A Burst of Luck, the Arcane Musket!

[Protective suit: level 2 quality]

[Effect: Filters ordinary poisonous miasma and resists corrosion from weak venom. Contains oxygen, which can supply three minutes of breathing once activated. The oxygen must be replenished after use.]

Cao Fengqi walked out of the Weaver's clothing shop with the level 2 protective suit, full of anticipation.

He had spent all the Moon Spirit Stones he had obtained on this suit!

When he got home and saw that only Dabao and Xiaobao were there, he casually asked, "Where are your grandparents?"

"Grandma and Mom went to look for wild vegetables. Grandpa went to work at the spirit forger's place."

Xiaobao answered him.

"Work at the spirit forger's place?"

A piece of information flashed through Cao Fengqi's mind, and he frowned slightly.

Simply put, a spirit forger was an artifact refiner, a support-type Transcendent Sequence.

Spirit Forger Wang of Liangmin County sometimes hired workers to help him forge weapons, but he was notoriously stingy.

Not only was the pay extremely low, but his temper was also terrible.

Forget it... Cao Fengqi shook his head and returned to the second bedroom to lay down the plastic sheet.

He put on the protective suit and night vision goggles, then willed himself to enter.

The sky in the Lost Land was perpetually dim, and Cao Fengqi's figure slowly appeared.

Cheat, activate!

[Scan complete within a one-kilometer radius. Newly detected: 2 level 1 resources, 2 level 4 resources.]

Cao Fengqi looked ahead and approached step by step. When large patches of "red warnings" appeared, he grew a little nervous.

He reached the edge, put on the protective mask, and activated its oxygen supply without hesitation.

Of course, he could have left it off, since the protective suit could filter out poisonous gas.

But he naturally preferred to play it safe.

"Hm?"

The next second, Cao Fengqi looked ahead again and froze for a moment.

The "red warnings" had disappeared.

"Does this mean that after putting on the protective suit and turning on the oxygen, there's no danger to me ahead?"

Delight appeared on Cao Fengqi's face. Without the slightest hesitation, he strode inside.

The farther he went, the thicker and stickier the ground became, like a swamp.

There were no danger warnings underfoot, so Cao Fengqi didn't worry too much.

"It's in the mud, not very deep!"

After walking more than two hundred meters, he looked toward the first level 4 resource with burning anticipation.

He bent down and dug into the mud with his arm, pulling out something slightly larger than his palm that felt somewhat familiar.

He shook the mud off it.

[Arcane Musket: level 4 quality]

[Effect: Fires six flaming bullets at targets within 1,000 meters, causing a weak explosion. Once expended, bullets recharge at a rate of one per hour. Abyssal Fire Crystal, Ember Spirit Flame Core, and similar items can accelerate recharging.]

"????"

When Cao Fengqi saw the resource information, he felt as if a luck god had possessed him.

Even his breathing quickened, and he exclaimed in excitement, "It's a weapon, and a ranged one at that!!"

It was an extremely rare attack-type item imbued with extraordinary power.

He suppressed his excitement and quickly headed for the second level 4 resource, five meters away.

"What's this one?"

[Abyssal Blood Flower: level 4 quality]

[Effect: A flower born from the blood of an unknown powerful creature. Consuming it increases constitution by 4 points and strengthens resistance to poison.]

Cao Fengqi clenched his fist excitedly, plucked the palm-sized Source Blood Flower, and swallowed it without hesitation.

Then he left the poisonous miasma zone with a light, cheerful step.

As he digested the Abyssal Blood Flower, he could see faint wisps of heat rising from his body.

His heart pounded, pumping blood faster through his body.

He could clearly feel his body growing stronger, as though he had inexhaustible strength.

It wasn't until five minutes later that the sensation faded.

[Cao Fengqi.]

[Transcendent Sequence: none]

[Constitution: 18]

[Spirit: 9]

[Equipment: Arcane Musket, black iron staff, night vision goggles, protective suit]

[Resources: Living Spirit Liquid]

[Lost Land: 5/10]

[Blue Star's Blessing: Gathering Technique, Insight, Construction, Language and Writing Comprehension.]

[Activate cheat?]

Cao Fengqi glanced at his attributes and couldn't help laughing.

[Exit the Lost Land?]

[Exit!]

Splash!

Cao Fengqi rose inside the shelter, quickly removed his protective suit, and looked at the Arcane Musket in his hand.

The musket was still coated in red mud, and a faint bloody smell wafted from it.

Cao Fengqi suddenly recalled the Abyssal Blood Flower's description.

"Was that whole area of poisonous miasma formed from the blood of some creature?"

His heart jolted, and a chill ran through him.

What kind of creature's blood could form a terrifying zone of poisonous miasma when it fell to the ground?

And even give rise to a level 4 resource?

"An evil god can destroy the world, and the Lost Land is full of danger too. Even though I've got this Arcane Musket, I still can't afford to be careless."

He reined himself in, wiped the Arcane Musket clean, tucked it into his belt, and entered the Lost Land again.

"Time to start gathering."

With his improved constitution, the level 4 Arcane Musket, and his level 3 night vision goggles, Cao Fengqi had a few more cards up his sleeve, and he traveled faster.

However, after walking for four or five hours straight, he hadn't found much.

"Has my luck run out? I've walked at least a dozen kilometers along the way."

Cao Fengqi looked at what he'd collected in his backpack.

[Moon Spirit Stone × 3][Level 3 materials: 30 jin][Level 2 materials: 77 jin][Level 2 weapon: shield]

"I've only run into two Shadow Specters along the way."

"I could at least run into a Calamity Rat."

Cao Fengqi felt somewhat helpless. There wasn't much meat left at home.

After exploring for five or six hours straight, he was also tired. He still had to continue migrating tomorrow, so he needed sleep.

"I'll search for another half hour. If that doesn't work out, I'll go to sleep. I can exchange Moon Spirit Stones for food now anyway."

With that thought, he continued forward.

[Scan complete within a one-kilometer radius. Newly detected: 65 level 1 resources, 1 level 2 resource.]

After he walked another seven or eight hundred meters, the cheat gave him another notification.

"I hope this level 2 resource isn't metal again. Holy shit, wait..."

Cao Fengqi muttered, but suddenly his gaze sharpened.

Cao Fengqi was someone who had forgotten his roots; he didn't think much of level 1 resources at all.

He had ignored the dozens of level 1 resources he'd encountered along the way.

But now...

He didn't think much of level 1 resources, but 65 of them had appeared at once.

That was an enormous quantity.

"What the heck?"

Cao Fengqi looked ahead and faintly made out a dirt slope. Beyond it was pitch-darkness.

But according to the cheat, the level 1 resource markers there were densely packed together.

He quickened his pace to see what was going on. Could it be a group of level 1 metals gathered for a meeting?

Nine hundred meters... eight hundred meters... five hundred meters... three hundred meters...

As Cao Fengqi drew closer, he saw that there was a tall dirt slope ahead. Fortunately, it wasn't very steep.

"Caw, caw!"

Just then, a cry suddenly came from up ahead.