168: This dangerous character made me befriend it.

Watching Su Chen rush in, Xia Weiyu was stunned for a moment before explaining,

"Su Chen, wait a little longer, I'll find it soon! Three minutes, at most three minutes..."

Su Chen's sudden approach left Xia Weiyu at a loss.

She instinctively backed away until she hit the corner of the wall with nowhere else to go; seeing Su Chen still approaching, she reached out to stop him.

However, Su Chen grabbed her arms and pinned them against the wall, leaving her unable to move for a moment.

As Su Chen's face drew closer, Xia Weiyu couldn't break free and instinctively closed her eyes.

"Don't come over!"

After waiting for a long time and seeing no movement from him, she opened her eyes to look at Su Chen.

Aside from restraining her, he hadn't done anything excessive.

Seeing Su Chen's left eye turn golden, she felt a bit curious before realizing something was wrong and hurriedly closed her eyes again.

Seeing this reaction, Su Chen already understood.

She must have discovered his eye Ability.

"A pity, your reaction was still a step too slow."

"Ding! Obtained Mirror World Rotation Ability. Copy Ability cooldown period remaining: 167 hours and 59 minutes."

"Ding! Elementary Proficiency Experience Pack used successfully. Mirror World Rotation proficiency is at 30%."

"Special Ability; a higher-level experience pack is required to continue upgrading."

It didn't max out... what a shame. But 30% proficiency is enough; escaping won't be a problem.

With a way to break it, Su Chen no longer feared this illusion. He fought fire with fire by applying a stronger illusion to himself, directly neutralizing Xiao Qing's illusion effect.

Then, he deactivated the illusion he had applied to himself.

The deactivation was successful, and the scene before his eyes slowly vanished, replaced by a forest.

The fake Xia Weiyu in front of him also changed, turning into a green snake over five meters long, which was now coiled and arched, glaring at him.

Scanning with his Divine Sense, he saw through the other's Realm; its 5th Order strength was at the same level as his own.

However, since the opponent specialized in illusions, it was relatively easy to deal with.

Still, he didn't attack; the one in front of him was just a Clone, and killing it wouldn't help.

"Bye-bye, I'll gladly accept your Ability."

"You're not allowed to leave! I won't let you leave."

"I won't leave just because you won't let me? You'd better behave, or I'll be eating roasted snake meat today."

"Don't leave! If you leave again, I'm going to call out!"

"Call out? Go ahead, let me hear it."

"Brother!

Brother, someone is bullying me! Brother..."

...To actually call for backup, how shameless can you be?

Thinking about how powerful this green snake's Ability was, its brother was likely no ordinary character either; Su Chen didn't want to waste time with them.

What if a troublesome fellow showed up?

Using a hint card, Su Chen located the exit and left quickly.

That green snake was easily shaken off by him.

After running for about two kilometers, a hint of joy appeared on his face; the closer the light point was, the closer he was to the exit.

To get out, he only needed to obtain the array eye, and this hint point most likely referred to the array eye.

He would take the treasure and quickly lead Xia Weiyu and the others away; they couldn't stay here any longer.

He had also heard Tian Ye's conversation yesterday; the possibility of the Heavenly Fiend coming in person could not be ruled out.

Although he couldn't defeat someone of that strength, he had some confidence in escaping; after all, he had the passive effect of Second Life.

But Xia Weiyu didn't have it; if they ran into him, every possibility had to be taken into account.

Moving quickly through the forest, Su Chen's expression changed drastically once he reached an open area.

"Oh no..."

At this moment, he had stepped out of the shrub-overgrown forest and arrived at a clearing about the size of a football field.

On the green grass, only a single black snake was coiled.

It was several times larger than the snake in the cave earlier; coiled into a mass, it occupied half of the football-field-sized clearing.

The black snake woke up at that moment, its two large eyes staring at Su Chen.

Su Chen didn't dare to act rashly for a moment, nor did he easily probe the other's strength.

The larger an Exotic Beast's size, the stronger its power.

Such a massive body was at least 8th Rank; how could he deal with it when his own strength wasn't even 6th Rank?

He had truly just left one snake den only to enter another.

"Sorry to bother you, I'll be leaving now."

Su Chen backed away just like that. He had only taken one step when a small green snake emerged from the black snake's coils, its voice identical to the snake that had trapped him earlier.

"Brother, this is the human who bullied me! He even peeked at me while I was bathing."

Hey! You're framing me! When did I ever peek at you bathing? Besides, what's there to see in a snake... Seeing the black snake's Aura flare up, it had clearly believed the green snake's nonsense.

They really are two of a kind; to just make up a reason like that to gang up andpitme?

This time he really didn't dare to move easily; the black snake had already approached, and this was clearly a high-order Exotic Beast that he couldn't outrun.

"My fault, it's my fault. I apologize."

"What's the use of an apology? Pay me Spirit Stones!"

Xiao Qing thought for a moment: "One thousand Spirit Stones, or this isn't over!"

"No problem."

Seeing how easily he agreed, Xiao Qing realized she had asked for too little and hurriedly changed her tune: "Wait! I want 2,000 Spirit Stones."

"No problem."

"Wait! I want 5,000... I want 10,000 Spirit Stones! Pay me 20,000 Spirit Stones!

Brother, why did this human answer so easily this time? Did I extort too little?

The few humans who came in before couldn't even produce 1,000 Spirit Stones and just knelt and begged for mercy."

Xiao Qing was very angry and paced around in circles, trying to think of an amount that would make Su Chen feel the pinch... Right now, his life was more important; how could Su Chen care about a few Spirit Stones?

Besides, it really wasn't much; he didn't even know how many Spirit Stones were in his storage himself, so why would he care about 20,000?

Without delay, Su Chen took the 20,000 Spirit Stones Xiao Qing mentioned from his Storage Space and piled them on the ground like a small mountain.

Xiao Qing's eyes widened at the sight: "Brother, we're rich!"

"Ding! Obtained Xiao Qing's favorability, lottery ticket +500."

"Ding! Obtained Xiao Hei's favorability, lottery ticket +500."

Alright, the cost of the Spirit Stones has been recovered.

If possible, he wanted to do a few more deals with the two snakes in front of him to clear out the Spirit Stones gathering dust in his storage.

Wait, now is not the time to be thinking about that; he should be thinking about how to leave.

Maybe he should give it a shot; anyway, he had a passive effect and wouldn't die. If he really wasn't their match, he'd just find a place to hide.

"Ding! Detected that the host has obtained maximum favorability from a Genius. Mission triggered.

Within seven days, obtain 10,000 lottery tickets from the Genius to acquire a permanent passive effect: 0.01 lottery tickets per second.

Once obtained, the passive effect remains active regardless of the target's life or death, or the distance between you."

How is this a Genius? This is a Calamity, okay?

I could be crushed to death in a minute!

What's with this System? I'm about to become prey, and you're actually telling me to make friends with them?

Just look at these two snakes—are these the kind of characters you can be friends with?