At 9:05 in the evening, the Thunderbolt Car slowly drove into the Starfire Resources Recovery Plaza.
At this time, it was as deserted as ever.
The official working hours are from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., with a 12-hour workday. Proper employees never work overtime.
The female staff member who had a private agreement with Ren Zhong was sitting cross-legged on a chair, waiting by the platform.
Seeing the headlights turn on at the plaza entrance, she quickly stood up excitedly.
Another chance for milk tea, how nice.
The pair of 30-point value Roamer bookshelf speakers he gave were also great, with accurate high, stable midrange, and deep bass. Very impressive.
After the car stopped, Ren Zhong and Zheng Tian jumped out.
The others didn’t follow.
The mental impact everyone had experienced today was quite overwhelming, needing some serious shopping at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative and Military Weapon Store to ease the extreme emotional fluctuation.
The moment Ren Zhong and Zheng Tian opened the rear compartment, the female staff member, who had cooperated many times and knew Ren Zhong was a big earner, was dumbfounded.
She rubbed her eyes, squinting.
A moment later, swallowing her saliva secretly, she said, "Wait, could you please turn on the lights in the compartment? I can’t see clearly."
Pop, Zheng Tian used the remote control to turn on the lights.
The female staff member could finally see clearly.
Inside were the corpses of five Ruined Beasts.
Among them, two were likely Level Four Ruined Beasts!
Outside lay a large one and three smaller ones, all Crystalized Pangolins, while inside there was a calf-sized bug.
"This... this looks a bit like the Crystalized Pangolin from the abandoned mine?"
Ren Zhong: "It’s not just like, it is. The big one is a Fourth Level, the three small ones are Third Level."
"What about the one inside?"
Ren Zhong: "That’s a Dream Weaving Maze Stink Bug, also a Fourth Level Ruined Beast. Yeah, it’s strong and terrifying. But we won."
In the afternoon, everyone returned to the abandoned mine at 1:30, dragging an anti-corrosion and structurally strong large military storage box worth 150 points into the cave.
Although the mine hole’s three-dimensional network was winding, Ren Zhong had recorded the route using his armor’s auxiliary brain during their escape.
So everyone easily found the area where the Crystalized Pangolin had previously appeared and successfully located its nest after some searching.
It was guarding a node at a major trafficked area.
Moreover, under this mature Crystalized Pangolin were three juveniles.
The Energy Level Index of these three juveniles was only about 370, much lower than the 1500 of the mature one.
The others were slightly surprised, but Ren Zhong was not.
The Crystalized Pangolin had clearly destroyed his small shield and dagger earlier. Just a few more steps would have cornered him, yet it returned decisively.
If not for some concern, there wouldn’t be another explanation.
What concern kept a Level Four Crystalized Pangolin at the top levels, reluctant to stray far?
The only answer emerged: it was nurturing juveniles.
Everything was under Ren Zhong’s control.
Detecting the audacity of the intruders who had escaped earlier daring to approach its nest, the Crystalized Pangolin rose angrily, rushing toward the group’s position.
Ren Zhong and others calmly retreated, allowing the storage box to move to the front, then controlled the remote switch to open the front end of the storage box, blocking the passageway.
The reckless Crystalized Pangolin charged straight in.
It felt it could do it; it thought penetrating this iron box wasn’t difficult.
This is the biggest difference between humans and Ruined Beasts.
Subsequently, the storage box closed tightly.
The Crystalized Pangolin began to thrash around inside, its long tongue whipping wildly, but it couldn’t do anything to the anti-corrosion coating inside the storage box.
Next, the Bee Tail Poison Fog, preloaded by Ren Zhong, started spraying from two large tanks.
This Bee Tail Poison Fog, derived from the processed remains of a Third Level Ruined Beast, is incredibly effective against crystalized type Ruined Beasts.
Ren Zhong bought two cans at the store, each priced at 50 points, the same as a Magnetic Storm Dust Hand Grenade.
This battle had him investing a total cost of 250 points, and he intended to win using unconventional tactics.
Unable to escape and tormented by the Bee Tail Poison Fog, the Crystalized Pangolin was in extreme pain, curling its body tightly, rolling and crashing madly inside the storage box.
The other three small Crystalized Pangolins, who had barely reached Third Level, saw this and rushed forward, squeaking furiously.
Ren Zhong met them head-on with Wen Lei, who had exchanged for a top-grade Second Level Shield and heavy-duty exoskeleton, while Zheng Tian fired Puncture Bullets coated with Bee Tail Poison Fog from the rear.
As for Bai Feng, he was responsible for guarding Chen Hanyu.