Chapter 251
Tu Lan said, “It’s over. Is it going to take you killing me before it opens its eyes?”
Yu Xun Ge replied that it was quite possible and advised the foolish Tu Lan to be prepared.
For five whole minutes, Tu Lan didn’t speak to her.
However, after the first year ended, with no results from experimenting with the Moon Sand, Yu Xun Ge decisively gave up.
The divine gifts, attributes, and equipment of this body couldn’t be taken away. She couldn’t just leave the Moon Sand in her eyes. A small investment in experiments was acceptable, but too much would be a loss. Who knew how much Moon Sand there was? If she actually managed to get results from it and then couldn’t find new Moon Sand after going out, she wouldn’t even have time to cry.
It was better to seize what she had.
In the second year, she fed the Moon Sand from her right eye to the Irritable Moon.
At that moment, the evolution progress of the Irritable Moon instantly shot up to 120g/10000g.
Ah, that feeling of getting a head start… was so much more satisfying than having to share with Ding Hai after working together to obtain it.
On average, she could only gather 10 points of Moon Sand each month, which was a bit less, but after giving the Moon Sand to the Irritable Moon, not only did the item upgrade progress increase, but there was also a surge in her abilities!
That time, both she and Tu Lan experienced a significant boost in their abilities—she gained 50 points, while Tu Lan gained 24.
Now, ten years later, beneath the bright Moon that shone 24 hours a day in her lantern, a thick layer of Moon Sand had accumulated: 1200g/10000g.
As for her abilities, even though she had to consume 1 point each month, she had already accumulated 1352 points.
She was well-equipped! Once she went out, wouldn’t she be able to unleash over a thousand attacks?
That night, she and her dragon casually found a clover tree, flew to the top, and began to steal Moon Sand.
After skillfully forming a seal with one hand, just like the hundred times before, the night sky of the tower instantly shed its illusion, revealing the starry sky of the Eternal Night City outside the tower.
Before her eyes could even feel the sting, Tu Lan’s ability version expert mark landed on her.
The night sky returned to its original state; the ability version of the Moonlight Snip wouldn’t turn an area into a moonless land, perhaps because the Moon Sand replaced the lost moonlight.
Tu Lan asked, “Has your right eye still not changed?”
Yu Xun Ge gently touched her right eye. “Hmm, maybe it’s not meant to be used this way.” She thought of the various alien races she had encountered when rushing out of the auction house to search the crowd. Perhaps this skill was really just a means to extract moonlight?
Tu Lan was extremely disappointed. “I thought your eyes would mutate and you could use illusions.”
Yu Xun Ge wished for that too; it sounded so cool and safe…
She took out her lantern and tossed the Moon Sand to the Irritable Moon. Although it was called Moon Sand and had a physical form, it flowed through the lampshade like moonlight, “landing” on the Irritable Moon.
The upgrade progress also reached: 1210g/10000g.
The next day, Yu Xun Ge brought Tu Lan to the agreed location according to Zhao Shu Ying’s message. When she landed, Zhao Shu Ying and Liang Yu Chuan were already there.
After nearly ten years without seeing each other, Liang Yu Chuan looked unchanged, or rather, both Liang Yu Chuan and Yu Xun Ge hadn’t changed much.
This change wasn’t about their appearance but their demeanor.
Over the past decade, their daily tasks hadn’t differed much; they were still taking on missions, carrying out assassinations, and collecting specific items—essentially, it was just continuous fighting.
Yu Xun Ge still spent half her time on alchemy, but the difference wasn’t significant; they were both immersed in their pursuits.
Tu Lan was similar, still looking like a silly young dragon.
Their lives were extremely simple and monotonous, much like students endlessly solving problems. Their solitary lives revolved around killing, with no social interactions with others, so naturally, they hadn’t changed much. Most people’s so-called growth was merely the result of being taken advantage of in social situations.
The one who had changed the most was Zhao Shu Ying, who now had two vertical lines between her brows…
What a strong team spirit! How could she maintain such a strong team spirit while going out to fight and complete missions?!
Yu Xun Ge and Liang Yu Chuan unconsciously stared at the two lines on Zhao Shu Ying’s forehead for a while.
Zhao Shu Ying smiled at Liang Yu Chuan and said, “One of them is from you. Thank you.”
Ever since she had killed three people from Ding Hai and left, the trust among those people had begun to crumble… Moreover, at least half of those who came for this tower mission were ambitious individuals looking to climb the ranks… She had worked hard to stabilize the situation.
Liang Yu Chuan looked up at the sky, pretending not to hear. Her mother had said that if someone truly wanted to stop another from doing something, they wouldn’t just say it; back then, Zhao Shu Ying hadn’t even used the skill to move people away. Who was she trying to fool?
The three of them took out the specific items they had collected.
Yu Xun Ge and Liang Yu Chuan had each gathered dozens of items, with levels ranging from 15 to 50. They encountered various alien races during missions, so it was easy to collect, but they were still missing the first tail of the Moon Fox, the candle flame of the Zhu Man, and the Undying Spring from the heart of the undead.
These three items were handed over to Zhao Shu Ying to purchase from the alien races. Over the years, while gathering information, Zhao Shu Ying had also been collecting these three specific items and had finally managed to buy three 20-level ones at a high price from the greedy Oak Owl.
Zhao Shu Ying didn’t want to engage in assassinations, but the teams responsible for closing the dungeon barriers were equipped with exceptionally good gear and items. Their first reaction when attacked wasn’t to fight back but to flee immediately to protect what they had.
So she could only rely on buying them out, and she had to buy out an entire team.
Moreover, she still hadn’t figured out how to obtain the candle flame from the Zhu Man’s tail, even though she was also an Oak Owl; it didn’t matter, as she had betrayed them.
In these ten years, the Oak Owl and the alien races had been at war every day. The number of dungeon barriers closed by the Oak Owl was increasing, and they publicly claimed that these barriers had been occupied by the Oak Owl and moved to the tower.
But from the battlefield situation, even now, the Oak Owl and the 11 alien races could only be said to be evenly matched; it was unclear what step had allowed the Oak Owl to successfully merge with Ze Lan.
Perhaps the true turning point of the war lay in the top battlefield where Song Gui Feng Tang Tao Mian was located.
**Chapter 325: Tower · Kitchen Boy**
Each time they reincarnated, they gained fragments of information due to their different identities and perspectives, like piecing together a puzzle. Zhao Shu Ying had already decided that in the next reincarnation, she wouldn’t leave the Oak Owl camp.
As they flew toward the dungeon barrier, Yu Xun Ge asked, “Did you find out how they close the dungeon barriers?”
Zhao Shu Ying replied, “No detailed information. They just said we’d know once we went in. No more than three people can close a dungeon barrier.”
The specific items she had collected were all level 20. Yu Xun Ge and Liang Yu Chuan picked and chose, and based on the specific items Zhao Shu Ying had gathered, they assembled a complete set of level 20 specific items.
The three of them hadn’t wasted their years; they were very familiar with the maps and dungeon barriers of the Forest Sea, and soon found a level 20 dungeon barrier. The three of them, along with the dragon, charged forward simultaneously, with each person taking on two, quickly eliminating the patrolling Oak Owl guards.
Zhao Shu Ying hadn’t spent much time leveling up over the years, but she was already over level 50, easily handling the level 30 Oak Owls.
After clearing the guards, the three of them took out 11 level 20 specific items and entered the dungeon barrier one after another, carrying their bags.
Then…
Less than a second after entering, they were kicked out.
The three of them exchanged glances, and Tu Lan perched on Yu Xun Ge’s head, looking just as confused.
The 11 specific items in their hands hadn’t changed at all.
Liang Yu Chuan asked, “Is it the wrong items?”
Zhao Shu Ying shook her head. “No… if the items were wrong, we wouldn’t be kicked out; they would just not respond.”
But Yu Xun Ge recalled her past gaming experiences and said, “Could it be that the map can’t load?”
After all, this was a world within the tower, pieced together by the souls of the heroic spirits and their memories. They could only follow history and couldn’t truly make changes.
Just like even if they killed half of the Oak Owl camp’s soldiers, the war that was meant to be won would still win, and the one that was meant to lose would still lose; they couldn’t truly change the course of history.
Yu Xun Ge asked, “…Have you two entered a dungeon barrier in the past years?”
Zhao Shu Ying and Liang Yu Chuan both nodded.
That was certain; as Oak Owl soldiers, they would need to go to the battlefield later on, but in the early stages, they would attack dungeon barriers.
Yu Xun Ge continued, “This indicates that the tower can accommodate not only the Forest Sea battlefield but also a part of Ze Lan’s projection. According to our inability to change historical outcomes but with some freedom of action, even if we really can’t close the dungeon barrier, theoretically, we should still be able to go in and walk through the process. After coming out, the dungeon barrier would still exist, right?
“Many things in the tower can be fabricated, like a highly flexible game world. Those heroic spirits are like intelligent NPCs; they can create the skill books we need and issue tasks according to our requirements. Tu Lan can create toys, and the skill books and their needs are part of consciousness and memory, which we can’t take out of the tower. None of these are truly existing things.”
Yu Xun Ge shifted her tone and returned to the dungeon barrier: “But now, when we want to enter the dungeon, it directly expels us. The only explanation I can think of is that it can’t load; it can’t load the real thing.”
Liang Yu Chuan’s gaze had begun to blank out, and Tu Lan started to play with her nails.
But Zhao Shu Ying immediately understood Yu Xun Ge’s meaning: “You suspect that entering the dungeon with these 11 specific items will lead us to the real Ze Lan? Instead of a projection of Ze Lan?”
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