The Mad Whisper Prophet's Prophecy of Disaster

"Cheers!"

The family happily spent the evening drinking wine and eating meat.

Cao Fengqi drank a full jin by himself.

He didn't like drinking, but Xiao Gallbladder Wine could improve his constitution.

After drinking a jin of it, he didn't feel dizzy at all. Instead, he felt wonderful.

After a blissful night's sleep, Cao Fengqi woke the next morning and could clearly feel that his body had grown much stronger.

[Cao Fengqi.]

[Transcendent Sequence: none]

[Constitution: 27]

[Spirit: 9]

[Equipment: Arcane Musket, Crude Arcane Necklace]

[Supplies: Swift Speed Potion]

[Lost Land: 5/10]

[Blue Star's Blessing: Gathering Technique, Insight, Construction, Language and Writing Comprehension.]

[Activate cheat?]

My constitution is 27 now. Among Liangmin County's 300,000 residents, that should put me in the top ten thousand, right?

He thought to himself.

The top ten thousand was no small feat.

After all, half of those 300,000 residents were "ten-year veteran players."

Of course, with my equipment, weapons and cheat, my combat strength should rank in the top five hundred at least.

Yes, Cao Fengqi was that confident.

A high constitution didn't necessarily mean strong combat ability.

His father's constitution was higher than his now, but he could take him out with a single shot.

Very few people in Liangmin County had weapons of level 4 quality.

There might not even be three hundred people with level 4 weapons.

Now, he could be considered an "expert" in Liangmin County.

Cao Fengqi washed up, and his mother and sister-in-law had already prepared breakfast.

Seeing the Cao family's breakfast again, even the neighbors who had seen it every day for the past two days were still amazed.

The meals were getting better by the day.

Four dishes and a soup first thing in the morning?

There was good news for everyone today: the snow had finally stopped.

There was also bad news: the snowfall had intensified last night, and now the snow on the ground was over an inch thick.

With the cold wind blowing, there was no telling how long it would take the snow to melt.

For residents who didn't have much food at home, it was a case of misfortune piling on misfortune.

After breakfast, the Liangmin County group soon set off again.

The migrating group kept moving for six hours before stopping. After eating lunch in the shelter they had set up, Cao Fengqi and his father headed to the market again.

This time, he had a clear goal.

He traded 150 jin of level 3 metal materials for level 3 saw teeth at the spirit forger's shop.

Then he took six jin of Xiao Gallbladder Wine to Worldweaver's Clothing Store.

Cao Fengqi's eyes flickered as he looked at the blue-patterned robe.

[Blue-patterned robe: level 4 quality]

[Effect: activates the Blue Pattern Array to form an extraordinary protective shield. Attacks from weak evil spirits and evil beasts do not reduce its defense value. If the shield is broken and the robe remains undamaged, it can fully recharge in 12 hours.]

[Trade: 20 souls / trades for other items negotiable.]

Cao Fengqi naturally couldn't afford the price of 20 souls.

"Miss, we're interested in trading for this blue-patterned robe. Are you authorized to make that decision?"

Before they came, Cao Fengqi had told his father what he wanted to trade for, and his father took the initiative to speak to the attendant inside.

"You want to trade for the blue-patterned robe? If you have 20 souls, I can make that decision."

The attendant was slightly surprised, then said apologetically, "If you want to trade other items for it, I'll need to report it to Deputy County Magistrate Xiao. But I'm sorry, she's in a meeting with the other officials. Would you mind waiting?"

"A meeting?"

Cao Fengqi frowned and asked, "How long will it take?"

"I don't know."

The attendant shook her head, thought for a moment, and said, "You're valued customers too. How about this? Leave us your address, and when Deputy County Magistrate Xiao comes back, we'll come and let you know."

As a mere attendant, she didn't dare neglect people who could trade for the blue-patterned robe.

"All right!"

With no other choice, Cao Fengqi nodded.

"A meeting? What could be going on? Enough to get a group of important people together?"

On the way back, Cao Jiancheng muttered in some puzzlement.

Cao Fengqi naturally didn't know the answer.

If I could become a Transcendent, would I be able to join Liangmin County's decision-makers too?

The thought suddenly occurred to him.

Cao Fengqi pressed his lips together, ready to work hard from now on.

He would strive to become a Transcendent Sequence holder.

Meanwhile, inside a magnificent level 5 shelter at the far end of the trading market.

More than a dozen figures of extraordinary bearing sat around a golden round table.

"Divine Granny, did you call us together because something important has happened?"

A burly middle-aged man looked curiously at an old woman in wrinkled white clothes with messy hair as he asked. He stood a full two meters tall, with a square face, a thick beard, sharp brows and eyes, and a long scar across his face.

"Black snow hangs from the heavens, blanketing the sullied earth; dark clouds release rain to soak the desolate road."

Divine Granny's cloudy eyes swept over them as she said gravely, "The starving cry their last as evil stirs; chaos sweeps the earth and the gate of calamity opens."

"Huh? Teacher Chen, what do you mean by that?"

At the round table, a young man in brown leather armor with a dark filth-resistant cloak over it and a long saber on his back stared at her in bewilderment. "Can you put it more plainly?"

"Can't understand plain speech?"

Divine Granny glanced at him. "That's what you get for dating girls instead of studying when you were in school."

"..."

The young man opened his mouth, speechless.

"Divine Granny means that after the black snow falls, dark clouds and black rain will shroud our migrating group. Famine will come, chaos will begin, and evil will arrive."

A noble, graceful woman with her long hair pinned up, skin whiter than snow, gold-rimmed glasses, and a dark-blue robe woven with gold spoke up to translate.

Her lovely brows furrowed as she asked in puzzlement, "Divine Granny, we're still half a month away from Tianbei Base City. From what I've investigated, although most county residents are short on food, they should have no problem holding out for more than half a month."

"I don't know. That's part of the information I obtained through divination."

Divine Granny shook her head.

"Teacher Chen, eight out of ten of your divinations are wrong."

The young man in brown leather armor breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "This one might not be accurate either."

"I hope it's wrong too."

Divine Granny looked outside the shelter with her cloudy eyes. "But... I divined this prophecy before the black snow fell."

"Huh??"

"This..."

At her words, everyone present grew a little more solemn.

As for Divine Granny's Transcendent class, even though everyone present had a Transcendent class, they would all describe it as mysterious!

[Mad Whisper Prophet - Chen Alan]

She was also respectfully known as Divine Granny.

The burly middle-aged man who had spoken first was Liangmin County's current county magistrate and its first person to obtain a Transcendent class:

[Gloom Ruins Night Watcher - Zhou Hantian]

The noble and graceful woman wearing gold-rimmed glasses was the owner of Worldweaver's Clothing Store:

[Worldweaver - Xiao Youya]

The young man with a saber on his back had once been Divine Granny's student before the great catastrophe:

[Blade Bone Warrior: Zhang Jiuwen]

Divine Granny the Mad Whisper Prophet got two out of ten divinations right.

But now that the black snow had come true, the rest of the prophecy...

Divine Granny raised her arm and pointed ahead. A mysterious light flashed in her cloudy eyes as she slowly continued, "Dark clouds are drifting toward us from farther along the road. I want to ask you to go and verify it."

Everyone exchanged glances and immediately nodded. "All right!"