Crossing the wilderness to survive, starting with a broken kitchen knife.

Old Duan slashed at Zhao Feng with a series of piercing sounds, and it looked like the blade was about to hit the back of his head.

Zhao Feng's body twisted and split into two like liquid, becoming two identical, smaller Zhao Fengs who just happened to avoid Zhang Shi's sneak attack.

"Hahahaha, you have such a cruel heart that you can even kill your friends."

The two smaller Zhao Fengs screamed and retreated rapidly. Their bodies merged into one.

Wu Qing and Ge Dalong had already realized that something was wrong, and they each used their own methods as soon as they entered the secret room.

The staff of ancestors in Wu Qing's hand flickered, and the fighting spirit totem was activated, greatly increasing the strength and magic power of the allies. Then he used the protective barrier to cover everyone.

Ge Dalong's ice cones were originally only as thick as two thumbs, but after being strengthened, they had grown to the size of arms. They shot towards the strange creature that had transformed into Zhao Feng like icy spikes.

The strange creatures are extremely flexible and have various shapes. They can often react in advance and dodge attacks from the crowd. When faced with unavoidable attacks, they can also respond by changing their shapes.

For a moment, the three of them were unable to do anything about this monster.

"Hehehe, I'm very curious, how did you see through it?"

The strange monster's face was distorted, and its appearance changed into Zhang Shi's. The corners of its mouth were cracked, and its body was bent and shrank into the corner of the secret room at an extremely exaggerated degree.

While it was talking, Zhang Shi chopped it down with his sword again, but as expected, it dodged it.

Seeing that he couldn't take down the monster in a short time, Zhang Shi calmed himself down and tried to communicate with it, hoping to get some useful information from it.

Zhang Shi pointed at himself.

"Brother Feng hasn't called me by my full name in seven or eight years."

"Tell me the truth, where are my friends now?"

The strange monster's appearance changed again, transforming into Zhao Feng's appearance. Its body squirmed like a worm, clinging to the ceiling of the secret room, and it smiled sinisterly.

"Are you talking about this big fool? I've already eaten him."

Just as Zhang Shi was about to explode, Ge Dalong stopped him.

"We have no intention of disturbing you. Let our friends go and we will leave immediately."

"Leave, are you kidding me?"

The strange monster laughed wildly and flung a few drops of strange liquid from its body onto the ground. As the liquid hit the ground, it turned into a puddle of mud. Unidentified creatures were wriggling in the mud. Seconds later, three half-human-tall, faceless black creatures appeared in front of Zhang Shi.

This black creature has black, unknown liquid like mud flowing all over its body, somewhat similar to slime.

"Eat them!"

At the command of the strange monster, three mud monsters rushed towards Zhang Shi.

The space in the stone chamber was small, and the monster and Zhang Shi were almost face to face.

Before the mud monster could make a move, Zhang Shi had already taken the initiative. A white light flashed from the old sword in his hand, and with a slash of the sword, he cut the mud monster in front in half.

However, the mud monster that was cut into two pieces turned into a pool of dirty water and quickly condensed into a lump. After a moment, it returned to its original shape, and its head turned into a sharp spike, stabbing towards Zhang Shi.

Ge Dalong's ice cone came to the rescue in time and defeated the mud monster. As the magic attribute was strengthened, the slowing effect turned into layers of frost that froze the mud monster.

Zhang Shi was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and kicked it, but it was like kicking a piece of glass.

The mud monster shattered into pieces of shiny black crystals and fell silent.

"Ding, team kill"

[Dissolving Monster (White) x1: Magical creature, has a certain resistance to sharp attacks.]

"Gain 15 experience points"

Zhang Shi noticed the amount of experience points gained and thought a lot about it.

The frost attribute seemed to be the nemesis of this dissolving monster. The three of them easily dealt with the other two dissolving monsters in a short time.

The strange creature was still watching coldly on the ceiling. When it saw that all the dissolving monsters were solved, it began to giggle again.

"Haha, I don't want to play with you anymore."

The strange monster suddenly dissolved, turned into a pool of liquid, seeped into the ground, and disappeared.

Seeing that the danger was over, Ge Dalong walked forward and asked Zhang Shi.

"Zhao Feng's condition isn't abnormal. Why don't we just abandon the dungeon before anything dangerous happens?"

Zhang Shi nodded, thinking that everyone's safety was more important than the dungeon rewards.

The three people had no objection, so Ge ​​Dalong filed an evacuation application.

However, there was no response from Zhao Feng, and the withdrawal vote showed that 3/4 of the people agreed.

Ge Dalong frowned, worried that if they stayed that long, the three of them would be forced to evacuate. By then, Zhao Feng might get lost here, so he immediately canceled his evacuation request.

"Oh no! There's no response from Zhao Feng."

Zhang Shi's mood was fluctuating. He felt something was wrong and even regretted going deep into the cave.

Wu Qing stepped forward, patted their shoulders and comforted them.

"Hold your composure. The dungeon scroll reminded us that this dungeon is mainly in the form of puzzle levels. If we successfully pass them, we might be able to rescue Brother Feng."

Zhang Shi nodded, turned his head, and noticed the treasure chest that was emitting light.

Ding Zhen still couldn't identify the specific information of the treasure chest. Zhang Shi thought to himself that if he could return safely this time, he should upgrade Ding Zhen.

Ge Dalong came forward, looked around the treasure chest, and said softly.

"There shouldn't be any danger, but I don't know why that strange monster left this treasure chest and left like that."

"I can't care less about that. There are too many lice, I'm not afraid of them biting me. Let's open it first."

Ge Dalong cast a light curtain at the location of the three people, and Zhang Shi took the initiative to step forward to open the treasure chest, and did not forget to activate the VIP doubling privilege.

Ding, successfully opened the copy exclusive treasure chest (no grade), triggered the VIP privilege, doubled the items, and obtained:

[Soul-Binding Bell (Purple) x2: A rare item. Can dispel fog and see through illusions.]

The extra bell went directly into Zhang Shi's backpack and was not discovered by Wu Qing and Ge Dalong.

The three of them came forward and began to study the bell.

Zhang Shi held the bell and shook it gently. The bell made bursts of crisp sounds, which made the three people feel clear-headed. Apart from that, there was no special effect.

"Perhaps it will only be effective when encountering illusions and fog."

Wu Qing guessed.

"The mission has been updated. This thing should be what Black Tiger mentioned."

Ge Dalong kept an eye on the team panel and gave reminders.

Zhang Shi opened the team panel to check, and sure enough, the mission had changed to the third stage, and a short text appeared.

Hidden mission three: choose to return the mission item to Black Tiger, or choose to take it for yourself.

The three of them looked at each other and decided to return the items to Hei Hu.

This option might be a way to advance the mission's progress, as it was related to Zhao Feng's safety. The three of them unanimously decided to return to the ancestral hall to hand in the mission and then act accordingly.

Zhang Shi glanced at the other bell in his backpack and had no intention of revealing the secret for the time being.