Calamity Messenger-Chapter 92 - 73: Heaven-Covering (Sixth Update)

It is known: Game characters can store items in the public warehouse.

It is known: In "The Messenger," Yan Qing is recognized as one of the game characters.

So, can Yan Qing store items in the public warehouse and exchange items with other game characters?

The conclusion is yes.

Yan Qing quickly figured out how to do it. First, he must know all the information about the item, for example, a roasted lamb leg. He must know the producer, production time, freshness, satiety increase, and most importantly—the system note of the roasted lamb leg.

In short, it’s the item description displayed in "The Messenger."

Then, while recalling the information of the lamb leg, he must touch the lamb leg and say: "Store the roasted lamb leg in the public warehouse."

After completing the above steps, the roasted lamb leg will be transferred to the public warehouse.

Although discovering this function was a big step forward for Yan Qing, if forced to use a metaphor, it’s akin to a primitive man from a million years ago discovering gravity after being hit on the head by an apple. Its practical significance is about the same—which is to say, not much meaning. He originally hoped he could, like other game characters, freely take items from the warehouse. If he couldn’t do that, at the very least, he wanted to transfer any item into the warehouse, so he wouldn’t need a sack to rob from the rich and give to the poor in the future. By just touching things, everything would get neatly cleared up.

But transferring items requires knowing the item information. Guessing some might be possible, but Yan Qing suspected the "system note" was randomly written by AI imported by that group of developers. Some notes are imposing, some are sinister, some are silly, some are oddly sarcastic. Who could have guessed the system note for the roasted lamb leg is ’the delicacy of Grey Wolf’s dreams’?

This means that the items Yan Qing can store in the public warehouse must be those already contacted by other game characters, otherwise, Yan Qing wouldn’t know the detailed information about the item.

But if other game characters have already contacted the items, then why don’t they just store them in the warehouse?

Yan Qing felt as if he were squatting in a public toilet without paper, wanting to buy paper, but he could only pull up his pants to go out. Since he pulled up his pants, he didn’t need to buy paper anymore.

This chicken rib feature finally became valuable to Yan Qing after he obtained the Bingzi Pepper Forest. After Yan Qing enfeoffed the White Iron Straight Saber with the Bingzi Pepper Forest, he could store it in the public warehouse for ’Ye Si’ and ’Jiang Shi’. When necessary, Yan Qing could also transfer the Bingzi Pepper Forest to the little ones through the public warehouse because the Thief’s House had already displayed the information of Bingzi Pepper Forest items to Yan Qing.

What is the necessary time?

It’s now.

Right at this moment.

I know Shang Yue and the others must think I’m a fool, a mad dog, a goon reckless with self-assessment of my martial prowess. I also know that even though Shang Yue and Jie Zilong were just taking the opportunity to lend a helping hand, they genuinely wanted to help me and invest in my future. I even more know that compromising would only be beneficial to me, there’s no disadvantage; what I get would only be more and better suited for me.

But I’m still very angry.

They might think I’m only angry because of the false accusations, but my anger is more than that, far more. My anger stems from that shattered corpse, from the family servant Uncle Lin of Qian Gongyu who participated in framing—I’m furious from the depths of my being.

I indeed led to a stranger’s death, just because I had a motive to murder him.

I indeed caused Qian Gongyu’s family servant to defect, just because he was able to frame me.

Of course, I know the mastermind is someone else, and I’m just a victim, no need to feel guilty. But I can’t stop my conscience from subtly aching, like causing the whole class to stand during military training due to my fault.

I don’t feel I did wrong, but still, the lives of two strangers turned upside down because of me.

I didn’t kill Boren, but Boren died because of me.

It’s truly disgraceful. Even behind the mask of ’Jiang Shi’, I felt my face burning with shame. But also because of ’Jiang Shi’s’ mask, I’m able to express my true thoughts, no longer bound by education, society, or even reason.

My thoughts are my consistent game rules—

Shame must be washed with blood, conscience must be reforged with a sword.

When I’m playing the game, please keep quiet.

Heaven-Covering, activate.

「Effect·Heaven-Covering: Even if you are all alone, you can shake the heavens and earth!

You need to consume all current Spiritual Power to activate Heaven-Covering. After Heaven-Covering is activated, all enfeoffed weapons within fifty meters will be directly destroyed. Your injuries will instantly heal, and you will emit a shockwave that repels nearby enemies and flying objects.

Your attack can slash out Heaven-Covering Blade Aura ranging from three to thirty meters long, inflicting one to seven-tenths of base damage. The further the distance, the lower the damage. You can adjust the length of the Heaven-Covering Blade Aura.

Heaven-Covering lasts ten seconds.

For each enfeoffed weapon within fifty meters, your base attack power will gain an additional 50 points, and the duration of Heaven-Covering will be extended by three seconds.

Before the effect of Heaven-Covering ends, you will be in an ’Unmovable’ state, making it difficult for any displacement, stun, or interruption effects to affect you.」

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Jiang Shi lifted the Bingzi Pepper Forest high, like an Immortal Sword Vomiting Pill, exhaling a long white breath. This was because the temperature dropped at night in the Mansu Forest Land, and with her Qi Blood thriving inside, her breath was ethereal and misty, just like someone from the realm of immortals.