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Chapter 161 - 152 Thousand People, Thousand Faces_1

Chapter 161: Chapter 152 Thousand People, Thousand Faces_1

In the afternoon, Mu You left Lin’s Manor with Vivian.

After the effect of the Purification Potion wore off, Grandma Lin Xue’s condition deteriorated rapidly again, reverting back to a state where she could hardly speak or move.

However, the elderly woman’s mood had improved significantly—she was always smiling, laying in bed, looking at her children one by one, bidding them farewell.

This condition, probably will not last until sunset today ...

Mu You initially thought Vivian would want to stay and accompany the old woman for the last stretch of her journey, but she didn’t. Vivian straightforwardly told him to leave the manor.

But upon further thought, it made sense to Mu You. Because people like Vivian, who had lived through so many years, no longer needed such superficial farewells. In their view, the real goodbye had taken place when she first crossed the door, and this final time was better left to the elderly’s family.

Lin family didn’t neglect Mu You either. They sent a car just to take him home.

By the time he returned to the pet shop, Little Ya had been eagerly waiting at the door.

As soon as she saw Mu You getting out of the car, she hurried over, peered into the car but didn’t see the person she wanted to see, she looked at Mu You: "Boss, where’s Sister Xue?"

"She’s still at the Lin’s."

Mu You shook his head and smiled at her: "Don’t worry, your Sister Xue will come back."

"Oh, that’s good..." On hearing this, Little Ya felt much more at ease. She wanted to ask what had happened during his trip, but noticing Mu You’s subdued mood, she didn’t.

Mu You didn’t care about these things. After returning home, he locked himself up in the room, took out the Horn of Abundance, and continued with the creation of the unfinished Magic Card.

Now with triple the natural magic power amplification, creating this high-energy-consuming card was no longer difficult.

Five hours later, a brand-new Magic Card was born in his hand.

Mu You took a breath, picked up the card and took a look at it.

[Rapid Growth: Middle-Rank Life Attribution Black Magic, applies to a single plant within one hundred meters, causing the plant to grow into maturity at an extremely fast speed.]

"Uh ..."

This description made Mu You stunned.

The original Horn of Abundance could speed up the growth of a whole patch of plants, but after advancing to become a black magic spell, it surprisingly turned into targeting a single plant?

Upon thinking, Mu You fused the card with the Crystal, entered the backpack space, and prepared to give it a try.

After all, it was a middle-rank black magic spell, he felt it shouldn’t be that simple.

Once in the backpack, Mu You did as usual, took a Bindweed seed, tossed it a few meters ahead, raised the Magic Wand, and cast Rapid Growth on the seed.

The very next moment, he only felt a blur before his eyes. When he came back to his senses, he was submerged in a patch of tall grass that reached over his head.

Countless curly vines emerged from the ground, crazily sweeping towards him from all directions. In the blink of an eye, he was unable to move as he was completely bound.

"Damn!"

Mu You jumped in surprise; he really didn’t expect the spell to take effect so quickly that he even fell into his own trap.

Luckily, he was holding the Phantom Wand in his grip at this moment. He hurriedly injected magic power and used Phantom Shifting to teleport into the air, escaping.

While in mid-air, he finally got a clear view of the entire plant that had grown below him.

A circumference of nearly twenty meters was now completely covered by Bindweed, which was four times larger than the original coverage. And this time, the Bindweed was much taller than before, so much so that it bind not only from the feet but to one’s hair too, wrapping beings into a mummy.

If he hadn’t used Phantom Shifting just now, it would have been a problem to struggle free.

Moreover, it’s the incredible rate the plant grows at.

Just a blink of an eye, Mu You did not even manage to see the growth process of the seed, and was immediately covered by high grass.

Completely unresponsive coiling, how strong the practical effect was, he didn’t have to say, one burst is an absolute sure hit!

Then Mu You cast the spell once more on a wandering Mandrake on the grass far away, which was chasing a baby Chocobo.

However, after the spell was cast, the expected scene of the Mandrake’s figure swelling did not appear.

The distant Mandrake did not show any physical changes, but it seemed to sense something. It paused in its tracks turned its head looked at Mu You scratching its head, clueless.

"There is actually no reaction ..."

Mu You stroked his chin. He was perfectly sure the spell had taken effect because he could clearly feel the reduction in the magic power of the Crystal.

However, the Mandrake showed no change... This could only mean that it had already reached maturity and it couldn’t grow any larger than it already was!

Shaking his head, Mu You left the space and returned to his bedroom where he made a copy of the new card.

With a complete template, the duplication process was much easier. In just half an hour, a backup ’Rapid Growth’ was completed.

Instead of continuing to make cards, Mu You opened his desk drawer and pulled out another Magic Card.

—It was the door sealed by Vivian in the daytime.

Because it couldn’t be carried into the backpack, when Mu You entered the space, he had to leave it in the outside world.

Looking at the 3D-like flowing light and shadow on the card, Mu You gently touched the lifelike red door in the middle of the card, feeling the cold chill coming from it. After a moment of hesitation, he decided not to bring it out in a hurry and put it in his pocket.

This door could only be opened once every ten days. The chance was precious, so there was no rush to use it. He would wait until Lin Xue came tomorrow to discuss it in detail.

After putting away the card, Mu You took out his satellite phone and opened the Dragon Soars software.

He searched through the exchange item list and finally settled on a certain artifact.

[Thousand Faces: a mask-type Hidden Relic. A thousand people will see a thousand different faces in you! After wearing the mask, your appearance will be different in different people’s eyes. It can be used to prevent the effect of a wanted order.

Comes with the ability ’Deep Concealment’: open once every eight days, lasts for twenty-four hours, deeply suppresses the Fool’s breath within your body, making your identity as a Fool undetectable by any means.]

The mask has been on the software for a long time. As a hidden relic, its price of 5000 points is not expensive, but it has been ignored for a long time.

In the Fool’s forum, there were even posts making fun of this mask, calling it ’the most useless hidden relic in history’ because neither of its two effects is useful. The effect of evading a wanted order could be achieved by changing skins, and Deep Concealment is even useless. All relics already have the effect of concealing the Fool’s breath, what good would further concealment do? What’s more, this ability lasts only one day every eight days...

From any angle, this is a very useless hidden relic.

It wasn’t until the recent tower pushing task appeared that players were in great pain from being hunted down everywhere when they gradually realized the value of this mask.

This directly resulted in the skyrocketing estimated price of the mask.

Just within two days, the mask’s backstage evaluation price has risen from 4,000 points to 25,000 points, and it seems to have a continuing upward trend.

Mu You had only thought of this relic when he received the ’door’ from Grandma Lin Xue during the day.

The door has a cooldown of ten days, and this artifact opens once every eight days. It can provide perfect coverage. If he had this, Mu You could go to a different world through the door without being pursued. He could freely communicate and trade with the inhabitants of the Star Spirit World. There’d be a huge increase in possibilities.

After a careful calculation, he felt that even with the price of 25,000 points, it was worth it. Moreover, as the tower pushing mission approached, this artifact would definitely continue to appreciate in price.

Before it hits its peak, Mu You thought it’d be best to make a move as soon as possible. It could be considered as an investment. This relic was a necessity for him at the moment. After the imminent push tower mission, if he felt that it was unnecessary, he could sell it and get his money back. It seemed like a profitable transaction no matter how you looked at it.

The only problem was that the 25,000 points were a bit beyond his reach. The spare items he had on him, a High-level Spell and a Middle-Rank Spell Scroll were the only valuable ones. It was questionable whether they could make up for the 20,000 points if he sold them.

He couldn’t afford to move anything else.

Mu You was contemplating whether he should sell some Magic Potions to get enough points.

"Ding..."

Just as he was thinking, his phone suddenly rang.

Mu You opened it and saw a message from Zhang Yang saying that he was already at the door and asking if Mu You was home.

Mu You glanced at the time. It was already past eleven at night. He didn’t expect Zhang Yang to visit at this hour.

Packing up his things, Mu You went downstairs to see for himself.

As expected, Zhang Yang’s car was parked at the door. As soon as he saw Mu You opening the door, Zhang Yang walked over with a bag and took out a green certificate from his briefcase, handing it to him: "Here’s what you asked for."

Mu You took it over and saw that the cover read: "Abnormal Creatures Breeding and Sales Permit".

"You got it so soon?"

Mu You looked at Zhang Yang with some surprise.

He had originally thought that it would take a few months at least to apply for this kind of permit which had never been issued before.

To his surprise, in just over a week, the permit was already in his hands.

"Haha, thanks to your efforts this early morning. The top brass took this incident very seriously. Although the information you provided didn’t play a big role at that time, your subsequent actions successfully helped the Blood Emperor save the boy. The Blood Emperor spoke up for you at today’s debriefing meeting of the Dragon Group, saying that you should be acknowledged for your efforts. The top brass rewarded you with another A-level task. As for something as minor as a permit, nobody would give you any trouble, they gave you the green light, fast-tracking the approval overnight." Zhang Yang laughed.

"Another A-level task? How many points can that get?" The first thing Mu You cared about was the task settlement. He hurriedly asked.

He just thought he was short on points, and here Zhang Yang comes out of the blue with this good news.