For a long while, neither Six Hands nor any other Desert Storm members had unearthed anything new....
Seeing this, the bald strongman with the skull chain re-examined the clown mask inside the large iron box. He even risked exposing his whereabouts and turned on the searchlight and flashlight....
The bald strongman with the skull chain searched the large iron box again, even looking in the large area excavated by his subordinates.... Finally, he frowned and turned his gaze back to the clown mask in the large iron box....
The bald strongman with the skull chain looked at the clown mask, pondered for a long time, and finally took the mask out of the large iron box. After a period of observation, he put it on his own face....
The clown mask was exquisitely made, especially its big red nose, which looked inexplicably funny.... Coupled with the surrounding searchlights and the bewildered faces of the Desert Storm members, it created a somewhat eerie atmosphere....
"Pfft!"
Suddenly, Xiao Xiao couldn't help but laugh.
"Attack!"
Ye Feng, who also found it extremely comical and funny, suppressed his laughter and shouted. His figure flashed, instantly appearing around the bald strongman with the skull chain. Shen Potian and the others followed closely....
"Bang~crack~ah!"
"Who's there!"
"Clang~ah~clang!"
"Kill them!"
"Swoosh~hiss~ah!"
"Boom~hiss!"
....
After a burst of noise, all the Desert Storm members fell to the ground.
"This... is really just an ordinary clown mask.... I thought wearing this mask would grant some kind of power... or turn me into a monster or something...."
Ye Feng looked at the clown mask in his hand, speechless.
"This mask is so funny..."
Even now, Xiao Xiao found it hilarious, and Ling Xi and the others couldn't help but smile.
"This is ridiculous...."
Ye Feng was speechless. "Are these guys sure they found the right place... The map made of special items from the Heavenly Rankings... the treasure from the treasure map... is a clown mask in a large iron box?"
"This... judging from the map, they didn't find the wrong place... My grandfather and I have been following for a long time..."
Shen Yun Yao looked at the map in her hand, equally puzzled.
"Clang~clang~crack!"
"Crack crack~clang!"
At this moment, a sound came from not far from Ye Feng. It was Shen Potian who had started digging.
"Senior Shen, do you think these guys didn't dig in the right spot?"
Ye Feng frowned slightly, beginning to understand.
"Yes!"
Shen Potian nodded, not stopping his actions. "Otherwise, this treasure map formed by special items from the Heavenly Rankings... would be too ridiculous...."
"Indeed... let's dig together then..."
....
The next day,
Around noon,
Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, Ling Xi, Leng Yue, Qiao Ying, Shen Yun Yao, and Shen Potian sat amidst a pile of messy stones, their faces blank and a bit dazed.
In front of them were the super large pits they had dug out... the result of their hard work for an entire night and morning....
A gust of wind blew, and Ye Feng and the others slowly came back to their senses....
"Big brother, were we tricked... We've dug up the entire mountain... and found nothing..."
"No secret rooms, no architectural structures, this is just a very ordinary mountain..."
Xiao Xiao muttered somewhat dejectedly.
"Ye Feng, that clown mask..."
Qiao Ying pointed at the clown mask lying on the ground not far away.
Ye Feng and the others all turned to look. At this moment, seeing the clown mask with its big red nose, which looked quite comical, they could hardly smile anymore....
Having been busy all night and all morning, covered in mud, yet finding nothing, they looked somewhat like clowns....
"Ye... Ye Feng, could it be that this so-called map made of special items from the Heavenly Rankings... is not a treasure map at all... but a diversion to mislead people like the Dark Holy Cult?!"
At this moment, Qiao Ying spoke again. "Earlier, Yue Feixue said that the Earth Ranking Stones were used for diversion and were actually useless... Could this map made of Heavenly Ranking special items be the same...?"
"Look at that bald strongman from last night... after he found the mask in the large iron box... and after putting it on... that... that was practically a clown show..."
There was obvious frustration in Qiao Ying's words.
Xiao Xiao and the others nodded. They all felt like they had been fooled....
"Yes... indeed... that iron box wasn't buried very deep... and its material wasn't great... The protective array was also a very basic one..."
Shen Potian chimed in. "It looked like someone just casually threw it in..."
"What a scam... being fooled like this..."
"Fortunately, we didn't choose to research this map made of Heavenly Ranking special items to go treasure hunting..."
"Let's go... let's have lunch..."
Ye Feng glanced at the clown mask on the ground nearby and got up to leave, feeling a bit dejected.
....
After lunch,
"Big brother, should we send that clown mask to that Ares guy? He must have spent a lot of effort to get that treasure map... and he even sent more than one divine envoy to dig for treasure... He'll be furious when he knows the truth!"
Xiao Xiao looked at the mountain they had dug out nearby, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she suggested.
"Good idea!"
Ye Feng, who was in a bad mood, almost burst out laughing when he heard this.
"Alright, we happened to leave one Desert Storm member alive. That guy is quite strong and really wants to earn merit. He should be able to take the clown mask to Ares!"
Shen Potian added.
"Then it's settled!"
....
Soon, under the arrangement of Ye Feng and his group, a Desert Storm member with small horns on his forehead crawled out from a pile of stones and earth.
He saw the corpses of Desert Storm members all around and looked terrified. When he saw the "corpses" of Ye Feng and his group, he became overjoyed.
When he saw the clown mask nearby, covered in dust, his face broke into a grin like a blooming chrysanthemum....
"Haha~these guys all died together!"
The horned man let out a long cry to the sky, then picked up the clown mask from the ground and quickly ran in one direction.
....
"Hoo!"
Seeing this, Ye Feng, who was observing the scene from not far away, let out a sigh of relief, his mood significantly improved.
Immediately, he turned to Shen Potian and Shen Yun Yao. "Senior Shen, Yun Yao, what are your plans next? We are planning to head to the City of Arcane Arts!"
....