After parting ways with Zhang Tie in Eskil City, Sem and Gri had gone to Shata Town. After waiting there for several days, they had joined a large group of Prospectors and come here.
Their experiences had not been complicated. After arriving, they and the other Prospectors had begun trying to enter the underground beneath Glacier Rift, hoping to find the city ruins and test their luck. Through constant attempts and exploration, they and their teammates had gradually figured out some of the situation below. Thus, ten days ago, after making preparations, Sem, Gri, and several other Prospectors had entered the underground, only emerging today.
This ten-day exploration could not exactly be called a brush with death, but they had encountered many dangers and setbacks, great and small. Everyone had been worn down into a thoroughly bedraggled state.
What frustrated them even more was that after finally finding something underground, they had been forced to surrender half of it upon returning to the surface. Faced with the Tribal Alliance's overwhelming military strength, their group of Prospectors had no room to choose or bargain—either be killed and lose everything, or stay alive and hand over half their loot.
That was also why Zhang Tie had found them all hanging their heads in dejection when he saw them earlier.
"You actually found something down there? What was it?" The moment he heard that Sem and Gri had gained something underground, Zhang Tie was immediately interested. It was not greed, but pure curiosity.
At Zhang Tie's question, Sem and Gri exchanged a glance. Neither hesitated. Each took an item from the storage bags they carried with them and handed it to Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tie first accepted the object in Sem's hand. It was quite heavy. Looking at it carefully, he saw that