Chapter 303: Treasure Hunt Begins, Looting Along the Way

Now it is a foregone conclusion that the Huaguo Guofu team will win the final championship. People are now more willing to guess which team will be the runner-up. Of course, the Huaguo team has the highest odds, which also indirectly proves how powerful this team is in people's hearts.

After the British side transferred the follow-up funds, Xu Fan invested all of it into this gambling pool. With the free-for-all format of the treasure hunt, as long as the Guofu team where Xu Fan was didn't meet in the semi-finals, Xu Fan could basically control which team would become the runner-up.

His idea was simple. After the treasure hunt, each team would not have much time to recuperate. If the injuries were too serious, it would only affect subsequent competitions. Therefore, the treasure hunt also tested one's sense of trade-offs.

At that time, Irene followed Xu Fan around and asked him all sorts of questions, so he simply put the money on the British team. Irene was naturally very excited to see this. Was Xu Fan admitting that their British team was the strongest team besides the Chinese team?

The first stage of the knockout rounds soon came to an end, and those who were eliminated were basically some weak teams from small countries, some of them even failed to break through to the higher levels.

However, none of those strong teams were eliminated. Although this knockout round was claimed to be a random match, the organizers of the national tournament were not fools. If they sent America or Britain to face China right away, they would definitely suffer the consequences.

Not to mention that the ranking of the National Government Competition will affect the subsequent distribution of the cake. The anger of a country is not something that these few families can bear.

The treasure hunt competition has an exclusive venue. All of the past dozen or so National Government competitions have been held in this place. A certain amount of resources are invested in it every time. Even if the invested resources are not all found by the National Government team, the organizer will not send people to clean out the resources. They will simply use them as rewards for the next session.

It can be said that after so many years of accumulation, the resources hidden in the treasure hunt venue have become very considerable, basically reaching 1.5 times the resources invested each time.

After entering the treasure hunt venue, everyone will be randomly assigned to the venue. People with bad luck are likely to be besieged by a large group of mages of the same level and be eliminated early.

The victory or defeat of the treasure hunt is judged by the harvest of each team. Although this has little impact on the final ranking, it is the best opportunity for each mage to show himself.

After entering the venue, each contestant will be followed by at least one camera throughout the entire process, and the contestant with the most outstanding performance in the treasure hunt will often be the final MVP.

The place where Xu Fan was dropped was a forest full of ancient trees. Xu Fan checked the age of the trees and found that most of them were over a hundred years old, but no plant-type monsters were born.

"What a pity! After entering here, you are not allowed to use space-type magic tools to collect the treasures you find. Doesn't this obviously allow the contestants to compete with each other?"

Xu Fan raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and slowly raised his head, then he noticed a green magic bird on a tree branch. His eyes focused, and the magic bird flew down from the tree obediently and landed in Xu Fan's hands.

Xu Fan easily discovered that there was a small magic photographic device on the magic bird. This was a camera specially used to broadcast Xu Fan's movements. Xu Fan did not destroy it. This was a good opportunity to show off his prowess in front of others, and he would not miss it.

On the other side, in a closed room, a figure wearing strange equipment on his head suddenly fell unconscious, scaring the people around him. Could it be that there was something wrong with the broadcasting device?

"Don't worry about the images of Xu Fan. His mental power is unfathomable. Even if we combine the mental powers of all of us, we can't take back control of the Emerald Demon Bird from him!"

A super-class psychic mage checked the unconscious man and said helplessly to the others that his spiritual realm had reached the peak of the sixth realm. Then everyone saw that the other people's shooting direction was basically high-altitude aerial shooting. Even if there was a battle, they only took a general picture of the battle process. As for the players' facial expressions and some whispers, they were completely unclear.

But the screen belonging to Xu Fan was completely different. His various poses looked as if they were deliberately posed, and every frame was so handsome that it could be used as a wallpaper.

Xu Fan did not stay in the woods for long. He felt the various resources hidden in the woods, but it was too troublesome to dig them out one by one. He had a better way.

After walking out of the woods, Xu Fan opened his true eyes and took another look. He was the only contestant in this ancient forest. He didn't know if he was being targeted intentionally by the organizers.

Xu Fan waved his hand, and the Emerald Demon Bird landed on the ground not far away, then looked up at Xu Fan from below. The tall figure created a terrible sense of oppression.

Most of the viewers who followed the competition noticed this unique live broadcast room.

Xu Fan gently put his hands together, and a flash of plant magic energy appeared under his feet. Then the perspective of the Emerald Bird changed. It turned its head and looked towards the ancient forest. At this time, countless magic vines emerged from the ground of the ancient forest.

Under Xu Fan's control, the magic vine quickly covered the entire ancient forest but did not harm any ancient tree. The magic vine drilled out of the soil and then grew along the tree trunks.

All the resources in this ancient forest could not escape the exploration of the magic vine. They were all brought from the darkness to the light by the magic vine.

Then the Demonic Vine Sea was stirred up by waves again. All the resources, whether it was spirit essence, strange stones, or spirit seeds, all rushed towards Xu Fan with the green waves, and finally all fell in front of Xu Fan.

"My goodness, this must be three feet high!"

After seeing this scene, the audience complained one after another, saying that the ability to plunder was too strong. If it happened in ancient times, he would definitely be an expert in confiscating property.

Xu Fan took out a sack as if by magic, and then all kinds of resources were thrown into his pocket by the magic vine.

"That's not much! Such a big forest is only half full!"

Xu Fan sighed. His words immediately made the organizer blush. "How irritating! Basically, everyone can only get these many things in the treasure hunt. You found so much in two hours. Is that not enough?"

No, there is more than a hundred minutes of walking time!
The organizers fell silent when they thought of this. They thought of a terrible thing. Xu Fan was just walking around casually just now. If he used magic to travel quickly and collect resources, wouldn't he take up 90% of the resources in the treasure hunt!
But they were overthinking it. Xu Fan didn't do that. He just walked around and used plant magic to collect all the resources he sensed.

He did not move very fast, but he left no resources behind wherever he went. It was only noon, and the pangolin behind him was already carrying three large sacks on its back.

(End of this chapter)