Her Talent for Courting Death Has Always Been Impressive - Chapter 36 Part 3

It all happened on Friday night, which was the 7th day after Xu Turan brought back the Planchette Pen—that night she entered the server as usual, and after walking a few steps along the small path, she heard a prompt sound from her brain.

【Congratulations, you have gained 100 Courting Death Value points!】

【Congratulations, you currently have over 4,500 Courting Death Value points. Unlock reward function—[Skill Points] upgrade】

Including the previous ones, this was already the second upgrade of her “Skill Points”, Xu Turan roughly read the instructions and found that this upgrade could be said to be quite practical—

The original version of “Skill Points” could only recycle the already allocated points when resetting, for reallocation. After the upgrade, “Skill Points” could extract a certain number of points from the remaining Courting Death Value during reset, and reallocate them together with the original points.

It’s equivalent to giving a second chance for point allocation.

What made Xu Turan even more excited was the subsequent journey.

As before, she still held the idea of “if I’m uncomfortable, I’ll retreat”, casually traveling. But as she wandered along, she suddenly found that the light was already very close to her.

—To be precise, it was within reach.

Xu Turan was startled, only then realizing that the crowd around her had somehow become much less. They surrounded her, moving forward as always, even though the light was right in front of them, they seemed unable to see it. They just kept surging forward, surging forward.

There were still murmurs lingering by her ears. The moment Xu Turan focused her attention on the ball of light, they became louder and more piercing. Xu Turan frowned slightly, but finally tentatively reached out and touched the ball of light within reach.

The small ball of light exploded in that instant, like a white lightning, illuminating the darkness in front of Xu Turan. In the fleeting light, Xu Turan clearly saw that not far in front of her stood an iron gate wrapped in thorns, and behind the iron gate, something was silently staring at her—

Xu Turan suddenly opened her eyes.

A series of ding sounds rang in her mind. Another large table naturally appeared, covered in dense text that was impossible to ignore.

【Congratulations, you have gained 300 Courting Death Value points!】

【Congratulations, you have successfully completed a tendency upgrade】

【Current quality: Mad Rabbit】

【Current level: Chaos: Candle / Beast: Firefly】

This… is completed?

Xu Turan was stunned.

What happened to the one month?

As soon as the tendency was upgraded, the corresponding special skills naturally followed. Xu Turan didn’t have time to think about the one-month issue, she sat up quickly and rapidly studied the new special skills after the upgrade. Soon, something seemed to light up in her eyes.

She had two skills in the chaos tendency. They were “Mad Rabbit – Unlucky Rabbit Leg” and “Mad Rabbit – Confusion”. Both had now been upgraded to “Candle” level.

The upgrade effect of “Mad Rabbit – Unlucky Rabbit Leg” was more direct. The skill trigger method expanded from the single “front kick” to various leg techniques, simply put, any kind of leg movement would work.

As for “Mad Rabbit – Confusion”, it expanded the range of influence. Originally, she could only affect non-human beings of Lamp level and below, but after the upgrade, it expanded to “Pyre level and below”.

… Wait a minute.

Xu Turan looked at the description of her upgraded special skills, and thought of her similarly just upgraded skill points, a bold idea suddenly surged in her heart.

After a few seconds of silence, she tentatively opened the operation interface of “Skill Points”, and extracted 500 points from the existing Courting Death Value.

Then she added all these 500 points into the “Special Skill Upgrade” direction of “Skill Points”. And all of them were added to “Mad Rabbit – Confusion”.

Adding 500 points at once made even Xu Turan feel a bit of pain. And the result after this lavish spending made her feel a bit of a wry smile.

The good news was that her “Mad Rabbit – Confusion” did indeed get an extra upgrade through point addition. It directly jumped to “Lamp” level, but still could only affect “non-human beings of Pyre level and below”.

However, compared to “Candle”, the “Lamp” level “Mad Rabbit – Confusion” added an active effect—when “Mad Rabbit – Confusion” is in an activated state, Xu Turan can choose one of the targets covered by the special skill, and actively apply a blocking/infatuation/blank effect to the target, with a control time of 0.75 seconds, and will bear certain side effects after use.

This was definitely a good improvement. But it wasn’t what Xu Turan wanted.

… She struggled for a while between continuing to spend and stopping here, then gritted her teeth and simply activated the “Reset” function, and extracted another 1,000 points from the remaining Courting Death Value.

Because she activated the “Reset” function, she paid an additional 100 points as a cost. This meant she spent a total of 1,600 points for this attempt.

Her hand adding points trembled slightly. Xu Turan steeled herself and added all 1,000 points extracted the second time into the special skill upgrade of “Mad Rabbit – Confusion”.

These 1,000 points directly brought another extra upgrade to “Mad Rabbit – Confusion”—it was directly sent to “Torch” level. The upgrade effect was that it could affect non-human beings of Radiance level and below, and the active effect application time increased to 1.5 seconds.

After Xu Turan finished adding points, she held her breath and started waiting nervously.

However, after waiting for more than ten minutes—nothing happened.

Could it be… that she guessed wrong?

Xu Turan was stunned for a moment.

She had thought that if that thing causing the system lag really existed, and was powerful enough to avoid Pu Han, it must be Radiance level or above.

Then if she used the upgraded Mad Rabbit – Confusion to test, there should be a considerable probability of making it reveal a flaw.

… However now, nothing happened.

It couldn’t be that the thing was higher than Radiance level, right? Xu Turan inwardly clicked her tongue. If that was the case, she would rather believe that thing didn’t exist, and it was just the system lagging.

After all, she really couldn’t afford to spend more points, she couldn’t keep spending. She also didn’t have the extra energy to do more tests. Let it be what it will be.

The more Xu Turan thought about it, the more she felt sorry for the large amount of points she had spent, but once spent, they couldn’t be taken back. She figured she could only wait to find Yang Buqi and see if there were any tasks she could tag along with. At least make some contribution, make some noise.

Xu Turan made up her mind, sighed again, tidied up a bit, and went downstairs.

She came down a bit early today. When she arrived at the dining room, her overbearing adopted brother hadn’t entered his routine coffee-drinking phase yet, and was sitting upright cutting butter.

Perhaps because she had just spent 1,600 points at once, Xu Turan vaguely felt like something was uncomfortable, and didn’t have much mood to deal with him. She casually washed up, went straight to the refrigerator to get milk and bread, preparing to eat breakfast in her room.

Just as she finished washing up, her adopted brother’s coffee was also ready. As Xu Turan passed by the dining table again, she saw her adopted brother put the coffee cup on the table, with one hand reaching to the right.

Xu Turan glanced casually, and her footsteps suddenly stopped.

… According to previous situations, at this time, what her adopted brother wanted to reach for should be the sugar cubes.

However, the fact was that the small plate with sugar cubes was clearly placed on her adopted brother’s left side.

Such an obvious thing, yet he seemed completely unaware, kept reaching to the right.

Xu Turan watched as his fingers touched the edge of the plate with butter, then decisively grabbed a large piece of butter and plonked it into the coffee cup in front of him.

The butter was already somewhat melted, and once put into the hot coffee, it turned into a sticky mess. Her adopted brother’s hand was covered with a layer of shiny butter, but he seemed completely unaware, lowered his head and stirred gently with a small spoon as usual, then lowered his head to take a sip.

After drinking, he seemed to notice Xu Turan’s long-lingering gaze, raised his head and asked strangely: “Why are you looking at me like that?”

Xu Turan: “…”

Nothing, just felt it was something I’ve never seen before, quite rare.

Really.