Game Universe: Awakening and Enhancing Everything at the Start

Chapter 9, First Rare Quality Item

After leaving the three of them, Huang Hong breathed a sigh of relief.

As a billionaire, big boss, and business elite, Wu Junyi is exceptionally shrewd; Zhuge Ping is insightful, wise, and has a more far-sighted perspective; Chen Guoqiang, although honest, is capable of leading a large team and is by no means a yes-man who simply echoes what others say.

Being with these three people might not mean them any harm, but they will definitely influence and change Huang Hong's thinking in various ways, and try to extract his secrets intentionally or unintentionally.

It's a good thing that they can separate now, so that he won't be sold out one day and have to help the other person count the money, which would be ridiculous.

Of course, even in the original plan, Huang Hong did not intend to stay with the three of them for long. He planned to leave after Skyline got what he needed. As for the issue of ammunition, he had not actually given it much thought.

The enhanced capabilities of all things are Huang Hong's source of confidence.

Putting these matters out of his mind, Huang Hong continued on his journey.

Two hours later, Huang Hong traversed four or five kilometers and arrived at a small village. Once he passed through here, he would enter the city area and be close to the skyline.

Along the way, Huang Hong killed a total of 6 monsters: two goblins, three wolves, and a strange-looking giant crab.

The most formidable of them all was that giant crab, whose shell was as hard as granite, and the iron spear in my hand couldn't penetrate its defenses at all.

Fortunately, Huang Hong remembered watching videos of people eating crabs before. Although he had never eaten one himself, he had a general understanding of the crab's body structure.

So Huang Hong used his iron spear to attack the crab's joints, quickly paralyzing it and then killing it.

These monsters contributed a total of 38 points of source energy to Huang Hong, bringing his total to a record high of 67 points, which is added to the previous 29 points.

Huang Hong took out a box of cookies from his bag, ate them quickly, and rested for about ten minutes to recover his strength before setting off again.

When we passed a vegetable field, we saw a strange scene. The automatic sprinkler system seemed to be broken. It was spraying water continuously, flooding the entire vegetable field and turning it into a muddy mess.

Huang Hong originally didn't intend to pay any attention to it and was going to walk around it.

But just then, the calm muddy vegetable patch suddenly started to bubble up with a lot of bubbles. Then, one mud monster after another emerged from it, making "uh-uh" sounds as they slowly surrounded Huang Hong. At a glance, there were more than twenty of them.

Huang Hong was startled at first, but then calmed down. Although there were many mud monsters, they were too slow to catch up with him under normal circumstances.

However, reality is not a game, and Huang Hong cannot be sure whether these mud monsters are intelligent or whether they are pretending to catch him off guard, although it is highly unlikely.

Huang Hong is a pragmatic person who has always been sworn enemies of gambling and drugs, and firmly believes that as long as he doesn't gamble, he will never lose.

So Huang Hong retreated directly into the distance, and then he discovered that when he was away from a certain critical point, these mud monsters would suddenly stop, stand there blankly for a moment, and then return to the mud vegetable patch.

After several attempts, Huang Hong finally confirmed his previous guess. He used the angle to lure one of the mud monsters to him and then attacked it with his iron spear.

The result is not ideal.

These mud monsters are made of mud, stones, vegetable leaves, straw and other debris. Their surface has a jelly-like texture. Iron spears seem to have no effect on them. Once the spears are withdrawn, the wounds heal quickly.

Following the usual pattern, these mud monsters are certainly not invincible; the most likely explanation is that they possess a core.

However, there are so many miscellaneous things that make up the mud monster that finding its core is no easy task.

Just as Huang Hong was at his wit's end, a flash of inspiration suddenly crossed his mind. He activated his enhanced vision and looked at the mud monsters. Sure enough, he saw a white-green light in their bodies.

Huang Hong rushed towards the light, and with a slight 'crack' sound, the mud monster in front of him immediately went limp as if it had lost all its strength.

Caught off guard, Huang Hong's feet were submerged in mud, but fortunately, his combat boots were long-topped, preventing the mud from seeping in.

After finding the method, Huang Hong began to kill efficiently, basically destroying a mud monster core in two or three attacks on average.

When only one mud monster remained, which was the deepest green under the enhanced perspective of the Myriad Manifestations, Huang Hong did not kill it directly. Instead, he used his iron spear to continuously shatter its body and finally picked out the yellowish-brown core.

After the mud monster's core landed, it began to automatically absorb the surrounding dust and rocks, attempting to rebuild its body.

However, it seems that the suction power is not strong enough. When the dust and stones reach the size of a fist, any additional debris will fall off automatically, resulting in the situation where it keeps falling off as you pick it up.

After observing for a moment and confirming that there was no danger, Huang Hong went to dismantle the mud monsters he had killed.

Only the core of the mud monster was decomposed, while the mud that made up its body remained in place.

This was something Huang Hong had discovered long ago: the decomposition ability of the Myriad Manifestations Enhancement could only decompose items with extraordinary attributes; ordinary quality items could not be decomposed.

Furthermore, living life cannot be directly decomposed.

Each mud monster core gave Huang Hong 2 or 3 points of source energy. After decomposing this batch, his source energy directly exceeded 100, reaching a new high of 113 points.

After doing all this, Huang Hong came to the still intact core of the mud monster, smashed the outer shell it was attached to with his iron spear, and then picked it up.

Perhaps due to its separation from the earth, the mud monster's core suddenly lost all vitality, becoming like an ordinary stone.

Huang Hong held the core of the mud monster in his hand to observe it. It was only the size of a thumb, yellowish-brown, with a smooth surface and a regular circle shape.

Next, Huang Hong looked at the attributes of the mud monster's core...

【Elemental Core (Earth)】

Affixes: element, energy, earth

Quality: Rare

Attribute: An earth element core. It will automatically absorb earth-related substances upon contact and, after a period of elemental erosion, will give birth to an earth element monster.

Loading ability: Energy gathering (earth), standing on the earth, it can continuously gather earth element energy.

After reading the attributes of the [Elemental Core (Earth)], Huang Hong's eyes widened, especially the final loading ability, which was able to continuously gather energy. It was practically a perpetual motion machine!

Without any hesitation, Huang Hong immediately activated the Myriad Enhancement to corrupt the [Elemental Core (Earth)].

To his surprise, after the infiltration was completed, the attributes of the [Elemental Core (Earth)] also changed. The original description was "After a period of elemental erosion, an earth elemental monster will be born", but now it has become "A controlled earth elemental monster will be born".

Its effect is self-evident.

However, Huang Hong didn't have time to pay attention to these things now and directly used the loading ability on the [Elemental Core (Earth)].