After more than half a month of construction, Holy Spirit City finally grew from a small town to a medium-sized one.
The number of permanent gods in Holy Spirit City also increased from the God of Lakes that the system had gifted them to ten permanent gods. These ten gods all came from the City of Gods on the Black Tide Island, such as the Goddess of Beauty, the God of Harvest, and the God of Forging. These familiar faces all chose to stay in the city after they were conquered.
The population attribute had also risen to 100,000.
In this half a month, Holy Spirit City still held all kinds of celebrations every day, but it was a pity that there weren't any foreign gods willing to stay in Holy Spirit City for the time being. The biggest reason was that they were afraid of the God of God-Eater, as well as the possibility of destroying the God of God-Eater's last descendant.
But what did this have to do with Chairman Silver?
Chairman Silver … had been kidnapped by Rose again.
"Girl, didn't you try it last time?
It's useless to tie me up. "
Chairman Silver sat speechlessly in a corner of the cave. He had wanted to inspect the construction of Holy Spirit City when he came online, but when he came back to his senses, Rose appeared out of nowhere, grabbed his collar, and threw him back into the cave.
"Quiet."
Rose seemed to be suppressing her anxiety. After losing to Zhao Mingwei, she didn't go to find a healer to treat her.
So now, there were many burns on her body caused by Qi …
She had failed. This was the reason why Rose felt anxious. She had thought that with her ability, Rose hadn't met anyone who could beat her in a one-on-one duel with 100% certainty.
Even Zhao Mingwei couldn't do this. Rose remembered that she had fought with Zhao Mingwei for ten rounds, and she had won three … but she had lost the most crucial round of the elimination round!
Rose lost the chance to see Thorne directly, but she didn't intend to give up … In this situation, Rose could only use the method she had planned to use when she first came to Holy Spirit City, torture.
But when Rose tied Chairman Silver up and brought him into the cave, she found that … she couldn't do it.
The first time they had kidnapped Silver, it was because Silver was the last descendant of the evil God Eater God in Rose's eyes. However, after interacting with Silver for more than half a month, Rose was truly unable to connect Holy Spirits with the evil Calamity … To quote one of Rose's team members, "These Holy Spirits are basically the source of my happiness recently."
That's right … the source of happiness. Rosh was busy fighting in the Holy Spirit Challenge, so she didn't pay much attention. However, her team members were already having so much fun in Holy Spirit City that they forgot about their duties. Of course, they were also helping Rosh gather information.
And Rose also obtained the most crucial information to meet Thorne, which was the Inner World!
"Open the door to the Inner World!" Rosh tried to voice out her request. She was still thinking of communicating with Boss Yin.
"The Inner World … Your target, Thorne, is indeed inside, but whether or not you can go to the Inner World is not something I can decide."
Although Boss Yin allowed Rose and her team members to settle in his stronghold, it didn't mean that he completely believed them … In the eyes of most players, the Inner World might just be … a game map modeled from the real world.
But Boss Yin already understood from Deng Xixi's description that the Inner World wasn't as simple as a game map.
Rosh's identity as an Eternal was a potential enemy of the Holy Spirits!
"I once swore in the name of the God Eater God that I am going to the Inner World only to capture that dangerous criminal, Thorne!" Rosh showed Boss Yin the mark of the God Eater God on the back of her hand.
She had gambled everything in order to participate in the Holy Spirit Challenge. It could even be said that she had gambled everything in order to capture Thorne.
"Actually, I'm not the president of the Jumping Nucleus. I don't have the authority to open the door to the Inner World." Boss Yin decisively chose to play dumb at this time.
"You …" Rosh's calmness finally couldn't be maintained.
But just as she was about to do something … the sound of someone stepping into the cave came from the entrance. Rosh instantly activated her invisibility state, but a portion of her living armor had been destroyed by Zhao Mingwei.
Rosh's invisibility state didn't last for more than two seconds before an error occurred. Her figure once again appeared in the cave, and Rosh's nerves instantly tensed up.
Her injuries hadn't healed yet, and now that she encountered an enemy Holy Spirit, it would worsen her injuries … From the reflection of the cave walls, it was a powerful beast that walked into the cave.
Rosh was prepared to shoot at any moment, but when she saw the figure that walked into the cave, her hand on the trigger flicked away.
Never killing the innocent was one of her life principles, and this principle also forbade her from shooting the elderly and young children. This principle was very difficult to follow in the dangerous star map, and it was also very difficult to draw a line between the elderly and them.
This was because the Void Insects that Rosh often hunted were almost a thousand years old.
But standing at the entrance of the cave was indeed an old granny.
"So someone has already found this place."
Li Hua Dai Ju walked in with her heavy shotgun and her Dragon Vein Saber-Toothed Tiger Qiuqiu. The first thing she saw was Boss Yin who was tied up with a rope.
"Mister Lu?
The people in this video game all wear strange clothes. Mister Lu, you haven't changed your clothes much. Who's this child? "Granny Li asked.
"My … friend." Boss Yin replied.
"A friend that's online with you?
Hey, little girl, make way. "
This old granny didn't really care about the deceit in the game. She came here to collect a very rare crystal in the cave, and this crystal just happened to be under Rosh's feet.
"Oh …"
Rosh, who had been acting as if she was facing a great enemy, was now like a primary school student being called out by a teacher, leaning to the side in a daze.
Granny Li took out a small script and began to knock the crystal by Rosh's feet, but this old granny's mining level was clearly not high enough. She took a long time to knock out a piece, but the moment the crystal left the ground, it instantly turned into mist and dissipated.
"This is the bad part of the game."
She complained as she continued to knock the other crystals. Rosh and Boss Yin looked at each other and saw the awkwardness in each other's eyes.
Finally, when the slightly anxious Rosh saw Granny Li break the fifth crystal, she couldn't take it anymore.
"That's a Fire Crystal, Madam."
Rosh put away her gun and walked to Granny Li's side, gesturing for her to give her small pickaxe.
Granny Li didn't have any vigilance and gave the worthless pickaxe to Rosh. Rosh lightly knocked it … but the crimson crystal still looked like it was about to dissipate.
Rosh hesitated for a while, but still used … a power that she rarely used in her life, the authority of the God of Flames.
A small flame emerged from Rosh's fingertip and seeped into the crystal. After the flame slowly burned inside the crystal, Rosh dug out the crystal.
"Little girl, how did you do it?
Or is it the skill proficiency of this game? "
The old granny looked very happy. Fire Crystals were crystals that few players couldn't grow with mother crystals.
This kind of crystal was very fragile. Once it left the earth vein, it would quickly disintegrate into dust and dissipate, so there wasn't much left to move the nucleus. But for some reason, Granny Li had her eyes on this … crystal that had never appeared in the real world.
"I need a special collection method. How many more do you need?"
Rosh's actual age was almost a hundred years old, but her mental age was only 21. On the star map, there was a distinction between actual age and natural age.
This was a very common concept in interstellar travel. Some civilizations would sleep in hibernation pods in order to extend their lives. Rosh's mother was the God of Flames, and it would take a god hundreds of years to give birth to their children.
Therefore … this didn't stop Rosh from calling Granny Li Hua and Granny Li.
"About five or six. Also, little girl, how did your hand get burned?" Granny Li keenly saw the burn marks on the back of Rosh's hand.
This was a burn mark from Zhao Mingwei's Qi …
"It's nothing."
Rosh retracted her hand as if she had been electrocuted, but Granny Li still grabbed her burned hand.
"How can it be nothing? A girl's hand is as important as her face. Eh … I wonder if this is a game?
Sigh, it still needs to be treated. "
The Holy Spirit game was too realistic. It was fine for young people, but this granny kept reminding herself that this was a game and would often treat it as reality.
Just like now … She took out some homemade burn herbs from her backpack.
"This island … has a lot of strange things, but there are still some herbs and minerals that I know. These can treat burns. It'll be much better if you apply it."
Granny Li was a life class and had learned some things about all the classes. She seemed to know about Chinese medicine as well. Boss Yin used Detection on the herb ointment that Granny Li took out and it really could cure burns.
"This …" Rosh wanted to retract her hand because burns caused by the God-Eater God were different from normal burns. But she forgot … this was Chinese medicine mixed with the Holy Spirit.
A cold sensation seeped out from the back of Rosh's hand, and she finally gave up on retracting her hand.
But suddenly, a cold aura appeared outside the cave. Rosh instantly sensed it … This aura belonged to the one that left these wounds on her body … the Holy Spirit!
"What's wrong?" Granny Li also noticed the change in Rosh's expression.
"Someone might be looking for me, to … fight me. Madam, you can hide first."
Rosh's intuition told her that Zhao Mingwei didn't find this place through tracking or positioning. One of her team members was in Zhao Mingwei's hands.
"Fight?
I haven't fought anyone in this game before. Don't worry, little girl, I'll be on your side this time! "
Granny Li seemed a little excited when she heard that someone was looking for trouble. Before Rosh could stop her, she brought her Dragon Vein Saber-Toothed Tiger Qiu out of the cave.
"Wait!"
Rosh looked at the back of the old granny and could only helplessly look at Boss Yin, who had an extremely innocent expression on his face.
"Lord Xiao isn't a member of our guild. Sigh … If only he was." Boss Yin said with a pained expression.