??Chapter 113: 112. True Sight (Monthly ticket bonus chapter!)_1
Chapter 113: 112. True Sight (Monthly ticket bonus chapter!)_1
When his feet once again touched solid ground, Lu Ban felt a cool breeze first.
He opened his eyes and took a quick glance.
“Forgot to turn off the air conditioning…”
After a bit of thought, Lu Ban turned the air conditioning temperature up a few degrees.
“Good thing I ca back early, otherwise I would have wasted a lot of electricity.”
He looked at himself, his clothes tattered and his backpack nearly broken. It was a good thing that Lu Ban had eaten all of the compressed rations last night and this morning, otherwise that too would have been a waste.
The suona, however, was still shining without a hint of damage from the Pure Fire. Lu Ban even thought that if he threw it into the Pure Fire, maybe it wouldn’t even start to burn.
Sitting on his bed in a daze for a while, Lu Ban’s thoughts briefly spanned the previous mission, finally resting on a crimson crystal in his hand.
This was the last thing left by Red Leaf.
[Unlock Sub-Quest: Hocoming]
[As leaves fall to their roots and souls yearning for the sky ultimately disintegrate into the earth, she yearns for her soul to return to her holand, to fulfill her last wish, and gain a reward.]
“So she really can’t be saved, can she…”
Lu Ban sighed wistfully.
Although he had known Red Leaf for just one day, after all, they had shared life-and-death experiences, and she had helped him. Considering Red Leaf’s background and fate, sorrow welled up in Lu Ban.
A Chosen by Gods of the Silent Lands like himself didn’t really differ from the Shrine Maidens of He Dao.
They both had to fight against these indescribable entities and both faced the possibility of being Corroded, Polluted, or Mutated.
Maybe one day Lu Ban would also turn into a monster.
“Don’t worry, if I have a chance, I’ll certainly bring you back to the Great Shrine of Harmony Island.”
Lu Ban placed Red Leaf’s ashes as a crystal on the table, took off his tattered clothes, and prepared to go to the bathroom for a shower and change, also to check his body.
It was now eight o’clock in the morning, about thirteen hours since Lu Ban entered the mission. The bathroom was fairly bright, and he looked at himself in the mirror.
In the mirror, Lu Ban, with only a few remnants of scars from being burned by the Fire and the Undefined Fog, looked like soone who would appear to be sunburned from a day at the beach to the unaware.
“Hm?”
Lu Ban noticed that on his neck, where gills should have been able to split open, there seed to be so wounds.
He leaned closer to the mirror for a careful look.
He saw that from those slight cuts, a little blood was seeping out.
The blood gradually flowed down, dripping from Lu Ban’s neck into the washbasin.
He looked down, but the empty washbasin showed no sign of bloodstains.
“…”
Lu Ban touched his neck, which felt perfectly smooth, free from any cuts.
“Don’t be naughty.”
He said to Lu Ban in the mirror, then turned on the showerhead.
While showering, Lu Ban saw the water on the floor forming the System’s cold text.
[Congratulations on completing the mission.]
[The settlent will now comnce.]
[Mission Exploration Rate: 100%]
[Mission Completion: Perfect]
[The festival of Song Island has co to a close, and the fog that hung over the sea has dissipated along with it. You witnessed a grand illusion, encountered soone bound by fate just like yourself. The festival will resurface one day, but those who joined you will not co again. Tales of ancient gods are but whispers of the past.]
[You have earned Silence Points: 13500 points.]
[You have received a reward: Skill: True Sight.]
[You have received a career reward: Item: One Hundred Poets.]
[Settlent completed.]
[It is ti to set foot on a new stage, in an era where even common people of endless entertainnt can showcase themselves. Continue creating, for your future is dazzlingly bright!]
[Choose to complete a career developnt mission to receive a career reward.]
[Welco back to the Silent Lands]
“A hundred percent completion…”
It was Lu Ban’s first ti achieving a hundred percent task exploration progress. Based on the previous ninety-five percent completion, the additional five percent allowed Lu Ban to gain an extra six hundred Silence Points.
“So, five percent exploration progress is considered passable?”
He glanced at the Silent Store.
He had currently accumulated 49,800 Silence Points, just two hundred points shy of unlocking the next phase of the store at fifty thousand.
“It’s a bit frustrating to be stuck here.”
Of course, if Lu Ban successfully completed the subsequent professional developnt tasks, he would definitely unlock it before the next mission, and coupled with his current thirty thousand Silence Points on hand, he would have enough to splurge a bit.
However, Lu Ban guessed, based on previous patterns, that the items sold in the higher-level stores likely wouldn’t be cheap, starting at no less than fifty thousand points. He couldn’t afford them at the mont, so he could only feast his eyes and glean so knowledge about the Foreign Domain from the information about those items.
[One Hundred Poets] was surely a video material, probably downloaded directly onto Lu Ban’s hard drive. He only hoped his hard drive wouldn’t get full and explode, which ant buying a new high-capacity hard drive was a task that seed inevitable.
As for the skill True Sight, Lu Ban thought from the na alone it was sothing like an ability to see invisible things.
“What’s it really used for?”
The water from the shower wetted Lu Ban’s body as he tried out the skill.
Lu Ban’s eyes suddenly beca deep and profound, shifting from the common Asian hue of dark brown to a deep gray, like a mist.
Looking around, Lu Ban’s gaze froze near the drain.
He saw an eye filled with blood vessels staring back at him from beneath the drain cover.
This was different from the fleeting glances he’d had before. Lu Ban blinked, but the eyeball did not disappear.
He squatted down and reached out to lift the drain cover.
The eyeball, like a small animal frightened, retracted further into the drain.
Lu Ban saw wet hair, which resembled the tentacles of a reptile, clinging to the walls of the drain, spider-like.
“So that’s what you look like?”
Lu Ban extended his hand, trying to touch the eyeball, but it quickly retracted into the depths of the drain.
“Shy, aren’t we?”
Lu Ban didn’t forcefully pry open the drain but considerately covered it back up.
He stood up and looked toward the mirror.
The thing in the mirror looked back at Lu Ban.
It resembled sothing wholly burnt, its flesh stripped away, with only a pair of eyes protruding starkly in the empty sockets.
Its movents mirrored Lu Ban’s exactly, except for the disintegrated skin that was strikingly different.
Lu Ban raised his left hand, and so did the thing in the mirror.
Lu Ban made a fist, and the mirror reflection followed suit.
Lu Ban moved to make another gesture but suddenly pulled back at the last mont.
He saw the thing in the mirror couldn’t stop in ti and made a scissors gesture.
Lu Ban then stretched out a fist.
“I win.”
He smiled, and the Lu Ban in the mirror widened his eyes in a startled confusion.
Lu Ban turned off the shower, dried off, and got dressed. Then he saw a shadowy figure forming the shape of a person at the bathroom door.
He imdiately opened the door to find a figure composed of black mist, with a grim expression, hurriedly scurrying into the corner and dissipating with the wind.
Arriving in the living room, Lu Ban noticed a blurry person sitting in a chair next to the dining table.
“Hello.”
Lu Ban greeted.
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