189: Guardian of the Forbidden City - Enter Dungeon

After a while, Nie Yu finally learned the specific situation, his face filled with disbelief.

"So, you are now a Fourth-Level Talent User?"

"That's right, Fourth-Level."

"And an A-Rank Talent!"

"You could say that. Just A-Rank, it's barely acceptable."

...Nie Yu's face was full of resentment. Was he even speaking like a human?

"Are we still brothers?"

"Do you want to call me dad instead?"

Seeing this, Nie Yu instantly relaxed and was about to lie down on the sofa, reaching out to grab the snacks on the table, but Tang Ping grabbed him!

And threw him to the door!

"Zhang Lei, clean him up and then come back!"

"Alright, Brother Tang!"

"Hey, hey! Old Tang, at least let me have a bite. What if you turn on me later?"

Unfortunately, the door had already been mercilessly shut.

"Brother Tang, what are you planning to do? Can this guy handle it? I think I'm better," Zhang Xile said.

"Whether he can handle it or not, let's just leave him here to train first. Didn't Zhang Lei teach him? We'll first raise Nie Yu's level and Talent, then we'll talk," Tang Ping said, eating watermelon, and continued, "In the base, what's the highest grade of talent upgrade stone right now?"

As a base, Tianfu Base naturally stockpiled all sorts of good things, including Shelters. In the base, turning in good items could earn a large amount of contribution points, but truly good items couldn't be exchanged with contribution points.

In Taoshan, many immortal grasses for healing were in the trading zone, acquiring various good things, including talent upgrade stones. It's just that many things were essentially useless to someone of Tang Ping's level, but for the development of the base, they were indispensable.

"Gathering 1110 F-rank experience stones is very simple. As for talent upgrade stones, currently the highest is B-Rank," Zhang Xile said.

"Perfect. Then let's first raise Nie Yu's Talent and level. After that, he'll come with us to the dungeon. We'll try to hunt a Level Five King Beast. If successful, we can also get a King Beast essence reward. This thing should have no problem raising Nie Yu's Talent to the level of a top-tier A-Rank."

"After that, we'll let Nie Yu continue to develop here. Isn't he a member of the Military Region? As long as the people in the Military Region aren't foolish, they will definitely promote Nie Yu. Even if they don't give him real power, they will never let go of such a strong person. At that time, we'll have Zhang Lei teach him, and then slowly develop here. When the time is ripe, we'll give a subtle push, and this Tanghu Military Region Base will naturally be ours."

"Brother Tang, everything you said sounds good," Zhang Xile said hesitantly, "But can Nie Yu really be trusted?"

"Don't worry. If he has no other intentions, then everything will be fine. But if he does, whatever I give him, I can take back."

Dusk enveloped the land. Tang Ping looked at the busy people in the Safe Zone below, turning his phone in his hand, without showing any other emotions on his face.

How could he not know that human hearts change? Even if his relationship with Nie Yu was excellent, it was the apocalypse now. But he wasn't afraid, because loyalty or disloyalty was very easy for him to verify.

Even if a traitor were to emerge among his subordinates in this timeline, he could still crush them.

"Brother Tang, the items are ready. Should we give them to Nie Yu now?"

"No need. Wait until after tomorrow noon."

"Okay." Zhang Xile was a little strange, wondering why they had to wait until after tomorrow noon, but he still nodded in agreement.

The next day at noon, Tang Ping opened his eyes and exhaled a turbid breath. "Zhang Xile, prepare the items and call Nie Yu over."

"Alright!"

Nie Yu was quickly called out. He seemed to know what was about to happen, and his face was flushed with excitement.

"Nie Yu, here, use these things."

"Brother Tang! From now on, you're my true brother!" Nie Yu knelt down excitedly with a thud.

Subsequently, Nie Yu first used the experience stone to raise his strength to Level Four.

As for Level Five, even Tianfu Base currently couldn't gather that many F-rank experience stones, so they could only leave it at that for now. Moreover, although higher-level experience stones were scarcer, aside from S-rank ones, the difference in quantity wasn't significant, and the difficulty and cost of collecting them weren't much different.

Afterward, Nie Yu used the talent upgrade stone to raise his Talent grade all the way to B-Rank.

And after learning that Nie Yu had become a Level Four B-rank Talent User, Zhang Lei became even more attentive.

Soon, three days passed. On this day, Tang Ping was also ready to set off for the island in the center of Tang Lake.

Before the apocalypse, Tang Lake was a very large lake, and now it was even larger. And because there were giant Pollution Beasts in the lake, no one dared to approach it.

At this moment, a huge moth cut across the sky above the lake.

Just as the moth reached the central island of the lake, a black vortex appeared in the center of the island!

"There really is a dungeon!" Nie Yu, who had been skeptical on the way, instantly stared with wide eyes in shock. "No, Old Tang, how did you know there was a dungeon here! And you timed it so perfectly!"

"Precognition."

Nie Yu rolled his eyes: "Isn't it just a message scroll? Do you really think I don't know anything?"

"What kind of dungeon is this? Is it a Treasure Dungeon, the kind where you can get experience from killing monsters!" Nie Yu rubbed his hands lewdly, "Or a treasure chest dungeon, where you can see treasure chests everywhere, that's also good!"

"You're good at daydreaming, you can do more of it," Zhang Xile said.

...

"Hurry up and go in. This is a team dungeon. A maximum of five people from the same team can enter, but the three of us are enough."

"Team? Does that mean there are no other players in the dungeon besides us?" Nie Yu asked.

Tang Ping nodded: "Yes, other teams will each enter their own dungeons and will not be with us. Generally, these dungeons have quite a few unique missions. To get the highest level rewards, you must be the first to complete them. Let's be quick, after all, when we came out this time, many people in Tanghu Base were watching, and it's estimated that others will arrive soon and enter the dungeon."

"That's just letting them off easy," Zhang Xile regretted, "Letting them pick up a dungeon for free. It would be great if we could charge an entrance fee."

"This place is already within their sphere of influence. Even if they hadn't followed us to discover the dungeon, they would have found it eventually."

The Great Emperor Moth landed.

"Alright, let's go in quickly."

[Apocalypse dungeon: Guardian of the City of Despair

dungeon Type: Team dungeon (0/5)

Players: 100 (This entrance can accommodate a maximum of 200 people)

Main Quest: Protect the Safe Zone, ensure the Safe Zone survives the beast tide

Quest Reward: A-Rank talent upgrade stone, Shelter Facility Guardian Barrier (First completion grants Companion Holy Spirit - purple light golden sun tree Sapling)

Side Quest: Desperate Survival

Quest Reward: For every hour survived, gain 20 experience points

Quest Duration: 24 hours]