In the Torch Base, Fang You, as usual, washed his hands, changed his clothes, burned incense, and held up the phone with the Salvation Game in his hands.
"It's only been less than a week since the last Fate Draw, and I can do another ten-draw. I have to say, I'm worthy of myself."
"Thinking back, it used to take about ten days to accumulate nine Fate Points. Now, I get one or two hundred a day. Tsk, what a difference."
"Perhaps one day in the future, my Torch will earn a million a day, or even earn a '爽' a day?"
Although he couldn't imagine what earning a '爽' a day would look like, who could tell what the future held?
The organization had a promising future.
And now,
"With the probability increasing, it's commonplace to draw Fate Apostles. This time, conservatively estimating, there should be at least two apostles, right?"
"And with the probability this time, perhaps I can actually draw a gold one."
Wishing for gold.
Fang You looked forward to it.
This was the most exciting moment in gacha games, although the excitement might sometimes feel like suffocation.
"Come on!"
In the locked bedroom, Fang You's gaze was intense as he stared at the phone.
On the interface, the vortex of fate reappeared.
Amidst it,
Many green, blue, and purple shadows flickered, until a golden light slowly bloomed.
It appeared, a legendary gold!
It seemed a few other draws also yielded apostles, but Fang You didn't care much at the moment. He had seen enough apostles; now, he just wanted to see what the first gold-tier one was.
Under the golden light, a black silhouette gradually took shape.
It was a, plump, golden sphere.
Floating and slowly rotating.
[Obtained: Incomplete Lifeform · Phantom Spirit (Gold)]
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[Phantom Spirit (Gold)]
[Physique: 0]
[Spirit: 50]
[Description: Phantom Spirits are special lifeforms without physical form. The current Phantom Spirit is in an unborn, completely blank state.]
[Ability 1: Phantom Shuttle]
[When the Phantom Spirit is in this state, it can travel through space along information particles, thoughts, and the like, while possessing super learning abilities.]
[Ability 2: Descent Body]
[The Phantom Spirit itself cannot interfere with reality, but it can serve as a body for a contractor to descend, materializing the Phantom Spirit's spiritual power.]
[Ability 3: Phantom Core]
[As long as the core is not destroyed, the Phantom Spirit will never perish and can revive from the core. Conversely, if the core is shattered, the Phantom Spirit will instantly perish regardless of distance.]
[Note: The current Phantom Spirit is in an unborn state. Injecting life energy into it can cause the Phantom Spirit to be born and leave your own imprint.]
As the Fate Draw ended, the vortex receded.
A golden glow suddenly appeared in front of Fang You, and from insubstantial to substantial, it slowly transformed into a golden sphere.
This was the Phantom Core.
It was both a core and an egg.
He reached out, cradled the golden sphere, and slowly began to inject his life energy into it.
One drop, two drops, three drops...
The cold sphere in his hand gradually grew warm and emitted a faint glow.
It was still very faint, far from its birth.
Fang You gritted his teeth and continued to inject.
After ten seconds, a slight sweat beaded on his forehead.
After twenty seconds, his face began to pale.
After thirty seconds, his eye sockets deepened, and his hands felt weak.
When his entire body felt drained, finally, the golden sphere erupted with a brilliant light.
Gurgling and rotating, it slowly floated up.
"Beep~"
A golden figure flew out from the sphere, roughly humanoid, but very transparent and blurry.
This was the nascent Phantom Spirit, possessing nothing and knowing nothing.
It didn't even make a sound.
But according to the description, it had very strong learning abilities.
Fang You pointed at his own phone. "Learn some common sense and current affairs."
"Can you understand?"
He tried, unsure.
But the Phantom Spirit moved, transforming into a beam of light that directly entered his phone and disappeared.
Fang You picked up the phone and scrolled through it. There was no anomaly... If anything, the phone felt smoother, perfect for gaming at the highest settings.
He tapped it again, and a golden silhouette appeared on the phone screen.
Then, presumably having learned common sense, the blurry, outline-only golden silhouette slowly changed in front of him, finally taking on a complete humanoid form.
Black stockings, short skirt, absolute territory.
Wait, was something wrong?
Looking at the 'black-haired girl' on the phone screen, Fang You fell into thought.
He had been too hasty!
...
"Can't you choose a different appearance?"
The Phantom Spirit had left the phone and stood before him as a graceful, barefoot girl.
Although just a silhouette of light.
Hearing Fang You's words, the Phantom Spirit transformed, changing from a black-stockinged girl into a... white-stockinged girl.
Fang You: "..."
Forget it, let it be.
What he wanted to research now was the Phantom Spirit's abilities. Since it could enter the phone, could it...
"Can you travel through cyberspace and collect information?"
The white-stockinged spirit nodded, "No problem."
Immediately after, intelligence reports about anomalies from all over the country appeared one after another in document form, far more than what Fang You could find online, and their authenticity was reliable.
The Phantom Spirit even provided some internal documents from the Investigation Bureau.
It was like a ghost in the network, coming and going freely, filtering out useless information and capturing the essence.
"With the Phantom Spirit, the intelligence gap for Torch can finally be filled."
"Even this alone is of great value."
It wasn't that Torch had no intelligence before.
Whether it was detecting anomaly locations or understanding anomalies, awakenings, and mysteries, he believed they were at the forefront of the world.
They possessed high-level information.
But basic information was completely lacking. He didn't even know about 'Anomaly Hunters,' something 'everyone knew,' until he drew Xing Jinglei.
Compared to the Investigation Bureau, they were like a blind person, restricted in their every move.
But now,
"With the assistance of the Phantom Spirit, many of my ideas can be realized, and..."
"I've always had a problem: as the number of apostles grows, I, as their Torch mentor, am increasingly overwhelmed. The contribution system I envisioned before couldn't be truly implemented due to the lack of a deputy to manage it."
"But if the Phantom Spirit can serve as Torch's central intelligence, all of this can be achieved."
Fang You called the Phantom Spirit back and pointed to another old phone, which was now the container for the Salvation Game.
He gestured for the Phantom Spirit to merge into it.
The white-stockinged spirit obediently nodded, and the next moment, it transformed into a beam of light.
Bang~!
It was ejected and fell to the ground, rubbing its backside, with tears welling up in its eyes.
A prompt also appeared on the Salvation Game.
[Ding!]
[Prompt: Special lifeform 'Phantom Spirit' detected. Grant secondary privileges?]