My Endless Life.

Chapter 142: Feelings and Interests

The exploration team led by Maru plans to stay in Rubino City, which is about to be shrouded by the fog area.

It has two tasks.

The first is to find a safe area inside the city of Rubino, determine the distribution range of the fog beasts, as well as the characteristics, habits and weaknesses of the newly emerged fog beasts.

The second is to find the route from Rubino City to other fog areas, determine its location after arriving in the fog area, and record it on the map.

Because the exploration team had to stay in Rubino City for a long time, only Li Qi and Carol went to the third floor.

Now there's Ronnie to add to the mix.

"I say... brat, is this Ronnie your real brother? Why do you take him with you everywhere?"

After separating from the exploration team, Carol couldn't help but ask Li Qi.

She has been holding back for a long time.

The last time Li Qi was taking the heavy fog level assessment, he took the initiative to ask that Ronnie, the brat, be added to the team.

Now heading to the third floor, taking Ronnie with him.

If Ronnie were a girl, Carol would understand.

But Ronnie is a man, which makes Carol think too much.

Either Ronnie and Li Qi are sworn brothers, or...they have a special relationship!
Carol looked at the two of them with a strange expression.

Li Qi answered casually:

"I just thought he was strong enough and wanted to go with me, so I brought him along. It's not as complicated as you think."

"That's it..."

After listening to this, Carol showed a disappointed expression and said, "I thought your relationship was extraordinary..."

Li Qi didn't answer.

He knew that the more he responded at this time, the more Carol would become nagging, so he simply kept silent and concentrated on his journey.

But what Li Qi didn't expect was that even though he didn't say a word, Carol still started to talk a lot.

Carol said:

"Actually, if you really have someone you care about, it would be a good thing. You... are too emotional. If you continue like this, there will be problems in the future."

"What's wrong with that?"

Li Qi asked back.

He doesn't think there's anything wrong with being emotionally indifferent.

It would be better to say that for a 'traveler' like him who has traveled through several worlds, it would be better to be less emotional.

Otherwise, you will have to experience separation from your friends, relatives, and lovers in every life, which will be too painful.

Li Qi had only experienced three lives, but he already felt that his soul could not bear it anymore.

So it’s better to be a little less emotional.

But Carol has a different opinion on this.

She was rarely serious and whispered to Li Qi:
"It's not good to be emotionless. The more powerful a fog explorer is, the more he needs a certain emotion or interest to serve as an anchor to support himself. Otherwise... you won't be able to enter the fog sea."

"What do you mean?"

"I heard... I just heard that there are special agencies in the fog sea that occasionally send out intelligence. It is mentioned that the longer you stay in the fog sea, the weaker your human part will be.

“Without strong emotions or interests to support it, it won’t be long before it turns into a monster in the sea of ​​fog.

"Of course, this is just what the intelligence says. As for what the inside of the fog sea looks like... I'm afraid you can only know it if you go there."

"If that's the case, then don't worry. I have my own interests."

Li Qi said this and glanced at Jinghua who was following him.

The pursuit of mystery and the pursuit of methods that can allow him to cross the boundary of death are Li Qi's current "interests".

Li Qi, who focuses on his interests, does not have to worry that he will turn into a monster without humanity when he goes to the foggy sea in the future.

“Making things is not really a hobby.”

Carol seemed to see what Li Qi was thinking, and she said meaningfully:

“At any time, the only thing that can maintain humanity is the most extreme human emotion. Boy, I don’t know what you think, but I can see that you lack this thing.

"Try to find an emotion that can keep you human, otherwise, something bad will happen sooner or later."

"…I don't need your help, just shut up and lead the way."

Li Qi said indifferently.

He didn't seem to take Carol's words to heart and just walked silently.

Carol stopped talking to Richie. She seemed to have just said it casually and then ran off to tease Ronnie.

The three of them walked through the foggy area and headed towards the third floor.

……

Among the three puppets, Ronnie is undoubtedly the weakest.

But he is not a burden.

The bottom line is that he has figured out the approximate capabilities of his relics.

Ronnie's relic is not called Crystal, that's the name he gave it himself.

However, even the relic itself can't remember its real name, so it is currently using "Crystal" as a substitute.

Crystal's true identity is unknown, but according to him, he is one of the original five relics.

The original relics are the five relics that existed before the fog zone came. They are the source of all relics.

Each relic has different responsibilities. Crystal's responsibility, as he said, is to be the last line of defense for mankind.

Once humanity reaches a point where there is no way out and the world cannot return to its original state, he will be responsible for leading humanity to leave this world and head for a new home.

This is what Shuijing said, but he had completely forgotten how to do it.

Only remember your responsibilities and partial abilities.

Crystal's abilities are very complex. According to him, he can control plants and understand the words of other animals. He can also transfer space. As long as he has the corresponding coordinates or a place he has been to, he can send it to where he wants to go.

He could speed up his own speed. Ronnie tried it a little bit and found that when holding the crystal, his speed could be increased to the limit that his body could bear in a short period of time.

It's just that due to his physical limitations, he can't speed up any further.

These abilities seem to have nothing to do with each other, as if they were pieced together from nowhere.

Not only that, this is an ability that Crystal can remember and use.

In addition to these, the crystal has many more abilities that cannot be used.

Such as 'controlling gravity', 'creating air', 'maintaining life', 'making food', 'disposal of garbage'...

Ronnie felt that these messy abilities were unreliable.

Especially the last one.

The first few abilities are useful, but what’s the use of the last one, garbage disposal?

It's not like Ronnie can collect the garbage!

"You just... don't have any more useful abilities?"

While on the way, Ronnie talked to Crystal.

The crystal spoke in his mind:

“…I personally think these abilities are very useful, although I can’t use them now…after all, I’m missing a lot of things.”

"Then if you find what you're missing, you can awaken more abilities?"

"Yes."

"Okay, how do we find it?"

"I can sense my body parts... Well, the direction you are walking in is very close to one of my parts..."

Crystal said this and soon fell silent.

"crystal?"

Ronnie tried calling Crystal, but Crystal didn't respond.

Did you take a break again?

Ronnie felt helpless.

Although Crystal claims to be an original relic that surpasses special-grade relics, its own abilities are inferior to most special-grade relics.

And the worst thing is, perhaps because he just woke up, he needs a long rest to recover some of his memory and strength.

This also means that Ronnie now has few abilities that he can use, and they are not very strong.

Take the ability of space transfer for example. The distance Ronnie can transfer now is less than half of Rubino City.

And it also requires Ronnie's Qi to activate it.

If Ronnie's energy is used up, the crystal will be just a decoration and will be of no use at all.

Unless Crystal wakes up.

But Ronnie had no complaints about that.

The crystal is an original relic that is even more powerful than a super-relic, and this alone is enough to satisfy Ronnie.

What's more, he now has ways to improve his energy.

Thinking of this, Ronnie looked at the young man walking in front of him. He thought for a moment and asked:
"Teacher, do we still need to continue training tonight?"

Li Qi did not answer immediately. He glanced at Carol, thought for a while, and then said to Ronnie:

"No, just stay alert and review what I taught you."

Ronnie listened and nodded without asking any more questions.

He understood what Li Qi meant, which was to tell him not to give up on refining his Qi at night.

The method of refining Qi seems to be something that the young teacher in front of him had invented independently, and it is also experimental in nature and has never existed before.

That's why we have to be wary of Carol.

Although Ronnie didn't quite understand why Carol, who was obviously Richie's close friend, was excluded by Richie.

But since the teacher said so, he just obeyed.

After such a long period of training, Ronnie has already regarded Li Qi as his teacher in his heart, ignoring his actual age.

No accidents happened during the journey.

With Carol, an experienced old fog explorer, leading the way, this is a layer of fog area where even new fog explorers can survive safely, so in just a few days, everyone safely arrived at the second layer of the fog area, the colorless plains.

Seeing the vast wilderness without any color again, Ronnie suddenly thought of something and asked Carol:

"Senior Carol, Rubino City will eventually be swallowed by the Colorless Plains, right? Then why don't we stay in Rubino City and go directly to the third level from the second level plains?"

"Because of the route." Carol answered without hesitation, "We are not sure what the route around Rubino City will be like after it lands on the plains. It may be safer, but it may also be more dangerous.

"Our current goal is to head to the third floor. There is no need to go through those unknown dangers. It is safer to proceed along the safe route that we have detected."

It turned out to be the case.

Ronnie nodded in understanding, and while they were talking, they continued on their way towards the third floor.

But...the calmer the time, the more likely you are to encounter accidents.

The same is true this time.

On the third day after they entered the Colorless Plains, they saw several corpses on the necessary safety route.

They were wearing special clothes that were completely different from the style of the kingdom. Their bodies were dry and they fell to the ground as if they had died of dehydration.

When Carol saw the corpses, her expression instantly became solemn.

"Is this... the guard of the 'ancient civilization'?"

After hearing Carol's words, Ronnie and Richie looked at the corpse on the ground at the same time.

These corpses...are they from the third level 'ancient civilization'?
(End of this chapter)