Chapter 115 A Promise Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold (Part 3) The Third World, Copy, Sacrifice...
Having once possessed special abilities and then lost them... Given the importance of special abilities to those with superpowers, wouldn't their spirits all be shattered in two?
Tian Yinuo had also seen people whose spirits were damaged. Most of the villagers in Redwood Village were like that. They had simple thinking, rigid movements, and slow reactions. It was said that the spirits that were even more severely shattered were in the fish tank in the middle of the church.
Could Gu Yinglan's spirit be damaged? Apart from lacking some common sense about the City of the Sun, Gu Yinglan is too reliable in every aspect; there is no sign of any damage to her spirit.
"For ordinary people, the pain of a damaged spirit is enough to destroy their sanity, but for some people with obsessions, this destructive pain is the most handy tool to hone their fragile spirit until—the fragmented spirit is reborn and a completely new self emerges from the wound."
After finishing her long explanation, Cat Whiskers gave Tian Yinuo a meaningful look, but unfortunately, the other woman didn't understand her implication at all, and simply nodded in sudden realization: "Bishop Gu is amazing!"
She could feel Shen Xijing nodding vigorously in agreement. Being able to endure the pain of being torn apart all over her body, no wonder the Lord would choose an ordinary person as a bishop!
Cat Whiskers: ...
Realizing that he had flirted with the two idiots, Cat Whiskers curled his lip and focused all his attention on Gu Yinglan.
She didn't show any unusual behavior, just like before, reading the scroll in her hands with a fanatical expression. However, the ring of fire above Gu Yinglan's head, made of a cluster of purple flames, burned brighter and brighter, like a halo hanging above her head. The firelight illuminated her eyes and dispelled some of the distortion.
Cat Whiskers felt a little relieved. Purple Fire was the power of the gods, and with His attention, Gu Yinglan shouldn't fall into the most dangerous situation.
"As speed up... Tungsten carbide Stephen... Tai Sui... Aurora me..."
Gu Yinglan's eyes were glazed over, as if she had entered another world. Her lips moved incessantly, uttering incoherent murmurs.
As Tian Yinuo continued to worry, her ears twitched slightly. She was actually able to understand what Gu Yinglan was saying?
"In the third year of the Taifeng reign, a severe drought struck, and locust plagues broke out everywhere, lasting for years... In the fifth year of the Taifeng reign, in seventeen prefectures including Bing, Xu, and Dai, the earth trembled, causing countless deaths and injuries... In the eighth year of the Taifeng reign, a great plague struck Nanjing, and people dressed in white filled the city... In the ninth year of the Taifeng reign, a famine struck, leaving thousands of miles of barren land, and people in Jiangnan resorted to cannibalism..."
"In the fifteenth year of the Taifeng reign, the emperor received the Tianqi decree and was overjoyed. That year, the weather was favorable and the harvest was plentiful, and not one out of every hundred households survived. In the first year of the Tianqi reign, immortals left Penglai in the west and climbed Mount Tai in the east to worship Tai Sui. The five grains were plentiful, everything went smoothly, and people had no worries. Therefore, the 'Record of a Hundred Disasters' was closed and left for readers to peruse."
"puff!"
Tian Yinuo was pondering the meaning of this strangely worded sentence when, unexpectedly, a burst of black fire appeared in front of her. The scroll in Gu Yinglan's arms ignited without wind, and the fireball grew larger as it leaped and shrieked, rushing straight toward Gu Yinglan!
"stop--"
Just as her superpower was halfway activated, the fire ring above Gu Yinglan's head seemed to be provoked and became active as well. Although it was only a small cluster and its size was incomparable to the black fire that had grown to the height of a person, the fierce black fire seemed to be frightened and froze in mid-air.
The purple flames ignored the black flames' reaction. Like a provoked child, it burst open after reaching its peak. The purple flames rained down on the black flames, and in an instant, the menacing black flames were swallowed up by the purple flames without making a sound.
For a moment, Tian Yinuo even thought that the shrill wail she had just heard was an illusion.
"Bishop Gu, what happened to you just now?"
Purple Flame devoured the "dessert," then happily tossed two sparks that landed on Gu Yinglan's head before fading back into the divine realm. Gu Yinglan's dazed expression cleared somewhat; she rubbed her forehead and gasped for breath.
“Hiss…that scroll from just now, I think I’ve seen it before…I have an archaeologist friend, and this is something she sent me, a relic of a lost civilization…a completely new writing system, I probably didn’t have time to decipher it before, but I just understood it…”
Gu Yinglan recalled what she had just seen and tried to summarize: "This seems to be a record about natural disasters. There is an ancient country called Yuanshui. For some reason, natural disasters have been coming one after another. In their despair, 'immortals' descended from the sky and brought Tai Sui, which can eliminate all worries..."
"Tai Sui".
As Gu Yinglan spoke, the dazed look in her eyes gradually gave way to surprise and doubt. With Shen Xijing's help, she stood up, struggled to look up at the distant mountains, and murmured softly as if in a dream: "Tai Sui..."
A weight settled beside her legs. Tian Yinuo looked down at the little girl whose eyes were shimmering with silver light. Cat Whiskers narrowed his eyes, and the few thin scars on his facial muscles twitched, like a feline shaking its whiskers before a hunt. "Although the strength is not comparable, it is... an irresistible disaster that suddenly descended, and a magical power that suddenly appeared after the disaster."
Tian Yinuo shivered involuntarily, a strange chill seeping into her heart. She stared in disbelief at Cat Whiskers as she slowly and deliberately uttered that terrifying word:
"The Great Cataclysm".
"What exactly is this cataclysm?"
Du Yu looked at the information coming from the forum, lost in thought.
If Cat Beard's speculation is correct, the Tai Sui world, the real world, and the fictional world have all experienced a catastrophe that nearly destroyed civilization, with the severity of the disaster increasing in that order.
The world of Tai Sui only encounters natural disasters within the scope of human understanding. In the real world, in addition to natural disasters, monsters beyond the scope of human cognition have also appeared—the Fallen Species. The disasters encountered in the fictional world are even more severe.
After a meteor destroyed most of the civilized world, not only did terrifying monsters appear on this land, but an even more mysterious and terrifying gray fog also surged up, and to this day, no one has been able to return alive from the depths of the gray fog.
If all three worlds are facing cataclysmic events, will the cataclysms discriminate? Will they show leniency to the weaker worlds?
Du Yu almost laughed at his own lame joke. The chances of this option coming true were extremely slim; a crucial piece of information must be missing. What could it be...?
Linqi rolled her eyes dramatically: "Seriously, do you really have to be thinking about such serious issues here?!"
"Anyway, I'm just idling around, and the direction won't be discovered."
If the map of this instance corresponds one-to-one with the real-world Cross Prison, the two of them have already moved from the central area of the laboratory to the outermost corridor, just one turn away from the exit.
Du Yu Ke went to jail to bypass identity checks and enter the Upper City. She had no intention of spending her life in jail—the laws of the City of the Sun were simply a joke. She had only distributed a few leaflets and was sentenced to fifty years. She was fully prepared to escape.
At this moment, what Du Yu and Lin Qi were wearing was a product of her inspiration during this period - the [Portable Curtain]!
【Name: Portable Screen】
[Quality: Candle (Fake)]
[Note: This curtain, made from three white cloths influenced by the trait [Three-Handed Magician (Fake)], possesses magical properties. "I've raised the white flag, so you can't see me anymore," said the hapless magician when he was captured after escaping from prison.]
[Number of uses: 4/5]
[Comment: You're a real genius at fleecing your followers!]
The system's evaluation, as always, was lackluster, but that didn't diminish the usefulness of this "portable screen".
At that moment, a researcher hurried past, followed by several assistants dragging samples. The group almost brushed past the two people, but neither the researcher with eyes on the top of his head nor the assistants who crawled on all fours or had three legs saw the two people who were right next to him.
Despite having seen many along the way, Linqi was still very surprised. It was the first time she had seen a sealing material with such miraculous effects and almost no side effects. You know, there are so many sealing materials, but very few are actually usable, and even among the usable ones, you have to consider whether you can bear the side effects.
The piece of cloth that 1503 pulled out was simply amazing.
"Did you find this invisibility cloth in the gray fog?"
Aside from its mystery and seemingly omnipotent nature, Linqi couldn't think of any other way to obtain this curtain.
Du Yu silently scoffed to himself, not revealing the truth to discourage her—she still had thirty-nine portable curtains in her backpack!
After the altar is upgraded to [Altar Candle], not only does the level of materials that Du Yu can synthesize increase, but a magical little function is also added during synthesis: [Portable Curtain] is its product.
166 describes this new feature like this: "Thanks to nature—cough, scratch that, thanks to believers for their gifts! Gods have an obligation to protect believers and grant them power that surpasses that of mortals, but who says that gods don't need the power of mortals? A candle can also shine as brightly as a lamp."
"When using altar materials, you can use the traits of believers with a faith level of [Pious Believer] or higher to imbue the materials with a special aura. When synthesizing materials imbued with a special aura, in addition to obtaining higher-level materials, there is a chance to obtain a synthesized item with some believer traits and a quality of [Candle (False)].
Although probability has always been a sore point for Africans, after these days of experimentation, Du Yu found that the probability of synthesizing special materials at the altar is not so appalling.
Although not explicitly stated, believers with higher faith levels have a significantly higher probability of creating special composites; at the same time, the lower the believer's ability level, the higher the success rate of creation.
After some trial and error, Du Yu came to his own conclusion: the altar's new function was more like "copying" than synthesis, allowing it to transfer some of the believer's traits and abilities to the synthesized item. Naturally, in the process of "copying," the simpler and easier the original item was to imitate, the lower the difficulty of copying.
As a result, even though Xiao Yi is the highest-level [Fanboy], the probability of Du Yu obtaining special synthetic items from her is only about the same as that of Cat Whiskers, who is at the [Fan] level.
Of course, this is not a limitation for Du Yu. Because the original owner of the special ability was of a low level, but after the "copy", the quality of the special synthesized product has reached the [Candle] level! Although it is a fake, it is already a dimensional reduction attack against the general A-level capped ability users.
Moreover, the previous assassination attempt on Bian Shaoyan was enough to prove that although some superhumans are of low level, if they use their strange and wonderful traits well, they can still cause their opponents to suffer a great defeat.
Therefore, while preparing to go to prison, Du Yu examined the superpowers of the believers in his possession. After trying them a few times, he found that the most useful one was Xu Xunyuan's [Three-Handed Magician]. After "copying" her trait, Du Yu created several magical composites and put them in his backpack.
Although this special synthesizer has a limited number of uses, the gray fog is full of trash. In other words, Du Yu has no shortage of basic materials for synthesis. Not enough uses? Make up for it with quantity! She had prepared several sets of special items, which she put in her backpack to avoid being searched and followed her into the Cross Prison.
Are you ready?
As he watched the door about to close, Du Yu chuckled, a glint of purple fire flashing in his eyes. "Our prison break journey is about to officially begin!"
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Author's Note: As mentioned before, Chen Xingzhi gave a lecture at Dudu University, and Gu Yinglan is Dudu's thesis advisor, so it's quite normal for them to have a relationship. I wonder if any of you have noticed?
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I gave Dudu a super cute new character card, did anyone notice? [sunglasses]
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