"Sister Nana, this person is so strong, and you still gave him the map. He definitely won't return it to us."
A tall, thin man in Nana's team suddenly spoke up, "When the Mountain Master blames us later, how are we supposed to explain this?"
"Logan!"
Nana frowned and said, "But in our current situation, if we don't hand over the map, then we only have one path left, and that's death!"
"The map is only an external possession anyway. If we lose our lives, what use is the map?"
"Nana, you've always been this selfish!", Logan suppressed his anger and lowered his voice, "For you and your sister, you'd rather sacrifice the interests of our entire sect. You clearly know how important this map is to our Azure City Sect."
"If we hadn't used this kind mysterious map during this period to find so many treasure chests, how could our Azure City Sect have risen so quickly?"
"How could we fight against Ethan from Region Seven?"
"In another six days, the Lord Battle will end. Do you want our whole sect to become someone else's slaves?"
"When I get back..."
"I'm definitely going to report you to the Mountain Master for colluding with outsiders and betraying the sect!"
"I'll think of a way to get it back," Nana's voice carried a trace of coldness, "As for whether I betrayed the sect or not, I'll explain it to the Mountain Master myself. I don't need you doing it for me."
"Hmph! You'd better keep your word."
Logan looked at Ethan's back with hostility in his eyes.
As for Ethan himself, naturally, he would not notice Logan's malice at all. After all, he was just an insignificant nobody. Even if Ethan knew, he would not care.
At this moment, what Ethan cared about more was this magical map.
When he walked to the location marked on the map for the treasure chest, there was indeed nothing there.
He even stabbed the ground with the Godslayer Sword.
Underneath was only ordinary dirt.
Tap!
Then, Ethan followed Nana's instructions and tapped the treasure chest shown on the [Hidden Treasure] map with his finger.
The next moment, something strange really happened.
Right in front of Ethan, an empty patch of ground suddenly produced a wooden treasure chest out of nowhere.
And the wooden treasure chest appeared silently. There was not even the sound of it landing, vibrations, flying dust, or anything else.
None of it appeared.
'What exactly is going on?'
[Discovered one Wooden Treasure Chest. Collect?]
'Collect!'
[Mineral Water +1]
[Alkaline Bread +2]
[Weapon · Iron Axe +1]
These were three very basic survival supplies.
But wooden treasure chests were always like this. There was never anything especially good inside.
Of course, for players who had just entered this world, or players without special abilities, these basic survival supplies really were good items.
However, after collecting the items inside the Wooden Treasure Chest, Ethan once again noticed something strange.
The treasure chest did not break down.
Previously, every treasure chest he collected, whether Bronze, Silver, or even the rarer Lucky Treasure Chests, would automatically break down during collection.
'So why didn't this wooden treasure chest break down?'
But...
When Ethan reached out to touch the opened wooden treasure chest, he discovered that the chest was actually like a 4D projection. His hand passed directly through it without the slightest resistance. It was as if these treasure chests had only ever been projections from the beginning.
'But that doesn't make sense?'
He had clearly collected several items from inside the treasure chest.
Thinking this, Ethan directly took out the mineral water he had just collected, unscrewed the cap, and gulped down several large mouthfuls.
"Mm! The mineral water is fine."
After tasting that familiar unpleasant flavor, Ethan was basically certain that the items inside the treasure chest were real.
There was also the iron axe from the Wooden Treasure Chest.
Ethan took it out and swung it twice. Even though the weapon was ordinary and basic, judging from the heavy feeling in his hand and how easily it chopped down a small tree as thick as an arm, there was clearly nothing wrong with the iron axe either.
"But what exactly is going on with this treasure chest?"
Ethan looked at the strange treasure chest completely confused, but he still decided to try another treasure chest.
'Maybe wooden treasure chests simply couldn't break down?'
'After all, they are too low-level.'
"Mm! The map shows there's a Silver Treasure Chest to the south."
Ethan glanced at [Hidden Treasure] and quickly found the only slightly higher-level treasure chest in the entire plant forest.
"You aren't thinking of targeting that Silver Treasure Chest, are you?"
Standing nearby, Nana quickly guessed Ethan's intention and hurriedly stopped him, "That place is very dangerous! Don't go!"
"You've been there?"
Ethan turned around and asked.
Although Nana did not really want to reveal it, after thinking for a moment, she still frowned and explained, "Earlier, our team had a member who changed classes into an Explorer. He could see danger levels."
"If the Ground Needle Grass we encountered earlier was considered F-rank danger—"
"Then the place where the Silver Treasure Chest is located is about equivalent to D-rank danger."
"Even though the Silver Treasure Chest is tempting, there are so many Wooden Treasure Chests and Bronze Treasure Chests here already. That's enough to make up for losing one Silver Treasure Chest, so..."
"I hope you seriously think about whether it's really worth taking this risk."
"Heh!"
Ethan turned around and smiled slightly, "A Silver Treasure Chest actually isn't that tempting to me. I'm only doing this to test something."
"And if you people rate that trash Ground Needle Grass as F-rank, then I think D-rank danger probably isn't much of a danger to me."
"You...", Nana became annoyed when she saw that Ethan refused to listen, "You looked at my map, so that means we're partners now. I hope you also consider your partner. Don't insist on doing whatever you want."
"I really hate people telling me what to do," Ethan suddenly turned around and pointed his sword directly at Nana's throat, "Since I took your item, then naturally I'll do what I should do. You don't need to worry about it blindly. You just need to manage your own people."
[T/N: People man, we are so dumb sometimes.]
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