Qin Siyang put down his phone.
Helpless.
Lost.
Ready to curse.
Bad news always arrived uninvited like this.
Like a savage bandit, it kicked down the defenses he had thought secure, smashed, looted, and burned everything, then swaggered away.
Leaving him alone in pieces.
God knew how badly he wanted to hear that Olof was dead!
Qin Siyang took two deep breaths and stopped dwelling on unhappy things.
Instead, he turned his thoughts to hunting the small gods needed to open the path of the believer.
He had thought Blood Moon Spiders and Abyss Hounds would be easy enough to find.
They were only small gods, after all.
But after wandering outside the Safe Zone for three days, he had not found any.
It was a real letdown.
"Old Li."
"What is it?"
"Tell me, where can I find packs of Blood Moon Spiders and Abyss Hounds?"
"Blood Moon Spiders and Abyss Hounds?"
Li Tianming paused. "Can't you find small gods like those along the fringes outside the Safe Zone?"
"I know. But I haven't seen a single one."
"Bad luck. Make a few more trips, and you'll find them. What do you want to kill those two kinds of small gods for?"
"Offerings for the path of the believer."
"Huh?" Li Tianming was startled. "Instead of preparing a disc carapace offering from an intermediate god first, you're going after offerings from these small gods?"
"You're picking at the minor problem before dealing with the main one?"
Qin Siyang could barely be bothered to answer. "I'm a confident guy. I'll get them all."
"Heh. That's you, all right."
"Old Li, I'm asking seriously. Where can I find those two kinds of small gods?"
"And I'm answering seriously. Small gods roam the fringes outside the Safe Zone. Keep looking, and you'll