Chapter 39: Danger Lurks Everywhere

  "Your summoned creature Phantom Assassin has leveled up and is now at level 2. All basic attributes have been increased."

  Just as Tang Tian was packing up his things and preparing to leave, he suddenly received a prompt in his mind.

  Tang Tian was overjoyed, having absorbed the soul energy of so many variant mosquitoes, variant carp and variant earthworms. The Ghost Assassin's level had finally been upgraded, which made Tang Tian's level rise by a few more points, how could he not be happy?

  Maybe it's because the ghost assassin is too special, at the beginning, each attribute is several times higher than that of the same level, which makes it particularly difficult to upgrade, now I'm already level 7, but the ghost assassin is only level 2.

  However, Tang Tian was not afraid, because the more this happened, the stronger the later-stage Ghost Assassin's level would become.

  Overjoyed, Tang Tian quickly arrived at the gathering place. Due to fear of another mutated creature emerging from underground again, the gathering place was chosen in a location with solid rock ground.

  "How's everything?" As soon as he arrived, Tang Tian asked Zhao Daniu.

  "It's really bad, we started with 22 people, two died when we encountered the mutated carp, one was injured and returned, then the mutated earthworms killed another one, disabled two more, and the rest are fine." Zhao Daniu replied honestly.

  Tang Tian had never thought that this world was so treacherous, with crises lurking everywhere. They hadn't even reached the jungle yet, and the combat power of the people he brought had already lost nearly a fifth.

  After a moment of contemplation, Tang Tian said: "Let the two disabled people return first, and the others take a rest. We will continue our journey after a while."

  Zhao Daniu, although a bit dim-witted, furrowed his brow upon hearing Tang Tian's arrangement and asked: "Is this suitable? We've only just set out and already several people have died. If we continue like this, I'm afraid these people..."

  Tang Tian naturally understood Zhao Daniu's meaning, which was that if things continued like this, these people would have a resistant attitude in their hearts. After all, who would want to go die for nothing?

  "There's no way, we have to investigate the surroundings and find out what kind of dangers are lurking around, or else once these creatures fully evolve, we won't even have a chance to resist," Tang Tian said with a worried expression.

  After hearing Tang Tian's words, Zhao Daniu also thought of this possibility. After all, these animals have already evolved to be very powerful now. If they don't investigate and make corresponding preparations, and let these animals continue to evolve and mutate like this, then there really won't be any room for survival left.

  "I understand, I'll go tell them now," Zhao Daniu replied, and the man with the steel spear turned around to give orders.

  After Zhao Daniu left, Tang Tian also sat down on the ground with a thud, and only then did he start checking his gains from earlier.

  After killing more than a dozen variant earthworms, Tang Tian gained nearly two hundred spirit coins, a replica of the Brocade Guard's sword and eight gray treasure boxes.

  Put away the divine demon coin and the counterfeit brocade clothes guard knife, Tang Tian opened the treasure box one by one.

  "Open the lowest-level gray treasure box to obtain a level 2 skill book, Taming Technique. Skill description: Learning this skill requires level 5, and it occupies one slot in the active skill bar after learning. After learning this skill, there is a 20% chance to tame a mutated beast of the same level as your pet, which can help you fight. The higher the level of the mutated beast, the lower the taming rate by 5%. A level 2 skill can only tame two mutated beasts. Each upgrade of the skill can increase one more pet. After being tamed, the mutated beast's level is reset to zero. Pets cannot be revived after death, but you can tame new pets again. Cooldown time: 10 days."

  "Open the lowest-level gray treasure box to obtain a level 3 skill power enhancement. Skill description: Learning this skill requires level 3, and it occupies one slot in the active skill bar after learning. After learning this skill, activating the skill can increase strength by 30% for 1 hour, with a cooldown of 24 hours. Each upgrade increases strength by an additional 10%."

  "Open the lowest-level gray treasure chest, obtain a pair of ordinary boots, equipment description: Wearing these boots can increase agility by three points, requires level 5"

  Perhaps it was today that Tang Tian's luck was exceptionally good, and the eight lowest-grade gray treasure boxes unexpectedly yielded three items, all of which were good things. The other treasure boxes had nothing in them and dissipated into gray mist.

  A pair of boots that can increase agility by three points, Tang Tian immediately put them on. Now, every little bit of basic attribute strength increases his chances of survival.

  But when choosing two skill books, Tang Tian was in a dilemma. Both skills were good things, but before level 20, he could only learn two passive skills. The fifth-level summoning technique had already used up one active skill slot, and now he could only learn one more.

  One is to tame the variant creatures as pets and make them fight for themselves, if they can tame a grown-up variant beast, it will undoubtedly greatly increase their own strength. However, the other one can quickly enhance their own strength after learning, both of which want to learn, this makes Tang Tian difficult.

  However, Tang Tian gritted his teeth and chose to learn the second-level Taming Technique. After all, taming a variant beast would give him an extra helper, which was much better than just increasing his own strength alone.

  After choosing to learn, the skill book transformed into a black light that entered Tang Tian's brow, and immediately formed a special symbol in his mind. He also understood how to tame the variant creatures.

  "Big Cow, come here", Tang Tian turned around and shouted at Zhao Big Cow after finishing learning the skill.

  Zhao Daniu quickly came to Tang Tian's side and asked, "I've told them all, they agree with your idea and are willing to explore the jungle with you."

  Zhao Daniu thought Tang Tian had called him over to ask for those people's opinions, so he opened his mouth and spoke.

  "Here, you're already at level three, right? You should be able to learn it," Tang Tian said indifferently as he tossed the level-three skill book to Zhao Daniu.

  Since he couldn't use it himself now, it would be better to give this skill book to Zhao Dacow who was more suitable for it, Tang Tian thought in his heart.

  Zhao Daniu didn't know what politeness was, so when Tang Tian gave it to him, he accepted it. However, when he saw the description of the skill book, he was overjoyed. As a strength-type player, learning this skill book would be even more beneficial, so Zhao Daniu immediately chose to learn it.

  After seeing Zhao Daniu learn the skill book, Tang Tian finally put down his reluctance. However, after learning it, Zhao Daniu would become even stronger and be able to help him with many things, so it wouldn't go to waste. Thinking about this, Tang Tian felt relieved.

  After a short rest, the injured ones had already returned to the village ahead of time. There were 22 people when they came, and it wasn't long before there were only 16 people left in the group.

  There's no way around it, this is just the cruel reality of the world, crises are everywhere.

  With these people, Tang Tian and others set out again, but along the way they were even more cautious.

  But some things can't be dodged with just caution...