Chapter 108.
Tang Yu also wanted to know what Ning Xuanqing saw, so she asked, "When will Xuanqing wake up?"
Tian Xun thought for a moment and said, "In her current state of mental exhaustion, it will probably take her at least three or four days to wake up. If you want her to get better faster, you can go to the exchange and buy some mental healing drugs."
Among the survivors in the middle area, many have awakened spiritual skills.
The difference between mental skills and physical skills is that mental points are consumed when using this type of skill.
As a result, a mental healing agent came into being at the exchange. As the name suggests, it is a potion that can help survivors restore their mental values.
Spiritual healing agents are very effective, but they are also expensive.
However, unless they are affected by strange forces, few survivors will overdraw their mental value, so very few people buy mental healing potions.
Li Jia knew the price of the mental healing agent. One tube of the agent required as many as 2,000 points!
But given Ning Xuanqing's current situation, he has no choice but to buy the mental healing agent.
Although she could recover by lying in bed and resting for a few days, they were all eager to know what Ning Xuanqing saw in Tang Yu.
So, Li Jia gritted her teeth and went directly to the stock exchange to buy some mental healing agents. As soon as she went out, she heard all kinds of rumors outside.
What everyone discussed the most, of course, was the terrifying S-level copy. Now the survivors no longer call it the S-level copy, but the death copy.
Secondly, it is about what happened in the copy.
Under the deliberate arrangement of the Alliance, many details of the copy were revealed and spread wildly among the unsuspecting survivors.
These people have never entered that copy, and cannot understand many of the things that happened there, which has led to various versions of speculation.
Is there a conspiracy behind Wilder's rebellion? If so, who planned it?
If even Wilder had rebelled, and all the strong men were killed or injured, how did the remaining people survive?
What? You said someone turned the tide and defeated the final boss single-handedly? Do you want to listen to what you are saying?
If that person could even beat Wilder, why has he remained unknown in the middle field?
In the end, the survivors came to a conclusion that someone had already betrayed them, and the rebels teamed up with the monsters to kill the rest of the participants.
And this traitor is hiding among the fourteen people who emerged alive from the death copy!
The speed at which news spread was obviously intentional by someone with ulterior motives, and was under the deliberate guidance of these people.
The survivors in the middle area all turned their suspicious eyes towards Tang Yu.
When Li Jia was shopping at the exchange, he happened to see some alliance members inciting others to join the organization to eliminate the traitors.
And the first target they want to boycott is Tang Yu!
No one knew what abilities the instigator had, but his conspiracy theory, which was full of loopholes, actually excited the survivors who were watching.
Everyone was clamoring to punish the traitors.
Li Jia looked at the survivors who had lost their minds due to incitement, and gritted his teeth to suppress the anger in his heart.
Tang Yu clearly used her own abilities to prevent the disaster. Even Wilder couldn't survive in that copy, but she survived and successfully passed it.
But when they returned to the middle area, they were faced with doubts and slanders from these ignorant people.
Li Jia naturally knew why the alliance did this. The five of them took all the rewards for clearing the dungeon except for the S-level copy points. It would be strange if those people didn't get angry.
Throwing dirty water is probably just the first step of the alliance's action. Who knows what other tricks are waiting for them.
But even if I know the reason, I’m still angry!
But now was not the time to go up and argue, Ning Xuanqing was still waiting for her medicine. Li Jia was swiping the transaction panel, spending points without paying.
In addition to purchasing mental healing agents, she also had to buy a large amount of daily necessities.
No matter what Qiao Feichi and the alliance are planning, as long as they are in the guild home, these people can't do anything to them.
When Tian Xun and Tang Yu’s skills are upgraded, no one will be their match.
Li Jia buried her head and started shopping quickly. She borrowed Tang Yu's space backpack and threw the goods purchased from the trading panel directly into the backpack.
After filling his backpack, Li Jia returned to the guild home.
Tang Yu was fiddling with the octopus foot she brought out from the copy in the kitchen, while Tang En and Tian Xun were guarding outside Ning Xuanqing's room.
As soon as Li Jia came back, he gave Ning Xuanqing a mental healing potion. After using the potion, although she still fell into a deep sleep, she looked much calmer.
Tian Xun took a look and said that based on her condition, she would probably wake up soon.
Li Jia felt relieved after hearing that. She immediately told everyone what she had seen in the middle area, and told Tian Xun to use the props to upgrade his abilities as soon as possible.
Tian Xun thought for a moment and shook his head to refuse. He described the feeling of using the B-level skill to upgrade the props and told him about his discovery.
"I feel that if I want to upgrade my skills to the last level, relying on B-level skill enhancement items may no longer work." Tian Xun said solemnly.
His skills are now like a bucket with a missing plank. The skill-enhancing props are the water that keeps pouring into it, but since he is missing that plank, the water in the bucket can never be filled up.
Therefore, Tian Xun decisively chose not to use skill-enhancing items.
Tian Xun continued: "I don't know what Tang Yu's situation is, but if you and Ning Xuanqing feel the same as I do, then I also suggest that you don't use props, it will only cause waste."
"Hiss, that's really troublesome." Li Jia scratched his head, feeling quite distressed.
She thought for a moment and said in confusion, "But I have seen Boss Tang Yu's skill. That skill didn't have this name at the beginning. It was clearly upgraded once. And Wilder's skill was also upgraded. Why can their skills be upgraded?"
In the middle realm, the names of skills among survivors are difficult to remain secret, especially for those at the Heavenly Ranking level.
Wilder's skill was originally called Purification, but after an enhancement upgrade, its name was changed to Holy Light.
If the change in the skill name is used as a sign, then it is considered an upgrade.
By analogy, the skills of the survivors should be upgraded once.
On the other hand, the names of Tian Xun and Li Jia's skills have never changed, which means that they have not even completed the first upgrade.
After hearing Li Jia's analysis, Tian Xun said with a sad face, "I happen to know this. There has always been a guess in the middle field before, that is, everyone's skill limit is different, and it depends on their respective talents."
Li Jia was a little puzzled. She asked, "Is there such a saying?"
Tian Xun nodded and said, "Well, if we compare different people to buckets of different capacities, some people's buckets can hold a lot of water, while some people's buckets can only hold a little water."
He put his index finger and thumb together to show a small distance between them, and continued, "We are all buckets with a missing piece of wood. Once that piece of wood is filled, the bucket will be full of water, which means entering a whole new realm. They call it God."
Gods also have strong and weak qualities, and the difference depends on how big each person's "barrel" is.
According to Tian Xun, Tang Yu and Wilde were upgraded because they were very talented.
Li Jia thought about it and felt that it made sense. She rubbed her chin and asked, "Who came up with this?"
Tian Xun shrugged and said, "I once met a group of incomprehensible lunatics in a dungeon. Now, they are probably dead."
They were a group of scientific lunatics who were obsessed with research. They were dedicated to finding out the truth about the world, but the theories they proposed were so bizarre, even too advanced, that no one was willing to listen to their theories.
After all, such speculation is too crazy. No one has touched the ceiling that these people are talking about. Even Wilder has not reached the point where he needs to fill in that wooden board.
At that time, their theory could not be confirmed at all.
This time, the S-level copy produced an A-level skill-enhancing item. After Tian Xun used the item, he directly touched the barrier. The skill-enhancing item could not improve his ability any further, which strongly confirmed the views of that group of "crazy people".
Li Jia couldn't help but smack her lips and said, "The boss is worthy of being the boss. Meeting her and teaming up with her was the luckiest thing I've ever done in my life!"
What she didn't know was that Tang Yu's skills had strictly been upgraded twice.
The first time was at a mutton soup restaurant. Her skills were upgraded from cooking to cooking shame, but Tang Yu thought the name was too embarrassing at the time, so she was embarrassed to say it.
The second time was after the police station copy, her skills were upgraded from Shame of Cooking to King of Cooking.
As they were talking, Tang En ran over and told them that Ning Xuanqing had woken up.
Before that, Tang En informed Tang Yu first.
Therefore, when Li Jia and Tian Xun rushed to Ning Xuanqing's room, Tang Yu was already there.
Li Jia saw that she was holding a bowl in her hand and thought it was for Ning Xuanqing.
"What delicious food did you get?" she asked subconsciously as she walked over. The next second, after seeing what was in the bowl, Li Jia almost bit off her tongue.
There were several egg-sized balls in the white porcelain bowl. The black and red balls were covered with small pits that looked like eyes. When Li Jia saw these things, his eyes met those eyes.
Tang Yu handed the bowl forward and invited enthusiastically: "Would you like to try the octopus balls I made?"
Li Jia covered her dizzy head and closed her eyes tightly: "No, no, thank you!"
Seeing her violent reaction, Tang Yu explained considerately, "Don't worry, it won't kill you. I just tried it and it tastes pretty good."
Li Jia was about to cry. She shook her head frantically and said, "That's not what I meant. I'm not hungry yet. Give it to Xuan Qing!"
Ning Xuanqing, who just opened his eyes: "......"
When Tang Yu's gaze swept over, Ning Xuanqing quickly changed the subject.
"Now is not the time to talk about this." She put on her frameless glasses, regained her usual calmness, and said, "I saw a monster in Tang Yu."
Everyone looked at her, and Ning Xuanqing did not keep anyone in suspense, and described what she had seen as best as possible.
It’s just that the state of that monster was very strange, giving Ning Xuanqing a superposition state of both existence and non-existence, which made it really difficult for Ning Xuanqing to describe the specific shape of that thing.
But she had a feeling that the danger of that thing was very high, so high that she could not even estimate it, and so high that she could not afford the cost of spying on it again.
"I happened to see that thing when Tang Yu used the skill-enhancing item." Ning Xuanqing tried to recall the memory before he fell into a coma, and said, "I can't say for sure, but I saw the energy of the skill-enhancing item go to the monster."
This made several people gasp. Tang Yu reacted quickly and asked, "Is it because of that thing on me that the skill-enhancing item is ineffective on me?"
Li Jia clapped his hands and said, "Oh! No wonder the A-level skill-enhancing items used by the boss didn't work. It turned out to be because of that monster?"
Ning Xuanqing nodded and said, "It's possible, but I can't figure it out. Let's assume that the monster intercepted the energy of the skill-enhancing item, but why is your ability weakened when you use the A-level skill-enhancing item?"
Tang Yu pondered, "Didn't we speculate before that the A-level skill-enhancing item I used might have been tampered with by Xila?"
Ning Xuanqing frowned and was silent for a while before saying, "Although there is no clear evidence, my intuition tells me that this guess is unlikely."
Especially when she saw the monster lurking in Tang Yu's body, she had a bold guess that perhaps Tang Yu's special abilities and the problems that occurred after using skill-enhancing items were all related to the monster.
His focus returned to the mysterious monster, and Tang Yu felt a little confused.
"So what exactly is that thing inside me? And when did it appear?"
If Ning Xuanqing's skills had not been improved and her senses had not become extremely sharp, she would not have been able to detect this existence.
As for Tang Yu, who was parasitized, he could not sense that thing at all.
Ning Xuanqing shook his head and said, "I don't know. Its existence is very special. I think its appearance may not be short-lived. Maybe it has always been with you."
This speculation is completely unfounded. It has only been two years since the strange thing happened. If the thing in Tang Yu's body has always existed, it would mean that the human world has long been eroded by mysterious forces.
Even though it was such an unfounded guess, Ning Xuanqing said that this guess was entirely based on his intuition, but precisely because of this, it had a certain degree of accuracy.
This means that there is a monster of unknown origin lurking in Tang Yu, and this monster may be a huge hidden danger to humans.
A stagnant silence spread among the five people. Tang Yu suddenly felt dazed, and a scene emerged in his mind for no reason.
She was sitting alone in a fully enclosed room surrounded by transparent bulletproof glass walls, with male and female observers outside the walls.
They were wearing white protective suits, holding paper and pens and constantly writing and drawing. From time to time, they looked up at her, their protective masks revealing half of their indifferent faces...
Li Jia grabbed Tang Yu's arm and shook it twice to bring her back to her senses.
"Hey, boss, you must be determined. Although we don't know where that thing in your body comes from, it's written in the book that when encountering such a thing, the protagonist usually enslaves the parasite and finally reaches the pinnacle of life!"
Li Jia gave her a thumbs up and said, "Believe in yourself, you can do it too!"
Tang Yu looked at everyone blankly and said, "Aren't you afraid?"
Ning Xuanqing quickly glanced at the bowl in Tang Yu's hand and said bluntly, "Compared to that, that thing is not as scary as the thing in your bowl."
Tang Yu: “…”
The middle area at that time was experiencing severe chaos and turmoil.
Ever since the S-level death copy incident, the forces in the middle realm have begun a major reshuffle.
All the former top powerhouses have fallen, and the guilds they founded have all been disrupted and reorganized.
Under the collapsed order, the resources that were once monopolized are reopened. In this chaotic situation, a group of new strong people are being conceived and born.
While the old forces are still trying to maintain the old order, emerging forces have quietly risen.
Wu Chong was once just an unknown figure in the alliance, but he benefited greatly from this chaos.
He was the first person to recognize the current situation. As soon as Qiao Feichi came out of the copy, Wu Chong quickly hugged his thighs.
He tied his interests together with Qiao Feichi, and after Qiao Feichi became the leader of the alliance, his status also rose.
Thanks to his different status, Wu Chong finally got the resources and training he had always dreamed of, and his skills as a spirit were also greatly enhanced.
This made Wu Chong more determined to keep up with Qiao Feichi's pace.
At this time, he was on his way to the alliance headquarters. When he thought about the alliance's next move, Wu Chong couldn't help but tremble with excitement in his heart.
At the alliance headquarters, Qiao Feichi sat in the luxurious chair in his office. The position that used to be the leader of the alliance now belonged to him.
He propped his head on his elbows with his eyes half closed. On the desk was a document that he had not had time to read.
Someone knocked on the door of the room and Qiao Feichi let him in.
The person who came in was a gentle-looking young man, it was the Word Spirit Wu Chong.
"Leader!" Wu Chong saluted Qiao Feichi with awe in his eyes.
Qiao Feichi was very satisfied with his respect, and his evaluation of the young man increased.
He nodded to Wu Chong, thinking that perhaps he could promote this person to a higher position.
As for ability development, forget it.
The power of words is indeed a powerful ability, but the human mind is unpredictable, so no matter how good this ability is, it is a double-edged sword.
If used properly, Wu Chong will be an invincible sword, but if used improperly, it will be a sword that stabs yourself.
I think the reason why the alliance did not focus on training this person was because of this consideration.
Wu Chong's words brought Qiao Feichi back to his senses.
"Leader, our people have infiltrated the Shiqing base. I believe it won't be long before we can capture the Pure Land."
Qiao Feichi nodded with satisfaction. "Those useless guys have lived comfortably for so long. It's time for them to pay a little."
Wu Chong quickly agreed, "That's right. Such a good resource as the Pure Land Residence Quota should be in the hands of the Alliance. I don't know what Wilder is thinking."
When he heard the name Wilde, Qiao Feichi's eyes flickered. He looked at Wu Chong without saying a word.
Wu Chong suddenly met his gaze and felt a chill for no reason. A feeling of fear quickly crept into his heart, causing him to lower his head in a hurry.
Just as he was reflecting on whether he had said something wrong, Qiao Feichi brought up another matter.
"How is the situation at the Dawn Guild?"
While observing Qiao Feichi's expression, Wu Chong said cautiously: "The Shuguang Guild suffered heavy losses this time. Members died or scattered. It is almost an empty shell now."
Qiao Feichi smiled when he heard this and said nonchalantly, "I know."
Although Wilder has rebelled, his influence is still there. If Qiao Feichi wants to secure his position as the leader of the alliance, he must erase everything related to him.
As a former top guild, it is time for the Dawn Guild to give up its crown...
Tang Yu and his four companions had not gone out since returning to their guild home, and they were unaware of what had happened in the middle area.
In the past two days, Tang Yu has been studying his abilities and has tried various methods, but none of them worked.
She tried to sense the existence living in her body, but she couldn't figure it out.
When her teammates saw her immersed in her research, they also tried to find a solution.
Just when the five people were tinkering around in their home, Old Fan came back holding Fan Abao!
When the old man and the child appeared in front of everyone, everyone thought they were seeing things.
"Wow!" A Bao's shout brought everyone back to their senses.
Old Fan was still wearing the old blanket. His face was dark and wrinkled, and when he grinned, his empty gums were exposed.
"I'm back!"
Li Jia gasped and stamped his feet anxiously, "Why did you come back? This place is so dangerous, go back quickly!"
Old Fan looked at the five people's disapproving eyes, smiled like crying and said, "Well, we can't go back."
After Lao Fan's explanation, the five people realized that during the time they were hiding in the guild home, the alliance had raided the Shiqing base.
All the refugees who were originally taken in by Wilde in the Pure Land were driven out, and the Alliance forcibly took away their Pure Land residence permits.
Now, those residence permits are directly used as strategic resources and are firmly controlled by the alliance.
The alliance uses these residence permits to search for resources in the middle areas, and all props and points can be used for exchange.
Living in a pure land, away from the strange world, and returning to normal life is what countless people dream of.
For the Pure Land Residence Permit, the survivors in the middle area are willing to fight for it!
The alliance also took this opportunity to gather many powerful people outside the alliance. Without exception, these people had to sign a parchment contract before entering the alliance.
The man named Zhang Deshui became a printer of indentures controlled by the alliance, used to control various talents.
Lao Fan’s skill is harvesting and he can create food. He is a rare talent for Pure Land.
Originally, he was qualified to continue staying in the Pure Land, but the Alliance wanted to take away Po's residence permit. As a result, Lao Fan had no choice but to give up his residence permit and choose to return to the guild with Po.
Although Lao Fan's abilities are useful, in the eyes of the league, his value is not as valuable as a residence permit. Therefore, the league did not prevent Lao Fan from leaving.
Fortunately, after the grandfather and grandson entered the Pure Land, Li Jia did not delete their membership status, otherwise the two people who were kicked out of the Pure Land would have nowhere to go.
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