"Our drill quality is too poor, we've broken over a hundred drill bits in the past few days," another person in charge answered helplessly.
Jia Weixin frowned, his lips almost blistered, and turned to another person: "The exit? Have you found the exit?"
That person in charge shook his head helplessly: "We've tried all possible methods we could think of, but we can't leave. We even attempted to have drones leave first and then pull people from the outside, but it didn't work, it seems all living beings cannot leave this place."
Jia Weixin felt a moment of despair.
Could it be that their thirteenth team is going to be completely wiped out here?
Suddenly, he thought of something and asked urgently: "How much Spirit Monster Core do we have left?"
"... Less than a million," someone below answered.
"Nonsense, I asked you how much, specifically!" Jia Weixin glared at that person.
The person hesitated for a moment: "A little over seventy thousand."
"!!"
Daring to falsify military information!
Jia Weixin almost couldn't hold back and wanted to chop that guy to death with one hand, calling this less than a million?
He fiercely glared at that person and asked again: "How many ordinary people who haven't awakened are left?"
"Over three thousand, probably less than four thousand," the person answered.
Jia Weixin was a very decisive person. He gritted his teeth and said: "Awaken those ordinary people for free, and see if we can get some useful Superpower Users, even if it's just one Water Superpower User."
The person in charge of finances had a change of expression, just about to speak when suddenly an advisor rushed in: "Commander, there's important news, the people sent out to find an exit have discovered the suspected owner of the giant Firepower Flying Disc."
Jia Weixin quickly rushed in front of the advisor, subconsciously picked him up: "Is the other party inside the Ancient Ruins too? Are you sure?"
A hint of hope flashed in his eyes. If the other party's ability could also enlarge the drilling machine, could they perhaps dig through this eerie underground land?
He no longer dared to hope for anything else, as long as they could dig through that layer of creepy concrete, they could build shelters underground, he'd be satisfied.
If they could find underground water, that would be perfect.
The advisor didn't dare mind the commander's rudeness, and replied quickly: "Not sure yet, but there's someone beneath the Firepower Flying Disc, likely its owner is among them."
"Quickly bring the person back, without offending them, no matter what method you use, any compensation can be discussed, anything can be negotiated," Jia Weixin said eagerly, then realized his actions, and hurriedly let the advisor down.
They're facing a huge crisis now, with the risk of total destruction, they desperately need powerful Superpower Users to break the situation.
And that ability to enlarge objects might be a great help.
The only uncertainty was whether the ability enlarged the entire mass, or just created something that looked like it.
The advisor casually tidied up his messy clothes and suggested: "Commander, I believe that those Superpower Users, they live without pressure and may not be willing to join the safety zone and be constrained. So if we truly want to recruit them, we must show enough sincerity."
"What counts as enough sincerity? Giving the other party enough freedom, a substantial salary? Or offering a real position, or actual power?" Jia Weixin asked in confusion.
The advisor replied without hesitation: "These can be discussed later, be flexible, but foremost, it's best if you go over there personally to talk."
"Me personally..." Jia Weixin's first reaction was anger, because he couldn't leave as the person in charge here, leaving the group leaderless.
As for that mysterious old leader—
Better to say nothing.
While others might not know what's up, he certainly does.
But when he thought about how the other person could enlarge the Firepower Flying Disc, if other things could also be enlarged along with the power increase...
"Then I'll go personally, you also come along, bring several contracts, write in the treatments offered before separately, be adaptable. Also, bring half of the Spirit Monster Core, and temporarily unused Marvel items, bring two pieces. Hold off on the free awakening for ordinary people."
Jia Weixin was very decisive and took swift action, heading out directly.
...
"Boss, do you want to go to the safety zone together?"
In the distance, the slightly chubby man shouted: "By the way, boss, I'm Zhang Peng, Peng as in 'pengbird'."
He wanted to hitch a 'plane', because almost all of them were injured, and the safety zone might be a hundred kilometers away.
If they really have to walk slowly, even if their speed is fast, it would still take at least a whole day.
Wu Chengxin and Tan Zhiming glanced at Zhang Peng, because they just learned his real name now. Previously, he used the code name 'Yueyue'.
"Boss, I'm Tan Zhiming," Tan Zhiming also shouted quickly.
"Boss, my name is..."
The others also reported their names try to get noticed by the boss first.
"You all go ahead," Yang Yuan declined Zhang Peng's invitation to travel together, he just nodded slightly in response to those who offered their names.
Wu Chengxin and the others showed a look of regret.
"Alright, boss, goodbye."
Zhang Peng was also a bit regretful but didn't insist, fearing to annoy the other party.
Shortly after the eight people left, Yang Yuan saw through the radar of the Firepower Flying Disc that a special flying craft flew out from the region undetectable by radar, heading straight toward them.
'They must be coming for me.'
Yang Yuan felt relieved, it seemed he was being valued.
He immediately pondered, directly proposing cooperation to exterminate the Drought Fiend would definitely not work, but it would be best if this matter could be settled today, otherwise there wouldn't be enough time for the military's Firepower Flying Disc upgrades, making cooperation meaningless.
Beyond that—
He wondered what kind of demands he should make.
Though still depend on what they might require from him.
At this moment, Zhao Jiayan was already packing her belongings.
Yang Yuan looked at Jiang Yiyi: "Yiyi, give me your crossbow, I'll fix it for you."
"Okay, thank you big brother," Jiang Yiyi immediately handed over the little crossbow to Yang Yuan.
Yang Yuan took the crossbow that was initially simply made and looked at its data:
[Crossbow Lv.5: 2104/32 (Upgradeable)]
'The experience should be enough. Let's see if this crossbow ultimately becomes explosive, or continues to increase its range.'
Yang Yuan immediately upgraded the crossbow.
[Crossbow Lv.6: 2072/64 (Effective range 240 meters; Upgradeable)]
...
[Crossbow Lv.7: 2008/128 (Effective range 480 meters; Upgradeable)]
After level seven, the crossbow's size didn't change, but the details were optimized a lot, not only does it look more beautiful, it already seems like a treasure.
Yang Yuan was surprised: 'Still increasing range? Let's continue.'
...
[Crossbow Lv.8: 1880/256 (Effective range 960 meters; Upgradeable)]
...
[Crossbow Lv.9: 1624/512 (Effective range 1920 meters; Upgradeable)]
...
[Crossbow Lv.10: 1112/1024 (Effective range 4000 meters; Upgradeable)]
Yang Yuan raised an eyebrow slightly, because after level ten, the crossbow's grip surprisingly became a movable type, which could be retracted and also fixed on the arm, becoming a true crossbow.
And at this stage, the crossbow was already very exquisite, like a piece of art.
'Let's continue and see what the upgrade effect is this time.'
He continued to choose to upgrade.
Soon, after the final upgrade, the crossbow's grip disappeared.
The entire crossbow transformed into a very regular, twenty centimeters long, with a width and height each of three centimeters rectangular shape.
[Marvel·Crossbow Lv.11: 0/4 (Integrated into the arm, clench fists and straighten arm, mental projection to shoot arrows, no recoil; effective range 10,000 meters; not upgradeable)]
Yang Yuan's eyes glittered: 'Range 10,000 meters, no recoil?!'