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Chapter 34 That Piece of Amber
Zi was awakened by the aroma of food. She had fought fiercely for a long time and then been unconscious for nearly seven or eight hours. Her body had long since begun to instinctively crave sustenance. Now, smelling the scent of oatmeal porridge and the sizzling, oily aroma of roasted meat on the fire, her appetite naturally surged from the depths of her heart, directly dispelling her drowsiness.
Despite this, the instant she awoke, Zi instinctively reached for a weapon and sat up in an offensive posture. Then, she saw two men not far away looking at her with rather strange expressions.
An awkward silence fell over the atmosphere. Reef coughed and said in a tentative tone, "Zi, you're awake? Are you alright?"
Zi's gaze gradually cleared from its confusion, and a look of pain appeared in her eyes. She nodded silently. "Yes, I'm alright. Reef, did you save me? Where are we?"
"Death Metropolis," Reef said in a deep voice. "Don't worry, we're safe now. Come and have something to eat."
Zi nodded and served herself a portion of oatmeal porridge. Finally, she couldn't help but ask, "How did you guys get here?"
Mogan Sha swallowed a piece of roasted meat. "Yao Meng sent a letter to the boss and opened a space-time wormhole to teleport us over."
"Yao Meng?" Zi couldn't help but close her eyes, bowing her head and muttering, "I didn't expect it. I thought that item had been taken away by Seybul. I didn't expect the space-time wormhole to be in her hands!"
"Oh, AK, you seem to have missed something." Suddenly, a voice came from outside. Then, Fang Senyan pulled open the tent flap, walked in, and smiled at Zi. "Yao Meng also entrusted us to bring you her last words: her feelings for you have never changed..."
Hearing this, Reef and Mogan Sha both revealed expressions that looked like they wanted to laugh but dared not. Their eyes were exchanging meaningful glances. Zi's face also flushed red, and she glared fiercely at Fang Senyan before bowing her head and continuing to drink her porridge.
Fang Senyan smiled and said, "I have to respect a dead person's last wishes, right? ... I just observed that a scout from the Radiance Team should have found the motel we stayed at yesterday. I estimate that Metal Mentor will soon arrive with a large group of people. So, Zi, tell me your main mission. We need to hurry."
Zi suddenly raised her head, her charming danfeng eyes instantly filled with a grim murderous intent. "What do you mean? Since Freya has come, I can't let her leave alive. Death Metropolis will be her burial ground!"
Fang Senyan looked at Zi very seriously and said, "I'm sorry, madam, but the request we received from Yao Meng was just to rescue you alive. That definitely doesn't include going head-to-head with the Radiance Team... that's risking our lives! I'm sorry, but the reward Yao Meng paid us isn't worth that."
"To rescue me alive, is it? So, if I die in a duel with Freya, and you stand by and watch, then the commission will fail, right?" Zi sneered.
Fang Senyan shrugged. "You can go and die, but the three of us still cherish our lives quite a bit. Therefore, if you act without authorization and don't follow our arrangements, then I guarantee in Reef's name that we will only watch from the sidelines."
Reef was stunned. "Why in my name?"
"Alright, alright, alright!" Zi gritted her teeth. Her expression didn't give people a feeling of sinister malice, but rather a kind of delicate, sorrowful charm, like Xishi holding her heart and frowning. She stood up, stamped her foot, and darted out of the tent.
Hei Ge们 and Reef were immediately surprised. "Boss..."
Fang Senyan confidently said, "Don't worry, she'll be back. Even when she was fighting alone yesterday, she didn't give up and run off to die in vain. She's even less likely to do it now." After Fang Senyan finished speaking, he scooped himself a bowl of oatmeal porridge, wrapped the roasted meat in salad and vegetable leaves, made himself a large sandwich, took a big bite, and then sipped half a mouthful of oatmeal porridge. He felt the very thick fragrance of the oatmeal permeate his taste buds, and then the warm porridge slowly flowed into his esophagus. He couldn't help but exhale a long, satisfied breath.
Just two or three minutes later, the tent was opened again. Zi walked in with a face full of coldness, walked to the fire, served herself a bowl of porridge, and then slowly drank it. After finishing the bowl of porridge, she suddenly said, "If I remember correctly, you played a major role in Metal Mentor Freya's last death, right?"
Fang Senyan nodded, his words slurred because he was chewing on his homemade jumbo hamburger. "Yes, well, you should also add Mr. Fanu to the list of victims. I wonder if he's been resurrected?"
"No, otherwise Yuan Zhan couldn't have betrayed us so easily. If Fanu was around, he couldn't have succeeded in becoming a core member," Zi coldly said. "Unfortunately, the Illuminati has been tilting its team resources towards Yuan Zhan, so it doesn't have much Universal Points left. I can't offer you any equipment to tempt you. However, my Illuminati is a high-level team that has been upgraded to LPS. The team's passive ability is a pretty powerful 3% increase to critical hit rate, and when entering a near-death state, it immediately recovers 5% of its health. The active ability is to instantly drain 15% of the target's value! As long as you agree to help, then I will give you the team's leadership position! With this team, you can quickly expand your strength and deal with the Radiance Team's upcoming attacks against you!"
Fang Senyan held the hamburger in his mouth, looked at Zi with a very innocent expression for three seconds, and then very simply said, "Oh! I think we have a disagreement in our thinking, Zi. As of now, I'm very satisfied with my current team and have no intention of abandoning it."
"You--" This time, Zi really lost her composure and looked over with a murderous gaze! "Don't go too far!! Reef! Is this what you mean? If you have any conditions, just say them directly. There's no need to let this guy waste my time!"
Reef looked at Zi with a very innocent expression. "Zi, I'm sorry. Since my team was wiped out, Sailor has always been my boss."
Zi, who had always been very calm, couldn't help but be surprised. "What are you saying?"
Mogan Sha also lit a cigar for himself, took a deep breath, and said, "Madam Zi, I don't think the boss means anything else. Well, the Illuminati is indeed a very high level and a very powerful team, but to be fair, it still can't compare to our current team."
Zi was even more astonished and muttered, "How is it possible? How is it possible? Even Zeus's Radiance Team isn't as high level as my Illuminati!"
Reef sighed and said, "Sometimes, a high level doesn't determine everything. It's like how a first-order ability can't compare to an eighth-order ability in most cases."
After hearing Reef's words, Zi immediately said in disbelief, "Could it be that you are..."
"A Silver Team." Hei Ge们 no longer kept it a secret and directly displayed the team's attribute data. After Zi looked at it, she was stunned for a while and took a deep breath. "Then why are there only three of you so far? You know, your team has a M, a support, and the team attributes are so powerful. Expanding shouldn't be too difficult."
Fang Senyan smiled and said, "First, a big tree attracts the wind. Second, I don't want unstable factors in the team. Third, and most importantly, based on my current abilities, once I expand the team drastically, I can't guarantee that my position as team leader won't be challenged."
Zi shook her head. Her concept of rapid expansion and making the team bigger was exactly the opposite of Fang Senyan's. The atmosphere became awkward for a moment. Fang Senyan thought for a while and then seriously said, "Although we disagree on many aspects, there's a saying that goes: seek common ground while reserving differences. In any case, we still have to cooperate for a while. You can't deny that, right, Zi? So you have to tell us your main mission."
Zi took a deep breath, remained silent for a while, and then said, "Because our previous impact on the plot of this world has been quite drastic, my main mission after entering this world is also quite difficult. It's divided into two stages. The first stage only requires collecting the genes of five kinds of dinosaurs. After completing this stage of the mission, I can return to the Nightmare Space, but there's no reward and no punishment. The second stage of the main mission is quite difficult. It's to find that amber."
"That amber?" Hei Ge们 asked strangely, "What's the relationship between dinosaurs and amber?"
Fang Senyan's brow furrowed. "Could it be that amber?"
Zi coldly glanced at Fang Senyan. "That's right, it's that amber, the amber that gave rise to the current situation! The amber that has a blood-sucking mosquito embedded inside! Scientists obtained the first-hand data of dinosaur genes from the belly of that mosquito! Without that amber, all of this is a mirage! It's impossible!"