Lingquan City, as the capital of Dongming Province, is one of the few large cities in the country that was not affected by the war after the invasion of the abyss.
It served as a temporary capital for several years until the new imperial capital was rebuilt.
Therefore, compared with those well-known cities that have been rebuilt on the original site or relocated, this place retains many symbols of the old era, such as...urban villages.
The house the brother and sister rented was located in a place inside the urban village that could barely be considered a "commercial street."
The small, dilapidated building facing the street has three floors and is very old. Large parts of the exterior walls are peeling off, and even the red bricks inside have become oxidized and blackened.
The first floor of the small building is rented to a merchant to open a supermarket, the second floor is where the landlord, Grandma Wang, lives, and the small attic on the top floor belongs to Li Wei and Li Cheng.
In order to avoid interference with each other, the original staircase on one side of the interior was separated into a narrow, independent stairwell facing the street.
Climbing up to the third floor in the dark, Li Wei held Li Cheng in one hand and turned the key to open the door with the other.
As soon as the old security door creaked open, the familiar musty smell of water-soaked walls wafted over.
Turning on the ceiling lamp without a lampshade and looking at this small, shabby house of less than 20 square meters, Li Wei grinned happily.
My mood is different now, and everything I see seems to be beautiful.
She did not immediately study her golden finger, but first took off the half-wet blanket. Ignoring Li Cheng's firm opposition, she stripped the little brat naked, stuffed him into the one-square-meter "luxury" bathroom, turned on the shower head and gave him a hot bath.
When Li Wei carried Li Cheng back to his crib, the little kid's expression looked as if he had been ravaged by countless big men.
"Hahaha~" Li Wei pulled the bed curtain for him with a strange smile, then returned to the bathroom and took a shower.
When she put on the cartoon-style cotton nightgown she wore when she was fourteen and sat cross-legged on the bed, it was almost three in the morning.
Li Wei stretched and felt a tightness in her chest.
Unable to help but lower her head, she happened to see the faded cartoon animal's cheeks stretched into round shapes. Li Wei's face felt a little hot, and she quickly shook her head, clearing out the yellow waste, took a deep breath, and looked at the system panel.
Ignoring the personal information, she stared at the column "Essence of the Abyss: 357" and thought of the black light that flew out of the ambulance.
"That light must be the so-called essence of the abyss," she thought. "The black light only appeared after the ambulance drove up to me. So, my system can only absorb the 'essence' within a certain range."
She analyzed and estimated the distance between herself and the ambulance at that time.
"It should be around eight or nine meters... maybe six or seven? Never mind, I can test it later. I was so shocked at the time I didn't pay attention to the distance."
"So, next point, what is 'Essence of the Abyss'?"
"With the word 'abyss' in it, it must be related to the abyss."
After the invasion of the abyss two hundred years ago, countless cracks of various sizes appeared on the surface, and the monsters in the abyss poured out, threatening the entire human world.
Later, as the number of warriors increased and their strength grew, humans finally stabilized their position.
Those cracks were either destroyed by the warriors working together, or controlled and opened to all warriors for exploration.
However, if you want to enter and test how to obtain the essence, you must first obtain an official warrior certificate issued by the Martial Arts Alliance.
Li Wei curled her jade fingers slightly and tapped them between her toes, looking very distressed.
"I'm not a full-fledged warrior yet, so I can't enter the Abyssal Rift. Furthermore, without any combat techniques or actual combat experience, entering the rift would be a death sentence for someone like me."
"This is a dead end. No, let's try to reason from another angle."
She pulled her little finger out from between her toes and smelled it unconsciously. Hmm, the smell of soap.
"Leading the way ahead of the ambulance was a black SUV. On the door was a blue-gray emblem with two swords piercing a shield. It must have belonged to the 'Rift Investigation Bureau'!"
"The Rift Investigation Bureau used a bus to clear the way, so the people in the ambulance must be from their side, right? As a department fighting on the front lines of the Abyss invasion, the wounded...?"
Li Wei was startled and pounded her left palm with her right fist, making a crisp "pa" sound.
"Abyssal monsters must have invaded the city just now. The injured must have participated in the front-line battle, and I sucked their essence away after they were injured!"
"Two possibilities!"
"First, he killed the Abyss Monster and brought its essence to me!"
"Secondly, the Abyss Monster itself can spread essence. He fought it at close range, and some of it got on his body."
With a general idea in mind, Li Wei stopped worrying about it and planned to find an opportunity to test it tomorrow. Of course, the more important thing was how to get 30 million.
"Forget it, add some first!"
Move your attention upwards to the [Qi and Blood: 53 (+)] column.
Staring at the small plus sign at the back, Li Wei became eager to take action.
"Hehe, hehehe, hahaha, jiejiejiejie~"
"Deep Blue, give me some more!"
Bang!
Li Wei excitedly "clicked", and the "+" sign flashed. Her health value became 54, and the abyss essence decreased by 10 points, with a balance of 347.
The moment the numbers changed, she could clearly feel a warm current coming from her lower abdomen, which instantly spread throughout her body. She felt warm all over, as if she had soaked in a hot spring.
"Fuck, it's hanging!"
Li Wei was excited!
10 points of essence can be exchanged for 1 point of health, so wouldn’t she be able to take off?
You know, the qi and blood of a quasi-warrior in the blood-nourishing stage are much more important than the qi and blood during the formal warrior period.
It represents talent and the future!
When the Qi and Health value reaches 60, one can choose to break through and become a formal warrior, but it is extremely difficult for a warrior who breaks through in this way to break into the intermediate level, let alone the Grandmaster. Basically, they will be stuck in the lower three levels for their entire lives.
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