Chapter 32: Accident

Of course, attributes did not represent everything. Some subtle details could not be reflected by attributes.

For example, Xiao Fen could now feel the situation of various parts of his body more minutely.

In his brain, an image seemed to appear vaguely. Through this image, he could roughly know what state his body was in, how much Energy it had roughly, what movements could be more efficient, and so on.

His fingers also felt more sensitive than before, and his perception of the surrounding temperature and airflow was equally sharp.

In the past, the hand could only generally feel the degree of cold or heat in the air, but now he could clearly perceive the specific temperature difference.

At the same time, his fingers could also have a general understanding of the gas flow in the surrounding air. Not just the fingers, but every part of the body could sense the surrounding environment more deeply.

In Xiao Fen’s brain, there were also some hazy images around his own image.

This was like adding countless neurons inside his body, maximizing the sensing degree of Xiao Fen’s various organs, thus allowing the current him to vaguely observe himself from a third-person perspective.

That feeling was wonderful, as if suddenly he had become two. One was the self in the image in his mind, and the other was the self sensing these changes.

Besides that, Xiao Fen also discovered some other things.

The huge pain of upgrading, and the extreme sense of relaxation after the pain—the contrast between the two feelings was so great that Xiao Fen even felt he craved upgrading more, just to experience the relaxation after the pain more.

He shook his head slightly, threw these thoughts behind him again, and looked at the Light Screen again.

New text had already appeared on the projection screen.

“Lux’s Salvation”

“Mission Difficulty: SS”

“You perfectly completed the S-level difficulty mission. Yggdrasil thinks you can do better, so it maximally liberated the environmental suppression, thus making this Trial World closer to real history.”

“Communicate with Lux as much as possible; this will reduce some danger when you complete the mission.”

Xiao Fen frowned slightly. When Lux’s Salvation was announced at the church earlier, he felt something was wrong. Only after seeing the new prompt here after completing all of the Radiance of Lux missions did he realize exactly what was wrong.

The new mission level was raised again, and it didn’t even need any cover-up like a key. It reached such a high difficulty in one step, and without more explanation, the World Tree stepped in directly to solve everything.

To this extent, Xiao Fen also vaguely realized that the World Tree was most likely carrying out a disguised Retaliation for the two killings just now.

Although Xiao Fen did not directly kill his opponents, using mission loopholes to kill opponents seemed to trigger the World Tree’s Retaliation.

According to this understanding, the Li Family Trialist who was killed by the rope on the battlefield was also mostly a disguised punishment by the World Tree towards the Li Family.

To use a cliché, that is, people are doing things, and the sky is watching.

However, Xiao Fen did not regret it at all. On the contrary, he confirmed one thing through the sudden increase in mission difficulty.

The World Tree’s hidden punishment was singular, and at the same time, it could be transferred. In game terms, this kind of hatred from the World Tree could be transferred.

At the beginning, the hatred was established by the Li Family and was disguisedly punished by the World Tree. When Xiao Fen took out two opponents, it was equivalent to him establishing higher hatred, thus making the World Tree turn the target towards him.

Thinking of this, Xiao Fen smiled slightly, put aside other distracting thoughts, and began to choose items he could exchange through Gene Points.

In the previous mission rewards, he also received an extra bottle of Healing Potion, and he didn’t need to fetch it; it was already sent directly into his leather bag. Besides that, there were no other rewards.

This was an S-level mission, yet he could only obtain one Healing Potion. Looking at the list of various supplies provided by the World Tree, there was no existence of Healing Potions at all. Only now did Xiao Fen understand how precious this kind of agent was in the Trial World.

However, that was just being precious. Xiao Fen did not regret giving that bottle of Healing Potion to Sylvia before. He had thought this through very clearly just now. If Sylvia hadn’t lived, the current Xiao Fen wouldn’t be alive either.

No matter how precious the potion was, it only had meaning for living people.

Now he hoped to buy an automatic rifle, but the projection screen refused this request.

“Items purchased by the Trialist cannot exceed the overall technological level of the current Trial World. Supplementary supplies will be detected after 2 minutes. If they cannot pass the detection, they will be recovered on the spot.”

In other words, weapons that had not been invented in the 19th century would be refused for sale by the Light Screen. As for things like advanced food, if they couldn’t be solved cleanly within 2 minutes, then after 2 minutes, they would be recovered by the World Tree.

Xiao Fen swept his eyes over the place where the Mineral Water bottles were placed. Sure enough, the four Mineral Water bottles had disappeared cleanly, and even the bottle caps on the ground had disappeared.

The guns the projection screen could provide were only flintlock guns, rifles, and Revolvers. Whichever of these, the power couldn’t be called great. Even adding the Acid Poison Bullets Xiao Fen manufactured, it wouldn’t necessarily bring much improvement.

In the later stages of the previous battles with those Stitched Monsters, the Acid Poison Bullets fired by the Revolver had to be fired from a distance of less than 10 meters from the target, and had to be fired continuously to possibly break the Stitched Monster’s defense and cause damage.

And now, the enemies Xiao Fen was about to face were likely Jack, who was disguised and coming, and even more closer to the historical prototype Jack the Ripper.

Although he didn’t know the level this guy showed now, one thing was certain: no matter which gun, even if fired against Jack’s body, it might not be able to break the defense.

As for the effect of Acid Poison Bullets, it might be even worse. After all, Jack the Ripper in history possessed Level 4 Gene Control Ability.

Besides that, Xiao Fen’s targets might also include Li Ruran and Sayena. No matter who the enemy was, they wouldn’t be as slow and passively beaten as the Stitched Monsters. At that time, the role the firearms in Xiao Fen’s hands could play would be even lower.

Therefore, after learning that he couldn’t exchange for more powerful firearms, Xiao Fen decisively abandoned the idea of using firearms to solve problems. Instead, he turned his target to those melee weapons, as well as supplies he hadn’t seen before.

Although Xiao Fen didn’t have much melee ability, the upgrade just now gave him 1 Skill Point, enough to let him master a part of melee techniques. Added with the improvement in body perception ability, melee combat when necessary was a good choice.

He selected two ordinary daggers with an attack power of 14 at the Light Screen, requiring 10 points of Agility attribute. This could further utilize his strengths for him.

The two daggers cost him 700 Gene Points. Given this somewhat inflated price, Xiao Fen decided not to buy anything else.

However, the delivery location for this supply replenishment was not far from Xiao Fen, and there was no danger above his head, so Xiao Fen didn’t spend much effort to retrieve these two daggers. When he ran back to the small building, everything looked normal.