Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 262 Rare Scholar Card
"Xiao Wei, you're finally awake."

Liang Yuzhi's voice rang out at the door. Li Wei turned around weakly and saw that she looked travel-worn, but in excellent spirits. He could even faintly smell the scents of more than a dozen kinds of herbs and wild vegetables on her.

My sense of smell feels much more sensitive than before.

"Second Aunt, how long have I been asleep? I feel completely exhausted," Li Wei said with a wry smile.

Liang Yuzhi looked at Li Wei with a hint of envy in her eyes. "You've been unconscious for a full twenty days, but that's actually a good thing. The longer you're unconscious, the fewer the other side effects there will be. It also means that the medicine is being absorbed well. Of course, during the days you were unconscious, you could only eat liquid food every day, so you'll naturally be very weak. Look, you're almost skin and bones. But it's okay, your second aunt will cook for you herself. I guarantee you'll be full of energy by the end of the month!"

"Second Aunt, how have you been these days?"

Li Wei casually asked, knowing that Liang Yuzhi had taken this kind of mental drug before and that the side effects should not be as severe as his. So, could she use it to obtain the rare scholar card?
"Me? I'm fine. But speaking of which, Auntie, I do need your help with something. Xiaowei, could you let Ah Dai come with me for a few days? I want to go to a more distant place to collect herbs."

"Okay, but Second Aunt, Ah Dai is a picky eater. You have to prepare some good food for him, otherwise I'm afraid he'll slack off."

Li Wei nodded. During the cooperation phase, he was still very loyal to his partners. Moreover, if Liang Yuzhi got his hands on some good stuff, Adai could report it to him. In case they could even discover the secret formula for getting rare scholar cards.

Why not!
"Don't worry, I won't treat Ah Dai unfairly."

Liang Yuzhi left satisfied.

Li Wei lay back down in bed, as he was currently too weak.

A short while later, Li Yue hurriedly arrived with some food. After feeding him tenderly, she subtly suggested, "Brother, because we were short of supplies, I took some people to the underground base. We discovered traces of superhumans there. Brother, that Flame Duke in the west is ultimately a threat. I think we need to deal with this threat once the city walls are built."

"Xiaoyue, don't worry, I will never break my promise to you."

Li Wei responded in a similarly ambiguous way. He knew what Li Yue was thinking, but this matter really couldn't be handled rashly. At the very least, he should send Ah Dai to investigate first.

As it turned out, Li Yue was really anxious. She turned around, closed the door and the window, and casually drew another four-star conspiracy card.

Li Wei was speechless.

"Big sister, you have so many four-star conspiracy cards, don't you think they're free? If you really can't use them all, just give me one. I, Li Wei, keep my word. Unless a special BOSS doesn't come, as long as I kill it, I will definitely give you that universal gold card."

But Li Yue completely ignored him and said directly:

"Of course I trust you, and I trust my contract item card even more, but Li Wei, we don't have much time left. What kind of mental potion did Widow Yang give you that made you unconscious for twenty days? Damn it, is she playing some kind of trick again?"

"She didn't. She just gave me a mental potion, and I lent her Ah-Dai. She might be going to use some rare scholar card. Is there something fishy going on here?"

Li Wei spoke the truth.

"Psychic drugs? Hmph! You must have caught her doing something important, otherwise that stingy old widow wouldn't have given you psychic drugs. You're lucky. Psychic drugs are hard to come by, and most of them have very serious side effects. At best, they'll make you stupid, at worst, you'll become a vegetable. A psychic drug without side effects would cost tens of thousands of gold coins. I'm really worried that that old bitch is using you as a drug."

"However, on the other hand, she is indeed trying to farm rare scholar cards, which is not suspicious. But that's not the problem. Li Wei, we only have one month left. Everything in the camp is developing well, except for that Flame Duke in the west. I think he is the most likely to become a special boss when the radiation storm comes. We need to take this opportunity to weaken his subordinates, or better yet, kill them. Your weapons, Thomas' shield, Zhao Xuanxuan's hammer, and Leon's greatsword all need further enhancement. We must build a comprehensive, powerful, and well-coordinated team."

"Do you get me?"

"I understand. That means we need at least four more universal gold cards."

“That’s right, so attacking Duke Flame is imperative.”

Upon hearing Li Yue's words, Li Wei couldn't help but ask, "Could I ask you what the other side quests are like? Do they also increase the extra difficulty to 180%?"

"No, only inexperienced idiots would do that. The best way is to keep the difficulty fixed at 150%. This way, you can get the benefits of five universal gold cards without triggering special bosses. The five on the pioneering leaderboard are all top seed players. They have the strongest strength and the best teammates. For them, getting through the first two radiation storms will be a piece of cake. And I guess by the end of this month, they will basically all be able to upgrade to level 4 pioneering camp, just like us. That way, we can add another population member, and this additional population member is crucial."

"Because in the spring of the second year, the camp will need to expand further and search for resource points in more distant places. The existing resources are definitely not enough. Once the search area is expanded, it will be easy to trigger a base raid. At that time, each level 4 scavenging camp can add 2 population. One of them is a substitute ordinary player, and the other is at least a strong four-star or weak five-star powerful player. Even the top five seed players may be matched with powerful cross-border players."

"Do you understand what I mean? It's not like me and Widow Yang, who are half-crippled and have damaged destinies, but a five-star cross-border player at the peak of combat power. Believe me, such a player's combat power is no less than the special BOSS we are about to face."

"Let me tell you, Widow Yang and I will be leaving in three months. Even if you give Thomas, Leon, and Zhao Xuanxuan each a five-star stay card, it will only allow them to stay for another three months. Once they leave, new, inexperienced players will flood in. What will you use to fight against the high-level players who are raiding your base?" "This expansion mission is about development in the first year, raiding in the second year, and chaotic warfare in the third year! Looting and fusing expansion cards! Expansion cards can be fused, you know?"

"By the second year, you dared not stray far from your camp. If you dared to leave, you would be waiting for your base to be raided. If you couldn't leave your camp, you couldn't develop. It was as if you were locked out from the start."

"Therefore, you must use the first year to train at least five free citizens with the strength of Zhang Jinjun. You need to give them universal gold cards and use them to break down into bronze tokens so that they can level up."

"And all of this comes back to this moment. If you don't find a way to strengthen Thomas, Leon, Zhao Xuanxuan, and yourself right now, you won't be able to deal any damage in the upcoming monster siege battle, and you won't be able to obtain more universal gold cards."

Upon hearing this, Li Wei thought for a moment and then asked, "As you said, at the end of this month, after my scavenging camp is upgraded to level 4, could a five-star cross-border player be assigned to it?"

"No, because of my presence and Widow Yang's presence, no one will want to come. Your boss, Night Owl, won't send anyone. She has other trusted and beloved subordinates. You're not even worth a second."

"Of course, another reason is that there aren't many five-star cross-border players available. Even if they are available, they won't come to make a guest appearance unless there are huge benefits or a huge favor to be done. To put it bluntly, Widow Yang and I are only at the lowest level. The cross-border players that will be added by various departments are basically at our level. The truly outstanding cross-border players with real power are either in high positions or planning more difficult cross-border missions, so they won't appear."

"Of course, Night Owl won't go too far. She should be able to add a strong four-star player to your team. However, it depends on the game. She has a limited number of slots to recommend. If she can take care of one side, she can't take care of the other. Your performance in the past two months has been too outstanding. If you are targeted by other departments, she won't be able to protect you. Then you will be met with a strong four-star player who is hostile to you."

After listening to Li Yue's earnest and lengthy explanation, Li Wei was finally moved. "Alright, I'm still a bit weak right now. Next month, I'll go scout ahead first. Once I'm sure everything's alright, we'll kill this Flame Duke."

"Alright, anyway, I'm truly pure of heart now, without a single selfish thought. I've said what I should and shouldn't have said. You can decide what to do with it!"

Li Yue gave Li Wei a resentful look, then turned and left.

After eating and drinking to his heart's content, Li Wei fell into a deep sleep again, sleeping soundly, and didn't think about anything else.

As evening fell, Ah-Dai and Liang Yu-Zhi returned. The latter immediately cooked for Li Wei upon her return, while the former casually tossed over fifty pictures before going to eat and take a nap.

"Brother Dai, you've worked hard."

Li Wei praised Ah Dai with a smile before examining the pictures. He trusted Ah Dai's judgment; there must be a reason why it had highlighted them.

But where did Liang Yuzhi go?

No, she went north. Judging from the outline of the mountains and the features of the ground, she had traveled at least a hundred miles and crossed three mountains along the way. As for her destination, it was a slightly larger town with relatively well-preserved buildings.

Hmm, she had Ah-Dai hovering outside the town while she sneaked into the town herself. Wait, she went to the library!

Li Wei was shocked. So the secret to getting the rare scholar card was to study like crazy.
Through the clever little rascal Ah-Dai, Li Wei could see that there should be at least a five-star mutated creature in this town, but Liang Yuzhi seemed to be very familiar with the characteristics of this mutated creature, so she moved through the town as if it were empty.

Ah-Dai followed suit, entering the library and capturing a screenshot of Liang Yu-Zhi frantically flipping through books.

He was flipping through a book while drinking his medicine!

Holy crap, it's almost certain that Liang Yuzhi didn't prepare two doses of the secret drug, because she studied in this library for a total of five hours and drank three doses during that time.

At the same time, she read at least a thousand books, damn it!

What incredible efficiency!
It turns out there really are no shortcuts to learning.

Li Wei was dumbfounded.

He recalled the time he spent using rare scout cards, a process that took nearly two years and covered almost 5,000 square kilometers, during which he also had to memorize the terrain and landforms...

There is no such thing as success by chance.

So at this moment, Li Wei gave up on the idea. He couldn't get the rare scholar card; it was even harder to get than the rare scout card.

(End of this chapter)