Listening Device
"Consultant Su, I suspect someone has planted a listening device in my rectum!"
Song Shige spoke solemnly to Su Luo, who was enjoying a barbecue.
Su Luo stopped chewing the chives and looked at Song Shige in surprise.
What are you talking about?
"No, no... I think I have some mental problems."
Song Shige shook his head violently, rubbed his temples, and said with a hint of annoyance, realizing that something was wrong with him.
"We've been here too long!"
"The fact that you could come up with this means you really have mental problems."
Su Luo casually finished the last skewer of grilled meat she had obtained using the [Food Voucher of Choice], then maneuvered the Laboratory to change direction, flying further away from the [Dangerous Terrain].
Over the past thirty-odd hours, Su Luo and Song Shige spent three hours grinding monsters in the [Dangerous Terrain], then went out to rest for four hours.
This frequency didn't affect Su Luo much; after resting, her mental scores on the tests were normal.
On the contrary, Song Shige seems to be suffering from a continuous Corrosion, with his delusions becoming increasingly wild; he even just flew to Chengdu...
Su Luo immediately wrote out a simple mental health assessment test on the spot and asked Song Shige to answer it. The result showed that his core logic and rational cognition were fine, but he had shown obvious delusional tendencies.
"If even I'm struggling to cope, what about ordinary professionals with even lower professional standards?"
Song Shige lay flat on the ground for a while until the chaotic feeling in his mind, as if someone was playing 1080p, gradually subsided. Only then did he prop himself up and ask with a solemn expression.
"The five-person team, supporting each other, painstakingly found the [Dangerous Terrain], and then fought under the dual debuffs of Attribute Suppression and continuous Mental Corrosion. Each stay was strictly controlled to within a few hours... At this rate, it will probably take several days to get the first blue-quality Attribute Skill Book."
As Su Luo spoke, she organized her gains from the past two days of monster hunting and spread them out on the metal table.
Amidst the pile of various materials, Su Luo selected the parts she needed for her research.
The drawings were useless to him, so he left them to Song Shige.
There are seven Skill Books in total, all of blue quality, including two rare Attribute- type books:
[Baleful Qi Infusion (blue)]
[ With the Strength to Uproot Mountains (blue)]
Unfortunately, there wasn't any mental health-related items that Su Luo needed most.
He memorized the entire contents of [Baleful Qi Infusion (Blue)] for future analysis, while handing over the remaining Skill Books to Song Shige to arrange for someone to back up the image data.
Of the three treasures that increase Attributes, Su Luo took one, which increased spirit.
[Marsh Dizziness Flower]
[After consuming this, your Spirit increases by 0.1]
Of the six props, one Perfect, four are excellent, and one Fine.
Su Luo unceremoniously took one excellent and one Perfect item.
[Windthread Boots (Excellent)]
After use, your movement speed and evasion ability will be slightly increased, and you will gain the effect: "Charge".
Charge: When activated, it allows you to initiate a rapid Charge in a specified direction.
[Anchored Pocket Watch (Perfect)]
[Upon use, it creates a small mental recovery field with the effects of "Anchoring" and "Rationality Quantification"]
"Anchoring": Passively triggered. When your mental state deviates completely from the baseline, you can forcibly anchor once. Cooldown: 3 days.
Rationality Quantification: Based on the wearer's own perception, real-time rationality is reflected on the watch face.
This should be the first Perfect -grade item in Zone 76.
Su Luo received the Windthread Boots and quickly changed out of the ugly shoes she had worn for so long.
[Clown Shoes (Fine)]
[After you put it on, you've put on your shoes.]
The Clown Shoes now offer no advantage to Su Luo; they're nowhere near as fast as when Su Luo flies using Spell.
As for the [Anchored Pocket Watch], Song Shige stared at it with wide eyes.
"Consultant Su, look at my recent mental state... don't I really need this? Could you... have all the other props and treasures?" He tried to persuade her.
"You don't know how to use it."
Su Luo spoke calmly, picked up the strangely made, medieval-style pocket watch, and wrapped it around her wrist.
The hands on the dial began to move, eventually settling at a position slightly to the left of 12 o'clock, with a slight tremor.
If we consider the dial as a percentage, roughly pointing to 94%, it can be recorded as a sanity value of 94.
He then handed the pocket watch to Song Shige.
After Song Shige became involved, the pointer immediately slid back and forth between 9 and 10 o'clock, with the corresponding sanity value fluctuating wildly between 75 and 83.
"See that? Your sanity level is constantly changing. This means..."
"So... I've gone mad?" Song Shige asked hesitantly.
"This indicates that your subjective perception greatly interferes with the measurement results. You lack a clear grasp of your own willpower and have not established a stable, internalized mental evaluation system, leading to constant fluctuations in your self-perception, which in turn causes the values provided by the props to oscillate accordingly."
"I don't understand." Song Shige was very frank.
"In short, your measurement error is too large. My readings, while stable, also exhibit slight fluctuations, indicating that the influence is objectively present; it's just that my baseline is more robust."
As Su Luo explained, she put the pocket watch back. "The working mechanism of this prop is very interesting. I plan to take it apart and study it."
After dividing the spoils, the two chatted about their combat performance after their Attributes broke through 15 points. After a rough estimate, they came to a startling conclusion.
Song Shige was the first to jump off the Laboratory, activating his Talent on the ground and entering full-power mode.
He stomped down with all his might, and the ground exploded, creating a huge crater more than ten meters in diameter. Fragments of rock and soil shot out in all directions like artillery shells, and monsters wandering a hundred meters away were all stunned by this sudden "rain of bullets".
The visible dust shockwave Diffusion in a ring shape, and debris poured down like a torrential rain.
When he runs at full speed, he can carve deep furrows in the ground; his ground speed approaches four or five times the speed of sound; and with a powerful leap, he can reach a height of two hundred meters...
And this is only the destructive power displayed by breaking through 17 points in strength Attribute and maintaining around 15 points in Constitution; the pure physical strength has exceeded two hundred tons.
Then Su Luo took action, Laboratory went into full power, blasting a scorched crater nearly five meters deep into the ground within a fifty-meter diameter area in a very short time.
With the enhancements from various skills and items, the two agreed that if they were in the world before their Crossing, they would already possess the ability to survive and even counterattack under a barrage of missile attacks. Even if they couldn't withstand the onslaught, they would be fully capable of escaping the attack range thanks to their superior mobility.
Based on the previous Attribute growth curve, Su Luo deduced that the pure power output corresponding to 20 points of strength Attribute could reach a terrifying level of two to three thousand tons.
Can this... withstand a nuclear bomb?
But they should be able to escape.
Given enough time, a bloodbath would be no problem.
"17 points, 20 points of power is already this exaggerated, wouldn't 30 points of power destroy the continent?" Song Shige himself didn't expect himself to be so strong.
"Maybe." Su Luo glanced at the time.
"Your stay is almost up, and I'm planning to return the way I came. Is there anything else?"
"Yes." Song Shige nodded, his expression very serious. "Bring another table of barbecue. I was so busy going crazy that you ate all the skewers by yourself!"
Su Luo: "..."
Finally Su Luo used another [Food Voucher of Choice], and the two had a farewell dinner.