"Get lost!"
Wang Chen kicked Liu Qiang away with little patience, barely able to hide his annoyance.
"I leveled up with my own skills!"
Liu Qiang, nodding like a chicken pecking at the ground, grinned. "I know, I know. It's all thanks to you, Chen-ge. You can eat eight planet-sized cupcakes without even needing a spoon, I get it!"
"Go away!"
Wang Chen sighed in exasperation.
How was it possible that this guy's brain was as filled with nonsense as Mo Liuli's? A brain full of yellow garbage.
Suddenly, his phone buzzed.
[Miss Mo Liuli has transferred 420,000 RMB to your account!]
The money from selling the enchanted honey had arrived.
A heavy silence filled the air.
Liu Qiang's eyes reddened as he stammered, "Chen-ge... you're still saying you're not seeing some rich woman? This is how much she's transferring?"
"Think whatever you want."
Wang Chen didn't know how to explain it.
At that moment, a message popped up from Mo Liuli.
"Wang Chen, are you free tomorrow? I've got two beautiful friends inviting me to run a level 25 dungeon. We still need three people. Can I invite you?"
Wang Chen quickly replied, "Sure, but don't reveal my identity or my class. Just say I'm a mutated mechanic. Also, I want to bring a healer friend along to level up."
His power wasn't enough yet; he was worried that someone might take notice of him.
After all, if it weren't for Ren Yinian telling him about the scheming of the big families, he wouldn't have known that they could actually swap someone's class for their own gain.
"That works out perfectly! We're good to go, then. I'll send you the dungeon info."
Mo Liuli replied quickly, and Wang Chen tucked his phone away.
He turned to Liu Qiang, saying, "My friend just asked me to join a dungeon tomorrow. The minimum level for the dungeon is 10. Today, I'll help you level up to 10."
Liu Qiang was stunned. "Level 10 today? But, Chen-ge, that's impossible in just half a day!"
"Enough talk. Come with me!"
Wang Chen grabbed Liu Qiang by the arm and dragged him out.
The two hundred-pound Liu Qiang felt as light as a feather in Wang Chen's grasp.
Liu Qiang's eyes widened. "Chen-ge, what kind of supplements have you been taking? You've gotten stronger and better looking... Did that rich woman take you for a makeover?"
Faced with Liu Qiang's endless chatter, Wang Chen raised his fist and slammed it into the nearby metal can.
Liu Qiang instantly shut up.
Although he wanted to ask Wang Chen for some of that miraculous "Tenfold Supplement" the rich woman had given him he had nearly exploded from exhaustion just a few days ago he decided to hold his tongue.
They rushed down the stairs, said a quick goodbye to Zhao Xue, and headed straight for the nearest leveling spot.
"Hey! Hey! Don't be reckless! Don't go to high-level areas stick to places where level 1 mobs are. Just take it easy!"
Zhao Xue shouted from behind them, worried.
The area had designated zones for life-class professions to level up, filled with harmless, docile creatures. She thought the two of them would go there.
Even leveling up one level in the afternoon would be impressive.
Meanwhile, in a spacious villa within the Mo family estate, a pink-colored bedroom.
Mo Liuli, wearing a cute white cartoon bear lingerie, was lounging on the bed, her pale legs kicking up in the air as she spoke into a video call.
"Don't worry, Xiaoxiao, Mengmeng! I've got a real pro coming. He's incredibly strong and will definitely help us clear the dungeon!"
On the other end of the call, both An Xiaoxiao and Li Mengmeng, dressed in silky green sleepwear, looked skeptical.
"Are you sure the person you brought is that strong? Who are they?"
Mo Liuli replied mysteriously, "I can't tell you who it is, but I can promise you, they're incredible."
Her cryptic words only made An Xiaoxiao and Li Mengmeng more curious.
Back in the field, Wang Chen, confident and seasoned, was already guiding Liu Qiang toward the teleportation tower.
"The Poison Mushroom Forest isn't great for leveling. Let's head to the underground cave."
Wang Chen paid the teleportation fee.
"The underground cave? Isn't that full of goblins? Are you sure you want to go there? Have you seen the anime Goblin Slayer? They say goblins may look weak, but they're actually terrifying!"
Liu Qiang's face turned pale with fear.
The anime had shown that goblins, long underestimated by humans, were anything but weak. They were cruel, vicious, and relentless.
Many adventurers had confidently gone to hunt goblins, only to end up slaughtered in the dark caves.
The image of dead male adventurers sprawled on the ground, and helpless female adventurers being overpowered and torn apart, haunted Liu Qiang's mind.
Screams echoed as the goblins, with their grotesque grins, tore their clothes apart and assaulted them without mercy.
"Too scary!" Liu Qiang shivered.
In his mind, even with Wang Chen's high level, life-class professions had no real combat abilities.
His skills, at best, would only fuel the goblins' excitement.
If he were caught by one of them, he might be captured and used for the goblins' twisted pleasures!
"Are you sure we're not just walking into our own graves, Chen-ge?"
Liu Qiang asked weakly.
"Just follow me," Wang Chen said calmly.
They teleported to a jagged mountain range, where a cluster of eerie, yellow-tinted caves loomed in the distance.
Adventurers clustered near the entrances, some forming teams, others seemingly preparing to head inside.
In the distance, there were rumors of female adventurers disappearing just half an hour ago, and the goblin caves had shown signs of change.
"Let's go in here."
Wang Chen led Liu Qiang toward a slightly larger entrance.
"Chen-ge, I believe you, just please don't let me end up as a goblin's entertainment priest!" Liu Qiang muttered, nervously clutching his makeshift magic staff, ready to use it as a melee weapon.
"Relax."
Wang Chen, confident and unbothered, didn't even think about summoning his super-powered armor.
The goblins in this cave ranged from level 3 to level 8, with their strength attributes barely reaching 15-30.
Wang Chen, at level 16, already had an astonishing power stat of nearly 400.
Even without his armor, he could easily crush any goblin in his way.
Soon, they reached the depths of the cave.
It was spacious enough for several people to walk side by side, though the light grew dimmer by the second.
This was the true horror of the goblin caves: a maze of tunnels, with no clear idea where the goblins might emerge from next.
Liu Qiang trembled, "Chen-ge, we've rushed into this. Should've at least brought a flashlight! It's way too dark in here!"
"Don't worry. Just watch me," Wang Chen said confidently.
He activated a device from his inventory a Scan Tower and placed it on the ground.
[Name]: Scan Tower
[Level]: 1
[Function]: Detection of enemy units, scanning minerals
[Description]: Uses infrared and vibration detection to detect units and minerals, sharing vision with the user, with a scanning range of 500 meters for enemies and 1000 meters for minerals.
HUMMMMMMM
The silver-white Scan Tower hummed to life, instantly displaying a 500-meter map of the cave's three-dimensional structure in Wang Chen's mind.
Liu Qiang stared in shock. "What the hell, Chen-ge, did that rich woman buy you this scanning device? This is insane! How much did this cost?"
"Still won't admit you're being spoiled, huh? This is concrete evidence!"
The shocking reality finally hit Liu Qiang Wang Chen was not just lucky, but riding on the wings of someone much more powerful.
And there, in the darkness of the cave, something stirred...
A massive presence, far beyond their expectations, began to move closer...