Chapter 172: Phantom Cave
On the other side, the Phantom Cave.
The Fantasy Cave is a place where life players challenge each other. Each player must select three keywords before taking the challenge. The Fantasy Cave will transform a special environment based on these three keywords.
Zhenzhen chose: planting, cooking, and innovation, all three of which are related to food.
This is a small mountain village with mountains, water, rice fields, fish ponds, streams, flowers, grass, farmer aunts, farmer uncles, and barking dogs. The scenery is beautiful, but whether she can find what she wants depends on her luck and strength.
After some hard work, she finally got something.
First, in terms of planting, a new clue was discovered: soil. Growing rice above grade nine requires special soil. These soils are very rare and have not yet been found in Buluo County. In the past, only climate, temperature, humidity and other factors were known. No wonder it has been impossible to cultivate Jiupin rice.
Secondly, her life skill proficiency was also increased to 100% here, and she has officially become a ninth-level food chef. The moment she became a ninth-grade food chef, she truly understood the vastness of the food chef system, with its many branches of skills and even more fancy operating techniques.
Although she didn't get anything related to innovation in the end, she had gained a lot and was content with what she had.
When she was about to leave the small mountain village, Zhenzhen planned to go for a walk in the rice fields to enjoy the beautiful pastoral scenery. Because in real life, you will never find such a small mountain village; you will never meet such simple farmer aunts and uncles; you will never find such pastoral life again.
While walking on the ridge of the field, a little kitten meowed at her, and she suddenly felt affection for her. So he took out the dried fish from his body and prepared to feed the kitten. The little kitten was not afraid of her and ate the dried fish with relish.
Speaking of these dried fish, there is some origin, because this was the first nine-grade fish that Feng caught in the Tianchi next to the gang hall. This nine-grade fish was kept in the fish tank made by Lin Ge for a long time, but in the end it died because the fish left the lake.
Fish is perhaps the most special wild monster. It does not turn into flesh and blood essence after death, so Zhenzhen made the nine-grade fish into dried nine-grade fish for use when needed.
Looking at the little kitten eating dried fish, she felt very happy. She wanted to keep a small animal like this that would not grow up. But this was a fantasy cave, and the kitten was probably just an illusion. She could only shake her head helplessly.
But she still couldn't help but touch the cat's back with her hands, and the cat responded to her with "meow meow".
After taking one last look at the pastoral scenery, she turned around and walked out of the village. To her surprise, the kitten jumped on her shoulder.
She smiled, and then left the small mountain village with the kitten. As the scene changed, she was teleported to a magnificent hall.
"Lucky player, congratulations on being recognized by the little patron saint."
"Little patron saint? Kitty?" Zhenzhen looked at the kitten on her shoulder, but she didn't expect it to follow her out.
"Yes, that's it. It's still a baby now."
"Are you the island owner?"
"Yes, I am the owner of the island. Dear guest, since you have been recognized by the little patron saint, would you like to join us?"
After a detailed conversation, Zhenzhen was teleported back to the port.
Zhenzhen was worried and didn't know how to make a decision, so she also found a boat and planned to go to a nearby small island.
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In reality, the Duan family
Westbrook is worried at this time.
Because during the company's meeting yesterday, Westbrook asked the company's management why they would hand over the stores they have worked so hard to run to others.
The answer he got was because someone reported him, saying that he didn't care at all when opening a store and doing business. Not only did he play online games every day, but he not only played by himself, but also took his sister to play with him. It was really a waste of time.
Of course, Westbrook argued hard, using the store's sales performance to prove his ability, and promised that he would definitely work harder. Playing games is just for entertainment in your spare time and will not affect the store's business at all.
But now that the company is owned by his third uncle Duan Zhenbei, how could Duan Zhenbei listen to Westbrook's explanations. Under Duan Zhenbei's instruction, these company managers found many reasons to target Westbrook, leaving Westbrook speechless in his rebuttal.
In the end, Westbrook was only given one day to consider whether to keep the store or give up online games.
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The gaming world has Westbrook's ideals and a large group of like-minded brothers, so Westbrook will naturally not give up; and the store is his hard work, and he must control it in his own hands.
Westbrook, who is in a dilemma, has made up his mind to get out of the company's control as soon as possible, so what he has to do now is to find ways to delay time.
He thought about using the excuse of "no longer playing games" to deceive the company, but this was easily exposed and would not last long. He also thought about asking his father for help, but finally gave up. He didn't want his father to humble himself and ask his third uncle for such a trivial matter.
While he was thinking hard, he received a call from Zhenzhen.
Zhenzhen already knew everything about what happened in the company, so she called Westbrook to understand the situation and wanted to know if Westbrook had thought of a way to deal with it.
Although Westbrook confidently said that there was no problem and it would be solved soon, Zhenzhen already knew Westbrook's current embarrassing situation from his words.
So Zhenzhen dialed Mr. Qin's number after hanging up the phone.
"If I agree to your conditions, can you let my brother go?"
"As long as you agree, everything will be easy to talk about."
"Okay, give me a few days."
"I'm waiting for you."
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"Master, are you really going to let Westbrook go this time?" the secretary next to him asked.
"Of course, I am a person who keeps his word, but whether his third uncle lets him go or not is none of my business."
"Young Master, you really have a clever trick to make them dog eat dog."
"Pay close attention to Westbrook's movements these days, especially his contact with those people."
"clear."
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Not long after, Duan Zhenbei called Westbrook and said that considering his uncle's relationship, he could be given a few more days to think about it. He also told Westbrook sincerely that this was all for his own good and the purpose was Let him not get bored playing with things.
Only Westbrook can't help but believe that his third uncle has such good intentions. Although he doesn't understand the sudden change, he now has a few days and must make good use of it.
So, he hurried out to find friends for help.
Not long after he started driving, he actually found someone following him. He simply went back to City N. After all, many things did not require his own action.
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At around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Feng, who was eating dry food, was wandering on a small island numbered 97. Although it was a small island, it was quite large in area, with beaches, mountains, and woods.
Adventure, adventure, and adventure must be indispensable, so he started climbing the mountain.
While climbing the mountain, he saw many small animals. These small animals were too fast and disappeared before they got close. He also saw many seagulls flying in the sky, which made him even more suspicious that this was already a sea area.
When he reached the mountainside, he saw a cave and heard the sound of fighting coming from the cave in the distance.
So he ran over quickly.
After quietly entering the cave, he saw three players fighting with a big brown bear. This big brown bear turned out to be a ninth-grade high-level wild monster. But these four players are also masters. They do not fight head-on, but retreat while fighting, as if they want to attract the bear out of the cave.
Since he didn't know him, he came up with a plan.
He tiptoed and hid at a dark fork in the road, then waited with bated breath.
The sound of fighting slowly came, and when passing by Feng's hidden corner, the four people and one bear did not notice his figure, but continued to move the battlefield outside the cave.
Watching the battle going away, Feng took the opportunity to slip into the cave.
Arriving at the brown bear's den, there was a cub sleeping soundly. He smiled and prepared to catch it, but after thinking about it, he gave up. After all, there was too much movement and it was difficult to leave quietly.
After abandoning the cub, a careful search began.
After a short search, he found a dark token, a tattered armor, and some unintelligible stones. When he was about to continue searching, he suddenly heard footsteps behind him, and he quickly hid in the darkness next to him.
One of the players came in. This person was very excited when he saw the bear cub. He picked up the cub and prepared to run away. Because in his eyes, nothing is more important than a cub of a ninth-grade high-level wild monster, which can at least be sold for a high price.
However, although the cubs are good, they are not so easy to take away.
I saw the bear cub making a sound of "Ow, ow, ow". This sound spread from the inside of the cave to the entrance of the cave. The big brown bear at the entrance of the cave heard the cub's voice and immediately responded with a roar of "Ow, ow, ow". Then he immediately gave up the fight with the players at the entrance of the cave and ran towards the cave.
The players in the cave were panicked when they saw the big brown bear running toward them, but they were reluctant to part with the bear cub in their hands, and were in a dilemma.
But the big brown bear didn't give him a chance to think about it, and quickly slapped him with a bear paw. This person is indeed a master, he can dodge attacks even if he is holding a bear cub.
"Come quickly."
"coming."
"coming."
"We'll hold on, you run away with the bear cub."
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Although these four people have good ideas, the combat effectiveness of the ninth-grade high-level wild monsters in a furious state has been directly improved by a level. In just a few moves, all four people were injured.
Eventually, they had to abandon the cubs and gain a way to escape.
Feng, who was hiding in the dark, also saw the true strength of the ninth-grade high-level wild monster. Just as the dream controller said, it is estimated that it takes more than ten top experts to subdue a ninth-grade high-level wild monster.
After the cave became calm, Feng quickly ran out of the cave.
As soon as he ran out of the cave, he heard the roar of a big brown bear behind him, which echoed throughout the island.
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There are indeed many adventures on these small islands, but many of them have patron saints and require strength and luck to get them.
At around eight o'clock in the evening, everyone returned to the island landing boat one after another.
At nine o'clock, the island landing boat Yang Fan returned.
