CHAPTER 198: CHAPTER 197 MONEY 7: ???????

Scratching the zipper of the sleeping bag, Qian Qi found that the night watch was Xu Jinghong. It seemed that she only slept for about three hours before being woken up urgently by nature’s call.

She crawled out of the sleeping bag and walked towards the distance. Seeing her moving alone, Xu Jinghong couldn’t help but call out, "Where are you going?"

"To take a leak," Qian Qi replied.

"Let’s go together," Xu Jinghong stood up. He wanted to ask if Qi Qian was really Little Qian and had many questions about the little silver fish as well.

Qian Qi glanced back at him and the next second she dashed away from the spot.

Xu Jinghong: ...

Xu Jinghong: ???

Why are you running! Feeling guilty, huh? She is indeed Little Qian!

Qian Qi ran at high speed, sensing her movement, the flying surveillance ball immediately followed. Aware that the surveillance ball was also following, she shouted right away, "Temporarily turn off the camera."

The surveillance ball has voice control to turn the camera on and off, which can avoid certain embarrassing scenarios, but the body heat sensing and flying function will not turn off, to avoid losing track of students.

Just as Qian Qi was about to take her pants off to pee, she saw the system glowing and hovering above her head and clicked her tongue, "Are you leering at my body too?"

System: [?]

The system was temporarily speechless and vanished with a "whoosh."

After finishing her business, Qian Qi took out a spare map from her pocket.

"The Concentration Fruit isn’t far from here, let’s scout the path first." She lightly circled a certain spot on the map, folded it up, and sped off towards that direction. She ran about 7 or 8 kilometers before finally reaching the destination.

Under the instruction of the system panel "↓," she took out the Shovel Stick and Shovel, assembled them, and began diligently digging.

According to the system, the reproductive power of the Concentration Fruit is very strong, like potatoes, a cluster can produce a whole lot of them. Moreover, during its growth period, it has the powerful ability to breach soil, and if it is near an underground river with enough water supply.... it can even spread over several kilometers!

However...

Qian Qi waved the shovel, diligently digging three meters deep, yet she didn’t see any trace of the Concentration Fruit. She skeptically glanced at the system hovering at the edge of the pit watching her.

[What are you looking at me like that for?] The system silently retreated, [This thing, close to the underground river, will naturally grow wildly downward. Dig more, and you’ll eventually find it!]

On its panel, it raised a white flashing supporter stick, ready to gloat: [Come on, Little Qian Qi~ There’s still 3 kilometers of Concentration Fruit waiting for you to mine~ If you want to eat C-level Spiritual Power, you at least need to eat a kilometer of Concentration Fruit~ ＾＿＾]

Qian Qi: ...

Qian Qi: ?????

A shovel flew over, and the system, anticipating Qian Qi’s tantrum, quickly dodged.

In the night sky, Qian Qi’s impotent rage echoed: "1 kilometer?! Even if I dislocate my arm, I can’t finish digging 1 kilometer!!!"

[That’s not my problem~╮(‵▽′)╭] After saying this, the system happily vanished.

Qian Qi was dumbfounded. She caught the shovel dropping from the sky, not knowing what to do for a moment.

After a moment of silence, Qian Qi lightly placed her small hand on her lips, muttering something. Finally, after 10 minutes, her little rustic face twisted a few times, followed closely by several cold and sinister chuckles.

"Since that’s the case... then don’t blame me for being ruthless and shameless..."

The night deepened and cooled.

...

Xu Jinghong waited for a long time, and Qian Qi didn’t return. When it was time to switch shifts with Zhang Yun, he looked around the area near where Qian Qi had disappeared but found no trace of her, even calling out several times without response.

Sheng Qing woke up at some unknown time. Seeing Xu Jinghong coming back alone, she asked, "Couldn’t find her?"

Xu Jinghong shook his head, "No."

Sheng Qing’s fine brows wrinkled slightly, rarely showing a hint of worry in her eyes, "I’ll search further away."

"Let’s go together..." Xu Jinghong, unwilling to let others act alone, followed her as they walked towards the distance, but who knew after searching almost a kilometer, they still couldn’t spot Qian Qi.

"Where did this kid go? Can’t even call out." Xu Jinghong frustratedly scratched his hair, because he believed Qi Qian was Little Qian, he wasn’t worried about Qian Qi being in trouble. After all, she navigated the D-level dungeon like a fish in water; how could an E-level school instance stump her?

This guy, maybe she’s secretly going to take down the instance boss?

Xu Jinghong accurately guessed. On her way to her task, Qian Qi happened to encounter the instance boss, the Earth Rhinoceros Spirit, being chased. So she casually bashed its head, snagged some defensive power attributes, and then quickly traveled several places, finally reaching the supply station near Flag 14 at noon the next day.

As the central flag point, the most teams passed through here, and the supply at the supply station was the most replenished. Many teams that didn’t grab supplies on the first day would come here to refill their lacking materials.

However, today, the teams passing through seemed to have an odd atmosphere.

"This is really uncanny, visited two flag points consecutively and still no flag." In a certain team, a student yawned, looking extremely sleepy, "After traveling all night to reach the flag-rich 14 flag point, yet again not a single flag, are other teams really that fierce?"

"Hmm? You guys also didn’t get a flag?" Another team heard and couldn’t help but ask.

"Yeah, aside from the first No. 2 flag we got, we didn’t get the others."

"Tch, then you’re lucky, we went through 3 flags in a row and didn’t get any! Especially the No. 3 flag, was snatched by the Black Bee Bear and the exam staff didn’t restock any!"

"Wow, that’s awful!" The first team couldn’t help showing sympathy, then consoled, "It’s not even been a day, just push through a few more flag points, you should be able to pass."

"Yeah, now we only hope to pass, sigh..."

The two teams sighed in unison, everyone looking worried, unsure if they could get flags at the subsequent flag points, making them thoroughly reconsider their route to avoid coming up empty again.

After exchanging information about the empty flag points, the first team decided to take a nap and rest here due to exhaustion from traveling all night, waiting for other teams to exchange information, while the other team packed up and headed to the next flag point.

After the team left, a slender figure appeared stealthily from behind the resource supply station, sneakily following the leaving team, and then without a sound, tapped the shoulder of the team’s captain.

"What is it?" The captain thought it was a teammate calling him, but upon turning, found a stranger mixed into the team, startlingly asked, "Who are you?!"

"Classmate..." Qian Qi lowered her voice, "I heard you didn’t get a single flag?"

The captain glanced warily at Qian Qi, "What do you want?"

"Relax, let’s... make a trade." Qian Qi looked at the captain, grinning sinisterly.

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