The Game of Global Mining

Chapter 550 - 406: A Quest Even Pro Players Can’t Solve

The cake shop obviously couldn’t fit into the kitchen, and putting it next to the mansion affected the garden layout, so it had to go next to the ballroom.

As Chun unleashed a light ball, a three-story cake shop with shining lights emerged out of nowhere, even overshadowing the adjacent grand ballroom.

— System Alert: Congratulations! You now own a Dream Cake Shop, and your cooking skills will gain additional proficiency bonuses. The Dream Cake Shop will collect food ingredients based on hunger levels; the hungrier you are, the better the collection effect.

— System Alert: Your current hunger level exceeds 100%, and the second-floor warehouse of the Dream Cake Shop has received a bag of "Dream Flour"!

Holy shit, it directly converts hunger into matter?

Chun, Aileen, and Mina immediately went to the second floor and indeed found an extra bag of flour.

Chun was shocked: "Does this mean we won’t need crystals to make bread in the future?"

Aileen laughed: "But the energy it provides might not match the crystals, right? I feel like my Gourmet Domain has been enhanced and strengthened as well!"

Mina said: "Mistress, I don’t think you need to personally handle bread making. Many of the Dancing Girls can cook, so they can take turns doing it when they’re not practicing."

Aileen nodded: "True, noble-trained dancing girls often have experience with kitchen chores, which is quite demanding; they all have some cooking basics to some extent, so they should all practice."

Exactly, there are 100 Dancing Girls after all, surely some of them are multi-talented, right?

Chun got excited: "What if I collect a few more shops like this?"

Aileen smiled: "It’s all Essence of Dreams anyway, the more the better; it will only strengthen our Divine Domain!"

Perfect! Let’s add a tavern, a grilled fish shop, a barbecue shop! Totally cover the Gourmet Domain.

Chun said with satisfaction: "Mina, rest up and absorb the Nightmare power quickly, and then we’ll head out tonight."

"Yes, Master."

So now it’s time to sleep and rest, getting ready for an all-nighter. After all, I need to be on the job again at midnight...

Oh right, better send Zhou Qing a message to ask about Midnight Moore so that he doesn’t waste his efforts trying to rescue me; I’m quite content in my hunger right now and don’t need to be saved.

"Boss, can you ask Brother Long about the status of Midnight Moore?"

Zhou Qing immediately responded: "It’s a bit awkward; Moore’s boss is Brother Tao. I’ll just ask around the group."

Soon, Zhou Qing replied again: "Midnight Moore also came to Bronze City, planning to rescue Brother Chun!"

Chun chuckled with surprise: "There’s no need to rescue; he should just follow his own plan."

"Alright then."

...

At this moment, Midnight Moore, troubled and restless, received a personal chat from Zhou Qing in the group and was extremely shocked!

Firstly, this wealthy female CEO-level beauty chatting with him privately was quite... flattering, wasn’t it? Secondly, she was actually asking on Brother Chun’s behalf about where he was? Not any sooner or later, but exactly at this moment...

After Moore followed the spy Folmos to complete several assessment tasks, he received a set of Empire-issued spy gentleman’s hat, whose special skill was to change his player name. It was nothing less than opening the door to a new world! As a celebrity top professional gamer in the China District, Moore’s biggest headache was being targeted by players from various countries wherever he went; it was quite a bother.

Now that’s settled, he finally looks the part of a spy.

After Chun was extradited to Bronze City, Moss’s task also came, to go to Bronze City! Honestly, as an NPC Imperial Spy specifically investigating Chun, it somewhat amazed Moore. But getting to know Chun’s secrets was indeed Moore’s interest, so here he was. Meanwhile, the Royal Family’s Bronze branch, under Brother Chun’s instruction, was abstractly causing a ruckus, bombing the sewers and turning many into red names who were sent to prison. He needed to provide support as well.

Upon arrival, Moore got drunk at a tavern near the prison, his soul leaving his body as he transformed into a Nightmare, attempting to enter the prison. But in soul form, he couldn’t hide his name, yet that wasn’t the point; the point was Moore’s Nightmare was too weak! The strength of the soul was related to Spirit and Wisdom, but these hidden attributes were too difficult to improve.

Typically, a Nightmare can gain 1 Spirit point by infiltrating an NPC’s consciousness in a dream through intense soul battles, but finding such NPCs was quite difficult! It’s hard to enter a normal person’s consciousness; you must find those who are insane, mentally troubled, dim-witted, or drunkenly muddled.

So Moore’s task was to find those insane people worldwide to improve or get drunk in the tavern waiting for a drunken person to keel over. Actually, drunks were troublesome too; their consciousness world was either like the raging sea or a mush with no gain at all.

In any case, although Moore grew considerably in adversity, some mission characters in Oak City, Gem City, and Silver City remained formidable forces beyond his reach. He wasn’t bothered, though; he took this opportunity to come and see Bronze City.

For the prison infiltration, unfamiliar paths also made things challenging since being too far from the body made the soul tired, leading to all kinds of blurred vision and hearing.

Then, Kakaxian, the Bronze City Royal Family supervisor, brought news as well: there were legends of Chun in the prison, but nobody knew where he had been moved to.

Since that’s the case, he’ll go find those insane mission characters.

But just moments ago, Moore’s Soul Artifact sensed a Nightmare’s presence!

Moore was both surprised and delighted. The good news was, demons could devour each other to absorb each other’s energy and enhance their strength! The bad news was, if the opponent was strong, it would be extremely dangerous!