Chapter 425: The Gift of the "Book of Numerology"
"At any time after January 5th, use an 'Item Lottery Ticket' with no upper limit on the grade?"
Colin opened the parchment and looked at the task, but the details seemed to be less than the task name.
but……
After some initial confusion, he soon realized that there was a high probability that he would draw a golden item...
Even if you use the lowest quality one, there is only a one in a billion chance of winning a golden item drawing ticket.
He can also become one of the billions...
that is……
"Doing this, will it feel like being appointed by someone else?"
Colin had a strange expression on his face. He always felt that doing this seemed like he was trying to cover up his crime.
It would be better to give it to him directly.
"However, the gold card was in a semi-out-of-control state at first. It has been returned less than a week after being recovered. Is the repair speed so fast?"
After thinking about it, Colin felt that it might not necessarily be a gold card.
There is also a certain probability that it was the special moldy giant scepter that he had robbed, no, picked up.
"That thing's lowest rank is purple, and its upper rank is orange. Even if it's purple, it's a very powerful purple item. But I don't know what its specific abilities are yet."
Colin remembered that he had sensed an indescribable smell of decay from the scepter.
That level of threat is only slightly less than that of a bone spur...
I didn't think too much about it. After all, whether it is a gold card or this scepter, there is a powerful equipment guaranteed to come with it.
"Speaking of which, it seems that the company has never proposed the idea of turning the 'bone spur' into a 'prop'... It's a pity."
Colin pursed his lips, but this time, he didn't even need any inspiration to remind him.
He probably knew the reason for this situation...
Strictly speaking, the "bone spur" is not an ownerless object. The "Light Church" where the Saint belongs has a strong claim to it, and the "Light Church" seems to have a friendly relationship with it, or it can be said that it is not an evil force.
Therefore, companies that pay attention to various regulations are unlikely to do so...
Unless the Saint makes a serious negotiation with the Earth officials.
Transfer the ownership of this thing to the company in a formal manner...
"What a pity." Colin sighed.
If it is "prop-ized", the minimum color is orange, and it is used for "prop liberation", it would be very scary.
He felt that the bone spur must have a significant origin...
It was because he was afraid that the saint would "change her mind" and take the item away.
So I never asked the other party.
"But fortunately, we agreed last time that we would retrieve her after her original body came out for disaster relief. This will probably take quite some time. If I have a chance this time, I can ask around... Well, the most urgent thing is another matter."
Colin rubbed his forehead. The problem now was that he didn't have any lottery tickets...
This thing is hard to get for ordinary employees...
Because you need a high score to have a chance to get this thing.
The score has little to do with how smoothly the employees pass the check. The key lies in whether the recycled items are valuable enough.
Normally, in Colin's opinion, it would be difficult to retrieve anything valuable from those missions that could be easily solved by just throwing a snow girl over there without him having to do anything himself...
If you are lucky enough to get two or three in a year, you are considered very lucky.
but……
For Colin, it is not particularly difficult. Although he cannot get it every time, he can get it by completing one or two more tasks.
"Plus, there may be a mysterious force behind the scenes. Maybe I can get it directly after I return from 'World No. 13' the day after tomorrow. Of course, I have to find something to do when I go there."
Colin rubbed his forehead.
The tasks there are now usually more routine, and they no longer proactively assign any tasks.
Even if there is, you have to trigger it yourself...
"Come to think of it, there seems to be some 'Hunger' fragments over there, and there's a church called the Feast of Devouring or something, which is related to it, but these people are as hard to find as rats..."
Colin had been there some time ago and had inquired about relevant information, but unfortunately he didn't gain much.
Then, he collected his thoughts and prepared to close the task.
But at this time, another task popped up...
[Event: "On January 4th at noon, at Base No. 5, a transaction was conducted..."]
【Note: As the title says. 】
…
"There is a mission to pass on a message. Is this... the second transaction?"
Colin opened it and took a look. It was sent by Ms. Rabbit about the second official transaction with the company.
This time the scale is much larger than the last time...
A total of more than 180 items were traded, including three level 2 items. Oh, two level 2 items, one of them was lost.
Maybe you can find it in a bonfire in "World No. 13"...
of the wreckage.
"A level 2 containment object. Although I am capable of handling it on my own, the environment it is in is usually very dangerous, so there is no need to do anything. Just take a look at the oil and water..."
It is not difficult to find the second-level containment, but it is not easy to find the lone ones.
"That's perfect. When I call Xu Duojin or Mr. Wu to discuss the source of the 'divine attack', I can tell them about this."
Thinking of this, he took another look at the message delivery mission.
Then he couldn't help but shook his head: "The poor company's task system is being manipulated at will by senior employees..."
Nowadays, it seems that with so many backdoors, if the person above him gets caught in some internal anti-corruption operation in the company in the future, will he be taken away for investigation as well?
After learning more and more internal information, Colin increasingly felt what the "company" and "company executives" were thinking.
Not necessarily consistent...
Just like as the vessel of the "Dawn Star", to a certain extent, the "Starlight Girl" who can represent its will is not very consistent with those believers...
Or maybe, in reality, those who call you family every day may not really treat you as family, and may just want you to buy fake wine.
"The company seems a bit chaotic inside. I don't know if it has anything to do with the intruders."
Colin stroked his chin and pondered for a while, but couldn't figure out anything.
Shaking his head, he stopped thinking about it, checked the time, and confirmed that it was only around eight or nine in the evening, so he took out his cell phone and contacted Mr. Wu.
As before, no response.
I guess he is carrying out some special mission of a relatively high difficulty...
"Mr. Wu is just a step late. Otherwise, if he had joined the company, he would have been a model worker."
Colin muttered, and then thought of "a lot of gold".
I don’t know if this person was standing by the phone. I just sent a “here” and got a reply:
"Yes, what's up?"
"I have something to ask you. It seems that it is not very convenient to use the phone. Can you come over ?" Ke Lin's fingers moved quickly and he typed the message in a few seconds.
At the same time, in an unusually dim semi-enclosed space, a man dressed in a well-fitting suit and with his hair combed meticulously stood on the top of a big tree.
On a face that looks like a middle-aged man, one eye is looking at the phone, and the other eye is looking at the battlefield in front, like a chameleon, each doing his own job.
However, when he saw Colin asking a question that was not convenient to ask, he suddenly raised his eyebrows.
A sense of impending death arose in my heart...
It was like being suddenly submerged in water and unable to breathe for unknown reasons.
This feeling came and went quickly, like an illusion, but he knew it was not an illusion, but a special feeling of "predicting fate" -
"Hiss, what kind of question makes me feel like I'm going to die..."
After hesitating for a moment, he looked at the situation in front of him, determined that it was already in the final stages and that no major problems would arise, and then he made his inquiry.
"Okay, but can I ask what it is?"
"Oh, it's not a big problem. It's just about the source of the 'God's Strike'..."
Isn’t this a big deal?
Xuanyun Jin raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead. Instinctively, he didn't want to answer these questions, nor did he want to go over there. However, Mr. Wu asked him to do his best to cooperate. It just so happened that he was able to answer them...
Well, speaking of this, Xuan Xuan suddenly realized something.
Yesterday morning, Mr. Wu suddenly and inexplicably "kindly" reminded him to remember to charge his phone today...
"You don't want to answer it yourself, so let me..."
Many people are speechless. If the other party hadn't reminded him, he would probably have acted out of instinct to seek profit and avoid harm.
Subconsciously "forgetting" to charge the phone...
Then avoid this matter. Although you can't avoid it forever, you can avoid it as long as you can.
Of course, this is not something he wants to avoid, but rather a more metaphysical characteristic of "fortune telling".
What a pity for Mr. Wu... Mr. Wu’s words awakened the “dreamer”.
There is no way to hide...
Manyin sent a message to Mr. Wu, but the other party's beautiful girl avatar was gray and there was no response. I wonder if he forgot to charge...
Shaking his head, he opened Colin's chat box again, sent a reply that arrived an hour later, and then put away his phone.
He was not in a hurry to get going. He raised his head and looked far ahead at the old village in the mountains. Deep inside, he could sense that there were several level six personnel who were attacking a revived ancient evil sacrificial creature...
The crackdown has already been completed and is now in the final stages of closing the crackdown.
However, in order to speed up the progress, many golden bodies had more than a dozen transparent, seemingly boneless, invisible long hands stretched out. They grabbed various silk threads in the air that ordinary people could not perceive.
Adjust, manipulate, arrange.
Suddenly, the evil lives in the venue who wanted to fight desperately made multiple mistakes in succession and were finally completely defeated.
Under normal circumstances, he wouldn't be so anxious to do it. After all, every time he used it, he would have to pay a certain price and his body would be corroded, so he would rather not use it.
But in order to save time and ensure that nothing unexpected happens, I still took action.
At this moment, seeing that the thing was taken down, Xuanyi retracted his gaze, turned around and prepared to leave, rushing to the room where Colin was.
But before I could move, I felt something and saw several of the latest fighter planes flying overhead...
It was unknown what mission they were going to carry out, but it seemed that they were passing by where he was going.
"...Mr. Wu, this connection is very good."
Xuanyun Jin sighed and laughed, knowing that this was most likely arranged by the other party.
…
An hour later, Colin, who had just played a few 1v1 games with a C-rank guy, first heard a rumbling sound in the sky, as if a row of fighter planes were flying by...
Then a few minutes later, there was a knock on the door.
"The door is not closed, come in..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Colin saw Duo Jin push the door open and walk in.
He pointed to the sofa next to him, and after the middle-aged man, who was wearing a decent suit but could not hide his charlatan temperament, sat down, he asked directly without any greetings:
"Is there any special story about the origin of 'Shen Da'?"
When they contacted each other on the phone before, Colin didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that Xuanyi seemed quite cautious about this topic .
But since you can answer it, it shouldn't be a big problem...
Of course, Xuan Xuan, who was sitting opposite him, had no expression on his face, but couldn't help but take a breath in his heart.
Is this such a big discussion right off the bat?
After a few seconds of silence, Xuanyujin seemed to have finished thinking and said:
"The source of the 'divine attack' is actually a taboo, but this taboo is not dangerous. The main reason is that there are some loopholes in it. If it is known, people at level six and below will be in danger...
"But... this is not a big problem for us, and my intuition tells me that what you want to understand is not this aspect...
"Others..."
He paused for a moment, knowing that the next topic would be some fatal one.
Colin might not necessarily be in trouble, but he doesn’t have to be, because he knows better.
Then, Colin saw that Duo Duojin's mouth was burned. He hissed for a long time before hesitating and said:
"The emergence of 'Divine Strike' and another system is, in a sense, the arrangement of 'fate'..."
"What is the arrangement of the 'Book of Numerology'?" Colin asked curiously.
"This, um, is..." Xuanyunjin wanted to remind the other party not to say the name of this thing so bluntly.
However, after thinking about the other party's identity, he seemed to be a special employee of the old boss of "Book of Numerology" with a background...
So he didn't say anything more, and said:
"When the anomalies first appeared, the sources of people's extraordinary powers were very chaotic, and there was no so-called systematic approach. At that time, becoming an 'Extraordinary Person' and dealing with other troubles was like pouring oil on yourself, then igniting it, and then desperately trying to expel other abnormal threats...
"Usually if you inherit power today, it will go out of control tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, within a week at most...
"Although guns and artillery can play a role, many anomalies require large-scale firepower to cover, and the cost is too high...
"Some Level 5 anomaly threats were considered extremely difficult to resolve at the time."
Level 5 abnormal threat, after conversion, it seems to be a level 3 weak containment object under the company's standards. However, you have a different system here, so I have to convert it myself every day...
Colin couldn't help but complain in his heart.
Then, Xuan Duojin continued, “But after the end of the second year, the situation changed.
"In one incident, someone made a desperate wish and prayed, and then something powerful, but more 'friendly' than dangerous, appeared.
"Among them is that..."
Having said this, Xuan Duo Jin suddenly stopped. Colin was wondering, but his eyelids suddenly jumped, and he saw Xuan Duo Jin's shadow falling on the ground expanding and surging uncontrollably.
The silk threads on its body are swaying constantly like seaweed...
"Boom."
Colin snapped his fingers, and a ball of fire erupted, covering the area.
The invisible things seem to disappear completely in the scorching heat...
Many golden shadows recovered. He raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, glanced at the special flame, and smiled bitterly.
"I can't say it, why don't I just stop talking?" Colin reminded.
It’s okay for Xuanjin to have problems, but he is worried that the other party will drag him down with him.
"It's okay. I was mainly thinking about something else that has nothing to do with this conversation."
Manyin pursed his lips, and several invisible hands stretched out from behind him. While manipulating the "black lines" on his body, he spoke:
"Anyway, that book came out... 'Fortune Telling' came along with it, and then... under the arrangement, the other two formed paths were also 'luckily' found.
"The three major systems are thus determined, and chaos ends...
“Then, a catastrophic situation that was about to break out was forcibly suppressed thanks to the efforts of the previous generation.”
Although he did not explain it, Colin had already realized that the power of the government was a gift from the "Book of Numerology"...
The phrase that "fate prediction" believes in is:
"Behind every gift from fate, there is a price secretly marked."
However, currently, no one knows what the price is.
