Chapter 2176 - 2169: Newbie Aura

The activities of explorers in the Blood Pond, aside from their own abilities, are greatly aided by external means. Zhang Menglong, guided by Zelans, opened an explorer equipment specialty store and was instantly captivated by the dazzling array of goods.

The explorer suits of various levels can not only greatly reduce the burden caused by the surrounding pressure on them, but also provide a certain degree of defensive power when attacked by blood slave beasts. Moreover, some special materials can help reduce movement resistance in the Blood Pond.

Due to extremely low visibility in the Blood Pond, it is hard to observe areas beyond 10 meters using one’s own abilities. However, for blood slave beasts, this distance is already within attack range. If an attack is launched at this distance, it’s almost impossible for anyone to react in time.

Therefore, a soul amplifier was invented, using a special frequency band to amplify the energy of the soul, helping explorers perceive further distances and immediately detect any disturbances in the surroundings.

Besides that, there are various technological weapons and drugs, all of which can help them increase their survival chances in the Blood Pond.

These devices and equipment used by explorers are very expensive. After all, they are a wealthy group, and there’s no reason not to take advantage of them.

Zhang Menglong only brought a small amount of pitiful Supreme Coins given by the Mansha Kingdom, which was almost depleted after completing the exam registration, while even the cheapest equipment costs thousands of Supreme Coins.

Helplessly, he had to seek help from Zelans. He never thought he would someday need to borrow money!

However, Zelans was very generous, directly lending Zhang Menglong a million Supreme Coins. In any case, for an explorer, it’s practically impossible for them not to be able to repay the money. A million Supreme Coins is just a month’s income for a top-level explorer under normal circumstances.

Zhang Menglong intuitively bought the best set of equipment with this money. As for the fancy detectors, he didn’t even look at them, buying them would almost be an insult to Gou Dan.

Zhang Menglong watched some videos about explorers and set out with Zelans and the others the next morning.

The explorer team has many advantages over individual explorers. They can enjoy special passages and dedicated lounges, as they need to pay a significant service fee when registering the team.

This special passage is also a villa, with the entrance to the Blood Pond located right below the villa. This is to provide the best rest environment immediately after their actions in the Blood Pond, equipped with all kinds of facilities, and there’s dedicated service staff—it’s quite nice.

The group changed into their equipment, and even when the stranger was changing clothes, she unconsciously stripped in front of several men, but judging by Zelans and the others’ reactions, they seemed quite used to it.

All six of them put on their explorer suits. In the Blood Pond, communication is impossible, so their connection with each other is achieved via quantum entanglement.

The six of them took a leap and plunged directly into the Blood Pond, starting to quickly dive.

Zhang Menglong instantly felt like he had entered a bucket of viscous blood, a sensation that made him quite uncomfortable, feeling somewhat sticky all over.

The explorer suit’s propeller started, and during this diving process, Zhang Menglong could save a lot of time.

"How do you feel, Menglong, diving into the Blood Pond for the first time?" came Zelans’ voice from the communicator.

"It’s a bit different from the assessment," Zhang Menglong replied, "I feel like my New Year’s Eve dinner from two years ago is about to come up."

"Hahaha, your reaction is quite normal. This strong bloody smell can only be unfelt by a pervert," Soren laughed, "Let’s first reach the B1 area according to the positioning."

"Mm!"

Zhang Menglong immediately started to accelerate.

"Gou Dan, quickly analyze this Blood Pond!"

[Dean, the analysis is already underway. This Blood Pond is truly unique. The components of all biological blood in my database can be found here. Its composition is extremely complex, even your blood composition is not as complex as this.]

[The Supreme Crystal should be a solute crystal in the Blood Pond, but its content is very low. Extracting it as a crystal requires very harsh conditions and a long time, but it’s a rare thing for the people of this world.]

"Any clues about Ancient Human souls?" Zhang Menglong asked.

[Not yet, no components have been found that react with your current soul.]

[I calculated, based on the solute content in the Blood Pond, if all were purified, the total amount could hit about 10 times the amount of Supreme Crystals you absorbed before. If it’s the original soul, it might even elevate the Soul Rank to Divine Grade.]

"Wow, such a blood loss!" Zhang Menglong sighed, such a vast Blood Pond indeed is a very rich resource.

"I refuse to believe the feeling I’m sensing from my body is baseless," The closer Zhang Menglong got to the bottom of the Blood Pond, the stronger the mysterious sensation coming from his body became.

"Gou Dan, can you locate the surrounding Supreme Crystals?" Zhang Menglong asked.

[Definitely, although this Blood Pond is peculiar, it can’t obstruct my detectors!] Gou Dan proudly replied.

With a ripple spreading silently, a 3D image of the entire Blood Pond appeared in Zhang Menglong’s mind.

In this image, there were various light points of different sizes, some dense and some sparse, some white and some red.

In the area above 200,000 meters, there were almost no light points. In the area between 200,000 to 300,000 meters, the light points were relatively sparse, possibly only having one within a few thousand meters radius.

In the area above 300,000 meters, the number of light points increased, generally, there was one within a few hundred meters radius.

In the A zone, exceeding the depth of 400,000 meters, the number of light points suddenly increased dramatically.

"Truly bottomless," according to the data fed back by Gou Dan, the deepest part of the Blood Pond reached 523,726 meters.

"Are those moving black spots blood slave beasts?" Zhang Menglong asked.

[That’s right, there are quite a few blood slave beasts in the Blood Pond, but most of them are in areas exceeding 300,000 meters, mainly concentrated below 400,000 meters depth, so even the B zone is relatively safe.]

When leaving the battlefield, Zhang Menglong still had some Supreme Crystals on him, but he had already given those to his two apprentices, now Zhang Menglong is not only penniless, he is practically in debt.

Following the indicators given by Gou Dan, Zhang Menglong picked up quite a few Supreme Crystals along the way, collecting around thirty or forty from their departure point to the rendezvous point.

These Supreme Crystals are something he wouldn’t have looked at previously, but he has no choice now, as poverty shortens ambition.

He examined the Supreme Crystals here; some were big, some were small, in irregular shapes.

"Menglong, why did it take you so long to get here?" The others waited at the spot for two minutes before the belated Zhang Menglong arrived.

"Oh, collecting Supreme Crystals on the way delayed me a bit," Zhang Menglong replied.

"Not bad, truly a newbie halo," everyone looked enviously, this journey had already not come in vain.

Zhang Menglong opened his palm, holding in it over a dozen Supreme Crystals the size of glass marbles.

Everyone’s eyes widened instantly, "Two minutes! You damn well collected in two minutes what we can in a month?"