After completing the necessary preparations, Lin Ye took care of the plants and animals for a while, prepared a simple dinner for himself, then opened the Music Box and the Group Chat to eat while browsing.
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"Are there any big shots choosing the Mining Area Task tonight?"
"Yes, I'm not waiting for Brother Lin's intel. Starting to dig a day earlier is a day earlier. Everyone can wait for to share intel tomorrow."
"I'm also choosing the Mining Area Task today. I'll provide another piece of intel for everyone's reference."
"Thank you, big shots."
"You're making want to join in too."
"I want to join as well, but unfortunately, I haven't upgraded my Shelter yet."
"No need to rush. I'll wait another day."
"Wishing all the big shots a smooth completion of the Mining Area Task."
...
Tens of thousands of people simultaneously sent the sa ssage in the group chat. Massive amounts of information rapidly flooded the screen, with not a single person breaking the formation.
[Nightti Activity begins]
[Do you choose the Mining Area Task?]
"Yes."
[Tonight's Activity: Mining Area Task]
[09:59]
"Great! It's the red maze. I can open the blueprint!"
"Ti to scavenge~"
"Good, I just wanted to sleep early today."
"Damn, a personal random task!"
...
Closing the Group Chat, Lin Ye sat fully ard on the edge of his bed. The Butterfly rested on his head, and the Scapegoat obediently lay beside his thigh, licking his fingers.
[00:01]
[00:00]
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[Mining Area Task is about to begin]
[Acquired Special Ability: Butterfly Effect]
[Butterfly Effect]
[If one of your actions can trigger a profound influence, you will receive a corresponding Ti Marker]
[Note: Did the butterfly flapping its wings change the world, or was the world always ant to be this way?]
[Event extracting...]
[Event extraction complete. Selected event—Free City]
[Due to influence from external factors, task difficulty has increased. Starting identity has changed]
[Acquired Mining Area Task: Money is Supre]
[Money is Supre]
[Please acquire assets worth one hundred million Free Coins within three months. The more assets you acquire, the more precious the unlocked mining area will be]
[Note: In Free City, money is everything. You only have two choices: either obtain money by any ans necessary and beco a big shot in Free City, or lose everything and beco a cold corpse on the roadside]
[Ti flow rate has been modified to 1:180]
[Event importing...]
[Event import complete. Mining Area Task officially begins]
Lin Ye opened his eyes. He felt a sense of weakness he hadn't experienced in a long ti.
Not acting rashly, Lin Ye used his peripheral vision to observe his surroundings, gathering information.
First, his body was extrely weak. Judging by his build, he was probably only in his teens.
Second, he was in the middle of an ard squad. The people beside him were all young people around his age, in their teens, dressed in tattered clothes. There were so ard personnel nearby.
Finally, they were walking through a rainforest. The spiritual energy concentration in the environnt was extrely high.
Lin Ye tried to absorb spiritual energy but found his body was too fragile and couldn't withstand spiritual energy enhancent at all.
'What the hell is this place? Wasn't it supposed to be about making money in Free City? Why do I feel like I'm being sent to so kind of compound?'
'The spiritual energy concentration here is so high. Looking at this body's condition, it definitely hasn't been here much, otherwise it would have already undergone Alienation.'
Lin Ye tried to use ntal energy to dilute the spiritual energy, but the mont he used ntal energy, his brain felt like it was about to explode.
'Damn it, whoever ssed with my starting identity, don't let find out who you are, or I'll dig up your ancestral grave.'
Lin Ye temporarily gave up on enhancing his body. He began to change his breathing pattern, trying to slowly alter his physical constitution by breathing in spiritual energy.
At that mont, a faint sound ca from the jungle on the right side of the squad. Before Lin Ye could change his position, an ard personnel nearby shot and killed the monster hiding in the jungle.
"Report. Type I Mimicry Monster spotted on the right flank of the pathfinding squad. Eliminated."
The ard personnel spoke.
He was wearing so kind of communication device on his head, allowing him to talk to his teammates.
'Judging by the sound, whatever was killed was probably so low-level creature. Pathfinding squad... Are we being used to scout a path? Scout where?'
Lin Ye analyzed the gathered information. For now, he could only follow the squad. If this squad collapsed, it would be very difficult for him to survive in this environnt.
The rainforest was full of all sorts of bizarre, grotesque monsters. Fortunately, this squad was relatively competent. Those monsters were blown up before they could get close.
But the more competent this squad was, the more dangerous the place they needed to scout would be.
Twenty minutes later, the squad stopped at the edge of the jungle. To be precise, they stopped outside a clear, open area.
This area had no plants at all, only a patch of pitch-black soil. It was as if sothing had cleared a space in the middle of the jungle.
Lin Ye heard an ard personnel who walked over speak into his communication device:
"Target contaminated zone reached. Test begins."
After saying that, he grabbed one of the 'pathfinders' and threw them into the black soil zone.
Before that pathfinder even hit the ground, his body exploded. The scattered pieces of flesh triggered a secondary explosion, finally blowing apart into a mist of blood.
After walking through the rainforest for a long ti, the young people around were already unsteady on their feet. Seeing this scene, several young people were so terrified they collapsed on the ground.
Lin Ye carefully watched the entire process. He had to figure out the source of danger in this contaminated zone before it was his turn, otherwise he would die here.
The ard personnel grabbed a second pathfinder and threw them into the contaminated zone. This ti, the pathfinder exploded into a mist of blood the mont they entered the airspace above the contaminated zone. So of the corpse fragnts were blasted out of the zone.
The ard personnel couldn't dodge in ti. So of the blood mist splashed onto him. The ard personnel instantly exploded, also turning into a mist of blood. The people around who were touched by the blood mist triggered a chain of explosions. Fortunately, their flesh and blood didn't cause a fourth explosion, otherwise no one in the entire squad would have escaped.
Lin Ye took a step towards a less crowded area. Seeing there was no fourth explosion, he moved back to his original position.
But this small movent caught the attention of the ard squad leader. He pointed at Lin Ye and said:
"You go scout."
Lin Ye didn't move imdiately because he still hadn't figured out the problem with the contaminated zone.
Seeing Lin Ye wasn't moving, the Captain placed his hand on his weapon.
Lin Ye had no choice but to walk towards the contaminated zone. However, the young person who had been standing beside Lin Ye all along suddenly pulled him behind and spoke to the Captain:
"I'll scout in his place!"
"...Fine."
The Captain didn't refuse.
The young person trembled as they walked towards the contaminated zone. They wanted to walk with a bit more composure, but trembling was a physiological reaction to fear and couldn't be resisted.
But before they entered the contaminated zone, Lin Ye, who was following behind, pulled them back.
[Ti Marker acquired]
A line of system text appeared before Lin Ye's eyes.
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