Wang Zhifan then focused his gaze on the screen of the instrument that Chu Wei was holding.

He noticed that the top half of the instrument's screen displayed a picture, showing a classical lady stone statue draped in light gauze, with a lithe figure but no face. The lady statue extended both hands forward, one seemingly holding a dagger and the other supporting a plate with an apple.

On the bottom half of the screen, below the lady statue's image, there was some text:

"Gray Realm Special Event, No. E556, also known as the Goddess of Fortune or Goddess of Adversity Event. No clear pattern of its appearance has been found, it is speculated to appear randomly in different levels of the Gray Realm.

When encountering E556, players can touch the statue with their hand within a certain time limit to trigger a result. Each player present has only one chance to trigger it.

The triggered results have no apparent pattern and are believed to be randomly determined, including two main categories: good results and bad results.

According to recent statistics, good results include players acquiring equipment, skills, potions, buffs, healing injuries, removing fatigue, enhancing attributes, and so on.

Bad results include being electrocuted, burned, frozen, hit by falling rocks, shot by arrows, stunned, and so on. The damage varies, but no severe injuries or deaths have been reported yet…"

After quickly scanning the screen's content, Wang Zhifan immediately understood that the Gray Realm was far from the simple existence he had imagined. Besides various monsters, one might also encounter special events, aptly called player adventures.

"Hmm… Ah Wei, are you sure what's hidden in this rock wall is this Goddess of Fortune statue?"

Wang Zhifan then confirmed with Chu Wei beside him. He was a cautious person, so even after Chu Wei showed him the information, he still wasn't completely reassured.

"Almost certain."

Chu Wei responded, lifting her head to answer, then raised a finger to point at an unremarkable rock protrusion above the rock wall in front of them, and said:

"Fan, my summoned creature found an unusual structure in this rock wall; it might be a trigger mechanism. You're tall, try pressing it to see if there's any reaction."

"Pressing it directly is too dangerous. Let's take a few steps back first."

Upon hearing this, Wang Zhifan immediately shook his head and had Chu Wei move back a distance. He also retreated to a side passage, then picked up a stone from the cave floor littered with monster carcasses. From several meters away, he gently threw the stone toward the rock wall position Chu Wei had pointed at earlier.

Thanks to Wang Zhifan's high agility attribute of 17 points, he handled this skillful task with ease. With a single toss, the stone accurately hit the target position on the rock wall. Then, the hit rock slightly recessed into the wall, and a vertical gap nearly two meters long revealed itself below. The walls on either side of the gap then began to slowly part, exposing a humanoid statue within the wall, holding a dagger in one hand and an apple plate in the other, identical to what Wang Zhifan saw on the instrument's screen earlier!

"Weiwei, did you find something fun?"

Only then, Ah Liao, who had been resting with a gun against the wall at the end of the passage, over ten meters away, was drawn over by the noise of the separating rock wall. Under the converging lights of their miner's hat lamps, his attention was completely captured by the lady statue revealed in the wall.

"It's the Goddess of Fortune statue. According to the bureau's information, each of us now has a chance to touch it and get a random result. The result could be good or bad. Who wants to try first?"

Chu Wei had quickly arrived near the lady statue, looking eager but slightly hesitant.

"Really? Weiwei, are you not pulling my leg?"

The young Ah Liao expressed skepticism towards Chu Wei's claim, as such an event where touching a statue could trigger random outcomes seemed too fantastical—something he had never heard of before.

"I'm not kidding you. The documents are here; see for yourself."

Chu Wei promptly handed the special instrument from the bureau to Ah Liao to view the page that Wang Zhifan had already seen.

Ah Liao read quickly, taking only about five seconds to get a gist of it, and then eagerly walked to the rock wall statue. After carefully comparing its image with the description, he found no differences and reached out his hand to touch it.

However, just before one of his fingers was about to touch the statue, he abruptly stopped, glanced at both Chu Wei and Wang Zhifan, and said:

"Weiwei, Fan, if I get injured, you guys better carry me out."

"No problem, but if you're scared, maybe don't touch it."

Chu Wei immediately replied, as she herself was a bit hesitant about whether to touch it.

"Heh, how can I not try such an intriguing thing? At worst, I'll spend a few days in the hospital."

Chu Wei's words instead ignited Ah Liao's gambler instincts, and he swiftly tapped his finger on the statue within the rock wall, then just as swiftly retracted it.

With his action, the lady statue inside the rock wall instantly had a reaction—a faint glow suddenly emanated from the apple in one hand. Then they all heard the sound of something landing beside Ah Liao.

Wang Zhifan lowered his head, and his miner's hat lamp illuminated a pair of shoe-like items at Ah Liao's feet.

Ah Liao bent down to pick up what was evidently an item he obtained from touching the statue. But after examining it for a moment, he immediately complained in dissatisfaction:

"What the…? Just a pair of ordinary cloth shoes? What a letdown!"

Before Ah Liao could fully vent his emotions, Chu Wei stepped forward. After hesitating for a few seconds, she placed a finger on the statue in front of her.

This time, unlike Ah Liao's previous result, a faint glow emanated from the dagger in the statue's other hand. Wang Zhifan, who was closely observing, suddenly noticed a rock the size of an adult's fist dislodging from the cave ceiling above Chu Wei, falling straight toward her head!

"Watch out above you!"

Wang Zhifan immediately shouted a warning, but it turned out he might have overreacted. Without Chu Wei needing to respond, her ghostly summoned creature suddenly emerged from the nearby rock wall. With a swipe of its clawed hand, it sliced the rock above her head into dust.

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