Chapter 22 Chapter 22 "Jiang Qing, what have you prepared? ...
Jiang Qing raised his hand and carefully observed the new totem on his wrist. It was another very abstract symbol, composed of two nested, slightly twisted circles, with a few tiny, star-like bright spots dotted inside the circles.
Almost at the same time, the description of the new talent automatically appeared in her mind.
[Beast Taming Talent: Resource Conversion]
[Skill Name: Midas Touch]
[Talent Description: Transforms into form when encountering blood, and turns stones into gold.]
The place on my wrist that was bitten by Zhu Tianba still hurts a little.
Jiang Qing held up her face and patted it gently. The awakening of this talent caught her off guard and her mind was still a little dazed.
She took a deep breath, looked at Zhu Tianba, and her gaze returned to the pearls scattered on the ground. She decided to do a little experiment to test what was going on.
She did not bend down to pick up the pearls. Instead, her eyes were attracted by a palm-sized ceramic clay doll on the desk. It was a cute and dreamy little girl.
If the new talent "Turning Stone into Gold" was really as she thought... her heart beat faster.
Then she only needs to spend a little money in the future and she won’t have to worry about having no money to spend!
She looked at the small wound on her hand. The blood had stopped flowing and only a little dark red was clotted.
She hardened her heart and pinched the edge of the wound with her fingernails!
"hiss……"
A slight stinging sensation came, and fresh blood oozed out again, which was particularly glaring on her fair skin.
She quickly picked up the clay doll and placed it on the bleeding area.
Time passed minute by minute, she held her breath and stared without blinking.
A few minutes passed.
Ceramics are still ceramics, and clay sculptures are still clay sculptures.
Not to mention turning into a golden appearance, there is not even the slightest change in the luster, and even the basic morphological characteristics have not changed.
Is it because there is not enough blood?
Jiang Qing frowned, stared at the unresponsive doll and thought for a few seconds, then dug her nails deep into the flesh again in disbelief.
More blood gushed out, winding down the fingers, staining the fingertips and palms red.
She once again placed her bloody palm over the doll.
Another few minutes of agonizing waiting.
The doll lay quietly in a pool of her blood, still stubbornly maintaining its original shape.
Jiang Qing tilted his head in confusion, looking at Zhu Tianba beside him, silently asking what was going on.
She felt that Zhu Tianba must know the situation.
Zhu Tianba blinked his little eyes and seemed to sigh. He lowered his head, nudged a pearl on the ground with his nose, then carefully picked it up with his mouth and dangled it to Jiang Qing's bloody hand.
"Stupid Jiang Qing, this is what you need."
As soon as the white pearl touched the warm blood remaining on her hand, something strange happened, and the entire pearl underwent a qualitative change from the inside out.
The powdery shell crackled and peeled off inch by inch with a slight "crackling" sound right under Jiang Qing's eyes. Then, a dazzling golden substance spread, covered, and reorganized rapidly like a living thing, as if the pearl was instantly coated with a layer of flowing gold.
Because the blood soaked the uneven parts, the parts that changed this time were also extremely uneven. The gold melted and condensed on the beads, and the surface of the pearls became mottled. There was a piece of dazzling gold here and a piece of stubborn white there. The yellow and white alternated, making it look like a low-quality imitation.
"Why is it okay with pearls but not with ceramic dolls?" Jiang Qing muttered to himself, as if he was asking himself, or as if he was asking Zhu Tianba.
And only the places that her blood touched changed, the other parts remained in their original form.
If she really wanted to completely transform a pearl into gold, she would have to shed at least a small bottle cap of blood to do it.
This is not turning stone into gold, it’s simply “losing all your money”!
It was like hurting the enemy by a thousand and hurting herself by eight hundred. Before she became a rich woman, she became an adult first.
Zhu Tianba obviously couldn't give her an answer, and just hummed twice.
A feeling of disappointment surged in Jiang Qing's heart, and the joy of awakening her new talent was also thrown behind her.
The material of the Midas Touch is very demanding, so unless she is really so poor that she can't afford to eat, this skill is pretty useless.
But it's not absolute. Maybe one day she will discover its special use.
Talented skills do not come with detailed skill manuals at birth, and even if you contract the same spirit pet, each person's awakened talent skills are different, so this also means that you need to figure out and learn how to use the talent skills through continuous battles.
Jiang Qing took out a magic band-aid from the drawer, skillfully tore open the package, and applied it to the injured area.
Almost the moment it touched the skin, a cool and comfortable feeling permeated, and the torn flesh seemed to be gently smoothed by an invisible hand, and a slight tingling sensation came.
In just a few seconds, the wound was healed, leaving only a faint red mark.
This was given to her by the doctor when she went to the treatment room before. It was a small wound patch developed by pharmacists specifically for wounds. It contained the texture of herbs and the power of taming beasts, and could completely repair the injured area within a few seconds.
The downside is that it is expensive and cannot remove scars.
Scars also need special scar cream to disappear.
Jiang Qing peeled off the useless magic band-aid and threw it into the trash can.
There is no need for scar cream, the wound will heal on its own.
After calming down, Jiang Qing turned his attention to business.
She decided to research the Dark Valley she was going to visit tomorrow. She picked up Lingtong again, her fingertips sliding quickly across the screen, clicking on the academy forum and the beastmaster communication platform, searching for relevant information.
The posts in the academy and the links under the Beastmaster Forum all have information about Dark Valley.
Jiang Qing clicked on one of them at random.
[Transfer and collation | Dark Valley Research Report, Scientific Records and Analysis of Unknown Energy Sources:]
Dark Valley was first discovered one year and three months ago. Geologists have confirmed that the valley was formed by the impact of a high-density meteorite (tentatively named KDOG). Subsequent geological activity (such as localized collapse, groundwater seepage, and anomalous energy influences) has formed a complex network of secondary caves and winding underground rivers, hence the name "Dark Valley." The valley floor is perpetually shrouded in a faintly light-absorbing gray-blue mist, formed by a mixture of special mineral dust and water vapor, resulting in low visibility.
The KDOG was largely vaporized or fragmented upon impact, with the core remnants buried approximately 200 meters below the center of the crater. The debris and scattered fragments contain a large amount of unknown animal core components and a variety of high-density crystalline minerals. The most prominent of these is the "dark crystal," a translucent crystal that spontaneously emits a faint, pulsed, cold blue light, and is the primary anomalous light source within the valley.
Abnormal nodes originate from the highly active and unique "alien beast energy" released from the core debris. This energy is transmitted and diffused through underground river networks, cracks in rock layers rich in dark crystals, and unique venation structures. At specific geological intersections (such as large dark crystal veins, underground pools, areas rich in special minerals, and weak points in the earth's crust), due to geological structural constraints, the resonance amplification effect of dark crystals, or interactions with other minerals and underground biological energy fields, significant enrichment, distortion, and mutation occur, forming areas of abnormally high spatial energy density, known as "abnormal nodes." This energy is more like an "active force field" with a faint primitive consciousness or strong energy tendency.
The post ends here, and the whole post is filled with "Thanks for sharing".
Jiang Qing's fingertips tapped her knees unconsciously. She summed up two points from the post.
First, the abnormal nodes were formed by the interaction between the beast core brought by the KDOG collision and the surrounding environment. What they wanted to collect and record was these energy debris.
Second, the phosphorescent moths mentioned in the third point of the mission are likely to have mutated due to abnormal energy, and their number and level make them difficult to deal with.
In order to understand the environment more intuitively, Jiang Qing entered "real photos of dark valley" in the search box.
Several high-definition pictures popped up.
The towering rock walls on both sides of the dark valley in the photo block the sunlight all year round. The light in the valley is extremely dim, and the stream water is cold, which looks icy.
The post description mentioned that the water is rich in special minerals, resulting in extremely sparse vegetation in the valley, with only some tenacious, wet mosses and ferns clinging to the slippery rocks.
The air humidity in the dark valley is also extremely high, and the photo is filled with a light blue mist.
All the dark valleys in the pictures have one thing in common: the terrain is complex, with slippery rocks and pools of varying depths.
Jiang Qing had a general impression in his mind and basically understood what the Dark Valley looked like.
Just as I was about to turn off Lingtong, a message suddenly came from the group.
Zhao Peng: [Picture] [Picture] [Picture]
Zhao Peng: [See how comprehensive my preparations are.]
Jiang Qing clicked on the pictures one by one. The first one was a mountaineering bag that was almost half a person's height. It was bulging and the zipper was stretched tight. Various jingling metal buckles, fluorescent sticks and small instruments were hanging on it. Next to it were two brand new sets of field survival protective suits that were obviously expensive at first glance, and matching high waterproof boots.
The second picture shows a table covered with various bottles and jars, including advanced energy supplements, special antidotes, powerful insect repellent sprays, fast-stop hemostatic gels, and even a small box of medicine labeled "Emergency Mental Stabilization". Next to it are scattered bundles of high-strength ropes, rock nails, high-intensity flashlights, night vision goggles, multi-functional engineering shovels, and even a small foldable water purifier.
The third photo was the most outrageous. The armored bull was clad in a custom-made set of light armor that gleamed with a cold metallic sheen. Two small searchlights were strapped to its horns. The photo was a selfie, with half of Zhao Peng's face captured. He even struck a pose he thought looked very handsome.
"......" Jiang Qing looked at the picture, the corners of her mouth twitched. She thought Zhao Peng had exaggerated enough.
As a result, the remaining two people also threw a few pictures into the group. Judging from the things in the pictures, they had prepared no less than Zhao Peng.
No wonder she said she hadn't seen Li Xiu the whole day.
Looking at herself again, she hadn't prepared anything.
Jiang Qing sat up from the bed, pinching his chin and lost in thought.
When she learned that the average level of the strange beasts in the Dark Valley was around level six of the mortal rank, she did not take it seriously.
After all, the giant tree forest where the beast taming test was conducted was much more dangerous than this one.
Jiang Qing didn't speak in the group for a while, so Zhao Peng tagged her directly.
Zhao Peng: [Jiang Qing, what have you prepared?]
It would have been fine if he hadn't asked. Once he asked, Jiang Qing felt like a bad student who had been caught for not doing his homework and wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
She slid the Lingtong interface and her eyes fell on the post forum that she had not yet exited. Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind!
Got it!
She quickly copied a passage from the detailed research report that accurately described the habits of creatures and dangerous areas in the dark valley.
Jiang Qing: [I prepared this.]
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