Li Zheng shook his fists, blocking the large stone slab collapsing from above. Ignoring the raging flas around him, he quickly touched the remains of the monster before him: "Decompose!"
[Player Li Zheng decomposed the "Guardian Statue of the Desert of Exhaustion" and obtained: Iron Ingot 350, Copper Ingot 129, Components 88, Advanced Components 67, Advanced Modules 41, Interdiate Modules 34, Tiberium Alloy 1564g, Power Gear 17, Power Core Type V 1]
"Power Gear?"
Glancing casually at the decomposition notification, without taking a closer look, Li Zheng raised his fist and shattered the stone slab pressing on him from above, activated his Flying Device, and soared upwards. His fists continuously swung, shattering all the slabs pressing down until he saw daylight again.
"Phew~ It’s over."
He exhaled, deactivating the Power Demon Incarnation state, just about to take a closer look at the Power Gear he had obtained, when he looked down and saw Wang Chaoran and the others rushing over.
At the front was the fastest flyer, Little Sakura, with Pink Poli hanging on its leg, swaying in the wind.
"Ah?"
Little Sakura flew beside Li Zheng, circling around to inspect him. Once it confird that its master was uninjured, it relaxed completely and went off to play with Pink Poli.
Seeing Wang Chaoran and the other four unhard, Li Zheng didn’t worry about Little Sakura, and landed at the edge of the deep pit created by the explosion, taking out the Power Gear to examine it.
[Power Gear
Tier: None
Type: Part
Description: Durable and sturdy part, usable for crafting certain equipnt.]
"Not bad," Li Zheng thought to himself, "Turns out I guessed right, this kind of material really needs to be obtained from dungeons. I’ll discuss with Wang Chaoran and the team later, trade for so Power Gears, and get the sewing machine made."
The exploration of the Desert of Exhaustion had reached maximum value after resolving the last BOSS.
Theoretically, Li Zheng could now just take his loot and, with Little Sakura, draw a prize and leave.
However, due to the existence of the Power Gears, he still needed to wait for others to co over and discuss trading the Power Gears.
Walking away from the edge of the pit, Li Zheng found a spot, and dumped all his collected items onto the ground.
Just the three hundred or so neatly stacked Iron Ingots ford a small mountain; the total number of items was quite considerable.
"This BOSS was really tricky, actually playing the self-destruct card in the end, reducing the decomposition yield significantly." Li Zheng silently grumbled to himself.
It was the first ti he’d encountered a monster that could self-destruct.
Goodness, it blew away about half its own corpse, causing Li Zheng to not get the full yield during decomposition.
"But the power of this self-destruct was average. Although the shockwave flipped the whole pyramid, it caused no harm to the Power Demon Incarnation." Li Zheng carefully recalled the final scene.
Blue-white flas filled his vision; if he hadn’t maintained Extre Isolation to resist the high-temperature environnt, he might have been burned.
"Even if the Power Demon Incarnation could temporarily resist the high temperatures of those blue-white flas, my clothes would have been a goner."
Li Zheng inspected himself from top to bottom, ensuring his appearance was intact, before patiently waiting for Wang Chaoran and the others to arrive.
The distance from here to the entrance was quite far; it took Li Zheng two to three minutes flying at full speed. Among those present, only Little Sakura was faster than him.
He waited about five minutes before Wang Chaoran and the others arrived one after another.
Standing in front of Li Zheng, Wang Chaoran’s reaction was exactly like Little Sakura’s: checking him over by circling around to see that he was unhard, finally relieved.
"Glad you’re okay," Wang Chaoran said, patting his own chest.
That scene had terrified him, fearing sothing might have happened to Li Zheng in the earlier explosion.
If Li Zheng had been hard while guiding them through the dungeon, he wouldn’t know how long he’d feel guilty.
A friend patted his shoulder hard: "What did I say? There’s no way anything would happen to our big boss, being so amazing?"
Zhang Yue covered her mouth, laughing: "That’s not what soone said earlier."
Liu Li pursed her lips, looking like she was about to cry, anxiously shouting: "Boss, boss, you mustn’t get hurt!"
Zhang Yue laughed loudly: "Yes, yes, soone was just like that earlier!"
The friend was furious with embarrassnt: "Nonsense, I wasn’t!"
"Still denying..." Zhang Yue teased, deliberately mimicking Liu Li’s earlier tone: "Boss, boohoo... Boss..."
"You wicked woman, you’re asking for it!" The friend raged, lunging to tear at her mouth, but she dodged nimbly.
"Alright, alright, it’s too hot here, let’s move away and talk," Wang Chaoran stepped in to diate.
Only then did Li Zheng realize that, in the brief ti they had been there, they already showed signs of dehydration, with cracked lips.
Wang Chaoran’s hair even appeared slightly curly.
Looking back at the deep pit not far away, Li Zheng had an epiphany.
He hadn’t walked far, yet for Wang Chaoran and the others, the unbearable heat was likely caused by the blue-white flas from the BOSS’s self-destruction.
Now, the sand by the pit had already started to crystallize slightly, showing how terrifying the residual heat of the blue-white flas was.
He himself had maintained Extre Isolation all along, unable to sense how extre the surrounding temperature was, but had neglected the others’ experience.
"I didn’t consider this well enough; move a bit farther away, I’ll pack up the supplies and join you," Li Zheng said apologetically, asking the others to move first while he collected the materials he’d just laid out.
Wang Chaoran and the others walked nearly a hundred ters before stopping, each with a bottle of water, sipping slowly.
After joining them, Li Zheng spread the materials out again: "Everything’s here, the BOSS this ti wasn’t very high-tier, its strength should be at the very bottom of the Platinum Level, so there’s not much high-level material. But for you guys, it should be enough. After leaving, prioritize trading for so useful weapons to boost your strength."
Wang Chaoran exchanged glances with the others, and the four nodded in understanding.
As the discoverers of the dungeon, Wang Chaoran led the conversation: "Boss, you should split these materials with us. We’d feel uneasy if you took nothing."
"That’s right," the friend chid in, "Although we invited you mainly for getting carried through the dungeon, we now experienced its difficulty; without you, the four of us wouldn’t have managed it alone."
"True," Zhang Yue said, sitting on the sand, unwrapping the dirty bandages from her feet to check her injury, seeing it had almost healed, she put her shoes back on.
"Actually, Liu Li and I joined this dungeon run mainly to make an impression in front of the boss; gaining a little more or less doesn’t make much difference to us."
Liu Li didn’t speak, just nodded in agreent.
She had t Zhang Yue in the Matrix; they had crossed paths in a room, teaming up to kill a Silver Level creature.
Later, they frequently interacted and grew close.
Joining this dungeon run was Zhang Yue’s persuasion.
Simply put, they aid to try and get closer to Li Zheng directly; if they could establish so connection and gain a firm ally, it would be ideal.
If not, they would aim to make a good impression; as long as Li Zheng later gave them so preference in potion making, this trip would be worthwhile.
Once they’d stated their cases, Li Zheng chuckled and said: "It’s good that you think this way. As for the items... I really need the Power Gears. If you insist I take sothing, then let have all the gears, and you can split the rest; they aren’t much use to ."
"Ah? How can we agree to that?" Wang Chaoran exclaid anxiously: "Take more..."
This ti, Li Zheng stopped him before he could finish, firmly stating: "I said I’d carry for free, and that’s what it is; even if I’m taking Power Gears now, I don’t plan to take them for nothing. I’ll compensate you later."
With that, he packed up all the Power Gears and pulled up the prize draw interface to start the raffle.
"Oh, by the way."
While the wheel spun, Li Zheng told the four: "I suggest you form a team of four, with these materials you can boost your strength. Going through dungeons together afterwards isn’t out of the question."
After two draws ended, as he was pulled out of the dungeon, he left a final piece of advice: "Rember, never beco a hostile player!"
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