Chapter 167: The Consequences of Randomly Opening Treasure Chests
“Is there such a thing?”
Hearing this, Chen Ran couldn’t help but be interested. You know, the noses of these guys who had been bandits for several years were more sensitive than anything. They would definitely not miss any good things. The few times they had swept through the bandit dens, they had habitually swept through them as soon as they had won, not missing an inch of the place.
Chen Ran patted the brother’s shoulder heavily and said, “Good, take me there!”
Hearing that there was something good, Nicole and the others also followed curiously.
Everyone followed the subordinate to the innermost part of the underground temple. They passed through a connecting walkway and entered a row of rooms. Chen Ran entered one of the rooms.
Behind a bookshelf that had been turned over, there was a secret door. At this time, a few of his men were ramming against the secret door, but they couldn’t break it open.
“Get out of the way, let me do it,” Chen Ran said with a heroic air, walking toward the secret door and taking a deep breath.
However, Nicole, who had followed behind, said with a blow, “With your thin arms and legs, can you break this secret door made of refined iron?”
“Do I look like the kind of person who only uses brute force? I’m a civilized person!”
Chen Ran was too lazy to argue with that little girl. He took out his universal key from his storage ring and aimed it at the hole…
He wiggled it left and right. The magical metal began to react, continuously pushing open the tumblers inside. With a “ding,” the lock was easily picked.
“I didn’t expect you to have so many good things,” Nicole said, her arms crossed, with a hint of surprise in her eyes. “Alright, I guess you have some skills.”
“I’ve always been amazing, alright…” Chen Ran then smiled and made a gesture to Nicole. “Ladies first.”
“Yo, you’re actually so polite,” Nicole was stunned for a moment, but she unceremoniously entered the secret door first.
Chen Ran followed closely behind, muttering under his breath, “Mmm, no traps…”
A few people entered this secret door one after another.
In the field of vision, a wave of treasure qi rose.
There were no vulgar things like gold and silver. What was placed here were all high-grade materials and good magic equipment, which made Chen Ran’s eyes light up.
“Mysterious Ice Crystal (purple), Blood Coral (purple), Chaos Meteor (purple), Flame Orb (purple)… This is heaven-defying!”
In the days since he had come to Diya City, Chen Ran had spent a lot of money to gather only a few dozen rare (purple) materials. But these guys from the Dark Holy Court were different. He didn’t know how many years they had been here. The rare materials here were so many that he couldn’t count them. At the very least, there were more than a hundred of them, and their market value easily exceeded several million gold coins. And they had been carefully categorized.
The sources of these things were scattered all over the continent, including the unique materials of the Turin Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ikadan, and even another chaotic region. Some of the materials were even impossible to find.
Speaking of which, the dark temple organization in Diya City had originally planned to collect a certain number of high-grade materials and send them to the dark temple headquarters to be carefully crafted by high-level craftsmen. Unfortunately, they had run into Chen Ran, this half-way killer star, who had not only dealt with them but had also robbed them of everything here. Years of hard work had been destroyed in one fell swoop, which would definitely make one spit out three liters of fresh blood.
Chen Ran unceremoniously accepted all the materials on the field and, on the contrary, disdained the magic equipment here.
The so-called fine equipment, in Chen Ran’s eyes, were just some fine-grade (blue) equipment. The workmanship was a bit rough, and it couldn’t be compared to what he had made. Now that he had a large number of purple-quality materials, it was not a problem to make equipment of any grade.
Unfortunately, until now, Chen Ran had not seen a single piece of dark gold quality material. If he could make a piece of epic-grade (dark gold) equipment, whoever had such a thing, even if they were not invincible, could basically walk sideways on the continent.
So far, the only epic-grade equipment Chen Ran had seen was the Thorned Rose in Elena’s hand, which could cut through the void and travel between the human and demon worlds. As for the value of that thing, thinking of the demon lord he had faced with Lia at that time, that guy had spent so much effort and only had one chance to travel through every hundred years, which was enough to show the power of epic equipment.
As for the legendary-grade…
Chen Ran was in tears. When would he be able to use that divine artifact of his!
At this, Chen Ran didn’t need the various magic equipment here, so he had Turyav and the others pack it up and give priority to those who had performed well. If there were any left, they would be rewarded to the other brothers in the future.
Being Chen Ran’s subordinate was often the happiest. There were always many unexpected benefits. And he was no longer a bandit’s second-in-command. Since Turyav had clarified that he had known Chen Ran, this “noble” person, everyone had come to regard him as the real boss.
Follow the boss, be obedient, report diligently, and there will be meat to eat…
“Boss, we’ve found something good again,” a subordinate came over with a mysterious box that was one foot long and half a foot wide. Looking at the ancient carvings on it, it showed that this treasure box was of extraordinary value. He placed the box on the table beside Chen Ran and said excitedly, “This thing was hidden very secretly, in a secret compartment of a bookshelf. If it weren’t for my sharp eyes, I wouldn’t have found it.”
For this, this person also patted the lid of the treasure box, and a solid sound came. “It’s very heavy inside. It shouldn’t be a bad thing.”
“Uh…”
Chen Ran blinked. He hadn’t expected to enter the cute treasure box opening session again. He smiled at everyone and said, “Everyone, guess what’s inside. There’s a reward for the right guess!”
“It might be a huge pearl, a super big pearl worth tens of thousands of gold coins…”
“No, for something hidden so secretly, it might be a secret manual passed down by a sword saint or a magus. Once you learn it, you’ll be invincible…”
Turyav rubbed his hands and said excitedly, “Maybe it’s another beauty.”
Someone quickly refuted, “How is that possible? A box this small can’t even fit a little loli…”
“Stupid, the legendary little elves are much smaller than this box, not even the size of a palm.”
“What’s the use of that? You can only look but not touch…”
“A bunch of vulgar people!” Nicole timely came over, pushed everyone aside, and stood by Chen Ran’s side, looking at the box. “I guess, a box like this, I guess it’s filled with magic jewelry, probably a necklace. If I guess right, none of you can compete with me for it. Otherwise, don’t blame me for being impolite.”
A wave of killing intent overflowed…
“Big sister is mighty!”
The guesses were getting more and more outrageous. Chen Ran shook his head, took out the magic key again, and inserted it into the hole.
He hadn’t expected the lock inside to be so complicated. It used a multi-ring pass-through method. If it were an ordinary key, it really wouldn’t be able to open it. Fortunately, this was also within his ability to handle. It just took a little more time. But this made Chen Ran more interested in the things in the treasure box. It shouldn’t disappoint him, right…
Ping!
With a light sound, the lock was finally opened. Under the expectant gazes of everyone, Chen Ran opened the box.
A blue light illuminated the entire secret room…
After his vision recovered, Chen Ran stood there in a daze. He suddenly found that his body had lost control. A large number of blue and white runes were spinning around him, forcing the group of people beside him away. He felt the classification of these magic powers and quickly understood what this power represented…
A rich spatial power…
“Damn it, a super-long-range teleportation!”
Chen Ran cursed. Why was it this damn thing!
And it was even automatically activated!
The magic array where Chen Ran was was operating very quickly. His whole body fell into an impenetrable ethereal state. He turned his head and only had time to say one last sentence to everyone.
“Take care of things here for me. I’ll be back as soon as possible.”
Leaving his last instructions, with a “bi” sound, Chen Ran turned into a white light and instantly disappeared before everyone’s eyes, leaving only a group of stunned people standing there, looking at the magic array in the box that had run out of magic power…
“I didn’t expect the legendary teleportation treasure box to be this thing…” a bitter smile appeared on Nicole’s lips.
Turyav and a group of his men looked at Nicole with concern and said, “Big sister, what should we do next?”
“Don’t worry. He’ll be fine. He’s probably just traveling in a relatively distant place for a while, probably in any corner of the Turin Empire,” at this, Nicole shook her head and said bitterly, “Fortunately, there are no more problems here. As for the details, I’ll help that guy deal with them.”
Everyone nodded and looked at each other.
No one could have predicted such an ending.
A distant place…
“I’m not reconciled!”
A heaven-shaking roar startled a group of birds, and they flew up with a flap of their wings.
A dense jungle of bushes, filled with all kinds of colorful, tall trees. Not far ahead was a not-so-wide swamp river, meandering down, its destination unknown.
The sounds of insects and birds could be heard everywhere, making this world very rich.
Chen Ran’s expression was very grim, just like when he had just transmigrated to this world and was facing that unknown forest.
“Damn it! I’m never opening a treasure chest randomly again!”
But now was not the time for regrets. He had to face reality.
Chen Ran opened the map positioning and checked his location. At least now, he would not be as lost as before.
Looking at his location, he was actually nearly ten thousand li away from Diya City. From the general outline of the map, the nearest famous city from here was the capital of the Turin Empire, the City of Dawn. But even so, he would have to walk a distance of five thousand li. Chen Ran was in tears. How long would it take him to get there on his own two legs?
Chen Ran was now in an unknown tropical rainforest. The environment here was very humid and stuffy, far more so than the forest he had stayed in before.
It was early in the morning, and the surrounding plants were covered in morning dew. Chen Ran’s clothes were soaked after just a few steps, and the feeling of them sticking to his body was very uncomfortable.
Originally, the weather in Diya City was still a little cool. But here, the temperature had directly risen by more than ten degrees. And it was still morning. It was predictable that when the sun was a little higher, the temperature here would probably rise to thirty-seven or thirty-eight degrees, and it would definitely be as hot as a steamer.
Before long, sweat began to appear on Chen Ran’s forehead. It was so hot that he had to take off an outer shirt.
Suddenly, he heard a long cry from the sky. It pierced through the heavens and the earth, and the surrounding plants rustled. It reminded him of the cry of some kind of lizard…
A shadow covered Chen Ran’s head. He looked up at the sky.
