Feng Yuxin, sitting in the hall, felt both embarrassed and worried when he saw Qin Shilei walk in.
Qin Shilei asked with a half-smile, "Sect Master Feng, how have you been recently?"
Feng Yuxin forced a dry laugh, "Good, very good."
Qin Shilei teased, "Sect Master Feng is now the lord of a city, so it's indeed quite good."
Feng Yuxin's face darkened, and he said coldly, "Hmph, do you want to mock me for being blind and encountering a bug infestation surrounding the city again after leaving Bei'an City?"
"Haha!" Qin Shilei burst into laughter. "You unlucky fellow, you're truly unlucky."
Feng Yuxin's veins bulged with anger, and he wished he could draw his sword and kill the man.
However, his cultivation was no match for the other's, so he could only endure it.
Qin Shilei suddenly stopped smiling, glanced at him, and said coldly, "It is human nature to seek advantages and avoid harm. I only hope that City Lord Feng will consider carefully next time he makes a choice, lest he become a deserter of Great Xia because of it."
With that, he paid no more attention to the even more somber-faced Feng Yuxin and turned to walk out the door.
He paused again at the entrance.
With his back to Feng Yuxin, he chuckled, "Still, I must thank Sect Master Feng for sending me free labor, allowing me, Qin, to harvest a large number of crystal cores. I hope we can cooperate again next time."
After saying this, Qin Shilei soared into the air and disappeared into the thick night in the blink of an eye.
The villa was immediately filled with Feng Yuxin's curses and the sounds of things being smashed.
After spending a night with Kong Qingshu in Junhai City, Qin Shilei once again embarked on his journey to find space rifts.
There were two locations left out of the nine marked by Mu Ziping.
One was in the south of Great Xia—Dujiang City, and the other was in the northwest of Great Xia—Badai City.
Dujiang City was one of the ten top-tier cities in Great Xia. Protected by tall city walls, it had nearly 800,000 survivors.
The place suspected of having a space rift was actually not in Dujiang City, but in Wuqin County, a hundred kilometers north of Dujiang City.
Survivors in Dujiang City had discovered countless wandering bugs within Wuqin County.
Although those bugs did not yet pose a threat to Dujiang City, Qin Shilei decided to go and check it out.
At this time, in Fengkou City, over two hundred kilometers away from Wuqin County, tens of millions of zombies were gathered.
In a residential complex in Fengkou City.
A chubby boy of seven or eight years old asked a middle-aged man wearing sunglasses, "Dad, when can I go find other children to play with?"
Ding Teng stroked his son's head and smiled, "Soon. Then you'll be able to play to your heart's content with other children."
The chubby boy, Ding Wenle, clapped his hands and said with a smile, "Dad, we'll play games with them all day long then."
Ding Teng chatted with Ding Wenle for a few more sentences, then walked out of the villa, flew to the roof of a tall building, and let out a roar.
The sound waves rolled, spreading throughout Fengkou City.
"Roar!"
Following the roar of Ding Teng, the Zombie Emperor, the tens of millions of zombies in Fengkou City all raised their heads in response.
Soon, dozens of Zombie Kings flew from various directions and quickly gathered beneath the building.
"Go, all of you, march south towards Dujiang City."
At Ding Teng's command, the tens of millions of zombies immediately mobilized and rushed towards Dujiang City in a mighty torrent.
In order for Ding Wenle, a human, to grow up healthy, he wished for his son to return to the human world.
However, his son was only seven or eight years old and only had a Silver Six-star strength. Returning to the human world would be extremely dangerous.
Then, he would control an entire city. In this way, as the young lord of the city, his son would likely have no further problems.
Ding Teng's chosen target was Dujiang City in the south.
For the zombie horde to reach Dujiang City, they would first have to clear out the bugs in Wuqin County.
During this time, the zombie army under his control had clashed with these abominable bugs several times, and today was the day to resolve them completely.
...
Qin Shilei, standing on Xiao Qiang's back, suddenly took out the golden treasure chest dropped by the purple-armored beetle.
He was overcome with a sudden urge.
"Even a non-European player can have a lucky streak, right?"
Qin Shilei found an excuse for himself and casually opened the treasure chest.
Two purple and one red beams of light emanated from the treasure chest.
He cursed. Damn it, was he going to be unlucky all the way?
The last time, An Qian had opened the golden treasure chest and obtained the incredibly powerful Orange-grade heavenly treasure, the Enlightenment Tea Sapling.
Why was it that when it came to him, he could only get purple items, and even one red one?
The red item was a common piece of armor.
One of the purple items was a Tracking Talisman.
Tracking Talisman (Purple): As long as the target's body tissue or aura is ingested, it can track the target within a radius of ten thousand kilometers. Three uses remaining.
[Perform attribute refresh?]
[Refresh.]
Alarm (Blue): When within one thousand meters of the target, the Tracking Talisman will emit a piercing alarm.
Marker (Green): When using the Tracking Talisman, a meteorological or linguistic marker can be displayed above the target's head.
Skillification (Purple): The Tracking Talisman can be transformed into the Art of Tracking, which can be learned by inputting mental energy.
Qin Shilei's dejected mood immediately turned into pleasant surprise.
After fixing the Skillification attribute, he immediately inputted his mental energy and learned this Art of Tracking.
Qin Shilei tested the Art of Tracking, then picked up the last item in the treasure chest, a pair of heart-shaped jade pendants.
Life Share (Purple): After each jade pendant is recognized by its owner through a drop of blood, it can enable two beings to share life.
Qin Shilei looked at the pair of jade pendants in his hand, suddenly unsure whether this life share was good or bad.
If he shared his life with the Glutton, would he die if his head was cut off?
The system quickly provided an explanation: If the other party in the life share did not die when their head was severed, then neither party would truly die.
This meant that a method that could kill both parties simultaneously would be required to kill the two beings sharing life.
For example, if he shared life with the Glutton, and the Glutton's head was cut off, even if Qin Shilei had plenty of vitality, he would immediately die at the same time.
Qin Shilei found this item to be somewhat useless no matter how he looked at it.
This was because those who were unkillable would never share their lives with him.
An Qian's Nirvana also seemed to have a hint of immortality, but its cooldown time was too long.
[Perform attribute refresh?]
[Refresh.]
Life Drain (Red): When sharing life, the vitality of a designated party will be slowly drained to the other party. The duration of the drain ranges from one year to ten thousand years. During this period, if one party suffers a fatal attack, both will perish simultaneously.
Defense Share (Red): The two parties sharing life will simultaneously share each other's defense.
Constitution Share (Purple): The two parties sharing life will simultaneously share each other's constitution.
After fixing the Constitution Share attribute, Qin Shilei still did not know where this item could be used to maximize its benefits.