Chapter 2727: Got It
Xu Huo had already seen the location of the item from the instruments of the three golden-eyed players, but due to the special environment and the obstruction of the scale vine giant plant, his spiritual realm and spatial perception were both compromised. From over five thousand meters away, he could no longer accurately identify where the item was. This place was a massive energy field, and under the hurricane, any small probe was easily assimilated.
Yan Jiayu patted his shoulder and pointed inquiringly at the underground river beside them.
Xu Huo nodded, signaling for her to provide support nearby while he went into the water first to take a look.
Yan Jiayu gave an "okay" gesture.
Xu Huo quickly went underwater. After avoiding the vines stretching out beneath the surface, he groped his way closer to the main plant. The underground waterway was rugged and difficult to navigate, with some places being extremely narrow and hard to pass through. Not daring to make too much noise, he could only move bit by bit.
After about ten minutes, he found a crevice close to the main plant. The underground river water could pass through this crevice to make contact with the main plant.
This distance wasn't far. Xu Huo easily detected a nearby energy cluster. However, when he tried to make contact with his mental power, his head felt as if it had been struck by a heavy hammer. The intense pain forced him to shut down his spiritual realm...
Realizing that it might be a prop similar to "Angel's Eyes," made from a whole piece of Primordial Stone, he didn't continue probing. Instead, he manipulated spatial power to cut it off from the scales of the main plant.
The prop wasn't attached to the main plant but was wrapped in some sticky underwater plants and hung on the main plant's vines. It wasn't difficult to take it off.
But what he didn't expect was that when the prop detached, all the scales on the scale vine main plant opened up like living things. Then a force rushed out, shaking the entire underground river. Both the prop and Xu Huo were swept out of the crevice by this sudden underground current and merged into the main channel of the underground river.
Countless scale vine tendrils attacked from both above and below the water, quickly surrounding Xu Huo, and the prop was also swept away.
How could he let something he had just obtained be thrown away so easily? Xu Huo activated his time power to freeze the nearby vines, used spatial power to grab that "prop ball," then protected himself with a spatial barrier and moved away from the main plant by following the crowding of other vines.
But before he could surface, the prop ball in his hand suddenly turned into a closed scale vine flower bud. A Space Ray Blade shredded the flower bud that opened its mouth to bite. Xu Huo looked towards the direction the three golden-eyed players were moving and was about to chase after them when he felt a tremendous force pressing down from the river surface. It almost sealed the entire river surface, then pinned the wildly writhing scale vine tendrils to the riverbed!
Seeing the three people approaching the river surface without any hindrance, Xu Huo once again used his time power to control them. With a loud bang, the impact force shot down from the water surface hit the golden-eyed player squarely, knocking his right arm, along with the prop ball he was holding, back into the water. Immediately after, the three people's metal boxes were also thrown down.
Braving the surging vines and currents, Xu Huo dragged the metal box over, scooped up the prop ball, and directly threw it into his luggage compartment.
At this point, the mental pressure he was under decreased sharply. However, correspondingly, the scale vines became even more violent. There was no room to move on the river surface anymore, and even Yan Jiayu had to jump into the water. Of course, the underwater situation wasn't any better. The vines stirred up mutant plants growing deep in the river, and in an instant, the entire river became turbid and viscous.
Even so, Xu Huo, Yan Jiayu, and the three golden-eyed players were all swept out along the river's current.
The scale vine was, after all, just a plant. Unable to sense the prop ball and having no attack target, it could only rage underground. Before long, it stopped chasing them.
However, the constantly collapsing and falling rocks still gave them a hard time. During this period, the three golden-eyed players tried to snatch the prop back, but this time Xu Huo didn't hold back. He trapped them with his time power and then directly used a Space Ray Blade to shred the three into pieces.
Passing through the blood mist, Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu drifted with the current for a while before seizing the opportunity to go ashore.
There was a very small space on the water surface. The two crouched down to rest for a while, then climbed up along a nearby underground crevice.
Soon, they were back in the previously labyrinthine underground passages.
Feeling free to breathe again, the two exchanged a smile.
"It's probably a super prop made from Primordial Stone. How do we split it?" Xu Huo asked.
"I'm not good at mental evolution. Anyway, we agreed before, it's yours. I don't want it," Yan Jiayu said generously.
Mental-type props were indeed more suitable for Xu Huo. He didn't stand on ceremony and skipped this topic. "Let's find a way out and see if we can run into Pu Yu and the others."
If they had already left, it was fine. But if they were trapped somewhere, since they had helped them, it would be morally wrong for them to completely ignore them.
"I also fished out a bag." Yan Jiayu pulled a bag out of her luggage compartment. "It was churned up by the scale vines earlier. I saw it was so well preserved even after soaking for so long, so the material must be good. There might be something good inside."
Undoing the buckle, the first thing they saw was a bunch of identity tokens. The rest were various small special items, like a miniature communicator, small daily necessities, etc. The communicator was damaged, and its contents couldn't be retrieved. But judging from these items, they were likely deliberately collected keepsakes.
"This whistle has a name on it." Yan Jiayu examined it. "...Jefferson. The photo Pu Yu showed earlier had the surname Jefferson on the back."
Xu Huo searched for this name on the Under Dimension.
The three golden-eyed players were after the super prop, and it was likely that Pu Yu's aunt's group was too.
However, information on A-level wormhole points wasn't easy to find, and the surname Jefferson wasn't particularly special, so they didn't find anything useful.
"I'll keep it for now." Xu Huo took the communicator and the bag. "We'll talk after I repair the communicator."
"But there probably won't be any crucial information."
If someone could obtain important clues while staying clear-headed, their first choice would be to send them back through other channels, not record them in a communicator. If mental interference made it impossible to distinguish and use tickets and instruments, it would be very difficult to accurately record information in the communicator.
This was most likely a keepsake prepared by the team before their operation.
Yan Jiayu nodded, acting as if they hadn't found anything.
The two wandered around the underground for a while and found the unconscious Pu Yu near the sinkhole. The two players who had been with her were nowhere to be seen.
"She's pretty badly hurt." Yan Jiayu pulled the person up and gave her an injection of healing agent. "It doesn't look like it was from mutant plants. Did they have a falling out?"