Tomb raiding: following the plot while tearing up the script

The scene, illuminated by the firelight, was so eerie that it gave him the creeps.

He actually saw...

Bathed in the warm glow of the fire, the golden monkeys, seemingly radiating a warm orange light, were actually lined up in a long queue just like humans!

And the direction in which they lined up...

It is innocence...

Golden monkeys, each carrying a fruit of various colors and sizes, lined up and moved forward.

A baby golden monkey, led by a mother monkey, hopped over to Su Li's side, placed the fruit in its hand in front of Su Li, and then carefully reached out its little hand to gently touch Su Li, who was still dozing off.

Afterwards, she shyly turned to Wu Xie's side, and Wu Xie gave her a stiff smile and patted her head...

The golden monkey will leave contentedly after receiving a pat on the head.

Then the next one...

It's so late at night, even Lao Yang is starting to wonder... who among us isn't human?

That's scary... Ugh, I'm not...

That's scary... Ugh, I don't think I'm scary at all...

Damn...

That's really scary for Lao Yang!!!

Lao Yang stood stiffly at the door for about twenty minutes before the room finally became empty.

He's now hesitating about how to get in...

The golden monkey troop has left, and the area covered with blankets is piled high with all sorts of wild fruits, which look very tempting and delicious.

Wu Xie was rubbing his arm in despair. Luckily, the golden monkey troop was a small group of only about a hundred people, otherwise he would have broken his arm just by raising it.

I was stretching my neck when I saw Lao Yang peeking in from the doorway but not coming in.

This guy spotted me as soon as he got back, and he's been hiding by the door peeking for so long—he's really patient.

"Old Yang, what the hell are you doing? Isn't keeping watch enough? You also have to stand at the door and guard the gate?" Wu Xie shouted directly at the door.

Lao Yang was still struggling with how to get in, but after being called out like that, he no longer needed to struggle and hesitantly lifted his foot to go in.

The way he walked those few steps gave off a timid and cowardly feeling, probably because the famous scene just now had left him a bit shaken.

And just as he stepped into the shack...

"Beep beep, a strange creature has been detected—a materialized life form (Old Yang). It has 30% energy remaining and can be exchanged for 300 points. Do you want to exchange it?"

The long-awaited notification sound jolted Su Li awake from her nap in the pile of fruit, and she opened her eyes in a daze.

"What the hell???"

"Beep beep, a strange creature has been detected—a materialized life form (Old Yang). It has 30% energy remaining and can be exchanged for 300 points. Do you want to exchange it?"

The system dutifully repeated the process.

Ok? ? ?

Su Li wondered if he had misheard. He had been with Lao Yang for so long and hadn't seen the system make any moves. He had thought that the replicas didn't belong to the category of strange creatures. Why was the system suddenly offering a price?

'Materialized organisms gradually weaken after leaving the energy supply range. 'Materialized Old Itch' is nearing energy depletion and will dissipate on its own without replenishment, therefore it is not within the system's recycling scope.'

'Now?' Su Li looked at Lao Yang's hands behind his back.

'Partial energy replenishment received; system recovery standards were met.'

I understand. Materialized life forms outside the energy radiation range are disposable; they will dissipate once their energy is exhausted.

And the range of this energy radiation should be the same as the energy range of that bronze divine tree.

After Lao Yang was materialized, he left this place for more than three years. If it weren't for the bronze bell earring that sustained him, he probably would have dissipated long ago.

To put it bluntly... the system doesn't want to take it back.

Things are different now; the device is plugged in, and the system is willing to recycle it...

If you recycle it back... then what if the energy is exhausted?

The world consciousness of the horror world is rather cunning; it's probably affected by too much dark matter, making it incredibly greedy.

Having traded with so many worlds, only this one world consciousness is willing to lower its price, demand a free gift, and then whine and complain—it's incredibly difficult to deal with… These kinds of one-off, bizarre creatures can be discounted and given away as freebies.

The system seemed to have gotten angry recently from doing business with the consciousness of the horror world. Su Li had just asked a question when the system started complaining.

Wow, wow, so the world's consciousness can be quite unique!

Lao Yang trembled at the look in Su Li's eyes, gripping the object in his hand tightly.

"You promised to wake me up on time! How come you've disappeared as soon as I woke up?"

Seeing his sudden timid and hesitant demeanor, Wu Xie got up and started talking as she reached out to pull him along.

Lao Yang was already nervous, and when Wu Xie pulled him like that, the thing in his hand fell out and landed on the floor in front of Su Li with a dull metallic sound.

The air suddenly became quiet...

This unexpected turn of events left all three of them momentarily stunned, and they exchanged disapproving glances...

"What is this?"

Su Li suddenly spoke up, and was about to push aside the pile of fruit in front of her to pick it up.

"Don't touch it!!"

Lao Yang's expression changed, and he suddenly flung Wu Xie away, lunging forward with a ferocious look in his eyes, grabbing the tree branch-like thing into his arms.

Wu Xie is in good physical condition now, so he naturally won't be injured by Lao Yang's sudden exertion. However, Lao Yang's crazy behavior really annoyed him.

It's so late at night, Ah Li just woke up, don't let her get scared again.

I couldn't help but unleash a torrent of words at Lao Yang.

"Lao Yang, what the hell are you doing? Running out in the middle of the night to get something, would it kill you to just drop it in front of Ali for a second?"

Lao Yang struggled for a long time, his eyes darting around, not daring to look up at Wu Xie.

"This, this is my, my family's, ancestral treasure, a precious heirloom, outsiders, cannot touch it!"

Hearing those familiar lines made Wu Xie's fists clench. The scene had changed completely, but this bastard was really not putting his heart into it, still using that same line to brush it off.

"Old Wu, I, I really, really didn't, didn't lie to you..."

"Oh right, you're not kidding me. Are you saying this was left to you by your grandpa or your grandma? The old lady is in good health, coming all the way to this remote mountain forest to bury a family heirloom?"

Lao Yang's face turned from blue to red and then blue as Wu Xie retorted, like a color palette.

"Old Wu, you, you, you..."

"What? You went through all that trouble to turn onto this road just to dig it up."

As soon as Wu Xie said this, Lao Yang understood. He guessed that Wu Xie had seen him sneaking out to dig for things.

Could it be those golden monkeys?

"Old Wu, I really didn't mean to lie to you. I just wanted to secretly take it out. I didn't expect you to..."