Chapter 145: Return Journey

He wanted to put the circular plate armor into his backpack, but he found that the backpack had already been soaked in blood, and a considerable amount of blood plasma had accumulated inside.

Qin Siyang poured out the sticky blood plasma, then stuffed the circular plate armor inside.

'This bag looks like it's done for. I'll switch to a new one when we get back.'

By the time he had eaten almost enough, his sequence progress had increased by roughly one-tenth.

'To level up the sequence to the next stage, I need to consume a lot of gods...'

Although he hadn't finished eating the Ghost Faced Heron, he had almost dealt with the internal organs in his stomach. The other parts were still connected to the external body. Eating them would likely draw Li Tianming's attention.

'Ah, if I had come alone, I would have definitely eaten the entire Ghost Faced Heron...'

Unfortunately, he couldn't.

Without Li Tianming's help in restraining the Ghost Faced Heron, he would probably already be dead.

He pretended as if he had just finished an intense battle, "exhaustedly" tearing through the other side of the Ghost Faced Heron's belly, crawling out while panting heavily.

"That was close! I almost died!"

When he endured the pain and limped towards Li Tianming, he found no response.

He wiped the bloodstains off his mask and saw Li Tianming smoking a cigarette, looking at him indifferently.

Qin Siyang felt slightly guilty, "Old Li, if it weren't for you, I'd be dead for sure this time! You're incredible!"

Li Tianming snorted and continued smoking.

"Old Li, what's wrong?"

Li Tianming said calmly, "You sure had fun playing around inside that Ghost Faced Heron's belly, huh?"

"How could that be? Slander! Absolute slander! I was fighting for my life in there. Almost didn't make it! Look at my ankle!"

Li Tianming flicked away his cigarette and pointed his chin at the Ghost Faced Heron's corpse.

"See for yourself."

"I... see what?"

"Notice how the Ghost Faced Heron's legs are slightly raised?"

Qin Siyang turned to look at the Ghost Faced Heron's corpse and found that its two legs were indeed lifted slightly off the ground.

"Uh... yeah, kind of."

"That's divine corpse stiffening. It usually happens about half an hour after a god dies."

Qin Siyang was stunned, "Gods... have corpse stiffening too?"

"Let's not talk about corpse stiffening for now. That Ghost Faced Heron has been dead for half an hour, yet you just now came out. Were you having a party in there?"

"I was out here struggling with all my might to pin it down, afraid I wouldn't be able to save you. But you? You killed it and didn't even say a word, just stayed inside messing around. Were you playing me for a fool?"

Qin Siyang put on a fawning smile, "How could that be? Old Li, I'm not that kind of person. I literally just came out. If you don't believe me, look at my leg. It's seriously injured!"

Li Tianming sneered, "With an injury like that, don't even try playing the sympathy card."

"Forget it. Anyway, the Ghost Faced Heron is dead. I don't care what you were doing in there. It's getting late, hurry up and cut off the circular plate armor from its head, then come back with me to the safe zone."

"Got it!"

Seeing that Li Tianming was no longer pressing the matter, Qin Siyang limped over to the Ghost Faced Heron's corpse and used the Hunting Dagger to cut off the circular plate armor from its head.

He noticed that besides the usual circles and straight lines, there was now an additional triangular pattern.

Qin Siyang held it up for Li Tianming to see, "Old Li, what does this triangle mean?"

"One triangle represents ten Hunting Points. Only circular plate armors with more than two hundred points will have them."

Qin Siyang took a closer look and saw that there were actually seven triangles, his eyes widening in shock.

"I'm rich! This time, I'm really rich!"

"What do you mean 'you're' rich?"

"This time, I just got another seven hundred points credited."

Li Tianming said impatiently, "Did you forget? We took down this Ghost Faced Heron together."

"Huh?"

"This circular plate armor has my sequence aura on it. It can be detected. And even if you claim you killed it alone, you wouldn't pass the lie detector test."

"This..."

Qin Siyang froze in place.

Since the Ghost Faced Heron was stained with Li Tianming's sequence aura, he couldn't count it as a solo kill.

Not only that, but because the score wasn't obtained in a solo run, it wouldn't count toward the special recruitment assessment either.

Just like that, a fortune slipped through his fingers.

Qin Siyang's heart bled.

"We'll split the sequence potion equally. You shouldn't have any objections to that, right? As for the money, I'll still take half. You can keep all the points for yourself."

Li Tianming's distribution plan was quite generous.

Without him, Qin Siyang would've been dead for sure. Even if Li Tianming had taken eighty percent of the rewards, it would've been justified.

But Qin Siyang was still stuck on the fact that his points wouldn't count toward the special recruitment.

"My only concern is the special recruitment score... Was this whole trip a waste?"

Li Tianming let out a sinister laugh, "Not entirely. Didn't you at least gain a pair of injured ankles?"

Qin Siyang sighed.

'Forget it.'

'At least my sequence rank has increased.'

Nothing in this world ever goes exactly as planned.

Dragging his exhausted body, and his even more exhausted heart, he returned to the exit of Safe Zone No. 38324.

The moment people saw Qin Siyang walking out covered in bloodstained safety gear, they didn't even need to look at his face to know it was him.

After all, no one else ever ended up this battered.

But seeing him this ragged usually meant he had fought multiple gods and made a huge profit.

When Qin Siyang appeared at the safe zone exit again, all the sequence ability users instinctively made way, forming a path straight to the verification personnel.

John's death, Sun Juhong's death, they were all connected to him.

Qin Siyang was like an unfathomable demon. No one wanted to provoke him.

He dumped dozens of small circular plate armors from his backpack.

"Please verify these."

It was the same verification officer who had helped process his results the previous two times.

"Alright."

The verification officer quickly began checking them.

But after examining a circular plate armor for a moment, he looked at Qin Siyang with confusion.

"Mr. Qin, isn't this a Lizard Fish circular plate armor?"

"Lizard Fish? You mean the fish with four legs that jumps to attack?"

"Yes."

"Then it should be what you said, the Lizard Fish."

"Based on the surrounding scales and remains, I also think it's Lizard Fish. But the circular plate armor of Lizard Fish should only have a single groove. Why does yours have a full circle?"

"A circle?"

Qin Siyang was surprised. He had been collecting circular plate armors blindly inside the Ghost Faced Heron's stomach without verifying them.

He never expected those useless fish to have circular plate armors worth five points each?

But killing them felt no different from killing Iron Helmet Fleas...

While he was still wondering, Li Tianming spoke up, "It's probably because these Lizard Fish were inside the Ghost Faced Heron's stomach, making them much harder to kill, so their circular plate armors mutated into full-circle ones."

"What? You guys killed them inside the Ghost Faced Heron's stomach?"

"Yeah, that's right."

The moment the Ghost Faced Heron was mentioned, Qin Siyang felt another wave of heartache.

He took out a bowl-sized circular plate armor from his backpack's zipper pocket and threw it onto the table.

"This one."

"This... this..."

The surrounding sequence ability users stared at the circular plate armor, completely speechless.

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