Who says a sickly daughter can’t break through the weirdness?

So, is bickering also a way to deepen the bond?

Shen Qinyin looked at the bowl in her hand with mixed feelings.

(In the end, she still fed the baby herself >v<)

Chapter 44: Going to the basement to gain experience, right?

For the next few days, neither of them went out to explore.

Food was temporarily guaranteed, the green haze had been eliminated by them, and the Doomsday faction stronghold a few kilometers away had also been destroyed. The Shuiyuan Bay area had regained temporary safety.

Of course, Shen Qiyin never forgot that there was an "uninvited guest" in the basement.

After experiencing the green haze attack, Shen Qinyin suddenly realized that it was not entirely a bad thing that there was such a huge threat hidden under her villa.

Its "territorial awareness" can, under special circumstances, become the "backup" for Shen Qinyin and others in their fight against other entities.

At first, Shen Qinyin tried her best to collect desire stones to upgrade the exorcism items in order to destroy it. Now that there is no shortage of food, she decided to let it stay in the basement.

Who knows, one day we might have to rely on this "special force" to attack.

After Tang Miao's health had fully recovered, Shen Qinyin began her own "testing plan".

"Tang Miao, take a look at this."

Shen Qiyin took out the puppet crystal she had obtained from Zhao Feng's corpse and handed it to Tang Miao: "Try holding it in your hand and see if you can feel it."

Tang Miao obediently held the puppet crystal. After a while, she shook her head and returned the crystal. "Is this the item dropped by the entity, containing 'forbidden knowledge'? I still don't think it feels anything special."

"Is this so..."

Although she was mentally prepared, Shen Qiyin still felt a little disappointed after receiving this answer.

But just as she was about to take the crystal from the other party, Tang Miao's expression suddenly became stern, and her mouth opened slightly in surprise: "Wait, wait!"

"what happened?"

"This gem...I, I just heard some sound, it seemed to come from inside!"

"Ok?"

Tang Miao swallowed his saliva and quickly concentrated his mind, staring intently at the puppet crystal in his hand.

But unfortunately, after the sound just now disappeared in a flash, there was no more movement from the crystal.

“No more…”

Tang Miao lowered her head in frustration, then she smiled bitterly: "It seems that I still don't have the qualifications."

"...Not necessarily. Maybe it's just not the right time yet."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Shen Qinyin stroked her chin, thinking about the changes in Tang Miao between his initial contact with "forbidden knowledge" and this time.

The sound Tang Miao just heard was definitely not an illusion. There are two possibilities for this phenomenon:

The first is the special nature of the Puppet Crystal. After all, it is dropped from a qualified person, and there are some differences between it and the Fear Core Fragments dropped by entities.

The second possibility is that Tang Miao himself has changed.

Shen Qinyin felt that the latter was more likely.

The reason for the change is most likely the improvement of soul resonance.

Of course, this was just her wishful thinking. There was no reason for this guess, just like a woman's sixth sense. Although there was no evidence, she just felt that things should be like this.

In order to verify her speculation, Shen Qinyin came up with a bold idea.

"Tang Miao, come on, follow me to the basement!"

"what?!"

Tang Miao thought she had misheard.

Her eyes widened, her face filled with disbelief as she asked, "Are you crazy, or am I? That thing in the basement is scarier than the green haze. I just came back from the brink of death and have just recovered, and you're dragging me to dance in front of the King of Hell again?"

"Believe me!"

"Why are you saying this again?!"

Tang Miao was so exhausted that she could not even cry.

I believe it, but you should at least consider me, sister! I'm really not as brave as you!

But what could she do? She couldn't let Shen Qiyin go alone to the dangerous place down there, so she could only grit her teeth, cheer herself up, and follow her to rush up the tower.

"Ding."

The elevator stopped in the basement, and the metal elevator doors slowly opened to both sides. The humming sound of the gears turning was particularly clear in this silent basement.

Coming to this familiar basement again, Shen Qinyin found that she was no longer as panicked as she was at the beginning.

Even with a little expectation.

The two people's flashlights emitted the only light in the basement. The moment the beam of light touched the familiar metal door on the wall at the end, the metal door suddenly made a harsh metal deformation sound!

A sticky black liquid oozed from the edge of the door frame, winding into blasphemous totems on the wall. A salty smell like the deep sea overflowed and began to permeate the air.

The flashlight flickered fiercely at this moment.

In the darkness, Shen Qinyin heard her own heartbeat overlapping with some kind of clapping sound. The armrests of the wheelchair vibrated strangely, and a cold and smooth touch penetrated her cotton socks, as if an invisible hand was caressing her limbs.

Shen Qiyin, who possessed insight, knew exactly what this meant—

The cognitive pollution at the idealistic level has become so strangely dense that it is almost becoming material!

An ordinary person, under the influence of this level of cognitive pollution, probably wouldn't last more than three minutes! !

In fact, from a safety perspective, she shouldn't have brought Tang Miao down.

But she wanted to test Tang Miao's mental strength to see if she had grown as she had guessed.

As long as the guess is correct, then my original wish will come true!

Tang Miao gritted her teeth. The moment the black tentacles penetrated from the crack in the door, countless wriggling spots of light exploded on her retina.

Something beyond human cognition was squeezing into this cramped space. The air in the basement rippled like asphalt, and she heard a subtle sound like the friction of shells coming from the inside of her skull.

"Don't chase the rabbit, don't chase the rabbit..."

Tang Miao kept repeating this sentence, clenching his fingers so hard that his nails almost dug into his flesh.

She kept taking measures to keep her mind clear to deal with the cognitive invasion of the entity in the basement.

Shen Qiyin calculated the time and pressed her fingers one by one on a bronze pocket watch that had been prepared long ago.

Ten seconds, twenty seconds, thirty seconds...

One minute, two minutes, three minutes...

Tang Miao stared at the half-open metal door. Her visual cortex began to betray her brain. In her eyes, those things seeping out from the cracks in the door were not tentacles at all, but nebulae made of rotten stardust, with an eye embedded in each fold!

Gradually, these "tentacles" began to phosphoresce, and unrecognizable colors formed an invisible torrent that left the door and formed jelly-like larvae that crawled freely in the air.

Finally, the time came to five minutes!

Almost at the moment before Tang Miao was about to collapse, Shen Qinyin suddenly raised her hand and showed the bronze pocket watch in her hand!

The next moment, the bronze pocket watch suddenly burst out with an extremely scarlet red light!

A crisp ticking sound suddenly rang out, and a series of fine and rapid mechanical gear turning sounds intertwined, as if countless precision machines were running at high speed.

The scarlet blood light was like a surging tide, instantly flooding the entire basement. The black tentacles that spread out from the metal door, the moment they touched the red light, seemed to be burned by flames, twisting and curling up wildly!

The minute hand and second hand, which were originally moving normally, began to reverse in a strange posture.

Their tracks dragged out golden rays of light, which intertwined with the red waves of light. Along with the crisp sound of gears meshing, the tentacles that stretched out from the door retreated behind the door as if time had reversed!

Until the last tentacle retracted into the door, the metal door made a muffled "boom" sound and closed tightly!

At this moment, the pollution that was about to crush their sanity finally dissipated.

"Crack!"

Almost at the same time as the metal door closed, the pocket watch in Shen Qinyin's hand suddenly shattered.

The precise gears and metal parts turned into dust and scattered like quicksand.

Everything is settled, as if nothing had ever happened...

Dare not say anything about the shelf~

First of all, I would like to thank everyone for their support. I never expected that this original book, which received less than 100 copies a day during the trial period, would reach this point.

I was originally prepared to only order 200 songs, but you guys gave me hope again!

Although my data is insignificant compared to the big guys on the list, I am an original creator after all, so I can say that I am very lucky to have achieved this!

What's a bit embarrassing is that my readers seem to be very silent. There are clearly more than a thousand readers, but there are only a few posts, and they are all urging me to update...

The readers said nothing and just gave rewards.

To be honest, these days have been a bit painful and happy.

The good news is that I received more than a thousand yuan in rewards within two days of posting the reward.

The pain is that I am so weak! Why am I so weak!!!

Baoer, please stop giving me tips, I beg you!

You did nothing wrong. It's all my fault for my fragile wrist and limited energy. When I saw your large rewards, I was completely defeated and surrendered on the spot.

The moment I saw you tip me hundreds of blades, my fingers went numb, my arms ached, and my tendonitis flared up instantly. Life seemed to have lost its hope. I was like a magical girl defeated by a tentacle monster, a superhero who had lost his superpowers, a cultivator whose magic weapon had been taken away, or a spaceship without fuel. The possibility of continuing to type intensively was completely cut off.

Please let me go, I have to update 10,000 chapters tomorrow, I'm so afraid I won't be able to finish coding tomorrow, I'm just a small fry, I'm a Feiwu author! I'm such a noob!!

So there are only 3 chapters today, and they will be released tomorrow, all in preparation for the release...

Then.....

Oh my god, why did you give me so many blades again? Why do I owe you another 8 chapters? Haven't I already paid back several chapters? Why do I keep owing more and more?!

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Chapter 45 Tang Miao's Qualifications, Emergency Signal

Returning to the first floor hall of the villa, Tang Miao first wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, revealing an expression of relief at having survived a disaster, and then rebuked the other party with a resentful look:

"I say, your method of seeking excitement is rather unconventional. Even if you say you're testing my 'adaptability,' there's no need to find such a dangerous opponent, right? Wouldn't it be possible to test it with the night fog?"

"After all, you're not the only one I want to test."

Shen Qiyin winked at her, trying to soothe her resentment with this playful and cute expression.

What she said was indeed the truth. This time when they entered the basement, in addition to testing Tang Miao's mental strength, another important thing was to estimate how strong the "lurker" in the basement was.

As it turned out, that guy was incredibly strong and much more terrifying than he had originally predicted.

When you first enter the basement, you can drive it away with the Holy Wood that you upgraded with only 5 Desire Stones.

But the "brass pocket watch" he had just used was worth as much as 100, but he still could only barely drive the other party away.

Originally, Shen Qiyin thought that it would take at least 200 Desire Stone-level exorcism items to destroy it. Now, it seems that even if the price is increased tenfold, it may not be possible to destroy it.

What on earth was it? Rather than saying its power was gradually increasing, it was more accurate to say it was already very powerful from the beginning, but through Shen Qiyin's repeated reckless attempts, it gradually revealed the tip of the unfathomable iceberg.

"So......"

Tang Miao took a deep breath, adjusted his breathing, and calmed down: "What's the result?"

"You'll know right away."

Shen Qiyin took out the fragment of the core of fear dropped by the lurker. According to the notebook, this fragment was worth 80 desire stones.

After deducting the 100 Desire Stones spent on the brass pocket watch, Shen Qinyin still lost 20 Desire Stones.

Relying on this "lurker" in the basement to brush the desire stone is itself unrealistic. What's more, even if it is really possible, Shen Qiyin does not have the courage to do so.

That thing is too risky. Even though the "insight" ability that the Arcana Pope provided her has been upgraded to level 3, she still cannot see through its state.