Eternal Night

Chapter 714 The Gap and the Great Demon

You're too tense.

As Xu Shilan watched the employees of several chambers of commerce on the island drive horse-drawn carriages and carts to deliver the local special spices they had purchased on the island to the cabin of the Dog Egg, she spoke to Wu Pifu while recording the list of items to be stored and the quantities.

Wu Pifu looked completely bewildered.

What is he holding too tightly?

Xu Shilan looked at Wu Pifu with a hint of pity, then looked at Gou Danhao and said, "All you do is kill monsters and fight. Your mind is stretched to the limit. What do you mean by inhuman? It's just that you want to be a human... Listen to your sister, relax a bit these days and just watch your sister take the lead."

Wu Pifu, still bewildered, asked, "What do you mean?"

Amade laughed heartily from the side, "It means you shouldn't move, she'll do it, don't you understand?"

Xu Shilan, her face flushed, turned around and kicked Amadei's foot, only to find her own foot stinging. Ignoring Amadei, she said to Wu Pifu, "Take advantage of this dream world and enjoy life to the fullest. Besides fighting and killing, life has so many other pleasures—good food, chatting with friends, games, reading, even just fishing! Enjoy life to the fullest!"

Wu Pifu remained silent.

Life... this word seemed too distant to him, so much so that in his life and understanding, it seemed that fighting monsters, leveling up, and running dungeons were his whole life, or rather, they really were his whole life.

Although he has most of his past memories, his personality is actually newly born. He has not truly experienced the various aspects of the 21st century. After awakening in this era, he basically does nothing but fight and risk his life. He is either fighting or on his way to fight. He is either covered in wounds or can't even maintain his human form...

The word "life" was really too distant for him.

"...I'll try my best."

Wu Pifu decided to listen to Xu Shilan's opinion. Not for any other reason than that he was no longer single and had to consider Xu Shilan and Amadeus, even if it was just to slow down his own pace.
Around noon, the cargo was inventoried, the ship was resupplyed, and after the gold was delivered, the Dog Egg, now a large oval-shaped vessel, finally set sail from Qiya Port. This scene was also witnessed by intelligence personnel from various factions, who quickly relayed the footage back to their respective intelligence organizations.

While the whole world was in turmoil because of the appearance of Wu Pifu and Gou Dan, the three people on the Gou Dan had already clearly felt the changes brought about by the upgraded ship.

"A Class 5 large transport ship, the Dog Egg, owned by Wu Pifu, not under contract."

"Attack, three hundred."

"Defense, 600."

"Speed, eighty."

"Characteristics: None."

The current attributes of the Dog Egg have changed. Due to changes in the size, shape, and purpose of the ship, its original level 2 Gale ability is gone, and its description has changed to Large Transport Ship. Although its attack and defense have increased significantly, its speed has become 80, and its ability has become none.

However, because of the recognition ceremony, Wu Pifu and his team members Xu Shilan and Amadei, who are now on the ship, can now receive the enhancements from the Dog Egg.

"...It is neither a simple addition nor a simple multiplication."

Xu Shilan is currently undergoing an attribute stacking test because, compared to Wu Pifu and Amadei, her physical attributes are closest to those of ordinary people. Her extraordinary abilities are at the Yin attribute level of mental consciousness, making her most knowledgeable about the attribute stacking test of Gou Dan Hao.

Xu Shilan lifted a steel plate from the deck. The steel plate was custom-made and weighed about 100 kilograms each. Xu Shilan lifted one very easily. She even swung the steel plate and caught it again. After testing it for a while, she picked up the second steel plate. This time it was a bit heavy, but she could still lift it. However, she couldn't lift the third steel plate.

"The increase in strength is about 250 kilograms. The number 300 displayed on the panel is not a simple addition." Xu Shilan tested it carefully.

Then it was Amadeus' turn to test. He easily picked up five steel plates, then put them down and lifted a steel coil weighing one ton. However, his arm felt heavy. Xu Shilan added two more 100-kilogram steel plates to the coil, and Amadeus then indicated that he had reached his weight limit.

“Amadeus gained about 700 kilograms of strength.”

Xu Shilan confirmed: "So the data superposition of this extraordinary ship should be a hybrid of additive superposition and multiplicative superposition. The calculation formula is quite complicated, so we just need to know what type it is."

Wu Pifu didn't do this test. After all, he could lift the entire ship. If you wanted him to test the limits of superimposed strength, you'd probably need to move a small mountain.

However, this simple test is enough. It at least confirms that the extraordinary ships in this world can indeed enhance the strength of their passengers, even if only part of it is a passenger zone enhancement. Such an extra passenger zone enhancement that does not occupy extraordinary pathways is extremely precious.

Defense and speed stacking are difficult to test, but they should be similar to the power stacking from attacks. Xu Shilan pondered for a moment and said, "We changed the shape, size, and purpose of the Dog Egg, thus eliminating its special characteristics. Furthermore, we learned from the shipbuilders of this world that the better the ship's materials, the better its attributes. Some extraordinary materials can also give ships special properties. This is crucial information for enhancing the Dog Egg. Now, we're going to conduct the next, most important test..."

"Now?" Wu Pifu and Amadei were both taken aback and asked in unison.

Xu Shilan nodded and said, "Yes, now is the time. We are an event-based shelter, and we have already met the required guarding time. So let's do it now. These spices are all dried seed spices, which can be stored for several months without any problem. We don't need that much time. The test can be completed in about five days, or even on the same day if it fails."

Since Xu Shilan said so, Wu Pifu and Amadei naturally did not refute it. The three of them communicated with the mainframe at the same time, and a moment later, the three of them, along with the entire Dog Egg, disappeared.

They returned from the ocean dream world to the land of redemption!
Just outside the town of Redemption, a large, bulging wooden sailing transport ship suddenly appeared, crashing onto the muddy ground and causing the entire vessel to tilt.

Wu Pifu and his two companions immediately looked at the ship, and were all pleasantly surprised.

As expected, the ship's data frame appeared before their eyes, and all the information on it was still there. It was indeed a special extraordinary means to bring out the Ocean Dream World, and it was an external extraordinary item that did not occupy a personal extraordinary position!

"Great!"

Xu Shilan waved her hands and exclaimed with delight, "Now we can do so many things! Wu Pifu, Amadeus, we're rich!"

Although Wu Pifu and Amadei were not good at business, they still had basic common sense. This kind of extraordinary method that could be popularized to almost all mankind, and even the plug-in-style extraordinary items that ordinary people could obtain and use, was really advanced.

Wu Pifu nodded and said in a deep voice, "We don't have to worry about points anymore."

Amade laughed heartily, "It's more than just not having to worry anymore! From now on, you can buy two of everything, two servings of breakfast, two bowls of soy milk, and drink one and throw the other away!"

Xu Shilan immediately said, "Alright, enough of the small talk. Amadei, you come with me to the Xu family right now and have their researchers and technicians come over to modify the Gou Dan and test the effects of the modification. Wu Pifu, you go to the government building immediately and ask the government notary to come and notarize it. They have special judgment authority of the mainframe, which is different from our judgment. They can confirm whether this ship belongs to the mainframe's certified resources. As long as it is confirmed, we can get the first batch of points!"

"Come on, let's get started!"

Just as Wu Pifu and his two companions were trying to earn points, deep within the Ocean Dream World, on a secluded island shrouded in thick fog, a group of petrified statues suddenly cracked, their stone skin crumbled, and they all transformed back into human form.

The leader was a woman. After transforming into human form, she stood there stunned for a few seconds before letting out a sigh of relief and saying, "They're gone, finally gone..."

A pale, semi-transparent snake emerged from behind the woman. Its face bore a humanoid expression, and it sneered, "Is there any need to be so tense? You'd rather remain in a state of suspended animation than act immediately?"

The woman said coldly, "What do you know? He's no ordinary superbrain! Before he separated from the main brain, I didn't know he was so outrageous, actually killing four Roots. Only after separating from the main brain did I find so much information about him from the Forbidden Library... And do you really think his arrival in this world was a coincidence? No, he must be here to hunt me down!"

The transparent snake merely sneered.

The woman shook her head and immediately said to the people behind her, "Hurry up and find the ruins. We don't have much time. That monster could come back at any moment!"

The people behind the woman received their orders and began to venture deeper into the mist-shrouded island.

The woman stood motionless, and every now and then, various groans, screams, horrific sounds of flesh tearing apart, and bizarre writhing and laughing could be heard, but she remained unmoved.

After a long time, a team of seriously wounded personnel returned and reported that they had found their target.

The woman cautiously led the group forward, positioning herself in the middle of the crowd. Every now and then, people would disappear into the thick fog, but she seemed not to notice them.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, a dilapidated temple appeared ahead. At the outer end of the temple stood a statue of a nine-headed serpentine monster.

"This is it..."

The long snake behind the woman spoke: "The truth about the 'lower realm' of the transcendental world, heh, it's less of a lower realm and more of a world trauma, a festering sore..."

"Once a great ancient demon king of the primordial world, an existence on par with the source of my bloodline, but in order to seize the Misty World, he fell into depravity, became distorted, and turned into a terrifying being..."

"The Great Demon Nine-Headed Serpent!"

(End of this chapter)