After leaving the team, the adventurer ladies regretted it deeply

Lia's good mood was utterly ruined, and her face darkened, "Don't tell me the route is in this pit."

"Aren't you quite clever?"

Lin Da took out two shovels from the Space Ring and handed them to Lia, "Don't just stand there, let's confirm the route before it gets dark."

"I won't do it." Lia threw the shovel away, pointing naturally at the Magical Creatures' dung in the hole, "How am I supposed to dig through all this filth?"

"Really?" Lin Da shoveled some and threw it onto Lia's boots, "It should be clean enough now, hurry up."

Lin Da jumped into the pit, unconcerned and began to work.

Lia, standing by the pit, was dumbfounded.

The disgusting black sticky substance slid down the edge of her boots.

Lia trembled, her face flushed with anger.

Keeping in mind that they were in the middle of Dragon Forest, she suppressed the urge to scream and glared fiercely at Lin Da, baring her fangs as she jumped into the pit.

Lia stepped on the dung, her face gloomy, and she thrust the shovel into the soil, clearly telling someone just how furious she was.

Throwing dung on a woman's boots, what kind of shrimp-headed man is he!

"Stop staring and get to work. The creatures at night are much fiercer than during the day."

Lin Da, as if oblivious to Lia's menacing look, dug vigorously.

According to the description in the game, they had to dig about forty or fifty meters to find the passage.

Seeing that Lin Da was ignoring her, Lia shut up and started to work.

Although digging was boring and somewhat lame, the feeling of sweating it out together unexpectedly made Lia feel not too bad, reminding her of playing in the mud as a child.

Half an hour later.

Lia shoveled down, expecting hard ground, but found emptiness below.

She lost her balance due to too much force, her eyes widened, and her hands flailed like a fledgling learning to fly, maintaining a 45-degree angle, unable to stand up or lean over.

"You're quite playful," Lin Da said.

"Help me, I'm not playing here!"

"Oh..."

Lin Da lightly pushed Lia's shoulder, and she ended up sitting on the ground.

The ground there then collapsed with a rumble.

A dark tunnel was revealed.

"Found it!"

Lin Da's eyes lit up as he pulled the dirt-covered Lia up.

He took out a prepared 'glow stick,' a magic device very similar to a flashlight.

He lay down and squirmed into the tunnel, saying to Lia, "Follow."

"Are you sure it leads deep into Dragon Forest? It better not head straight into a den of Magical Creatures..."

Lia muttered as she followed Lin Da into the tunnel.

Ignoring Lia's complaints, Lin Da could only smell the musty soil. In the narrow tunnel, it was claustrophobic, and moving forward always felt frustratingly ineffective.

Lia continued to mutter, "Better be an exit ahead, or it'll be troublesome to back out, all thanks to your random directions..."

"Starting with complaints, are we?"

Lin Da itched with irritation. With someone like Lia, unless she saw him as less capable than her, he wouldn't ever earn her respect.

"Move faster, I really don't want to bump into your backside!"

Lia poked his thigh from behind.

In the tunnel where the air was thin, Lin Da didn't waste his energy arguing with Lia and kept crawling forward, ensuring the route was usable.

About another half an hour passed.

Lin Da mentally calculated the distance they had crawled; by now, they should have entered deep into Dragon Forest.

No one could be sure if the scene they would step out to was safe.

If they were unlucky, maybe they would encounter a horde of level-30 Goblin Warlords throwing a party?

'If only Kafni were here, as a thief and a deity, her sensing ability for Magical Creatures would be far superior to ours.'

Lin Da steadied his heart and continued onward.

About ten minutes later, illuminated by the glow stick, there was a pile of soil ahead.

No way forward.

"Why aren't you moving?"

Lia asked, puzzled.

Lin Da: "It's blocked."

"Ah?"

"The soil color is different from the surroundings; it must be newly collapsed earth. Just dig a little, and we can get out."

Lin Da was prepared and pulled out a shovel to start digging.

His guess was indeed correct. After digging for a while, the soil ahead became looser and easily led upward.

The exit of the tunnel was large enough for Lin Da and Lia to stand side by side.

They looked up at a massive boulder pressing down from above, their expressions tense.

Once that boulder was moved, the deep parts of the Dragon Forest would be outside.

The map marked it as extremely dangerous, and the Adventurers' Guild only recommended Sun Adventure Groups to enter this area.

To put it bluntly, the level 30 Magical Creatures in the depths of the Dragon Forest were more numerous than the excrement drawn by adventurers in the slums.

Lia said seriously, "I'll go out and check if it's safe, then I'll call you."

Being a Star-ranked adventurer, Lia wouldn't let Lin Da, who was not of Star Rank, take such risks.

"I appreciate your concern, but it's unnecessary; I have a better way."

Lin Da affectionately patted Lia on the head. Then, under the girl's puzzled gaze, he pulled out a cumin-coated roasted Slime.

"Are you hungry?" Lia asked.

"No, this is for the Magical Creatures outside."

Lin Da released the Dark Whip and wrapped the roasted Slime with it, placing it outside through the crevice of the boulder.

The Slime was a type of food that all Magical Creatures liked. If there were any creatures outside, this roasted Slime would not survive.

After waiting a minute, he pulled the Dark Whip back. Besides being dustier, the roasted Slime wasn't diminished.

Only then did Lin Da feel somewhat relieved and carefully climbed upward. His head pushed against the boulder, creating a crack to peer through to the outside.

Fresh air rushed into the tunnel, and Lia took a deep breath with delight.

However, her face suddenly changed!

Lia's face turned as white as paper, and her legs couldn't stop shaking. A terrifying pressure, along with the air, entered the tunnel!

It was a pressure no ordinary level 40 Magical Creature could exert. Even experiencing just a breath of this creature's presence made Lia's legs go weak, her eyes widened in panic, and she frantically grabbed Lin Da's trousers, as if to ask, "What's outside?"

Lin Da, like Lia, also felt somewhat weak.

Directly in front of him, about a hundred meters away, a green Giant Dragon was coiled up.

It measured nearly thirty meters in length, with wings folded around its body, using its thick tail as a pillow while it snored loudly in its sleep.

Even though the Magical Creature was asleep, the inherent pressure it exuded made it hard for Lin Da to breathe.

He involuntarily held his breath, trying to observe only with his peripheral vision.

Using the lightest force, he covered the boulder above him, then sat down in the tunnel, breathing heavily with his entire body relaxed.

Lia wasn't faring much better, holding the Phoenix Feather Sword and trembling.

"What's outside?"

Lia's voice was very low.

Lin Da still had the mood to smile: "A dragon, and a Forest Dragon at that. Our target is the treasure in its lair."

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If Lin Da could slay that Forest Dragon, the value provided just by the materials would secure at least forty million Gold Coins!

Typically, the treasure collected by Giant Dragons is the most valuable.

Some dragons that have lived for thousands of years, their wealth could rival dozens of adventurer cities.

"Can we really steal the treasure from such a creature?"

Lia, having lost her initial confidence, was thoroughly frightened by the Forest Dragon.