The weapon refiner is not doing her job properly

Chapter 268 Blood Sun (15)

Lei Qingya stroked his chin and said half-jokingly, "She's quite likable, so why won't the Star Glory Alliance let her go?"

“Some people don’t find her cute.” Tong Zi said with a worried expression, resting her chin on her hand. Last time, Su Ninglong single-handedly took on all the hunters of the Star Alliance, so of course she would be seen as a thorn in their side.

Geniuses are often envied!

"Terrible, so tragic." Lei Qingya was referring to those who targeted Su Ninglong. The little ancestor has many tricks up her sleeve; who knows who might be the one to suffer.

Lei Qingya hid in the corner, observing the outside world, talking non-stop: "Actually, I have a question. I feel that our school doesn't value the Key of Prophecy very much. Is that just my imagination?"

"Only those who specialize in studying history and covet its certain value will value it. Hunters really don't like that thing; it's sinister." In any case, none of the hunters around Tong Zi liked the Key of Prophecy. Even Funi, after crying, didn't pay any more attention to researching the Key of Prophecy.

Since Assistant Sun was willing to take over the main task, Funi temporarily abandoned her research on it. Funi had plenty of projects to choose from and didn't need the Key of Prophecy to embellish them.

Lei Qingya nodded. That's right. The Key of Prophecy acted as a trigger, attracting frequent attacks from the Star Alliance.

During this period, they conducted a low-key survey among players, which revealed a surprisingly consistent consensus on why they were quitting the game.

Lei Qingya got down to business: "What are your thoughts on that door to the level 60 boss?"

"No ideas. At this stage, neither you nor I will touch it. Let them explore on their own first." Tong Zi disagreed with a level 30 player rushing into a level 60 boss; it was pure suicide, and she felt it was a tactic to reduce the number of players using it.

Without Su Ninglong, the audacious and god-level hunter, Lei Qingya and Tong Zi became more cautious in their actions.

"I miss the days when Ninglong was by my side."

Hearing Tong Zi's unconscious murmur, Lei Qingya seemed startled, as Su Ninglong often increased the difficulty of the contaminated area.

Did Tong Zi hallucinate from being abused?
Lei Qingya scratched his face. "Teacher Tong, do you know what kind of Mystic Spirit we're dealing with?"

"It has a storyline, can accommodate multiple humans, has a grand setting, and realistic scenery. There's only one kind of Mystic Spirit." Tong Zi didn't give the answer.

"Book Spirit?" Lei Qingya guessed the name briefly, and saw Tong Zi nod.

Lei Qingya crossed his arms and frowned, saying, "Book Spirit isn't... a high-star secret spirit, is it? I've never heard of it."

“No matter what kind of spirit it is, it has the opportunity to rise to a higher star. Humans don’t stay the same, and neither do spirits.” Tong Zi taught her a little trick to distinguish the star level of a spirit: “The higher the star level of the spirit, the closer you will feel its thinking is to that of a human, and it really likes to be lazy.”

Lei Qingya was dumbfounded, feeling that Tong Zi was deliberately ignoring her.

"You can tell the difference like that? Why isn't it mentioned in the tutorial?"

"Because this is a summary made by the hunters of our Star Alliance, it's not 100% accurate." Tong Zi shushed, "Keep a low profile and don't spread it around."

Lei Qingya chuckled, but Tong Zi's smug, upturned eyes were not as low-key as she had claimed.

……

Shen Zhaoming stood in the center of the room and activated the auxiliary computing function of the sacred artifact, the Myriad Manifestations Pivot, to alleviate the pressure of processing the massive flow of information. He was about to begin constructing the channel.

Lao Gu and Yin Leng stood behind the sofa, craning their necks curiously to see what Shen Zhaoming was going to do.

A beam of eerie blue light, composed of countless flowing codes, suddenly appeared, slanting deep into the ground, and the floor of the room silently slid open.

Following the trajectory of the light beam, the flowing light code continued to spiral and entwine, rapidly extending downwards and gradually opening up underground passages.

The injection of foreign code caused a stir in the surrounding area.

As the passage appeared out of thin air, the monsters' howls continued incessantly.

Old Gu strode to the window and saw countless Blood Slave Masters and Blood Beast Masters springing up from the ground. They howled at the sky and called for their underlings in all directions.

"Ow ooh..."

After a while, Lao Gu felt the floor beneath his feet tremble.

Yin Leng looked up: "There's a flying monster."

【Bloodwing Dragon】: Not a dragon in the literal sense of its name, but a composite of various birds, ultimately transforming into a gigantic two-winged monster. Level 30.

The hut cannot become a battlefield. Su Ninglong threw dozens of talismans into the air, activating them to envelop the hut.

Then he dragged his two teammates outside, saying, "Don't let anyone come near here."

The pterosaurs gathered and circled overhead, and Lao Gu felt like he was going to vomit blood; his legs were trembling.

Being an elite is not something everyone can do; it requires fighting three battles a day, each time taking on a thousand opponents with four.

Old Gu could only remind Su Ninglong: "Be careful of their spit, the range is extremely large, if you get it on you you will get stuck and then be swallowed back."

Just imagining it is disgusting enough, but Yin Leng adds another insult, "We give it a nickname, the snot-eating bird, the snot bird."

The little bamboo shoot "yue" out, refusing to deal with the snot of the snot-eating bird, and letting her handle the spitting herself.

Su Ninglong: "..."

You, as a spirit, find it disgusting, but she's willing to face it?

Su Ninglong pulled out hundreds of talismans and scattered them. The talismans were manipulated to form a large array around the small house once again.

She murmured softly, and around the magic circle, several pale blue flames pulsed like a heart before fully waking up.

The flames rapidly split into countless tiny fire snakes, which meandered and crawled along the grooves of the formation.

Su Ninglong used the array version of "Flame Realm Hell" again.

The Fiery Hell, with its glorious past, was incredibly powerful. The magic array slowed down the monsters' advance, and the scorching heatwave incinerated them all.

Su Ninglong once again instructed Lao Gu and Yin Leng to guard the house well and not let any fish escape the net, so as not to disturb Shen Zhaoming's construction of the passage.

Then he picked up his sword and went to kill the Bloodwing Dragon.

Lao Gu and Yin Leng looked at each other and readily took turns guarding the house.

Shen Zhaoming had no time to pay attention to the battle situation; the data stream, like a living silver dragon, continued to spread deeper underground.

To avoid a situation where a path is blocked at both ends, he carefully controlled it, dividing it into several branches and nodes, turning the passage into a maze of interconnected paths.

This kind of on-site control, where data is transformed into physical entities, involves an astonishing amount of engineering work.

Shen Zhaoming's eyes were filled with countless red blood vessels, and blood beads seeped from the corners of his eyes, but he seemed to feel no pain, pursing his lips and focusing intently.

The battle outside intensified, accompanied by the booming sounds of monsters falling to the ground. He finally solidified a channel composed of pure energy and data.

"Alright." Shen Zhaoming was exhausted, but fortunately he had spirit stones on hand to replenish his strength.

Su Ninglong withstood the overwhelming pressure of the monster siege and managed to wipe them out.

Aside from the monsters that were defeated by Lao Gu and Yin Leng after bypassing the formation, she also gained experience from any monsters burned by the formation, causing her level to soar to thirty.

Su Ninglong slowly walked back, leaning on her sword, the bloodshot in her eyes still lingering.

Her body reeked of the monstrous stench of blood and death, the intense aura of death enough to cause the surrounding temperature to plummet. Unable to remove the residue clinging to her clothes, she simply ripped them off, leaving her only in her nanotech combat suit.

Yin Leng revealed an admiring look, "Damn, that's strong!"

I'm completely convinced now. I understand that the teacher's praise of Su Ninglong was already a version that minimized the damage to him.

Before Su Ninglong even got close, Yin Leng had a momentary urge to kneel before the king.

“Let’s go. The commotion is too great; the Viper is coming with his men.” Su Ninglong asked Shen Zhaoming, “Once we’re away from here, can we cover up the entrance?”

"I'm prepared to buy some time."

The cautious Shen Zhaoming truly lived up to his reputation as the most trustworthy partner. Su Ninglong dispelled her murderous aura and took the lead into the passage. Yin Leng and Lao Gu quickly followed. Shen Zhaoming waved his hand to erase the traces here, restoring the place to its original state, and then turned around and entered the passage as well.

……

Just three hours earlier, the people below reported to Viper that something was amiss in the village not far from the amusement park.

These monsters are behaving abnormally, and there seems to be a human element involved.

Viper's spies are now spread throughout this game area, and they can know about any disturbance within half a day, not to mention that Su Ninglong is not far from the base camp.

After confirming several times that there was an extremely powerful player there, if not Su Ninglong, then it would be some other formidable player, Viper once again led the original hunter to the location.

Just after Su Ninglong had wiped out all the monsters, they stepped into this place.

A glance around revealed nothing but blood-red corpses; there wasn't a single player in sight.

"Where are the players? Can you see who's here?" Viper grabbed the player who handed over the information.

The player stammered, "I... I dare not go near." With so many monsters, would it be a death wish to get close?

“Where did those people go?”

"do not know."

"How many of them are there?"

"No...don't know."

The intelligence personnel knew nothing when questioned, which angered Viper so much that several veins bulged on his forehead. "A bunch of useless trash," he thought, "they really can't be compared to properly trained intelligence personnel."

The hand that was placed on the intelligence officer's throat suddenly tightened, the toxins inside the officer erupted, his whole body turned blue, and he died with his eyes wide open.

The players who witnessed this scene were all silenced, their eyes filled with fear.

The venomous snake was incredibly vicious; it killed someone in public without saying a word. Its venom was extraordinary, leaving all the players breathless.

But even though it couldn't breathe, it could only stand there obediently. The venomous snake clearly had something to rely on and wasn't afraid of being held accountable afterward.

"None of you know what happened here?" The viper's pupils seemed to turn into vertical pupils for a fleeting moment: "If you can't tell us, one of you will die randomly every minute."

The former hunter frowned, pinched his nose with a handkerchief, and delicately curled his pinky finger. "Can't you be a little more elegant when you kill people? Blood flowing from all seven orifices, and your whole body turning green."

The snake's face turned ashen; was she deliberately challenging his authority?

"Does giving me that look do any good?" The former hunter pointed at the house surrounded by monsters. "The monsters are all facing that direction. Why do you have to kill people to show off your skills?"

The viper stared intently at the former hunter, feeling insulted that his teammates doubted his intelligence.

He established a system of fear to make his subordinates obedient, but he didn't need to be stationed there long-term, so being good to these people wouldn't do him any good.

After enduring it all, I finally swallowed my anger. I couldn't kill this teammate; if I did, I'd be hunted down again in reality.

He walked towards the house in the center of the village, where the roller shutter was still only partially lifted. "Has anyone here before?"

The players beside the venomous snake lowered their heads as soon as those sinister eyes swept over them.

Seeing that the venomous snake was getting angry again, a player mustered up his courage and stepped forward, saying, "We don't usually come here because the monsters that should spawn purification crystals drop different items instead."

The only motivation for grinding monsters, besides getting stronger, is to purify and erode. Without purification crystals, players eventually stop wanting to come back.

Only Su Ninglong is not threatened by the erosion level and is willing to come here to farm items.

One of the two missing materials has been found.

Another method requires spiritual crystals from the spiritual veins. Only when the spiritual crystals are integrated into the "mountain path" can the spiritual veins stabilize and become her blessed land.

Spirit crystals, on the other hand, are naturally hidden deep within the spiritual veins and cannot be obtained by defeating monsters.

Once she emerges from underground, Su Ninglong will go searching for treasures. Such a large spiritual vein might contain more than just one spirit crystal.

Upon hearing the news from the player, Viper's eyes turned sinister, meaning that his spies were actually not very useful.

After a series of defeats, Viper stopped trying to assert his authority and his anger subsided completely. He then instructed the players to dismantle the roller shutter.

As soon as the gate was opened, a cloud of dust billowed out. The original hunter fanned the air in front of her in a delicate voice, "What a dirty place. Would Su Ninglong be here? It doesn't look like anyone has been here."

The venomous snake suspiciously observed its surroundings. Could it be that Su Ninglong happened to pass by here, attracting the monster horde before killing them and leaving?
This conjecture has flaws; if it's centered on the house, why is it intact?

Shen Zhaoming did want to destroy the house, but the construction of the passage had already cost a huge amount of money, and it would be too much to ask him to disguise the house as having been destroyed by a monster.

Moreover, without a building to cover it, the data channel would be easily exposed.

The former hunter tiptoed around the house, but there was nothing strange about it, no signs of life, just an abandoned hut.

"With so many monsters, it's suspicious that the house wasn't destroyed." Viper was unwilling to let Su Ninglong escape again. How could she be so fast?

The male and female players following behind the original hunter lowered their heads and pursed their lips. As soon as you entered the game, you started recruiting followers in a big way, poisoning everyone and demanding that they work for you.

Having received information about their target, they arrived with a group of players, their intentions clearly malicious.

This is clearly making other players cannon fodder, leaving Suninglong with limited options.

As long as Su Ninglong is of sound mind, she won't stay here.

I circled it several times, but still couldn't see any problem.

After thinking for a moment, the original hunter asked the players to help move the clutter around, including the carpet.

Her delicate fingers pressed against her temples, a hint of melancholy between her brows.

One of the male players swallowed hard and tried to ingratiate himself, saying, "Miss Yuan, is there anything suspicious? If it's a problem with the house, it's actually easy to explain. Buildings in the game can be refreshed, and the system can automatically restore them after they're destroyed. So it's not necessarily that the monster didn't destroy the house; maybe it just happened to refresh."

The player who helped move the things nodded, "Just like the houses we live in and the crops we grow, we must harvest them on time. Once the time is up, there's nothing left."

"Yes, they'll definitely run away when they see we outnumber them. They can't possibly stay here."

Each of them spoke in turn, describing events that took them further and further away from the truth.

The venomous snake might have believed it if it hadn't witnessed Su Ninglong's unstoppable power. After battling the mysterious spirits, she still had enough strength to slap each of them, so there was no way she would choose to escape.