Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 668 - 335 The Umbilical Cord and the Divine Body_1
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[You take the elevator to the third level of the nest and soon see ’Flandre the Oathbreaker’, eyes tightly shut, arms crossed about her shoulders.]
[She senses your presence and slowly opens her eyes.]
[Flandre pondered on whether to speak and finally decided to say...]
[Oathkeeper, she was delighted to see you again but worried that her presence might delay your journey considering the arduous task bestowed upon you by the Firefly...]
Lin Xun opened his inventory and selected an item.
[You pulled out the ’Dried Replica Umbilical Cord’, showing it to Flandre.]
[Flandre stared wide-eyed at the shriveled tube-like flesh in your hand and couldn’t help but voice out, did you kill the Mother-Empress?]
[You nodded, after the shock, Flandre quickly began to explain to you...]
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[In the early stages of the war, the Wet Nurse would capture mutants to excavate and study the life gene of ’Firefly’.]
[Cracking the life gene of a Main God was difficult. Even the highest Wet Nurse was helpless.]
[Though they couldn’t crack Firefly’s life genes, it did not stop the Wet Nurse from extracting some lower-tier life genes from the mutants.]
[The Wet Nurse would materialize the stolen life gene into an actual umbilical cord and use it as a core to transform a tribal Mother-Empress.]
[The Mother-Empress can reproduce clones guided by the life gene contained in the umbilical cord, providing an inexhaustible source of soldiers for the frontline war.]
[Lowly life genes couldn’t create strong warriors. Even though some life genes were cracked and many different tribal Mother-Empress were created, the Wet Nurse was still unable to change the course of the war, facing continuous defeat in the God’s war.]
[Remember how she told you in the past? At the end of the war, the Wet Nurse placed a desperate bet at the cost of burning her own divine body, hoping to understand the life gene of this world’s original factor, which is Firefly’s life gene.]
[Though unaware of the specific process... the final result was the Wet Nurse’s success.]
[The Wet Nurse cracked Firefly’s life genes, at the great cost of losing her divine body, which greatly reduced her strength.]
[But not even the Wet Nurse could anticipate... Firefly’s life genes were simply too powerful!]
[Even without a divine body, the strength derived from Firefly’s life gene far surpasses the loss caused by losing her divine body.]
[The Wet Nurse was overjoyed. She had mastered all the life genes of this world and cracked the life source of a Main God.]
[The Wet Nurse created more powerful and perfect Feathered beings. She even transformed her own offspring into the likeness of the indigenous god of this world, including Flandre...]
[The war situation unsurprisingly reversed.]
[Flandre knew, Wet Nurse’s ambition was not just that...]
[Perhaps Firefly was too powerful, the Wet Nurse wished to transform the most original life gene into an umbilical cord, thus creating an unprecedented divine body.]
[This divine body has more than enough capacity to house the Wet Nurse’s divine nature, divinity, and spirit, even Firefly’s...]
[Because Wet Nurse’s aim wasn’t merely to assume this world, it was to kill Firefly, and even swallow Firefly in the end, to seek the true Transcendence!]
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[The cord in your hand might be an early replica, but it also contains incomplete and low-tier life genes.]
[The life gene in it, even if low and crude, is derived from Firefly and is closely linked to it.]
[Just like how streams flow into a river, rivers flow into greater rivers, and the greatest rivers eventually flow into the sea.]
[From this small creek-like cord, you may find the actual sea, which could be the Wet Nurse’s umbilical cord materialized from Firefly’s life gene, or even the divine body...]
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"What the hell?!"
Lin Xun felt as though he had been struck by an enormous pie falling from the sky.
The unexpected surprise was so overwhelming that he felt an unreal sense of surrealism.
"The real cord and divine body... that would mean the divine body of a Main God!"
"A Demigod would belong at the Mythical Level, but a Main God should be at least two or three levels higher, right?"
"If I could seize the Wet Nurse’s divine body, wouldn’t I be invincible?"
Lin Xun quickly cooled his excitement at the thought of this.
After contemplating for a while, he recognized the unreasonable expectation. The underworld game would not reward the Apostle with such an absurd prize at the sixth level.
Even if he did get the divine body, it absolutely wouldn’t be achievable at the current difficulty level.
"The hidden subplot mission is activated, shouldn’t I go after it?"
Lin Xun knew the odds of acquiring the divine body were incredibly slim – probably even slimmer than winning the lottery ten times in a row. The difficulty of the hidden subplot would also inevitably be extremely high.
But high difficulty implies high rewards. If there’s even the slightest possibility, it’s worth it even if he dies a few more times.
Even if he didn’t acquire the divine body in the end, completing the ultra-high-difficulty hidden subplot would still lead to other rewards.
[You bid farewell to ’Flandre the Oathbreaker’ and leave the ’Abandoned Ancient Nest’...]
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Lin Xun decided to use the second functionality of the ’Dried Replica Umbilical Cord’.
According to the item description, using the item directly only had a chance of obtaining the location of the Wet Nurse’s cord.
In Flandre’s explanation, not every river can flow into the sea. Some rivers will flow into lakes, while others will break down in the downstream...
"Hmph, even if it flows into a lake, I’ll still manage to unearth the path leading to the sea."
First, he performed a complete set of occult rituals, then opened the inventory and used the Destiny-Changing Treasure - ’Sakura Fall Eight Slope Curved Jade’.
[You take out an ancient, hooked jade imbued with a massive amount of fortune and pray devoutly...]
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[You consumed 8 points of Luck Value from the ’Sakura Fall Eight Slope Curved Jade’ to slightly enhance your own fortune!]
[The current remaining Luck Value is 92/100, would you like to use this item again?]
[Using the item again will overwrite the fortune boost gained prior...]
Lin Xun twitched a corner of his mouth, feeling a little peeved.
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[You consumed 12 points of Luck Value from the ’Sakura Fall Eight Slope Curved Jade’ to slightly enhance your own luck!]
[The current remaining Luck Value is 80/100, would you like to use this item again?]
"Is today a unlucky day?"
He continuously used the Destiny-Changing Treasure, finally deducing that today was not an auspicious day for blind-boxing.
Each time he used the ’Sakura Fall Eight Slope Curved Jade’, he never gained more than 20 Luck Value. When his Luck Value fell below 50, he chose not to use the item anymore.
The pace at which the Destiny-Changing Treasure replenishes the Luck Value was very slow. Rather than continuing to use it when the Luck Value wasn’t high and wind up acquiring a Luck Value under fifty, it was better to wait for the Luck Value to recover to full before using it.
"It’s a shame the Lucky Coins didn’t activate..."
The Destiny-Changing Treasure was remarkable because it granted the opportunity to correct errors.
Unlike Lucky Coins, one could only go all-in once, and no one knew if it would take effect before opening the blind-box.
As for the ’Sakura Fall Eight Slope Curved Jade’, one could choose to stop when the Luck Value wasn’t high, saving it for another day.
"I’ve thoroughly explored Tentacle City. The next step in the procedure should be to find Jinmu and then capture a map level..."
An idea suddenly popped up in Lin Xun’s mind. What if he took out Jinmu as soon as he encountered him? Wouldn’t that constitute a level stunt?
Or if he killed Jinmu, would that cause an explosion of map items?
