Chapter 250
If it weren't for the fact that a few Moon Foxes chasing them were also laughing, the two of them might not have escaped.
After narrowly escaping death, Zhao Shuying ignored the two of them for three days.
Liang Yuchuan felt quite wronged when she returned: "You have no idea! She was cursing me in a bubble voice! How could I stand that?" After saying this, she even pinched her throat to mimic the sound, which made Zhao Shuying so angry that she used her skill to move her away.
Now that things have developed and gradually gotten on track, did the people from Dinghai come looking for them?
Of course, it’s also possible that the camp was closed off, or that their entry time was different from hers, which is why they only came looking now.
Yu Xunge didn’t want to think the worst of people, but she had little interest in teaming up with a stranger who had joined midway.
Over the years, unless she encountered a task with an extremely tempting reward that was impossible to complete alone, she wouldn’t even team up with Liang Yuchuan or Zhao Shuying.
Moreover… who knew if the other party had been assimilated?
Even if the entry times were different, it had been 27 years since they entered the tower, which was long enough to be considered a lifetime.
She sent Zhao Shuying another message.
【Song Qiu】: I won’t be returning to the base for a while. If anything comes up, just notify me through my friend list.
【Song Qiu】: Be careful.
【La Cong】: Don’t worry, I get it. It’s only been 27 years; it won’t happen that quickly.
【La Cong】: What they can offer, Dinghai can offer even more.
This was true, but Yu Xunge couldn’t help but think of the night sky over the city of Eternal Night when she stole the Moon Sand.
【Song Qiu】: What if the outside Oak Owls have always been able to contact the spirits here?
**Chapter 324: Tower · Engineering · Harvest**
It took a long time for a reply to come.
【La Cong】: Do you remember the first time we fought the Dragon Serpent and you asked me what my divine gift skill was called? Do you remember my answer?
【Song Qiu】: I remember.
【La Cong】: For the next little while, if I send you emails or tasks without that answer at the end, don’t believe them.
【La Cong】: Regarding the news about the dungeon’s light curtain closing, I won’t tell anyone else for now, except for you and Liang Yuchuan. We’ll act together when the time comes.
【Song Qiu】: Okay.
Perhaps Yu Xunge was just overly suspicious, but there were no issues in the following years.
However, since then, Yu Xunge tried to take on tasks by herself as much as possible, unless the rewards for the tasks Zhao Shuying received were particularly enticing.
Yu Xunge began to consciously train Tu Lan, as they would definitely have to go to the world battlefield in the future. If Tu Lan’s combat skills weren’t up to par, she wouldn’t be able to take her along. Even if both she and Tu Lan were willing, Xue Dui probably wouldn’t allow it.
When there were no tasks, she would find a place to rest with Tu Lan. She used her intermediate engineering skills to make many toys for Tu Lan, while she began alchemy, organizing her inspirations, or trying to refine the items she had obtained into the skills 【Gold Medal Killer】 and 【Spring Day Not Late】.
When she was busy with alchemy, she didn’t pay attention to Tu Lan. After all, if Tu Lan felt bored, she could always return to her pet space. Yu Xunge liked Tu Lan very much, but she wouldn’t let anyone disrupt her rhythm and plans.
As a result, when she finally finished her work and stepped out of the wooden cabin, she found that Tu Lan had taken apart all the toys she had made for her and had reassembled them into a new toy.
Originally, those toys were only of blue quality, but Tu Lan had assembled a purple-quality racing car. The car could even transform and launch skills while racing—though the power wasn’t great, it was a feature that the original toys didn’t have.
At that moment, Yu Xunge looked at Tu Lan with a gaze full of wonder…
Tu Lan hugged her little transformer tightly: “...What are you doing?”
Yu Xunge extended her right hand, pinching a few fingers randomly with her thumb, and said, “I can tell just by looking at you that you’re the engineering star of tomorrow.”
Tu Lan: “…”
After discovering Tu Lan’s talent in engineering, Yu Xunge would always make a large batch of engineering products using her intermediate engineering skills to give to Tu Lan before entering seclusion, letting her take them apart and play.
Tu Lan wasn’t the type to patiently study and learn, and Yu Xunge didn’t want to push her. In the past, she refrained from pushing Tu Lan to improve because she didn’t want to ruin their relationship with something thankless. Now, however, she couldn’t bear to push her.
She treated it as nurturing Tu Lan’s interests and hobbies. Talent can sometimes be unreasonable, and when combined with interest, it’s a winning combination.
If Tu Lan truly developed an interest in engineering, she would collect relevant materials for her to explore slowly. If Tu Lan encountered difficulties, she would help her solve them, and that would be enough.
Zhao Shuying probably noticed that Yu Xunge didn’t like having too much contact with others, so the tasks she sent were all solo missions, and she never asked if Yu Xunge wanted to return and gather with everyone.
Liang Yuchuan initially stayed with the “Only Recognize Money” group, but in the third year, she seemed to have had some conflict with the people from Dinghai. One time, she messaged Yu Xunge, saying that she should have been smarter and left earlier.
【Song Qiu】: ?
【Xin Cu】: Are you concerned about me, or do you want to hear gossip?
【Song Qiu】: Don’t humiliate yourself.
【Xin Cu】: If you make me a game console, I’ll tell you. Just like the one Tu Lan played before.
Yu Xunge rummaged around on the ground, picked out a game console that Tu Lan had discarded, and after confirming that Tu Lan really didn’t want it, she sent it to Xin Cu.
【Xin Cu】: Haven’t eight people come in over the past two years? Each from different teams. Among them, there are three useless dogs who can’t do much but just huddle together, always excluding this one and that one, grabbing good tasks but not doing them!
【Xin Cu】: They’re all trash. I can handle three at once by myself.
【Xin Cu】: They said I couldn’t do it, but after I finished, they called me a traitor to the Blue Star and told Zhao Shuying that I had been turned by the Oak Owls.
【Xin Cu】: It’s amusing. How could I take that kind of humiliation? I killed them all on the spot!
【Song Qiu】: …Did Zhao Shuying cry after you killed them?
【Xin Cu】: No, she didn’t cry. She wasn’t close to those people. Why would she cry? She just looked a bit breathless… Sigh, those in administrative roles really can’t handle it.
Yu Xunge clasped her hands together and prayed to the sky for Zhao Shuying.
Oh, little Zhao, take care of yourself.
…
At the end of 7217, the year before the war ended, even though she spent a lot of time on alchemy, Yu Xunge had already reached level 72. She had been tweaking her attributes here and there, occasionally using 【Reversal Moment】 to switch her divine gift skills and attributes. In every aspect, she was no weaker than a level 100 Oak Owl that had undergone dozens of life-level evolutions. Now, returning to the battlefield felt as easy as going home.
She discovered something quite peculiar: ever since she became a traitor to the Oak Owls, she could not benefit from any announcements regarding the life-level evolution of the Oak Owls. Zhao Shuying, Liang Yuchuan, and those who later joined “Only Recognize Money” were in the same boat.
Could such a thing be specifically blocked? Rather than feeling upset, Yu Xunge felt relieved!
Even without evolving, she was still stronger than those who had.
The Oak Owls from the Song family had stopped cursing her as much, and there were even rumors that there must have been some hidden circumstances regarding the past; she must have suffered a great injustice. Many Oak Owls believed that Song Qiu was the true heir of Song Gui, after all, Song Qiu also had a dragon!
But the pursuit hadn’t stopped; they continued to hunt her down relentlessly.
Tu Lan hadn’t yet had direct dealings with Li Zhou, and the battlefield where Song Gui and Li Zhou were located seemed to be in another dimension, unreachable by Yu Xunge and her companions. They hadn’t even heard where it was.
In this cycle, Yu Xunge reaped significant rewards.
Her melee skills had begun to form a preliminary system, with offensive, movement, and defensive techniques all equipped. Although most were B-level skills, with her high attributes, her combat ability in melee had ceased to be a weakness.
Especially her movement skills; with 【Fox Shadow】 in hand, she could instantly teleport to any place her bullets could reach.
When she first learned 【Fox Shadow】, it appeared on her skill panel with a starting level of C. There was even an experience bar below the skill. With each of her improvements, the experience bar moved forward, and it had now reached A+ level.
She could even extract her own experience and create an A-level skill book from it. However, if she did that, her Fox Shadow would have to be trained from scratch again. In other words, her mind would still know how to do it, but her body wouldn’t.
But if the person who received the skill book learned Fox Shadow, that skill would forever remain at A-level.
She discovered that skills learned and trained through books were not bound by their original levels.
Because she clearly remembered that the book documenting Fox Shadow stated that it was an A-level skill.
**Chapter 325: Tower · Irritable Moon Upgrading**
There were also 【Spring Day Not Late】 and 【Gold Medal Killer】. Over the years, she had collected dozens of materials and practiced a few times. The success rate for the former was 50%, while the latter had exceeded 19%, reaching the standard set by Lucia.
She had thoroughly understood the notes given by Hufflepuff, and combined with her knowledge of various fruits and plants from the Oak Owls, she even created a few intermediate potions. The effects weren’t groundbreaking, as they were available on the market, but at least it proved that she truly had creative ability and wasn’t just imitating the formulas of her predecessors.
Among her greatest gains was still the Moon Sand.
From 7207 to 7217, she used the ultimate version of Moonlight Cutting once a month.
In the first year, her right eye had almost turned into a galaxy, and she had no idea how much Moon Sand had accumulated inside. She and Tu Lan studied it for a long time but couldn’t figure out any tricks.
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