mysterious forerunner

Chapter 401 Inner Ring
[Steam Engine Core] At this time, it is in the form of a steam Cybertronian.

After its true purpose was exposed, it admitted it without hesitation.

The big mechanical hand gave its master a thumbs-up.

Then, with a hissing sound of steam gushing out and the sound of metal deforming... the huge Steam Cybertronian turned into a Steam Cybertronian dog.

And it retains the special rugged cuteness of steam creations!
Squatting on the ground, with eyes wide open and tongue sticking out.

From time to time, it would use its two front paws to make a "bye-bye" gesture.

[Steam Engine Core] felt that something strange in the distance was looking at him with contempt.

Fundamentally speaking, secret objects are also a kind of "weirdness".

So everyone should have some weird pride.

The "side effect" of each secret object is the manifestation of this pride.

Even if I am used by you, you are just "hiring" me, and there is a price to pay.

But now, this secret object of a high level actually behaved so flatteringly towards a human being!
What a disgrace to the freaks!

Scum!

Black sheep!

The rat shit spoiled the hot pot!
[Steam Engine Core] felt these gazes, but didn't care at all.

How can you idiots understand me?

I have followed my master for a long time and I know his temperament very well.

The host may be very generous or very stingy.

You have to tell him what you want. As long as it's not too much, he's willing to help you.

But if you keep scheming and calculating in secret...all your plans will surely fail!

The master seems to have a strange sense of satisfaction: he would be very happy to destroy any conspiracy that involves him.

After the [Steam Engine Core] was promoted to the ninth level, it was stuck in front of the [Command Realm].

It's such a crucial moment, what's wrong with me trying to please my master and asking him to take me flying? !

Sylvia and the other two standing aside had a completely different mentality from those who were looking at them from afar with strange eyes.

[Core of the Steam Engine] Turning into a dog to please people, not only do they not despise it, but they are very supportive.

I even encouraged [Steam Engine Core] in my heart: Please be a little more shameless, a little more shameless, and a little more creative!
Sylvia and the other two knew very well that whether they could follow you into the inner ring depended entirely on the performance of the [Steam Engine Core].

As long as the steam engine core goes in and there is nothing to send the three of them back, there is a high probability that you will take the three of them in with you.

Is the Inner Ring dangerous?
Of course it is very dangerous.

Are you powerful, sir?
Of course it is very powerful.

Then, with your powerful lord, you will fight against the extremely dangerous...

Your Excellency will win.

Giulio secretly analyzed the matter with Witt: If you were not sure that you could protect our safety in the inner circle, you would not have brought us here.

Wherever he meets us, just use the [Steam Engine Core] to send us back.

So after all the hardships I finally arrived outside the inner ring road. If I don’t go in to take a look, I will regret it for the rest of my life.

Zhang Qingxiang was at a loss whether to laugh or cry at the actions of [Steam Engine Core].

However, due to both moral and logical reasons, the request of [Steam Engine Core] cannot be rejected.

First of all, [Steam Engine Core] works like a slave under my command and is never complaining.

Such a secret object, which is absolutely powerful in this era, fell into his hands, but because of his extremely fast speed in this life, it became a simple means of transportation.

Accompany me across the ocean many times.

Even if there is no credit, it is still hard work.

Secondly, there is the problem of the [steam engine core] itself.

This thing's self-awareness is actually so strong? !
Almost every secret object has its own "will", and it is precisely because of this will that the side effects of the secret object are inevitable.

But this so-called "will" is actually unconscious. Most of the time, the "will" of the secret object is like software loaded on the "hardware" of the secret object.

It only runs mechanically.

However, after the [Steam Engine Core] reached the ninth level, it showed a high level of intelligence and independent consciousness.

For example, after it lost its way at night, it transformed into cooking utensils to please its owner.

For example, when it was flung away by the inner ring's "Storm Boundary" just now, it left Sylvia and the other two behind and only made sure that its master would not be in trouble.

This thing really feels like it is evolving towards the form of "mechanical life".

Zhang Qingxiang raised his hand and wanted to touch the dog's head...the dog was too huge and he couldn't reach it.

So it was very embarrassing.

The [Steam Engine Core] is indeed very ambitious, but it is still just a secret object after all.

It has not yet learned that when a short leader wants to pat your shoulder, you have to lower your shoulders and adapt to the leader's height.

The scene was somewhat awkward, with Zhang Qingxiang's "little hand" hovering on the Steam Cybertron dog's knee...

[Steam Engine Core] is very confused and doesn't know what the master wants to do with this "profound" action.

Zhang Qingxiang waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I'll take you in."

The Steam Cybertron dog cheered and let out a long "woop", then rolled over on the ground, turning over its belly for its owner to rub.

The belly was full of hot red copper steam pipes.

And the belly is bigger than a double bed.

Zhang Qing put his hands behind his back, showing little interest.

Sylvia immediately stepped forward and said earnestly, "Sir, please don't abandon us!"

Zhang Qingxiang certainly had other ways to send the three back, but after thinking about it, he looked at the three and asked, "Do you all want to go in?"

The three knew that if they hesitated for even a moment at this moment, they would lose this opportunity.

They nodded vigorously together and answered solemnly: "Very much."

Zhang Qingxiang was as calm as water. The three people could not tell from his expression whether their answers satisfied him.

"Why do you want to go in?" Zhang Qingxiang continued to ask calmly: "Sylvia, you answer first."

In an instant, many answers popped up in Sylvia's mind.

She is indeed not as good at lying as Lisa, and she is not as good at juggling between different characters.

But she is not completely ignorant of the ways of the world.

She is already a mother of two children and knows how to interact with people normally and how to speak in a way that others like to hear.

Sylvia's first reaction to your question was: I have to show my loyalty to you.

He took me in, and if I gained more powerful strength, I could help Your Excellency with something.

This idea is certainly not wrong.

But this may be the most important moment of choice in her life - the moment when her ex-husband proposed to her should have been the most important moment of choice in her life, but unfortunately she made the wrong choice, so now is the most important moment of choice.

Although all the calm thoughts in Sylvia's mind were still there, her imagination was running wild uncontrollably.

The images that kept flashing through her mind at this moment were her ex-husband's various dislikes for her after she gave birth to a child, lost her figure, and had a sallow complexion.

I was the one who picked up the children and prepared dinner, and even when I was exhausted, my ex-husband kept finding fault with me and complained about everything I did wrong.

After I signed the divorce agreement with him, I walked out of the law firm and saw him and that woman hugging and kissing as if they were celebrating a victory...

Sylvia couldn't control herself anymore, her body trembling, she replied through gritted teeth: "I must become a powerful professional!
I want to make those who have hurt me, betrayed me, and let me down deeply regret it! "

Zhang Qingxiang turned slightly and looked at Julio again: "What about you?"

While Silvia was answering this question, Julio was also thinking about it.

Why do you want to go in? There is no doubt that you will gain great power if you enter.

But what more power should I acquire? What should I do with it?

In fact, if I hadn't been standing next to you, I would have been considered a very powerful professional.

I used to be a gentle and easily satisfied person, so what made me so ambitious for promotion at this moment?!

People in Giulio's group will go through a long period of confusion before declaring their orientation.

Fear and self-doubt.

Often at this time, a senior mentor will stand up and tell him: Abandon everything, face your own heart, and recognize who you really are.

So Julio is very familiar with facing his inner self.

He knew exactly what he wanted.

When facing the temptation of the inner circle, Julio felt his heart beating violently, like a war drum beating in his chest.

The first half of his life flashed before his eyes:
When I was a child, there were many children in my family. Whenever another child cried, his parents would take the toys or snacks from him and give them to him.

But those toys and snacks actually belonged to Julio.

Julio endured it silently. His parents worked too hard and his brothers and sisters were all his relatives. As long as they were happy, it didn't matter if he suffered a little grievance.

Because he was the most sensible and never cried or made a fuss, he received the least care.

After going to school, all the rewards that should have belonged to him finally flew away from him because other students were more active and hard working in "fighting" for them.

After graduation and starting work, the situation he faced became even more complicated.

He will try his best to meet the requests made by his friends, no matter whether they are a bit excessive or not.

Even though it is clearly not my responsibility and I am blamed for it, I always think about it and decide to just bear with it.

After I came out, my father scolded me and my mother looked disappointed.

But they have never thought about whether it is because they did not take good care of themselves when they were young?

Not enough guidance for yourself during adolescence?

Not caring enough about yourself after graduation?

Even so, he still hoped to gain his father's approval and was even willing to join this despicable underground organization!

When Julio was in middle school, he went to the school's mental health classroom.

I was described as having a "people-pleasing personality" a long time ago.

But in fact, every time he tolerates, Julio doesn't want to please anyone!
There was always a burning anger in his heart.

It’s just that due to long-term habit, this fire is ignited quickly and extinguished quickly.

After becoming a professional, my promotion speed was not slow, and I was considered "strong" among North American professionals.

But this level of strength cannot give him full confidence.

For example, in the previous team, Alberto's seventh level suppressed him.

Now, in the inner circle behind the Storm Wall, he had enough confidence to do what he had always wanted to do: raise two middle fingers to this damn world and yell "F**K YOU!"

I won't please any of you anymore!

Julio figured out what he wanted, took a deep breath and said, "I want to fuck this damn world!"

Zhang Qing remained calm and noncommittal in the face of such extreme words. After getting the answer, he looked at Witt, the last one, and said, "It's your turn."

Witt took the longest time to think, and before he spoke, he suddenly revealed a strong sense of fatigue.

"When I was in seventh grade, I didn't understand what was wrong with me. I just loved my mom's makeup and clothes."

"I joined the cheerleading team for the school football team, and in the last game of that year... I remember very clearly that if we won that game, we would have won the first district championship since the founding of the school.

Almost everyone in town came to the court that day, including my parents, grandparents, and my three brothers.

During halftime, the cheerleaders came on, and when I was doing a jump move, Graeme, who was holding me up from behind, pulled off my pants.

"In front of the whole town, in front of all my classmates, I was wearing my mom's light pink lace panties."

"My parents divorced six months later. Neither of them wanted me."

"But the law required me to have a guardian, and in the end I was awarded to my mother."

"When I was in grade 11, my mother finally got married again. The man was a hard-working farmer, simple and capable. He could fix any electrical appliance in the house that broke down."

"He has a son who is a grade above me and is the captain of the school's basketball team."

"He and my mother loved each other very much and took good care of me."

"I still don't know who at school pretended to be me and wrote 20 love letters to his son!"

"His son finally couldn't stand the harassment anymore and handed all the love letters to his father."

"My mother and I were kicked out of the house, no matter how I explained it was useless."

“When I was 19, I was working in the Burger King on Pittsburgh Street, and I met a girl, she was Mexican, had dreadlocks, lip piercings, a very cool girl.

She is the only friend I have ever made in my life.

She never discriminated against me, helped me get familiar with the job, and taught me how to get more tips from customers.

After work every day, we sat on the roof behind the sign, drinking beer together, chatting and thinking about the future.

Her dream is to work and earn enough money to bring her sick mother to live with them.”

"Some of the guys in the kitchen warned her not to get too close to me, but she didn't care."

"Two months later, she was taken away by immigration officers while she was at work."

"She was deported, and her dream of living in North America and her mother's hope of receiving medical treatment were all ruined."

"Those bastards in the kitchen gathered next to the refrigerator, grinning smugly."

"I grabbed a knife from the console and rushed over and stabbed three people. That was my first time in prison..."

Witt had lit a cigarette at some point, and by the time he got to this point, the ash was as long as his manicure and had broken off.

Witt looked at Zhang Qingxiang and said, "I'm sorry for being disrespectful to you before. But I think the reason I had to go in was that there were five bastards in the kitchen at the time, and I stabbed three of them, and then I was held down by the others.

I need to be strong enough to ensure that the five of them receive the punishment they deserve next time I face this kind of situation!"

Zhang Qingxiang nodded: "Okay, follow me."

Zhang Qingxiang walked towards the storm wall, and the boundary that bounced away the [Steam Turbine Core] automatically opened up a passage in front of Zhang Qingxiang.

Zhang Qingxiang got different answers from the three people, which was a test for them.

If anyone's answer is not from the heart, he will be eliminated.

What slipped out from between Zhang Qingxiang's fingers was already a huge opportunity for high-level professionals.

Zhang Qingxiang was willing to take them to the inner ring and give them opportunities, of course he had his own selfish motives.

These three nails are stuck in the North American rebel organization. The stronger they are, the greater the damage they will cause in the future.

Together with himself, Benita, Cheryl, and Joe Hart, the entire North American rebel organization can be said to no longer have any adverse impact on the situation in the future.

But Zhang Qingxiang couldn’t just give them the opportunity and call it a day.

When Zhang Qingxiang gave them the opportunity, he also shouldered a responsibility and needed to provide them with corresponding guidance and instruction.

So we must test their character.

The steam engine core shrank its body and followed first, followed by Sylvia and the other two.

This layer of storm wall is fifty meters thick.

After walking over, the steam engine core cheered "Woo", while Sylvia and the other two's faces changed drastically, and everyone's infection index soared.

For secret objects, infection means power.

But Sylvia and the other two couldn't handle it.

Zhang Qingxiang quietly opened his [Divine Chamber] and took the three people in.

The infection value in the shrine is also very high.

However, Zhang Qingxiang can control it and create an area with lower infection value for the three people.

As soon as Sivir saw the [Spiky Fang] and [Hidden Mist Demon] trapped here, she couldn't help but smile.

Zhang Qingxiang stopped and a huge factory appeared in front of him.

Various huge mechanical remains were scattered on the ground, including several things similar to energy blast furnaces, flashing dark red light.

There is a giant octopus that is half mechanical and half flesh, sitting on top of an energy blast furnace.

On the round head, there was an irregularly shaped "patch" made of some unknown alloy and thick rivets.

In the center of its head were three huge eyes like optical lenses, looking proudly at the group of people who broke in - especially the core of the steam engine.

Don't think I can't see because of the storm wall. My eyes are different from others!
A mechanical tentacle rose up and formed a lucky cat shape.

The ring-shaped mechanical suction cups under the mechanical tentacles suddenly flashed at the same time.

Then there was a click sound from the three eyes of the giant octopus, and a photo fell from the sky out of thin air.

It’s a bit like the photos taken by a Polaroid camera in the Earth world.

It floated down in front of everyone. Sylvia saw herself in the photo, saw Giulio and Witt holding hands, and saw the Steam Cyberdog.

The only thing is that the place where you are standing is blank and not recorded in the photo.

Then, the moment the photo completely fell to the ground, Sylvia suddenly felt something in her body "come alive", making her feel indescribably uncomfortable, and then those things that came alive became extremely violent and rushed out of her body crazily.

Sylvia had no idea what was going on. She heard a "puff" sound in her head and something rushed out.

Sylvia felt as if she had lost something. When she looked again, she saw someone exactly like herself standing next to her!

Puff puff……

Not only Sylvia, but also Giulio, Witt and the core of the steam engine suddenly had another one of their own.

Several people were shocked, but the core of the steam engine seemed to be aware of something. It was so frightened that its tail stood straight up to the sky and it jumped far away.

Sylvia and "herself" looked at each other, sizing each other up.

Then, the hostility in that self's eyes grew stronger and stronger, and he pounced forward, wanting to kill Sylvia and take her place.

"Ah——" Sylvia screamed and wrestled with herself.

Giulio and Witt also fought with him.

A steam cyberdog chased and bit another one.

It was particularly awkward for Sylvia to fight because she was fighting herself, and everyone's behavior and thinking habits were exactly the same.

The self copied in the photo is the "dark" one, who is more ruthless, so Sylvia is quickly at a disadvantage. Almost every move she makes is predicted by the opponent, who then fights back in a more ferocious way.

Not only Sylvia felt uncomfortable, but Giulio and Witt felt uncomfortable as well.

After just a few minutes, Witt couldn't stand it anymore and screamed, "Julio, let's change opponents!"

So the two of them quickly switched places, with Giulio fighting against Witt's "self" and Witt fighting against Giulio's "self".

In less than a minute, Julio was hit several times and cried for mercy: "Sweetheart, I can't do that to your face!"

But Witt's "self" was extremely cruel to him, and every move was fatal!

"Every time he treats me cruelly, he hurts my heart deeply! If I don't change him back, my body is still alive, but my heart is dead."

Witt gritted his teeth and said, "Sivir, you and Julio should switch places!"

Sylvia and Giulio quickly swapped opponents, and when Giulio faced Sylvia's face, he immediately performed normally.

He took the time to glance at Witt and found that his sweetheart was merciless when facing his face, and had already swollen both eyes of that "Julio"!
Julio cried, "Sweetheart, are you so cruel to me?"

Witt was almost kicked by "Julio" on the opposite side because of his crying. He was immediately furious: "Shut up!"

"I know he's not you!"

Julio kept his mouth shut, but after a while he couldn't help but say, "You're so amazing. You can't even open a can of yellow peaches, but you bring it here to ask me to help you..."

Witt looked at him resentfully and said, "It's enough if you understand it. It would be so embarrassing if you tell it out loud."

Although the person copied in the photo is exactly the same as the original, they can still be easily distinguished by their expressions.

At least there is no confusion yet.

The giant octopus raised its second mechanical tentacle, and then there was a click, a blinding white flash, and the second photo fell from the sky.

This time, the photo includes not only the original three people, but also their copies.

The moment the photo fell from the sky to the ground, three clones emerged from the original body, and second-generation clones emerged from the first-generation clones!
Then the three copies rushed towards the original body together.

Witt's method suddenly didn't work, and Julio was killed and ran around screaming with his butt pissing.

The steam engine core was also in a miserable state, being surrounded and beaten by three steam cyberdogs.

And... these three clones are somewhat bullying. They turned into Cybertronians and found three big alloy sticks from somewhere. It's like three people fighting a dog.

The engine core couldn't bear the beating anymore, so it had to transform back into a Cybertronian.

Zhang Qingxiang has been observing from the side.

The giant octopus is at the second level of the realm of domination.

Therefore, this strange ability of its has no effect on Zhang Qingxiang.

When Witt faced the first generation replica, the solution he came up with made Zhang Qingxiang nod in approval.

Moreover, when Witt faced the face of "Julio", he was able to easily get rid of the psychological influence and was almost unaffected in combat.

"I didn't expect that among the three, the one with the highest fighting talent is actually Witt."

But after the second generation of replicas appeared, Witt's tactics failed.

Even if their tactics were not in vain, they would be completely defeated in a one-on-three situation.

The giant octopus crushes them in rank, so they have no chance of winning this battle.

The reason why Zhang Qingxiang wanted to observe first was to see clearly the advantages and disadvantages of each of the three people.

Now that the result is out, Zhang Qingxiang's mind moved, and the entire battlefield suddenly turned into a flat surface.

Sylvia and their copies all became two-dimensional.

Then Zhang Qingxiang overlapped the replica and the original body as if he was playing a puzzle, and with a clap of his hands, the replica returned to the original body.

The replica cannot be killed directly, as that would cause irreversible damage to the original body.

This damage will not kill them directly, but the clones are actually made up of certain "parts" extracted from their bodies by the giant octopus using its own abilities.

Maybe it's their own dark side.

If they killed the replica, Silvia and the others would become incomplete, and their potential in their career paths would be greatly affected.

After killing the first and second generation replicas, those who could have been promoted to the Domination Realm will only have the potential to reach the Command Realm, and those who are in the Command Realm will only have the potential to reach the Transcendent Realm.

The giant octopus was originally "thinking" about why there was no fourth person in his photo, when he suddenly saw something strange in two dimensions!

The giant octopus immediately opened up all of its mechanical tentacles, waving them and shouting at those lowly two-dimensional monsters!

You bastards, how dare you show up in my territory? Don't you want to live? !

Two-dimensional monsters have an extremely low status in the secret world.

But soon the giant octopus felt something was wrong.

How did my copy get beaten back into my original body?
Why did all the guys become two-dimensional, but the fourth guy wasn't among them?

The giant octopus then discovered that all of its tentacles could only wave on one plane!

Oh no, how come I have become a lowly two-dimensional monster!
The giant octopus retreated quietly. The monsters in the secret world all knew one thing: if you encounter something you can't understand, run!

That's weirder than you are.

The giant octopus squirmed along the ground like a piece of skin.

The slow pace is touching.

Zhang Qingxiang snapped his fingers, and Sylvia, three others and a dog returned from a two-dimensional state to a three-dimensional state.

The three of them felt as if they were in a dream and couldn't believe what they had just experienced.

What is incredible is not the replica, but the switching between two and three dimensions.

Zhang Qingxiang asked, "How do you feel?"

The three of them felt it and said, "It's already the seventh level."

They followed Zhang Qingxiang from the outer ring to the middle ring and have been promoted to the sixth level.

Just after entering the inner ring, he was promoted to the seventh level after a hard battle - it was so fast that it was unimaginable.

When professionals face strange battles with opponents who are far higher in rank than themselves, they will be promoted very quickly.

The giant octopus is at the second level of the realm of domination and is much more powerful than them.

Considering Zhang Qingxiang’s rank, if it were weird, they would have been promoted to the seventh rank just by following Zhang Qingxiang for such a long time.

More importantly, the three clones were extracted from the giant octopus and were beaten back by Zhang Qingxiang.

This caused their infection value to soar rapidly, and their strength also increased rapidly.

Zhang Qingxiang took out some secret medicine to eliminate the infection: "Eat them."

The core of the steam engine is a bit lost.

It has not yet broken through to the realm of domination.

The Steam Cyberdog lay on the ground, looking a little depressed. Sylvia comforted it: "You have a high rank, and it won't be promoted that quickly..."

The core of the steam engine raised his eyelids. He was unhappy not only because he failed to get promoted, but also because these three little guys got promoted.

They are already at level seven, only two levels away from me, and will soon catch up.

Zhang Qing whistled at the dog and then signaled with his eyes.

The core of the steam engine took a look and said: Ouch! There is something crawling on the ground.

The giant octopus is so huge that it is as big as a basketball court when lying on the ground.

It's like a moving painting, slowly preparing to slip away.

Maybe he is still muttering in his heart: You can't see me, you can't see me, you can't see me.

But this thing is even bigger than the core of the steam engine, how could it not attract attention?
The dog stepped forward and raised its paw to hold it down, but the giant octopus was in a two-dimensional world and the dog was in a three-dimensional world. When the huge mechanical dog's paw pressed down, the giant octopus slipped away from under its paw without being affected at all.

The dog got anxious and opened its mouth to bite, chewing a mouthful of waste soil.

Zhang Qingxiang smiled: "Don't worry."

Then the giant octopus suddenly found that it seemed to have returned to the three-dimensional world.

But not completely back.

It is a mixture of machine and flesh.

Now the mechanical parts, such as all of his mechanical tentacles, the alloy patches on his head, and the three optical lens eyes, have all returned to the three-dimensional world.

But the physical part is still in the two-dimensional world.

It's stuck.

The steam engine core let out a cheerful humming sound, then pounced on and bit off a mechanical tentacle, chewing it in its mouth with a crunching sound, leaving sparks all over its mouth.

The giant octopus raised its other mechanical tentacles to whip the core of the steam engine, but found that these tentacles were instantly separated from its body.

It didn't even see clearly how it lost these tentacles.

Zhang Qingxiang stood aside with his hands folded in front of him.

There was a big sword under his palm.

The dog is even happier. Originally he had to bite it off by himself, but now his owner feeds it directly.

The steam engine core ate all the mechanical tentacles in one breath, then pounced on the alloy patch and bit it hard... With a crack, two metal canine teeth were broken off!

"Woo, woo, woo..." The dog whimpered, feeling very aggrieved.

The giant octopus was furious, and I felt even more wronged!

The big sword in Zhang Qingxiang's palm jumped up, and with a slash in the air, it cut the alloy patch, revealing the complex mechanical structure inside.

The dog quickly grew two new metal canine teeth, pounced on the octopus, stuck its head into the octopus's head, and started eating.

Then, perhaps feeling that it was not satisfying enough, it simply changed from a Steam Cyberdog to a Steam Cybersnake, drilled in through the gap, ate all the way, and finally ate the three optical lens eyes before drilling out.

The giant octopus fell down with a loud bang.

[Steam Engine Core] changed back into the form of a dog, with a round belly from eating so much. It came close to its owner, wagging its tail, with a flattering look on its face.

Zhang Qingxiang put it away: "Okay, go back and get promoted."

Sylvia stood aside, watching all this in shock and envy.

Your Excellency is truly mighty.

The steam engine core is really lucky.

Such a terrifying giant octopus is just a meal of dog food in your hands.

Giulio had another thought in mind. He felt aggrieved and complained to Witt in a low voice: "How could you be so cruel to my face?"

Witt explained softly and coaxed for a long time, and finally kissed Giulio on the face.

Sivir stood right next to them, eating another mouthful of dog food.

I'm so unhappy. I can't eat the dog food I want, but I can't eat the food I don't want to eat.

Zhang Qingxiang rummaged through his secret storage and threw out a knife.

Sylvia hurriedly took it and looked at you in confusion, "Are you so arrogant that you bestowed me with a high-level secret item without saying a word?"
It just happened to be a Western-style kitchen knife.

Sylvia held it in her hand and felt it was extremely handy.

Zhang Qingxiang pointed his finger to the ground.

The entire body of the giant octopus was released from the two-dimensional world.

Zhang Qingxiang said: "Take some parts that are suitable for use, share them among you, and see if you can advance to the next level."

Sylvia was overjoyed: "Yes, sir!"

Witt reminded him in a mean way: "Remember to wash your hands before cooking."

Julio hurriedly took out a box of bottled water from his secret storage.

"Use this water. Witt likes to drink this water. I prepared a lot of it."

Sylvia: ...

Another mouthful of dog food.

Sylvia recognized this brand, a popular mineral water on Instagram. It was expensive, with each bottle costing twelve times the price of ordinary bottled water in the supermarket!
Sylvia thought again about how before the mysterious event, she was a full-time housewife and her family depended on her husband's salary.

I budget carefully every day, and I always calculate the time of supermarket discounts when buying anything...

Later I found out that my ex-husband's brother's income was much higher than I knew.

He was already with that woman at that time, and the hidden income was all spent on that woman.

I feel even more sad.

And he made up his mind to have less contact with these two guys after leaving the trial field.

Sylvia washed her hands with expensive mineral water, then cut some meat from the giant octopus with a knife. She brought all the seasonings with her, and in less than half an hour, a delicious octopus sashimi was served on the table.

Zhang Qingxiang didn't eat it. This level of food had no benefit to Director Zhang.

Sylvia and the other two only ate about three pounds each and couldn't eat any more.

Given their status, they could eat as much ordinary food as they wanted, and could consume at least thirty pounds in one meal.

Most of what Sylvia made was wasted, and the three of them felt it was a pity. Sylvia took out a plastic bag and prepared to take it away.

Zhang Qingxiang waved his hand: "No need."

The monsters were killed in the secret world. Although they would not disappear along with the mysterious scene as they descended into the mysterious scene, the mysterious energy contained in them would soon disappear.

Zhang Qingxiang pointed ahead and said, "Let's go."

Giulio asked, "Sir, where are we going next?"

Zhang Qingxiang said, "Go find a weirdo and ask for directions."

The three of them looked at each other: What does that mean?
Monsters are the "natives" of the secret world. Of course they know the location of the [Thorny Whisker Wheel], but how do you ask them for directions?

The three of them couldn't figure it out and didn't dare to ask.

On the way, the three of them were busy digesting the food in their stomachs.

After digestion is complete, although they cannot be promoted to the ninth level directly, they are not far away.

The only problem is the infection value. As digestion progresses, the infection value in their bodies continues to rise.

Fortunately, your Excellency gave me many secret medicines, and I take one when I can’t hold on any longer.

Two hours later, they left the giant octopus's territory and entered the territory of another monster, which alarmed the monster.

This is an extremely powerful ghost, and it is omnipresent in its territory.

Sylvia and the others were discovered as soon as they came in. A huge gray-white shadow like a tornado appeared in front of them.

Then he was caught by you.

Zhang Qingxiang took out [Eavesdropping on Minds]. He had rarely used this secret item since he got it.

Moreover, originally it could only be used for random eavesdropping, but with Zhang Qingxiang's current status, after a "friendly exchange" with this secret object, this secret object started to work at full capacity, becoming a bridge of communication between Director Zhang and the ghost of the third level of the Command Realm!

As for the usage fee and other things, just pay what you think is appropriate. I'm a very easy person to talk to.

So Zhang Qingxiang knew the exact location of the [Ergarp] territory and the specific information of this overlord-level person, and he knew both himself and the enemy.

Zhang Qingxiang did not kill the ghost.

Hunting giant octopuses is for the promotion of [Steam Engine Core].

And give some benefits to Sylvia and the other two at the same time.

But if this ghost stays here, it can make things more difficult for the traitors who come in later and help him kill those scums.

Zhang Qingxiang simply extracted a bit of the ghost's body and put it in a special bottle. Maybe it could be used in the future.

Afterwards, Director Zhang led the three of them through the territories of seven powerful and strange creatures and stood in front of a territory full of volcanoes and countless lava rivers flowing on the land.

The volcanoes were erupting, and huge columns of black smoke rose straight into the sky, mixed with flames and lightning.

At the farthest point, there stood a gigantic palace that was several times taller than the previous lifting tower. At the top of the palace, there sat a demon eye covered with dark red thorns.

(End of this chapter)