Online Game: Crazy Skeleton-Chapter 867 - 789: Secret of the Passage

"These BOSSes only dropped five crystals, I guess they can’t be that bad!"

Su Ran picked up all five crystals with anticipation and immediately started to inspect their attributes, eager to find out whether these special items were related to the Sky-reaching Vine.

[Plant Essence Crystal](Special)

A crystal condensed from the essence of plants, extremely rare. It can significantly increase the growth speed of plants and also randomly add 10% to the attributes of an elf-like creature for 20 minutes.

"So, it’s an upgraded version of plant essence, heh, the effects are much stronger!"

Su Ran played with the plant crystals for a while, delighted, before stowing them away and continuing to pick up the green glints on the ground.

"These five BOSSes are so enlightened, I bet they’ve had their fair share of ideological education. Good fellows, giving both experience and items, why can’t there be more such hospitable BOSSes?"

Su Ran was both pleased with his bargain and acting clever. He had gathered a total of 80 plant essences and 5 plant essence crystals and was incredibly excited about it.

"Hmph!"

Another cold snort exploded out of nowhere, startling Su Ran so much that his hand shook and he nearly dropped his scythe on the ground.

"Come on, you got sinus cancer? You almost scared me into having a heart attack!"

Su Ran said annoyedly, but considering the many treasures its minions had provided, he decided to let it slide.

The voice didn’t retort and went silent, as though it had left, which made Su Ran even more nervous. The final BOSS’s intelligence was clearly high, and it had obviously become a sworn enemy. Whether to move forward or to stop became a dilemma for him.

"Fortune favors the bold, let’s go for it!"

Su Ran thought to himself, pumping up his courage. If it came to it, he’d just summon the Divine Phoenix and burn it to a crisp!

However, Su Ran didn’t rush forward. He decided to bide his time instead, waiting for all his skills to cool down. Once everything was ready, he would challenge this foul-mouthed BOSS—not wanting to start at a disadvantage by being hasty!

As the saying goes, sharpening your axe doesn’t delay the work of cutting wood. This was exactly why.

Moreover, if Banana could show up, that would be even better. He was a powerful DPS ally, and with him there, Su Ran could save himself a lot of trouble.

Speaking of Banana, Su Ran had no idea where the kid had gone. Although he was still online, Su Ran couldn’t get in touch with him, and he wasn’t finding him in this space, which was really strange...

After the skill cooldowns finally ended, Su Ran summoned all of his pets again, waiting for a second refresh of the skills so that he could summon them again if the need arose—essentially exploiting the skill’s cooldown.

"Right, this BOSS attaches great importance to the underground river, there must be some secret hidden here."

Bored, Su Ran’s gaze settled on the river, suspicion arising in his mind.

He covered the river with his Detection Technique, but didn’t find any useful information. Could the value of this underground river really just be to provoke the BOSS?

Impossible!

With questions in his heart, Su Ran headed towards the source of the underground river, determined to unearth its secrets.

Not far along, his path was blocked by a stone wall. He discovered that the water was seeping through the wall.

No need to hesitate any longer, he pulled out his hoe and began to dig!

"Clang! Clang!"

"Ding! This area is a special space and cannot be excavated."

The unemotional system prompt sounded, leaving Su Ran completely out of patience.

"Since I can’t find the secret here, I’ll just block this little river up!"

Su Ran clearly remembered that the BOSS had said that this river was its nutrient source. Cutting off the supply should cause quite a bit of trouble for it.

With that thought in mind, Su Ran returned to the river, grabbed a large number of pebbles, and piled them up at the base of the rock wall, blocking all the seepage points.

"Let’s see how smug you can be now, I’m the master of dealing with the unruly!"

Seeing the river’s flow sharply decrease, Su Ran clapped his hands, very satisfied with his own masterpiece.

"Banana, that kid, is truly dilly-dallying, still no sign of him! Forget it, I’m not waiting anymore. Wang Cai, let’s go!"

Seeing that all summoning skills had fully recovered, Su Ran no longer had the patience to wait and immediately led the pet army along the underground river towards the deeper parts of the space.

"Eh? How come there’s no path ahead?"

At the very end of the space, Su Ran was surprised to find that the passage in the distance and he were facing each other, below was an abyss with no bottom in sight, and the path under his feet had disappeared.

"Strange."

Su Ran swept his gaze around but couldn’t find a second way out. It was only then that he had to accept the fact that the passage ahead was the only way through!

"I have to figure out a way to get across!"

After pondering for a moment, Su Ran opened the skill panel and found that he still couldn’t use the Treading on Air Technique, which annoyed him quite a bit.

Oddly enough, that abrupt voice hadn’t made itself heard again; it was probably hiding in the dark, enjoying Su Ran’s predicament.

However, Su Ran understood that since the quest was set up for players, there must be a strategy to get through it. He just hadn’t found the correct way to unlock it, which was why he was trapped here.

You see,

in such a dangerous scenario, one wrong step could lead to a fall into the abyss!

What the heck, without any clue at all, what am I supposed to do!

Just as Su Ran was getting impatient, a flash of light crossed mid-air, standing out starkly above the pitch-black abyss.

"Eh?"

Alerted by this sudden anomaly, Su Ran instantly got excited, his mood lifting at the prospect of finding a breakthrough to unlock the passage. He fixed his gaze intently on that spot, hoping for another miracle to appear.

"Swoosh!"

Su Ran’s patience paid off. The aurora flashed again, momentarily turning the entire space as bright as day, even driving away the endless darkness of the abyss. The daylight lasted for about a second or two before rapidly fading, and the darkness engulfed the abyss once more. In that instant, Su Ran was almost blinded.

"Damn, this level is really tricky!"

Having seen through it this time, Su Ran uncovered the mystery. He grumbled and approached the edge of the space, disregarding the peril of falling into the abyss, and stepped forward confidently.

"Pitter-patter."

Feeling himself standing steady in mid-air, Su Ran secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"The system really is sly, setting up an invisible glass causeway in such a dark place; who could have noticed it?"

Su Ran stomped on the glass causeway beneath his feet, thought for a moment, then reined back, ordering the Undead skeletons to scout ahead. Only then did he mount Wang Cai, following behind them, and slowly moved forward.

Hey there, boss hiding away, shy to show your face, clean yourself up and get ready, here I come~!