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◎First Release◎
"Where have you been all this time? Did something happen? Are you hurt?"
The series of questions left Yan Yu completely confused. She looked at Song Fa, who was holding her shoulders tightly with a worried look on his face. She felt the slight trembling of his big hands, and her heart was filled with complicated emotions.
When Song Fa saw Yan Yu returning safely, his first reaction was to go up and hug her tightly, and tell her how worried and missed her he was during the time she disappeared, but he was afraid of being abrupt.
The half-extended hand stopped in mid-air and abruptly changed direction, holding her shoulders instead. His arm was restrained to the point that the veins bulged slightly and his Adam's apple was tense to the extreme.
In Yan Yu's impression, Song Fa has always been a serious, solemn, self-disciplined and polite person. Whenever she saw him, he was always upright, calm in the face of danger, and his shirt button was always buttoned to the top. She had never seen him in such a slightly embarrassed state.
Surprisingly, it makes people unable to look away.
Noticing Yan Yu's eyes, Song Fa curled his fingers slightly, then withdrew his hands. He gently tilted his head back, closed his eyes and calmed his inner emotions.
When he opened his eyes again, all his previous misbehavior had disappeared, and he returned to his usual solemn and cold look, as if the person he almost hugged just now was not him.
However, if someone knew him well, they would still notice something unusual, because his eyes were always on Yan Yu's face, and he was reluctant to even blink, for fear that it was an illusion caused by missing someone too much.
Yan Yu, who had keen senses, pretended to be unaware of this.
In fact, it is quite fun to tease this man occasionally and let his mood fluctuate with her.
But now is obviously not a good time to talk about feelings.
"Come in first, I'll close the door." Standing at the door of the store and reminiscing about the past, the street was filled with people coming and going, and there was no privacy at all.
Song Fa followed Yan Yu silently to the second floor.
Yan Yu poured Song Dai a cup of tea. Seeing that his mood had calmed down a lot, he said, "I participated in the Grand Prix held by the Lucibi Group before. I entered an unstable dungeon and was teleported to the floating world from there."
In the following time, Yan Yu explained in detail the things related to the floating world, and how she was captured by the highway survival copy, took the copy core, and opened an equipment store in the mechanical city, so that she could return through the teleportation array in the store.
Hearing this, Song Fa finally relaxed his mind: "I'm glad you're okay."
"Perhaps it's because the flow of time here and in the Aerial Realm is so different. You were in the Aerial Realm for seven or eight days, but here it felt like over four months had already passed. Your name suddenly went gray, and I couldn't get in touch with you. I...we were all so worried."
Yan Yu was surprised: "More than four months!?"
The time flow rate between the two worlds reached an astonishing 20:1.
Wait, doesn't that mean she can make full use of the time difference, forge equipment here, then take it to the floating world to sell, and then bring back the forging materials from Brody to continue rolling.
Hahaha, it probably won’t be long before she can become the largest equipment trader in the floating world, rapidly expanding her scale and occupying the market.
Of course, the premise of all this is that the game system here can "accommodate" her.
Song Fa told Yan Yu about his experiences and changes over the past four months. Yan Yu then discovered that Song Fa had actually quickly risen to level 100, becoming the number one in both the level ranking and the strength ranking.
Yan Yu checked his attribute panel:
Name: Song Fa
Level: 100
HP: 99400/99400
Strength: 48650 (+3300)
Constitution: 49000 (+3990)
Agility: 35000 (+4520)
Spirit: 23688 (+3430)
Talent: SS-level combat talent - precise three-hit combo (ignore defense, ignore level)
Equipment: SSS-level Thunder Sword, SSS-level Thor's Crown, SSS-level Thor's Armor (enhanced), SSS-level Thor's Belt (enhanced), SS-level Cloud-stepping Boots, SS-level Radiant Bracelet, SS-level Holy Vestment, S-level Storage Ring, S-level Frozen Necklace, S-level Dispel Ring
Skills: Advanced Damage Stacking, Advanced Sun Shuttle Fist, Advanced Meditation, Advanced Swordsmanship
Account: 6363046 gold coins and 80 silver coins
Unexpectedly, in just over four months, Song Fa had grown so rapidly, like he was riding a rocket. According to the standards of the Floating Realm, he was probably already at the third or fourth level of the Soul Condensation Realm.
To be able to grow to the current level in a "lower class area" with relatively scarce resources, both talent and hard work are indispensable.
It was only later that Yan Yu heard from Yao Dongxin that ever since she lost contact, Song Fa had been like crazy, wishing he could spend every day in the dungeon.
In addition to the copies required by the system every month, Song Fa also opened the keys to four A-level secret realm copies from the clearance rewards. He deliberately calculated the interval between the copies, which was equivalent to entering once every few days.
Sometimes I would look for other guilds, spend money to enter other people's dungeons to level up, completely disregarding life and death, working like a workaholic, and naturally making rapid progress.
Back to the present, Yan Yu discovered through the guild system that not only Song Fa's strength had skyrocketed, but even Yao Dongxin, Liu Zhi, Hou Shan and other guild members had also made great progress in strength and had all entered the level 90 mark.
Yan Yu patted his chest. Fortunately, he absorbed an SSS-level marrow cleansing pill and successfully entered the ninth level of the Soul Refining Realm. Otherwise, he would have been overtaken by his younger brothers as soon as he came back.
Yan Yu seemed to have thought of something and quickly asked Song Fa, "You've reached level 100. Isn't it time to enter the upgrade zone assessment?"
Brody once mentioned that players in the "lower zone" will immediately face the zone upgrade assessment after reaching the Great Perfection of the Entry Realm or breaking through to the Soul Condensation Realm.
If you pass the test, you can enter the floating world; if you fail the test, you will die completely.
The difficulty of the zone promotion assessment is extremely high, comparable to the heavenly thunder disaster in Chinese legend. If you are not careful, you will be doomed.
Song Fa smiled faintly: "You came back at the right time. The next dungeon is the zone upgrade assessment."
In fact, his last copy was an assessment copy, and he had already passed it, but in order to stay here and wait for news from Yan Yu, he had been suppressing his level and staying there. He was suppressed and rejected by the system every moment, and endured pain that ordinary people could hardly imagine.
As a punishment, the difficulty of the next dungeon will be increased by another level, which is almost impossible to survive.
But Song Fa didn't intend to tell Yan Yu about this, so as not to worry her.
Yan Yu nodded: "Okay, then tell me before you fast-forward into the dungeon."
"Okay." Song Fa casually took out a few things from his storage ring. "These are the equipment blueprints I got from clearing the last few dungeons. You're a high-level equipment engineer, so you need them. I'll give them to you."
Without looking at the detailed introduction of the drawings, just by looking at their colors, Yan Yu knew that three of them were S-level, and one was actually SS-level!
Yan Yu's eyes sparkled, and she smiled and asked, "These equipment blueprints are priceless. Are you really giving them to me for free?"
For some reason, when Song Fa saw Yan Yu's curved eyebrows, he felt that the air seemed a little hot.
He turned his face away and said "hmm" softly.
Yan Yu was sharp-minded. Through Song Fa's unusual behavior today, he roughly guessed his intentions, but he did not take the initiative to reveal his cards, nor did he refuse the four equipment blueprints he gave him.
Based on the value of these equipment blueprints, Yan Yu secretly flipped through his storage ring, trying to find some equipment of similar value to give to him.
After all, the two of them have not established a relationship, and Yan Yu has no habit of taking advantage of others.
She took out the SSS-level Radiant Bracelet, SSS-level Treasure Spirit Necklace, SSS-level Sealing Ring, SSS-level Feiyun Boots and SSS-level Xutian Robe and handed them to Song Fa.
These things just happened to replace his original S-level and SS-level equipment, allowing him to collect a total of 9 SSS-level equipment (the remaining one was an S-level storage ring).
"I don't want to take anything for free. These are my gifts to wish you a happy passing of the promotion assessment."
Seeing Yan Yu take out so many SSS-level equipment at once, Song Fa's eyes were filled with shock: "These equipment..."
"I forged them all. I'm actually an SSS-level Godcrafter. When I forge equipment, there's a certain chance I can upgrade it by one or two levels."
There was no need to continue pretending to be with Song Fa. After a period of contact, Yan Yu already knew that Song Fa was a man of impeccable character and ability.
At least she was sure that Song Fa would not betray her.
Besides, the true level of her talent would soon be impossible to hide even if she tried to.
Her forging success rate and speed far exceed those of ordinary people. People who are close to her will definitely be able to see the problem.
There are S-level and SS-level blacksmiths in the "lower-level area". With a little inquiry, you can compare the differences.
Sure enough, when Song Fa heard Yan Yu's words, he was not too surprised. It was obvious that he had guessed it a long time ago.
In fact, he had noticed something unusual when Yan Yu helped him upgrade the treasure chest. Later, it was proven that other blacksmiths were simply unable to synthesize the treasure chest, which clearly showed the unique talent of Yan Yu.
In addition, she can perform secondary enhancement based on the original equipment, and even SSS-level equipment can be enhanced.
He has such incredible talent and can easily give away five SSS-level equipment. This puts a lot of pressure on Song Fa, and the road to catching up with him is long.
However, he will not give up.
The two of them also had an in-depth discussion on matters related to the guild and Player City No. 100. During the period when Yan Yu was out of contact, these had always been managed by Song Fa, and he managed them in an orderly manner.
The guild did not expand further, but dozens of members died in the dungeon, leaving only about 400 people.
Player City No. 100 attracted many new players and even merged with five or six other player cities. Its area expanded hundreds of times, and the population remained at around 500,000.
After finishing his business, Yan Yu picked out some responses to messages from friends, briefly explained about entering the floating world, and then continued to concentrate on forging equipment.
That's a 20:1 time difference, she must make good use of it.
Moreover, Yan Yu always had a premonition that it would not be long before she would never be able to return here again.
To forge equipment, you must race against time!
Yan Yu asked Song Fa, Yao Dongxin, Cardolin and others to help collect S-level materials, while he stayed on the second floor of the store to make equipment.
After using the SSS-level marrow cleansing pill, Yan Yu's forging speed has increased again. On average, he can forge an S-level equipment in about two minutes.
So in the next 15 days, Yan Yu consumed a total of 7,800 pieces of S-level materials and forged 2,900 new pieces of equipment, including 2,290 pieces of S-level equipment, 570 pieces of SS-level equipment, and 40 pieces of SSS-level equipment!
In addition to the S-level materials exchanged from the highway survival copy, Yan Yu also spent 420,000 gold coins to purchase the remaining materials.
At the same time, she also used SS-level equipment drawings to forge 15 SS-level space shields and 5 SSS-level space shields; as well as 70 SS-level clone belts and 20 SSS-level clone belts.
Everything went smoothly in the early stage, but when forging the last clone belt, Yan Yu suddenly fell into unprecedented danger!
【Author’s words】
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