Chapter 138: Miss Mu, What Are You Doing?!
Is Wen Zaiye still alive?
Xia Feng blinked and didn’t answer the question, instead asking, “Who are you? Why are you asking this?”
“Sorry, I got a bit emotional,” the woman said, lowering her gaze apologetically. “I’m Wen Zaiye’s girlfriend. You can call me Zhizi. I just want to know how my boyfriend is doing.”
“Your boyfriend is dead,” Xia Feng remained silent, not planning to reveal this sad news for now.
He suddenly thought of a possibility: “So, Wen Zaiye escaped from here.”
“Ah? No,” Zhizi pursed her lips and shook her head, her haggard face looking somewhat dim.
The crowd continued to move forward. It seemed that the park’s opening time was approaching, and everyone had to undergo a body check to ensure customer safety.
Xia Feng turned back and asked, “Are you interested in talking about you and Wen Zaiye?”
The woman was silent for a moment, then looked up. “There’s actually nothing much to say.”
She recalled, “About nine years ago, Zaiye and I went to Yuanhe Orphanage to apply for jobs, but we didn’t expect it to be such a place…”
The woman recounted her experience slowly, without much emotional fluctuation. However, Xia Feng grew increasingly disheartened as he listened.
It was a very complicated story. Simply put, the couple went for a picnic in the outskirts of Yuanhe Town, and Zhizi suddenly disappeared. Wen Zaiye searched for her for seven years without success. But two years ago, after joining the Black Moon Holy See and following a big figure to the garden, he unexpectedly saw Zhizi surrounded by corpulent nobles, being toyed with.
Their eyes met across the crowd. Wen Zaiye was immediately devastated. Grief-stricken and enraged, he told Zhizi that he would save her.
Hearing this, Xia Feng could roughly guess the subsequent events. Wen Zaiye probably ran around trying to expose what was happening in the garden, but the situation was too complex for him, a low-level Spirit Master, to make any waves. In the end, he even defected from the Holy See and was wanted by the empire.
“Zaiye said he would kill those men who bullied me, but Zaiye doesn’t know, my appearance is very popular with those people. The ones who bullied me were not just the dozen or so people that night, but also…”
“Alright, stop talking,” Xia Feng said, putting a hand to his forehead and waving his hand. He didn’t want to hear the details. The events here made him feel increasingly disgusted. A fleeting thought suddenly arose.
He quickly suppressed it. He had just had the urge to use the Calamity Realm to kill all the nobles about to enter the park.
But after thinking about it, he felt it wasn’t quite right. After all, not all nobles came every time the park opened, so it wasn’t possible to catch them all.
Moreover, he didn’t know who was behind this garden. Would directly using the Calamity Realm alert them?
It wasn’t worth the risk. Thinking this, Xia Feng couldn’t help but sigh. He actually quite wanted to meddle in this matter.
“Forget it, I’ll take it one step at a time. I’ll find the Holy Solution first,” he dismissed the thoughts and set his course.
“I told you my story, so can you tell me, is Zaiye… is he still alive?”
Xia Feng looked up, meeting the woman’s calm gaze. Although there were no emotions in her eyes, there was still a hint of anticipation hidden within.
Perhaps it was anticipation for Wen Zaiye to rescue her? Or perhaps it was simply the anticipation that Wen Zaiye was alive?
Xia Feng couldn’t understand, but subconsciously felt that he shouldn’t tell the truth at this moment.
He shook his head, “He should still be alive. I haven’t seen him for a month.”
“Is that so… That’s good. As long as he’s alive…” Zhizi didn’t doubt Xia Feng’s words. She murmured and continued to move forward with the crowd.
After that, Xia Feng completed a series of checks and finally returned to the previous room.
After wandering outside, he had gathered quite a bit of information.
For example, the park opening time was the night after tomorrow at 7 PM.
During this period, no one was allowed to leave their rooms. Every day at noon, dedicated personnel would come to deliver nutrient solution injections. The nutrient solution could keep a person’s spirit and energy full for 24 hours.
In addition, there was a pink vertical line between the eyebrows. This was everyone’s identification mark and an inhibitor to prevent suicidal thoughts. If someone managed to bypass the inhibitor and commit suicide, staff would come to collect the body and send it to a hibernation pod for resuscitation.
Yes, the medical care in this damned place was outrageously good. As long as the brain was intact and the soul undamaged, one could be quickly healed and restored to their original state.
It was outrageously bizarre. This place seemed to be built for torture. Xia Feng couldn’t understand. Did these nobles have some kind of mental illness? Couldn’t they just find some celebrities to play with at home? Why did they have to come here to play with ordinary people who had completely lost hope of living?
Lying on the bed with nothing to do, Xia Feng felt bored. He still had to stay here for two more days before he could take the next step, which was annoying.
There were no computers or mobile phones in this place; it was killing him.
[Mu Qingtong ate three Tier 2 Spirit Treasure Fruits. Your soul space was greatly expanded, the amount of Spirit Particles increased significantly, reaching the Third-stage level.]
“Huh?”
Xia Feng sat up abruptly. He clearly felt the soul space, which was originally like a bottle of water, rapidly expand to the size of two bottles of water. The Spirit Particles filling it also slowly increased, and it took several hours to refill the entire soul space.
Xia Feng estimated that he could now use B-grade Spirit Robes two or three times without immediately depleting his Spirit Particles.
[Mu Qingtong consumed too many Spirit Treasure Fruits at once, causing unstable Spirit Pressure and the risk of soul collapse. However, as she quickly optimized her Spirit Particle Structure, your Spirit Pressure stabilized.]
[Current Mental Power: 50 soc]
[Mu Qingtong ate ten Spirit Infusion Fruits, perfectly absorbing all their efficacy. Your Mental Power increased by 30 points.]
[Current Mental Power: 80 soc]
Normally, each person could only consume one Spirit Infusion Fruit per month at most, otherwise, they would not be able to withstand the surge in Mental Power brought about by the Spirit Infusion Fruit and would become mentally deranged and foolish.
However, Mu Qingtong possessed a Spirit Artifact that provided a very high bonus to her Mental Power. This increase was negligible to her and did not cause the side effect of mental disorder.
From the Fourth-stage onwards, the life level of Spirit Masters evolved, and their Mental Power would also surge significantly, usually fluctuating between 40-300.
Xia Feng sensed that his Mental Power had already reached the Fourth-stage range, and he could resist the attacks of many mental-type Spirit Artifacts. He just didn’t know if he could withstand Mu Qingtong’s attack.
Perhaps only by raising his Mental Power to over 300, the Fifth-stage level, would he be safe.
[Preliminary experiment ‘Pain Enhances Strength Research’ failed, but it led to a slight improvement in understanding techniques for causing ‘intense pain’ to the target efficiently.]
“?” Xia Feng was confused. Pain Enhances Strength Research? What was that?
[Infiltrated the core area of the Holy Department to steal data and was almost discovered. In a moment of crisis, Mu Qingtong had an epiphany and optimized and improved the concealment Spirit Robe. Your understanding of Spirit Robes improved, and you successfully mastered the C-grade Spirit Robe ‘Bronze Concealment’.]
[C · Bronze Concealment]
[Qingtong Production, Must Be Quality Goods]
[Effect: Your concealment will eliminate the drawback of a faintly visible outline in sunlight. Your concealment can resist the scrutiny and investigation of insight-type Spirit Artifacts below A-grade.]
Very well, Xia Feng lay on the bed, silently cheering for Mu Qingtong. Miss Mu, I’m ready, you continue to exert yourself!
[Discovered your trace. Based on your movements, Mu Qingtong quickly found your whereabouts. While returning to the Holy Department, she gained insights into speed-type Spirit Robes. Your understanding of the C-grade Spirit Robe ‘Thunder Sky Step’ improved.]
“Oh, this…”
Xia Feng raised an eyebrow. Did this girl also want to sneak in? This damned place wasn’t very friendly to women.
[Mu Qingtong slit a woman’s throat with a butterfly knife. You quickly mastered the use of the butterfly knife and became proficient.]
[Killed another man. You gained insights into the technique of backstabbing, and your combat ability slightly improved imperceptibly.]
[Killed two more men…]
Xia Feng: “…”
Hey, hey, hey, Miss Mu, what are you doing?!
