Volume 2 Amber Chapter 133: Forgotten Spring
boom!!
Deep in the dark pool, a powerful impact pushed the water away, creating a huge whirlpool.
Chen Lun grinned, his right arm had undergone amazing changes!
The arms, which had become thicker, were covered with dark golden scales, with black exoskeleton flowing between the gaps and azure circular patterns emerging on the inside. It looked like a strange, colorful python, hideous and terrifying!
The golden python's arm snaked out and lashed at the octopus monster's body, as if hitting a ball, leaving a huge dent in it.
The octopus monster let out a silent wail, turned around suddenly, and waved its broken tentacles towards Chen Lun frantically, as if it wanted to launch a desperate counterattack.
"Pollution creatures really don't have any behavioral logic..."
Chen Lun thought to himself, and turned his right arm several times, tightly wrapping around one of the opponent's broken tentacles.
The azure ring on the inside of the snake's arm glowed faintly, generating an extremely powerful suction force, completely locking it in. The fingertips of the five fingers were stained with shiny black, and they suddenly pierced the flesh of the octopus monster, immediately injecting [Snake and Scorpion Venom].
"Let's see whose poison is stronger!"
The octopus monster was shaking all over, twitching wildly in the water, dancing with Chen Lun. But no matter how it struggled, the latter seemed to be growing on it, and could not break free.
Chen Lun held the silver sword in his other hand and slashed at the monster fiercely. The originally turbid and dark water in the pool was stained with the dark green blood plasma of the octopus monster.
Soon, the octopus monster's struggles gradually decreased, and finally it became like a tattered "ball", shrunken and powerless, floating up.
[Kill the polluting creature "Dunyi"! Obtain 2000 experience points and the extraordinary material "Corrupted Ink Sac" (Deep Sea Faction)! ]
Chen Lun was planning to drag the octopus monster's body ashore and wait for it to decompose the mysterious substance.
But at this moment, he suddenly let go of his snake-tentacled right arm, stomped his foot hard, and shot up like an arrow, moving away quickly.
His [Spiritual Intuition] sent him a warning, and a strong sense of danger lingered in his heart.
When Chen Lun was about to emerge from the water, he looked back and saw a deeper "black hole" appearing at some point. The originally huge octopus corpse seemed extremely small in front of this "black hole".
The octopus body began to sink slowly, more like being sucked into a "black hole".
Chen Lun's eyes narrowed.
After the octopus's corpse gradually disappeared into the deep "black hole", he suddenly saw rows of teeth slowly biting together...
boom!
Chen Lun rushed out of the water without looking back. Black wings emerged behind him. He spread his wings with force and soared into the sky, disappearing on the spot.
"What the hell is this... it's so scary!"
He complained to himself.
Under a small pond, there is a creature that is countless times larger than the octopus monster!
It’s so terrifying, I’d rather not stay in this “fairyland”!
The next second, Chen Lun was meditating on the "wooden house by the lake" in his mind, and the whole person disappeared into the air.
He sat up from the bed in the cabin, looked at the simple furnishings in the cabin, and smiled softly. This was the second time he came back from "Fairyland", and the experience was quite good.
Chen Lun got out of bed, walked quickly out the door, and returned to the statue by the lake.
He reached out and touched the base of the statue, sensing the sanity value stored in it, which was currently at 70+.
This is the contribution of the players' three resurrections. After deducting the cost of "opening the copy" for them, there is a huge surplus.
Chen Lun sat on the base of the statue with a smile on his face, then focused his attention on the shabby wooden box at his feet.
"Now that I have obtained the extraordinary characteristics, I will open the box..."
He had previously observed the lake and seen that the North Star was helpless against it, but Chen Lun had a way to deal with it.
He took out the tiny toothpick from the blood poem ring.
[D-level weird item - rusty toothpick (disposable consumable)]
“Open the box!”
Chen Lun inserted the toothpick into the keyhole of the old wooden box. He felt the toothpick between his fingers seemed to be squirming inside. Soon, with a click, the tightly closed wooden box loosened a crack.
At the same time, the toothpick in Chen Lun's hand also shattered quietly and turned into dust and dissipated.
"What does Kang Kang have..."
Chen Lun opened the box with a little anticipation.
The next second, his eyes widened.
The first thing that caught my eye was the pile of coins, all yellow and uniform.
Copper Crowe.
“…”
Chen Lun resisted the urge to throw the box into the lake and instead grabbed a handful of copper coins, letting them slip through his fingers, making a rustling sound.
"That's great. There are at least a few thousand copper crores here, which is equal to half a gold pound if rounded off. I'm rich."
He forced a smile and put all the copper kro in the box into the panel, leaving none behind.
After removing the copper crores that were used to make up the number, the remaining items at the bottom of the box were clear at a glance: three in total.
A notebook, a potion, and a piece of parchment.
Chen Lun picked up the notebook and found that it was not a mysterious book, but a simple book. He opened it and found that the words recorded on it told a story about the "Forgotten Spring".
The author's identity is unknown, but he seems to be a traveler. He described a spring called "Forgetful Spring" in the form of his observations. This spring water has some kind of magic, and after drinking it, one can selectively forget certain memories.
The article also describes the clear beauty of the "Forgotten Spring", the sweetness of the spring water, and how it made the author forget many troubled memories. Later, he did not want to see the spring being occupied by some people with ulterior motives, so he left a lovely pet to protect it...
"So that pool of water... is actually the 'Fountain of Oblivion'?"
Chen Lun raised his eyebrows.
But the murky and dirty water was totally different from the "clear and beautiful" described in the notes.
"Is it mysteriously contaminated... That 'Gun' octopus monster, could it be the so-called 'guardian pet'?"
The more Chen Lun thought about it, the more likely it seemed.
Things that have been mysteriously contaminated always present a form that makes people extremely uncomfortable. The "Forgotten Fountain" may have really become filthy and decayed because of this. The octopus monster also ended up looking horrible.
Chen Lun then picked up the small bottle and the parchment.
[Extraordinary Item - Forgotten Fountain]
Item description: The spring water in the bottle still contains its former magic. Perhaps it was the traveler's careless act that allowed it to survive and become the last piece of the spring water.
Item Effect: Allows you to selectively forget a certain memory, skill, or secondary occupation.
Chen Lun looked at the small bottle of spring water in his hand, with surprise on his face.
"It's a good opportunity to forget about my secondary job of Fisherman..."
He put away the [Forgotten Fountain Water] carefully and finally looked at the parchment.
[Supernormal Knowledge-Shadow Contract (Conspiracy Faction)]
Item description: A parchment recording the ritual of the Shadow Contract. By reading it, the method of constructing the ritual will be obtained.
Travelers once used shadow contracts to enslave extraordinary creatures and make them serve them.
"Contract knowledge..."
Chen Lun was quite interested, so he simply sat there and spent a few minutes reading the text on the parchment.
[By reading carefully, you have obtained the [Shadow Contract Ritual]! ]
This ritual is not a skill. Its effectiveness mechanism requires the consumption of specific sacrifices and the initiation of notarization to the corresponding high-sequence extraordinary beings or even gods in order to achieve the effect of the contract.
Because it involves high-level mysteries, the weight of the contract is extremely high, and the signatory parties basically dare not violate it.
As for the contract ceremony mastered by Chen Lun, each signing will consume a mysterious substance of [Conspiracy Faction]. There is no limit to the sequence level, but it will affect the final effect.
"It's time to go out... and take care of my secondary job."
Chen Lun tidied himself up and stood up.
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Come out of the book "Philip's Adventures in Wonderland" and return to the world.
Chen Lun looked at the sofa opposite him. It was empty. The Polaris Five were no longer there.
Chen Lun knew that their resurrection times had been used up and they could no longer go online. The internal beta test also happened to end today, so the next time they saw them, it would be the public beta test.
"Well... by then I'll have almost everything I need to prepare ready."
Chen Lun pondered for a moment.
"A public beta player? Hey... I'm looking forward to it."
Looking at the empty seat on the sofa, Chen Lun suddenly remembered the moment when he sent them to "fairyland".
Five people collapsed on the sofa in unison, their eyes were open but their pupils were lifeless, as if they were five bodies without souls.
Chen Lun judged at that time that it was the human spirit, not the physical body, that entered the "fairyland".
Therefore, every time you want to enter "Philip's Adventures in Wonderland", it is best to find a safer place to avoid danger to your body in the real world.
Of course, with his [Spiritual Intuition], Chen Lun can predict the danger in advance and return.
He got up from the sofa, walked out of the villa, then found Connie in the warehouse and asked her to help him purchase some brewing equipment.
Immediately, Chen Lun returned to the villa, went upstairs and entered his room.
Sitting by the window, he took out the [Forgotten Fountain Water] and the [Blood Brew].
Boo!
Chen Lun held the side of the bottle mouth with his thumb and flicked it lightly, and the cork flew away.
He tilted his head back and drank the spring water, feeling a cool and sweet aftertaste in his mouth. A strange feeling arose spontaneously, reaching directly from the body to the brain, and the whole person was in a state of clarity and comfort.
Next, Chen Lun focused his attention on his secondary occupation, [Fisherman]. Not long after, everything related to this entry in the panel disappeared.
At the same time, he felt his body becoming a little weaker.
And, for some reason, an inexplicable sense of comfort arose spontaneously... This feeling was as if I had broken free from my restraints and regained my freedom.
Chen Lun felt that this feeling was not right, so he used divination, hoping to get some clues.
But there was nothing unusual in the results.
There was no change in [Spiritual Intuition].
Even so, he still felt as if he had touched something unintentionally.
Unable to come to a conclusion, Chen Lun had no choice but to focus on the prompt box.
[Secondary occupation [Fisherman LV10 (MAX)] has been forgotten! Related skills [Quick Eyes and Quick Hands LV1 (Passive)] and [Sea Balance LV1 (Passive)] have been removed! ]
[Experience points have been returned! Attribute points and skill points have been deducted! ]
Chen Lun took a look at the panel and found that his level, attributes and several skills were in a gray frozen state. He needed to make up for the deducted attribute points and skill points before they could recover.
So he opened "Blood Brew".
[You have discovered a precious book containing information and knowledge about secondary occupations! ]
[By reading carefully, you have gained the secondary occupation knowledge (complete)! ]
【Winemaker】
[The inheritance conditions have been met. Do you want to make it your new secondary occupation? ]
"yes."
On Chen Lun's panel, the words [Brewer LV1] slowly appeared in the sub-attribute column.
Immediately, he invested all the returned experience points into this secondary profession, and soon reached the maximum level again, and also gained a new skill [Bloody Brew LV1].
This secondary occupation skill is slightly different from the ordinary [Wine Brewing] and is unique to the Red Apple Church.
Although it is also winemaking, [Bloody Craft Brew] can add extraordinary materials to finally produce fine wine with mysterious power.
This kind of wine is somewhat similar to alchemical potions. It can add some strange abilities in a short period of time, or provide a certain amplification effect, but it is generally not as good as potions and consumes more materials.
After all, it is a secondary profession, so it is normal that it cannot compare to the main profession of the extraordinary sequence.
But Chen Lun felt it was profitable. Whether it was used to subsidize poor players in the future public beta or to deal with other extraordinary people, a bottle of extraordinary wine was definitely a good choice.
Chen Lun added the skill points and attribute points he gained after upgrading [Brewer] to the full level back to the panel, and the gray frozen state returned to normal. Then, he spent his 4 skill points to upgrade [Bloody Brew] to the full level.
He has mastered many details and techniques of winemaking without any teacher, and seems to be a veteran with many years of experience.
Looking at the extraordinary materials stored in his panel, Chen Lun's mind suddenly had countless ideas and various preparation plans, and he was eager to try them out.
"Once Connie has bought the equipment, I will start brewing the first bottle of extraordinary wine..."
Chen Lun thought.
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It's late at night again.
Chen Lun walked alone on the street under the light of the purple moon.
His leather shoes stepped lightly on the stone road, making a crisp sound. Just out of Jack Manor, this road is relatively remote and there are not many pedestrians on the road.
whoosh.
Chen Lun loosened his hand, stuck the silver cane on the ground, and began to spin in place, with the crank finally pointing to the northeast.
"The remnants of the Circus organization..."
He smiled.
The next moment, Chen Lun took out a black cufflink, pinned it on his sleeve, took a step forward, and walked into the shadow where the street lights could not reach.
Two pedestrians walking towards him on the street passed him by and seemed not to notice him at all.
boom!
A pair of black wings appeared behind Chen Lun. He flapped his wings and soared into the sky, flying towards the northeast.
"Hey! What a strong wind...!"
"That's strange."
The hats of the two passers-by were blown to the ground. After they bent down to pick them up, they looked at each other with puzzled expressions.
Under the cover of night, Chen Lun flew through the air.
Even if someone looked up, they would not be able to find any trace of him.
Across the Amber River that separated the inner and outer cities, Chen Lun also overlooked the patrolling boats on the river and the checkpoint on the bridge.
"In the outer city?"
Chen Lun swung the silver cane in his hand and adjusted the direction again according to the location where the tip of the cane was pointing.
boom!
The speed increased and a strong wind blew towards us.
There was a dark mass of buildings below, with only sporadic lights, and the street lamps in many blocks were not on .
Soon, Chen Lun arrived at an industrial area.
The tall chimney and the square factory building were all made of red bricks. The outer wall was covered with moss and some dirt, and it looked quite old.
He landed in an open space, called a group of mice, and then commanded them to find out the situation for him.
Squeak, squeak, squeak…
The rats made slight noises and began to scatter, heading towards the factories.
Inside a factory.
The fire in the corner crackled and sent out sparks.
There were five people, three men and two women, standing or sitting around the fire, keeping silent. A little further away, there were dozens of figures leaning against the wall.
After a while.
A man threw a piece of wood into the fire.
"It's been a few days. We should make a decision. Should we just leave or try again?"
The firelight shone on his face, revealing a bearded man.
"The leader and the old guy are dead, and eight members have lost their lives. Are we sure we're going to do anything?"
Another burly man in a vest said in a deep voice.
"Are you willing to leave without making a fortune?"
A short-haired woman with heavy makeup said in a cold voice while smoking a cigarette.
"Captain, they were ambushed by the internment camp, but the internment camp also suffered heavy losses. Now is a good time to take advantage of the vacancy in the inner city's extraordinary power..."
"That's right. If you miss this opportunity, it won't be so easy to get it in other cities."
A man next to the short-haired girl echoed.
The burly man in the vest shook his head.
"It's too dangerous. I don't agree with this action..."
The bearded man looked at the three of them and said:
"I also think it's inappropriate to take action now. The inner city must have stepped up its security. We'd better leave as soon as possible, lest the shelter start a hunt for us after they have recovered."
"Two to two, Maggie, what do you think?"
Following the voice of the heavily made-up, short-haired woman, everyone turned their eyes to a woman on the other side of the fire.
Under her messy flaxen hair, she had a dead fish face.
"I'm not interested. I'd rather go to the zoo and watch orangutans mate than join you guys."
