Chapter 47 Hunting the Fallen Species: The black behemoth slowly emerged from behind the cover...
Chapter Forty-Seven
Li Yueyuan seemed to sigh, her expression one of helplessness, as if saying "don't bother arguing with a madman," and she kicked You Shi with her foot.
"I don't know what you and the person behind you are up to, and I have no interest in knowing. I've given you the stuff, and your madness is over. Now, immediately, get out!"
Yu Shi seemed to mutter something, but the spiritual energy attached to the surface of this alloy was constantly fading away, and it had reached its limit.
Hearing such a secret was truly an incredible stroke of luck. Du Yu tried his best to concentrate his senses, squeezing out the last bit of spiritual energy, and only vaguely sensed that You Shi was kicked into the spatial ripples and rolled out. Li Yueyuan, with one hand in his pocket, slowly approached.
She seemed to finally remember the alloy that she had specially asked someone to fetch, picked it up, glanced at it, and casually tossed it into the trash can.
In the final moment before his spirit dissipated and his consciousness returned to its physical form, a light, almost dreamlike voice suddenly rang in Du Yu's ears:
"The purified corpse oil can wash away the blood that has stained the Holy Grail."
Inside the temple, Du Yu suddenly opened his eyes, the flames in his purple eyes surging and gradually subsiding, his expression filled with surprise and uncertainty.
What was the meaning of Li Yueyuan's last words?
Was it just a muttered thought that she overheard, or... did she know that the person was watching her?
If it's the latter, what is Li Yueyuan's purpose?
Du Yu's brain was racing, and suddenly a rather calm voice surfaced in his mind:
"I dare not hate."
It's not that I can't, but that I dare not.
She had a problem with the god that You Shi worshipped, so she deliberately leaked information to him?
Who is it? The information about the evil god obtained from Cat Whiskers kept flashing through my mind. Yu Shi's style didn't seem to fit it. "Fishing"... Could it be that person?
The Ocean Research Center believes in the Lord of the Clean Sea?
"Man is an unclean river. To contain an unclean river without becoming polluted, man must be an ocean."
Du Yu murmured the core message of the Ocean Research Center. Among all the evil god cults, the doctrine of this Lord of the Pure Sea was the most abstract, and his followers were the most mysterious.
Even the Lord of the Pure Sea holds a very special position. Whether it's the gangs in the lower city or the Upper City Council, which is controlled by conglomerates, they all keep their distance from him.
True God and False God—although it's unclear how these two concepts are determined, it's obvious that there's a hierarchy of contempt among the gods.
The messenger of 【靡靡音】, Wu Shixian, and the strange woman Li Yueyuan in the underground laboratory both believe that they are “true gods” rather than “false gods”. What is the difference between her and those “false gods”?
Is the Lord of the Pure Sea's status so special because He is a true god, or a being of a higher order?
Du Yu took out the Holy Grail fragment that You Shi had sacrificed, and watched it merge into the Bloodthirsty Holy Blade, his eyes filled with doubt.
Her casual attempt yielded far more information than she had imagined. Du Yu felt like she was playing a jigsaw puzzle, gradually gathering information from various sources. However, the more puzzle pieces she collected, the larger the overall picture became, and the more difficult it was to complete the puzzle.
But the more difficult it is, the greater the sense of accomplishment when you finally complete the puzzle.
"Miss, your meat has arrived."
With her cheeks puffed out, Tian Yinuo carried a pot of green meat soup and came out of the kitchen, bending over.
The broth's green color comes from the fist-sized chunks of green meat floating on the surface. The meat's green color is incredibly persistent; even after cooking, it retains a deep, frog-skin-like green, and combined with the bumpy surface, it truly gives the impression of frog soup.
Du Yu took a deep breath and held it—this "frog" soup not only looked disgusting, but smelled even worse, yet she was determined to eat it, simply because—
【Crafted Item: Mutant Beast Meat That Dyed Itself Green (Current Name Change Count: 1/1)】
[Rank: B]
[Note: Green itself is innocent; it's humanity that's too vulgar! I, the mutated beast, will jump from here today, even into the pot, to use my last ripples to promote green!]
【Instructions for Use: This is the meat of a peculiar mutated beast imbued with the element of [Life], containing a large amount of life energy. Consuming one unit of this meat will grant a 30-minute buff: A vibrant green expanse. Simultaneously, a random part of the consumer's body will turn green, lasting for 24 hours.】
[A vibrant expanse of green]: A beneficial buff. During its duration, it increases mental energy recovery speed by 100%, spiritual energy recovery speed by 30%, and accelerates the healing of minor injuries.
This beast meat has extremely humiliating side effects, but not much damage. At the same time, it also has a very powerful buff. After accidentally synthesizing this thing, Du Yu immediately wrote down the recipe in the [Recipe Slot].
"call."
Du Yu closed her eyes, picked up the pot, and her expression contorted for a moment. She strongly suspected that if she didn't possess the "Gluttonous" talent that allowed her to eat anything, she would have fainted the instant she drank this stuff.
According to the system's assessment, her mental strength level was still A, but since the divine fire was ignited, her mental strength, which should have been difficult to improve, has been increasing every day. Her spirit body has also become more focused in each wandering, and can bear more power.
However, correspondingly, this body has a greater demand for energy. Du Yu also brought a [Gluttonous Beast] that increases appetite. Eating food without a grade is the same as not eating at all. He can only force himself to eat the meat of mutated beasts with all sorts of strange tastes.
How bad did this green beast meat taste? Even Xiao Yi, who was like a bottomless pit, eating as much as she was fed and whatever she was given, seemingly never getting enough to eat, thought she had discreetly looked away when Tian Yinuo brought this thing up.
Du Yu pinched her nose and drank it down. If it weren't for the difficulty in obtaining mutated beast meat containing the element of "life", she would have tried to synthesize a recipe with a better taste.
After finishing her drink, Du Yu noticed the discolored area without needing a mirror—she moved her fingers a few times and saw that her nails looked like they were painted with fluorescent green nail polish, shimmering brightly. It's true, if other parts of the body turned green, it would look very strange. Only her nails turning such a striking color didn't seem out of place.
"Let's go to work."
Du Yu looked down at his fingers for a while, then casually brushed off the unidentified green liquid that had stained the pot. He walked out of the kitchen, where Tian Yinuo and Xiao Yi were already waiting.
"Xiaotian, we've collected almost all the materials. Today we're going to hunt some dangerous Fallen Species. You can stay in the temple."
After the three of them worked day and night to collect materials, they had almost finished synthesizing the basic materials for upgrading the temple. They even dug a huge pit in the massive junkyard not far from the temple—although the pit quickly disappeared after the spatial turbulence subsided, the size of the junkyard remained unchanged to the naked eye.
It was through such a massive amount of data that Du Yu discovered that although ordinary synthesis does not consume points, it does consume mental energy and spirituality. That's why she made the tough decision to add green meat to the daily menu.
However, while ordinary building materials are readily available, the core materials for upgrading temples are rare.
In the Lower City, only hunter guilds of the Gentlemen's Guild or the Catbeard Pirates could afford the core elements of a Fallen Being of the Dark Rank—but even they were far from wealthy.
The pirate crew had suffered heavy losses and had little stock left. The goods in the Gentlemen's Club were also very well hidden; she went inside and looked around but couldn't find the secret storage room.
Fortunately, the Misty Rift is teeming with monsters, though not much else. Du Yu plans to pause the synthesis of basic resources and focus on hunting the Fallen Species. While collecting elemental cores, he can also gather a batch of high-level synthesis materials.
However, this battle is different from before. Tian Yinuo's Word Spirit trait, "A Promise Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold," although very useful in human society, is not a combat-type trait after all, and it is very dangerous to join the battle against the Fallen Species of the Dark Level.
"Let me go, little... boss! I've been learning fighting techniques, I won't get in your way!"
Du Yu knew, of course, that Tian Yinuo was practicing fighting skills during her break, otherwise she wouldn't have asked that question.
Du Yu nodded, took out the B-grade longsword he had accidentally synthesized, and looked at Tian Yinuo as she solemnly accepted it.
She did have Catwhiskers and the others sacrifice their weapons. But in the mist, unless there were special characteristics like those of the pirate crew's damage dealer, Alya, these sophisticated firearms were prone to damage at any time, making them less reliable and useful than melee weapons.
As for Xiao Yi, Du Yu had him try several kinds of cold weapons, but he still preferred hand-to-hand combat. As long as it didn't involve principles, Du Yu was very easy to talk to and let him have his way.
"Let's go, let's set off!"
The three of them, fully prepared, walked out of the temple together. They randomly chose a direction and walked for about ten minutes. The gray fog thickened momentarily, and they arrived at an area that was both strange and familiar. Strange because they had never been to this area before, and familiar because Du Yu was already quite tired of seeing such devastation and mountains of garbage everywhere.
As for where to find the Fallen Ones?
Du Yu found a relatively flat area, tapped the screen with his mental energy, and a bottle of black liquid appeared in his hand out of thin air. Du Yu unscrewed the cap and carefully dripped a few drops onto a piece of mutated beast meat; it was corpse oil purified by burning with purple flames.
Besides accumulating these items to unlock the encyclopedia, Du Yu has now figured out another way to use them: to lure corrupted species!
For some reason, the corpse oil that seemed ordinary to Du Yu had an extremely strong attraction for corrupted species and mutated creatures.
As expected, as the scent of black corpse oil spread, a dark figure emerged from behind the garbage mountain not far away. Du Yu's eyes lit up, and she carefully hid behind the two. There was no way around it; the Fallen Ones' senses were far stronger than humans'. As the divine fire in the altar burned brighter and brighter, in the Fallen Ones' vision, she was like a raging, inextinguishable purple flame.
Aside from those corrupted beings who were completely out of their minds and had lost all reason, when she used black corpse oil as bait, almost all the corrupted beings she lured would run away as soon as they saw her. The few who didn't run away, once burned by the purple fire, seemed to have their brains burned out, and they would also turn around and run away.
That's why she brought the two along on this trip. The Fallen Ones are perfectly at home in the gray fog, and their abilities are incredibly diverse. If they really wanted to escape, Du Yu alone wouldn't be able to stop them.
However, with the allure of the black corpse oil and the presence of two living humans in front of him, the Fallen Ones indeed failed to notice Du Yu.
"Humans, I don't want to eat people. Hand over what you have, and I'll spare your lives."
The black behemoth slowly emerged from behind the cover, its long fur as stiff as steel needles, and nine long tails waving behind it like tentacles. Its lantern-sized eyes reflected a faint light in the gray mist.
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