“Hum hum~ hum hum hum~”

Chai Cuiqiao, wearing a pink down jacket, carried large and small shopping bags in her left hand, and a mango-flavored sundae ice cream in her right. Her expression was cheerful, and she walked briskly on the commercial pedestrian street of Yin City, licking the ice cream from time to time.

Li Ang followed beside her,

The latter wore sunglasses, with his hands in his pockets, his expression indifferent, and psionic energy surging in his mind.

It has been almost half a month since the end of the Yin City Mutation.

The ruins of the city center, the center of the battle, have been completely repaired under the full-scale construction of the construction team.

Other urban areas have also returned to prosperity and tranquility. Even because of the rapid advancement of the City Skyscraper project, the surrounding population has accelerated its influx, and there are more people on the commercial pedestrian street than before.

Chai Chai stopped at a roadside stall on the pedestrian street, glanced at the crystal-clear candied haws displayed in the booth's glass box, bought two skewers, and turned to look at Li Ang, "Do you want any?"

Li Ang shook his head plainly. Chai Chai was not disappointed. First, she opened her mouth and swallowed the sundae ice cream in one gulp, and then, like a hamster, chewed several candied haws in one breath.

Li Ang glanced at her and couldn't help asking, "Can you taste anything eating like that? Eating ice cream before candied haws, aren't you afraid of getting sick of it?"

Chai Chai's cheeks were swollen into balls, and she said vaguely, "I think it's okay, it's quite sweet..."

Since Su Ni裳 restored her soul and the Qing'e Armor last time, a profound change has taken place in Chai Chai.

Her perception of the outside world is more acute, and the breathing and heartbeat simulated by the Qing'e Armor are also more realistic.

In her own words, she is "more like a person" and "has more of a feeling of being alive."

The biggest changes brought about by the above changes are two points.

First, Chai Chai's cultivation of the Yin God classic *Ji Du An Chi Jiu You Yin* is twice the result with half the effort, and the progress is much faster than before.

Second, Chai Chai has become more... lazy.

The restored soul inexplicably has the need for "sleep to replenish energy". Chai Chai's daily activities have really become [eating, drinking, playing, sleeping, and occasionally cultivating]. She must sleep for eight hours a day,

No more, no less—less sleep will make her dizzy, and more sleep will make her feel at a loss, feeling that sleeping too long takes up playing time.

Whenever Li Ang wanted to supervise and persuade Chai Chai to play less and work hard to cultivate the *Ji Du An Chi Jiu You Yin*,

Chai Chai would bring out that saying - *Ji Du An Chi Jiu You Yin* is a persistent and gradual process,

The daily progress of cultivation is first rising and then slowing down,

There is a phenomenon of diminishing marginal benefits,

Desperate cultivation cannot achieve the high input and high return that one imagines.

In order to prove this point, Chai Chai also specially commissioned the Special Affairs Bureau to make a professional report full of numbers and calculation formulas,

It's like finance,

Li Ang had to give up.

This time shopping, mainly because Chai Chai had already completed the third level of *Ji Du An Chi Jiu You Yin* with the help of resources provided by the Special Affairs Bureau, and was cultivating the fourth level.

The third level of *Ji Du An Chi Jiu You Yin* requires the Yin spirit to control blood creatures, create illusions to intimidate them, and absorb the emotions of fear generated by creatures in desperate situations.

Anyway, it's just intimidation, not killing or destroying.

The Special Affairs Bureau found several bounty hunter volunteers, temporarily cleared their memories, and found a construction team to simulate a haunted house environment, allowing Chai Chai to stay in the haunted house and continuously create illusions to scare them.

It was successfully completed in one day and successfully advanced.

As for the fourth level of *Ji Du An Chi Jiu You Yin*, it requires absorbing a sufficient amount of mundane world atmosphere.

The population of Yin City's urban area and surrounding areas was originally more than 20 million. Now with the City Skyscraper project, the total population will increase again, and a stroll through the streets will meet the conditions.

The reason why Li Ang came out was also very simple. Staying in crowded places and listening to the noisy and diverse fluctuations of the soul is of great benefit to the cultivation of psionic energy.

Li Ang has indeed been quite busy recently.

On the one hand, he had to observe Wang Congshan's situation,

On the other hand, he had to supervise the expansion of the Zerg Nest in the Door World,

He also had to supervise the assimilation progress of the Zerg gene thieves in the real world on various continents;

Sort out the gains from the last script mission;

Use the forging furnace to create new equipment props;

Renovate and expand the Immaculate Furnace shop, and put new surgical projects on the shelves;

Deal with the Special Affairs Bureau and other organizations;

Collect occult data related to divine power and psionic energy;

Basically, he hasn't rested much.

Fortunately, the mule, who officially joined Liu Wudai's Ark Project, brought him a few pieces of good news - a seller is willing to privately trade a melee weapon of perfect quality.

After the last Yin City Mutation ended, the Hegemon's Horizontal Bar Spear, which had accompanied Li Ang through the Door World competition and the Long Night is Coming script mission, was finally overwhelmed and died.

The [Damaged] attribute was added after its name,

The special effect [Qian Jun Pi Yi], which has a short-term hegemonic effect and can accelerate sprinting, is also completely unable to be activated.

Hegemon's Horizontal Bar Spear!

Li Ang was saddened, and fell into the embarrassing situation of having no melee weapons available.

If he fully activates his demigod divine power and transforms into a Petrified Titan, his combat power is indeed very strong. Even Zhong Limie Ming, who was ranked ninth in the personal combat power list before, can be slapped away with one blow.

However, if there is a shortage of divine power and he cannot activate his ultimate move,

Then it is still a bit weak - the sixth-level Mind Enchantment ability is better at large-scale crowd control or point-to-point interference,

Powerful attack methods, such as the Colt revolver and the Ten Finger Dissociation Technique, have a bullet limit, and must be cooled and buffered after firing.

The epic-level Shimmering Dice of Destiny,

There is a possibility of making mistakes in opening up a good power system,

And the limitation that it can only be used every 24 hours and must be injected with energy before use.

In high-level battles, Li Ang still only has two sustainable attack methods: basic attacks and strong basic attacks.

Compared with other players of the same level, it is still too simple.

If you want to increase the power of basic attacks, the best way is naturally to get a reliable piece of equipment.

Li Ang can easily break rare or excellent-level equipment after using it for a while,

However, perfect-level equipment is too rare in the market and is expensive. Basically, it is monopolized by organizations, and very little flows to auction houses.

Even if there are, there are very many restrictions, or the usage scenarios are limited - such as the [Headless Horseman's Pumpkin Head] that Li Ang had seen before, which can summon spoon ghosts.

There are perfect-level weapons in the Special Affairs Bureau's warehouse, but Li Ang doesn't want to have too much favor with them,

Secondly, those weapons do not conform to Li Ang's fighting style.

Thinking of this, Li Ang couldn't help but look at the iron staff placed in the backpack column, with a golden hoop at each end and black U-steel in the middle.