Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?

The ingredients were quickly sold out, even the grill with the lingering smell of food ingredients was bought by people offering money.

Silver coins and copper coins piled up into a small mountain in front of him, there was no need to doubt whether these ingredients were worth this much money, as long as they were rare items produced by the Dungeon, people in this world were definitely willing to buy them.

Jack hadn't even decided how much money to sell for when customers began bidding spontaneously.

The excitement here naturally attracted more people, but the ingredients were limited, and eventually, most people ended up with nothing.

That's why some people approached Jack, trying to find out where he had obtained these items in the Dungeon.

Jack smiled without a word.

Because all he could do was smile, Gong Qiying never told him where the hidden map that produced the ingredients was.

Everyone thought he was purposely hiding it to make more money in the future, and many people on the spot ran to find their companions to team up and prepare to find the source of these magical ingredients in the Dungeon.

Many ordinary people at the scene showed envious expressions; they envied adventurers who had the strength to explore the Dungeon for ingredients, while they dared not venture deep apart from doing miscellaneous jobs around the outskirts of the Dungeon. They always saw adventurers coming out with new finds and making a fortune, which made them very jealous.

If the source of these magical ingredients was located in a less dangerous area of the Dungeon...

Probably half the city would be willing to give it a try!

That estimation wasn't exaggerated, as the Dungeon had become a part of daily life for the people in this world.

The entire continent had over three hundred known Dungeons; nearly a hundred had become empty dead cities, no longer spawning monsters or rewards and might even collapse, while the other two hundred plus Dungeons were still operational. As long as the geographical environment wasn't too extreme, there would always be intelligent creatures establishing cities around these Dungeons.

After all, there had never been an incident where Dungeon monsters appeared on the surface to attack people. As long as one did not enter the Dungeon, it was considered absolutely safe. In a more extreme situation, if there were foreign invaders, one could temporarily hide in the Dungeon.

It is said that there are at least a dozen unexplored Dungeons on the Western Continent occupied by the Demon Clan, but that's not something humans should worry about; with pervasive miasma across the Western Continent making it uninhabitable for ordinary people, how many would dare venture into its Dungeons?

The night deepened, it was time to sleep, but Jack, looking at the gold coins before him, was too excited to sleep.

He had never seen so much money in his life!

How great it would be if this money were mine!

Wait a minute, do I need to give this money to the master... to that Monster? It lives in the Dungeon, it doesn't need money, right?

Jack swallowed, his hands trembling slightly.

But ultimately, the fear of Gong Qiying overcame his greed, he sighed, gathered the money, and suddenly realized he had no containers to hold so much money.

Not only the grill, even the bags that held the ingredients were bought by someone, who said they would use the bags as a medium to perform Tracking Magic or something.

If they could find that, it would be a miracle, Jack thought to himself.

What he didn't notice was a few sneaky gazes in the distance watching him, seemingly plotting something.

But these gazes disappeared in an instant upon spotting someone else, unsure if they had given up or just retreated temporarily.

"Hey, sir, please wait a moment,"

Just as Jack was about to buy some pockets, a rough voice called him.

Turning around, he saw a muscular giant over two meters tall, the Silver Rank adventurer "Strong" Tal.

"Can I help you?" Jack asked politely.

Tal showed a friendly smile, which appeared somewhat scary on his face.

"Are you interested in joining the Strategy Group?"

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While the outside world was bustling, Gong Qiying was designing the map of the Dungeon.

"Where should the food area be located..."

The culinary area, in his design, is a map that's easier than other areas and offers rewards that can attract the majority of ordinary people.

There, instead of rewards like weapons, magic, and items with powerful combat skills, what's available are things intimately related to people's daily necessities.

The first thing he thought of were the ingredients in "Food Captive."

The ingredients in that comic are not only attractive and distinctive, but many also come with certain dangers. For example, the lobster fish, normally seven meters long, one claw could crush an adult's head; and the creature called "roasted whole pig" isn't just entirely made of piping hot roasted meat but is also a colossal mountain-sized behemoth that can trample three or four people to death effortlessly.

Putting these things together specifically in one area as an attractive gimmick is quite appropriate, absolutely suitable indeed.

"Better place it right next to the swamp area, add a shortcut but with a toilet door that can only be opened from the inside, just like the one Miyazaki Hidekou encountered when he was a child having diarrhea; it has to be unlocked by first running the main route,"

To lower the difficulty, he specially moved the monsters near the culinary area farther away, hoping ordinary people could reach the culinary area unscathed after dying a few times and gaining some experience.

Having done everything, he glanced at today's spiritual power income, not too much nor too little, still four digits.

"Just save up for another half a month, at most one month," Gong Qiying muttered to himself: "I'll be able to upgrade my permissions then,"

"I hope I get a permission that allows me to go out, staying cooped up here every day is so boring..."

The next day.

As soon as Sain Dungeon opened, Gong Qiying noticed a surge in the number of people, more than double compared to the same time yesterday.

Don't underestimate my intelligence network; you all are here for the ingredients, aren't you?

Not just adventurers, but also a considerable number of ordinary people came in hoping to try their luck.

The outcome can't exactly be described as total annihilation, but it was close to that.

The morning passed quickly, and by then, several capable adventurer groups had lingered near the hidden door of the culinary area, guessing that they would surely discover it before the day ended.

But Gong Qiying's attention wasn't on these teams; he was watching somewhere else.

Swamp area, a fierce battle was unfolding.

"Senior, just surrender, you shouldn't have stolen the teacher's research results; hiding in the Dungeon is useless," said a woman, though tall, she wasn't sexy, skinny as a rail with skin pale as a corpse. She tapped the ground with her magic wand, and the eyes of several skeleton monsters hidden underground emitted a red glow, actually obeying her command.

It was the first time someone could control the monsters in the Dungeon. Gong Qiying sensed it and found that he could take back control of the skeleton monsters whenever he wanted, the control over monsters by the Underground City Lord is an absolute and supreme authority.

"Lina, you should know what the teacher is researching this for, and you should understand that he only trained us two for his research,"

A weathered man was clutching his chest, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, apparently not long for this world.

He gritted his teeth and said, "That old undying guy, he wants to steal our bodies!"

"Shut up, don't talk about the teacher like that!" the woman shouted angrily, wielding her magic wand horizontally: "I'm going to kill you!"

"Then bring it on, did you think I really wanted to die?"

A flurry of dazzling effects clashed, and the swamp stirred.

Moments later, Gong Qiying teleported next to the two bodies and started looting them.

It appeared that these two didn't carry a teleportation crystal, so they probably weren't professionals, just happened to stumble into the Dungeon.

He rarely saw people who actually died inside the Dungeon; even children knew to carry a teleportation crystal when entering the Dungeon.

The woman's body was very clean, as poor as it was tidy, with only a few silver and copper coins, several opened potions, and a magic wand.

Rated not as good as the Meteor Staff.

"This is..."

The man's body was also very clean, but he had a thick stack of manuscripts tightly protected in his embrace, stained with a lot of blood.

The first page's few big characters were vaguely recognizable, written on it was...

Rebirth by borrowing a body technique.