Old Acquaintance
When the Golden-eyed Player had invited Xu Huo to tackle an instance together, he'd mentioned that a Super Player's lost item was in some B-class instance, and that it might be a Super Artifact. Now that he'd shown up here, he was obviously looking for something.
But the exact reason was still uncertain. After all, the instance in this Sub-district had already been upgraded, and no one in Dimension Below had revealed what it had been like before.
The Golden-eyed Player had actually seen Xu Huo's true face, but in his current state, he couldn't think clearly or investigate why Xu Huo was testing him. He could only give an honest, instinctive response.
"So you really are here looking for something." Xu Huo chuckled. "What are you looking for? Maybe I can help. We can split it half and half afterward—you won't lose out."
The Golden-eyed Player wasn't stupid. He stared at Xu Huo for a long while before asking, "You can actually stay lucid? Where are we now? What's around us?"
"We just passed an underground ruin. Didn't you see the local residents?" Xu Huo asked.
The Golden-eyed Player paused, still unsure whether Xu Huo was truly lucid. "People here either died or fled back when the Sub-district changed. How could anyone still be living underground? Besides, the entire Sub-district is saturated with high levels of mental energy. What kind of person could live here long-term? What you saw was an illusion!"
Xu Huo nodded slightly. "I thought so too. But we really are still in an underground passage. Do you know how these passages formed?"
The Golden-eyed Player paused before replying, "They were probably dug out by Mutated Plants. The original ground was buried underground long ago. It's not strange for plants underground to grow and