

A pale blue system panel suddenly lit up in Qi Xie's ear.

[Special Mission Completion Notice: Congratulations on successfully building a safe haven and collecting enough food within the mall.]

[Special rewards have been highlighted and indicated.]

Best of luck!

"So... he was just faking his death to fool me?"

Qi Xie sneered.

Clearly, given the current situation, there will be a mission completion notification when he successfully eliminates the threat within the mall.

So, although the Flesh Insect Nest was indeed about to die, it still had the strength to fight to the death, and deliberately pretended to be dead to trick him into going through with it.

"There's a mission notification now, so he must be really dead."

Qi Xie pondered for a moment, then prepared to jump.

But then he stopped and touched his chin.

"Maybe he's faking his death to fool me?"

Boom-!

"Perhaps it's still alive but not yet stiff?"

Boom-!

"Perhaps this is a blood escape technique?"

Boom-!

Ten minutes later.

Once the blood mist in the air had been dried by the flames, Qi Xie descended from the elevator shaft and stepped onto the flesh and blood that had been crushed into a carpet.

It was at this moment that he noticed a particularly noticeable black light in the 'carpet,' like a special item highlighted in a game.

"Is this the special reward for the mission?"

Qi Xie bent down and picked up the black light, only to find that it was a palm-sized, pitch-black, unknown metal ring.

The ring was not complete; there was a groove on one side of it.

Upon seeing the groove, Qi Xie felt completely unwell.

Because that place seems to allow something to be inserted or formed.

really.

As he picked up the ring, a light blue system panel popped up, displaying a new line of text.

Qi Xie glanced at it, and his expression immediately became complicated, a mixture of shock, disgust, and helplessness.

You have obtained: Night Wanderer (partial) 1/3

[One of the components of a certain Tier 1 sealed artifact appears to have been deliberately separated. When complete, besides its primary function, it seems it could also serve as a key to certain hidden locations.]

What does "cutting once and then cutting again" mean?

Qi Xie cursed and swore.

He spent half a day painstakingly killing monsters, and all he got was this? It's disgusting.

While the fact that it's a level one sealed artifact is very tempting, giving away only a third of it makes one want to curse.

For a moment, he was so angry that he wanted to find another calamity-level material and have his partner slap the system administrator twice.

However, he soon discovered that this thing didn't seem to have anything to do with the Traveler System.

"It shows signs of technology; it should be a human creation... an ancient relic? Was it separated by people who once fell into this world?"

A red light flickered in Qi Xie's eyes as he looked at the dark metal ring:

"It seems that when this thing is intact, it can also serve as a key to some mysterious place? So the people of the Fallen World separated it to prevent the eerie things from coming together and finding some place?"

Is that mysterious place here? Hmm... We haven't explored this fallen city enough yet. Let's keep this for now and look at it later.

As it is indeed part of a level-one sealed artifact, its internal energy level has reached the forbidden level, albeit a rather weak one...

So that flesh-and-blood worm nest was encasing it inside to absorb its power? No wonder it was so hard to fight…”

Qi Xie threw the ring into the shadows and got up to walk towards the escape route.

Although this special reward was annoying, Qi Xie actually gained a lot from this trip.

Not to mention the various strange and scattered finds from this trip, and this flesh-and-blood insect nest.

That circular component alone is worth quite a bit.

For others, a component of a Tier 1 sealed artifact, while not entirely worthless, is still somewhat lacking.

However, Qi Xie could directly use the forbidden power within to deceive the evil god, so its value would likely be much higher.

Even if it's a weaker level 2 sealed item, it's worth it as long as you can exchange it for one.

It's obvious that for those travelers other than Qi Xie who can't make full use of the strange corpses, the reward is clearly not commensurate with the difficulty of this special mission.

If the probability of collecting this level 1 sealed item in this dungeon is very small, then the traveler who went through all the trouble of clearing this dungeon might be so frustrated that they'd vomit blood.

But conversely, correspondingly.

If the special missions for the locations of these three components are this difficult, then it's actually worth the price of obtaining a level one sealed artifact.

And who knows what lies hidden in that secret place that this [Night Wanderer] has knocked on?

Qi Xie believes it's still worth looking forward to.

I roughly sorted out my thoughts.

Qi Xie threw a few mushrooms onto the flesh-and-blood insect nest, then put away the black ring and went up to the ground through the escape passage, but did not go out from the first floor.

He went to the clothing section on the second floor first.

It wasn't damaged much.

Clothes weren't that important in the apocalypse, and this was a high-end commercial district where clothes were all about looking good and being presentable. They were all precious and couldn't be washed, so naturally, not many people took them.

Qi Xie casually picked out a few outfits priced at over a million yuan, changed out of his almost naked lingerie set, stuffed the rest into Shadow, and then headed downstairs.

Chen Mu, who was picking mushrooms on the first floor, was wearing gloves when he heard someone coming downstairs and subconsciously looked up.

The next second, his eyes went blank.

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