Chapter 310: 310、Fiery Giant Dragon Egg_1
Upon entering the Sea Serpent Castle, the players were met with hostile glances from the NPCs within the castle.
However, the players didn’t care about how these NPCs felt. They split up, laughing and frolicking around the castle, carrying out the orders that Snow Leopard had posted in the chat room, searching each room in the castle.
The NPCs in the castle glanced at each other, but none of them dared to act out.
Upon arriving at the castle’s main hall, Snow Leopard looked around to get a grasp of the castle’s layout,
He then turned to the Red-Eyed Black Dragon and said,
“Bernina, you go to Dreyk Gelsang’s study first. Don’t forget to search the secret compartments in the four walls. I’ll look for the secret treasure chamber in the castle.”
“Bernina…” the corners of the Red-Eyed Black Dragon’s mouth twitched at hearing this nickname.
This was the first time anyone had ever addressed him that way!
But Zhen Hong quickly responded, “Alright, Snowy. I’m off to the study now.”
With that, he ran down a side corridor without looking back, leaving Snow Leopard glaring at his retreating figure.
In the nine days leading up to the mission, Snow Leopard and Zhen Hong spent a good amount of time studying the structure of castles in the game world and figuring out where the nobles liked to hide their treasures.
Beyond their space rings, the nobles often stashed their treasures in secret compartments in their studies or underground chambers. The locations of these chambers were usually very covert, and there were many of them.
Many of the chamber doors were also fitted with magic locks, traps, and other devices, making the search for Snow Leopard and others a bit challenging.
For example, Snow Leopard just found an entrance to a secret chamber located on a wall in a changing room on the first floor. Going by the orientation of the entrance, he deduced that these two chambers could have been those of the family? head, Dreyk Gelsang.
However, there were two high-quality magic locks hanging on the door of the chamber.
Snow Leopard first had his own men try to unlock it, but after 10 minutes, he realized they couldn’t do it. He then went outside to call for Hammell, a warrior from the Sanctuary.
Hammell burst through the chamber door with a single use of the skill “Barbaric Charge,” revealing the hidden treasure below.
Snow Leopard expressed his thanks to Hammell while gathering all the treasures from the secret chamber with his men.
Zhen Hong also had a substantial haul on his side.
They conducted a thorough search of the study, ripping out many valuable things from the bookshelves and secret compartments in the walls. Besides some valuable sculptures and paintings, they also found a number of scrolls, high-grade potions, and small pieces of jewelry.
In just a few hours, Snow Leopard managed to crack all 12 secret chambers, while Zhen Hong had searched every room – the studies, living rooms, and bedrooms – of all of the core members of the Gesang family.
An abundance of expensive weapons and armors, magic items, monster materials, gems, and herbs… were happily stuffed into the players’ backpacks.
Similar events were taking place all over the city.
From high-ranking nobles’ castles to regular nobles’ estates, special places such as banks, and major business firms were all enthusiastically “visited” by the players.
Mr. Meng was one of the players who “robbed the bank”. He was part of the [Unbreakable Alliance].
Under his leadership, the players charged into the bank singing the Soviet Union’s national anthem and wielding assault rifles. They dumped all of the noble class’s assets in the bank into their backpacks without leaving a single spiritual energy coin behind.
It’s not that there were no instances of fierce resistance from the NPCs during the period when the players were busy all over the city. In one instance, while searching a minor noble’s estate, the players were ambushed by the minor noble, causing losses of more than a dozen players.
However, the players could respawn after death, and Su Yu quickly dispatched men to get rid of the minor noble, so the operation was not severely affected.
The players quickly moved on to the next location as soon as they finished clearing one place.
Once their backpacks were filled, they brought their loot to the central square next to Su Yu and dumped it on the ground.
Players were busily throwing the spoils of victory from their backpacks.
For a moment, weapons, armor, items, potions, gem magic crystals, paintings, and sculptures all sparkling with various spiritual lights were scattered all over the square, and the stash in the center was piled high like a small mountain.
The high-ranking members of the Goldfinch floating in the sky looked down at the mountain of treasure below and simultaneously revealed looks of envy.
Haiyan City being one of the top five wealthiest cities in the entire continent, these high-ranking nobles really did have a bountiful reserve!
The goldfinch’s elite forces were looking at these treasures, their faces dark and their hearts bleeding.
This was the fruit of their years of accumulation, and now it was about to become someone else’s property. All they could do was watch helplessly.
Soon after, Snow Leopard arrived.
Without saying a word, he took a Fiery Giant Dragon Egg out of his backpack and placed it on the ground in front of him. This was the most valuable item he had found in the secret chamber.
Upon seeing the dragon egg, which looked as if it was covered in lava, the sky was filled with exclamations of shock:
“My goodness! It’s a Red Dragon Egg!”
“Mosby, your Gesang Family is impressive! You have a Red Dragon Egg!”
“Isn’t this Red Dragon Egg also worth tens of millions!”
“Someone from the Gesang family come and explain, aren’t you afraid of the Dragon Race coming after you?”
Mosby Gelsang turned ash-gray.
This Red Dragon Egg was something he had gotten hold of with great difficulty from the neighboring Wind Chime continent. He had planned to give it to a direct descendant of his family to hatch, and he hadn’t expected it to be uncovered by the adventurers from the other world!
Su Yu also noticed this Fire Dragon Egg.
His eyes lit up, and he immediately used the Flash Skill three times in a row to teleport next to Snow Leopard, and picked up the Red Dragon Egg off the ground.
“Snow Leopard, you’ve got quite a find here! Good work!”
At the same time, he noticed that the high-ranking players in the sky were gravitating towards the egg. He quickly stuffed the egg into his backpack and spoke to the high-ranking players in the sky. “You can all leave now. When this is over, I’ll give this egg to the Princess, and let her decide what to do with it.”
The high-ranking players also realized that it would be inappropriate for them to flock and consequently dispersed.
As Su Yu put away the dragon egg, Snow Leopard received a game prompt: “Ding! Mission item [Fiery Giant Dragon Egg] has been received, rewarding you with 14.53 million Contribution Value points!”
Snow Leopard turned towards Su Yu and asked, “Nemesis, what exactly is this Contribution Value supposed to do?”
Su Yu had also received a game prompt, including an explanation about Contribution Value.
After understanding it, he explained to Snow Leopard, “Contribution Value is a conversion of the total value of the items you have confiscated into spiritual energy coins. After the mission is over, you can exchange Contribution Value for spiritual energy at a ratio of 1000:1.”
“1000:1? So this dragon egg can be exchanged for over ten thousand spiritual energy coins?” Snow Leopard marvelled.
At their current level, they would normally earn just a few spiritual energy coins for a task, maybe a dozen or so for a better task. If they were lucky enough to encounter an epic quest, they might earn a few hundred spiritual energy coins.
This time, just a single dragon egg is worth tens of thousands of spiritual energy coins! No wonder Nemesis said that the reward for this quest was good- it really was!