Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
In the headquarters of the Investigation Corps in Anping County.
“Wang Ye, in view of your excellent performance in the investigation of the Baisen Secret Realm, the Anping County Investigation Corps will award you with the badge and rank of an official investigator. You will also be rewarded with 200,000 yuan. Do you have any objections?” Tang Xiong held a five-star badge with a red eye pattern in his hand and looked at the youth in front of him solemnly.
“Yes.”
“?”
“Well, I can take the monetary reward, but I’m still young. Don’t I have to train for a few more years? I think it’s quite suitable for me to be a reserve investigator for now,” Wang Ye cleared his throat and said.
An official investigator would have the chance of being sent into the dark fog.
The danger was not to be taken lightly.
Besides, this trip to the miniature secret realm was more than enough dangerous for Wang Ye.
If he didn’t have the cheat, he might have already transmigrated back to wherever he came from.
“Why?” Tang Xiong asked.
“Although I’m quite lucky, my strength is still weak. I really can’t take on the status of an official investigator,” Wang Ye said humbly.
“Speak English.”
“I’m afraid of death.”
Tang Xiong smiled and said, “I like your honesty. You’re afraid of having to enter the dark fog to investigate, right? Don’t worry, there are several ranks among official investigators. Only investigators above the platinum rank will be sent into the dark fog. The Investigation Corps isn’t that stupid to send newbie beastmasters with great potential like you to your deaths in the dark fog, alright? Among the official investigators, you can only be considered a trainee investigator. At most, you’ll be asked to enter and train yourself in miniature secret realms. At the same time, after becoming a trainee investigator, you’ll have the right to enter all kinds of miniature secret realms as you please. If a new secret realm appears, you’ll also have the right to carry out a prior investigation.”
The priority to investigate was very risky but also hugely beneficial.
This was because although no one knew what dangers there were in a new secret realm, at the same time no one knew what treasures there would be either.
Once the secret realm was open to the public and a large number of beastmasters swarmed in, it would be very difficult to find any treasures then.
Hearing all this, Wang Ye was a little tempted.
It should be fine since he had his cheat.
“I’m not afraid of death sometimes,” Wang Ye took the badge.
Tang Xiong was speechless.
“Oh right, four months later from now,” Tang Xiong did some calculations and said, “Yaoguang City will open the Sealed Demon Sword Tomb to the public once. It’s a medium secret realm under the jurisdiction of the city. It’s rather special because it involves some super-large secret realms. After a trainee investigator has more than three months of experience, one will have to go through an assessment once. The location of the assessment will be in that medium secret realm. So work hard during these few months to nurture your pet and strive to raise your green sparrow to level 2. It would be best if you can choose an evolution path for it and help it complete the tier 2 evolution. This way, you can also bring honor to the Anping County’s Investigation Corps.”
Yaoguang city was one of the seven major cities in Xinghai province, and it was ranked slightly lower.
In the entire Dongli Country, it could be considered a third or fourth-tier city. It had quite strong defensive forces in all aspects. In history, they had tenaciously resisted a dark fog surge once.
Anping County was under the jurisdiction of Yaoguang City, but it was the furthest and most remote county.
“Four months later?” Wang Ye was stunned.
“Is there a problem?”
“No…” Wang Ye remembered that based on the information from the simulation he had run in the secret realm that five months later, the dark fog would erupt in Anping Country.
Four months later, he had the chance to leave directly.
This meant that he could avoid the dark fog explosion in Anping County and thus avoid death.
Wang Ye left the Investigation Corps and did not return to the rental house. He first went to the Pet Center.
On the way, he was very silent.
“The dark fog erupted… Anping County turned into a dead city.”
Wang Ye looked at this medium-sized city, lost.
Should he leave? Or should he stay?
As an individual, Wang Ye was afraid of death. In the face of this strange dark fog eruption, his abilities were limited. The best choice was, of course, to avoid the danger and grow in the shadows.
However, as a 21st-century person who had been influenced by socialism with a kind heart, after learning that this city would turn into a land of death five months later and hundreds of thousands of people would become ghosts and be buried in the dark fog’s strangeness, how could he just leave everything behind his back?
“I’m so weak, how can I do something about it? Even if I say it out loud, no one will believe me. Who knows, I might even be arrested and sentenced because of the crime of spreading rumors, disrupting social order, and causing panic…” Wang Ye sighed and stopped thinking too much about it.
There was still time. Before anything happened, he would try his best to run more reality simulations to try and understand the situation.
The first thing was to purchase resources first.
The 200000 yuan reward, added with Xiong Yin’s gift of 100000 and the remaining, he had a total of about 400,000.
Wang Ye spent all of it.
He also searched for information on the fruit and leaf.
He was shocked when he found their information!
Water attribute secret treasure, life golden fruit!
It was a necessary material for the evolution of an Emperor class pet. It contained a large amount of life force and could greatly increase the constitutional growth of the pet!
The starting price for it was three million!
The most recent auction for it on the forum had reached 5.2 million!
The other item was a wood attribute secret treasure, the life king leaf. It was a necessary material for the evolution of an Overlord class pet. It contained the power of resurrection and could improve the pet’s six-dimensional growth aptitude in all directions as well as the pet’s constitution.
The starting price for it was five million!
“Holy shit! I’ve f*cking made such a huge loss!” Wang Ye was shocked.
To think they were attributed secret treasures! Both of them!
“The probability of such things appearing in the miniature secret realm is about the same as winning the lottery. Yet I let the white python eat them just like that?” Wang Ye closed his eyes with a look of regret.
“Chirp, chirp!” The green sparrow patted Wang Ye’s shoulder with its wings as if it was comforting him.
“Forget it, forget it. The six dimensions of this white python should be very strong since it ate so many treasures, right?” Wang Ye comforted himself. “Tang Xiong said that the hornless white python is extremely weak when it’s young. After eating so many good things, it should at least have gained something. Its simulation will probably start at a higher level too. Let’s test it first.”
If a pet contract was not signed with the pet, one would not be able to sense the pet’s information at all times.
One needed to go to the city’s Pet Center to test it.
Therefore, Wang Ye went to the Pet Center first.
However, when he checked the stats of the hornless white python, he was dumbfounded.
[Pet: Hornless White Python]
[Type: Python space-type pet]
[Race grade: Transcending Third-class]
[Combat power star level: 0-star level-0]
[Skills: Shadowless Line (not learned), ??? (unknown skill)]
[Six-dimensional Growth: Strength (E-), Constitution (E-), Agility (E-), Spiritual Resistance (E-), Spiritual Energy (E-), Soul (E-)]
[Genetic Characteristics: ???]
[Spiritual Energy Value: 0 points]
“Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!” Wang Ye was in a state of madness.
To think the six-dimensional growth of the white python was even more useless than the green sparrow after it had eaten so many treasures!
He didn’t want to believe it!
Wang Ye began to recall, and he experienced the huge impact of falling from the clouds to the abyss!
“What a strange pet. The hornless white python is clearly a very rare pet, so why is its six-dimensional growth so low?” The young lady in the Pet Center who was conducting the test was probably very curious as well, “Even if it’s weak in its infancy, it usually has at least D- growth for some dimensions. Why are all six dimensions E- growth and it even has unknown skills… I’m sorry, the information in the pet system we have here is incomplete. Perhaps only the Pet Centers in big cities can detect its skills and characteristics. Umm… Or maybe it’s because it’s too young and the skills haven’t shown themselves yet.”
Wang Ye left in a daze.
In the secret realm, the silk threads from the large cocoon could easily bind the green sparrow, which meant that it was supposedly very powerful.
Why did it become like this after eating the secret treasures and becoming smaller?
Wang Ye felt that something was wrong.
After returning to the rented house, Wang Ye looked at the white python that was wrapped around his finger and took a deep breath, “You can’t get angry when you have a pet. You must smile, smile…”
“Huji?” The white python looked at Wang Ye blankly and opened its mouth.
It was hungry! It wanted to eat!
Wang Ye instantly couldn’t hold his emotions back anymore. He looked at the white python with tears streaming down his face as he roared, “Spit out my secret treasures!”
Eat his ass!
Go run a simulation!
The white python showed an expression: “(T-T)”.