Fang Ming brought Nannan and Qing Mian back to the room and saw Yi Hao still in a daze.
This made Fang Ming couldn't help but want to tease it, "What's wrong? Why are you suddenly contemplating life?"
Yi Hao sighed, listlessly saying, "You tell me, am I right to pursue freedom like this?"
Fang Ming chuckled. So it was because of this. He said, "Pursuing freedom is definitely right, but you underestimate the danger of this world too much. Forget about you, even Nannan's current strength is only mediocre in the Changsheng Realm.
"Alas, how can I become strong quickly? I really want to travel the world carefree." Yi Hao slumped on the table, looking weak.
"Why not follow me for now?" Fang Ming said with a smile, starting to persuade. "Look, I was just an ordinary person a month ago, and now I've become a Fierce Fiend. My strength has improved at an astonishing speed, and with our protection, the journey ahead will definitely be safe."
"Since you're just wandering around aimlessly anyway, following me is the same."
Yi Hao fell silent after hearing this, then said, "Let me think about it."
Indeed, it had followed Fang Ming for a few days before and hadn't lacked adventure. With Fang Ming's decisions and Sister Nannan's protection, it wasn't exactly safe, but at least there was no life-threatening danger.
As the opponents encountered grew stronger, its special abilities began to seem useless. After all, with greater strength, area-of-effect attacks could easily expose it.
Its abilities were still inferior to Qing Mian's.
Seeing this, Fang Ming seized the opportunity again and said, "I'm about to head to an unknown world. I'm not sure about the danger, but the adventure level will be maxed out. If you were alone, you probably wouldn't get to experience such a world."
Hearing Fang Ming's words, Yi Hao couldn't suppress its restless heart.
"Then, how about I follow you for a while?" Yi Hao tentatively asked.
Fang Ming immediately laughed. "No problem, no problem. You can leave anytime if you want. I definitely won't stop you." He had finally roped Yi Hao onto the ship.
Although its ability was inferior to Qing Mian's in terms of stealth, it was more useful than Qing Mian's in many situations. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been able to freeload various power-enhancing items from the Liu family.
One had to know that the first time Qing Mian entered the Liu family, it was discovered by the guards and only narrowly escaped.
The abilities of the two fiends were superficially similar, but in reality, they each had their own strengths, and they dealt with situations differently in various contexts.
Two hours later, the coachman inexplicably appeared and knocked on Fang Ming's door.
"Sir, we can depart now."
"Coming, coming." Fang Ming opened the door and saw the coachman standing respectfully at the entrance.
"Let's go."
The coachman led the way, with Fang Ming and Nannan closely following. Qing Mian and Yi Hao transformed into fiend patterns and attached themselves to Fang Ming, planning to reveal themselves upon arrival.
"Sir, please get in."
Outside the inn, the coachman's carriage was parked opposite the main entrance. People in the inn's lobby could directly see the scene.
The Four-armed Underworld Fiend had been waiting for money here and naturally hadn't left. Seeing Fang Ming enter a carriage driven by a Flowing Ferryman, and the Flowing Ferryman acting so humbly, it was immediately shocked.
Good heavens, who was this "Money God" exactly?
Was it going to be a problem for him to take Fang Ming's money?
The Four-armed Underworld Fiend muttered to himself, but then he thought about having to sell his own resentment just to survive when he was poor, and he immediately wasn't scared anymore. What was more terrifying than being poor?
Fang Ming told the coachman the route drawn by the Four-armed Underworld Fiend. The coachman started driving the carriage towards the destination.
The carriage was very fast. The Four-armed Underworld Fiend had said it would take three to four hours, but the carriage arrived in less than two.
Along the way, Fang Ming also glanced at the two world entrances he encountered: an ancient tree and a pile of rubble.
"Sir, we've arrived next to the big rock," the coachman reminded from outside the carriage.
Hearing the shout, Fang Ming, with Nannan, exited the carriage. As soon as they stepped out, they saw a rock about five to six meters tall standing abruptly on the ground.
"Thank you." Fang Ming and Nannan got off the carriage. "How much is the fare? I'll settle it with you."
The coachman smiled. "Sir, you're being too polite. It's my honor to drive you. What fare do you need?"
"No, no, it's necessary. You've gone to a lot of trouble coming and going." Fang Ming didn't want to owe anyone, even the resentful fiends, no matter how small the favor.
Seeing that he couldn't refuse, the coachman smiled sheepishly. "Then, sir, please pay me twenty fiends for the road."
"Twenty fiends? Is that enough?" Fang Ming asked in surprise.
He had no concept of money in the Changsheng Realm, thinking that hundreds or thousands of fiends could be easily produced. In reality, he didn't know that the resentment consumed by a Fierce Fiend in a year was at most half a fiend.
"It's more than enough. I've even included the cost of car repairs," the coachman said.
Fang Ming then transferred twenty fiends to the coachman with peace of mind. After receiving the money, the coachman prepared to leave in his carriage. "Sir, take care!"
"You too!"
"Giddy up!"
Soon, the coachman's figure disappeared into the white mist. Fang Ming, with Nannan, began to examine the rock in front of them.
It was an ordinary-looking rock, with no special features.
However, in the Changsheng Realm, there were no truly ordinary rocks. This was definitely an entrance to a sub-realm, but he didn't know if it was the one mentioned in his diary.
"I hope I'm not mistaken," Fang Ming prayed silently, placed his hand on the rock, closed his eyes, and cleared his mind.
With his previous experiences of entering and exiting memory worlds, this time was also familiar.
Soon, a dizzy sensation began to appear. As the dizziness subsided, Fang Ming felt the surrounding area suddenly become damp and cold.
He opened his eyes and found himself in a dark cave. Countless torches were inserted into the surrounding walls, emitting a faint glow. The depths of the cave echoed with the sounds of hammering.
Nannan also appeared beside Fang Ming at this time, looking around curiously.
Fang Ming took out his diary and flipped through the entries.
Of course, predicting the future was incidental; his real goal was to calculate the strength of the resentful fiends behind this world through the diary.
"I'll walk along the cave towards the depths, all the way."
... that's it?
Fang Ming put his hand on his forehead. It seemed that within the prediction time of the diary, he didn't encounter anything in the cave. He didn't know if that was good or bad.
"What's wrong?" Nannan asked, looking up.
"Nothing, let's go."
Fang Ming pulled Nannan and walked towards the depths of the cave. After a few minutes, they turned a corner and were faced with two diverging paths connected by a railway track.
Which way to go?
Fang Ming hesitated for a moment and randomly chose one. Anyway, the diary predicted that there wouldn't be any danger for a while, so it must be the path he chose randomly.
"Drip, drip."
Water droplets condensed on the cave walls fell. Fang Ming examined the trajectory of the water flow and determined that he was heading deeper underground.
"Be careful!" Nannan suddenly exclaimed.
Fang Ming immediately became alert and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
"Someone is approaching us."
"Someone?" Fang Ming's doubt had just arisen when he heard a rumbling sound.
Fang Ming looked down at the ground at this sound. The railway tracks were shaking, and the tremors were becoming more pronounced.
"Holy cow, could it be a train?" Fang Ming's heart jolted. He quickly pulled Nannan and ran towards the depths. The cave was too narrow, and there was nowhere to hide if a train crashed into them!
The rumbling sound grew louder and closer.
Its speed was too fast, there was no time to dodge!
Fang Ming didn't dare to let Nannan carry him and run at full speed into the depths. Who knew what was in the depths.
"It's coming," Nannan said calmly, standing on the tracks. Her body began to gather strength. She was preparing to act to stop whatever was coming!
Fang Ming took a few steps back. Nannan had the strength to block a speeding train, but he didn't. At most, he could lift two or three carriages. Stopping a moving train was too difficult.
If he didn't stay far away, he might just die here.
"Rumble..." It's coming! A mining cart filled with ore was rushing from the distance. Fang Ming and the others were directly in its path.
The mining cart was about five meters long and over two meters high. Loaded with ore, it weighed at least ten tons, and with its increasing acceleration, its power was not inferior to a real locomotive!
"Stop!" Nannan extended one hand, and countless hair strands emerged from the void, then pierced the body of the mining cart like sharp swords. The hair strands continuously pulled the mining cart, reducing its speed.
"Who?!" A startled shout suddenly came from inside the mining cart. A miner with tattered clothes poked his head out of the cart. His safety helmet was askew due to the sudden braking of the cart, a result of inertia.
Someone?!
Fang Ming quickly urged Nannan to continue her attack, "Nannan, stop attacking. Let's ask him about the situation here." Fang Ming naturally assumed this miner was an "NPC" in this world. After all, in such sub-realms, apart from the resentful fiends behind them and some creatures that had stumbled in, everything else was an illusory existence similar to game NPCs.
Nannan stopped attacking and used her hair strands to fix the mining cart in place.
"Who are you? Why are you here?" the miner asked in surprise.
"We stumbled in by accident and wanted to ask how to get out of here," Fang Ming lied, explaining.