Scourge Messenger

Chapter 137 Picky Eating
The pharmacist spent a while talking with the bunny girl, but got nothing useful except for feeling angry. By this time, Wu Qiu and Shi Dong had finished looting and placed a pile of tokens in front of them, most of which were first-tier tokens: masked helmets.

The most precious items, of course, are the two rare treasures taken from Helan Que: the 'Soul-Severing Spear' and the 'Lingbo Boots'!
"Soul-Severing Spear"

"Rank: Third-Tier Rare Treasure"

"Durability: 42/150"

"Equipment requirements: 30 points of health, 10 points of spirit"

Basic attack power: 45~70 points

"Effect - Sixty-Four Spears: As your combo count increases, the attack power of the Soul-Severing Spear will continue to rise. After sixty-four combos, the attack power will reach its maximum value, which is 1000% of the base attack power."

"Effect: Unpassable: If you do not use the Soul-Severing Spear for 600 consecutive seconds, you can spend 100 points of spiritual power to activate Unpassable, and the attack speed of the next sixteen spears will be increased by 200%."

"Evaluation: Legend has it that there was a legendary spear technique that could unleash sixty-four spear thrusts in one go, but it was not passed down."

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"Lingbo Boots"

"Rank: Third-Tier Rare Treasure"

"Durability: 50/75"

"Equipment effect: +5 Dexterity"

"Effect: Lingbo: Harsh terrain has little effect on you. You can briefly traverse swamps, water surfaces, snow surfaces, and other terrains. You can spend 50 points of spirit power to activate Lingbo. The Lingbo effect lasts for 120 seconds, during which you can walk on any terrain as if it were flat ground."

"Effect - Microstep: Your turning speed is increased by 100%."

"Effect - Speed: If you keep moving for 30 seconds, your Dexterity will increase by 5 points. This effect will be lost if you stop moving."

"Comment: These are boots custom-made for a master of qinggong (lightness skill). Many people believe that wearing these boots might allow them to learn the master's movements... who knows?"

Wow, Yan Qing raised an eyebrow.

This is more like it! Compared to this, the loot from those level 3 drops in the Wildwood Forest is simply insignificant. Yan Qing even regretted why he had destroyed his scimitar. He was full of rare treasures, but he only had one rare scimitar. It was obvious that the scimitar's attributes and effects must be extraordinary, perhaps as unique and powerful as the Seven Steps to Buddha.

Upon seeing the attributes of the Soul-Severing Spear, Yan Qing understood why Helan Que was proficient in a dual-wielding combat technique.

The combo requirement for the 'Sixty-Four Spears' power is probably not limited to the Soul-Severing Spear; other weapons can also be used to continue the combo. After all, a power that can increase base attack by ten times is just too outrageous, so its second power, 'Not Passed On,' is practically an add-on, as it can only be used once at the very beginning of a battle.

If it were Yan Qing, he would also design tactics around the 'Sixty-Four Shots'.

The Lingbo Boots are also very good. The first and third powers are just extras; the core is the 'Micro Step' which doubles the turning speed.

Yan Qing had just noticed that Helan Que's turning and teleporting speed was incredibly fast. Even though he was making a wide turn and the bunny girl was just following along, she couldn't turn as fast as him. Although these boots didn't directly increase speed, they greatly enhanced mobility.

However, if we compare the two, the Soul-Severing Spear is undoubtedly much more valuable than the Lingbo Boots. The latter is just an auxiliary token that adds icing on the cake, while the former is a key token at the core of the tactics.

So the bunny girl said, "You take the Soul-Severing Spear, and I'll take the Wave-Sweeping Boots."

The pharmacist paused for a moment before saying, "You want to give me the Swift Thunder Overlord Spear? There's no need. You helped me this time, so all the spoils here should rightfully belong to you."

What kind of weird name is Thunder Overlord Spear...?

The bunny girl said, "If you hadn't smashed this villain's shell like a monster, I wouldn't have been able to defeat him. Based on your contribution, you should rightfully get half the spoils."

What does "monster" mean...?

Yaoshi shook her head: "But without you, I probably wouldn't have been able to protect Wuqiu and Shidong. The Swift Thunder Overlord Spear is precious, but in my heart, it's not as valuable as them." If she were alone, Yaoshi would have no chance of being caught. For one thing, she could simply hide in a thief's den, and Zhou Guo wouldn't be able to find her, but then Wuqiu and Shidong would be doomed… or perhaps suffer a fate worse than death.

The pride of the pharmacist would not allow her to abandon the maid who had followed her all the way. She was a person with ambitions for the world, how could she not even protect her only two subordinates?

Perhaps there was still a vague obsession in her heart: as long as she was not alone, she was still the daughter of the Duke of Jin and a member of the Yaoshi family clan, and she could still aim to revitalize the Yaoshi family of Ba River; but if everyone died and she was the only one left, then even if she restored the Yaoshi family of Ba River, no one would be able to share this glory.

"My brother said the biggest advantage of a fair distribution is that if the other party harbors resentment in the future, we can kill them with a clear conscience and sleep soundly at night. If you were my brothers, I would take it and not feel bad about killing them, but I don't know you well, and taking all the spoils would make me feel guilty, and I might not be able to sleep at night." The bunny girl said, "The reason I'm so tall is because I sleep soundly through the night every night!"

You can consider it a gift from me.

"That's even worse. My brother says that anyone who offers unsolicited kindness is either up to no good or a thief. If I dare to accept an expensive gift from a stranger, he'll make me eat bitter melon."

The master and servant hesitated, feeling that although what Bunny Girl said made sense, something about it felt off.

Even though they had only known each other for less than 15 minutes, they couldn't help but become curious about the 'brother' that the bunny girl had mentioned—how exactly did he teach his sister? He taught her very well; he shouldn't teach her like that again.

The Pharmacist wasn't one to be coy. Since the Bunny Girl had said so, she picked up the rare spear. She didn't have a suitable spear as a token; she only took one from the military treasury when going down to secret realms. Normally, she used the standard-issue fine steel spears of the soldiers, which became unusable after a few battles. The Soul-Severing Spear truly solved her immediate problem.

"Then this Swift Thunder Overlord Spear..."

"The Soul-Severing Spear," said the bunny girl. "This is a fine spear; don't use such an old-fashioned name."

The pharmacist blinked. Although she also thought it was rather rustic, it was, after all, a name given by the Helan family, and it suited the power of this rare spear. The bunny girl insisted it was the Soul-Severing Spear; had she seen this artifact elsewhere?

"Soul-Severing Spear" sounds much better, and the pharmacist readily agrees: "The Soul-Severing Spear is mine, but as for these face-covering armors..."

She realized the problem halfway through her sentence: although the mask armor was just a helmet, it took up a lot of space, and the entire Bunny Girl was only the size of four mask armors. Even if she were given all of them, how many could she take?
"I can keep the masked armor for you temporarily. Perhaps we can find a place to exchange it for spirit jade when we get to the Shu Road Mountains, how about that?"

"There's no need for that."

With a flick of her small hand, the bunny girl collected all ten faceplates from the ground.

The master and servants were stunned. There were ten tokens. Was the bunny girl's storage tokens that big?

"Let's go!" the bunny girl said crisply. "Destination: Shu Road Mountain!"

With someone else leading the way, Yan Qing could confidently entrust the bunny girl to someone else's care. Then, he opened the warehouse and started listing items. He had ten masked armors; he would sell two of them today to see how the market went.

Knock knock, the door was knocked on. Yan Qing was not surprised. He quickly wrapped a bandage around his head, tucked the Bingzi pepper lint into his waistband, and went out.

Outside, Shang Xinlei had already set out the food on the stone table. She crossed her arms and glanced at Yan Qing, saying, "What a big shot! I knocked on the door and you didn't even come out to help. You insisted that I serve all the soup."

"...Next time I will wrap the bandages in advance."

"Couldn't you just come out?" she complained as always, sitting down and asking, "Today's desserts are red bean ice and pineapple ice, which one would you like?"

"It's all right."

"Next time I bring stinky tofu to see you, is that okay too..." she muttered.

Just as Yan Qing was about to pick up his chopsticks, he paused, noticing one of the dishes on the table. Shang Xinlei noticed his gaze and looked over, saying, "How is it? Doesn't it look appetizing? This is a famous dish from Jiangnan Yijue Restaurant: stir-fried bitter melon with beef!"

Without hesitation, she put the bitter melon and beef into her mouth, glancing at Yan Qing as she ate, her eyes full of teasing smiles: "You don't actually eat bitter melon, do you?"

Yan Qing: "..."

Even the mysterious leader of a behind-the-scenes organization should have the right to be picky about food, right?
　Thanks to the leader of "Chengcai"
　　
　
(End of this chapter)