Chapter 133 | I Became a Skeleton on Day One of My Isekai

Looking at the chest in front of him, Li Xiuman nodded in satisfaction.

This chest already had an eighty percent resemblance to the chests rewarded by the system panel.

Furthermore, it would glow when opened.

Depending on the value of the items inside, the glow was also divided into different colors.

White, Green, Blue, Purple, Red, Orange, Gold, and Prismatic.

“You can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a child.”

“You can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a child!”

Li Xiuman gritted his teeth, took out a whopping one thousand gold coins, and stuffed them into several white chests.

He then took out a large amount of fine equipment, placing one piece per chest, and threw them into the white chests.

Afterward, he took out three Green Quality magic items and tossed them into three green chests.

Looking at the chests scattered on the ground, Li Xiuman finally nodded in satisfaction.

This was his strategy.

To attract adventurers using a large number of chests.

He doubted any adventurer could resist the thrill of opening a blind box.

With this investment, his White Bone Dungeon surely wouldn't have to worry about a lack of adventurers trying to conquer it.

However, Li Xiuman still felt a bit disgruntled.

All these chests contained his hard-earned gold and wealth. It was incredibly unsatisfying to just let adventurers walk away with them like this.

Li Xiuman still preferred zero-cost investments and getting something for nothing.

Since he wasn't happy, these adventurers shouldn't expect to have an easy time either.

Li Xiuman shifted his gaze to a chest that had been set aside on its own.

This was the monster he had created to ensure those adventurers would also have a miserable time.

[Name] Mimic

[Race] Mimic

[Level] LV11

[Class] Monster

[Status] Stun

[Skills] Bite LV2, Devour LV2, Venom LV2, Corrosion LV2, Stench LV2, Stealth LV1

[Description] A monster created by Demon King Xiuman Pound Li. It possesses the appearance of a standard chest but cannot move. It is impossible to tell whether it is a chest or a Mimic just from its appearance. Be careful of conspicuous chests you encounter in the wild.

Indeed, this was the perfect answer Li Xiuman had come up with.

He wanted the adventurers of the White Bone Dungeon to live in constant doubt and paranoia.

Let them be deceived until they understood the cruelty of this world and the lies that permeated it.

Only by directly confronting the falsehoods of this world in this manner would they avoid being left utterly broken when facing them in the future.

Such painstaking benevolence was enough to move anyone to tears.

Li Xiuman did not plan to deploy the Mimics directly into the dungeon just yet.

After all, if he made things difficult for this group of adventurers right from the start, who would help advertise his dungeon?

So, he had to give these adventurers a taste of sweetness first.

Only by letting them taste the sweetness could he attract more adventurers.

Moreover, once the adventurers grew accustomed to the concept of treasure chests, he would deploy the Mimics.

Caught completely off guard, far more adventurers would definitely fall into his trap.

There was another reason why Li Xiuman spent so much time designing a single treasure chest.

He had added a one-time teleportation magic circle inside the chests, based on the teleportation device of the Dungeon Core.

As long as an adventurer destroyed the chest from the outside, the teleportation circle would be triggered, instantly sending the items inside to the Boss room.

Why did he design it this way?

Because once adventurers realized the existence of Mimics, they would highly likely use magic to test the chests.

For example, casting a spell at a chest to determine whether it was a Mimic or a real chest.

And what Li Xiuman wanted was to make them too afraid to test them recklessly. Otherwise, a real chest would simply fly away.

Come and play, children.

What we're playing is fucking paranoia.

Come and gamble, children.

What we're gambling is a fucking heartbeat.

Take a gamble on whether it's a real chest or a Mimic.

To high-level adventurers, a Mimic might not pose a threat.

But at the close distance of opening a chest, a glob of phlegm containing [Stench LV2] and [Venom LV2] would still be able to hit them square in the face.

With such sinister intentions—bah, with such painstaking care, his love for these adventurers was truly deep indeed.

Li Xiuman put the first batch of chests into his storage space, then retrieved the Dungeon Core.

He teleported across the various floors, placing the chests in inconspicuous corners.

If there was no suitable spot, he would use the Dungeon Core to slightly alter the terrain and create a hiding place for the chest.

Some of the chests contained treasure maps, providing clues and directions to find the green chests.

Several green chests were placed in the locations indicated by the treasure maps.

Meanwhile, an adventurer party on Floor 16 encountered one of the chests he had hidden.

“What is that? A box?”

The captain of the adventurer party, Aliman, looked warily at the chest before her.

Then, she carefully stepped forward and opened the box.

After a burst of white light, the items inside the box were revealed.

Ten gold coins and a parchment treasure map.

“Gold coins, and... a treasure map?”

Aliman was a bit baffled.

She and her teammates studied it together, eventually confirming that the terrain depicted on the map was indeed the floor they were currently on.

And at the location indicated by the map, a chest emitting a green aura was drawn.

“Let's go check it out, for the sake of those ten gold coins,” one of her teammates suggested.

Ultimately, she led her team members toward the direction indicated by the map.

In the White Bone Forest, which was already enveloped in thick fog, they painstakingly navigated their way forward by relying on the treasure map.

Finally, they stopped at the location described on the map.

“A depression in the ground, where three bone trees meet.”

“This should be the place.”

Aliman scanned her surroundings. This was a sunken basin, and inside it, exactly three bone trees were growing.

“Where the bone trees meet...”

“Does that mean the dead center of the three?”

Aliman found the corresponding spot but found nothing. After some thought, she said to the Elementalist in her party:

“Turn over the soil here and see if you can find anything.”

As the soil was overturned, a chest was successfully dug up.

Aliman hurriedly squatted down, brought the chest before her teammates, and they exchanged glances.

Then, she opened the chest.

Unlike the light from the previous chest, a burst of green light shone forth.

A bracelet quietly lay at the bottom of the chest.

“A magic item!”

Aliman and her teammates gasped in shock simultaneously.

One had to know that even their entire adventurer party only possessed a single magic item.

After all, not everyone was like Li Xiuman, who could get chests as drops from killing Unique Variants and bosses.

“Let's withdraw from the dungeon first.”

Aliman carefully put away the bracelet, no longer having any interest in continuing their exploration at this moment.

She wanted to figure out what was going on with the chests as quickly as possible.

Meanwhile, in the Floor Boss room on Floor 28, Li Xiuman watched the adventurers who encountered the chests through his projection, growing more and more delighted.