LWGP - Chapter 221
Chapter 221: Others
They would get their answer, even if it was an unexpected one.
Wang Jiu just swept a faint glance over Wang Shu and said coolly, "If your mind were a little quicker and your guts a little bigger, you would have stewed me some pregnancy-stabilizing medicine."
There's an atmosphere called "struck by lightning," but an even more terrifying one is called "this lightning was cast by Lao Wang."
Wang Shu was terrified, as stunned and frightened as a quail. He wished he could hide behind Lin Guiwan and the other woman, but they themselves were just as shocked.
A joke?
Was it a joke?
Anyway, many people here were dumbfounded. Some, unable to tell if it was a joke or the truth, subconsciously glanced at others.
Of course, they were only glancing, but Song Yuanqiao's and Qian Cheng's eyes were like they'd been dipped in poison as they coldly swept over a few people.
Xiao Qing keenly sensed that her brother had been stared at for a moment, and she couldn't help but turn to look at him.
Xiao Jue: "…"
Shen Wan and the others came out from behind and heard Wang Jiu's ambiguous statement. Before she could react, in just those few seconds, the instigator let out a light laugh, took back her thermos, and drawled, "Just kidding. Look how anxious some people got."
Anxious? Who's anxious? Who the fuck is anxious!
After stirring up the crowd, Wang Jiu went on her way, looking quite leisurely.
But Song Yuanqiao and Qian Cheng watched her retreating figure, their faces filled with worry.
If a person lies too much, others will eventually be unable to tell when she's being truthful.
Was this her loss? No, it was everyone else's dilemma.
As for her, she was fine, walking away after causing all that trouble.
Fortunately, she didn't return directly to the Gobi Territory.
After such a war, it was impossible to go straight back to Gobi. A post-war victory banquet was necessary. It was also a good opportunity to connect with people from other territories, which would benefit Gobi's future development.
Even if Wang Jiu was an incompetent leader, Gobi had been growing wildly under her control, proving that she was still steering its development.
For example, after she slayed the dragon, she instantly won over countless experts. Later, when the news spread through social circles, the number of applications to join the Gobi Territory skyrocketed by tens of thousands in an instant. The cumulative number had now reached five hundred thousand, which exceeded the territory's capacity for new residents. But that was fine, because many territories had also applied for affiliation, and their inclusion would solve this problem.
Xie Lu and the others got busy, while Wang Jiu returned to the residence arranged by Bashu and began to sort through her gains from this trip.
The items Wang Shu had unlocked had all been traded to Wang Jiu.
In truth, the gains from the Sichuan trip could be broken down into sections.
1. The one-star resource from the Seven Star Day Array in Butterfly Valley, worth approximately 300,000 points in the goblin shop.
2. The vast spirit veins from various locations, which couldn't be calculated in points but had already been absorbed, resulting in Wang Jiu's attributes jumping from twenty thousand to fifty thousand, plus the half-legendary Gilded Abyss.
3. The three Demon Kings plus the kills on the battlefield (a portion of the lesser demon king's army and the believer army, mostly from kills made by the ten thousand Spirit Bodies under her command), worth approximately 2.7 million points.
4. The ten White Bone Bodies she controlled killing the Icebound Undead beasts in the caverns, plus the seven Purple Gold BOSSes killed after reaching land, worth 1.3 million points.
5. Song Yin's legacy, worth 90 points, but this didn't include the drop of blood from his body.
6. The Frost Bone Dragon King.
Overall, although the resources from the first four sections were priceless, with a large number of Purple Gold items, for Wang Jiu, Purple Gold was already the basic standard. She had obtained ten Purple Gold badges in one go, of all different kinds, including some dropped as legacy items.
However, after sorting through everything, Wang Jiu discovered that the most important resources were the drop of blood the System naturally extracted from Song Yin's body after killing him, and the three Order Book fragments dropped by the three Demon Kings and Song Yin. Guang Jing had dropped a copy of the Cloud Travel Book, half an Order Book from the Evil system, which Wang Jiu could use, conveniently completing the half she already had.
And Song Yin had dropped the Book of Xuanming and the Book of Immortality, both halves, and both from the Evil faction.
Then there was the loot dropped by the Frost Bone Dragon King.
1. Ice Sealed Throne (Half-Legendary Badge)
Attributes: HP +1000, Spirit Power +5000, All three attributes +8000
Skill: Ice Sealed Throne (A half-legendary dual-type attack skill. As an AoE, it can freeze an area of a hundred li. As a single-target attack, it can break through the armor of an opponent with 50,000 STA without issue, delivering a complete and irreversible frozen kill). The intensity of use is based on a tiered Spirit Power consumption, with an upper limit of 30,000 Spirit Power and a lower limit of 5,000 Spirit Power. The cooldown time is also based on the intensity of consumption, with an upper limit of three days and a lower limit of 5 hours.)
2. Dragon Seal (Half-Legendary Badge)
Attributes: Crit Damage +800%, Armor Penetration +500%, Immunity +400%
Skill: Dragon Seal (A half-legendary support skill. Summons the Dragon Seal. When carried and inactive, it can reduce the cooldown of all skills at any time. Once activated, it can directly waive the cooldown of one skill, but after activation, it has a cooldown of one day.)
3. Book of Ice Seal (A complete Order Book, Light Order)
4. Book of Immortality (A complete Order Book, Evil Order)
5. A drop of blood (Blood of a direct-line king of the Icebound Undead Race.)
Well now, that made two drops of blood. A single Bone Dragon King had given her two complete Order Books. Wang Jiu was surprised, but she could also understand it. It signified the key to a normal war, and it could be considered a bonus question. Logically, a standard-scale war would involve at most an 800,000-strong Undead army, but this had gone beyond the syllabus, so the rewards would naturally be multiplied several times over.
Wang Jiu's curiosity about these two drops of blood even surpassed her interest in the complete Order Books. The description for the Icebound Undead King's blood was understandable, and it also confirmed that this half-legendary Bone Dragon King had indeed come from the direct line of the Icebound Undead Race from the frigid lands.
So, what was the drop of blood from Song Yin?
Wang Jiu clicked on it to inspect it.
Blood of Xuanming (One of the residual blood drops left by the Witch Ancestor. Half-decayed, with weakened efficacy, but still has a terrifying effect on living beings—either destruction, symbiosis, or absorption and fusion)
There were no attributes, only a simple description, sharing the same minimalist style as the Undead King's blood.
Wang Jiu looked at the two drops of blood, lost in thought. She asked the System, but it replied cheekily, "You should absorb these resources first, increase your strength, and then confirm the system evaluation rewards for participating in this war. Only when your authority level increases can I tell you."
It was starting to make demands.
Wang Jiu wasn't about to indulge it. She had no intention of absorbing the resources now and put them all away.
The System was a bit baffled. "What's up? Was my request that unreasonable? What's with this attitude? Are you not planning to use them, or do you need to bathe, burn incense, and pick an auspicious day?"
Wang Jiu didn't respond. Instead, she contacted Qing He and asked a question, "Is the destructive nature of the spacetime tunnel fixed, or is it like the spacetime travel in game dungeons, where the difficulty and rewards are adjusted based on the entrant's strength?"
The latter was a game rule she had noticed. Taking herself as an example, from the pioneer phase to the later Nightmare Dungeons, she had always felt that the difficulty she experienced was much higher than others'.
Conversely, she was now using the game's rules to speculate about the interdimensional spacetime tunnel.
Qing He replied after a moment: "There are two lines. One is the baseline: your stamina armor must be above twenty thousand attribute points to withstand the most basic traversal damage of the spacetime tunnel, so your body isn't directly destroyed. If you have related protective items, you can also withstand it. The second baseline is the tunnel's rejection rule. If your average attributes exceed the twenty thousand needed for self-protection by too much—for example, if your average attributes reach eighty thousand or more—the spacetime tunnel will target you and attack, aiming to kill you within the tunnel to prevent the traveler from crossing over and disrupting the balance of another spacetime."
Wang Jiu was thoughtful. "No wonder I felt you were injured when you returned. I thought it was from fighting the Eternal Night Race, but now it seems it was mainly due to damage from the spacetime tunnel."
As a king, this Qing He probably had average attributes exceeding one hundred thousand. She was modest, but Wang Jiu could still sense that Wei Yuan was far from her match. She could guess that the king Wei Yuan had finished off was likely a step below Qing He. But Wei Yuan, as a clone, didn't seem very afraid of Qing He. Why? This guy could even tolerate her. There could only be two reasons. Either Wei Yuan was just a clone and didn't care about being killed by Qing He, or Wei Yuan knew that Qing He's true self had been attacked by the spacetime tunnel during her transit due to her immense power, resulting in a significant loss of strength, which was why he wasn't afraid of her.
Now that Wang Jiu had voiced her suspicions, Qing He didn't deny it. Instead, she asked in return, "Are you planning to set off?"
She knew from before that Wang Jiu wanted to save someone and had even given her guidance, so she naturally guessed it.
Wang Jiu: "Planning to talk me out of it?"
Qing He: "We're not that close. Besides, I couldn't persuade you anyway."
Her voice sounded particularly cool and distant. She had probably seen through Lao Wang's scummy nature and was starting to cut her losses.
A clear-headed king, this Qing He.
Wang Jiu was amused. "You get angry so easily? Aren't kings supposed to be highly cultivated? Why get angry with a bumpkin from a small place like me?"
Her voice was soft and low, gentle and intelligent, exceptionally pleasant to the ear.
More pleasant than the night outside, where the last drops of rain pattered on banana leaves and moistened fragrant orchids.
Qing He was silent for a moment, then suddenly made a sharp, incisive point: "You're only contacting me because you suddenly realized I'm still of some use and can give you guidance on spacetime travel, right? If I were of no use to you…"
But Wang Jiu didn't wait for her to finish, adding an even gentler sentence.
"What are you thinking? You're the only one I care about right now."
Qing He, who had just finished her shower in the residence arranged by Liu Wuren and was drying her hair: "…"
This bumpkin wasn't just a bit of a scumbag; she was also quite the flirt.
"No need. Lord of Gobi, you can find someone else." Qing He was as distant as ever, her tone severe.
Clearly, she was not easy to coax.
Wang Jiu felt a bit of a headache. It was her own fault for being absent-minded today and unintentionally offending this partner who had been quite good to her.
People really shouldn't push their luck. Lately, it wasn't just her appetite that was off; she had also been careless.
"But there is no one else."
Wang Jiu's words were gentle and helpless, enough to soften anyone's heart. But just as she finished speaking, from across the path separating their courtyards, Qing He sensed the glow of a teleportation circle in Wang Jiu's house, leading directly into the latter's bedroom.
Qing He: "…"
There seemed to be a moment of silence on Wang Jiu's end before a serious voice drifted over, "I don't know who's visiting so late at night. So uncivilized."
Qing He: "Your house. I'm next door. The light reached my room."
With that, Qing He opened the balcony door and quietly looked at the Lord of Gobi across the way, who was sitting on her bed with her legs crossed, dressed in light clothing. And in front of her, hadn't a certain "someone else" just teleported in?
Six eyes met.
Two houses, two bedrooms, two balconies. Between them, a path was separated by a particularly lush, verdant banana plant.
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