Her Talent for Courting Death Has Always Been Impressive - Chapter 47 Part 3

Xu Turan: …?

Pu Han said this so matter-of-factly that she didn’t react for a moment. It wasn’t until after Pu Han left that she felt something was off.

—Why would Yang Buqi need to tell her in advance about an emergency mission? To be frank, this seemed unnecessary, right?

…

Xu Turan was thinking this, but when she received a message from Yang Buqi in the afternoon, her heart still unconsciously relaxed a bit.

That message came around 5 o’clock. Yang Buqi explained that he left in such a hurry that his phone wasn’t charged, and after arriving there he was busy rescuing people, so he didn’t have time to send a message.

Now that things have finally calmed down, he hurried to let Xu Turan know.

【Renxin Institute is formulating a new plan here. In a couple of days, I’ll probably have to enter the [Domain] with them. I might be out of contact for a while. If you need anything, find Pu Han.】

【Rest well. Take care of yourself.】

The content was quite simple. Xu Turan looked at these brief lines, unconsciously curling the corner of her lips, and immediately began to type a reply.

Before she finished writing the reply, a second message came.

【When you have time, take a look at the notes I gave you. Your math foundation is really poor, you need to work hard. If there are problems you don’t understand, number them first, and I’ll explain them to you slowly when I get back…】

Xu Turan: “…”

Xu Turan immediately stopped smiling.

She stared at her phone for a while, silently pursed her lips, and resolutely deleted several cute emoticons from her reply—the kind with hearts and little flowers.

…

Yang Buqi’s trip this time actually lasted quite long. A week passed without notice, Xu Turan had finished her training courses at Ciji Institute, received her official university admission letter, and he still hadn’t returned.

During this time, Xu Turan even learned to use Ciji Institute’s public account and snagged a few team missions—the missions weren’t difficult. In fact, they were quite simple. The kind where you go in the morning and return by noon.

Two of them were real paranormal events, with abominations at work, but those abominations were quite weak, visually estimated not to exceed Lamp level, not even as strong as the paranormal items she bought; another one was simply someone playing tricks, entirely a “Approach Science” situation.

Although all the missions were very simple, Xu Turan firmly believed that opportunities for courting death were like water in a sponge, as long as you’re willing to squeeze, there’s always some. So she bounced around vigorously, and managed to scoop up a total of over 120 Courting Death Value from these three missions, successfully pushing the total over 8,600 points, and unlocking another special skill with the Natural Disaster tendency.

—【Ice No. 18】

Just like the previous “Ice No. 7”, Xu Turan couldn’t understand the meaning of this special skill name at a glance. She looked it up and found out that “Ice No. 18” is actually a type of ice. It’s called that because its number is 18.

This type of ice seemed quite bizarre. Xu Turan read the popular science for a long time but couldn’t understand it clearly, only roughly figuring out a few points—first, this ice is black. Second, this ice is half-solid and half-liquid. Finally, this ice has a very high surface temperature.

This did correspond to the skill description: 【You can choose to consume 1 to 20 Courting Death Value to gain one summoning chance. After summoning, you will have a 50% chance to obtain a corresponding volume of flowable high-temperature black ice cubes, and can freely control their shape and movement. The volume and duration of the ice cubes depend on the Courting Death Value you choose to consume.】

…In other words, this is a gacha skill, depending on luck.

Although it seemed quite powerful, Xu Turan had never been very confident in her luck. After unlocking this special skill, she did privately consume some Courting Death Value to “draw” a few times, but each time was empty. So she decided not to try for now.

The good news was that during this time, her upgrade on the “Natural Disaster tendency” finally made progress—on an unprepared night, she drowsily entered a dream, went straight to the corresponding server door, unconsciously consumed the “Cemetery of Disaster Entry Ticket” in her hand, and pushed the door open.

It was strange. When she entered that “login space” at that time, there were also doors on the left and right. She instinctively knew that one of them led to the “Cemetery of Disaster”, while the other tightly closed door was very unfamiliar to her.

At first she thought that door would correspond to the other tendency she possessed, “Order”. However, when passing by that door, she only heard continuous sounds of killing and shrill wails from inside.

…This doesn’t seem very “orderly” no matter how you look at it.

Anyway, she couldn’t enter that door herself, so Xu Turan didn’t bother with it. She pushed open the door to enter the “Cemetery of Disaster”, and the scene inside wasn’t as desolate as its name suggested—there were indeed tombstones standing everywhere. But it looked very quiet, far less gloomy than the Path of Chaos, and not as oppressive.

…Xu Turan even felt that this place gave a strangely familiar and relaxing feeling.

And very strangely. In the Path of Chaos, she could get a few hundred Courting Death Value just by entering the main gate, but in this place, she walked around randomly for a while and didn’t receive any Courting Death Value.

This place looked just like a cemetery in reality, with tombstones arranged neatly, roads straight and level. On each small path, there were transparent figures walking in line. Xu Turan curiously walked a few steps forward and saw clearly the content on one of the tombstones—

There were no words written on it, only a flame pattern drawn.

Xu Turan was new here and didn’t understand anything. Seeing other figures touching the tombstones, she followed and learned—as soon as she put her hand on the flame pattern, the pattern immediately began to distort and turned into a line of text.

【Forward 8】

…

?

Xu Turan lowered her eyes and thought for a moment, then counted eight tombstones forward along the current path. She found one with a lightning pattern drawn on it.

On the tombstone next to her, there was the same pattern. Another figure stopped there, reaching out towards that tombstone.

Almost at the same time, Xu Turan’s hand and that figure’s hand each fell on their chosen tombstones. Faintly, she seemed to hear a “boom”, Xu Turan turned her head in surprise and found that the figure next to her emitted a burnt smell, then gradually faded and disappeared.

On the tombstone that figure had touched, the pattern changed from “lightning” to a blood-red “X”. On the other side, the tombstone Xu Turan had touched showed new instructions—【Forward 3】【Up 2】.

…I see.

Xu Turan felt she might understand now.

To move forward here, one must follow the instructions on the tombstones. If you find the correct tombstone, you can continue forward. If you choose wrong, you’ll suffer the corresponding punishment and be directly ejected from the “server”.

Seems quite interesting.

Xu Turan thought silently, but didn’t intend to continue step by step—she pondered for a moment, and still called out the reward of 3,000 steps from her consciousness.

These steps could be used in batches. But Xu Turan didn’t have that patience and chose to consume them all at once. The next second, she saw her whole person seemingly speed up, swooshing forward—the scenes on both sides kept retreating backwards, she couldn’t see clearly any words on the tombstones anymore, but her feet seemed to have their own ideas, moving unusually nimbly, carrying her weaving in and out between the tombstones.

Xu Turan didn’t know how long her feet had carried her weaving through, only noticing that in the process she had touched a ball of light and passed through a door. Just as she was about to touch another ball of light, her feet suddenly stopped.

Then, she woke up.

Steadily and peacefully, without any bumps, and without any Courting Death Value increase prompts, she just woke up like that.

At the moment she opened her eyes, she heard a voice in her mind:

—【Congratulations, you have successfully completed a tendency upgrade】

—【Current quality: Snow White Queen】

—【Current level: Natural Disaster: Candle / Order: Firefly】

…

Well, well.

Xu Turan understood.

This wasn’t using steps at all. This was clearly opening a direct upgrade gift package.