Qin Siyang looked at Hu Chan's expression and felt utterly helpless, "Holy Son, can you take your foot off the control console first?"
At this moment, Hu Chan, carried away by excitement, had one foot planted on the seat and the other on the control console, standing beside Qin Siyang in a lookout-like pose.
Because he had just been waving his arms around excitedly, even his hairstyle was a bit messy.
"If you accidentally hit some button and mess up the drill capsule, then the two of us will only be able to run back to the safe zone on our own two legs."
"Sorry, Boss Qin. I got too excited."
Hu Chan sat back down and wiped the control console with his sleeve.
Qin Siyang curled his lips, "You really like Titan Foxtail Grass, huh?"
"It's hard currency. Isn't it normal to like it?"
"I think you care about Protector Yu. You're desperate for Titan Foxtail Grass to cure her illness."
Hu Chan snorted, "What, I want to save my lifesaver. What's wrong with that?"
"Nothing wrong. I'd be the same."
"Exactly."
Hu Chan tidied up his hair, then asked expectantly, "Boss Qin, if we go four or five hundred kilometers from the safe zone, do you think we might run into Titan Foxtail Grass?"
Qin Siyang shook his head, "Probably not. Titan Foxtail Grass is always guarded by extremely powerful mid-tier gods. Even if you see it, you won't be able to get it."
"That's not necessarily true! What if the ones around Titan Foxtail Grass are mid-tier gods like Human-Faced Horseshoe Crabs, Red Stone Borers, or Ghost-Faced Herons?"
"You're overthinking it. Around Titan Foxtail Grass, the baseline is something like a Thunder Snow Wolf."
"How do you know that?"
Qin Siyang narrowed his eyes and glanced at Hu Chan, "How do I know? Did your brain short-circuit? Who gave you those Titan Foxtail Grass inner leaf fragments? You don't remember?"
"Oh, right… I forgot… Boss Qin got them by hunting a Thunder Snow Wolf."
Hu Chan brushed it off as his own momentary lapse, skipping over the doubt he had just voiced.
But Qin Siyang still felt that Hu Chan was testing him.
Testing whether he had obtained a whole Titan Foxtail Grass plant, rather than just inner leaf fragments taken from the bellies of mid-tier gods.
But Qin Siyang stayed alert at all times and did not reveal the slightest flaw.
After a while, Qin Siyang stepped on the brakes.
Because this place was extremely far from the safe zone, there was no need to worry about being discovered. In order to be able to rescue Hu Chan in time if he ran into powerful gods, he parked the drill capsule on the surface of the wasteland.
"Here should be fine. Take a look and see if there are any Blood Moon Tarantulas or Abyss Hounds."
"Boss Qin, this is only two hundred kilometers from the safe zone. That's too conservative."
"Stop talking and get out."
"Oh."
With reluctance in his heart, Hu Chan left the drill capsule to search for the gods' whereabouts.
Qin Siyang surveyed the dark wilderness. He didn't notice anything unusual, not even the presence of large-scale gods. It was very quiet.
After a while, Hu Chan returned to the drill capsule.
"About three kilometers to the left, there's an underground nest where quite a few gods are gathered. We can go take a look."
"Alright."
Qin Siyang floored the accelerator. The drill capsule sped forward close to the ground, carving out a deep trench.
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After driving for a few minutes, Qin Siyang indeed spotted a not-too-big, not-too-small dark cave entrance.
"This is it. Boss Qin, wait for me."
Hu Chan took Qin Siyang's god-hunting dagger and drilled into the cave.
Qin Siyang waited outside the cave for more than half an hour before Hu Chan finally came out.
There were some red bloodstains on his face.
After getting back into the drill capsule, he tossed a storage box to Qin Siyang, "Boss Qin, count it."
Qin Siyang glanced at Hu Chan in surprise, then opened the storage box.
Inside were the corpses of more than a hundred Blood Moon Tarantulas.
Qin Siyang immediately broke into a broad smile, "We finally got something! Worthy of the Holy Son!"
"What does that have to do with me? Just good luck, a lucky start. Looks like the farther we get from the safe zone, the easier it is to get results."
"That makes sense! Looks like the Summer Calendar saying 'auspicious for taking in wealth' today wasn't wrong after all!"
After counting them up, Qin Siyang found that there were over two hundred Blood Moon Tarantulas in total.
The Blood Moon Tarantula point values ranged between one hundred ninety and one hundred ninety-three. With over two hundred of them here, the number of same-point Blood Moon Tarantula disc armors had already exceeded fifty.
Now Qin Siyang had both Blood Moon Tarantula disc armors and Abyss Hound disc armors in hand.
He didn't know which set he would finish collecting first.
Either way, preparing both meant being ready for anything.
In high spirits, Qin Siyang continued driving the drill capsule around with Hu Chan within a range of a bit over two hundred kilometers from the safe zone.
They moved around, stopping and starting. Whenever Hu Chan's skill cooldown ended, he would leave the drill capsule again to look for gods.
But after that lucky start, progress slowed down again.
Perhaps because they were too far from the safe zone, mid-tier gods appeared more frequently, and the number of low-tier gods dropped sharply.
There was a fifty to sixty percent chance that Hu Chan would come back empty-handed.
Once it was even worse. As soon as Hu Chan stepped out of the drill capsule, he discovered traces of a Doom Fate Octopus and scrambled back into the capsule in a panic. When Qin Siyang heard it was a Doom Fate Octopus, he immediately slammed the accelerator and fled as well.
In the remaining attempts, they only found some insignificant low-tier gods, which, at least in the eyes of Qin Siyang, who planned to open the path of believers with top-tier offerings, were completely not worth mentioning.
More than ten hours passed in mediocrity.
Just as a day was about to end, good news finally came again.
Hu Chan returned to the drill capsule and tossed another storage box to Qin Siyang.
"At least this trip wasn't for nothing. This time it's Abyss Hounds."
Qin Siyang eagerly checked it and found that there were over a hundred Abyss Hound corpses this time.
Adding in the results from the previous time he and Hu Chan went out together to hunt Abyss Hounds, the number of disc armors for all point values had now exceeded seventy. Success was in sight.
As long as they ran into Abyss Hounds one more time, the two of them could call it a day.
Qin Siyang had planned to press on, but when he looked at Hu Chan, he saw that his face was already full of exhaustion, and his armor was covered in mud and blood.
"Boss Qin, let's keep going!"
Qin Siyang shook his head, "You've worked hard today. Take a break, get some sleep, then continue."
"I'm fine—"
"Safety first."
Hu Chan smiled, "Alright."
The two of them parked the drill capsule beside a huge boulder, taking turns keeping watch of their surroundings while the other rested. Qin Siyang stood watch longer, since he hadn't really expended much effort.
After adjusting like this for half a day, they set off again in search of offerings.
Perhaps their luck had run out. An entire day passed with no gains at all.
Qin Siyang wasn't in a hurry, but Hu Chan, who wanted to perform well in front of him and ask for a recommendation letter to the Miracle Tower laboratory, couldn't sit still.
"That's about it for today. Let's rest."
"Boss Qin, I didn't really fight today. I'm not tired. Let's continue!"
Seeing the determination in Hu Chan's eyes, Qin Siyang nodded, "Alright."
So they drove underground for another hour, then parked the drill capsule on the surface.
"Here should be fine."
"Okay."
"Wait a second. Hey, what's that group with five or six heads?"
Hearing this, Hu Chan, who was about to leave the capsule, narrowed his eyes and saw over a dozen gods jumping around in the distance.
A few seconds later, Hu Chan's expression turned to horror, "Boss Qin, those are Multi-Headed Weasels! Retreat, now!"
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