bookrebus Chapter 168 Life is not a game
Chapter 168 Life is not a game
Looking back now, the Shennong Beast was truly a bug! It compressed six months of modification into just half a month! That's almost ten times faster! And the effects weren't even affected!
Now I truly understand why the Jade Kirin clan is coveted by so many beings! Their racial characteristics are too strong!
After calming down a bit while holding Li Muyang, Feng Ling'er finally realized what was happening. She then acted out her typical tsundere persona, suddenly pushing Li Muyang away, wiping away her tears, and turning her head away, blushing, saying, "You...you mustn't think anything of it...I...I didn't mean anything by it...it was just a friend's concern for you..."
"I understand~" Li Muyang said with a meaningful smile, but it just looked a bit cheeky.
Feng Ling'er could only roll her eyes. She wasn't really arrogant; she was just shy. But seeing Old Li's face, she suddenly lost all her shyness.
Bad guy! He just wants to see me make a fool of myself!
(Oh well, there's no one else here anyway, it won't matter if he sees me like this.) The girl thought to herself.
The last time she showed such a demeanor was when she saw the unconscious Shen Feiyan at the Kasyapa Temple, and there were no other outsiders present. Feng Ling'er did not like to show her vulnerable side to people she cared about or outsiders.
Despite not liking it, when she needed someone to rely on, Feng Ling'er also longed for someone to lean on!
Perhaps still feeling the atmosphere was a bit awkward, Feng Ling'er left with the words, "I'll go tell the others you're awake," and turned to go out and call for help.
Li Muyang watched the girl's departing figure, shrugged with a hint of melancholy in his eyes. To be honest, he really didn't know how to get along with someone of the opposite sex who was more than a girlfriend, except for his own mother! At most, they were just friends.
Anyway, Lao Li doesn't believe in any so-called love at first sight. Maybe it exists, but he believes that most love at first sight is just lust at first sight.
But having known and spent a long time with Feng Ling'er, plus Bai Yuxiu, in a sense, even if they haven't reached the point of living together, the relationship between the three of them is probably more than just friends... It can only be considered as more than friends, but not quite lovers.
Snapped!
Old Li slapped himself, snapping out of his reverie. What was he thinking? Just be the same as always, as long as he had a clear conscience! He hadn't done anything wrong, so why was he feeling guilty?
We'll deal with the future later! Even if I get hacked to death, it's my own fault! There's no going back on my decision! I'll walk the path I chose, even if I cry!
Given Xiuxiu and Ling'er's personalities, it shouldn't be... For some reason, Li Muyang silently shivered...
What interrupted Li Muyang's reverie were the crowd who rushed over upon hearing the news: Bai Yuxiu, Feng Ling'er, Nan Ying, Nan Sheng, Ganlu Temple Mitsuri, and the two brothers, Shi Tou.
Of course, Shennong Beast, Xiaobai, the three great demons, and even Brother Ma all came along.
Seeing Li Muyang alive and kicking again, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and said that they would think things through carefully next time and never make the same mistake again. As long as he was alright, that was all that mattered!
Apart from Bai Yuxiu and Feng Ling'er who stayed behind to take care of Li Muyang, everyone else went off to do their own thing.
Although Li Muyang wanted to explain that he was fine and had only been lying down for a few days, which did not affect his mobility, he obediently kept quiet under the pressure of everyone's gazes.
Forget it, those who make mistakes have no right to speak.
Despite saying he was taking care of her, Li Muyang's actions were not affected since there was nothing to take care of. Moreover, he hadn't finished collecting all the rewards from the prize pool yet, so he started discussing the remaining items with the two women.
Thirteen Divine Keys (the complete set including their forging techniques).
Hans Dufenshus's wisdom and inventive talent (plus my own brainstorming).
The former involves too many things, including the thirteen nominal Divine Keys of Honkai Impact 3, which, in addition to the twelve Sequence Divine Keys, also include a blank key.
If there were only one of these things, Li Muyang didn't know how long it would take to perfectly master it. After all, the reward issued by the Administration Bureau still required a research process, and it wasn't a completely enlightening, "instant enlightenment" approach.
Fortunately, Dr. Hans Dufenshus appeared! He saved all of our teeth!
A villainous character in the classic American comic book series "Phineas and Ferb"! A scientist who outwits and outmaneuvers Terry the platypus.
This animated series features three storylines: one involving the protagonists Phineas and Ferb, another involving their sister Katie, and the final storyline involving the platypus Terry and Doofenshus.
Dr. Dofenshus is nominally an evil mad scientist, but in reality he is often clumsy and funny. He has experienced various tragic events from childhood to adulthood, which eventually led him to become an evil scientist. However, he is not inherently bad. Dofenshus is not evil in the traditional sense, but rather full of childish naivety, and eventually he successfully switched sides.
Whitewashing? They don't need to.
Most importantly, his inventive talent, though seemingly haphazard, is at an unreasonable level! It truly deserves the title of "the power of my imagination"!
In a sense, Li Muyang's success was a lucky accident. Because of Dr. Dufenshus's wisdom and inventive talent, this thing was a semi-passive, semi-object reward. If he had claimed it first, he would most likely have wasted a portion of it due to insufficient intelligence and brain capacity, and would have been unconscious for a period of time.
Now that the Chaos Body has been fused, this little bit of content only made Li Muyang dizzy for a moment before he got used to it, and then he received the Thirteen Divine Keys... hiss...
I can't go on like this, I need to rest for a while.
Let his body continue to sleep and rest. Li Muyang activated his substitute mode, which was somewhat similar to his soul leaving his body, and began to study these things. These were all good things!
With Dr. Dufenshus's blessing, Li Muyang quickly digested the information about the Key of God. At the same time, he gradually mastered the skills of using his spirit and sea of consciousness. The value of his knowledge and memory was quite substantial!
After his brain was significantly developed, Li Muyang understood many things.
Previously, I was amazed that the Bureau's rewards were too easy to obtain, but now I realize that it's not that the Bureau's rewards are too easy to obtain, but rather that Li Muyang himself is too special! He can use almost all of the rewards he receives.
Putting aside everything else, if an ordinary person were to directly receive the reward of "Dr. Dufenshus's Wisdom," they would inevitably be affected to some extent! Perhaps it would be their personality, perhaps their habits, or perhaps something else entirely.
This doesn't even include the pain of integrating into the brain! This reward involves profound techniques related to the soul and memories! Furthermore, most of these rewards bear a strong personal imprint! These imprints will influence the user!
While the Bureau's methods may seem somewhat crude, casually stuffing rewards into the body, a closer look reveals that whether it's items, skills, or data enhancements, there's significant room for development. In other words, the strength of the rewards issued by the Bureau is determined by the user's own research and development, rather than being fixed.
In theory, there is no upper limit!
If you're truly skilled, it's not impossible for you to make a living with just one trick!
If you don't have the skill, even if you draw a lot of rewards, you won't be able to utilize their effects! There's even a possibility of going astray and becoming obsessed, where someone might be affected by too many rewards and become unlike themselves.
If you are broad but not deep, comprehensive but not specialized, and can't even maintain your original aspirations, your potential is destined to be limited!
Whether he himself would care about these changes, Li Muyang couldn't say. Everyone has their own ambitions, but at least he himself cared about them to some extent.
The flexibility of the prizes offered by the Administration Bureau means that there can be a large gap between the upper and lower limits, which is why they value the candidates.
The so-called "newbie pool" is actually a way for the management to determine which path an employee is best suited for. Afterwards, employees will be recommended to focus on that path, instead of being misled by various miscellaneous rewards.
For Li Muyang now, he can choose to integrate the parts of Dr. Dufenshus's wisdom that he needs and remove the parts that he doesn't need, such as some of the doctor's bad habits, so that he doesn't become as naive as Dr. Dufenshus.
Goose was very satisfied with Li Muyang's actions. "As expected of my host!" Hahaha!
I also agree with this self-awareness.
The boss of their bureau doesn't like rigid policies. In his view, employees shouldn't be bound by the bureau's so-called rewards. These are just things he sends out to help employees develop, not the main force!
If he can only use the abilities of characters from the storyline and can only achieve the effects of those abilities, why doesn't he go find the actual characters? The big boss says he's perfectly capable of that! He knows the actual characters better than anyone else! Why bother searching through countless worlds for a bunch of non-storyline characters?
Even in his eyes, everyone's development path is crystal clear! Perhaps everyone is a character in the story, but he just doesn't know it.
Therefore, the Bureau of this lineage is extremely selective! They choose people from all aspects, from talent to character to personality!
Of course, this only applies to those highly valued core employees who usually run missions in the myriad worlds and may encounter life-threatening situations, such as Li Muyang.
In fact, there are also ordinary employees in the Administration Bureau. They do not often go through missions, but are responsible for maintaining the basic order and operation of the Administration Bureau.
The task-oriented employees of the Administration Bureau usually choose a main path to follow through the novice pool, and then accumulate Origin Points to draw from the designated prize pool.
During this process, most of the rewards they receive are actually useless to them. They either store them in the warehouse, return them directly to the Administration Bureau, or trade them with someone within the Administration Bureau.
Li Muyang is unique; he can use anything he gets his hands on! And it all suits him quite well! He has a kind of all-encompassing quality.
It can be said that, in Mr. Goose's experience, Li Muyang is a unique individual.