Qin Shilei popped the Bloodline Enlightenment Pill, its attributes now fixed, into his mouth.
Instantly, his body went numb, countless bolts of lightning surging through him.
"You guys move further away," Qin Shilei warned.
He was afraid the lightning would strike An Qian and Zhang Xiaoli.
Zhang Xiaoli couldn't help but turn back to look.
A bolt of lightning immediately detached from Qin Shilei's body, entering her through her left hand and coursing through her.
"Ah!" Zhang Xiaoli cried out involuntarily in pain.
Qin Shilei was about to rush over to check, but seeing himself covered in lightning, he stopped. He concentrated, drawing all the lightning to himself.
He then called out, "An Qian, quickly pull Zhang Xiaoli away."
Hearing Zhang Xiaoli's scream, An Qian had already turned and was supporting her.
"Ah!"
An Qian shrieked and then stared intently at Qin Shilei.
His clothes, under the onslaught of countless lightning bolts, instantly disintegrated into dust and fell away.
Well then!
This way, she saw him, and he saw her. No one had an advantage.
Zhang Xiaoli, having recovered from the numb shock of the electric shock, gave Qin Shilei a deep look. She pulled An Qian and they both turned back into the room.
Still a loss. Zhang Xiaoli had seen him for nothing.
Qin Shilei mused internally about when he would get that advantage back.
It was only after half an hour that the lightning on Qin Shilei's body slowly receded.
"Alright, you can come out now."
After putting on his clothes, Qin Shilei called out to the room.
He extended his hand, and a bolt of lightning danced in his palm.
"Thunder God?" An Qian guessed, her description quite vivid.
"No."
Qin Shilei shook his head, feigning profundity. "This is the Lightning of Chaos."
"It can create, it can destroy, it can rule all things in the world."
With that, he flicked his hand, sending the bolt of lightning towards a chair.
"Crack!"
The chair shattered into more than ten pieces, the impact point scorched black.
"So powerful, could it really be the Lightning of Chaos?"
"Much stronger than my little fireballs."
Zhang Xiaoli and An Qian exclaimed in surprise simultaneously.
"Haha, I was just kidding, but it is indeed quite good."
Qin Shilei laughed heartily, very pleased with its power.
Seeing how powerful Qin Shilei's lightning was, An Qian felt a pang of resentment.
Her own Qingluan Body was that of a divine bird. Why was it inferior to his lightning?
She turned and went to the living room to practice her fireballs.
A hint of envy flickered in Zhang Xiaoli's eyes, but it was overshadowed by her joy. With her chin resting on her hands, she watched Qin Shilei toy with the lightning in his palm.
After playing with lightning for a while, Qin Shilei took out the Refining Stone again.
He had tested it. Others could enjoy the buffs from attributes, but they couldn't see the content displayed by the All Things Attribute Refresh System.
Therefore, he proceeded with the attribute refresh with confidence.
[Proceed with attribute refresh?]
[Refresh.]
Three attributes appeared on the Refining Stone: two white and one green.
Fortified (White): Greatly increases the robustness of the Refining Stone. (Quite good for cracking walnuts.)
Accurate (White): Slightly increases the accuracy of the Refining Stone. (Can be used for throwing at people.)
Doubled (Green): Doubles the refining effect of the Refining Stone.
Qin Shilei unhesitatingly chose the Doubled attribute.
Then, he took out the shortbow from his ring, its attribute of 100% hit rate already fixed, and began refining it with the Refining Stone.
The inferior shortbow transformed instantly.
What was originally a shortbow formed from a few pieces of brown wood haphazardly put together.
Now, in Qin Shilei's hand was a vibrant green shortbow.
Exquisite patterns were carved onto the bow, and it felt smooth and warm to the touch.
Exquisite Shortbow (Green): This is a shortbow crafted by a master, with a range of three hundred meters, offering superior stability and accuracy.
Additional attribute, Tracking (Red): Within three hundred meters, 100% hit rate. This is more than just a flashy artifact.
Qin Shilei liked it more and more.
Fortunately, the arrows he shot out tonight had been retrieved from the mice. He could test the bow's power tomorrow.
Qin Shilei took out the last piece of equipment: the protective suit.
[Proceed with attribute refresh?]
[Refresh.]
Three attributes appeared on the protective suit: one white, one green, and one red.
Winter Warm, Summer Cool (White): Wearing this protective suit, you will experience a climate like eternal spring.
Chameleon (Green): After remaining stationary for three minutes, the protective suit will blend in with its surroundings, rendering the wearer invisible.
The protective suit can be without a helmet and shoes. Will the head and feet still be invisible then?
Shield (Red): A transparent shield will form around the body for one minute, capable of resisting a certain amount of attack.
Qin Shilei tapped and chose the Shield attribute.
This further increased the defensive value of the protective suit by severalfold.
After putting on the protective suit and activating the shield, he turned to Zhang Xiaoli and said, "Xiaoli, try chopping me with your knife."
"Okay."
Zhang Xiaoli looked at the transparent eggshell that suddenly appeared around Qin Shilei. She raised her Tang sword and swung it towards the Seven-Star Sword within the shell.
Clang!
The Tang sword was repelled to the side.
She put in a little more force, but it was still repelled.
Finally, with her full strength, she struck Qin Shilei's thigh. The Tang sword was once again ineffective.
The red attribute was indeed powerful.
As soon as Qin Shilei's thought arose, the shield suddenly shattered like foam and disappeared.
The one-minute duration had ended.
Qin Shilei later discovered through experimentation that the shield could be activated once every twelve hours. If charged with crystal cores, this duration could be reduced to eight hours.
"I wonder how Zhang Yong is doing now?"
An Qian stood by the window, looking out, her voice laced with concern.
Although she sometimes found Zhang Yong annoying, he was, after all, their neighbor and classmate, and now a teammate for several days. Now that they had some free time, An Qian worried about her teammate.
Zhang Xiaoli comforted her, "As long as he doesn't court death, he'll be fine on his motorcycle."
Qin Shilei interjected, "He's indeed fine. Someone in the regional chat channel has been looking for you non-stop; it's probably him."
"An Qian, where are you?"
"An Qian, say something, I'm really worried about you."
"You upstairs, stop flooding the chat, okay?"
"If someone's lost, it's forever. I advise the person upstairs not to occupy the public chat channel."
"I've got a lot of rats here. Did I eat too many rats before, and now heaven has sent these rats to eat me?"
"Rats are good. Rats can at least fill your stomach. I really can't bring myself to eat zombie meat. I'm starving."
"Good? Some of us have already become food for rats."
When posting in the chat channel, the name field only showed a string of numbers. It was only possible to guess from the posts that the speaker was likely Zhang Yong.
An Qian replied from upstairs, "I'm quite safe now. You should be careful too."
Qin Shilei pulled out a large pile of crystal cores and turned to An Qian, "An Qian, please guard us. Xiaoli and I are going to level up."
An Qian stared dumbfounded at the hundreds of crystal cores, then nodded numbly.
This is outrageous!
She had been overjoyed that morning with a harvest of thirty to forty crystal cores, only to find someone now brazenly producing hundreds at once.