Global Game: I Can Choose Instance Rewards

"Stop staring, try putting the Crystal Ball in."

In front of the suddenly enlarged tree trunk, the boy named Hank still had a look of surprise on his face. Wang Zhifan pointed to the hole in the tree trunk and reminded the boy.

"Oh! Okay!"

The reminder suddenly jolted the boy out of his daze, the first time he'd seen such a strange sight, and he hurriedly put the glowing Crystal Ball he'd been holding into the tree hole.

It had to be said, this round tree trunk hole was just slightly larger than the Crystal Ball, making it fit perfectly in.

When the Crystal Ball was placed inside by the boy, its brightness increased again, and the originally slight vibration became increasingly violent, as if it was about to explode.

"What's happening to it? Should we back away a bit?"

The native boy's face turned tense at the sight, and he was about to turn and run away. But seeing Wang Zhifan beside him calm and unmoved, he anxiously asked.

"No need, it won't explode."

Wang Zhifan calmly replied, his gaze fixed on the crazily vibrating Crystal Ball that seemed about to leap out of the tree hole.

As someone with a very strong perception, he could easily determine the energy trajectory of an explosive device, but the Crystal Ball in front of him was not in this category. All of its energy movement routes pointed to the upper position of this big tree.

Sure enough, about three seconds later, in their view, the dazzlingly bright and violently vibrating Crystal Ball suddenly quieted down as if it had exhausted all power. Its light quickly dimmed, and the vibration abruptly reduced and stopped.

At the same time, a large light blue circle, more than one person in diameter, slowly appeared above the big tree, visible in mid-air over ten meters high.

Inside this circle was filled with a lighter blue glow than the outer rim, constantly rippling like water, vaguely revealing the blurry shape of a palace, making one easily guess what it was.

"Big brother! It's a teleportation portal! The treasure's definitely inside! We succeeded!"

Witnessing such a peculiar scene, the sword-wielding native boy Hank became extremely excited, his face flushing from the thrill.

"Hmm... I can feel prominent space law fluctuations... let's go in and have a look."

After observing the portal created by the Crystal Ball for two seconds, confirming there was no major problem, Wang Zhifan then grabbed Hank's shoulder, lifted him off the ground, and jumped into the blue circle together.

In an instant, the two crossed the bluish circular light curtain and arrived in an ancient palace that exuded a bit of musty smell and a stench of decay.

"Ugh~ It's so smelly!"

The boy Hank was immediately choked by the foul smell coming at him, retching several times.

Wang Zhifan's expression didn't change much. He leisurely scanned the surroundings with his eyes, looked at the glowing crystal decorations embedded in the palace's ceiling and walls, and turned to Hank:

"Weren't you looking for treasure to sell? I think these glowing crystals aren't bad."

However, rather unexpectedly, his words only earned him a look of puzzled doubt from Hank, who replied:

"Big brother, since the magic power tides crossed the low valley, ordinary glowing crystals have long been worthless, or I would have sold that Crystal Ball already to cure my younger siblings..."

"Cough cough... I was just joking."

Realizing he may have made a common sense mistake in this world, Wang Zhifan quickly coughed twice to hide his embarrassment.

Hank didn't dwell on this topic much and instead asked a situation that concerned him:

"Big brother, why does this smell... seem like the smell of corpses? Outside our town, there's a large cemetery, and some opened graves give off this kind of smell..."

"Indeed, there are corpses not far from here, quite a few, and they're 'alive'."

Upon hearing this, Wang Zhifan revealed a smile, whether appreciating the boy's accurate judgment or something else.

"Ah? Animated corpses? No, they should be called ghouls! Where are they? I've heard if such things bite you, you're done!"

Hearing this, Hank became instantly tense, holding his short sword, craning his neck to look left and right, afraid a terrifying thing might suddenly leap out and bite him.

Wang Zhifan didn't respond to his cries, but with the Cyan Emperor Saber still sheathed in his left hand, started striding towards a tightly closed stone door ahead.

It was observed that the ancient palace they were currently in was almost completely enclosed, with only a few rows of small ventilation holes on the walls, except for a stone door that led elsewhere, but this stone door had long been shut, seemingly impossible to open by ordinary means.

Walking to the stone door, under the illumination of a glowing crystal above it, Wang Zhifan clearly saw many undecipherable characters and symbols on it, arranged in complex lines, unclear if they formed an array or some special writing.

He turned to the native boy who had followed, indicating for the other to interpret it. However, the boy shook his head immediately, saying he didn't know these things:

"Big brother, my family couldn't afford to send me to the Mage Academy, so there's no way I'd understand these."

"Then we'll have to force it?"

Focusing on the strange stone door, Wang Zhifan was about to draw his saber and cut it, but his strong perception allowed him to find a hidden energy node on the door, and he promptly pressed it heavily.