118 Goblin Cave (1/2)

The young Lu An scanned the mouth cave, and he found footprints on the ground. Each of the footprints was small in size, at least much smaller than the one to human's.

”It seems we teleported right in front of the goblin cave!” Lu An opened his mouth while turning back to his team.

”How do you know, Captain?” A man in his late thirties approached and asked Lu An. Hu Feng was curious as to how this young man could tell the cave was the goblin cave.

Lu An pointed at the footprints on the ground, ”These are the goblin's footprints!” Hu Feng followed the finger to see the messy footprints on the ground. Lu An came closer to the man and whispered, ”Just call me by name, Uncle Feng,” His cheeks turned red as he said those words.

Lu An was embarrassed to be called Captain by someone much older than him. On top of that, he was not used to being called like that. It was cringe for him.

”I can't! If Boss knows, I will be scolded for sure,” Hu Feng shook his head with a smile before he whispered something to the young man, ”Moreover, you have to get used to this,” he tapped Lu An's shoulder to encourage the young man.

Lu An nodded helplessly as he did not insist on Hu Feng to drop the formality between them. He looked at his team and shouted, ”Get ready! We will be entering the cave shortly!”

”C-captain Lu An!” A young guy that was about the same age as Lu An raised his hand, ”Yes! What is it?” The Captain asked the young guy back.

”Shouldn't we look for The Shaman instead?” The young guy, Li Ru asked Lu An. He was trying to remind Lu An to look for The Shaman instead of clearing the goblin cave.

The reason was that Li Ru did not want to enter the creepy cave. Inside was so dark and cold with the monsters inside, it made him not want to enter the cave. It seemed everyone else had the same fear toward the cave as they looked at Lu An hopefully.

”We should look for The Shaman,” Lu An nodded his head in agreement. Li Ru and the other slaves were relieved until the next words came from Lu An's mouth, ”What do you think Boss would ask for if he is here? He would order us to clear the side objective too, so we are going to clear this goblin cave before we look for The Shaman!”

Hu Feng completely agreed with the young guy. If Tang Shaoyang was here, he without a doubt would lead them inside to kill the monsters inside. Even though the cave was not the objective, if there were monsters for them to kill, their Boss would send them over.

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”Huff… Huff… Huff…” Kang Xue breathed heavily. It had been ten minutes but she failed even to kill one of the remaining three Rabbidogs.

”I am sorry…” Kang Xue muttered in a low voice. She did not ask him to be spoiled like this, but she was too helpless.

”Don't be sorry to him! It was his fault for asking to fight against Stage-2 Beast with your current level,” Zhang Mengyao consoled while approaching her, ”It's okay, don't get burdened, he also did the same thing for me when I was low-level like you,” she whispered to Kang Xue.

”Mnnn,” Kang Xue nodded her head. With Zhang Mengyao's words, she felt a lot better. She walked toward the limbless Rabbidog, just as she was about to kill Rabbidog she heard Tang Shaoyang's instruction, ”Target the head, don't ruin the fur on the body,”

Even though she did not know why he instructed her so, she still nodded. In the first place, she was going to target the head.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

The girl killed the suffering Rabbidogs with her scythe. After that, Tang Shaoyang collected the carcasses and stored them in his inventory. Thanks to the stack system, the Rabbidog's corpses stacked into one space up to twenty-one.

”I gained one level!” Kang Xue exclaimed happily when the notification rang in her head. With the blood sprayed around her cheek, her happy expression looked daunting.

”Good! Distribute the attribute points so you can get a little stronger,” he smirked at the girl.

”Why did you collect their bodies?” Zhang Mengyao asked out of curiosity. ”Their horn is hard, maybe it had some uses later, and…” He paused midway.

”And?” Zhang Mengyao asked the man to continue, ”I touched the fur, it was so soft. We can skin the fur and patch it to be carpet so we can cuddle together on the floor…” he whispered to the girl's ear.

As it was in front of her team member, her cheeks flushed red from embarrassment. She was aware that they could not hear him but it was still embarrassing.

Since the battle was over, it was time to explore the unknown land, ”Should we focus on The Shaman or…” Zhang Mengyao was about to ask the side objective but Tang Shaoyang gave his order before she could finish her question, ”There are no priorities, we will finish all objectives! There should be a bonus reward from finishing the side objective,”

”Now we will split to scout the surroundings. After fifteen minutes we should go back to this spot!” He pointed to the ground below.

Thirty minutes later…