LWGP - Chapter 185
Chapter 185: Metal Shard
Wei Yuan: "Not at the moment. Even at our current stage, the Order Book is a top-tier resource. Once obtained, it's usually used or traded. People don't hold onto it, lest they be killed for it. But I can act as a middleman and get it for you. Give me an hour. If you're bored, you can find something else to pass the time."
Wang Jiu didn't reply, as she was currently responding to a private message she had just received from Xie Jiang.
Xie Jiang asked what she was doing.
Wang Jiu: "Grave robbing."
Xie Jiang: "…"
Xie Jiang: "I didn't think you'd answer me so directly. After all, this is considered a secret, right?"
Wang Jiu: "You can't beat me anyway, so there's no point in hiding it from you. And you're probably probing me because that Boss Cai put you up to it."
Xie Jiang: "You like using your brain so much, how come you're not bald?"
Wang Jiu: "I heard elementary school boys like to pull the hair of the girl in front of them to get her attention. Do you think that girl went bald?"
Xie Jiang: "…"
Seeing through it and still saying it out loud, you really are a terrifying social butterfly.
Xie Jiang fell silent. It was clear Wang Jiu didn't need him to pass the time; she was genuinely busy, because she was truly robbing graves.
She found the graves of the thirteen golden Four-Directions Corpses and the Little Corpse King, broke the sealing patterns on the tombstones, and then took out the Great Witch's Soul Compass.
In the darkness, she didn't even need to use Flowing Light for illumination, because the Great Witch's Soul Compass was already emitting a halo, and her Demon's Eye could already see the souls' locations.
The halo from the spinning Great Witch's Soul Compass flowed across her cheeks, eerie yet possessing a strange beauty and demonic charm as it danced with the darkness.
The System felt that this woman was too good at scheming.
Making such a big move, who knew who she was planning to screw over next.
An hour later, Wei Yuan returned and completed the transaction with Wang Jiu cleanly. "Aren't you going to give me some compensation? It's fine if you don't. That way, I'll have a reason to keep pestering you in the future."
There was a hint of a threat in his words.
Wang Jiu: "I already did."
Wei Yuan was surprised. He checked his mailbox and found an email. He opened it and collected the attachment.
His account had one more copper coin.
Wei Yuan: "…"
Did this woman guess that he already had the Book of Immortality and was deliberately making her wait an hour to try and fleece her?
A cunning, cunning vixen.
After Wang Jiu got the fragment of the Book of Immortality, she used it directly. The two pieces combined to form the complete Book of Immortality. It was like igniting a technology tree, the network now complete. The system notified her that she had activated the complete Order Book and received a title that permanently increased her Spirit by 5000. However, this was a minor detail, as Wang Jiu was currently focused on the complete Book of Immortality glowing on the page.
After its activation, the enhancement to her constitution far surpassed what it was before.
But it also came with an Order power—when her HP dropped to 10%, she could enter an immortal enhanced state.
Oh, so it was like a Boss's berserk mode.
Wang Jiu stared at this power, speechless for a long time.
Far away, after the twenty-person group from Nightless Territory was KO'd, their organization didn't jump out to make a fuss. They were reflecting on the failure of their plan.
If Wang Shu and the others could hear this conversation, they would surely be horrified.
"My prophecies can only target people with weaker perception than me. I can judge both people and objects, but Wang Jiu evaded my prophecy. I could predict that Gobi would be invaded by the Undead Race during that period, but I couldn't grasp the specifics of her power. This isn't my fault, but it is my shortcoming."
The pale young man in the wheelchair spoke with a weak voice, but no one around dared to criticize him, because he was very useful.
An extremely rare Light Prophet.
The disheveled old man in the main seat, heavy with the air of twilight, looked at the young man and said, "What else can you predict next?"
Even though it had been said that making a prophecy consumed a great deal of mental energy, was very draining, and required recovery—and there were currently no resources for such recovery.
But the old man still demanded another prophecy from him.
The young man lowered his gaze, closed his eyes, and a milky white glow emanated from between his brows. After a while, the last bit of color drained from his lips. He opened his eyes and said hoarsely, "Ten days from now, in Bashu, a terrifying death trap will form around her, and that place also holds a terrifying opportunity."
The old man narrowed his eyes, a flash of lightning in them.
Wang Jiu had finished her business underground. After collecting all her items, she was about to leave when a thought struck her. She turned back and looked deeper into the earth.
This cavern, the burial ground of the Undead Race, was not the end of the underground.
The expansion pack information mentioned that after the cavern Undead Race entered the underground, the Primordial Spirit Race still pursued them. So they kept going deeper. It surely wasn't just a matter of a few hundred meters. Besides, to escape to the land of ice, considering the geography, this place was an unknown distance from the ice zone.
So there was a path further down.
Wang Jiu was skilled and bold. Even if she encountered another wave of the Undead Race, she was confident she could retreat unscathed. So she piloted her flying device and flew down another few hundred meters. At a depth of about two thousand meters, she stopped.
The temperature, the air, and the aura.
Although she could create a barrier to withstand the first two, she sensed a terrifying aura below.
Like the terrifying creatures in the deep sea, the more inhospitable a region was for living beings, the more terrifying the creatures that survived there were.
"The underground probably isn't just the domain of the Undead Race," Wang Jiu said. The system responded, "Of course. The surface isn't entirely your human domain either, at least not right now."
It was before the apocalypse, but once the apocalypse arrived, humans were no longer the sole rulers. At the very least, they were much more fragile than cockroaches.
System: "However, with your current strength, continuing down to a depth of three thousand meters shouldn't be a big problem. Why did you stop here?"
Wang Jiu: "I found something interesting."
She bent down and picked up something she had been stepping on. It was a palm-sized shard, a metal shard.
But this was not a metal material or manufacturing level from Earth.
Flicking off the dust with her finger, Wang Jiu examined it for a long while, then said slowly, "Looks a bit like something from the Eternal Night Race."
The system remained silent, which meant she had found a hidden clue. It was a secret she shouldn't be involved with at her current level, so it couldn't give her any hints.
Wang Jiu didn't need hints. She raised her other hand slightly, and her Spirit Tentacles were no longer like before.
The Heavenly Channeling Art was a top-tier skill that refined the technique of all spirit power skills. It allowed for completely detailed control of spirit power. Therefore, the Spirit Tentacles Wang Jiu controlled now were slender and flexible. The consumption of spirit power was also greatly reduced, yet they were more powerful.
Like strands of hair, they crawled across the ground at high speed. In no time, they found other scattered fragments in corners or buried in the dirt.
Wang Jiu sat down and painstakingly pieced them together for a while. Finally, she saw a fragmented object.
Although a part was still missing, she could already tell what it was.
It was about a meter tall, with a metal wing on the left side, and its limbs had lotus-root-like joints. Overall, it was a robot.
The internal mechanical intelligence had long been destroyed, leaving it empty and void, but Wang Jiu could determine that this was an Eternal Night Race mechanical body with immense destructive power, more advanced than a mechanical sapper.
But how did it end up here, and how was it destroyed?
Wang Jiu looked at the vast underground space and pondered for a moment.
This situation presented two mysteries.
1. From what she had seen of the Eternal Night Race's descent so far, their presence was limited in time. They generally shot and destroyed from high altitudes, rarely landing for slaughter, and she had never heard of them burrowing into the ground. Besides, there wasn't enough time for that.
If this had happened in the spacetime dimension of Wei Yuan or that mysterious woman, it would be understandable, but it was very strange in theirs.
2. The strength of the players in their dimension, even the strongest individuals from all nine districts, was not enough to destroy these metal armors. She had just tried attacking it and couldn't even leave a scratch. It was hard to imagine who had destroyed it. Was it a creature from the depths of the earth? But the creatures existing at this depth didn't have that kind of strength. Moreover, the Undead Race's lair was above. If this creature or the mechanical body had passed through, the Undead Race would have been destroyed long ago. For the Eternal Night Race, everything that existed on Earth was worthy of destruction, even buildings.
Considering these two mysteries, Wang Jiu's thoughts raced. Her brow suddenly twitched as two possible conjectures formed.
1. The mechanical body didn't appear recently but was an existence from another time dimension. Beings from other time dimensions, whether people like Wei Yuan or the mysterious woman, could return. Destructive products like the mechanical body could also return to Earth. Or perhaps, no matter which time dimension it was, Earth itself was their ultimate destination.
2. After the mechanical body entered the underground, its strength was weakened. The deeper it went, the greater the weakening, which is why it was killed by the underground creatures.
Wang Jiu picked up one of the metal pieces, her finger tracing a claw mark on it.
It wasn't made by a player's weapon; it was from an underground creature. And when this creature fought the mechanical body back then, its destructive power wasn't much higher than her own now, as evidenced by the surroundings.
With a flick of her finger, Flowing Light turned into a stream of light that spread out, illuminating the entire space. The ground and the cavern walls revealed the traces left behind by a distant battle.
The reference point was the cavern wall. From its marks, one could gauge the intensity of the attacks back then.
Wang Jiu confirmed the strength of the mechanical body at that time. Even she, in her current state, should be able to put up a fight.
"So, the Eternal Night Race might be countered by certain environmental characteristics underground? It's been weakened quite a bit," Wang Jiu couldn't figure it out for a moment. Suddenly, she received a private message from Wang Shu. As soon as she opened it, she heard the fatty shouting anxiously, "Master, Master, the Undead Race is attacking other territories here in Zhengzhou! There are two waves, and they're asking us for help! Oh, right, they seem to have contacted you too."
If they weren't friends, private messages wouldn't pop up with a direct notification; they would pile up like emails.
Too many people tried to contact Wang Jiu every day, so she rarely read private messages from strangers. Now, scrolling through, she indeed found distress calls from several territory lords.
Unfortunately, after reading them, Wang Jiu still showed little reaction. She casually closed the private messages and replied to Wang Shu, "Ask them if they're willing to give up their territory."
After saying that, she collected the fragments and flew back up, her gaze deep and profound.
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