Published: February 12, 2025
Perhaps knowing that the three people and one dragon had returned, sparks once again flew from the large door, landing on the three and healing their injuries and restoring their stamina.
“What the hell is this? What’s going on?” Pao Bai’s breathing gradually stabilized under the healing sparks, but he was still confused about what had just happened.
Jie Su was also moving his body quickly while recovering. After thinking for a moment, he said, “I think this should be a teleportation gate, and these sparks are part of it. They can heal us and bring us back, but why is it doing this? Zhong Ming, do you think what we encountered outside was real or illusory?”
He turned to ask Ye Zhongming, knowing that this guy always had some means to better cope with crises.
“I think it’s real,” Ye Zhongming replied slowly. “If it were an illusion, we wouldn’t have such real wounds, right? But I’m not sure.”
That was his guess; this universe had both roulette and slave clans, it was magical and strange, and many things couldn’t be inferred by common reasoning.
“Too bad the equipment doesn’t get restored,” Pao Bai looked around and noticed that both Ye Zhongming and Jie Su’s equipment were damaged but showed no signs of recovery.
“Please choose…” A voice suddenly appeared in their ears, startling the three of them and the dragon.
They were certain that this voice was emanating from within the cavern, rather than from the previous state that directly acted on their consciousness.
Suddenly, an image of Pao Bai appeared on that shiny door, vividly rendered, with data flowing in front of his image, which then slowly stopped, revealing the number ‘9’.
The silver commander twitched his mouth; this should be the score from the previous battle, right? Nine points? Was this an insult?
Then, after this number, a string of numbers 33501 appeared.
“Fuleira?” Jie Su glanced at Pao Bai and asked. He remembered asking Pao Bai about this when they arrived at Black Book Summit, receiving an answer of more than thirty thousand, which was very similar to this number.
Pao Bai raised his eyebrows and nodded, “It should be, just that it has increased too much.”
Previously, when coming to the planet hunting grounds, Pao Bai had tested and found it just over thirty thousand.
A line of text appeared again on the light barrier of the energy gate, and a voice timely followed: “Please choose, 1 to enhance Fuleira, 2 for physical rewards.”
The three of them were a bit confused, completely not understanding what it meant. Only Ye Zhongming felt this was somewhat reminiscent of the roulette space style.
“What should I choose?” Pao Bai looked at his two companions.
Jie Su frowned and said, “I don’t know what the physical rewards are. Choosing to enhance Fuleira seems to be a safer option, but can Fuleira be enhanced like this?”
Ye Zhongming nodded too, if he had to choose, he would also choose Fuleira.
“But what if we face another challenge like just now? What if our equipment is completely destroyed and we end up empty-handed?” Pao Bai raised a different opinion.
Everyone felt a headache, as they had no idea what this was or what challenges lay ahead, making it difficult at every turn.
After thinking for a moment, Pao Bai said, “I’ll choose the physical reward. You’ll probably start choosing soon as well, and if my choice is wrong, I can prevent you from making mistakes again.”
The other two nodded, and Pao Bai addressed the energy gate, “2, physical rewards.”
The scene of the energy gate quickly changed, and even Pao Bai’s image became very small, replaced by a dense array of items. From bottom to top, the items increased, and there were the most at the mid-upper part, while the very top had fewer.
In any case, they couldn’t even count how many types of rewards there were.
Pao Bai walked up to the gate, his finger pointed at the largest category at the bottom of this physical tree, and its branches immediately lit up. Then, by clicking on a specific branch, the rewards from that branch would pop out and highlight, forming layered, staggered three-dimensional light and shadow.