The weapon refiner is not doing her job properly

Chapter 257 Blood Sun (4)

A sudden burst of cold air erupted, like an invisible icefall cascading down. Her eyebrows and eyelashes were instantly covered with a thin layer of frost, and she looked as if she had just awakened from a frozen state, even the surrounding air seemed to freeze.

Shen Zhaoming glanced at her with concern, and seeing that she didn't look pained, he continued to look out the window.

Looking closely, they indeed saw several figures.

The male and female net hunters who had wanted to travel with them were now standing with two other hunters.

One of the female hunters had a stunning figure; her full breasts and hips contrasted sharply with her plain features, like a cup of light tea served after a grand feast, where intensity and simplicity coexisted abruptly.

Is this what's been circulating online—that you can eat it after removing the head?
Inevitably, Shen Zhaoming subconsciously turned around to compare, and Su Ninglong was indeed more pleasing to the eye. He felt a sense of pride, as if his own daughter had grown up.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and Shen Zhaoming was not interested in the female hunter.

The male player I met was extremely infatuated with the hot female hunter. He was lowering his voice and trying his best to please her, making all sorts of exaggerated and funny gestures.

Shen Zhaoming read his lips and discovered that he was sparing no effort to smear him and Su Ninglong:

“Original Hunter, you don’t know, we also encountered two Star Alliance hunters. We are certified net hunters, and our skills are not bad, but they actually said we were a burden and refused to take us with them. They are not like you, who are kind and beautiful. They don’t deserve to be hunters at all.”

A hint of impatience flashed in the eyes of the woman known as the "Original Hunter".

However, upon hearing that Star Alliance hunters had entered the contaminated area, she immediately tossed her hair and asked, "What do those two look like? You tell me." She specifically asked the female player to answer.

The female player glanced at the former hunter's figure and mumbled, "So-so... The woman is quite pretty, the man wears gold-rimmed glasses and looks very refined, but his skills are not as good as the woman's."

Blinded by her beauty, the male player blurted out, "What's so hard about saying it! She's just Su Ninglong!"

The polite smile that had been playing on the hunter's lips instantly froze.

Upon hearing the name "Su Ninglong," her eyes turned cold before her expression did: "Where are they now?"

The female player glared at the male player. This idiot, has he forgotten that the original hunter was a member of the Star Alliance?
Because of the competition, the relationship between the Star Alliance and the Star Glory Alliance is tense. If he carelessly reveals Su Ninglong's name, he will be in big trouble. It would be equivalent to betraying Su Ninglong, actively surrendering to the Star Glory Alliance, and dividing himself into two camps.

Who knows what the Star Alliance's purpose is in sending people in? If it's really to slow down the Star Alliance's progress, what benefits can these small-time web hunters gain from it?
Ultimately, Webhunter and Star Alliance are bound together.

If I help this hunter surnamed Yuan, will I suddenly become a full-fledged hunter?

The female player dared to test Su Ninglong, but she would never dare to do anything that would harm the interests of the entire Star Alliance.

She immediately took two steps back in disgust, distancing herself from the male player.

The male player was stunned and immediately realized that he had misspoke.

He was an experienced net hunter, so how could he be so infatuated with this woman? Apart from her figure, this woman was really nothing special.

Sensing something amiss, he became secretly on guard, wondering, "Where have they gone?"

The former hunter and his companion exchanged a glance. Their goal in entering this "game" was clear, just as the female player had guessed: to create chaos and hinder the Star Alliance.

Of course, if they can take this opportunity to resolve the Mysterious Spirit, the Star Alliance can use this to prove itself and show that it is by no means inferior to the Star Alliance.

The leader of the Star Alliance team has been changed from Qian Rujin to Yuan Dusen.

This new commander was no saint to begin with, and the special format of the competition gave him ample room to maneuver, making it difficult to hold him accountable afterward.

Many of his ideas coincided with those of the hunter who had previously attempted to kill Su Ninglong: to take this opportunity to eliminate as many of the Star Alliance's elites as possible, especially Su Ninglong.

The effeminate man standing next to the original hunter was one of the hunters who had instigated Qian Rujin to attack Su Ninglong.

He had an effeminate appearance, and his narrow eyes always carried an inescapable gloom.

Hearing that Su Ninglong had also entered this place, he couldn't contain his excitement.

If the two hunters in front of him hadn't been so slow to react and failed to notice the murderous aura he was exuding, he would have already killed them.

He has no interest in idiots.

The effeminate hunter suddenly turned his head, staring intently at the window of the villa behind him. A breeze drifted in through the broken window frame, lifting the sheer curtains, whose shadows flickered like those of a female ghost.

It must have been just an illusion; there's no such thing as a coincidence in the world.

Now that Su Ninglong has entered the contaminated area, she should be looking for a way to remove the Mysterious Spirit as soon as possible.

He never expected that Su Ninglong would willingly stay here in order to cultivate by taking advantage of the cold and yin energy here.

Shen Zhaoming watched the four people leave the Black Pine Villa District, and the outside world returned to deathly silence.

A chilling aura continued to accumulate, surging towards Suninglong like a tide.

In the deeper darkness, something seems to be slowly gestating over time.

It has no fixed form, yet it is like viscous asphalt, carrying the most primal malice, quietly waiting for the opportunity to pounce on its prey.

Shen Zhaoming was relieved that his clothes could automatically regulate his temperature, but his exposed cheeks were still red from the cold. He found a mask and earmuffs, put them on, and casually leaned back on the sofa, hugging himself to conserve his body heat.

Perhaps because the yin energy here is too strong, no blood beasts have ever approached this place, and even the wandering blood slaves have automatically avoided this area.

Su Ninglong circulated her spiritual power twice, completely crushing the invading cold aura and transforming it into pure spiritual power that she absorbed into her body.

To counteract this chilling power, she actually accelerated the rotation of her inner core.

The cold air grew increasingly biting, constantly assaulting the dantian and bringing waves of needle-like pain, causing the nerves to throb.

Even with prior preparation, Su Ninglong was still nearly frozen by the extreme cold, which disrupted the circulation of her golden core.

She gritted her teeth and pushed her inner core to rotate faster. The torn Yin energy finally condensed into water droplets under the extreme low temperature.

"Tick!"

She took a deep breath; the pure elixir was comparable to a thousand-year-old spring, making her feel completely comfortable, and every pore opened up.

He broke through to the Great Perfection of the Core Formation stage in one fell swoop.

The moment she opened her eyes, the frost that had formed on her eyelashes instantly evaporated and disappeared.

Su Ninglong beamed with joy. She was determined to make good use of this cultivation treasure land and squeeze every last drop of value out of it, no matter which "kind" spirit had created it.

Unfortunately, in this space, she can still only access the spiritual power limited by her game level.

Feeling refreshed, Su Ninglong stood up and waved to Shen Zhaoming.

Shen Zhaoming, who had been on high alert, stretched his stiff neck and shoulders.

Seeing Su Ninglong's cheerful expression, he asked, "Has the erosion problem been resolved?"

Su Ninglong glanced at her character panel, where the erosion level was displayed as 100%. "I didn't remove it," she said frankly, "I absorbed it."

Shen Zhaoming paused, his scrutinizing gaze revealing obvious tension, his brows furrowing unconsciously, and a hint of confusion showing.

His expression seemed to say, "You haven't mutated yet, have you?"

"Hahaha..." Su Ninglong laughed and ran over, taking his hand. Shen Zhaoming immediately felt a suction force coming from him, and the heaviness on his body suddenly dissipated, even his previously congested nasal passages became clear.

He subconsciously checked the character panel; the corruption level was zero, and the character level remained unchanged, without being weakened.

"If I become stronger here, will my superpowers also increase when I return to reality?" Shen Zhaoming raised an intriguing question.

“Probably!” Su Ninglong didn’t know how to explain in detail, so she tried to be as concise as possible: “I suspect that this game is modified based on the spiritual veins, and those cold auras are spiritual power that has been polluted by the secret spirits.”

The more I thought about it, the more likely it seemed. In such a rich spiritual energy environment, even a pig could cultivate immortality on the spot.

No wonder the creatures in the game are getting stronger and stronger.

The exact time this game existed is unknown, so it's impossible to know what level the most powerful monsters would reach.

The concept of "spiritual veins" was simple and easy to understand, and Shen Zhaoming immediately grasped Su Ninglong's meaning: "So as long as the erosion problem is solved, we can continue to rapidly improve our abilities here as usual?"

It's definitely easier to talk to smart people.

Su Ninglong said, "Rapidly improving your abilities has both advantages and disadvantages, but for you, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages."

Shen Zhaoming's special ability is more supportive, so he rarely encounters situations where he is powerless to help.

Su Ninglong asked Shen Zhaoming if he was ready to leave.

Shen Zhaoming, however, was not in a hurry and first told her what he had observed outside the window.

Is that Ziyue?

"you know?"

"Take a look and see if this is the person." Su Ninglong pulled up a photo of Ziyue. Shen Zhaoming confirmed that the former hunter was indeed Ziyue herself.

"It really was her." Su Ninglong always remembered that she had to return that item in the bank to Ziyue. It was an inheritance left by Ziyue's ancestors, which she had been keeping safe and carefully maintaining.

But the Ziyue before her was no longer the same person. It was unknown whether the consciousness occupying this body was male or female.

“She used to be my friend, but she probably isn’t anymore,” Su Ninglong sighed softly.

Shen Zhaoming assumed this was simply a gradual estrangement between friends over time. After all, Su Ninglong was only a teenager, and he knew most of her friends.

He guessed that Ziyue couldn't be considered Su Ninglong's close friend.

He finished explaining what had happened.

The two clasped hands and stepped out of the Black Pine Villa area at the same time.

[Congratulations, player, you have escaped to the brink of death.] The system notification sounded utterly malicious.

[Player's mission failed, please accept the punishment.] This was said with a hint of schadenfreude.

Both of them heard the system notification, but their attention was completely drawn to the scene before them.

An abandoned steel city stands before you, with dense greenery surging out from every crevice like a tide, flooding the streets and climbing all over the walls.

Nature has completed its most complete takeover here. The roots of a giant tree have split half of the building, and its enormous canopy stretches out from what was once the top floor, arrogantly facing the blood-red sun on the horizon.

The crimson light stained the vibrant green life with a ferocious hue, and a chilling coldness crept up Su Ninglong's spine.

"My punishment has come!" Shen Zhaoming shouted.

A huge, twisted shadow spread out from the street corner, blocking the blood-red sunlight and engulfing the two figures.

Only when it emerged completely from the darkness did Su Ninglong see its full appearance.

The nearly three-meter-tall body was forcibly combined from several different blood slaves, forming an asymmetrical torso.

The most disturbing thing is those limbs that are not yet fully fused, which twitch and sway unconsciously with its movements.

Its skin has a dead gray leather texture, covered with thick, stitched tendons and gaping wounds. No blood flows out, only a thick, dark red pollutant slowly oozing out.

The blood slaves wandering the streets seemed to sense the arrival of a king, and in fear, they retreated to both sides, making way for him.

In the deathly silence, only the heavy footsteps of this flesh and blood creature churning its body and scraping the ground struck the hearts of the two men with each step.

This is a "giant" made up of decaying flesh and twisted bones.

【Blood Slave Master】: Formed by the fusion of multiple blood slaves, a level 10 monster.

Su Ninglong twitched the corner of her mouth. This was really exciting. They had just left the newbie village and couldn't wait to release a monster that Shen Zhaoming had no chance against.

"Can I skip class?" The so-called "skipping class" refers to using unconventional methods to bypass difficulties and challenges.

But this monster has dozens of green cores on its body, how long will it take to defeat it?
“I can’t escape.” Shen Zhaoming said gravely. “It seems to be able to track my location.”

Su Ninglong's eyes widened. "What did you do to make this game want to kill you?"

"Probably because I can generate items out of thin air." This is a world made of data, and Shen Zhaoming happens to be the controller of that data. After cracking the program, he can directly generate objects.

That's how the pulse gun came about.

Su Ninglong's pupils dilated slightly. Now she understood: if she couldn't kill him, then Shen Zhaoming was an unsolvable bug in this world.

No wonder the mission required him to act alone.

"Get me some weapons. Can holy artifacts be generated?"

"Keep dreaming!" With danger looming, she still had the nerve to joke. Shen Zhaoming said, "Every time a weapon is generated, it attracts even more monsters. Are you sure you want that?"

Su Ninglong nodded: "Yes, you find a place to hide, I'll handle it."

Shen Zhaoming's fingers moved rapidly through the air, and a pulse gun and several more powerful firearms appeared out of thin air, all falling into Su Ninglong's arms.

She tossed the Mirror of Truth to him and briefly instructed the spirit: "Hide him."

After following Su Ninglong to kill the Filthy Spirit, the True Self Mirror stubbornly refused to return to Funi's command. Having tasted the benefits, it preferred the pure spiritual energy provided by Su Ninglong. As for its essence blood, unless it needed to unleash its full power, Su Ninglong would rather smash the mirror than easily provide it.

The Blood Slave Master roared deafeningly toward Shen Zhaoming's original spot.

The Mirror of True Self emitted a hazy glow, and the spirit of the little beast in the mirror let out a howling sound. Although the specific content could not be understood, judging from the tone, it was cursing quite rudely and attempting to provoke.