My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 505 Bad Luck
Three hundred miles west of Feng'an City, in a small mountain forest, the air suddenly distorted.

puff!
With a soft sound, Shen Bu and Hu Mang suddenly appeared in mid-air, their faces filled with panic.

As soon as they landed, the two immediately leaned back to back and cautiously scanned their surroundings. After looking around for a while and finding that it was safe, they finally breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed.

Hu Mang shakily sat down, leaning against an old tree, while Shen Bu, disregarding the mud and dust on the ground, lay down on his back in a starfish position.

"This job is impossible to do!" Shen Bu slammed his fist on the ground covered with dead leaves and yelled at the top of his lungs.

"I had just broken the clay seal on that jar of longevity wine and hadn't even poured it out yet when that monster suddenly burst out!"

"The Secret Service only told us to lay out bait, but they didn't say that the bait would be so tempting."

"It would have been better if you had told us in advance so we could have taken precautions. This is clearly sending us to our deaths!"

"What are you howling about!" Hu Mang snapped coldly, his face also grim. "Be grateful. You've ruined the assassination mission of the Tormentor Division. It's good enough that you and I are alive. Can't you see that even a commander like me has to do this kind of hard work?"

"If you hadn't dragged me into this, would I have ruined someone else's mission?!" Shen Bu glared at Hu Mang.

"Are you blaming me?" Hu Mang immediately glanced at Shen Bu.

Shen Bu's expression froze, and he couldn't help but shrink his neck: "Can't I... I just vent a little?"

"Instead of wasting time on that, you'd be better off thinking about how to finish that mission," Hu Mang sneered.

"If you're so capable, why don't you just charge at those secret service guys?" Shen Bu muttered to himself.

“Sigh… We have to pour a jar of longevity wine every fifty li, and we have to take a risk every fifty li.”

"If we run into a night-roaming monster like today, it'll be fine, but if we run into a ferocious monster, we'll both be done for."

"If you ask me, who cares about fifty miles or not? I'll just use the Shrinking Earth Technique to throw away that Longevity Wine. Anyway, there's no one around to supervise it."

Upon hearing this, Hu Mang glared fiercely at Shen Bu: "Shut up! How dare you say such irresponsible things? Aren't you afraid the Secret Service inspector will chop off your head?"

He said solemnly, "Remember to throw it far away."

Ok?
Shen Bu was taken aback, then overjoyed, and scrambled to his feet.

Just you wait and see!

He immediately opened the gas-eating bag at his waist and began pulling out wine jars with a series of thumps. In no time, wine jars the size of fifty or sixty heads were piled up like a small mountain in front of him.

Driven by the power of the Yin spirit, a wisp of gray energy appeared and swirled around the wine jar. Then, with a whoosh, the small mountain of wine jars vanished.

"All done, Boss Hu, shall we... head back to the city?"

Hu Mang said calmly, "That won't do. Let's stay outside the city for a couple of days first."

"We must not let the Secret Service detect any flaws."

……

Three days later, in a valley.

A series of roars echoed through the valley, deafeningly loud.

In the valley, Chen Mu floated in mid-air, surrounded by the aura of five black dragons.

Not far away, a one-legged monster bird with seven heads and its body covered in flames was struggling in the black smoke.

The black smoke formed by the five dragons' energy was like a net, binding the strange bird and the demon tightly within it. With its own power to absorb essence and soul, the demon shrank like a deflated balloon and was quickly devoured.

"Nine Cups of Calculation is performing consistently well as always."

"Hmm... stable is unreliable."

"Tsk!"

After changing the calculation conditions and adjusting the travel time each day, I indeed did not encounter any strange monsters on the road.

But his joy lasted only two days before another mishap occurred. Today, he had only gone halfway when he bumped headfirst into the arms of this monstrous creature.

Fortunately, this demon was not very strong. Although it was covered in flames and left nothing but desolation in its wake, it was actually no different from the three-headed fox from before and was easily subdued by the combined power of the five dragons.

"Everyone says that there are many strange monsters in the wilderness, but I'm encountering them every few days. Isn't that a bit too much?"

"Is it because large cities have methods of driving people away that they've all gathered in the wilderness?"

"It seems that simply adding travel time is not enough in the process of divination; we must explicitly add the requirement to avoid evil spirits."

"Hmm... I need to shorten my daily schedule."

Based on the initial experiments at Heifeng'ao, the smaller the area, the more accurate the calculation results. Shortening the travel distance can effectively improve accuracy.

While the Five Dragons Sutra Accelerator Pack is appealing, it carries inherent risks, so one should not be greedy.

He didn't believe his luck would always be so good, only encountering minor monsters. What if he ran into a powerful one? He wouldn't even be able to escape.

"It's okay to go slower, we have to make sure our own safety first."

……

Five days later, four hundred miles outside Feng'an City, in an unnamed mountain cave.

"Boss, you have to help me!" Zhang Erzheng cried out in distress.

"Help you? I have to go and sprinkle the longevity wine myself, how can I help you?" Hu Mang refused with a straight face.

Zhang Er leaned closer and whispered, "I've investigated. The Secret Service tampered with the wine jars. They'll know as soon as they open the jars."

"I guess they use this to monitor our mission. But they have no way of knowing exactly where we throw it or how we throw it."

“Brother Shen’s abilities are truly amazing. As long as he throws the wine jar far away… sigh!” Zhang Er clapped his hands and grinned.

"You're being cunning and dishonest; that's going to cause big trouble!" Hu Mang sneered.

"Just tell me, will you help or not?" Zhang Er said, sticking out his neck.

"You've been hiding in this cave for three days now. Shen Bu must have thrown away the longevity wine you had long ago." "If you don't help me, I'll... I'll report you!"

Hu Mang's face immediately darkened.

What kind of subordinates did I gather? They actually dared to threaten their superior!
and also……

"How did you know I've been here for three days?" Hu Mang glared at Zhang Er. "Did you tamper with me?"

"No way!" Zhang Er waved his hands repeatedly, then turned to look at Shen Bu and chuckled, "I just made a small mark on Brother Shen."

Holy crap, how come I didn't know that?
Shen Bu looked completely bewildered.

They didn't even realize they'd been marked. How could they have such scoundrels among their own men?

Hu Mang raised his hand to his forehead, feeling a buzzing in his head.

"Get out of my way! Get out of my sight!"

This means... you've agreed?

"Thank you, Commander!" Zhang Er couldn't help but chuckle.

He was about to walk out with his arm around Shen Bu's shoulder when a teasing voice suddenly rang out.

"You guys are really bold to try to fool the Secret Service again and again."

Suddenly, a man in black appeared at the cave entrance. It was the long-bearded middle-aged man who had previously attempted to assassinate Chen Mu, but whose plan was thwarted by Shen Bu, and who had been tricked by Zhang Er using the Eastern Extremity Longevity Scripture.

Hu Mang tensed up, staring intently at the other person: "Aren't you guys from the Torture Division meddling a bit too much?"

"Relax, don't misunderstand, I'm not here to cause you trouble." The middle-aged man with the long beard shook his head, then flipped his wrist, and a familiar black earthenware wine jar with a human head appeared.

Hu Mang immediately understood; it seemed this guy had also taken on the task of throwing bait.

"It's not that I can't help you, after all, we're all on the same side." He smiled slightly as he spoke.

"However, I need to know how you found me."

Being easily approached by a troublesome company is not a good thing.

"Don't worry, Commander Hu, I didn't absorb your vital energy." The long-bearded middle-aged man waved his hand with a smile.

"then you……"

Changxu Nian didn't speak, but gave Shen Bu a meaningful smile.

Shen Bu: "..."

What do you mean?
Did you tag me too?
Am I a pushover? Anyone can come and squeeze me!

Hey!
……

The slightly chilly sunlight shone on the earth, while gray clouds floated motionless in the air.

The howling black wind swirling on the ground suddenly disappeared and reappeared.

At one moment, a pitch-black wine jar suddenly appeared in mid-air.

Snapped!
The wine jar fell to the ground and shattered, splashing the clear, bright red liquid everywhere.

Immediately, the liquid seemed to come alive, automatically rising and gathering into a ball, then spinning and disappearing into the ground.

hum!
It was as if a heart had appeared deep within the earth, its silent pulsating waves sweeping and spreading far and wide. On the silent earth, wisps of restless energy faintly rose.

At one point, the wave swept across a grassland, and a thick white fog appeared silently.

Roar!
A shrill roar exploded, spreading in all directions.

Having just crossed a large snow-capped mountain, Chen Mu, who was enjoying the exhilarating view of the grassland, suddenly had a drastic change in expression.

Feeling the surging, violent aura emanating from the other party, Chen Mu felt his scalp tingle.

Seriously? This is unlucky?

He almost instinctively activated his Yin Spirit power, quickly unleashing the Yin Wind Escape technique.

He shot into the sky like a rocket, then veered off course and fled back the way he came. With a series of loud popping sounds, Chen Mu disappeared into the horizon in the blink of an eye.

After flying two hundred miles in one breath, almost back to where he started in the morning, Chen Mu finally landed on a small hill as his landing point.

He expressionlessly plucked a handful of grass, skillfully began calculating, and soon, a brand new result appeared before his eyes.

Danger?

I saw the monster, of course I know it's dangerous!

Didn't they say it was safe when I left this morning? Why the sudden change of heart? They're playing a trick on me!
In the heat of anger, a translucent gray wall appeared before my eyes.

Five Dragons Scripture: 9999/10000/Fifth Rank.

Ugh……

Looking back on the past two weeks, Chen Mu felt a complex mix of emotions.

The acceleration package is indeed useful; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to cultivate the Five Dragons Scripture to the peak of the fifth rank so quickly.

But these strange monsters that popped out completely randomly made him very nervous.

This wasn't the first time he'd encountered such a massive creature that sent chills down his spine just by looking at it from afar. If he hadn't been able to fly fast enough using his Yin Wind Escape technique, he probably would have already become food for the monster.

How could he not be terrified and unsettled by this life that felt like opening a blind box?

"Life is... damn hard!"

(End of this chapter)