When Cheng's parents saw their son, they greeted him with smiles, ignoring Cheng Xu's astonishment, and quickly said, "It's good that you're back! It's good that you're back! I'll go and report to our captain to see if we should set off immediately!"
"Tsk, how could the captain not know? He's probably making plans right now, so don't get in the way! I think we should go help move some supplies."
"Wait...wait?" What's going on? Cheng Xu interrupted his parents' back-and-forth conversation.
He opened the light screen with some suspicion, only to realize that he had been pulled into a new temporary team at some point, and the person who gave the consent was the original team leader, Cheng's father.
The new temporary team leader is Xi Xi.
"What happened?!" Cheng Xu hurriedly asked, his eyes gleaming with excitement.
The story begins with Cheng Xu and Liu Yunyan tracking down supplies.
"..." While her parents were still helping to apply medicine to Uncle Cheng and Aunt Cheng, Xi Xi sat on the second floor and began to take stock of the cultural relics she had brought from Miyano.
She first took out the gleaming ear of wheat.
[Item Hint: Individual Effect: Cultural Legacy. Summons all nearby players who have received the blessing of the one who cast the curse (all blessings will be negated after being summoned once)]
Wow, isn't this just blatant "forced demand for a return"?
Xi Xi understood. She finally realized why Miyano could easily summon everyone in the Yamato Guard to support him just by casually blowing on the wheat stalks.
In ancient Greek mythology, the earth goddess Demeter established a pact with humankind through the "Demeter Festival" ritual: offering the first ears of grain and pig's blood in exchange for a bountiful harvest, the purpose of which was to bestow favors and rewards.
As the leader of the search team tasked with gathering supplies, Miyano possessed a rare advantage—
In the Yamato Guard, all the lower-level laborers survive on supplies looted by the search team, and even a piece of moldy bread is considered a favor.
This back-and-forth exchange has invisibly formed an unbreakable "line of favor," which is long-lasting and stable.
Thinking of this, Xi Xi couldn't help but despise Gong Ye's cunning and treacherous nature, and then picked up another small bottle filled with liquid.
【The River Oath of Gushi Hades】
[Item Description: Individual Effect: Cultural Relic. Resists the first spell/Cultural Relic attack from each enemy player (resets every seven days)]
Xi Xi had also heard the story of Hades. As the King of the Underworld, his domain was surrounded by the River Styx, whose oaths had absolute binding force and powerful defensive capabilities.
"No wonder..." she murmured to herself.
No wonder Miyano was unmoved by Rui Xiaomin's suspicious perfume, and no wonder her beauty charm, which controlled all the enemies present, had no effect on Miyano. The reason behind this is obvious.
As Xi Xi pondered, she examined the remaining cultural relics one by one and found that they were all enhancement-type cultural relics that increased basic ability values, without any special effects.
By this point, Xi Xi had a clear understanding of the various categories of cultural heritage, which, in addition to the distinction between individual and group effects, also included basic enhancement types and special effect types.
Basic buffs primarily enhance constitution, strength, luck, critical hit rate, and stamina, while special effect buffs correspond to the special effects of items left behind by deities in mythological stories.
Currently, both are very important. In the words of traditional games, the cultural relics increase physical attack and physical defense points, while the cultural relics increase special attack and special defense points.
[The adventurer has been detected to possess the attribute cultural heritage (9/6)]
[Game Tip: Obtaining any six pieces of the set will grant an additional bonus.]
Should we replace with instead?
Huh? Nine ancient Greek cultural relics? Where did these nine come from?!
Xi Xi did some mental calculations. She originally only had 3 , plus the 5 she borrowed from Gong Ye, so she should have 8...
As she was wondering, her gaze paused and fell on the perfume bottle beside her.
It was an exquisite perfume bottle tied with a pink ribbon, which Xi Xi had seen on Rui Xiaomin's dressing table through a synesthetic chain ring.
The bottle has a very unique design. The transparent bottle is carved from crystal glass, allowing you to clearly see the cherry blossom pink perfume inside, making it exceptionally luxurious and elegant.
Xi Xi doesn't usually wear perfume, so she naturally lacks knowledge about various perfume brands. As a result, she didn't notice anything unusual when she only glanced at it briefly. Little did she know that this was actually a cultural relic!
【Gush Hera's Special Perfume】
[Item Hint: Individual Effect - Cultural Legacy. The user of the Aphrodisiac Perfume will gain a special attraction to the opposite sex.]
Xi Xi couldn't help but laugh out loud. What kind of expression would Yada Tsukasa have if he knew that the last piece of ancient Greek cultural relic he was missing was hidden within the organization?
"What a pity..." Xi Xi looked at the perfume in her hand and said to the game prompt, "Yes." She really wanted to see what the bonuses of the six-piece set would be.
[…binding failed]
[It has been detected that the player's cultural heritage has been bound for less than 7 days. Please try changing the binding again after 7 days.]
"..." Damn it, why didn't you mention this before you tied me up? Xi Xi put down the perfume bottle, somewhat speechless.
After she collected all six pieces of Yada Tsukasa's "Yamato" set, she couldn't wait to switch to "Celestial Empire" and change back to it, thinking that she could switch back at any time and also take the opportunity to study Yada Tsukasa's hypnosis techniques.
Now she's in trouble; she'll have to wear this relic of island nation culture for a full seven days before she can change it...
That's right, the additional effect of the Yamato six-piece set is the kind of hypnosis that Yada Tsukasa used, but this hypnosis is actually called the Deception Technique. It is not hypnosis in the traditional sense, but rather a self-deceptive "will" implanted into the other person through words.
Furthermore, the is not easy to execute. It requires the opponent to be weak-willed and inactive before it can be activated. Yada Tsukasa's Emerald Ring can lock the gaze of other players, thus achieving this requirement very smoothly.
Therefore, the jade ring is not the carrier of deception, but rather an auxiliary tool.
Her heart was itching with curiosity. Xi Xi looked at the pile of cultural relics in her hands and pondered for a long time, but she still couldn't resist! She was just too curious about the bonuses of the six-piece set!
Left with no other choice, Xi Xi opened the light screen and summoned her mother, Chu Zhiqin.
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