Chapter 129

After the dust settled, Ye Bai rested for a while before she recovered her strength and supported herself to sit up from the ground. The cold gray sand beneath her body had formed a deep dent due to the impact just now.

As he stood up, the corners of his mouth twitched again because of the pain.

To be precise, this was Ye Bai's first real battle alone in reality, and also her first time killing someone with her own hands.

But perhaps because the Myriad Worlds were too realistic, no different from reality, Ye Bai only felt relieved at the moment of defeating the powerful enemy. The complex emotions of biological instinct only appeared briefly and quickly disappeared. After all, she had experienced too many battles in the game.

His eyes swept over the body, or rather the 'body parts', of the mysterious man opposite him. Probably because the man had died immediately after being petrified, those limb parts had completely turned into gravel and had not turned back into flesh and blood.

At the same time, what disappointed Ye Bai was that the mysterious man didn't seem to have left her any spoils.

Many parts of the clothes the other person wore were made of some kind of biological material, and seemed to have been judged to be flesh and blood by the petrified gaze. Most of them had turned into stone along with the mysterious man's body. Only a few scattered pieces of other materials were stuck together, and there was no point in taking them off.

Apart from this, the other party did not carry any other items or equipment. A-level psychics can already pry open space. Ye Bai didn't know whether the other party carried nothing at all or had a technology similar to a "space backpack". In any case, the mysterious man seemed to have nothing in his life and death.

Suddenly, Ye Bai's eyes fixed.

Her gaze fell on the junction of the mysterious man's broken neck and head. In the broken stone-like neck, buried was half a water-drop-like creature, some of which looked like jade and emitted a lustrous luster.

This location...

Ye Bai fell to the ground and her whole body was in pain, but at least she didn't break any bones. She endured the pain and slowly walked towards the location of the other person's broken limbs.

He was not mistaken. Inside the mysterious man's neck, Ye Bai saw a round stone about the size of a pigeon egg embedded in it.

Personal terminal?

Given this position and this shape, the only thing Ye Bai could associate with this object was his personal terminal.

To maximize the sensitivity of a personal terminal, it is usually necessary to place it in the blank area of ​​the human neck nerves.

However, when the mental power level is raised to C level, it doesn’t matter where you put it. But because the personal terminal is a very practical external auxiliary tool, placing it in an important position such as the back of the neck can prevent it from being lost.

Especially for many Space Marines, losing limbs in a battle is commonplace. If they put their personal terminals in their arms or thighs, they are likely to be "lost" in the battle, and they will have to buy them again.

Unlike Ye Bai's silver-white personal terminal, the object in front of him did not appear to be made of metal. It had a halo flowing around it and looked very much like jade.

The personal terminals of Star Alliance citizens are all technology provided by the Star Alliance. The mysterious man obviously belongs to a complex force in the Chaos Star Sea, so this "Jade Terminal" is the Chaos Star Sea version of the personal terminal?

This realization made Ye Bai raise his eyebrows. He wondered what the difference was between this terminal and the personal terminals of Star Alliance citizens?

The mysterious man's neck was already broken. Ye Bai stretched out her hand, bent it towards the edge, and then pulled it hard. This personal terminal, which was different from the Star Alliance, fell into her palm.

Ye Bai used his insight on this 'jade'.

'...', '...', 'Silicon'

After using Insight four or five times in a row, Ye Bai did not obtain any useful information except that one of the constituent elements contained silicon. She had little mental energy left at this time, so she did not try again.

A personal terminal is a tool similar to a mobile phone. It does not store any data locally. Each person's unique mental power is used to log in to the account. Even if the personal terminal is lost, there is no need to worry about personal account information being stolen. Those with D-level mental power or above can block its signal. Most functions require access to the planetary network to function...

The above is Ye Bai’s understanding of the personal terminals of Star Alliance citizens.

But Ye Bai had no idea about the personal terminals in Chaos Star Sea, and it was obviously impossible to find it on the Star Network. It was not that no one in Chaos Star Sea used the Star Network, but that others who used it must have used a pseudonym and would not actively expose their own information.

So after Ye Bai took off this personal terminal, he did not immediately activate it with his mental power.

Until now, she still doesn't know the origin of the mysterious man, his connection with the senior executive of the Makul Group, or even whether new troubles will arise after she kills the mysterious man. These are all unknowns.

Of course, Ye Bai also tried to use his insight on the mysterious man's broken body, but unfortunately he only got a table of stone elements. The mysterious man's essence had been completely changed into ordinary stone.

If Ye Bai activates his personal terminal and the terminal automatically sends signals to the forces behind the mysterious man, it would be a waste of time and effort.

But at the same time, on the other hand, Ye Bai is now alone on this desolate planet in the chaotic star sea, without supplies, and not knowing whether there are other enemies. This personal terminal may also be a key for her to quickly understand the situation of the mysterious person and the chaotic star sea.

Breathing the cold and thin oxygen on this desolate planet, Ye Bai's evolved and strong body was slowly recovering from his injuries.

After checking the mysterious man's body again and confirming that nothing was left, he found another wreckage in the distance and left the area.

While Ye Bai was preparing to find a place to repair his injuries, he entered the game to complete the third-level task as soon as possible, and then tried to further study this personal terminal.

According to the experience of the previous two job changes and the feedback from Ye Bai's spiritual body, when she completes the third job change in the game, she should be able to break through to a B-level psychic in reality.

B-level psychics are the elite among space warriors. Their two greatest characteristics are that they can escape the gravity of the planet and fly in the sky, and that they no longer rely on aerobic environments and equipment and can walk directly in space without any protection of their bodies.

These two points are crucial to Ye Bai at the moment. She cannot build a spaceship with the wreckage, nor can she expect a kind spaceship to pass by and take her away. If she wants to leave here, she can only rely on her original strength.

At the same time, she has now used up two precious legendary magics. After reaching level B, her strength has increased, and she can confidently deal with unknown dangers.

Ye Bai walked until the sun set on this planet and arrived at the ruins of another area he had seen before.

Ye Bai was lucky during the search. The wreckage was the logistics component of a manned spacecraft, and there was a bottle of unbroken nutrient solution inside.

Although after using the insight, Ye Bai learned that this bottle of nutrient solution was produced hundreds of years ago and had long expired, but due to the sealed conditions and the low temperature environment here, the nutrients were not completely lost.

"Gulp gulp..."

Ye Bai unscrewed the bottle of '82 nutrient solution' and drank the whole bottle in one breath to prevent it from spoiling.

After replenishing a large amount of nutrients, the strengthened body began to spontaneously repair the injured body. Soon Ye Bai felt the blood flowing in his body, dispelling the biting cold.

After resting for a while, Ye Bai found a hidden and safe location in the wreckage, closed his eyes and logged into the star network.

This is a desolate planet. Basically, the only things we need to guard against are astronomical and meteorological disasters. If an enemy appears, the premonition of danger can also come in handy.

The field of vision changed, and the familiar Star Network personal space appeared.

Ye Bai breathed a sigh of relief. This was the advantage of the Star Network. Even in the chaotic starry sky where the Star Alliance had no coverage, there would be no problem of "network disconnection".

When he entered the Ten Thousand Worlds again, Ye Bai was still by the Blood River outside the city of Landu. It was already the second game day. The sun was shining on the bloody drinking water. The surroundings were no longer as lively as yesterday. Instead, they were very quiet. Only in the distance by the river bend were fishermen drying their fishing nets.

"Ahhh!"

Ottophis's cry was heard, Ye Bai fed it two pieces of bread, and then opened his personal panel.

At this time, during Ye Bai's disintegration return, a new skill appeared in the column of mental skills - Mental Chain.

[Mind Chain] Causes mental restraint on the enemy, causing 1000 points of spell damage during the skill duration, a 5-second immobilization effect, and a 15-second slowing effect.

Seeing this description, Ye Bai was stunned for a moment.

This suddenly appearing [Spirit Chain] is certainly not any skill in the universe, but comes from a mysterious person in reality!

Ye Bai had been attacked by a mysterious man before, and she did have a feeling that she could use the other party's abilities. She originally thought that the disintegration and return from reality could only be released in reality, so she opened it with the mentality of giving it a try, but she didn't expect that it would appear in the game at the same time!

Moreover, thanks to the system's information 'translation', Ye Bai also learned about the ability of this mysterious person, which she did not fully understand.

Virtual and reality have achieved true two-way communication.

Ye Bai was silent for a while, then took a deep breath and activated his two innate abilities.

She invested her remaining two talent points into two talents that were more focused on survival and life-saving: [Survival from Desperate Situations] and [Activation of Potential].

The effect of [Escape from the Dead End] is that when the health value drops to 1%, the health value will not drop anymore. The health value can be locked for 5 seconds and will not drop anymore. The cooling time is three days.

This talent can also be called the 'protagonist halo', which is suitable for dealing with unknown dangers that Ye Bai may encounter at the moment, and may save his life at the critical moment.

The effect of [Potential Activation] is that when the psychic energy value reaches zero, you can exchange health points for psychic energy value, and the cooling time is also three days.

This time, after using two legendary spells in succession, Ye Bai felt the importance of mental strength most clearly, and the two talents could be used in combination -

If there is a dangerous moment when her mental power is exhausted, Ye Bai can use [Potential Activation] to overdraw her vitality, and then use the effect of [Survival in Desperate Situations] to save her life. The combination can provide her with a chance to repel or counterattack.

Perhaps because he was leaning towards survival, Ye Bai did not feel too much pain when the two new talents were activated this time. Instead, he felt as if his body was washed by a warm current.

After doing all this, Ye Bai looked at the calm Blood River. She was not sure whether any players had completed their job changes yesterday. After thinking about it, she returned to the Star Network and searched for the three keywords "Landu City", "Blood River", and "BOSS".

If someone has already completed the job change, then Ye Bai will immediately find another Chaos Main City on the server to change jobs.

However, the search results surprised Ye Bai:

[Landu City Blood River fixed event BOSS]

[Analysis of the items carried by the Blood River BOSS in Landu City]

Earlier was the [reason why the Blood River BOSS in Landu City cannot be passed]. This relevant information first appeared a game month ago, which was when players changed their jobs on a large scale.

With a head full of doubts, Ye Bai checked the information one by one, and finally understood the cause and effect.

This hidden career quest line was discovered when the players in Landu City entered the career change period on a large scale, which was almost when Ye Bai changed his second career.

Players who then discovered they had encountered a hidden mission would naturally follow the mission clues all the way to the last step of the mission, where they would fight the 'job change mentor'.

The problem lies at this step.

The job transfer instructor related to the historical clue "Faith Gathering" quest chain is that strange irregular monster called Chaos Beast.

The Chaos Beast is a random creature. Not only does it look random, but its skills are also random.

Every time it appears, it will randomly combine the characteristics of a magical creature around it, and then change it into its own abilities. It is somewhat like a reverse parasitism. When it is injured and enters the second stage, it will abandon the parasitic creature and start a real random release. In this stage, it can use all the abilities it has parasitized.

Theoretically, the Chaos Beast's random skill pool includes skills of all attributes that exist in the universe.

Of course, it is ultimately just a job transfer instructor, and can only release magic of the corresponding level in the end.

According to the information Ye Bai had found, as time went by, by this point in time, almost the vast majority of players in Landu City had participated in killing the BOSS, but it seemed that they were all stuck when the Chaos Beast entered the second stage. No one mentioned why the Chaos Beast was not killed after the second stage.

The reason why they believe that the Chaos Beast is the 'fixed event BOSS in the Blood River of Landu City' is that the Chaos Beast in the second stage will abandon a parasite, which is basically an enhanced and mutated version of a certain creature in the Blood River. Taking this opportunity to kill the weak creature, some mutant organ materials can be exploded.

Although the weak creature does not drop gold coins and other common materials like ordinary BOSSes, those mutated organs can be sold to NPCs at a high price, which is a considerable income.

Chaos Beasts only appear at night, so in the eyes of players in Landu City, Chaos Beasts have become secondary. The by-product of its entry into the second stage has become an important "harvest", and the hidden BOSS is treated as a fixed activity BOSS.

After learning this information, Ye Bai's expression became strange.

If this happened in the keyboard version of Wanjie that she made, a hotfix would need to be made immediately - it was originally a monster feature setting, but unexpectedly, it was bugged by StarCraft players.

Ye Bai, who had profited from many game features along the way, never expected that one day he would see a scene where StarCraft players collectively encountered bugs.

But Ye Bai's doubts remained. As long as the Chaos Beast wasn't facing her, a Rank 2 Spellbreaker, it was ultimately just a Rank 1 boss against other StarCraft players. Could it be that no player had managed to kill a Rank 2 Chaos Beast in all this time? This didn't fit the player's desire to "have it all."

Furthermore, players who complete the pre-quests all the way through should, in theory, trigger the job change prompt when fighting the Chaos Beast.

If there is a job change prompt, normal players will definitely prioritize the job change instead of treating the Chaos Beast as a material BOSS.

But the good news is that this means Ye Bai can complete the job transfer task in Landu City tonight, without having to proceed with the prerequisite tasks or waste time looking for opportunities in other servers.

With doubts, Ye Bai went online again and waited around the Blood River.

By the evening, the players from Landu City appeared again in groups of three or five.

At this time, Ye Bai understood why all the players who came here had to form a team. It was obviously more secure to form a team to participate in the loot grabbing.

Most of the others were in groups, but Ye Bai was alone at the moment, and some curious and wary eyes slid over her.

Night fell as expected, and when the time came, a ball of light appeared underwater again, just like yesterday.

“Crash…”

The water surged, and a Chaos Beast of indescribable length emerged from the water.

“Bing!”

The players in the team became restless and eager to try, but Ye Bai, who was busy changing his job this time, would not miss it again and rushed directly towards the Chaos Beast where the water came out.

With the help of his level and equipment, Ye Bai's speed far exceeded that of other players who were only in their early thirties at most. He passed through the crowd of players like a gust of wind.

He met the Chaos Beast that had just emerged from the water, swung the Snow Sword, and then an ice cone pierced into the Chaos Beast's body.

"Bang!"

"Ah--!" The Chaos Beast screamed in pain. What was even more amazing was that after being attacked by Ye Bai, the Chaos Beast's body, which was like an irregular cloud, began to swell like a pufferfish. In a single breath, it expanded to three or four times its previous size. Its originally pink skin also changed, turning into a dangerous red.

['Forbidden Apostle' job change trial begins]

The next moment, Ye Bai received a system prompt.

Following her attack just now, the Chaos Beast, the job transfer instructor, had obviously changed compared to before. Its level had doubled, and its health and other attributes had increased several times, reaching level 60, which corresponded to Ye Bai's current third-job transfer level.

Seeing this, the players nearby were all shocked.

After fighting the "event boss" here for so long, this was the first time they saw the Chaos Beast undergo such a change.

After being stunned, some people soon realized that Ye Bai, a lone player, might have grasped some information that they didn't know, which led to this abnormal change.

"Everyone get out of here!"

Ye Bai took a step back and shouted a reminder to the surrounding players.

"Are you kidding me?"

Hearing this, everyone naturally sneered. Of course, no one would retreat at this time. Everyone wanted to snatch the BOSS in front of them who seemed to have undergone some changes.

However, the next moment, the Chaos Beast changed its shape, and a faint blue ice snake image emerged from its huge body.

“Clatter…”

The water magic [Freezing Aura] that can only be used by a third-level magician vibrates in circles around the Chaos Beast. These circles of aura not only have a strong slowing effect, but each circle also causes more than a thousand points of freezing damage to nearby players.

It swung around, and the closest player who was accidentally hit would have his health almost emptied.

Under the 80% slowdown effect, they had no time to run before the damage from the second circle of halo came slowly, completely taking away their health bars.

"What's going on—"

It's not that the players can't see that the BOSS has become stronger, but jumping directly from the first level to the third level is completely beyond their cognition. The gap between the different levels of the second and third levels is getting bigger and bigger. The players at the current stage can't even deal with the second-level BOSS, let alone the third-level BOSS.

After a wave of freezing aura came down, even though three-quarters of the players present had tried their best, they were still unable to withstand a total of five waves of aura damage, and they all turned into white light and disappeared.

The remaining one quarter were unable to catch up due to the long distance and had to retreat in time as they were at the edge of their skills.

Ye Bai on this side rolled back as soon as the Chaos Beast released its skills, and used the Light Feather Technique to jump, escaping the range while avoiding a circle of ice damage.

After waiting for the Chaos Beast to release its skills, Ye Bai rushed forward and faced the Chaos Beast, which was currently combined with an ice creature. In the surprised eyes of several nearby players, a bluish-white halo that was exactly the same as the one released by the Chaos Beast a moment ago emerged from under her feet, spreading out in circles, delaying the monster's approach.

Then, three consecutive fireball explosions were launched on the spot, causing damage to the Chaos Beast that could not get close.

The battle quickly entered Ye Bai's rhythm.

"So strong! Who is that? An NPC or a player?"

"Could it be...Bai Ye?"

The remaining players looked at each other briefly, but soon vaguely guessed Ye Bai's identity through the snow-white sword and magic attack.

After all, this is the Blue Star server, and the Blue Star server is the only server that is famous in the universe because of one person.

For the first time, facing the BOSS, most people present had no intention of getting close.

Firstly, the situation in which the BOSS was killed in one move was too terrifying, and the damage from his skills was definitely not the BOSS they knew in the past; secondly, a person's reputation is like a tree's shadow, and the mysterious lord Bai Ye is as famous as the development of Bai Ye Town.

To date, Bai Ye has only made a handful of public appearances, and no one even knows her true occupation. They can only roughly guess that it is a profession more inclined towards law.

And just now, the BOSS who killed so many level 30 players in one move was now fighting back and forth with Bai Ye.

The remaining seven or eight pairs of eyes present began to take screenshots, recording this precious moment when Bai Ye demonstrated his strength.

However, the following scenes left everyone present confused.

The BOSS's health steadily decreased under Bai Ye's solo attack, and it seemed that Bai Ye seemed to know all the skills released by it, but the BOSS might not know the skills released by Bai Ye.

How could Bai Ye's skill tree be even broader than the boss with the most skills they'd ever encountered? Was this situation...really the opposite?