Chapter 5: Inside the Cave

After Wang Bo assembled over a hundred soldiers, he divided them into groups of three, forming more than thirty squads, and had them patrol every corner of the city, noting down any suspicious individuals they saw.

To avoid alerting the enemy, Wang Bo even had these soldiers take off their military uniforms and change into civilian clothes.

When these soldiers blended into the crowd, it was like a drop of water merging into the sea.

In this way, it would be even more convenient for the operation.

In addition, Wang Bo found a person and appointed him as his deputy, putting this deputy in command of the operation.

For a moment, this man called "Iben" was beside himself with excitement.

He thought his time for promotion and wealth had arrived.

As long as he could successfully catch the brutal murderer, he would enter the minister's sight, become the minister's trusted aide, gain the minister's esteem, and in the future would surely rise to prominence.

Thus, Ibn threw himself into the task with redoubled vigor.

The afternoon passed quickly.

The soldiers spotted some suspicious characters while on patrol, but after making some inquiries, they found that these people were either petty thieves or hooligans, nothing to be alarmed about.

This made Ibn so anxious that he was practically burning up. He had never imagined that an entire afternoon could pass without even the slightest discovery—this was very disadvantageous for him.

If he didn't handle this matter beautifully, he would offend the minister.

Let alone promotion and riches, or soaring to success.

He reckoned he might not even be able to keep his current position.

After much deliberation, Ibn decided to seek out the minister, state the facts, and hope that the minister could offer a suggestion to help him complete the task smoothly.

Yet just at that moment, Ibn suddenly realized that he seemed unable to find the minister.

……

By now, Wang Bo was long gone from Agrabah.

He appointed Ibn as his deputy, ordering him to manage the matter with full authority. After sending Ibn away, he changed his clothes and left Agrabah.

A few kilometers from Agrabah, Wang Bo took out the Batmobile and drove it all the way toward the Cave of Wonders. The journey, which would have taken several days, was continuously shortened by the Batmobile's incredible speed.

It was not until nightfall, when the setting sun had sunk and the moon had risen, with a sky full of twinkling stars hanging overhead, that Wang Bo finally arrived at the Cave of Wonders from Agrabah.

The entrance to the Cave of Wonders is a giant lion's head; the lion's open mouth serves as the entrance.

Wang Bo parked the Batmobile at the entrance, got out, stowed the Batmobile away, and carefully observed the entrance.

The lion's mouth gaped open, its dark entrance like a demon's lair that could swallow everything.

To put it bluntly, this place is really not much different from a demon's lair.

Except for the designated person, anyone who enters the Cave of Wonders will not be able to walk out of it alive.

The original Jia Fang was no exception.

Because inside the Cave of Wonders, there is the protection of the Cave's Guardian Spirit.

To be honest, Wang Bo wasn't quite sure what this Guardian of the Cave was. In any case, in this world, the Guardian of the Cave existed. It was precisely because of the Guardian's hint that Jafar understood that to enter the treasure cave, he had to find a gem of pure heart.

That is, the street rat Aladdin from the story.

But Wang Bo reckoned that this Cave-guarding God was probably a being like a mountain spirit or earth spirit, similar to the Earth God in Chinese mythology, or perhaps a Mountain God.

But mountain gods and earth gods govern an entire region, whereas the Cave-Receiving God governs only a single treasure cave, so its power might very well be inferior to that of a mountain god.

This also gave Wang Bo full confidence.

He reckoned that with his current strength, even if a disaster were triggered, he should be able to escape from it smoothly.

So after taking a few deep breaths, Wang Bo strode into the Miraculous Treasure Cave.

Following the cave entrance straight ahead, the flat path suddenly turned into a slope. Wang Bo, unstartled and unflustered, went down along it and finally entered the interior of the treasure cave.

In that instant, Wang Bo couldn't help but gasp, his scalp going numb in a flash.

In that instant, Wang Bo almost suffocated.

And what brought about this result was not the countless gold coins and gems within the miraculous treasure cave. In fact, before entering the treasure cave, Wang Bo had already known that there were many treasures inside.

And these treasures, in truth, could not be taken away.

Because these were all treasures of the Cave God; the moment you touched any of them, you would enrage the Cave God and bring disaster. So from the very beginning, Wang Bo did not take the treasures inside the cave to heart.

No matter how many treasures there were, Wang Bo did not care.

Of course, what nearly suffocated Wang Bo was not that the divine lamp was already gone.

In fact, the magic lamp was still inside the Cave of Wonders.

Wang Bo saw the magic lamp almost the moment he entered the treasure cave. And this magic lamp was almost the most conspicuous item in the entire miracle treasure cave.

But this is only an almost—a near thing.

In fact, within the cave, there was another presence far more noticeable than the magic lamp, the most conspicuous and ferocious thing in the entire cave.

Of course it wasn't the magic carpet—how could a magic carpet be ferocious?

This fierce presence had a head as massive as Wang Bo's body, impenetrable scales, enormous wings, sharp claws, and a swaying tail.

With just a gentle opening of its mouth, it could spew flames hotter than magma, easily reducing a person to ashes.

Indeed, what appeared before Wang Bo, dominating the Miraculous Treasure Cave and lying atop a vast hoard of riches, was a creature that existed only in myths and legends... a giant dragon.

The giant dragon opened a pair of sharp eyes and stared fixedly at Wang Bo, as if trying to make out exactly what kind of foolish wretch had disturbed its slumber.

For a moment, Wang Bo was completely dumbfounded.

Sorry for disturbing you.

He turned and left without a word. Wang Bo had never imagined that a giant dragon would be inside the Miracle Treasure Cave; what the hell, was this a joke?

Who could withstand this!!

Although he was very confident in his own strength, believing that he had become something beyond human, compared to a giant dragon he was still far too inferior—not to mention that the dragon's magic was simply Wang Bo's nemesis.

To think of defeating a dragon inside a cave... well, you might as well wash up and go to sleep.

In any case, Wang Bo would absolutely never be so foolish as to fight a giant dragon inside a cave. Of course, even outside the cave, Wang Bo would still be unwilling to fight a giant dragon, because the odds of victory were too low.

The giant dragon saw Wang Bo turn his head and flee, and instinctively let out a tremendous roar.

The terrifying dragon's might swept out like a tide, the air instantly turning thick and viscous, and a tremendous pressure slammed heavily onto Wang Bo. In that instant, Wang Bo felt he could hardly move an inch.