Hua Jianyuan said that the demons she killed were all monsters disguised as human forms, such as goblins, slimes, and zombies. But what if Su Su was actually a human-shaped monster?
What if those demons were originally humans, but just awakened the demon profession, and then failed to stick to their original intentions under powerful forces, and eventually became so corrupt that even their behavior became no different from that of demons?
After all, Su Su has now come into contact with many extraordinary people in orthodox professions, and in these contacts, Su Su discovered that they seem to have no other way to gain experience except killing monsters, but Su Su is different.
Su Su can directly obtain massive amounts of experience points by "drugging"!
It took Miss Uchida more than 20 years to reach level 15, but Su Su has already reached level 11 in just a few months since his awakening. If he hadn't lost his sense of crisis and become a little lazy some time ago, Su Su might have already reached level 20!
so......
Am I actually a demon?
Holding the double-edged sword in his hand, all kinds of messy thoughts flashed through his mind. Finally, Su Su took a deep breath, forced all the thoughts down, then exhaled a long breath, and nodded to the person who gave him the pill.
"Okay, thank you."
......
The place where the pills were distributed seemed to be the back kitchen of the unit canteen. The person who distributed the pills to Su Su was a canteen auntie who looked no different from an ordinary person, but Su Su could be basically certain that the other party must be an extraordinary person.
However, the opponent's level was obviously more than five levels higher than Su Su's, so Su Su was unable to check the opponent's occupation and level.
After receiving the pills, while Su Su seemed to be immersed in the surprise of the pills, the staff member who brought Su Su here enthusiastically asked the auntie in the Extraordinary Canteen about the lunch dishes, then shook his head with a look of disappointment, and then after noticing that Su Su had come to his senses, the other party hurried over.
"How about it, Mr. Su, you should have noticed the extraordinary nature of this thing, right?"
"Although I am just an ordinary person and cannot feel the magic of these things, I have heard from the aliens who came to receive subsidies before that this thing can greatly increase the speed at which aliens become stronger! One pill can be equivalent to two days of work in one day, and this box can increase the growth rate by an extra half month!"
"It's a pity that you still have to go abroad, Mr. Su. Otherwise, if you are willing to truly join the system, and not just be a figurehead, then you can receive up to 30 coins a month, which is really twice the result with half the effort..."
Obviously, the staff saw that Su Su's previous pensive behavior was because he was shocked by the effect of the elixir, so the staff member said something to Su Su intentionally or unintentionally at this time, and at the same time extended a new concept to Su Su - "real joining".
Perhaps those registrations mentioned above are just simple levels, and the real assessment lies in this so-called "real joining"?
Su Su had no doubt that if he were just an ordinary transcendent, upon hearing that his experience growth rate could be doubled permanently, he would probably immediately be excited and ask what the so-called "real joining" meant, but...
"Huh... It's really amazing, but I don't have high requirements for strength, and I don't have any ambitions. I am already very satisfied as long as I can protect myself and make money. On the contrary, if I were a little stronger... As a person, my moral integrity is entirely upheld by 'strength does not allow'. If strength allows, my moral integrity will be difficult to maintain... So it is better to continue to maintain this 'strength does not allow' state."
"Besides, I have to go back to Japan. My wife is there. I can't bear to leave her behind..."
Facing the vague guidance of the staff, Su Su just smiled carefreely, then shook his head slightly and sighed to the staff, then seemingly casually stuffed the whole box of double experience pills into his pocket.
Because the pocket was small, a small part of the box was exposed, and it looked like it might fall out at any time.
After hearing Su Su's words, the staff member was obviously stunned for a moment - but then, after reacting, he didn't say anything more. He just gave Su Su a slightly complicated look, and then nodded.
"Mr. Su Su is quite clear about this... But it doesn't matter. This is not something that can be forced. I just mentioned it casually. It's normal that you are not interested in this. And although Mr. Su Su has been abroad for many years, you are still one of us. This is enough to explain something. We will not do anything to disappoint our own people."
"But if you ever change your mind, Mr. Su Su, we welcome you back. There will always be a place for you at home."
189. Seven Stars? Nine Stars!
After signing the agreement and receiving the double experience pill, there was actually nothing else to do. Su Su politely declined the other party's idea of keeping him in the cafeteria for dinner, and after leaving the alien management department, he ran straight towards home.
I didn’t feel it when I was abroad, but after I came back, I really felt like going home and wanted to see my parents.
Of course, Su Su is not from Beijing - Su Su's hometown is not a developed place, but an ordinary third- or fourth-tier northern city. It is even too close to Beijing to have developed quite poorly. Su Su is not a city dweller either. Although he went to school and grew up in the city since he was a child and his parents now live in the city, his household registration is still in the countryside.
Su Su even had an acre of land under his name! The excuse for calling Su Su back this time was also about this acre of land.
But of course, as Su Su returned to China to sign the documents, any problems were tactfully resolved into misunderstandings. Su Su didn't even have to go back to his hometown. By the way, all the relevant materials needed to register his marriage with Hua Jianyuan after returning to Japan were delivered to his door the day after Su Su arrived home.
I can only say that it is thoughtful...
So in such a relaxed state of mind, Su Su accompanied his parents in China for a while. He didn't have to pretend to be mature and reliable. Instead, he could lie on the sofa and chat with Hua Jianyuan like a child. He would stare at the screen and giggle when he saw funny videos and listen to his mother calling him in the kitchen to eat fruit. And...
Thinking about how to leave a few common sense tampering foundations in the country.
First (first in my own home), I suspect this chess piece was first put down by Su Ba Su Shrimp, and it is also the simplest one.
Of course, burying it directly near the house is definitely not an option. Although Su Su did not notice any signs of surveillance nearby, he did not want to take the risk of being exposed. Moreover, it was said that there were surveillance cameras everywhere in the country, so Su Su disguised the base and buried it in the flower bed in the yard.
Su Su's mother liked to grow flowers and plants. The old lady got a lot of flower pots in the yard and planted a lot of flowers and plants. The old man also built a flower bed half a meter wide, two meters long and half a meter high for the old lady against the wall in the yard. He surrounded it with bricks and filled it with soil, and usually planted some onions, cucumbers and the like.
After Su Su came back, he found that the flower bed had been weathered for a long time and had become a little loose, so he simply repaired the flower bed for the old lady himself, and in the process buried a common sense tampering base under the flower bed as a foundation.
After all, although ten kilograms of gold sounds very heavy, in fact, due to the high density of gold, it is only the size of a brick and can be easily hidden under a flower bed.
My parents are old now and it is difficult for them to dig up the flower bed themselves. Besides, Su Su has just been repaired and there is no need to dig it up again, so this thing will basically not be dug out accidentally and can be hidden for a very long time.
On the other hand, Su Su did not directly activate and share the magic network with everyone within range like he did in Japan, but simply opened the magic network permissions for his parents and directly increased it to the maximum.
Of course, Su Su did not set it so that his parents could directly realize the existence of the magic network and use it, but set it so that "when they encounter danger and are anxious and panic from the bottom of their hearts, they will awaken the knowledge about the magic network and obtain the maximum authority" - after all, the old man and the old lady are both over 60 years old, and Su Su does not want them to go through too much trouble. If there are no accidents, it would be good for them to enjoy their old age in peace. There is no need for them to be involved in so many energy-consuming things when they are old...
If this common sense tampering base at home is considered insurance and is purely for private use, then other bases besides this one naturally have other purposes.
For example, the second pedestal - in fact, if possible, Su Su obviously would rather place this pedestal in the alien management department he went to when he returned to China, but considering that his understanding of that department was very superficial, if there was some particularly powerful person who could recognize the pedestal, then putting it there himself would be like looking for death, so after careful consideration, Su Su finally decided to be safe.
This base is placed randomly.
But it is impossible to bury it. In this era where there are cameras everywhere, if you want to dig a hole and bury something openly, it is obviously a case of trying to cover up one's own fault. So Su Su boldly made a new attempt, which is to add a new cognition to the common sense tampering base - "Everyone who sees the base will think that this is a bronze antique that is difficult to distinguish the authenticity, looks real but has traces of counterfeiting."
Facts have proved that this attempt was quite successful. In Su Su's eyes, this was a golden base that was bright yellow and emitting an alluring golden glow, but in the eyes of others, it was a mottled, old, and oddly shaped bronze artifact covered with verdigris. Su Su even added a patch that stated "no one will take photos, film it, or save images of it", thus preventing someone from taking a photo and then running out of the affected area to discover abnormalities.
Later, Su Su took the opportunity to visit an antique street and quietly discarded the item at an antique stall that specialized in selling fake bronzes. It was called an antique street, but in fact it was a street stall that sold old books, old items from the Republic of China, and the people who visited here knew that 99% of the high-value items here were fakes, so naturally the vendors were particularly unrestrained. Not to mention bronzes, even the imperial seal was sold here...
Anyway, Su Su had a clear memory that when he was in junior high school, he came here to play with his classmates and saw someone selling the imperial seal.
Su Su will not care about the things left here anymore. As for who will buy it back in the end...
Then we'll just leave it to fate.
As for why this common sense tampering entry was added and thrown here, it was because Su Su hoped that this thing could become his "eyes and ears" - in addition to the most basic function of activating the magic network, Su Su also added the entry "The holder will create a social account and unconsciously post the knowledge he has collected or suspected to be related to the supernatural aspects to the account in a specific code word every week." In this way, Su Su can get some information by following such accounts.
Of course, depending on the identity of the holder, this type of information may be extremely valuable or worthless, but antiques are something that only people without certain assets and identities can play with, so at least a lower limit can be guaranteed.
Su Su made nine similar bases and secretly distributed them in different ways. Soon, a small account that Su Su specially created followed nine accounts that looked quite immature.
Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, Yaoguang, Dongming and Yinyuan.
The nine hidden pieces in the country were successfully laid.
190. Legend of the Mysterious Square Pot
After packing up everything in China, Su Su embarked on the journey back to Japan. No one made any statement about Su Su's departure from China, as if it was just a simple agreement, but...
What was a little unexpected for Su Su was that shortly after he left, a strange legend suddenly began to circulate in the antique circle in Su Su's hometown.
Legend has it that on the antique stall that seems to be full of fakes, there is a peculiar bronze "Gilted Square Pot with Animal Face Pattern". Unlike ordinary antiques, this bronze artifact has gradually gained spirituality in the baptism of time. It can hide its true appearance and is quietly hidden in the stall in an inconspicuous way, waiting for the truly destined person to discover it.
Of course, no one would believe this nonsense at the beginning. After all, everyone would say that "treasures have spirits", but everyone actually understands that this kind of "spirit" is not the "elf" in myths and strange stories, but just a kind of background and feeling.
If there is really an ancient artifact that has a spirit, able to disguise itself and wait for the right person...
Are you sure this isn't a joke made up by those fake antique dealers in order to trick more people into buying fakes?
What era is this? There are still spiritual beings... No spirits are allowed to form after the founding of the People's Republic of China!
Therefore, at first everyone just treated this story as a joke and talked about it after dinner, and no one really took it seriously - they were not even sure where the rumor came from. No one came out to swear and guarantee it, which naturally made the matter more ridiculous and unreliable.
until......
Until Meng Xiao himself saw it with his own eyes.
Meng Xiao is a rich second-generation - in a sense, he is still the kind of "useless" rich second-generation who has no ability and relies solely on family background as stereotyped by many people.
Meng Xiao's father caught up with a turbulent era, and worked hard to save up a fortune for Meng Xiao that he could not spend in his lifetime. However, Meng Xiao was very proud of himself and resolutely refused to have any "ambitions" like starting a business. He just lived an honest and stable life of eating, drinking and having fun. He had no ability, but was very knowledgeable when it came to having fun.
Of course, although he plays wildly, Meng Xiao is very cautious and does not touch gambling or drugs. For Meng Xiao, the biggest expense in entertainment is antiques - not long ago, Meng Xiao became obsessed with antiques, and he was cheated several times but still enjoyed it.
In fact, it is probably because of such a comfortable life that Meng Xiao, who is now in his thirties, still looks like a young man in his early twenties, full of energy and curiosity - so after hearing the rumor that the "treasure has spirits", Meng Xiao rushed to the local area with great interest, wanting to personally investigate whether this "treasure" really exists.
But of course, the initial investigation yielded nothing. As mentioned before, although everyone was spreading the rumor, no one even knew where the rumor came from. It was as if someone had just made it up after drinking. No one came out to swear that "I saw it with my own eyes", and no one could tell exactly where it happened.
Just when Meng Xiao felt that this was probably just a rumor without any beginning or end and there was no point in investigating it, and was even ready to give up and just have a good time in the local area, Meng Xiao received a photo.
Someone put the photo into an envelope and then found a random kid on the street to hand it to Meng Xiao. The photo was very simple, a street scene of an antique stall. It seemed that someone was passing by the antique street and saw the bustling crowds, so he was moved and picked up the camera to capture this bustling scene.
The person who took the photo must have very good skills and the equipment he used must be very expensive, so the layout and clarity of the photo are very perfect, including the arguments between the vendors and the customers, the hesitation of the customers, the surprise of the people who thought they had found a bargain and hurried away with the things they bought, and the raised eyebrows when they were unsure about the authenticity of the items...
One photo captures all aspects of human life, as if time has been frozen at that moment, making people who see the photo admire and give a thumbs up to the photographer's skills - but the focus of this photo is obviously not these.
But...
In a corner of the photo, on a bronze stall, it was half obscured by a figure's raised arm, but it was still clearly visible... an object that was golden all over and looked like a square pot!
Anyone who first glances at this photo will probably be attracted by the people in the photo, but if you look closely, you will definitely not be able to avoid this golden square pot. Once you focus your attention on this square pot, it becomes the absolute protagonist of the photo. Even if only half of it is photographed, it can still attract all attention!
So... this is the "spiritual weapon" that was rumored?
So, who sent this photo to me?
Without a doubt, after seeing this photo, Meng Xiao's originally somewhat indifferent mind became firm again. Obviously, someone noticed that he was investigating this spiritual weapon, so he took the initiative to invite him - but the other party obviously would not just send him a photo, so...
After looking at the photo, Meng Xiao immediately flipped through the envelope again. As expected, he found a small note in the envelope with a contact number on it.
That was a social account of an external social software, and it seemed that this was the other party's way of contacting me.
Of course, Meng Xiao did not rule out the possibility that this was a trap set up by someone to defraud him of his money. After all, he had been cheated several times before, so he was still alert, but...
Meng Xiao has a mysterious self-confidence. As long as I am alert, the other party will not be able to deceive me!
So quickly, Meng Xiao created an account and took the initiative to contact the other party.
......
......
Wei Haoyuan is indeed not a liar.
Wei Haoyuan's profession is a "travel photographer", the kind of guy who wanders around the country taking pictures of the scenery, people and life he sees. His visit to this small town was originally just an insignificant stop in Wei Haoyuan's travel plan - he would stay here for three to five days at most, take a few photos, and then Wei Haoyuan would leave.
But perhaps it was a coincidence destined by heaven. Wei Haoyuan just wanted to eat fried dough sticks when he woke up that morning, and the breakfast shop near the hotel was closed that day. So Wei Haoyuan could only follow the map navigation all the way, and then he walked to the antique street in a daze.
Then, looking at the busy and vibrant street scene in front of him, Wei Haoyuan felt something in his heart, so he raised his camera and took a picture of the street scene - a street scene that he felt quite satisfied with after a quick glance.
However, Wei Haoyuan did not notice anything unusual in the photos at that time. He simply took the photos and continued to look for food. It was not until he returned to the hotel and began to sort out the photos that Wei Haoyuan discovered the mysterious thing in the street scene he had casually taken.
A golden vessel that resembles a square pot.
Of course, at this moment, Wei Haoyuan had not realized the magic of this photo for a long time. He just subconsciously thought that the pot was very beautiful. So after processing the photo, Wei Haoyuan returned to the antique street and planned to see if he could buy the pot. Something so fancy must be fake, so it shouldn't be too expensive.
But what was unexpected was that after Wei Haoyuan asked again and again, the stall owner swore that he definitely did not have a golden square pot here. This was a bronze stall, so how could there be something golden?
In his anxiety, Wei Haoyuan subconsciously wanted to show the photos to the stall owner, but he hesitated for a moment when he picked up the camera. Then Wei Haoyuan put the camera down and asked the surrounding stalls indirectly.
In the end, everyone swore that it was absolutely impossible for there to be a conspicuous golden square pot, and you must have remembered it wrong, young man!
Therefore, Wei Haoyuan, who vaguely realized something, did not say anything more, but apologized and left. Then, as if taking pictures of the street scene intentionally or unintentionally, he took another picture of the stall where the square pot was photographed and other stalls.
Then, after hurriedly returning to the hotel, Wei Haoyuan planned to compare the photos again, but the result was...
Wei Haoyuan was horrified to find that among all the photos he had taken, there was no photo of the Fanghu stall at all!
Obviously, he came here mainly to take pictures of the Fanghu stall, but for some reason, the photos he took cleverly avoided the Fanghu stall. At most, one could see a corner of the stall in other photos. Wei Haoyuan flipped through all the photos he took today, and all of them were like this!
But why did this happen? I am a professional photographer, how could I make such a low-level mistake?
No, that's not the case. This is definitely not a mistake. Wei Haoyuan clearly remembered that he once took a photo facing the Fanghu stall, but... now that I think about it, I did raise the camera at that time, but I seemed to...
Didn't press the shutter button at all?!
Why? Why didn't I press the shutter? At the time, I didn't even notice anything unusual, but now I think back to it and feel a chill down my spine. Could it be that...
What is stopping the guy from filming that booth himself?!
Undoubtedly, this strange encounter comparable to a supernatural event horrified Wei Haoyuan so much that he even subconsciously wanted to leave the city immediately. However, after calming down, Wei Haoyuan suddenly felt an unprecedented strong curiosity in his heart - those who can be travel photographers have a spirit of exploration and a strong curiosity. After living as an ordinary person for decades, how could he not be excited when he suddenly had the opportunity to come into contact with supernatural phenomena?
So after hesitating for a long time, Wei Haoyuan finally decided to stay and investigate this square pot!
The first thing that is certain is that Fang Hu is definitely still on that stall - I secretly tried several more times afterwards, but no matter how I took pictures, there was no photo of the stall where Fang Hu was in the final camera, and I didn't notice it at all until I returned to the hotel and sorted out the photos.
The last time I accidentally took a picture of the square pot, it was like a miracle and it could never be replicated.
Secondly, the square pot has camouflage capabilities and cannot be identified by the naked eye. I have touched every bronze artifact on that stall in the past few days, but none of them can detect anything from the feel.
However, after repeated attempts, Wei Haoyuan did discover some clues, that is, he was actually able to take pictures of some corners of the square pot stall, not completely unable to take pictures, so it was very likely that only the square pot was preventing him from taking pictures, and the rest of the bronze ware could be photographed.
This means that if you have the opportunity to try it bit by bit, or even take pictures one by one, you will definitely be able to find out which bronze square pot is disguised!
Unfortunately, this idea is difficult to realize. First of all, when shooting at the stall, due to the influence of the square pot, Wei Haoyuan had no way of being sure whether he had pressed the shutter when shooting. Therefore, he could not accurately divide the area and shoot bit by bit and finally define the area where the square pot was located - as long as the idea of shooting came into his mind, his thinking would be affected and he would be unable to plan at all.
The second option is to buy them and shoot them one by one. This is theoretically feasible, but the problem is...
Those are antiques. Even though they are all fake, the stall owner certainly won't recognize them. He is selling them as antiques.
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