Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 162 - 132. Opening the Gate Brings Great Luck

Chapter 162: 132. Opening the Gate Brings Great Luck

Actually ... Li Aozi felt that there probably were truly capable Spirit Mediums who, under the conditions like those of the Sky Ring, could rise to prominence, likely from noble families. He doubted his ability to recruit such talents.

Li Aozi planned to use his own methods to learn specialized professional knowledge, locate Nomi’s body, and then follow the clues to find the Plunder who had taken the other half of Nomi’s soul and retrieve it from him.

Compared to aimlessly conjuring souls, having the soul made the subsequent task less demanding for the Spirit Medium. Even someone of Xeno’s or Agent Yawen’s caliber could handle it.

Li Aozi glanced at his panel; having completed five cross-tier battles, his template had been upgraded to an Advanced Senior Combat NPC, benefiting from a 10% increase in Health Points limit and a 15% damage rate.

Looking further, the task reward for "Imprint" was especially rich in Experience, and even though he teamed up with Meibei, which involved an experience penalty, it was still enough to raise his Main Profession’s level to 40.

[Main Profession [Mutant] has been upgraded to Lv.40]

[Based on Specialty, you receive the following benefits: Charm +15]

The basic [Charm] instantly reached 65 points. With an additional 3 points from jewelry, [Charm] being his Main Attribute, the effect of [Perpetual Love Hunting] remained continuously active, yielding 130% in benefits.

Ultimately, [Charm] culminated in an actual benefit of 88.4 points.

This value had officially stepped into the top tier of the Gamma Level, even surpassing Professor’s Main Attribute [Intelligence] by more than twenty points.

Once it breaks through 100 points, [Mutant] will undergo a qualitative change.

[Total Level has reached the promotion criteria]

With his Main Profession at level 40, Li Aozi looked at the requirements for advancing to the Beta Rank:

[Hierarchy Advancement Requirement: Possess three perfect mutations]

This difficulty was rather low; the "Imprint" task completion directly awarded Li Aozi four options for perfect reset of Mutation, he just needed to wait for the mutations to occur.

With this series of operations, after securing the reset experience for himself, Li Aozi still had a considerable surplus; he was in no rush to allocate it to his Secondary Profession [Biochemist], as he needed to nurture the [Craftsman] profession next.

Suddenly, he was lacking experience again.

However, returning to his thought process, Li Aozi realized he would soon face a new challenge:

The Level 60 Profession Advancement.

The [Echoer] legacy that Li Aozi planned to advance to was not on Azure Star; in fact, Azure Star did not have the pathways for post-Level 60 at all.

[It seems I need to head to space sooner rather than later.]

Now with the [Blood of Eternity], a journey through space didn’t worry Li Aozi about his lifespan; as long as he hibernated frequently, he wouldn’t fret about a short life span, as any genetic overloading and damage could also be repaired.

However, the downside of the [Blood of Eternity] soon became apparent, as Li Aozi quickly plunged into boredom, unable to actively emerge from hibernation unless a life-threatening crisis arose.

Still, there was no immediate danger.

Li Aozi surmised that probably only people from the Third Rule and Fourth Rule would come after him and, considering he had defeated those of Beta Rank like the Professor, it was likely that several from the Third and Fourth Rule would join forces in an attempt to eliminate him.

At worst, they might employ a professional army, surely they wouldn’t bring a Mobile Armor, right?

Unless Frost Plated wanted to provoke a war?

But, that wasn’t entirely impossible given the vengeful nature of the Fourth Rule; Li Aozi decided he’d better prepare for the worst nonetheless.

For Frost Plated to catch up with the fast-moving Youth Number armored train would take at least an hour, enough time for the [Blood of Eternity] to repair 30% of the [Gene Overload] effect.

As long as he could utilize Arcane Energy and move, Li Aozi could fight.

The tedious time spent healing was dispiriting, fortunately, Qiu Ran kept chatting with him, expressing many of a girl’s delicate emotions and occasionally bringing up fun family stories. Thinking about the imminent opportunity to return home made Qiu Ran’s mood especially bright, often bursting into laughter midsentence,

"Once I go back and start earning big money, I too want to try college, then buy a D2000 levitating car—hey, are you even asleep?"

Qiu Ran seemed to notice that Li Aozi was listening to her speak, and gave him a look:

"Do you want to keep listening? Forget it, just rest well."

She wiped the sweat off Li Aozi’s face with a towel, turned around, and instructed:

"I’m going to assist Lady Selya; you rest nicely, okay!"

As Qiu Ran spoke, she pushed open the hospital room’s sliding door, gently closed it, and looked up to see Lady Selya recording information on various dashboards.

"Lady Selya? Can I help you with anything?"

"Oh, Miss Qiu Ran," Selya chuckled and said, "I was just about to say, we’re about to rush underground, but there’s a new wave of beast tide that might attack us, and I need to stay here to control the weapon systems to fight back."

"I see — that sounds like tough work," Qiu Ran said with concern. "What can I do to help you?"

"If possible, could you please take some gasoline to the young people on guard at the back of the train? That way, if mutant beasts approach, they can use the gasoline to start a fierce fire and drive them away."

She pointed to two gasoline drums piled nearby:

"Two drums should be enough; mutant beasts generally can’t catch up."

"No problem," Qiu Ran patted her modest biceps, chuckled, and said, "Leave it to me."

"Then I’ll be counting on you."

Qiu Ran picked up the two heavy drums of gasoline and turned towards the rear carriages.

She walked past the first-class carriage, the hospital, and the sleeper cabins, and was about to push open the door to the hard-seat carriage when suddenly, Qiu Ran stopped in her tracks.

For some reason, she felt a mysterious thought continuously warning her in her mind:

’Don’t open the door!’

"Am I just too tired?"

Qiu Ran pinched a bead of sweat; indeed, her heart was pounding. She had not eaten since they started attacking Mingji Humanity six hours ago.

It seemed there was no noise inside anymore; it looked like the conflict and arguments between the people of the Outer World and Frost Plated People had ended.

Speaking of which, it’s really something; they were all lower-class people oppressed by the Frost Plated. Why would they argue or even fight over such things — could there be anything in the world more precious than life?

Living allows you to earn money, eat lots of delicious food, have the opportunity to bask in the light of the artificial sun and tan your skin to a beautiful wheat color, meet interesting people, and make friends with them.

In short, living is best; as long as one is alive, they can always prove their significance.

Qiu Ran thought:

"It seems I, too, am afraid of death."

Then, I’ll help out just a bit more.

Qiu Ran took out her water bottle, drank some water, suppressed the palpitations in her chest, and unlocked the door to the hard-seat carriage.

Click—

The sliding door opened to the side, and Qiu Ran bent over, picked up the two heavy gasoline drums, took a deep breath, and looked forward as she walked.

Just as she raised her head, she saw a bolt-action rifle aimed at her face, followed by the dark muzzle slowly lighting up with flames.

Bang!

The gasoline drums fell to the ground, slowly oozing out thick liquid, quickly filling the air with a pungent smell.