Qin Siyang kept his foot on the accelerator the whole way, speeding like the wind straight toward the outside of the safe zone.
"Boss Qin, how far from the safe zone are we planning to hunt gods this time?"
"Two hundred kilometers."
"Two hundred kilometers?", Hu Chan frowned, "I've heard that areas two hundred kilometers out are already the activity range of large-scale gods. Boss Qin, I get that you're eager to break through, but isn't this a bit too aggressive?"
Qin Siyang smiled, "Are you very afraid of large-scale gods?"
"Isn't that a stupid question? Up to now, so many Tiger Badge experts haven't killed one of those things. Aren't you afraid?"
"Not afraid."
"Heh! Boss Qin really has guts. You might not be afraid, but I am. The safe zone two hundred kilometers out, I haven't even seen any data describing the environment there."
"Today I'll take you out to see it for yourself."
"Boss Qin, let me be clear first. In this kind of completely unknown territory, there's absolutely no way I'm going to recklessly leave the drill capsule and go die. If you want me to help you hunt Blood Moon Tarantula or Abyss Hounds, then all I can say is I'm powerless to help."
Qin Siyang spoke with complete ease, "Before you teamed up with me, had you ever gone a hundred kilometers outside the safe zone?"
"No. The time I ran into sandworms with you was my first time coming that far from the safe zone."
"So, everything has a first time. This time, you follow me, and I guarantee there won't be a problem."
"Boss Qin, this isn't something you can just guarantee and make me feel at ease. Two hundred kilometers, that far from the safe zone, you definitely haven't been there yourself either, right? Then how can you say something like a guarantee?"
"I've been farther."
Qin Siyang's calm words instantly left Hu Chan speechless.
Hu Chan took a moment to recover before saying, "No, Boss Qin, there's really no need to bet our lives just to brag, right?"
Qin Siyang took out the detector, "I've been to an area three hundred kilometers from the safe zone."
["Truth."]
Then he gave Hu Chan a slight smile, relaxed and carefree, "Now do you believe me?"
Hu Chan swallowed, "You… rode a drill capsule to a place that far away?"
"There wasn't a drill capsule back then. I ran there on my own two legs."
["Truth."]
Hu Chan's mouth fell slightly open as he froze like a wooden statue.
Qin Siyang brushed his bangs aside and continued piloting the drill capsule.
Hu Chan's attitude became a bit more respectful, and he asked again, "Boss Qin, how long did you prepare before you felt you could go that far to hunt gods?"
"Uh, about three days?"
"True."
"Just three days?"
"Yes. I actually got lost and ended up going that far. If my luck hadn't been good, I might have died outside the safe zone."
["Truth."]
"Were you killed outside the safe zone by a dangerous god?"
"No. The god didn't take my life. If I couldn't get back, I would've starved to death outside the safe zone."
["Truth."]
"..."
Qin Siyang felt he'd answered enough, so he turned off the lie detector. Leaving behind a completely stunned Hu Chan.
After a while, Hu Chan finally slowly digested what Qin Siyang had said.
He placed both hands on his thighs, his sitting posture noticeably becoming much more proper.
"Boss Qin, do you think I have any hope of surviving in areas like that, like you do? Of course, I'm not saying I'm particularly amazing. I'm just worried that sequence ability users as outstanding as you should be pretty rare. After all, I don't know anyone else who can survive so effortlessly after being attacked by a large-scale god."
"Who said I was attacked by a large-scale god?"
"Huh? Three hundred kilometers out, the number of large-scale gods definitely increases sharply, and none of them attacked you?"
"Have you ever seen a large-scale god take the initiative to attack people?"
"I of course…"
Hu Chan instinctively wanted to say that he had been attacked by the Sacrificial Giant Vine, which was also how he first met Qin Siyang.
But when the words reached his lips, he realized that he had stolen the Vine Core first, which was why the Sacrificial Giant Vine went berserk and attacked everything indiscriminately.
If he had just been a passerby, the Sacrificial Giant Vine probably would have stayed quietly to the side, becoming a striking piece of scenery in the wasteland.
"You've noticed it too, right? Outside the safe zone, you don't really hear much about large-scale gods actively attacking humans. I went three hundred kilometers out of the safe zone, and the large-scale gods were still wandering above my head or around me."
"And even when I was locked in fierce, earth-shattering battles with mid-scale gods, they didn't step in at all."
Hu Chan frowned, his gaze drifting and losing its firmness, "Could it be that the large-scale gods everyone has always feared actually don't actively attack humans?"
"They do attack proactively. I remember when the anti-air glass of the safe zone shattered, large-scale gods came to attack. But that should have triggered some kind of condition. As for incidents of being actively attacked by large-scale gods outside the safe zone, there actually aren't many if you count them up. Most of them happen because people, like you, see profit and get tempted first, provoking them and triggering the attack."
"Then why hasn't anyone else thought of this?"
"People only have one life. Aside from people like me who got lost, who would dare take that risk? Besides, humanity has never killed a large-scale god. Our understanding of them is close to zero. Who would dare make that conclusion?"
Hu Chan's eyes widened, "So that's how it is! Then I… then don't we basically hold a secret no one else knows? We're going to be invincible, Boss Qin!"
Qin Siyang let out a scornful laugh, "How do you know no one is quietly getting rich off this secret? Quietly getting rich is knowledge even more basic than one plus one equals two. Don't treat everyone else like fools."
"But… it seems like even most professors don't know this."
Qin Siyang shook his head, "People have limited energy, and everyone has their own specialty. Most professors do research in labs. How many of them actually go outside to hunt gods for materials themselves?"
"For example, that sloppy man who ambushed you last time and tried to steal the drill capsule. Is it possible he also knew this, which is why he coveted the tool that lets me move freely outside the safe zone?"
Hu Chan nodded repeatedly, "Boss Qin's words are truly pearls of wisdom!"
"Alright, stop flattering me. I'm just sharing my own speculation. It might be wrong."
"Huh?", Hu Chan's eyelid twitched, "Then what if you're wrong, and large-scale gods actively attack us?"
"Then we'll just treat everything I said just now as bullshit."
"I fuc—"
Hu Chan lowered his head and struggled internally for a long time. In the end, he gritted his teeth and said, "Forget it. Life is more important. I'll wait until I've opened the path of believers before I go adventuring with you. Boss Qin, just to be safe, we should still…"
"It was that time I got lost that I obtained Titan Foxtail Inner Leaf Fragments and a Corrosive Fluid Sac."
"..."
Hu Chan froze for a moment, and within a few seconds his face flushed bright red.
"Charge! Charge! Charge! Woohoo! Boss Qin, charge with everything we've got! No need to wait for me to open the path of believers! I'm fine right now! Two hundred kilometers is too conservative! Three hundred kilometers isn't enough either! Crank it straight to four hundred kilometers! No! Five hundred kilometers! Let's go take a look at the sea!"
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