Chapter 100: Mist Verification
“Save them? Who are they referring to? Sirens, or others?”
The sky had completely darkened, and Su Jiu watched the giant crab that had returned to the ocean. She was deep in thought, as her previous inquiries had yielded no useful information.
Su Jiu understood this, as creatures of lower races were like this. Their communication abilities would only improve after evolving, likely upon reaching the Battle King Level, unless they frequently interacted with humans.
“High Priest… The fish and birds must be referring to my Ice Dragon Transformation. Ice Dragon Transformations are not uncommon in big cities, so it might be referring to that green feather. Items from Space are always top-notch.”
“Sigh, my bloodline is becoming more and more diluted… This little thing seemed to react a bit when I used my Ice Dragon Transformation just now. It doesn’t matter, I’ll ask Old Man when I get back.”
Su Jiu raised her hand and looked at the sleeping little Siren inside her sleeve. She seemed to have been murmuring something in her sleeve just now.
E Huo was licking the other sleeve as if marking territory, completely lacking the dignity of a dragon.
Everyone dared not say anything as Su Jiu let the giant crab go. At this time, Teacher Lu Xin appeared. Without any unnecessary words, she glanced at Su Jiu and led everyone onto the car.
“Is the sea angry?”
Su Jiu looked at the turbulent sea. An air wall had been re-established around it, and the seawater continuously created violent impacts against it.
Su Jiu sighed, slowly dispelled the transformation, and returned to her cold Vampire appearance. She gently covered her ears.
On the watchtower, a cold and beautiful female voice suddenly sounded behind Ren: “She is quite good… Her combat power at the same level is already comparable to, or even surpasses, some of the people from the headquarters.”
Ren nodded lightly, showing a look of approval. Although he didn’t know if Su Jiu had gained any clues today, her maneuver of using ice in one hand and a sword in the other had amazed him…
Yes, it was amazement, not surprise!
If Su Jiu were deployed on a battlefield, she would be like timely rain. Without the frailty of a Priest, she could fight and heal on the front lines.
Further down the road, a hunched figure withdrew its gaze, grinned, rode away quietly on a somewhat old bicycle, its silhouette looking a bit desolate against the setting sun.
Half a minute later, Su Jiu was the last one to get off the car. No one dared to complain. They all looked at Su Jiu with not only respect but also a natural sense of distance, as if their status was no longer the same.
Humans were like this. If you were slightly stronger than them, they would be jealous; but if you were much stronger, they could only respect you.
Su Jiu was unbothered by this. When she was a teacher in her past life, she had seen these gazes often. Students from other classes looked at her the same way.
Sitting by the window, the lights kept falling on her hair, disappearing and reappearing. The light and shadow were mottled, as if returning to her youthful high school days.
Su Jiu picked up her phone and saw that the Duke had replied to her message. A slight smile curved her lips. She glanced down and was a bit stunned, then found it amusing.
“Then… I’ll reluctantly let you be a vassal. Why isn’t it the Three Character Classic anymore?”
Leaning on the small pillow on the seat, she thought for a moment and quickly sent a string of text to tease this funny guy:
[Duke, as a vassal, what rights and powers will I have…]
Su Jiu was curious if the other party would actually “drop gold coins.”
Soon, a message arrived, as if in a very serious reply:
[Territory, rewards, rights, etc. You can’t use them in Dragon Country. I can send you a couple of Blood Night Grass another day.]
Su Jiu was overjoyed. She could actually get gold coins. Before she could reply, another line of text appeared below, as if hastily typed, without punctuation:
[Oh, by the way, postage is cash on delivery. Cross-border shipping fees have increased recently.]
Su Jiu: ……
Her eyes instantly turned into dead fish eyes. Increased… has it increased? That’s only a few hundred yuan, you can’t afford it, right?
The image of this Grand Duke fell further from being funny, but no matter what, it felt good to spend a few hundred yuan to buy such a high-level item.
But she still typed a reply: [Thank you for your benevolence, I am deeply honored.]
At this moment, Su Jiu still hadn’t realized that the expensive part wasn’t the postage, but the customs duties…
[Don’t be so polite. Are you still in the Warrior Class? Feel free to ask any questions you have. Blood Princess emoji (Arrogant)]
Then, realizing something was wrong, she quickly withdrew the emoji, leaving only the text.
Su Jiu raised an eyebrow. This Grand Duke seemed a bit naive? It was one thing to send a second-dimensional emoji to her subordinate, but to withdraw it…
Thinking of this, Su Jiu couldn’t help but complain. It made her feel like a big bad wolf misleading a little girl.
Hey, big brother, wake up! You’re not the protagonist of a youth romance, are you? How long have you lived?! Hundreds of years, right?
Focusing slightly, if she really had questions, she did. The other party shouldn’t have lived in vain. Perhaps she could ask her about some things this time.
Then she typed and asked:
[Do you know about Sub-Dragon Flame Crystals?]
The reply came quickly, within ten seconds:
[A rare crystal that resembles the magic crystals of true dragons.]
[It contains immense thermal energy. After being diluted through a special process, humans with fire-attribute bloodlines can ingest it to enhance their bloodline and strengthen their physique. For monsters, it can provide an opportunity to acquire fire attributes.]
Su Jiu frowned slightly. This was the same as what she had read in the app’s description. Then why was the K Organization going to such lengths to get this thing? By all rights, there should be many alternatives.
Thinking of this, she asked somewhat unwillingly:
[Are there no other uses?]
The other party seemed to fall silent, but Su Jiu could see that the input was interrupted intermittently, indicating progress. A Vampire’s memory was terrifying. Had this Grand Duke thought of something?
Then Su Jiu straightened up slightly, her gaze fixed on the screen.
After about a minute, Su Jiu looked at the screen, which displayed a thought: [Special collision with extreme cold ice crystal], followed by a long string of chemical formulas… She directly scrolled to the bottom and found a [=?]. Clearly, the other party also didn’t know the result.
[This formula was passed down from a Blood Clan Viscount from Bear Country over fifty years ago. It seems they were working on this back then, but I don’t know the outcome. I only know they abandoned the experiment and sealed off the entire site.]
Su Jiu said a few thanks, then picked up the official app to search for events from that year, filtering them one by one, but found only useless things… After an unknown amount of time, the car also stopped. Su Jiu got out of the car in front of the Dragon Slayer Alliance, her head still down.
She was still searching; she couldn’t help it, the information was too overwhelming.
“Beep beep!” The sound of a car horn broke her train of thought.
“How is it? Did you find anything?” A slightly cold female voice followed.
Su Jiu looked up. Youyou had her arm draped over the car, jingling her keychain, and smiling at her.
