NOVEL NEXT Chapter 103: 97. Too bullying.
"Ah~"
The old woman let out a mournful wail.
Her voice was filled with immense sorrow, as if her entire family for eighteen generations were suddenly gone.
Without hesitation, the old woman rushed forward, desperately clawing at the ice layer with her fingers, trying to rescue the mutated leech.
Unfortunately, the ice was too solid.
Several of her nails turned over, her fingers bled profusely, but the ice didn't budge an inch.
Twisted by desire, the old woman regarded the bloodthirsty creature as family.
Her own kind, however, she saw as lambs for slaughter.
After a moment.
An invisible ice needle sped over.
A small red dot appeared on the back of the old woman's head, and her pupils froze.
Her body swayed for a moment, then she fell backward to the ground.
She was dead.
Afterward.
The old woman's body vanished without a trace.
The villagers were all terrified and quickly fled, leaving nothing behind.
Only two villagers, used as sacrifices, remained in place.
They soon saw a falcon fly over, flapping its wings, landing on the ice sculpture.
"Crack! Crack!"
Accompanied by many shattering sounds.
The ice sculpture broke into countless pieces.
The mutated leech turned into a pile of minced meat.
The falcon circled above once and quickly flew away.
The two villagers exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with extreme shock.
On the other side.
Yang Fan whispered, "For mutated soft-bodied animals, the ice superpower is quite useful."
The ability of the mutated leech was very special; its soft body could absorb impact.
A powerful punch from a physical ability user inflicted minimal damage on it.
The ice superpower perfectly countered this characteristic.
This is exactly the advantage of possessing multiple superpowers.
There's always one that suits you!
"Chirp!"
The falcon returned.
The Soul Stealing Wisp also brought back.
As expected, the ability of the mutated leech wasn't extracted.
The old woman's superpower was, however, stripped away.
Spirit communication: Inactive, low grade mental superpower, activation requires 1 point of Spiritual Source Value.
Yang Fan exclaimed, "Interesting!"
Although spirit communication lacks actual combat power, it is quite a useful auxiliary ability.
The old woman didn't know spirit communication had an even greater use.
This superpower, besides communicating with mutated creatures, could also communicate with newly deceased souls.
Moreover.
The Soul Stealing Wisp also extracted 3.3 points of Spiritual Source Value.
The mutated leech provided 2.2 points, while the old woman only provided 1.1 points.
Yang Fan muttered softly, "Finally found a superpower user weaker than Huangmao."
He yawned, "Been awake for two days and nights, let's find a place to rest for a while."
Of course.
He didn't forget to send the military a message.
After all, the corpse of the mutated leech held significant research value.
Half an hour later.
Two helicopters belonging to the Great Xia Military swiftly flew over the village.
A team of soldiers rapidly descended, seeing the leech remnants.
Leading were two superpower users, one with the rank of Captain, the other a Lieutenant.
A quarter of an hour earlier, the ice had already evaporated out of thin air.
The ice was a product of superpowers, not conventional ice, so it didn't melt into water.
The local villagers, terrified of the mutated leech, didn't dare to touch them.
The soldiers watched the scattered remains with slightly odd expressions.
Because the remains looked too neat.
As if someone used a ruler and knife to cut them into perfectly square blocks.
The Captain examined closely and concluded, "This is a highly sophisticated power technique."
As a physical superpower user, he could see that this was definitely Mr. Ghost's result using power.
The Lieutenant asked, "Old He, you're an expert in utilizing power in the Jiuzhou Legion, could you do this?"
The Captain shook his head, "Give me another ten years."
The Lieutenant was skeptical, "That long?"
The Captain explained, "It's a matter of level difference; if Mr. Ghost wants, he can punch patterns into the corpse."
The Lieutenant was quite amazed, "That powerful?"
The Captain, too lazy to explain further, led the way, "Let's pack up the remains together."
*
Another half hour later.
Dozens of kilometers away.
In a dense forest.
Yang Fan had set up a tent and was sound asleep inside.
A few bird companions acted as sentinels, closely monitoring the surroundings.
Inside the tent.
A rope dangled a crystalline piece of ice, hanging inside the tent.
This was a piece of superpower ice.
This was his "do-it-yourself air conditioning."
Gonglute Province was in the tropics, and although the global climate had drastically changed, the temperature here was still a bit hot.
The superpower ice not only absorbed heat, cooling the tent, but also maintained a constant temperature.
In short.
Although hanging ice with a rope seemed primitive, the effect was excellent.
After a few seconds.
"Buzz!"
The shopping terminal gifted by Commander Ma suddenly vibrated lightly.
Yang Fan instantly woke up.
He picked up the terminal and glanced at it, seeing a line of information: "Dear Mr. Ghost, your account has been credited with 100,000 special shopping vouchers."
With a note at the end - Special Contribution.
Yang Fan immediately understood, "This probably is the reward from the military for delivering the mutated leech's corpse."
He yawned again, "The military is quite generous, this could be a long-term cooperative relationship."
Yang Fan was woken up and couldn't fall back asleep.
He moved a sofa chair outside, lazily lay on it, and began to study the shopping terminal.
Yang Fan glanced at the account and let out a "Huh": "The level of this account is actually Eight Stars."
The account he registered with his ID card was only a Two Star account.
Yang Fan checked and found that the highest level was Nine Stars.
He couldn't help but smile: "Looks like the officials regard me quite highly."
It can be easily imagined that the number of Nine Star accounts must be very few, perhaps only a dozen nationwide.
Eight Stars is also an extremely high level, so there can't be many either.
The list of Nine and Eight Stars might even have to go through the higher-ups.
Yang Fan was somewhat moved: "Seems like I'm quite a significant figure."
From childhood to adulthood, he had always been an ordinary person.
Even now, deep down, he still had the mindset of an ordinary person.
Now he suddenly realized that he could barely count as a big shot, his mood was naturally a bit strange.
"Click!"
Yang Fan opened a can of cola, raised it to the air: "Mom and Dad, your son has made it now, our family annals can have a page to itself."
The forest was silent and speechless.
He took a sip of cola and began to study the Great Xia Business Communication shopping platform.
As Commander Ma said, the Special Shopping Voucher is indeed very useful.
Before, when Yang Fan logged in with his own account at home, ordinary products were limited in supply, and popular items often showed "out of stock."
Even when it occasionally showed "in stock", after a while, it would show "out of stock" again.
Now, when logging in with Mr. Ghost's account, he couldn't see the word "out of stock" at all, nor the word "limited."
Yang Fan browsed for a while and quickly found a page.
It had a label—Spiritual Objects Pavilion.
He curiously clicked on it, and the screen jumped to another page.
A line of lowercase explanation appeared at the top of the page: The products in Spiritual Objects Pavilion are only available for purchase by Six Star and above levels.
However, although the Spiritual Objects Pavilion sounded impressive, it contained just one solitary product.
Product name—Spirit Rice.
Price—500 yuan per pound.
Below were two lines of red text notes:
"You meet the purchase requirement, and the annual purchase quota is 50 pounds."
"You are a special user, and your purchase right is of the highest priority."
Yang Fan felt like laughing: "Even Spirit Rice is out, why does this feel like a cultivation novel?"
He clicked on Spirit Rice and saw more explanation information.
"Produced from the fruit of the Celestial Giant Tree, processed into Spirit Rice after deep processing.
"The texture of this product is hard, needs to be boiled for more than twelve hours to cook."
The "Celestial Giant Tree" immediately reminded him of the kilometer-high giant tree that suddenly appeared in Guangnan Province a few months ago.
Yang Fan thought to himself: "Maybe it really is the fruit from that giant tree."
He continued to look further.
"The taste of this product is not good, with a strong sour and astringent taste and has many side effects.
"Side effects include but are not limited to, hair loss, tooth loss, blurred vision, tinnitus, hearing loss, heart pain, numbness in hands and feet..."
Yang Fan couldn't help but mock: "What kind of Spirit Rice is this? I think it's poison rice full of five toxins!"
The following information made him immediately retract his mockery.
"Multiple experimental results show that eating Spirit Rice can slightly increase physical Value.
"Recommended for superpower users with physical Value above 10 points to eat, to avoid most side effects."
Yang Fan thought for a while, quickly clicked a few times on the screen, and used up the 50-pound quota directly.
Anyway, the total price is only 25,000, just a small amount to him.
As for the delivery address, he directly filled in Plante Airport.
Five minutes later.
The shopping terminal popped up a message: "Dear Mr. Ghost, your order has been approved, and considering your outstanding contributions to Great Xia, you do not need to pay any shipping fees."
Yang Fan exclaimed: "Global free shipping? This benefit is nice!"
*
Jiuzhou Corps Headquarters.
A burly man built like a bull, looked at the computer screen information, a bit dumbfounded.
"We are very sorry, Captain Liu Yidao, the Spirit Rice you ordered is currently out of stock, please stay tuned for stock updates."
Liu Yidao couldn't help but curse: "Damn it, only this morning there were 50 pounds of Spirit Rice, how is it gone so quickly?"
Spirit Rice is a very special and tight commodity, purchasing it requires spending Merit Points.
Therefore, many superpower users want to buy it, but not many can afford it.
Generally speaking, 50 pounds of Spirit Rice can usually be sold in 3-4 days.
Liu Yidao is a Captain in Jiuzhou Corps, with an annual quota of only two pounds.
He finally managed to save enough Merit Points and was ready to use up this year's quota to strengthen his physical value.
A minute ago.
When he submitted the order, there was still plenty of stock for the product.
The order was approved, and the page also showed "about to be shipped."
A minute later.
The system suddenly notified that all stock was gone.
This is too outrageous?!
Liu Yidao concluded: "It must be a system glitch!"
He immediately dialed the customer service number to ask.
The other side informed the reason:
An ultra-high star level user with the highest priority bought out the entire quota for the month.
The orders of the dozen users who submitted today were all canceled.
A new batch of Spirit Rice is expected to be available after ten days.
Liu Yidao put down the phone and cursed: "Damn it!"
Highest priority, huh?
It's too bullying!
He cursed again: "Don't let me know who you are."
Of course.
Even if he knew who the other party was, he wouldn't dare to confront them.
He just wanted to curse the other party's name.
*
Shapudian Kingdom.
Plante Airport.
A team of soldiers dressed in strange camouflaged uniforms appeared silently in a dense forest a few kilometers from the airport.
As the environment changed, the camouflage uniforms continuously changed colors like octopus skin.
Although there were many issues with the details, as long as the distance was a bit far, it was impossible to see the flaws.
Their uniforms had no signs, but judging from their white skin, they were clearly not from the East Continent.
The captain squatted in the grass, glanced at the sky, and said in a low voice: "Everyone, our mission this time is to hunt down the number one strongman of Great Xia Kingdom."
He paused for a moment and continued: "According to the information provided by the Jin Kongque people, this superpower user's name is 'Mr. Ghost'."