Choice One (Thank you Immortal Qitian Alliance Leader)

Hoo, hoo, hoo!!

In the forest, Yu Hong panted heavily, looking at the two Camouflage Uniforms collapsed in front of him.

The clothing on these two reminded him of Little Stutterer from before.

'This clothing... could they be from the United Army?' He couldn't help but recall the guy named Zhao Zheng Hong who came last time.

That guy said he was inviting him, but actually sent people to hide quietly by the door, wanting to take advantage of his departure to ambush him.

This kind of person is insidious and cunning. With the importance of Glowstone greatly increased after the appearance of the Eerie Shadows, it's normal to send people again to capture him.

Squatting down, Yu Hong carefully checked the two men.

He quickly found various sundries.

Two Military Dark Green Daggers, two bags of Old Edition Glowstone, two leather water bags, but these were nothing.

There was something that made Yu Hong a little surprised.

It was found on the guy who drew the gun.

It was a gray-white Silver Coin.

The front of the Silver Coin was printed with a straight, sharp, beautiful tower, and the back was printed with a special rune most commonly seen on Glowstone.

"Could this be the currency commonly used in Town?" Yu Hong held the Silver Coin thoughtfully.

Regardless, he decided to put it away first. After searching everything, he saw that the two were still unconscious, so he ignored them. After taking everything from them, he went back the way he came.

As for whether the two could survive, it depended on their luck. If they could wake up before dark, they might live. If not... Soon, Yu Hong found the things he had dropped, and also collected the scattered firewood, carrying it back to the Mountain Cave.

This time, if it weren't for the Advanced Physical Training Method taking effect, the two bursts of cool air giving him two chances to recover his physical strength, he would probably have been caught and taken away to be a tool.

Click, using the key to open the door, Yu Hong quickly entered and closed it behind him.

Listening to the heavy door slamming shut and locking,

He felt a strong sense of security in his heart.

He put everything down temporarily, near the fireplace, to prevent moisture and mildew.

Then he sat down on the stool, thinking about the problems he encountered today.

First, the things he scavenged: two Handguns, a Silver Coin, two daggers, two bags of Old Edition Glowstone, and other sundries.

He played with the Handgun in his hand. He had never touched a gun before, and after searching and studying for a long time, he finally removed the magazine.

"…" Looking at the magazine in his hand, Yu Hong was a little speechless.

There was only one bullet in the magazine... one bullet for one gun... "Is the government so poor?" Yu Hong was speechless.

He didn't know what the Handgun would become after strengthening, but now he had to prepare in other aspects.

He had to prepare in advance for the appearance of Eerie Shadows in Town, and couldn't rely on luck.

'Eerie Shadow, Withered Woman? Ordinary Glowstone is useless... even Big Glowstone can only be used to escape...'

He looked at the large Glowstone placed in his Mountain Cave.

There were doors on all four sides of the ground, three in total, but with this density, it could probably only defend against Eerie Shadows.

He took out the last large Glowstone on his body, which he had kept as a backup.

He originally thought it would be enough, but now... "Speaking of which, why can Glowstone disperse Eerie Shadows? According to Little Stutterer, even without this rune, Glowstone can disperse Eerie Shadows, but the effect is much worse. So... here's the question."

He reached out and stroked the rune on the large Glowstone.

"Where did this pattern originally come from? And how did the Black Calamity first appear?"

He had a feeling that the rune on this Glowstone seemed to be related to the appearance of the Black Calamity.

'It just so happens that the Black Mark's enhancement will refuse to enhance due to incomplete functions. In this case, perhaps I can use this to test whether this rune alone can play a role in resisting Eerie Shadows.'

Thinking of this, Yu Hong took out a newspaper and a black Charcoal Pencil.

This Charcoal Pencil had been enhanced by him, turning into the size of an ordinary neutral pen, but the handwriting was much finer and clearer than the previous Charcoal Pencil.

Obviously, the raw material of the Charcoal Pencil had also been enhanced into some unknown charcoal.

Yu Hong didn't care about these, he just needed it to be easy to use.

He spread the newspaper flat on another wooden stool and carefully placed the Silver Coin under the newspaper.

Then, using the Charcoal Pencil to trace the rune pattern on the Silver Coin, he gently smeared it.

Soon, a black rune pattern appeared in front of him.

The background color of this picture was gray-black, and the color of the pattern was darker, so it was clearly visible.

After finishing the drawing, Yu Hong reached out and pressed it on the picture.

'Enhance the Eerie Shadow dispelling rune, the direction is, strengthen the effect!'

He silently recited in his heart.

Soon, black lines flowed out of the Black Mark, but then quickly returned.

'Incomplete.'

Failed... Yu Hong frowned and released his hand.

Judging from the Black Mark, this rune did not have the effect of dispelling Eerie Shadows. Or rather, it didn't have it alone.

"It seems that there is no way to figure out this principle in a short time, so..."

He picked up another ordinary Glowstone.

He had obtained a lot of these things from the two people just now, and from Little Stutterer's remains.

All of them were collected and placed on the ground in four small bags.

Each bag had ten pieces, which were pre-allocated.

'Is it because ten pieces are needed to completely disperse the Eerie Shadow?' Yu Hong guessed.

He put down the ordinary Glowstone and took another Glowstone that he hadn't had time to draw the rune on.

Little Stutterer's tools for drawing Glowstones were also all there.

He compared Little Stutterer's drawings with the ones he had just seized, and the colors of the runes on the surface of the two Glowstones were different, obviously drawn with different pigments.

'It seems that the pigment doesn't have much effect on the runes. Then... I'll give it a try.'

Picking up the enhanced Charcoal Pencil, Yu Hong began to carefully trace on the surface of a raw Glowstone.

He was drawing the original runes, not the enhanced ones.

The original runes were very simple, just a circle with four letter-like strange symbols inside, a small circle in the center, and a flame-like symbol written again.

After practicing a few times, Yu Hong quickly drew a total of five Glowstones.

He placed these Glowstones on the ground from left to right.

The order of placement was not random, but according to the neatness of the runes.

From left to right, the runes became more and more neat, and the lines became more rounded and clear.

After doing all this.

Yu Hong breathed a sigh of relief, and stretched out his hand again, pressing it on the first Glowstone on the left.

'Enhance it into a Large Glowstone, direction: enhanced effect.' He thought in his heart.

Soon, black lines shot out, and feedback sounded.

'Do you want to enhance it into a Large Glowstone?'

But what Yu Hong cared about was the time number appearing on the surface of the Glowstone.

'3 days, 2 hours, 18 minutes.'

He retracted his hand and quickly wrote down the time in a notebook.

Then he reached out and pressed it on the second Glowstone, still the same operation.

Suddenly, the second Glowstone also showed a number.

'3 days, 1 hour, 02 minutes.'

Then the third one.

'3 days, 51 minutes.'

The fourth one.

'3 days, 42 minutes.'

The fifth one.

'3 days, 21 minutes.'

Retracting his hand, Yu Hong looked at the row of recorded numbers, and a look of realization finally appeared on his face.

"Sure enough... the length of the enhancement time is affected by the perfection of the enhanced item. The smaller the difference between the enhanced item before and after the enhancement, the less countdown time is required."

"In this case, if I had used the enhanced Large Glowstone runes to draw on the Glowstone from the beginning, then the enhancement time would definitely be greatly shortened!"

Yu Hong guessed.

"Because I saved some time on rune enhancements!"

"Let's try it!"

Immediately, he picked up a piece of raw Glowstone and began to imitate drawing the complex runes on the large Glowstone.

These complex patterns were much more difficult than those on ordinary Glowstones.

If the complexity of the runes on ordinary Glowstones was 1, then the difficulty of the advanced runes on the large Glowstone was 4.

Not to mention anything else, there were more than a dozen bizarre symbols that needed to be written on the advanced runes alone.

At a glance, they even looked a bit like some game magic circles that Yu Hong remembered seeing.

Time passed continuously, and he was immersed in drawing advanced runes, completely forgetting the time of day.

Unconsciously, the sky outside darkened.

Yu Hong lit the fireplace and continued drawing.

The firewood he had gathered this time was enough to last the night, and based on the information he had obtained, the threat of the Eerie Shadows could indeed affect this area.

If he didn't encounter them, that would be fine, but if he did, relying on those few large Glowstones definitely wouldn't be enough! So he had to think of countermeasures.

Finding a way to fight the Eerie Shadows was naturally the top priority.

But now that he couldn't find one, shortening the time to enhance the large Glowstone was even more important.

After all, even if he didn't use the large Glowstone himself, he could exchange it for items with others, making it a true hard currency.

Time flew by rapidly as Yu Hong buried himself in hard practice.

Fortunately, there was no Blood Tide or beetle interference tonight. Yu Hong drew until late at night, and when he felt tired, he enhanced some Dried Meat. It took about three hours to complete one piece of Dried Meat. After confirming the countdown time, he fell asleep.

He slept until dawn.

In the morning, after getting up, eating, and disposing of waste, he began to practice the Advanced Physical Training Method.

At noon, he went out to gather firewood, cut wild vegetables, and replenish water.

In the afternoon, he returned to continue practicing drawing advanced runes, and he enhanced Dried Meat during breaks, never wasting Black Mark time.

He repeated this every day.

Finally, on the afternoon of the fifth day, he finally succeeded in drawing advanced runes! In the Mountain Cave, Yu Hong breathed a long sigh of relief, a relaxed smile on his face, holding a piece of advanced rune Glowstone that he had just drawn.

"Not bad... not worse than Little Stutterer's!"

He couldn't wait to put it down and press his hand on it.

'Enhance into a large Glowstone, direction: enhanced effect.'

As soon as the thought flashed in his mind, the Black Mark gave feedback.

A black line flew out from the back of his hand and instantly disappeared into the Glowstone.

Subsequently, a mechanical voice sounded in his ear.

'Do you want to enhance it into a Large Glowstone?'

Yu Hong didn't respond, but instead released his hand, his gaze fixed on this Advanced Rune Glowstone.

The countdown timer had already appeared on it.

'2 days, 19 minutes.'

Bang! Yu Hong slapped the ground hard.

"It's done!!"

He couldn't help but laugh happily.

"As expected, as expected, my guess was right!! Shortening the gap between before and after enhancement can shorten the enhancement time!"

Two days for one Large Glowstone, the time is a full one-third shorter than the previous three days!

This means that he can enhance more Large Glowstones faster, ensuring his safety! And also exchange for more supplies!

After the excitement, Yu Hong quickly had new ideas.

"The Large Glowstone's time has been shortened, but regarding the Eerie Shadow... I don't know how strong this thing is at all... What if the danger of the Eerie Shadow is greater than I imagined..."