"But triggering such encounters with Spiritual Artifacts is indeed fairly common, yet the fact that the location where I can obtain the Spiritual Artifact is so close, that’s quite unusual," Zhang Yanhang had obtained the Gathering Spirit Jade previously right at the entrance of the Xingfuli District, and now he had again acquired the Ice Silk Cool Mattress at the same place. He felt it couldn’t be a coincidence.
"Could it be that there is a cultivator’s tomb or some kind of hidden sanctuary beneath the entrance of the district? Otherwise, why would two artifacts capable of increasing the Energy Value Recovery Speed suddenly appear?"
Although sometimes Multiple Choice could indeed conjure up things out of thin air, Zhang Yanhang felt that the Gathering Spirit Jade and the Ice Silk Cool Mattress shouldn’t belong to that category.
"But I had just fully activated Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil and didn’t detect any suspicious entities..."
Zhang Yanhang suspected that the sanctuary or tomb must be hidden deeper underground where his scans couldn’t reach, or it possessed some special shielding techniques making it undetectable to his Perception.
Therefore, he couldn’t actively locate the position of this sanctuary or tomb and could only wait for further encounters to happen, hoping that they might lead him to its location.
Speaking of encounters, Zhang Yanhang suddenly remembered that he seemed not to have triggered any encounters yesterday, or rather, he only triggered one about the Gathering Spirit Jade at midnight and then there were no more encounters.
Therefore, if the encounters were categorized by day, the Ice Silk Cool Mattress was the encounter for the eleventh, and the Gathering Spirit Jade was the encounter for the tenth.
"So the question arises, what about my encounter for the ninth? Could it have really been swallowed up? Or is it that the new Transmission Channel is my encounter?"
Among these two possibilities, Zhang Yanhang leaned towards the latter, that encountering a new Transmission Channel was his encounter for the ninth.
"If that’s really the case, I wonder if I will still have the chance to encounter some new Transmission Channels in the future..."
If he could encounter other Transmission Channels, Zhang Yanhang hoped that their opening times would be staggered to avoid overlaps, ideally allowing him to freely travel to the Ashen World to hunt Monsters every day.
"Never mind, I should just go to sleep for today." After working continuously for such a long time, Zhang Yanhang was really tired and just wanted to get some sleep as soon as possible.
October 12th, the fourth day after the end of the Mid-Autumn and National Day holidays, 8 p.m., Xingfuli District, Unit 505, study.
Today was Monday. Zhang Yanhang had been in school all day, but even though he was in school, his research did not stop. Like yesterday, he spent all day researching the Ant Acid Bullet issue.
Although he still hadn’t found a suitable test subject, it didn’t matter; according to his design ideas, nothing should go wrong.
At present, he had successfully solved most of the problems, such as sealing additional Ant Acid inside the bullet without causing any external deformation, because deformation would affect the caliber or length, preventing it from being normally fired from an M4A1 rifle.
The solution was that Zhang Yanhang used Alchemy to compress part of the internal propellant so that it could make space for the Ant Acid and the thin membrane produced by the Crimson Iron Ant’s mandibles while maintaining the original Impact.
For instance, how to maintain the original velocity of the bullet despite an increase in weight.
Since the bullet was loaded with an exoskeleton membrane and Ant Acid, its weight inevitably increased. If the propellant was kept at its original power, the bullet’s speed would decrease, along with its power.
Originally, a bullet weighed about ten grams, but after sealing the Ant Acid, the weight increased. Thus, Zhang Yanhang needed to increase the amount of propellant proportionally, resulting in the propellant being compressed again to accommodate more.
Aside from these basic modifications, Zhang Yanhang also made several different types of Ant Acid Bullets, but he couldn’t test which model was the most effective due to the lack of a suitable test subject.
However, there was still one more day tomorrow, and Zhang Yanhang planned to determine which model to mass-produce on a small scale.
"Let’s go to sleep tonight; I’ve worked the whole day." Although it was only 8 o’clock, Zhang Yanhang felt that sleep didn’t need a specific time, and it was normal to go to bed early occasionally.
October 12th, the fourth day after the end of the Mid-Autumn and National Day holidays, 8:30 p.m., Xingfuli District, Unit 505, bedroom.
Zhang Yanhang, who had been asleep in his bed for half an hour, suddenly opened his eyes—not for any other reason but because he had triggered an Option.
[Do you wish to enter the Ashen World?]
[Option One: Yes (Although you’re a bit tired from researching all day, upon learning that the Transmission Channel had opened, you decide to immediately enter the Ashen World to begin hunting Monsters.
Whether it’s the Outer Zone, Middle Layer, or Core Area, you will clear them all in one go, thoroughly completing the Raccoon City clean-up plan.)]
[Option Two: No (You refuse to enter the Ashen World and feel that going to sleep immediately is a waste, so you spend the whole night playing games. At 2:59 a.m., you will encounter a female Ghost attracted by your strong Yang Qi, Evil Odor Blood Absorption Moss, Xuanyin Fruit, and the Ice Silk Cool Mattress super-value gift pack.)]
[Option Three: Longing for the unseen (Recommended for those with choice paralysis; you will be troubled all night, struggling with the decision of whether to enter the Ashen World. At midnight, you’ll enter into sleep and start dreaming.
Perhaps due to the longing for things unseen, in the dream, the raggedy young lady warmly hosts you this time, even calling her sisters over.)]
"Damn, isn’t the Transmission Channel supposed to open tomorrow? Could I have gotten the time wrong?" Zhang Yanhang carefully counted on his fingers and realized that it was indeed possible that he had miscalculated.
His first entry into the Ashen World was on the evening of September 30th at 10 p.m., and he left on the morning of October 1st at 6 a.m.
The second time he entered the Ashen World was on the evening of October 4th at 9:30 p.m. He was supposed to leave on the morning of October 5th at 6 a.m., but decided to change his plan midway and stayed in the Ashen World until he left on the morning of October 9th at 6 a.m. ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ novel-fire.ɴet