Chapter 141. Useless

     On Friday, Ye Mo completed the second batch of transactions with the Supernatural Investigation Bureau, and her points increased by another 170,000. In addition to the remaining goods sold in Maria’s shop for more than 100,000, the total was 800,000, and the mechanism room and alchemy room were almost half completed.

     Opened the system shop, purchased 5 new Double Partner Scrolls, distributed four of them to Watson and Wang Xue, adding to the ones bought in the reality dungeon, so everyone in the team now has two, spending 150,000 points.

     In addition to the scrolls, Watson provided the majority of the common medicines, but other medicines still needed to be purchased from the shop, such as Bone Forging Potions for Wang Xue, Mana Replenishment Potions for Watson, and some Elven Potions that Ye Mo had seen in Ragnarök copy.

     Among them, many of the elf potions can increase physical fitness, but they are not what Watson and Wang Xue’s bodies can currently bear, and they have to be stronger before they can take them.

     Ye Mo is not stingy with potions. She knows very well the life-saving role of potions in dungeons. Even if they are not used in this dungeon, they may be used in the next dungeon. A total of 65,000 points were spent.

     In addition, the witchcraft rituals skills that Wang Xue learned from the Yi Bimo copy are no longer limited to musical instruments. The first batch of witchcraft props and materials also need to be purchased in the mall. The purchased system props are temporarily placed here with Ye Mo for research, which costs 30,000 points.

     Ye Mo also bought the last “Advanced Manipulation Technique” he needed from the shop, and Watson’s “Common Water Magic from Tier 3 to Tier 6”, spending a total of more than 380,000 points.

     As for ordinary clothes, cloth, drinking water, etc., the points consumed are not as good as the points consumed per space node per hour, which can basically be ignored.

     The remaining 240,000 points are the experimental expenses of Ye Mo and Watson. If they want to improve their secondary jobs, they must often do experiments, and whether it is ore, plants, or energy, formula, a large number of points are required, and no matter how many points are more, it is not enough.

     Especially Ye Mo, some of the experiments she is doing now start at more than 10,000 points each time. It may be better with jade essence, and the life space experiment is reduced to 30,000 points per time.

     Fortunately, Maria’s shop is still selling the third batch of goods. This time, there is no need for space props. There is still one space left in the second batch. Basically, each of the 13 large groups has one.

     And there is a third cooperation with the Supernatural Investigation Bureau.

     Wang Xue has now arrived in Guangdong and joined Watson. She lives in Watson’s sea view villa with a special training room. She now takes pictures of the sea, sunset and sunrise every day.

     Watson is really a wealthy family. His family has complete sea-going equipment, including cruise ships, sports cars, horse farms, and private jets. If it weren’t for the cumbersome declaration of domestic flight routes, he would have flown from Guangdong to Yunnan last week.

     Watson is different from the rich second generation that Wang Xue imagined. He is not a man of luxury and arrogance, nor is he a domineering president or a lovelorn male partner in novels. He is an ordinary person who has received higher education, has a happy family, good character, smart and capable, and gentle as jade.

     The three of them were just chatting on the forum.

     Wang Xue: 【The deposit points have been transferred. Sister Jing, say hello to Hawk eye for me.】 

     Ye Mo: 【Yes.】

     Watson: 【Hawk Eye that can see a hundred miles away? Really amazing, hello. The first round of official public beta (426232) has only been running for four weeks, and the number of invited survivors has already increased six or sevenfold.】

     Wang Xue: 【Fuck!】

     Ye Mo: 【These numbers definitely include new groups, and the increase should be even more significant in the final week.】

     Hawk Eye’s vision can cover the entire Supernatural Investigation Bureau. When she come back from the real copy, she can see that there are many people coming in and out of the Supernatural Investigation Bureau. every day, not just survivors.

     The Supernatural Investigation Bureau is not limited to the capital Beijing. At present, there are branch bases in the South China Sea, Southwest, and North of China, as well as cultural bases such as Kunlun Mountains, Yellow River, and Yangtze River.

     In China alone, the number of new agents expected to join may be so many.

     Compared with the public beta copy, the number of people in the free copy is relatively slow, and it is still a long way from being complete.

     ……

     At 10:30 PM, except for Wang Xue who was still immersed in the internet, Watson logged off to deal with the Miao Gu.

     Because the Gu worms are living creatures and cannot enter the space, Wang Xue put them into an antique Yuan blue and white porcelain container with dark spiritual jade, and took them to Guangdong to be handled and raised by Watson.

     Ye Mo took a bath, got a large plate of fruit, returned to her room, and began to study “Advanced Manipulation Technique” and “Mental Illusion Technique.” In the following time, she would focus on improving her skills.

     Compared to the elementary and intermediate levels of manipulation, the advanced manipulation technique is very simple: the mental domain. This involves the caster creating a small space by projecting their mental energy outwards, with themselves at the center. Within this space, the caster can freely manipulate both living and non-living things.

     Moreover, within the domain, mental suggestions given to intelligent beings are akin to adding a mental lock, making them many times more difficult to break than ordinary mental suggestions. This advanced manipulation technique is practically the perfect partner for mental illusions.

     Unfortunately, none of her current skills can achieve this.

     Ye Mo’s mental suggestion in the intermediate control technique is temporarily limited to ordinary animals, plants, and undead. She has not really controlled intelligent creatures such as humans and monsters.

     She tried to project her mental domain. This wasn’t mental detection, but rather covering an area from a single point, which was extremely difficult. After a short while, she had to consume a bottle of mental recovery potion. She then attempted one last time—

   【Survivor Ye Mo has mental breakthrough, mental attribute +1. 】

     “…”

     Failed.

     The rest is mental illusion.

     Ye Mo closed her eyes for ten minutes without success. After twenty minutes, when she opened her eyes again, Without the Hawkeye or mental power detection, a a fragmented phantom image appeared in the air for a second, then disappeared cleanly.

     The reason was not that her mental power was not enough.

     Instead, it was because she hadn’t concentrated 100% during the mental illusion. When she was depicting the dog bone, there were errors in its texture details, not to mention the color, smell, and taste. She couldn’t even deceive herself with such a bone, let alone Bandit.

     Well, dog bones are too complicated.

     Ye Mo changed to a very simple illusion – A4 white paper, and it succeeded. The white paper phantom stayed in the air for five seconds, but it was too fake, and it was fake white paper that could be seen at a glance.

     Paper has three main components: cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, as well as auxiliary components such as resin, ash, and sodium sulfate. Even white paper has characteristics like water absorption, softness, tearability, flammability, and thinness. The replica white paper shouldn’t just be white…

     At 12 o’clock, after bidding farewell to the slightly more realistic fake white paper, Ye Mo quickly washed up, lay down on the bed, and swiftly entered dreamland.

     Hawkeye followed a certain otaku to chase the new two-dimensional animation all night, and Bandit also had a delicious dream in the doghouse. The food prepared by the shit shoveler for him these days was really good, and he gained several pounds.

     …

     Saturday.

     Ye Mo went back to Majing Hutong to see her grandmother. Hawkeye and the bandit kept each other company. Hawkeye had found a way to deal with Bandit. It integrated itself into the body of the big black dog and successfully made him dizzy.

     In order to prevent the big black dog from getting carsick and vomiting, she stopped Hawkeye’s childish behavior.

     One eye and one dog were at peace for the time being.

     When passing by a tertiary hospital in Beijing, she noticed that the Supernatural Investigation Bureau had controlled the number of ghosts undead in the hospital, especially in the operating room. It was not a wood crystal core, but a rare wood fossil!

     Fossils are the remains or traces of ancient organisms preserved in rock. The remains of ancient plants are called petrified wood. It looks like wood but is actually stone, hard and brittle, mostly yellowish-brown and grayish-black.

     Many wood fossils date back to the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The older they are and the deeper they’re buried, the purer the wood-type wood energy they retain.

     The country really has more ideas.

     Ye Mo arrived at the courtyard, and the noise of Ling Jianguo’s family inside was quite obvious. It was Uncle Ling and Aunt Zhang arguing with Ling Xiao. It was rare for Ling Xiao to go home during non-winter and summer vacations. 

     Actually, she can usually use HawkEye to see the lives of many relatives and friends, but she has no voyeurism. The most important thing is that she doesn’t want to break the bottom line and check other people’s lives and work. Basically, the only place that can use HawkEye to explore is the Supernatural Investigation Bureau.

     Every day, she unilaterally says good morning and good night to her grandmother to make sure that she is healthy and living a good life, and has not been negatively affected by the resurrection of spiritual energy.

     Push open the gate.

     As expected, she saw a family of three in the yard. Everything else was the same as before, but Ling Xiao had a plaster on his hand and his hair was a little messy, which was inconsistent with his usual middle school disease.

     Ye Mo: “Uncle Ling, Zhang Lan, Ling Xiao.”

     Bandit straightened his chest and followed the rhythm of the shit shoveler: “Woof, woof, woof.”

     “…”

     The scene was a little quiet. Ling Jianguo’s eyes were immediately attracted by the big black dog, “Momo, this dog is really getting smarter, unlike someone!”

     Someone Ling Xiao: “…”

     Ye Mo glanced at Ling Xiao who was in a plaster cast and asked Aunt Zhang what was going on. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be the same as Xiaofang’s original answer – Ling Xiao actually went to watch the Wulin Alliance Leader Conference.

     Not only watched, he also participated.

     Like the engineers of Ye Mo’s project team and the front desk lady of the group, he was also injured.

     All the above were kept secret from Ling Jianguo and others, and naturally nothing happened until a few days ago when Ling Xiao received invitations from Huashan Sect, Wudang Sect, Qingcheng Sect, Kongtong Sect, and Emei Sect to be internship disciples.

     After receiving the invitation, Ling Xiao naturally wanted to participate, so he went home to discuss the matter with his parents. He did not completely give up his studies, but only applied for suspension of studies.

     According to the post of the sect, students who received this can explain to their own academic affairs department that there is absolutely no problem with suspending their studies. Their sect is affiliated with the National Bureau of Culture.

     Ling Jianguo and his wife also fans of the Martial Arts Alliance Leader, so they naturally had fantasies about martial arts worlds and such. However, they couldn’t quite accept their academically excellent son delaying his crucial study period to join a seemingly nonexistent martial arts world.

     “What’s the point of learning martial arts? We live in a society governed by law.”

     “It’s just a waste of his life!”

     Ye Mo: “…”