Chapter 24: Here Comes the Job!

Nick surveyed the dungeon environment. Judging from the remaining buildings, it could be vaguely seen as a village. He said slowly, "It should be a hidden dungeon or something..."

"Such a large space, I'm afraid there are many dungeon creatures hidden."

There was some speculation in his tone. Nick would naturally not reveal his biggest trump card, not even to his teammates.

Hearing this, Sally's pretty face became much more serious. She tightened her grip on the severely worn short sword in her hand, which was her only means of self-defense in the dungeon world.

"Be careful. If you encounter a dungeon creature you can't defeat... just run!"

After confirming that there were no dungeon creatures in the current area, Nick walked towards the ruins of the building not far away. A large village like this must have a lot of survival resources.

However, when Nick walked to a relatively well-preserved building, the scene before him made him frown slightly. There were already traces of searching around, and in the center of the building, next to a pit, lay an opened wooden box.

Undoubtedly, this hidden dungeon had already been preempted by someone else. Judging from these traces, it probably happened in the past two days.

"Too late?"

Nick frowned inadvertently. He walked to the ruins of a building not far away. After searching several times, the current area was almost completely looted.

The so-called harvest was simply nonsense.

Nick didn't think that the usually accurate hint would make a mistake in this matter. He had some doubts in his heart, but he soon had an answer.

The greater risk in the hint was likely to have Nick kill the dungeon creatures in the current area...

Because the level of danger was high, the reward was relatively generous?

"This is just messing around!"

Nick's lips twitched slightly. In such a large dungeon, even if he wanted to deal with that dungeon creature, just finding it would take a lot of effort.

He returned to Sally's side, his eyes filled with a bit of helplessness.

"Captain, what's wrong?"

Noticing Nick's abnormality, Sally frowned slightly. She was a little confused, so she took the initiative to ask.

"Nothing much. Just a bit of bad luck. This place has already been explored by others."

Nick said truthfully. If such a large complex of buildings were completely looted, the amount of resources that could be collected would be considerable.

"That's a bit of a pity."

Sally's face was somewhat regretful. It was quite normal for it to have been explored by other survivors, and it also meant that digging attempts were wasted.

She looked at Nick and asked, "Where to now? Should we still explore this dungeon..."

"Let's continue exploring."

Nick looked in the other directions. Even if the resources were collected by other survivors, there were still dungeon creatures, right?

Since they were already here, they couldn't leave empty-handed.

Afterward, Nick's exploration focus obviously shifted from survival materials to dungeon creatures. Just as he walked into a dilapidated building, with a brief vibration of the ground, dust instantly flew up from the building's remains.

"Damn it..."

Nick didn't hesitate at all and decisively left the current 'dangerous building'. In an instant, this building, which was about a few hundred years old, completely collapsed.

The huge noise of countless dirt and rocks falling to the ground made Sally, who was exploring not far away, look over.

"What's going on?"

Nick frowned. The noise of this scale was definitely not caused by the dungeon world, but rather it was like the noise caused by the huge red Python he encountered last time.

The source of this movement was likely the dungeon creature in the current area.

Nick's expression wasn't very good. Causing such a big commotion, it was probably much more powerful than the red Python last time...

However, the exploration hint stated that the current dungeon creature could be defeated, but with some risks.

"Let's gamble..."

Nick quickly made a decision in his heart. He looked at Sally not far away, and the Pangolin Python clinging to him.

With his current strength, as long as his teammate could buy him a little time, he still had a chance to kill the dungeon creature.

He looked at Sally and said, "Let's go, let's go to the source..."

Seeing Nick's resolute appearance, Sally, who had already taken out the Rune Bow in advance, knew that a battle with the dungeon creature was inevitable.

She didn't ask anything and quietly followed Nick's footsteps.

The two humans and one beast followed the cracks on the ground to the open area on the other side of the dungeon, and a team fighting hard came into Nick's sight.

When he saw the enemy of this team, his pupils constricted slightly, and the Rune Bow in his hand was gripped even tighter.

The red Python Nick faced last time was completely insignificant compared to this behemoth. They were simply not on the same level.

Because not far away, there was a huge worm, about a dozen meters long and as thick as a water bucket.

He looked over, and the giant worm's ferocious mouth was full of sharp teeth, extending straight to the depths of the giant mouth. Just looking at it could make one's heart chill.

"What kind of monster is this..."

Nick stood in the distance and didn't intend to help that team. If their situation was not good, he would just run away.

The team that arrived at the hidden dungeon first was struggling to fight the dungeon creature and had no time to pay attention to the surroundings, not noticing Nick and the others.

However, the weapons held by the survivors of that team were mostly ordinary, just ordinary cold weapons. The damage to the worm in front of them was minimal, only leaving a shallow mark on its body.

Instead, when this worm attacked, it made this survivor team quite embarrassed. Every time its huge body moved, it would cause the ground to crack.

There was only one outcome of being crushed by its huge body or bitten by its mouth. But as time passed, when those people's physical strength was exhausted, they would also not escape the result of death.

"Captain?"

Sally, who witnessed this battle, had an extremely serious expression. She was already quite weak against the Sand Wolf, let alone this disgusting worm in front of her.

She looked at Nick. Although his face was much more serious, he still maintained a bystander's attitude, and probably didn't intend to take action.

"It's over..."

Nick suddenly said.

As soon as he finished speaking. With the survivor holding the shield at the front being knocked away, this survivor squad that had been struggling to hold on collapsed directly.

Among the several survivors who scattered and fled, the captain of their team, while running away, saw Nick and Sally not far away, as if a drowning man had grasped a life-saving straw.

He shouted loudly, "Help us kill... No, stall that Desert Worm, the reward will definitely satisfy you!!"

Hearing this, Sally really wanted to refuse. A survivor squad couldn't solve the Desert Worm, so asking her and Nick to stall it was no different from sending them to their deaths.

However, she didn't see Nick's interested smile.

"Isn't this a job that just came up?"