“Not going down into the hole? Not staying here to wait either?”
Liu Shifu was confused by Chen Bugu’s words.
He had just meticulously searched the entire space and hadn’t seen any other exits.
“Liu Shifu, have you checked the edge of this platform just now? Can you see what’s beneath the platform?”
Chen Bugu looked at Liu Shifu and suddenly asked.
“It seems to be all water beneath the platform, just green water. I can take you to see it.”
After Liu Shifu finished speaking, he led everyone towards the edge of the platform.
When they reached the edge of the platform, everyone looked down together and saw the green water Liu Shifu had mentioned. The water surface was about a dozen meters below the edge of the platform.
There was no sun in this eerie spherical space, yet it was brightly lit all around; there was no wind, but the emerald green water surface constantly surged back and forth, never calm.
“Liu Shifu, could I trouble you to fly to the underside of the center of this platform and help me check the bottom of the water in the middle?”
Liu Shifu was puzzled but did not refuse. He immediately activated Floating, went around to the underside of the platform, and floated towards the center.
Mid-way through, Liu Shifu noticed something was off.
The bottom of the platform was extremely smooth, like a single piece of marble.
However, this was precisely what was off; the hole in the middle was completely absent at the bottom.
Liu Shifu sped up, flying towards the center. As he got closer, he also recalled that when he had floated in the air overlooking the hole a short while ago, he had only felt that its interior was pitch black.
He had initially thought that the hole would connect to a huge passage, leading straight down out of this space.
But now, the smooth, flat bottom of the platform changed Liu Shifu’s mind.
After flying to the center of the platform’s underside, Liu Shifu looked down. Below him was still the massive green lake, but unlike other areas, at the bottom of the “lake water” in the center, something seemed to be emitting light, clearly visible even from above the water.
Liu Shifu did not delve deeper, turning and Floating back.
…
“Emitting light?”
Han Badou asked in confusion, and Liu Shifu’s silent nod was his reply.
Chen Bugu sighed. The intelligence was indeed correct.
The intelligence dealer he had met in his previous life, though greedy for money, lustful, short-sighted, always bragging, and constantly selling outdated, rotten intelligence…
But there was one thing: his intelligence had truly never been wrong.
It was said that the guy was a reporter before the apocalypse, so he valued authenticity the most.
To ensure the authenticity of his intelligence, his information was always much slower than others. Many times, the struggle for treasures had already ended when this guy started selling news of their appearance, which led to his intelligence being largely worthless in most cases.
Only Chen Bugu had a decent relationship with him, so he would act as a sucker, occasionally helping out this unfortunate brother-in-arms by buying intelligence within his means.
The intelligence received in the previous life, verified in this life, proved him right again.
However, since the intelligence was correct, they indeed had to act separately next.
“That’s a Secret Realm, and it contains something I need,” Chen Bugu explained.
“It’s just a Secret Realm, we can go together.”
Wang Bin rubbed his fists. He had heard Chen Bugu talk about the concept of Secret Realms before, and he still had vivid impressions of Yu Tan Tunnel and Tiancheng City First Hospital.
“This time is different. We might not come out for a month, or we might die in there directly.”
“Everyone, on our first night in Initial Forest, I told you that I needed companions.”
“Precisely because you are my companions, I hope you all can survive. So, next, we might have to part ways temporarily.”
After Chen Bugu finished these two sentences, Liu Shifu suddenly realized that it seemed not he, but Chen Bugu, was the one leaving the team.
Liu Shifu wanted to say a few more words, but Chen Bugu interrupted him first.
“I don’t know where this Secret Realm below will teleport us, nor do I know what monsters we’ll encounter; I also don’t know how long it will take to return, or even if I can return.”
Liu Shifu swallowed his words. He fell silent because Chen Bugu rarely spoke so definitively.
“Liu Shifu, your wife and daughter are still waiting for you. There’s no need to follow me. I’ve said it before, you don’t owe me, and I don’t owe you.”
“Do you have to go? You’re already very strong.”
Liu Shifu didn’t understand. He thought everyone would wait for their families here, and even if they couldn’t, they would leave together.
There was clearly no danger here anymore.
He couldn’t understand Chen Bugu.
“I only have this one chance.”
Chen Bugu had also been conflicted. He was already Black Iron Six-star, much faster than in his previous life.
But this kind of Secret Realm had only two possibilities: either an Awakened clears it and takes the reward, or an Awakened dies within it.
Since the intelligence dealer could tell him the information, it meant that this Secret Realm had already been cleared at that time. Chen Bugu had even complained that he was selling rotten intelligence as usual, but he didn’t expect this intelligence to come in handy at this moment.
If it were just an ordinary rotten piece of intelligence, Chen Bugu would probably have forgotten it in a few days, but that intelligence dealer said that the reward of this Secret Realm was a Starfall Weapon.
Starfall Weapons were almost universally known in later generations because they represented a legacy left behind by a destroyed civilization, or even a destroyed planet.
In the previous life, only three Starfall Weapons appeared in total: one blade, one spear, and one hammer. The blade and spear were both in human hands, and with those two weapons, those two human powerhouses each created a faction.
Starfall Weapons themselves did not possess color grades. To others, no matter how beautiful their design, they could only be considered white weapons. Only when the wielder completely inherited that power would the weapon display its true radiance.
And those Starfall Weapons that had not revealed their power, even if placed right in front of one, would be unrecognizable. It was not ruled out that some wielders died prematurely before completing the inheritance, and the Starfall Weapons were thus lost.
Once someone’s weapon was rumored to be an unrevealed Starfall Weapon, it would still incite countless people to kill for it.
Later, some even used such false information to frame others, so everyone treated intelligence about Starfall Weapons with skepticism.
Given that intelligence dealer’s nature, if he dared to tell him the information, it must have gone through a long period of verification.
If the Secret Realm below indeed contained that Starfall Weapon, then Chen Bugu had to strive for it, because he knew very well that even if he became powerful in the future and returned to Initial Forest, he would not enter this spherical space again.
Those who returned to Starting Forest could not return the way they came, nor could they leave the way they came.
Only those who arrived at Initial Forest for the first time could leave through this space. Everyone else, passing through the light gate at the bottom of Soaring Sky Tree, would only be randomly teleported back into the forest.
Therefore, those who left here and wanted to re-enter Starting Forest could only rely on expensive teleportation crystals.
And regarding the Secret Realm of the Starfall Weapon, it was said that its difficulty was completely random.
In the previous life, the Starfall Weapon that fell into the hands of an alien race was called 【Thunderclap】, a pair of heavy hammers.
When its Secret Realm was discovered, a Gold-tier lone Awakened from humanity also participated in that struggle.
It was said that as soon as he entered the Secret Realm, he appeared amidst dozens of monsters with strength similar to his own. If he hadn’t crushed a rare life-saving item in time, escaping the Secret Realm at the cost of burning his life, he would probably have perished there.
Meanwhile, the alien race who entered as a team at the same time only had to defeat two waves of Black Iron peak monsters to successfully obtain the inheritance.
After that, everyone speculated that Starfall Weapons possessed self-awareness, and choosing a master was a standard operation; whether one could obtain it also depended on fate.
Even so, the world still flocked to Starfall Weapons, as it was believed that as long as one survived the early stages and completed the inheritance, the wielder of a Starfall Weapon would inevitably become a powerful figure.
Chen Bugu naturally knew the danger of this journey, but he only had this one chance.
Moreover, the intelligence the intelligence dealer gave him clearly stated…
This Starfall Weapon was a bow!