After clearing the lower-level Gray Realm previously located on Fire Altar Road, Chu Wei quickly had the driver take them to another Gray Realm location.

This was an ordinary village outside Dongjiang City. A day ago, a Gray Realm descended in a small forest beside the village. Since the descent location was uninhabited, the Gray Realm went unnoticed for a whole day until the village head discovered and reported it. By this time, it was almost about to solidify, so Wang Zhifan and his team had to complete this clearing task as quickly as possible, otherwise, the Gray Realm might solidify in the real world.

"Fan, Ah Liao, inside this Gray Realm is a winding dark cave approximately a kilometer long. There are quite a few low-level lizard and bat-type monsters inside. We should eliminate all of them within half an hour."

Before entering the small forest shrouded in dense gray ahead, Chu Wei, after using her summons to investigate the entrance, briefed Wang Zhifan and Ah Liao on the basic situation. Compared to the Gray Realm task not long ago, their time was even tighter this time.

"Alright, I'll lead the way."

Upon hearing this, Wang Zhifan quickly stepped into the gray area ahead.

In a blink, the previously grayish-blurred forest scene in front of him transformed into rock walls lit by the beam above his head and dark passages on both sides. The beam came from the miner's lamp hat on his head, something Chu Wei had specifically found in the management bureau's car trunk, and each of them wore one.

Without waiting to see the situation of the left and right passages clearly, Wang Zhifan suddenly swung his Wolf-Slaying Blade towards the upper right side, followed by a sharp scream and the sound of a small object falling to the ground.

"Little thing, daring to sneak attack me, don't think you can hide in the darkness and go unnoticed by me."

As Wang Zhifan turned his head and looked down at the ground, he discovered under the light that he had just killed a small monster resembling a bat, now lying on the ground in two halves.

The reason why Wang Zhifan was able to discover it in the darkness and hit it directly with one swing was actually due to his higher-than-average spiritual attribute, which gave him heightened sensing ability.

Currently, Wang Zhifan's spiritual attribute value was 16, more than half the average of a normal young adult male. This high spiritual attribute usually wasn't particularly useful for someone in his melee profession since all his sensory abilities were very normal, so there was no need to rely on sensing ability for judgment, but it was different in darkness. In darkness, his usual reliance on vision was nullified, making the advantage of high sensing ability pronounced. Anything not very adept at hiding trying to approach him stealthily would be immediately detected, and its exact position determined.

"Wow! It's so dark here! Fighting monsters in here is sure to be thrilling!"

Following Wang Zhifan as the second to enter this Gray Realm cave was the young gunner Ah Liao, who surprisingly praised this place, which limited his vision somewhat.

"Fan, you handle defending the rear of the team while Ah Liao and I clear the front."

After entering third, Chu Wei first took a quick look at the cave passage's environment and then swiftly formulated a clearing strategy.

"Alright, let's get started."

Wang Zhifan had no objections to the strategy Chu Wei devised. He joined this small team temporarily as a bodyguard, so he didn't have to worry too much about clearing monsters.

Subsequently, Chu Wei released her ghost summon, demonstrating its ability to scout routes by passing through walls in this cave channel environment. Along the way, her ghost summon was responsible for scouting the route and clearing some difficult monsters, while Ah Liao took care of shooting down all enemies ahead. Since Chu Wei's summon was physically immune, there was no need to worry about accidental injury.

Wang Zhifan, on the other hand, was in charge of the team's rear defense. Initially, he didn't think this task would be very difficult, but soon he found himself continuously attacked by a steady stream of monsters from the rear, keeping him almost constantly swinging the blade to kill monsters, with the workload almost comparable to the two in front.

This situation was likely caused by the light they brought in such a dark environment, attracting monsters at both ends. However, luckily, this relatively narrow passage environment was quite suitable for Wang Zhifan's performance; all he had to do was keep swinging the blade in front of him, often killing multiple incoming bats or lizard monsters with a single swing.

After about twenty minutes of continuous battling, the three, without stopping their footsteps, reached the end of one direction in the cave passage, meaning they had to turn back.

"Let's rest here for a minute; the number of monsters in this Gray Realm passage is more than expected. We all must be quite tired."

At this moment, due to fatigue from continuous battle, Chu Wei announced a brief rest for the team.

"It's a bit tiring, but on the way back, there shouldn't be as many monsters to clear."

Seeing this, Wang Zhifan also squatted down to sit against one side of the rock wall.

He was indeed a bit tired. The number of monsters he killed while defending the rear wasn't much less than those in the front. For a melee professional like him who had to keep swinging a blade, the continuous battle was more physically exhausting than for Chu Wei and the others.

Even Ah Liao, who usually spoke the most among the three, was now uncharacteristically taking a rest, clutching his rifle with eyes slightly closed against the rock wall, indicating that continuously clearing two Gray Realms in a day was also an energy challenge for the young man.

However, just as the three were planning to take a short break at the end of this Gray Realm cave passage, Chu Wei, who was resting with eyes closed, suddenly exclaimed softly, catching the attention of the other two.

"Fan, Ah Liao, there's something in that rock wall!"

With that, she switched from a sitting position to standing, walking over ten meters towards the direction back in the passage. The light from her helmet illuminated an otherwise unremarkable rock wall in the passage.

"What is it?"

Upon seeing this, Wang Zhifan immediately stood up vigilantly and approached to check, but he couldn't find anything unusual on the rock wall. It appeared to be just an insignificant part of the Gray Realm's cave rock wall, with nothing but bare, uneven stones.

"It's a humanoid statue; my summon found a hidden humanoid statue inside here."

Chu Wei explained to Wang Zhifan, and as she spoke, her ghost summon emerged from the rock wall in front of them, indicating that it inadvertently found the anomaly here by passing through walls.

"A humanoid statue? Ah Wei, if such a thing appears here, we should quickly leave."

Upon hearing Chu Wei's explanation, Wang Zhifan's back hairs were close to standing on edge. Just imagine, discovering a humanoid statue inside the monster-infested Gray Realm cave passage. Could that be a good thing?

But Chu Wei wasn't as tense as Wang Zhifan at the moment. Instead, she quickly pulled out a special instrument from the management bureau, tapped the screen to bring up a page.

"According to the image my summon saw, this kind of statue seems to have been recorded in the Gray Realm database of the management bureau, suggesting that we might have encountered a special event."

She continued to explain while showing the information displayed on the instrument to Wang Zhifan.

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