Chapter 021: Proceed with Caution

If it didn't work, then he would have wasted his efforts, and might even be punished.

So at this moment, he had to be very careful.

Wang Bo hadn't forgotten that the last time he used Master Gu Yi to peek into the future and obtain prizes, the artifact had warned him. If not for his punishment, the artifact would have punished him.

Therefore, some things couldn't be taken too far. If this method of exploiting loopholes wasn't recognized by the artifact, the more greedy he was, the more severe the punishment would likely be.

So capturing tens of thousands of people was absolutely out of the question.

If he made a mistake and was punished, it would certainly be very severe. Wang Bo didn't dare take that risk.

Several thousand people wouldn't work either. After all, so far only one lucky person had encountered several thousand people in one world. Doing this would be too deliberate.

A few hundred people... Wang Bo was tempted. If it were a few hundred, would that be better?

So far, Wang Bo had been through more than a dozen worlds, and the total number of draws hadn't reached thirty.

Several hundred draws was definitely a large number.

Wang Bo didn't ask for much. A few hundred draws would absolutely satisfy him.

Yet even so, Wang Bo was still hesitant.

Was he being too greedy?

Xiao Bai noticed Wang Bo's struggle and couldn't help asking, "What are you thinking? Have you encountered some difficulty? Why not tell everyone, and we can figure it out together?"

Wang Bo didn't refuse and shared his thoughts.

This included the time he had cheated and almost been punished by the cheat artifact.

Xiao Qing listened and nodded, saying, "Indeed, we shouldn't be too greedy, but a few hundred people should be fine, right? I think we should capture a few hundred and make a big profit."

Xiao Bai shook her head and said, "It's too risky. If we get punished, we might lose several hundred draw chances. To make up for that loss, who knows how many worlds we'd have to go through and how long it would take. So I suggest we stay calm, be careful, and proceed cautiously."

Xiao Qing tentatively said, "Then let's capture a hundred people. That should be okay, right?"

Wang Bo was a bit tempted.

Xiao Bai held up one hand and said, "Fifty people. Don't be too greedy. I think fifty is the limit we can bear."

Xiao Qing said, "Fifty is too few. How about eighty?"

"Just fifty," Xiao Bai said.

"Seventy," Xiao Qing lowered it a bit.

Xiao Bai glared at her and scolded, "Do you think we're bargaining? Seventy is too risky. Fifty is just right."

"What risk? I think you're just a coward," Xiao Qing snorted, then turned to Wang Bo. "What do you think? Seventy or fifty?"

Wang Bo thought for a moment and said, "How about... thirty?"

Xiao Qing was dumbfounded. "You're even more cowardly! Thirty is too small. Might as well go with fifty. This is a golden opportunity to rise overnight."

Wang Bo said, "I think one should be content with what one has. Thirty people is already a lot."

For Wang Bo, losing even one draw chance would make his heart ache.

If he really had to do thirty draws for nothing, he would be convulsing.

Xiao Bai shook her head, smiled, and said, "I think fifty is a good number. If you really only want thirty, then we'll bring thirty people."

In the end, after some discussion, Wang Bo decided to follow Xiao Bai's suggestion and capture fifty people.

So Wang Bo teleported, randomly grabbed fifty people from all over the world, and returned to the Yamatai Kingdom.

Whether it was a meteoric rise or working off a debt, it all depended on this one move.

After arranging the fifty captured people in the Yamatai Kingdom, Wang Bo quietly waited for the two Yamatai Kingdoms to exchange.

The fifty captured people, due to Wang Bo's magic, had fallen unconscious and did not know they had left their homes and arrived in a strange place.

Perhaps when they woke up, they would find that they had slept for several days and appeared in an unfamiliar place.

But no one would answer that question for them.

The first day passed in waiting.

The second day also passed in waiting.

On the third day, Wang Bo suddenly noticed a change in the surroundings, but he couldn't pinpoint what it was—just that the air felt different somehow.

But as for what was different, Wang Bo couldn't figure it out for the moment.

"Do you notice anything wrong?" Wang Bo turned to ask Xiao Bai and Xiao Qing, who were waiting with him, wanting to hear their opinions.

Xiao Qing spoke first: "No, I don't think anything's wrong."

Xiao Bai shook her head and said, "I haven't noticed anything off either. What's wrong with you? Did you find something?"

Wang Bo nodded and said, "I feel something is off with the air. I suspect we've traveled through dimensions."

"Traveled through dimensions?" Xiao Qing said in surprise. "But I don't feel anything. Could you be mistaken?"

"Let me confirm," Wang Bo said, and began drawing a circle. Sparks flew in the void, and a portal opened. According to the location Wang Bo set, the other end of the portal was Croft Manor.

However, this time what appeared before Wang Bo was not the familiar Croft Manor.

Wang Bo immediately confirmed that he had traveled through dimensions.

"It seems we've arrived in another Tomb Raider world," Wang Bo said.

"Really?" Xiao Qing was astonished, having felt nothing at all.

Wang Bo explained, "Traveling through dimensions catches you off guard like this. Maybe when you blink, you've crossed over."

As a seasoned dimension traveler, Wang Bo was qualified to say this. Although he had traveled through dimensions in dreams several times, he had also done it while awake quite often. So his sensitivity to dimension travel far exceeded that of Xiao Bai and Xiao Qing.

Xiao Qing's eyes lit up, and she said, "Since we've traveled, does that mean we can..."

Xiao Bai nodded and said, "It's worth a try."

Wang Bo knew what the two women meant. He was also eager, so he gathered the fifty unconscious humans on the island of the Yamatai Kingdom.

These were the humans Wang Bo had captured and brought along with him through the dimensions.

They were still unconscious, but Wang Bo had injected them with nutrients. They could sleep for days, even a month, without any life-threatening danger.

Wang Bo casually grabbed a thirty-something Asian man, connected with the cheat device, and sent him back.

The next second, the Asian man disappeared.

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