Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 173 - 172 I Think You Are Very Talented (3rd Update~)
Chapter 173: Chapter 172 I Think You Are Very Talented (3rd Update~)
Jiang Qiao rushed to Donna’s base as soon as he saw that the free extra milk had brought back two Magic Thief Lolitas to her base.
To be clear, Jiang Qiao wasn’t there to see the Lolitas… he was there to add new features and fix some bugs.
Jiang Qiao hadn’t expected that free extra milk would actually kidnap the hostile targets and bring them to her home.
The first thing Jiang Qiao did was to change the two Magic Thief sisters’ names to yellow, indicating neutral targets.
“President! Come and see what good stuff I’ve caught!”
Donna was very surprised to see Jiang Qiao appear at her base; she had been pondering how to handle the two Magic Thief sisters, and Jiang Qiao’s arrival could potentially offer her some advice, as he had always been renowned for his eloquence in Donna’s impression.
Caught good stuff? Jiang Qiao felt like this description made him sound like a rabbit.
The Magic Thief sisters reacted interestingly to Jiang Qiao’s arrival wearing pixel sunglasses; the younger sister tried her best to shield her older sister, who firmly held down her younger sister’s shoulders to stop her from making any rash actions.
It seemed like they were considered the bad guys?
Jiang Qiao took off his pixel glasses, and the older sister seemed to think that Jiang Qiao was Donna’s real boss.
She looked up at Jiang Qiao and mustered the courage to ask…
“Will you kill us?” she asked.
Jiang Qiao didn’t rush to answer her but squatted down; at this moment, Donna, who was standing by, could see a dialog box appear in front of Jiang Qiao, offering him three options:
1.WhWhy?
2.Are you interested in joining us? (Requires 20 points in charm and 31 in eloquence, 20% success rate).
3.(Attack).
These were the system-provided options, and the second option’s 20% success rate was essentially useless. The success rate might be credible in the Spirit’s native plane, but these Otherworlders would not follow the ideas of the Spirit system, so the success rate was just a reference.
“What was life like for you in the Magic Thieves’ city?” Jiang Qiao glanced at Donna, who nudged him with her hand to continue.
Jiang Qiao was someone who managed to mix and match equipment in the three major guilds based purely on his eloquence; even Donna admired his bluster abilities, so she trusted Jiang Qiao’s verbal prowess, which was certainly better than hers, though it was a different story when it came to negotiating business.
“Magic Thieves, that’s how outsiders address us… You won’t kill us?” Weiser, the elder sister, had already given up resisting by this point. Since being captured by Donna, she had been covering her younger sister’s eyes.
Perhaps she wanted to spare her younger sister the fear before death.
“Just because you’re infected with the crystal disease? Listen, we are not humans but players, no… according to the game setting, we are Spirits, and crystal disease cannot infect us.”
Jiang Qiao tried his best to communicate with them as a player, all the while placing his hand at the center of Weiser’s forehead. There was a pale golden crystal embedded in Weiser’s forehead. Although the crystal was small… upon closer inspection, it was still easy to cause discomfort.
When Jiang Qiao tried to touch her forehead with his fingertip, she flinched back in fear, but his fingertip still landed on her forehead.
At that moment, the fearful expression on her face gradually turned into slight surprise, and as time passed, her eyes, filled with some amazement, looked at the always safe and sound Jiang Qiao.
“Is it that scary to touch you? The transmission speed of the crystal disease is too fast, but look… I’m fine.” Jiang Qiao showed her his fingertip, which was unaffected.
“Before coming to this island, nearly everyone I had come in contact with… had died.” She wanted to reach out and touch Jiang Qiao’s fingertips, but after hesitating a moment, she chose not to.
“I don’t care about your past experiences or want to hear about your emotional journey. Do you have any other relatives in the city where the Magic Thieves gather?” Jiang Qiao directly asked the key question.
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Weiser truthfully shook her head; all she could do now was let Jiang Qiao manipulate her.
“No friends or other personal ties either?” Jiang Qiao continued to probe about other social connections, which was the greatest obstacle in offering them sanctuary.
Fortunately, Weiser’s answers were all no. Her sister Yomi seemed to want to contradict her, but Weiser forcefully covered her mouth, perhaps believing that keeping her sister silent was the only way to survive Jiang Qiao’s hands.
“Would you be interested in moving here? She can provide you with food, not just potatoes but also char-grilled meat, warm vegetable soup, and logistical support like bedding and clothes.”
When Jiang Qiao said this, she glanced at the option of ‘free milk but no extra charge’, and promptly waved her hand. Jiang Qiao then pointed to the options in her own dialogue box, three of which were attempts to persuade the sisters, and the fourth option was still a crimson attack.
What Jiang Qiao pointed out was the attack option, and in the end, ‘free milk but no extra charge’ had no choice but to take a gamble! What if these two sisters could fetch a high price on the talent market?
“What can we offer you?” Weiser wasn’t as compliant as she seemed on the surface; she knew Jiang Qiao wouldn’t offer this help without a reason.
Even though she was taken in by the Magic Thieves and became one of them, Weiser had to work in exchange for food.
“That depends on what you can do.”
Jiang Qiao’s answers were all selected according to the system’s preset options, so to ‘free milk but no extra charge’, it seemed like Jiang Qiao was just following the system’s set path in responding to Weiser.
“We…”
“Let’s save your resumes for later. If you’re truly planning to survive in this world and join our Holy Spirit camp, I will take you to meet someone. He might understand you better than you understand yourselves.”
This enigmatic statement from Jiang Qiao, especially the latter half, also came from the options. Out of four dialogue options, Jiang Qiao chose the third.
3. Take them to meet Old Man Donna (Charm 20, Eloquence 20, Success Rate 40%).
The NPC Old Man Donna, played by Lion Heart Knight, really had a lot of free time. Players usually went straight to the mission panel, and few wished to spend time chatting with the old man, so Jiang Qiao added a new function for him.
That was to identify talents.
“Meet others? What if… your other companions also could escape the impact of the crystallization disease?”
Weiser had gone through a lot upon arriving at this island, and it was only after experiencing too much that she gave up pointless resistance and chose to accept her fate candidly, including the mishaps where kind people who tried to help them were killed by their crystallization disease.
“My other companions are all Holy Spirits,” Jiang Qiao added.
“But there are also ordinary humans on this island…” Weiser hesitated for a while then fell into silence, unsure how to phrase what she wanted to say next.
“As long as you prove your worth, all the Holy Spirits on the island will protect you. Whoever tries to harm you will be an enemy of the Holy Spirits,” Jiang Qiao assured.
Jiang Qiao was very careful in screening every NPC that entered the talent market, because once these NPCs were transformed into builders for player bases, the players’ attitudes toward these NPCs would be at least a quarter as favorable as they were towards Fureya.
The most basic response was… whoever moves against them dies.
