novelraw Chapter 1196: Silver Box
Chapter 1196: Silver Box
The bird’s speed was extremely fast, its wings stirring up the wind fiercely. As its sharp beak opened, Ling Feng seemed to see a flame brewing in its mouth!
Seeing this, Ling Feng didn’t hesitate and directly threw out a Five Elements Fruit of the water attribute!
At his current speed, anything he threw was as fast as lightning. With a swoosh, before the Fire Phoenix could react, the Five Elements Fruit had already entered its mouth!
"Poof!"
The Water of the Five Elements entered its stomach, and the Fire Phoenix’s body in the air trembled. It then lost its ability to fly and fell straight to the ground with a thud.
The elements counteract each other; the fire attribute is exactly countered by water. However, the Fire Phoenix didn’t die; it just lay on the ground, unable to move, chirping unpleasantly as if very unwilling!
Ling Feng knew this creature posed no threat anymore and looked up at the top of the cliff.
The bird had just come down from above, and it seemed there might be a nest up there.
Thinking of this, Ling Feng suddenly had an idea!
Since the Fire Phoenix is the beloved pet of the Crimson Sea King, could its resting place be the entrance to the treasure hoard?
Although the top of the cliff is nearly a hundred meters from the ground, perhaps its method of entering the treasure hoard is something nobody would think of?
Ling Feng turned to look at Jia Ba, "Stay down here, I’ll go up and check!"
Without waiting for him to respond, he leapt directly up, landing on the cliff wall.
In a flash, Ling Feng had climbed to the top of the cliff.
It was an open area the size of a basketball court with a circular dirt pit, seemingly the Fire Phoenix’s nest, with piles of dead branches and white animal bones inside.
Ling Feng scanned with Divine Sense and indeed found something; not far from the nest was a large stone that seemed out of place with the surroundings!
The stones on the ground were black, but this large stone was a dirt yellow, feeling like it had been moved here from somewhere else!
Ling Feng grinned at this, couldn’t help but mutter, "This mechanism isn’t quite clever enough!"
He stepped forward, kicked over the big stone, and revealed a pitch-black hole underneath!
With a sweep of Divine Sense, the long dark tunnel immediately came into view.
Ling Feng then noticed a hundred meters below, in a circular enclosed space, dozens of large boxes made of metal or wood were neatly arranged.
"Hehe, who would have thought there’d be an unexpected discovery!"
Ling Feng raised his eyebrows, breaking into a broad smile!
The entrance was narrow, barely able to let him squeeze through. As Ling Feng entered, he suddenly realized something!
That is, the Crimson Sea King might also be someone with spatial equipment!
Otherwise, how could he get through such a small entrance with treasure?
"This is getting interesting!"
Ling Feng thought to himself as he crawled into the hole. Once he got that person out, he’d certainly interrogate him thoroughly to dig out all the things he could!
After entering the cave, Ling Feng didn’t climb down inch by inch but jumped directly!
Though the drop was about a hundred meters, the passage was narrow, only opening up at the bottom. Ling Feng just used his saber blade to jab the rock twice, controlling his descent speed, and soon reached the cave floor.
Even though there wasn’t a hint of light in the space, with the help of Divine Sense, Ling Feng quickly saw the surrounding environment clearly.
It was a circular cave, and aside from those boxes, there was nothing else in it.
Ling Feng casually opened two boxes and found them filled with gold bars.
If it were someone else, they’d already be excited at seeing such things, but Ling Feng felt nothing. After all, even if the boxes were all filled with gold bars, they were worth only a few million or billion, which was meaningless to him!
He collected the boxes with gold into his bracelet, then looked at the other boxes filled with porcelain, bronze artifacts, and some jewelry.
Ling Feng didn’t have the time to examine each box carefully. He roughly estimated the treasure’s worth, feeling that ten or eight billion wouldn’t be a problem, which was quite good!
After all, it was an unexpected gain, no need to refuse free stuff!
So Ling Feng wasted no time and quickly looted all the boxes in the cave, packing them into his bracelet.
As he was about to leave, Ling Feng suddenly felt that he might be missing something!
So he stopped, looked around puzzled.
Under the sweep of Divine Sense, the space had already been fully revealed, and there was nothing left behind!
Ling Feng was puzzled; since there was nothing, why did he feel that leaving would make him regret?
Thinking of this, he decided not to rush out, lowered his head, and carefully searched around.
With this serious search, he indeed discovered an anomaly!
The spot where the boxes had been piled had ground that was noticeably sunken!
Initially, Ling Feng just thought the weight of the gold caused the ground to collapse.
But now, looking at it, the place underneath was originally hollow!
He drew out the God Slayer Saber and slashed a big cut in the ground!
It wasn’t rock but something that looked black yet was in fact several centimeters thick steel plate!
Seeing this, Ling Feng directly cut open the steel plate and made a large opening.
He knew what was below even before cutting it open. After creating a big enough opening, Ling Feng reached in and pulled up a silver-colored metal box!
The box was suitcase-sized, not heavy, only weighing about tens of pounds, and Divine Sense couldn’t penetrate it, so he didn’t know what was inside.
But Ling Feng understood, for the Crimson Sea King to hide it so well, the value of the contents inside must be high!
Even the value of the gold in the other boxes combined might not compare to this!
Thinking of this, Ling Feng chuckled, "Smart as you are, you can’t fool me!"
He didn’t rush to examine the box’s contents but casually tossed it into his bracelet and quickly climbed back up the passage above!
A few minutes later, Ling Feng was back at the cliff top, then jumped down.
On the ground, Jia Ba was still waiting obediently. The Fire Phoenix lay weakly, looking almost done for. Seeing this, Ling Feng reached out and put it into the bracelet, considering showing it to Li Fei’er later, perhaps she could save it!
He then looked at Jia Ba, saying, "Stop dawdling, let’s go, you’ll be free once we get back!"
"Oh, okay, sure."
Jia Ba hurriedly nodded, quickly following him.
After a few steps, he couldn’t help but ask, "Um, Mr. Ling, can we follow you?"