Chapter 97: Abandoned Treasures In The Medicine Cavern
Fang Shu carefully examined the faintly visible precious light, and after confirming it was not a misperception, he had the thought in his heart to go investigate it.
However, he did not set off immediately, but continued in the mine tunnel, nurturing the Natal Gu Embryo that he had just refined into his body.
After repeatedly confirming that this Gu Refining onto his body had no oversights, Fang Shu began in the mine tunnel to handle the traces he had left behind.
He also bundled up all the long-accumulated possessions of the Gold Seeking Insect into a package and stored them in his own shoulder bag.
After handling everything, he followed the precious light in the mine tunnel and groped forward.
As a result, Fang Shu had not walked far at all, not even turning a few corners, before he seemed to arrive at the place where the precious light was surging.
But this was normal enough.
A bug like the Gold Seeking Insect, the place it hid in, even if not a treasure land, should be not far from one, otherwise how could it have caught its eye.
Rather, the Gold Seeking Insect did not live directly in the place where the precious light surged, but settled for second best in the adjacent mine tunnel, which said quite a bit.
Sure enough, Fang Shu went forward to look.
He discovered that ahead was collapsed, blocked by a massive boulder, and moss mushrooms were growing on the stone.
This kind of moss mushroom only grew deep in mine tunnels, born from spiritual vitality, could serve as rations, and contained a bit of spiritual energy; miners would pick and eat them no matter the size upon sighting.
This place had moss mushrooms growing, looking as if no one had come for a long time.
But Fang Shu went forward for a close look and immediately spotted the clues.
These moss mushrooms grew quite uniformly, especially in height, basically consistent, bearing traces of artificial arrangement.
He summoned the Follower Bug and had it scout around nearby for a few circles; the bug also fed back that the aura here was chaotic, not like a place long uninhabited.
“Interesting.” Realizing this, Fang Shu immediately guessed a situation.
The place ahead where the precious light surged was most likely the treasure land discovered by that Mine Owner Cao, but after discovering it, the other party had concealed it, not revealing it outwardly, thus specially arranging things.
Realizing this, Fang Shu’s heart was even more expectant.
Since this place was connected to that Mine Owner Cao, going to probe it would surely not leave him empty-handed.
Moreover, such a covert probing could spare him from boldly going directly to the door to extort, lest the other party have a backup plan and he capsize in a gutter by accident.
Fang Shu paced behind that massive boulder, his brows furrowing again.
Since there were traces of artificial arrangement here, if he casually dug, he would likely alarm the other party.
Thus, he once again used the Gold Seeking Insect at his brow, carefully examining nearby.
Immediately, Fang Shu discovered fine cracks on the massive boulder, with the precious light seeping out from these fissures.
These fissures, though a person could not enter and a fox could not squeeze through, a bug could crawl into.
At once, Fang Shu released several Follower Bugs, had them memorize his scent clearly, then they drilled inside.
If they encountered danger, return quickly; if not, circle around and come find him.
As for Fang Shu himself, he restrained his aura, sat cross-legged in the mine tunnel, and patiently waited.
About half a hour later, one Follower Bug came sniffing back.
Fang Shu did not set off immediately, continuing to wait.
Another approximate three quarters of an hour later, the remaining two Follower Bugs also returned safely.
This made him secretly breathe a sigh of relief, then he had the three Follower Bugs lead the way ahead while he circled around to go.
Gradually, Fang Shu got farther and farther from the place where the precious light surged, but he did not hesitate, continuing to follow his own Gu Worm.
Little by little, voices of people came from ahead, along with the clinking sounds of striking and mining.
This made Fang Shu walk a bit and stop, and he kept the Third Calamity Breath-Holding Insect constantly in his mouth.
Finally.
He arrived near a fork in the road, with a monster foreman guarding the fork, strictly watching the surroundings.
Occasionally, when a single miner or mine slave was dragged over by a monster, the monster foreman would check them before letting them in.
Evidently, the route the Follower Bugs found for Fang Shu was the entry and exit route dug by these monsters.
The mine tunnel was narrow; rashly going forward would more easily alarm others than digging through.
But Fang Shu was not disappointed; he calmly held his breath, crouched in the shadows, wearing a rock-gray robe.
Occasionally, even when a monster passed by and urinated nearby, it still did not discover him.
Just like this, Fang Shu figured out the monsters’ shift change times.
He also discovered that occasionally, after a miner was dragged here, the monster dragging the miner would get lazy, not sending the person inside, but instead blocking at the mine tunnel entrance, chatting idly with the foreman monster, letting the miner go in by himself.
After some thought, Fang Shu first hid his miscellaneous items on his body, then taking advantage of the gap during the foreman monster’s shift change, under the cover of the Breath-Holding Insect, easily slipped into that mine tunnel.
At this moment, he also looked just like a miner.
He walked low-key along the mine tunnel inward, his aura weak; even if discovered by the monsters, they would only think he was a mortal miner.
And in Fang Shu’s gaze, the precious light ahead grew increasingly dense.
A cave appeared before his eyes.
In the cavern was a deep blue light, with specks of spiritual light floating in the air, quite magnificent; at first glance, it made one’s mind sway.
But immediately, Fang Shu’s expression changed slightly, and he held his breath even more.
Because the layout of this place was similar to the cave he had previously explored, also a dangerous spot.
The difference between the two was that the previous cave had Metal and Stone Poison, while this cave contained what seemed to be plant poison.
One could see that in the cave, dense blue moss actually grew, and this moss, like mushrooms, would spew out powder; those sparkling spiritual lights in the air were what they spewed.
Though it was unknown what reaction inhaling these things would cause, it was definitely not good.
Because apart from this moss in the cave, what remained were skeletons piled up like a bone mountain.
Some of these skeletons even retained poses of mining, extremely eerie.
Seeing this scene, Fang Shu understood why those monsters deliberately got lazy and were unwilling to drag miners and mine slaves here.
This place was ominous; evidently, the monsters did not want to come much either.
But Fang Shu carefully examined this cave, and a joyful color arose amid the fluctuations of his thoughts.
After confirming no other living creatures were here, he immediately headed straight to the central position of the cave.
Sure enough, he discovered in the center of the cave formation traces similar to the previous one. And like the previous cave, the formation here had long been damaged from disrepair.
But what Fang Shu absolutely never expected was that the treasure nurtured in this cave had not been taken away!?
He carefully peeled away a thick layer of moss traces, and under the tip of the Tongue Sword, a pool of deep blue jade-like substance appeared before his eyes.
The object was like agar jade, full of spiritual vitality, with a fresh fragrance wafting out.
Fang Shu clearly was not breathing, yet he felt his body tremble, his whole body exuding longing, especially his intestines and stomach wriggling and rumbling on the spot, surging with a greedy hunger.
This object in the cavern was not only non-toxic, but extremely vital, clearly a top-grade Precious Medicine!
