Chapter 217 Natasha's two upgrade directions - Queen's Statue or Assassin's Hall
At night, in Liukan Town, in a wooden house.
After returning from Tokyo, Anson Lu took a shower and tried on a khaki windbreaker - this was picked for him by Yuri, and it was quite similar to the "Sherlock Holmes decoration" in the carriage of the sea train.
He has grown a lot taller during this period, and his shoulders have become broader, enough to support heavy clothes. More importantly, his temperament has changed, so that when he puts on a windbreaker, he doesn't look like a "child wearing adult clothes."
On the contrary, it is just right, revealing a cold sense of elitism everywhere.
He had just sat down on the bed when a gray message bubble popped up in the upper right corner of his vision.
When I clicked on it, I saw it was a transaction application.
[The player "Yuliu Mena" in your friend list has made a trade request to you. ]
[——Items given by the other party: poorly made wooden planks*999 (low-grade materials), crow heads*999 (low-grade materials), reefs that can be found everywhere*999 (low-grade materials), etc.…]
[——The item the other party requested: 50,000 Evolution Coins.]
"It's really fast. But it only costs 50,000 Evolution Coins. Xiaomei is so nice. She is really the kind of person who is cold on the outside but warm on the inside... She is much better than that black marketeer Crow." Anson Lu accepted the transaction request.
In any case, low-grade materials are now out of stock.
Apart from Julius, Anshen Lu really didn't know who could do this for him.
If he were to look for Crow, this gambler who admires the strong would definitely refuse with words like - "Mr. Lu, it's too much for me to find such low-grade materials."
[The transaction has been completed. You lost 50,000 Evolution Coins and gained a total of 10,000 different inferior materials.]
[Current Evolution Coin balance: 110,000 Evolution Coins. ]
"Okay, that's enough."
He opened the chess type panel with satisfaction and clicked on Natasha's page.
[Chess name: Slum girl - Natasha]
[Chess quality: inferior]
[Requirements for upgrading a chess type to "ordinary level": 10,000 inferior materials; 50,000 evolution coins. ]
[It is detected that the requirements for upgrading are met. Do you want to consume materials to upgrade this chess type? ]
"Upgrade." Anson Lu did not hesitate. It would be unjust if he did not upgrade. Natasha was an infinitely advanced chess piece, and she was also the main chess piece that had accompanied him the longest.
[The 10,000 low-grade materials in the bag have been cleared, and 50,000 Evolution Coins have been paid. ]
[Current account balance: 60,000 Evolution Coins. ]
[Congratulations, the inferior chess type - "Slum Girl Natasha" has been upgraded to the ordinary chess type - "Wandering Apprentice Girl Natasha"!!!]
Anson Deer raised an eyebrow.
"Wandering? Apprentice? There doesn't seem to be such a story in the background story of the Queen's statue."
He thought carefully that before the king picked up Natasha, Natasha, who was only a teenager, already had extremely strong strength. Perhaps she had wandered for a while and learned skills from someone.
He checked Natasha's panel again and it had changed drastically.
[Chess name: Wandering Apprentice Girl - Natasha]
[Chess level: MAX (this chess type has reached the maximum level)]
[Chess quality: ordinary level]
[Chess type attributes: Strength: 9; Agility: 12; Intelligence: 9]
[Chess Skills:
1. Assassin's Instinct (Blessed by a "fallen twilight god", Natasha has natural assassin skills. Her reaction and skills are far beyond her peers. Even assassinating an adult is not a problem)
2. Triangle stranglehold (Natasha climbs to the back of the opponent's head and cuts the opponent's neck using both hands and feet)
3. Poison Dagger (Natasha drew poison on the dagger to increase the lethality of the attack)
4. Shadow Weaving Steps (Natasha uses slow and rhythmic steps to create an illusion to confuse the opponent's vision)
[Description of chess game: Natasha met an old man who called himself "Ninja Master" in the slums. She gave the seriously injured Ninja Master food and drinking water, bandaged his wounds, and saved him from danger.
In return, the Ninja Master accepted Natasha as his apprentice. He revealed that he had been traveling around the world for decades to investigate a demon named "Qinghong". He must destroy "Qinghong" before his death, otherwise he would not be able to complete the task assigned by his master.
So, Natasha traveled around the continent with the Ninja Master for a while, during which time she learned many ninja assassination techniques. Even the Ninja Master had to marvel at her unparalleled talent.
But half a year later, until the Ninja Master's lifespan ran out, he still hadn't found the demon named "Qinghong". After Natasha buried the Ninja Master in the desert, she briefly returned to the slums to see how her former companions were doing now.
Anson Deer nodded. "Oh, so the plot is connected. After that, she was picked up by the king's statue."
He continued to look down.
[This chess type has "unlimited advancement qualifications" and can currently be upgraded to "rare level" and has two upgrade directions. ]
[Upgrade direction 1: "Blue Flame Queen Stone Statue - Natasha", upgrade requirements: 1,000 ordinary materials, 50,000 evolution coins, legendary material - Blue Rainbow Holy Fire * 20. ]
[Upgrade direction 2: "Hall Chief Assassin - Natasha", upgrade requirements: 1,000 common materials, 50,000 evolution coins, legendary material - Dark Night Cloak * 20. ]
"Why do I feel like I'm playing a development game? Are there multiple options for advancement now..." Anson Lu murmured, "Advancing requires a thousand common-grade materials, which are much easier to find than ten thousand inferior-grade materials. There should be some on the market now, and the price is not high. The important thing is the legendary materials."
Natasha who advances to the "Queen's Stone Statue Form" and Natasha who advances to the "Chief Assassin of the Hall" are two completely different concepts.
Anson Deer believes that this choice needs to be carefully considered.
If she were to advance to a stone statue of the queen, what kind of story would Natasha have to go through to be freed from the curse of "Blue Rainbow"?
However, if she were to advance to a stone statue of the queen, she would be able to regain her original memory. Then she would be the stone statue of the queen he knew, not this taciturn girl.
"What should I choose?" Anson Lu sighed. "Hmm... To be honest, I don't really want her to advance to 'Blue Flame Stone Statue'. I feel like it will bring back a lot of bad memories."
But without this memory, Natasha might no longer be the "Stone Queen".
His intuition told him that only by evolving Natasha into the form of the "Blue Flame Queen Stone Statue" would she have a chance to awaken her original memories. If it was the original Queen Stone Statue, it would be much easier to talk to.
After all, they have been working together for so long.
"There are still a lot of materials required for upgrading." Anson Lu murmured, "Then just ask Jiang Yijie directly."
Anyway, he had already agreed to cooperate with the national team in the future, so he didn't feel embarrassed or nervous. He directly opened the friend list and sent a message to Jiang Yiji.
"Captain Jiang, are you asleep?"
"You're still awake, what's wrong?"
"I want to ask you for some materials."
"Well...if it's Red Tide-grade material, it would be difficult to obtain even with my authority."
"No, I only want common and legendary materials, and I don't have any specific requirements. Any kind will do."
"How much do you need?"
Even when Jiang Yiji was typing, his tone was always so gentle.
"One thousand common-grade materials and twenty legendary-grade materials aren't too many, right?"
"Heh... you're really asking for too much, but it's not difficult. I'll send it to you in a while."
"Thanks, Captain Jiang."
"You're welcome. We'll be colleagues soon, and we should help each other."
Is it necessary to emphasize this... Anson Lu laughed and closed the conversation panel.
He asked Jiang Yiji for a thousand ordinary-grade materials in order to upgrade Natasha. After all, he had already obtained the "Blue Rainbow Holy Fire" material in the sequence copy, and the only things left were ordinary-grade materials.
As for the other twenty legendary materials that he and Jiang Yiji asked for, they were to collect fifty legendary materials and upgrade the Floating Shark King to the maximum level.
In just one day, he asked three different people for help in getting materials. Anson Lu couldn't help but sigh in his heart that this was the benefit of having connections.
Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of An Senlu who was isolated and helpless over there.
"How is she..." Anson Lu raised his eyebrows, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and curiously opened the software - Cross-time and space observation.
The software screen appeared quickly, and the directory on the right only refreshed a new video - this video was very short, only about thirty seconds long.
"It's only thirty seconds. What kind of video will it be?"
Anson Lu clicked the video nonchalantly, and the screen began to project the images.
He was very familiar with the unfolding scene - this was Ancheng in China, it was dusk, and the setting sun was high in the sky.
Ancheng is much larger than Shangshi City and looks much more lively and prosperous. It is at least at the level of a third-tier city.
The "protagonist" of the video, Anson Lu, was wearing a black hoodie and a black hood. She walked slowly through the crowd and stopped in front of a residential building. She walked up the stairs and came to the fifth floor.
She stopped at the building she remembered, turned the doorknob, and found it was unlocked.
He pushed the door open and walked in.
What caught her eyes were two hanged bodies - their faces were bloodless, with foam coming out of their mouths, eyeballs rolled up, and blood on their necks from being strangled by the ropes.
Anson Lu's hand that was supporting his chin trembled and he swallowed a mouthful of water.
He knew who these two people were - his uncle and aunt. They valued their only son - An Hongyan the most. Now that An Hongyan had died at the hands of An Senlu, they had no reason to continue living, so they chose to commit suicide.
From the beginning, Anson Lu had neither love nor hate towards these two people. His uncle and aunt inherited the inheritance of Anson Lu's parents, so it was their natural responsibility to raise Anson Lu.
With this inheritance, my uncle quit his job and found a leisurely job that allowed him to work from home. My aunt nags him all day long, but he doesn't care. After all, Anson Lu's parents left him enough money.
However, they never took special care of Anson Deer from childhood to adulthood, either mentally or physically.
Anson Lu often locked himself in his room playing chess. He only received pocket money during the Chinese New Year and had to save for two or three years to buy a game console. However, his cousin was very nice to him and often brought him some comic magazines and snacks.
My cousin is the only son in his uncle's family, so his uncle and aunt put all the family's finances on him - all the highest-level tutoring classes, the best schools, and later they sent him to a university in the United States, paying a huge amount of tuition every year.
As for Anson Deer, they just tried to be perfunctory about it.
My uncle would say on the surface: "The public school environment here is poor, Luzi, I will help you find a private school."
In fact, after finding a school for Anson Lu, he breathed a sigh of relief. He told his aunt behind his back how tired he was and how many connections he had used to barely help this hopeless kid find a school. He said that this kid was unwilling to work hard and only knew how to play chess all day long. He just relied on his parents' affair and waited for us to support him for the rest of his life.
At that time, Anson Lu heard it clearly behind the door.
While my aunt was beating and scolding my uncle, she said that we owed his parents. How could we say such a thing? I was secretly happy in my heart. Compared with Anson Lu, their son was so outstanding.
Since childhood, An Hongyan has always been the "other people's child" in the eyes of her neighbors. Now she has become an "elite returnee" that everyone envies. She will definitely be able to enter a good company and make a lot of money in the future.
As for Anson Deer, he is good for nothing.
Even so, when he saw the bodies of his uncle and aunt with his own eyes, a complex emotion flashed across Anson Lu's eyes.
Even if they didn't care much about him, they were still people who had eaten at the same table with him for many years.
"This is suicide... How fragile are you?"
Ansenlu sneered, she took off her hood, put her hands in her pockets, raised her emotionless eyes, and watched the scene expressionlessly.
Her reaction was calm, but Anson Deer could see her shoulders tremble slightly.
A moment later, Ansenlu walked into the living room, passed by two corpses, and saw a letter on the table. She reached out and picked up the letter, and the screen suddenly went black.
The video ends here.
Anson Deer stared at his own face reflected on the screen and muttered.
"Does the principal's transformation begin here? Or somewhere else?"
He shook his head, dispelled unnecessary speculation, turned off the software, and lay on the bed for a while.
After a moment, Anson sat up and said:
"Natasha, come out for a moment."
After the order was given, Natasha, who had advanced to the normal level, appeared in front of him.
Natasha had grown taller visibly. She was still wearing cloth clothes, with her left hand supporting her right wrist. Her purple eyes dodged Anson Deer, their pupils dim and cold.
"Do you know me?" Anson asked.
"Anson Deer." She remembered what Anson Deer had said and did not continue to call him master.
"I mean, other than that, do you remember anything? Like killing demon warriors with me in Hokkaido?"
"I'm sorry... I don't have such memory."
"Okay, then tell me what happened during the years you were out with the 'Ninja Master'." Anson Lu was not disappointed.
"We were looking for a demon named 'Qinghong'. We didn't find him, but we encountered many wonderful things along the way. I also practiced seriously with my master for a long time."
"I see." Anson Lu groaned, "That's it, you can go back now."
"Yes, sir."
As soon as she finished speaking, Natasha disappeared.
Sure enough, she had to be upgraded to a "Blue Flame Stone Statue" before she could recover her original memory? But was it really necessary to turn her into a "stone statue" again? This was really stupid.
"Or what if this advancement route, the Stone Statue Route, has lower potential than the 'Assassin's Hall' advancement route next door?" Anson Lu stared at the ceiling and thought.
After a while, he shrugged his shoulders, took a long breath, and fell onto the bed with his arms and legs spread out. The back of his head sank into the soft plush quilt, and his tired eyelids closed.
"Well, anyway...let's get some sleep first."
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