novelraw Chapter 23: Defeat the 44th Floor Boss
Chapter 23: Defeat the 44th Floor Boss
"Oh? You can actually see souls. No wonder you could see where I was just now. So you have teleportation!" Zhou Yanyu finally understood the situation. He raised an eyebrow, a look of realization flashing in his eyes.
"What exactly is going on?" Shangguan Qiluo rubbed her forehead, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, looking at the unfathomable situation before her with a puzzled expression.
Zhou Yanyu glanced at Lin Chi, and seeing that the kid was pursing his lips and had no desire to speak, he shrugged.
"In short, I saved Lin Chi, and now we're one. Now I'm taking this kid to fight the BOSS!" Zhou Yanyu pointed to the hallucinogenic grenade that was still being made on the table, patted his chest, and looked confident.
"Save Lin Chi? What happened? Where's Sister Ruyan?" Shangguan Qiluo sensed something was wrong. Her pretty face changed slightly. She wanted to ask Lin Chi for clarification, but dared not press the matter. Her voice trembled slightly, "Could it be..."
"Martial killed me, and my mother was taken away. It was this uncle—Zhou Yanyu—who saved me." Lin Chi slowly walked out from the shadows of the room, his face pale but his eyes resolute, and said calmly.
In an instant, the room fell silent; no one dared to speak, as if they had touched upon some taboo. Finally, Lin Chi took a deep breath and broke the silence.
"Sister Qiluo, could you get me some more materials for making hallucinogenic grenades? We definitely don't have enough right now. I'll also teach you how to make them." Lin Chi looked at Shangguan Qiluo, then at Zhou Yanyu, "Uncle, I can do the rest myself."
It was just a simple sentence, but it seemed to freeze Shangguan Qiluo and Zhou Yanyu at absolute zero, and both of them were stunned for a moment.
After a second or two, Shangguan Qiluo came to her senses and quickly replied, "Oh! Okay! I'll go right away!" Then she turned around in a hurry.
"You should have said so earlier! This is such a simple operation, I didn't need to do it!" Zhou Yanyu floated towards Lin Chi, patted Lin Chi's shoulder in mid-air, and a playful smile appeared on his lips.
And so, after Shangguan Qiluo retrieved the materials from the glass room, the three of them said nothing more and tacitly worked together to make hallucinogenic grenades, their fingers flying rapidly among the materials.
"So what does it mean that you are now one with one body?" Shangguan Qiluo broke the silence first, tilting her head with a curious look.
"It's simple, just treat me as Lin Chi's second personality!" Zhou Yanyu blinked, looking relaxed.
"A second personality? That's way too old." Shangguan Qiluo curled her lip and looked Zhou Yanyu up and down.
"What kind of eyes do you have? Have you ever seen an uncle as handsome as me?" Zhou Yanyu struck a pose in the air with a greasy expression, and even deliberately shook his head.
"Sister Qiluo, why are you level 23? I remember you didn't have any level at all?" Lin Chi asked, voicing the question that had been bothering him earlier, his brows furrowing slightly.
"Idiot, that's because I'm over fifteen years old. I've already awakened my profession, and my ability is to see souls," Shangguan Qiluo explained, gently tapping Lin Chi's head.
"Hey, you're making them so fast, you've already made more than ten hallucinogenic grenades!" Zhou Yanyu suddenly interrupted the conversation, his eyes lighting up. He seemed unwilling to discuss the strange aspect of Shangguan Qiluo, so he slowly explained how Lin Chi discovered the BOSS's signs, mainly to talk about his series of deductions, gesturing famously in the air with his hands.
At this moment, Lin Chi looked at Shangguan Qiluo beside him with some surprise. Seeing her skillful technique, he realized that she, who had never made hallucinogenic grenades before, was making them faster than him. He felt that she could make seventy or eighty of them in no time, and he couldn't help but widen his eyes.
Time passed quickly, accompanied by Zhou Yanyu's boasting, as Lin Chi and Shangguan Qiluo made hallucinogenic grenades. In addition to the sounds of materials colliding and making, there was also the annoying "sound of flies" in the room.
About three or four hours later.
"I never imagined that I could finish a hundred in one night!" Zhou Yanyu stared in shock at the hallucinogenic grenades piled up on the table and bed, his eyes wide like saucers.
"Thanks to Sister Qiluo's help, we were able to finish so quickly." Lin Chi clapped his hands in relief, a smile of satisfaction on his face.
"Yeah! If it weren't for someone constantly bragging about how great their reasoning is, it could have been even faster!" Shangguan Qiluo glared at Zhou Yanyu, who was grinning in the air, and even made a face.
"Alright! It's time to set off. Let's go somewhere far from the camp and start fighting the BOSS! Charge! Charge! Charge!" Zhou Yanyu raised his hands and shouted excitedly, his face full of excitement.
"Then you guys go ahead! I'm not going. I still have to keep an eye on those crazy people in the front yard." Shangguan Qiluo glared at the front yard and put her hands on her hips.
"Sister Qiluo, are you really not going? You can gain experience by fighting the BOSS!" Lin Chi looked at Shangguan Qiluo with a puzzled expression and his brows furrowed.
"Hey, let's go! This little girl is sensible, it's better if we keep all the experience for ourselves! Hehehe!" Zhou Yanyu rubbed his hands together with a sly grin, his eyes narrowing into slits.
"Flying in the air like a fly! It's okay, go by yourself. You need experience more than I do! Become my 'hero' soon!" Shangguan Qiluo patted Lin Chi's obedient head, a gentle smile curving her lips.
"Let's go, let's go!" Zhou Yanyu urged Lin Chi to leave, and winked at Lin Chi, as if he had something to say to Lin Chi in secret outside.
And so, carrying over a hundred hallucinogenic grenades, Lin Chi and Zhou Yanyu set off into the depths of the forest, their steps hurried.
"You'd better be more careful in the future! You brat, your sister is no ordinary person," Zhou Yanyu said seriously after making sure they were far enough away from the camp.
"What? Sister Qiluo? She has a problem too?" Lin Chi's face darkened instantly, and a sense of unease welled up again, causing him to slow down.
"She's not a bad person, after all, she let you have the BOSS all to yourself, but she has a secret that neither you nor your son know. A girl who had no level a year ago has reached level 23 in a year. Putting aside how she could climb to the 44th floor without any level, her level increase in just one year is amazing, and she even ignored the level limit. After all, there's no place to get level breakthrough stones on this floor." Zhou Yanyu lowered his voice and leaned closer to Lin Chi to indicate that Shangguan Qiluo was not a simple character.
"So, ask less questions. Only with sufficient strength do you have the right to negotiate with others." Zhou Yanyu's expression changed from his previous frivolousness to a serious one.
Lin Chi didn't ask any more questions. He gritted his teeth and continued walking into the distance with firm steps.
"Alright, that's about it. If we keep going, it'll be almost dawn!" Zhou Yanyu said, patting Lin Chi on the shoulder to signal him to stop, since they had reached the required distance and time.
Lin Chi finally put down the huge backpack filled with hallucinogenic grenades, let out a long sigh of relief, and exclaimed, "This is too heavy!" After putting it down, Lin Chi was panting heavily, his forehead covered in sweat.
"Alright! Cheer up! Get excited, the show's about to begin!" Zhou Yanyu looked excitedly at the "darkness" in front of him, his eyes sparkling with anticipation.
"All we need to do now is keep throwing grenades. Hopefully, a hundred or so will be enough!" Lin Chi crouched down, pulled out a few hallucinogenic grenades, and threw them into the distance.
The familiar voice rang out again, a deep voice from the "darkness," now roaring like a wild beast, as if an undercurrent was constantly flowing within the darkness.
As hallucinogenic grenades continued to be thrown, hallucinogenic sunlight continued to bloom, and the tone of the "darkness" kept rising, making Lin Chi's eardrums extremely uncomfortable.
"Hang in there!" Zhou Yanyu saw Lin Chi's face full of pain and quickly encouraged him. Now was not the time to give up.
"How could he fall here! How is this possible! Come on! Come on, all of you!" Lin Chi threw grenades with great emotion, each one filled with hatred. With each throw, Lin Chi's eyes became more determined, and his voice became more piercing!
Come on!
Light and darkness were constantly intertwining, like a yin-yang symbol!
Zhou Yanyu glanced at the nearly empty supply of hallucinogenic grenades and his heart pounded. Was this still not enough?!
Fortunately, just after Lin Chi threw out the hundredth one with all his might, accompanied by a roar, the heavens and earth responded. A storm exploded at the intersection of light and darkness, birds scattered, leaves flew, and sand and stones swirled!
At this moment, on the leaderboard of all the temples, the record of success was clearly displayed—
[The Divine Tower - Floor 44, still unconquered.]
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[Tower of Gods - Floor 44, cleared.]
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