The giant grass lizard's half-corpse lay there quietly. Jiang Yuan, who was watching Ning Yanlan eating listlessly, said, "Why don't you go over and see if any cores have fallen?"

The Balance Messenger passive skill of the Heavenly Eye is triggered when he kills monsters. If you have a core, it would have dropped long ago. If you don't, it's useless.

Moreover, Ning Yanlan was of great help to him this time. In addition, she did not receive a Holy Spirit Stone from the Fire Crack Dog before, and he had promised to find her a Holy Spirit Stone.

"For me?" Ning Yanlan asked in surprise.

"I won't force you if you don't want it!" Jiang Yuan's smile carried an inexplicable friendliness.

Ning Yanlan thought to herself, "Could this guy like me? Otherwise, why is he being so nice to me? What should I do if he takes this opportunity to confess to me? Should I reject him?"

"What are you thinking? If you don't want to, I'll go loot the bag!" Jiang Yuan recalled the game terminology he used before, which was indeed very fitting for the current situation.

"I want him!" Ning Yanlan blurted out. She didn't care what the other person was thinking. Anyway, he was a very righteous person and met her criteria for choosing a partner.

With a series of quick steps, Ning Yanlan ran to the giant grass lizard's corpse. She examined it thoroughly with her short dagger, then exclaimed with delight, "It actually yielded a core! And a Tier 1 Holy Spirit Stone too!"

"What level of core?" Jiang Yuan asked as he began to pack up the food. He had eaten enough to replenish his strength, and the road ahead was still long. He needed to leave enough food to cope with the journey ahead.

"Unfortunately, it's only at the Black Iron level!"

Ning Yanlan sighed, then walked out with her right hand stained with blood, holding a black iron core and a Holy Spirit Stone in her other hand.

"Wipe your hands with some paper!" Jiang Yuan took out a few sheets of paper.

"Thank you!" Ning Yanlan sat down on the grass, put down her things and started wiping her hands. At the same time, she was also observing the other party's actions. If Jiang Yuan would take the Black Iron Core, then her evaluation of him would drop a lot.

However, Jiang Yuan remained unmoved even as she finished wiping away all the bloodstains, silently packing his backpack.

"Jiang Yuan, why don't you use this core?" Ning Yanlan suggested tentatively.

Jiang Yuan chuckled and then said, "Forget it, you can use it! We're a team now, and your increased strength will reduce the pressure on me a lot!"

“You haven’t awakened your spirit yet, right? You can use this Holy Spirit Stone first!” Ning Yanlan pointed to the milky white stone on the ground.

Jiang Yuan could only smile wryly. It wasn't that he hadn't awakened his spirit, but rather that the awakening process was too slow. He was only at ten percent of the required level. A first-tier Holy Spirit Stone was dispensable to him, and he might as well use it to unlock his core and enhance his strength!

"I can help you open the core! But I can't take the stuff!" Jiang Yuan said. He has the Heavenly Eye passive ability, so even without using the Treasure Hunting location, the probability of opening a good item is higher than others.

“Alright then!” Ning Yanlan took out the Black Iron Core she had obtained from the Fire Ripple. “I’m a psionic type, and this Giant Grass Lizard’s corrosive venom and self-destruction can also be considered psionic, so I’ll take the Giant Grass Lizard’s Black Iron Core! And since the Fire Ripple was an agility-type monster, its Black Iron Core is yours!”

As she spoke, Ning Yanlan placed the black iron core in her hand in front of Jiang Yuan.

There's a trick to opening a core. The type of monster affects the type of item inside. Generally, cores dropped by psionic monsters are mostly psionic, and the same goes for strength-type, agility-type, etc. That's why Ning Yanlan chose to exchange them.

"Then I won't be polite!" Jiang Yuan said with a smile.

"Hmm!" Ning Yanlan nodded in response, then frowned as she looked at the core of the giant grass lizard. "Jiang Yuan, do you think you're luckier or I'm luckier?"

"How can I put this?" Jiang Yuan didn't know how to explain it.

"Why don't you open it for me?" Ning Yanlan pushed the black iron core and a holy spirit stone for opening the core in front of Jiang Yuan.

"Really!" Jiang Yuan wanted to help her, but he couldn't be too obvious.

"To be honest, my luck has been extremely bad ever since the apocalypse began!" Ning Yanlan sighed.

Jiang Yuan: "..."

"On the first day, I encountered a monster and was dumped by my fiancé! On the second day, the department I worked for was destroyed, and my other identity could not be verified! On the third day, I was abandoned by the organization, and even returning to Nancheng was out of necessity!"

"On the fourth day, which is today, we encountered a Firehound and a Giant Grass Lizard, and both times we were in grave danger!"

After saying that, Ning Yanlan's expression was full of helplessness.

"Uh! Is it really that bad?" Jiang Yuan asked with sympathy.

"Yes, it really is that bad, so bad that I'm starting to doubt whether I should even activate this core!" Ning Yanlan looked at the core on the ground, the dark gray light seemingly mocking her.

"Let me do it!" Jiang Yuan reached for the black iron core, and immediately the treasures that might appear inside appeared before his eyes.

First-tier Poison Ball Technique, good quality, 24% probability!

First-tier Substitution Jutsu, good quality, 24% probability!

Tier 1 scale armor, poor quality, 24% probability!

Tier 1 Giant Lizard Bone Staff, Excellent Quality, 24% Probability!

Natural Light, of exceptional quality, with a probability of 4%!

This core can only yield five items, unlike the unknown item option that Jiang Yuan had previously obtained. He guessed that this was also related to probability; perhaps the chance of obtaining an unknown item from a core was less than one in ten thousand, and the probability of obtaining another unknown item was also less than one in ten thousand.

"There's no information about it! Otherwise, we could tell what this 'natural light' is!" Jiang Yuan muttered.

Jiang Yuan didn't plan to use the treasure hunt for location because the probability was too low. The balance messenger of the Heavenly Eye was enough. If I get it, I'm lucky; if I lose it, it's fate. What I get is random.

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