In the driver's seat where Qin Siyang sat, quite a bit of blood had already flowed.
After escaping from the jaws of death, he let out a slight breath of relief.
Then he took out the storage box and tossed the severed finger inside.
Afterward, he swallowed an emergency medicine that Chen Fenghe had given him, stopping the bleeding from the wound.
Qin Siyang hadn't expected a situation where a finger would actually be severed.
So before setting out, he hadn't gone to seek Hao Liang's help, and naturally didn't have the kind of restorative potion on him that could reattach a severed limb.
He could only wait until he returned to the safe zone, and then think of a way to attach the finger back.
The storage box could preserve the state of the items inside.
By placing the finger in it, he could also prevent it from completely dying off.
The sound behind him gradually faded away.
The nerves that had been tense finally relaxed.
Then a full surge of anger rose up in him.
"Such bad luck!"
"I haven't even done anything yet, and I've already landed in a mess, even lost a finger."
Hu Chan looked at Qin Siyang, "So what's the plan next?"
"What's the plan? Of course, keep hunting gods!"
"Keep going?"
Hu Chan was surprised at Qin Siyang's decision.
Qin Siyang coldly glanced at him, "Continuing to hunt gods, what's the problem?"
"No problem. If you don't see a problem, how could I? I'm just a little surprised, you're injured, instead of returning to the safe zone to rest, you still want to hunt gods."
"Rest?", Qin Siyang sneered twice, "It wasn't easy for me to come out this time, and I even have to give you an extra Titan Foxtail inner-leaf fragment as payment. You expect me to just go back empty-handed? Impossible!"
"When I, Qin Siyang, come outside the safe zone, I absolutely can't return empty-handed! If I get nothing, that's as good as losing face!"
Hu Chan listened with a bewildered look, then let out a light sigh, "That you've survived until now really is a miracle."
"I won't deny it, my nickname is indeed 'Brother Miracle'."
Hu Chan thought Qin Siyang's actions were somewhat reckless.
But he didn't know, Qin Siyang risked more outside the safe zone so that he could take fewer risks inside it.
If today he thought getting hurt was enough of a reason to go back, then tomorrow he'd think not finding gods was also reason enough to go back.
Delaying day after day, then when the moment truly came that he had to show his strength or produce materials, he would naturally be left empty-handed.
In Qin Siyang's eyes, although the situation wasn't good now, the situation to come would only be worse.
With the materials and strength he had now, it looked like dragging things out a little, lying low a little, wouldn't be a problem.
But times change unpredictably, who knew when earth-shaking changes might erupt inside the safe zone?
That was why he had to seize every chance to keep strengthening himself.
Especially the breakthrough to Sequence Level Six.
According to Li Tianming, he already had the lava crocodile and ice crystal moth as two perfect sacrifices.
He only lacked the small god's round plate armor.
The earlier he obtained it, the earlier he could break through, and the earlier he'd become stronger.
These matters, of course, he couldn't possibly lay bare to Hu Chan, this so-called "holy son."
After a brief silence, Hu Chan spoke again, "Qin Siyang, even if we are going to keep hunting gods, isn't this distance from the safe zone a bit too far?"
Qin Siyang checked the navigation system and found that right now he was nearly two hundred kilometers from the safe zone.
This area was already crawling with mid-tier gods, one careless mistake could cost them their lives.
Obviously, it wasn't a suitable place to hunt small gods.
"I'll turn back now."
Qin Siyang avoided the area where they had encountered the sandworm before, circling around and heading back toward the safe zone, until they reached about one thousand kilometers away.
The drill pod once again surfaced, and Qin Siyang and Hu Chan appeared on the open wilds above.
Qin Siyang took out a sequence potion and poured it into the drill pod's fuel tank.
"You'd better hurry and use your skill to check if there's a cluster of small gods nearby. If not, then we'll move again."
Hu Chan nodded, "Alright. But let me say this first, my skill can only be used once per hour."
"No problem, what I've got is patience, I can wait."
Qin Siyang closed the fuel tank lid, then once again stored the drill pod, turning it back into a ring.
But this time, learning from past experience, he didn't put the ring back on his finger, instead placing it in a tightly sealed pocket outside his armor.
While Hu Chan was activating his skill, Qin Siyang also tested throwing a few punches.
It seemed the lack of his index finger wasn't an unbearable hindrance.
As long as the thumb was still there, this hand could still use about eighty to ninety percent of its strength.
Qin Siyang gave a bitter smile, "Lucky enough, the drill pod turned into a ring and not a thumb ring."
"Otherwise, I really would have had to go back to the safe zone to recover."
About five minutes later, Hu Chan pointed to a direction, "There's a large group of small gods gathered there. Let's go take a look."
"Alright."
This time, both Qin Siyang and Hu Chan moved very cautiously.
Almost every two or three steps, they would check the surroundings and the distant horizon.
Having suffered badly once, neither dared to rush forward recklessly again.
After walking for about three or four hours, the two stood atop a small hill and saw not far away a cluster of small gods.
Under the starlight, Qin Siyang carefully observed them and found they didn't seem to be blood moon spiders or abyssal hounds.
At least those two types wouldn't be active on the surface.
He took out his phone and snapped a photo.
The screen showed the gods ahead were [Hard-Shelled Frog Moths], moth-like creatures with frog-like appearances and tough skins.
Each round plate armor was worth only a little over forty points, far short of Qin Siyang's requirement.
"This won't do. Let's go, we'll check somewhere else."
Although Hu Chan felt impatient inside, there was nothing he could do.
After all, right now he was just a laborer working under this black-hearted boss Qin Siyang.
If Qin Siyang wasn't satisfied, he had no choice but to follow along.
Just then, faint tremors suddenly came from the ground.
Qin Siyang raised his head in surprise, looking around.
At last, his gaze met Hu Chan's terrified eyes.
"What's going on?"
Hu Chan's face was full of disbelief, "Seems like… it's that sandworm again?"
"What? We've run so far, how is it still here?"
"I don't know! But look!"
Hu Chan pointed behind Qin Siyang.
Qin Siyang turned and saw yet another huge mound of earth rising rapidly.
BOOM!
That familiar, terrifying head once again thrust itself out.
That pair of red glowing eyes stared from afar at where Qin Siyang and Hu Chan stood.
Qin Siyang seemed to glimpse a trace of smugness in the sandworm's eyes.
He immediately pulled out the drill pod.
"Go."
"Right."
The two once again boarded the drill pod, quickly speeding away.
Hu Chan frowned and said, "I don't remember sandworms having the trait of chasing one target endlessly! Why is it following us like this?"
Qin Siyang fell silent.
An old, long-buried memory resurfaced in his mind.
And suddenly, a guess formed in his heart.
He muttered, "Surely… it can't be that absurd?"
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