The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 156 - 116 Devouring Shadow

Chapter 156: Chapter 116 Devouring Shadow

Teleporting back to the hotel room, Zhou Yuan quickly entered the bathroom to take a shower, using more than half a bottle of body wash to cover the choking sulfur smell on his body.

Then he opened the window to let the cold wind blow in. After two or three minutes, the sulfur smell in the room was basically gone. A few sprays of perfume, and even a dog’s nose couldn’t detect anything unusual.

Knock knock knock.

Just then, a knock sounded at the door.

As expected!

Zhou Yuan chuckled and quickly closed the window. He opened the door and saw that it was Chen Guangxi.

"What’s up, something wrong?" Zhou Yuan asked with a puzzled look.

Chen Guangxi walked into the room, sniffed, and then looked at Zhou Yuan who was wrapped in a bathrobe with suspicion. "Did you call a hooker?"

"?" Zhou Yuan nearly spat out blood, "Don’t tarnish my reputation!"

"Then how do you explain the lady’s perfume?"

"It’s for you." Zhou Yuan took out a bottle of expensive perfume from his backpack, sprayed it twice without blushing or missing a beat, and said, "First time buying perfume, so I sprayed a few times to smell it. It’s quite nice, don’t you think?"

Nice explanation... Chen Guangxi stared at him with a half-smile for two seconds, then took the perfume. "Then I’ll take it."

"So, what do you need me for?" Zhou Yuan asked.

"Ding Yi has been rescued."

"Oh?" Zhou Yuan was surprised. "By whom? Isn’t that abnormal movie impossible to enter?"

"I called in reinforcements, the person you met this afternoon, Wang Zhen. He has some magical tools."

"He’s quite impressive, handling anomalies that the Control Bureau can’t deal with." Zhou Yuan sighed, "Heroes really are abundant in the world."

"..."

Chen Guangxi was speechless, then said, "Hurry up and get dressed. Jiang Wuming and the others have returned from their sea mission, let’s go pick them up."

"Sea mission? Where did they go?" Zhou Yuan asked with curiosity.

Chen Guangxi shook her head. "They went on a classified mission."

Zhou Yuan smacked his lips, "Alright then."

·

In the car.

Zhou Yuan gazed at the scenery outside the window, but in reality, he was focusing his mind on the player system.

Let’s open a box first.

A flash of light.

[Name: Intermediate Mind Barrier]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Special Effect: Resists various types of attacks in the mental domain, such as Spiritual Shock, Mind Control, Mental Pollution, etc. Once activated, it will persist for 3 minutes. If no mental attack is encountered, it will automatically disappear, and 50% of the spirituality consumed will be returned.]

[Consumption: 200 points of spirituality]

[Cooldown time: 30 seconds]

[Notes: Thought is a reflection of the world, also a miniature world. Even if it can’t reveal the essence of thought, it can still sharpen consciousness into the greatest tool. Exploring the potential of the mind can lead you to higher levels of existence.]

"A mental skill, not bad, it compensates for some of the shortcomings in this area."

Zhou Yuan was quite satisfied with the skill and secretly griped about it in his heart. Raven and Ye Wan, what were they getting out of those boxes before...

I’ll definitely not let them open boxes again in the future.

After adding 1 point of allocable attribute to Perception, his current attribute panel was:

[Strength: 26

Agility: 24

Constitution: 28

Intelligence: 19

Perception: 29

Charm: 23]

After selling the junk materials obtained from the dungeon, the Star Coins total came to 19300.

Then, Zhou Yuan used the split function of the backpack to divide [Satan’s Ashes] and [Soup of Nurture] into two portions, selling one portion of each.

[Star Coins + 12500]

[Total Star Coins: 31800]

The Star Coins officially broke through the 30,000 mark.

There was still some distance to the destination, so he cleaned out his backpack, selling all the useless junk items—he had several extraordinary persons’ Storage Rings, which contained all their belongings.

After a round of cleaning, he ultimately earned 5360 points of Star Coins through sales.

[Total Star Coins: 37160]

Zhou Yuan browsed the game shop, his eyes eagerly locking onto one item.

[Name: Dark Matter - Shadow Eater]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Special Effect: For shadow system players only. Upon merging, the shadow controlled by the player will acquire the ability to devour, converting devoured organic material, elements, etc., into energy that can nourish oneself.]

[Note: This skill is a prerequisite for skills like "Return to Ruins," "Black Sun," "Dark Plane," etc.]

[Remark: Shadows devour all.]

[Price: 30000 Star Coins]

Buy it!

Zhou Yuan purchased it without hesitation.

[Star Coins - 30000]

[Star Coin balance: 7160]

Any ability with a "devour" characteristic, as long as it had no fatal side effects, belonged to the T1 tier, granting extraordinary persons strong sustainability, along with a formidable killing power that could dissolve the touched parts upon contact. Everyone would be scared of it.

However, unfortunately, [Shadow Eater] could only convert devoured organic materials like extraordinary persons and abnormal creatures into energy; it couldn’t grant Zhou Yuan the abilities of the devoured subjects.

If it did have such abilities, [Shadow Eater] would undoubtedly become a top-tier T0 skill.

Of course, the price would also soar, far beyond the reach of 30,000 Star Coins.

The most important thing was that [Shadow Eater] was a prerequisite for a series of powerful shadow system skills; only by learning it could various subsequent skills be purchased.

——[Return to Ruins]

From "Liezi - Tang Wen:" "East of the Bohai Sea, countless millions of miles away, is a great chasm known as the Return to Ruins, an abyss without a bottom, into which all waters flow without rising or falling."

It was said to be a bottomless abyss in the sea, where all waters converge.

Also metaphorized as the end and destination of all things.

The system’s description was simple and brutal—anything that entered it would meet its end.

——[Black Sun]

A massive black sun is released, and anything it touches is obliterated, while the black sun unleashes a terrifying devouring storm, harvesting everything, like Death walking the earth.