"Is it related to the special items on the Heavenly Ranking?"
Hearing Shen Potian's words, Ye Feng immediately guessed.
"That's right!"
Shen Potian nodded. "Those guys from Desert Storm have already reached the treasure hunting spot on the map formed by the special items on the Heavenly Ranking, and they are excavating!"
"Ye Feng, do you want to go and take a look together?"
After a pause, Shen Potian suggested.
"Alright, I guess!"
...
Soon, Ye Feng and his group, led by Shen Potian, moved swiftly under the night sky.
Shen Yun Yao was very happy to see Xiao Xiao and was murmuring something to her the whole way. Ye Feng was also chatting with Shen Potian.
"Ye Feng, those strangely shaped beings just now were not some kind of mutated monsters, but humans... They are from Desert Storm, one of the seven major forces. They turned into that appearance because they were exposed to divine stones..."
"From what I understand, Desert Storm is backed by Ares, the God of War among the twelve main gods... They don't know where they got all the special items from the Heavenly Ranking... It seems to be related to the City of Arcane Arts..."
"Those special items on the Heavenly Ranking can form something like a treasure map... So, a divine envoy led the people from Desert Storm to search for it..."
Speaking of which, Shen Potian glanced back at Shen Yun Yao, who was curiously listening to Xiao Xiao's conversation not far behind. "Yun Yao and I accidentally encountered people from Desert Storm... We learned their purpose, and then what you saw just now happened..."
"Related to the City of Arcane Arts..."
Upon hearing this, Ye Feng couldn't help but frown.
He had previously given the map formed by the special items on the Heavenly Ranking to Yue Yan... Although Bing had sent a message saying there was no major harm, he was still quite worried...
"Senior Shen, with your strength, those divine stone-irradiated monsters were no match for you. Why did you pretend to be captured?"
After a pause, Ye Feng spoke again.
"The divine envoy from Desert Storm is a very cautious person. He devised a scheme, using a trick to expose the whereabouts of the less experienced Yun Yao..."
"So I played along, letting Yun Yao continue to lurk, while I directly jumped out, pretending to be a raider who wanted to rob them... In the chaos, I sent out Qianying, disguised as one of them..."
"From the news brought back by Yun Yao and the information fed back by Qianying, the people from Desert Storm also seemed anxious to dig for treasure... They didn't carefully verify Qianying's disguise..."
Shen Potian explained quickly.
"Is that so..."
...
Ye Feng and the others followed Shen Potian and moved quickly through various rugged terrains. Before long, they arrived in a mountainous area.
"Grandpa, Ye Feng, it's not far ahead!"
Shen Yun Yao lowered her voice and said to Shen Potian and Ye Feng.
"Mm!"
Shen Potian nodded, slowed down slightly, and advanced without making a sound.
"Clang~ Crackle~"
"Clang!~ Whoosh~!"
"Hey, hurry up!"
"There will be a generous reward from Prince Ares once the treasure is unearthed!"
Amidst the sounds of excavation, moving, and even explosions, a sharp male voice followed closely behind.
"These guys' eyes... they all have built-in night vision..."
Looking at a group of burly men skillfully digging and clearing rocks and soil in the dark, Ye Feng muttered to himself.
Even with his far superior vision, he could barely see the situation around them.
The layout and the rocks and soil here were somewhat special... they barely reflected light... At a glance, it was a dark expanse...
Shen Potian and Shen Yun Yao also noticed this, and both frowned. They took out their binoculars to observe, but it was not very effective... because their binoculars did not have night vision...
At this moment, Xiao Xiao gently patted Shen Yun Yao's shoulder and handed her two binoculars with night vision. She also handed three to Ling Xi and the others...
Ye Feng then used his own portable ones...
"Clang~!"
"Leader, we've dug it up!"
With a much louder impact than before, a rather excited voice followed.
"Hmm? What's going on? Dug it up so quickly?"
A bald, burly man wearing a necklace made of skulls walked over. His voice carried clear confusion and surprise.
Ye Feng, who was a considerable distance from the Desert Storm members, also frowned, because although they had dug a large and deep area, there were no obvious underground structures...
Unable to help himself, Ye Feng put down his night vision binoculars and turned to look at Shen Potian, only to find that he also had a look of confusion.
Immediately, Ye Feng picked up his night vision binoculars again and observed the front. He saw a tall, burly man with six sturdy arms excavating a heavy iron chest from a large pit.
The outer surface of the iron chest was inscribed with arcane runes, forming a magic array, which seemed to be used to protect the iron chest.
The bald man with the skull necklace tried to pry open the lock of the iron chest by force, but was blocked by the flames and metal spikes emanating from the array on the box.
"Hmph! A petty trick!"
The bald man with the skull necklace snorted, and with a punch, the space warped slightly. The flames and metal spikes protecting the box instantly collapsed, and the runes of the magic array on the box also appeared damaged...
"Clang~ Crack!~"
Without the protection of the magic array, the bald man with the skull necklace reached out and pulled, tearing off the entire lock of the iron chest.
Immediately, the bald man with the skull necklace impatiently opened the box, and at this moment, Ye Feng and the others were all staring intently...
"Click!~ Clang!"
After the iron chest was opened, not only the bald man with the skull necklace, but also Ye Feng and the others were stunned.
Because inside the iron chest... was a clown mask, which didn't look like any powerful weapon... nor like a mecha... or any other treasure?
"Clatter~ Crackle~ Clang!"
The bald man with the skull necklace was stunned for a moment, then quickly rummaged through the iron chest. However, in such a large box, there was nothing except the clown mask...
"Only this?"
Immediately, the bald man with the skull necklace turned to look at the six-armed burly man.
"Yes... I'll look again!"
After the six-armed burly man finished speaking, his expression changed slightly, and he quickly went back to the place he had just excavated...