Chapter16-Abandoned Temple

The three teams soon arrived at the vicinity of the Abandoned Temple.

[Ding, Dark Lord detected within three kilometers!]

The three teams tacitly agreed that since Dark Lord was nearby, they should consider camping now.

The muscular man unceremoniously pointed to a hillside: "I want this place."

The hillside was in a very advantageous position, not only could it overlook the upper part of the Abandoned Temple, but also it was on high ground, which was very convenient for commanding attacks or defenses.

And coincidentally, Daniel's camp was also set up here before.

The other two teams were also angry but dared not to speak.

After all, their bosses didn't come.

Then they started looking for other places to camp.

There were mostly forests around the Abandoned Temple, with weeds and poisonous snakes.

It took a lot of time for the two teams to clear out a safe camp.

And the muscular man had set up his camp on the hillside early and started the pre-war reconnaissance work.

But looking around, his face was full of doubts.

Where is the Abandoned Temple?

Isn't this place a plain?

After Ethan activated the Dungeon, all the ground buildings were transferred to the Dungeon.

There were no buildings on the surface that could prove Ethan's existence.

The only trace might be a piece of tree stumps next to it.

And the two teams exploring the unknown areas, one near Horizon Mountains, went to Horizon Mountains and the resources automatically entered the warehouse.

They didn't need to come back to Abandoned Temple.

The other team came back once every few hours and didn't need to go back to Abandoned Temple's core area either.

As long as they entered Abandoned Temple's range, the resources could be directly stored.

In this way, Ethan's base camp had a very small chance of being exposed.

Ethan also set up the Dungeon so that it would only appear when he stepped into Abandoned Temple's core position.

He was not strong enough yet and had to do so to avoid war.

At this time, the muscular man had doubts in his mind: Did this Dark Lord move his position?

But the system's prompt had already indicated that he was very close to Dark Lord, from here to that piece of land, it was only about three kilometers away... It should be here!

The muscular man didn't believe it, and stopped his team from camping.

Then he went back to the road he had come before, and ran back and forth several times.

As long as he came to the hillside, the system would prompt that Dark Lord was within three kilometers, but there was no specific location information.

With the other two teams staring at him as if he was monkeys, the muscular man came back to the hillside again.

He gasped and said: "Damn it, this Dark Lord is really sneaky. He changes his place after every shot. He knows how to play guerrilla warfare!"

No one around dared to speak.

After all, one level higher can crush people.

Not to mention that this muscular man was notoriously brainless.

No one dared mess with him now.

The muscular man turned his eyes and thought he was the first one to find out that Dark Lord had moved his position.

He immediately called all his team members over and surrounded them in a circle.

He said mysteriously: "Guys, I have a big secret. Dark Lord's camp is no longer here, but not far from here. We are all going to find it now. Whoever finds Dark Lord's camp first, I will personally reward him with 20 gold coins!"

The team members heard this and immediately became energetic.

20 gold coins, this was the amount of gold coins they could get from doing three quests or so. Now they only need to find Dark Lord's camp and they can get it?

Isn't this pie in the sky?

Such a big Dark Lord camp, there is no worry about not finding it!

Many team members immediately put down their work, camping, cooking, guarding, whatever they were doing, they all rushed into the forest around Abandoned Temple to look for Dark Lord's "new camp".

The muscular man looked at these scattered searchers with pride on his face...

Who said I was brainless?

With my quick reaction, anyone would have to praise my wit!

The other two teams saw this strange behavior and also stopped their work.

The muscular man was a core member of the alliance and might have received some new information, but they couldn't judge what it was.

"Christopher, you are the fastest of us, go sneak up and see what they found."

"Yes!"

...

"Zachary, go see if there is any new information on the hillside."

"Yes!"

The two teams coincidentally sent out scouts, and they also successfully "met" on their way up the mountain.

They both made a silent gesture with their fingers.

As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

They helped each other and climbed up from another very steep road to reach the hillside.

At this time, the muscular man lay on a hammock with a smug look on his face.

The snoring sound gradually sounded.

The two people quietly walked to the observation point and looked around.

It was a plain.

They both saw the shock in each other's eyes, and then quietly went down the mountain and hurriedly reported to their leader.

The leaders of both sides heard this and sent out all the people they could send out to find the real Dark Lord "camp".

...

While the three teams were looking for the new camp that never appeared, Ethan lay on a wooden bed with Mia beside him, her eyes silky, leaning on Ethan's chest.

"Stop it, you don't let me go in broad daylight."

Ethan hugged Mia in his arms and kissed her forehead.

As Ethan and Mia were still in love, the resources also increased rapidly with the efforts of the two exploration teams.

Food reached 400 in just one day.

The plantation was also working, and the crops were harvested every three days.

Each harvest could get 50 food.

And the plantation with mutant seeds could get 100 food per harvest.

Although food was still negative every day, it was much better than before.

As for other resources, wood resources can be obtained from forests around here.

Ethan didn't need too much wood now.

It was beneficial to keep the surrounding forest environment.

Because foods like berries could grow slowly.

As for iron resources, Horizon Mountains' iron resources were almost mined out.

The iron resource storage reached 200.

No new iron mines were found in the unknown area near Horizon Mountains.

However, with these 200 iron resources, it could last for a while to meet the daily tool consumption.

The two unknown areas brought not only an increase in food, but also a significant increase in various resources.

Ethan rubbed his sleepy eyes, activated Divine Dragon Form, and prepared to fly over the unknown area as before to see if there were any powerful monsters.

Soon, he noticed something wrong around Abandoned Temple.

There were many strangers in the forest.

He deactivated Divine Dragon Form and suddenly put his hand on a man's shoulder.

The man was startled by the hand on his shoulder.

At the same time, his system suddenly sounded a prompt:

[Warning! Warning! Dark Lord detected within 100 meters!]

The man turned around and made a silent gesture, gesturing to retreat.

Ethan thought it was interesting and followed the man back step by step.

The two of them retreated more than 50 meters before the man breathed a sigh of relief.

He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said to Ethan:

"That was unlucky. Dark Lord was just 100 meters away from us. Fortunately, we didn't attract his attention. Otherwise, we would be doomed!"

Ethan heard this and became interested.

Dark Lord, isn't that talking about himself?

The man looked at him contemptuously and said:

"Which team are you from? Didn't your team leader tell you before? Be careful when the system prompts that Dark Lord is nearby. You want to make some noise and attract Dark Lord's attention?"

Ethan didn't get angry either, but smiled instead.

The man waved his hand: "Hurry up and stay in the camp. Don't wander around by yourself."

Ethan suddenly asked: "Do we have so many people in our team?"

The man heard this and speechlessly covered his forehead.

Is this guy stupid?

"Didn't your team leader tell you before? I have to talk to the boss later and let those team leaders be more responsible. Don't just pull people in. They don't know anything. It's useless to pull more people."

"Kid, look... The ones with red ropes on their left arms are one team. The ones with purple ribbons on their right arms are another team. Our team has a shiny badge on our chest. Did your team leader tell you about the mission? Forget it, I'll tell you again. Our boss found out that Dark Lord's camp is not in Abandoned Temple. Our goal is to find the real Dark Lord camp. Got it?"

The man pointed to his badge on his chest and looked at Ethan's chest.

He suddenly found something and frowned tightly.

"Where is your badge?"