New Ability: Mysterious Sewer

Zhang Ping knew full well that this piece of Black Ice had been hard to obtain.

But deciding what to do with it left him in a bind.

The main problem was that Black Ice had too many uses.

He could eat it and have a chance of gaining a new ability. He could forge it into a weapon, or even turn it into special equipment.

Eat it?

If he failed to gain an ability, wouldn't that be a terrible waste?

Forge it into a weapon?

The problem was that he relied less and less on weapons. A weapon would not be much use to him.

That left special equipment.

Zhang Ping had to admit he did not know how to make special equipment.

Through the Appraisal Technique, he had witnessed the evil methods used to make many pieces of special equipment.

But he could never bring himself to use those methods.

After thinking it over, he looked at Xiaoxiao and asked, "Xiaoxiao, can you make any more Black Ice like this? I can trade you something for it!"

As a mature adult, of course he wanted it all!

But Xiaoxiao looked at Zhang Ping with disdain and pointed its tail at the shattered Black Egg nearby.

That was its own "eggshell."

Zhang Ping's face fell. He understood what Xiaoxiao meant.

The way this Black Ice was made was unusual. If Xiaoxiao had not been born, it might have been able to make more of the same Black Ice. But it had already been born.

Zhang Ping did not quite understand the difference between being born and not being born, but he knew Xiaoxiao and the others probably could not make any more.

In fact, this was the root cause of the world's wildly uneven technology, which had ended up