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

According to the notebook's charging standards, Xiaoxiang needs 500 desire stones to upgrade to the next level.

However, the upgraded Xiaoxiang has not changed much compared to now. The only difference is that the energy core has a larger capacity when fully charged, the horsepower is stronger, and the weapon system is more advanced.

In this era, her existence itself is already a bug enough. No one can resist her with conventional weapons.

All in all, the price/performance ratio is actually not very high.

Compared to her physical abilities, Shen Qiyin hopes that she will have the power to fight against entities.

If we can establish a soul resonance with her and form a bond with her as the notebook suggests, so that she also has the qualifications to comprehend "forbidden knowledge", it will definitely be a leap forward for the entire team.

Let’s look at something else.

Chapter 47 Qiyin? Aren’t you dead?

Time: 17:40.

There are less than 20 minutes left until sunset.

At this moment, a pair of fully armed special forces teams hurried to the exit of the Tiancheng overpass at Tiancheng Station on Metro Line 9.

The dim afterglow of the setting sun struggled to penetrate the distorted guardrail at the entrance of the subway station, casting several narrow and strange shadows on the cracked ground.

The air was filled with thick, pungent gunpowder smoke mixed with the disgusting smell of blood, which went straight into the nostrils of the special forces team members.

At the exit of the passage, the originally white walls were covered with dense bullet holes.

Dried blood flowed down the wall and gathered into shocking dark red pools in the corners. Several broken limbs, equipment parts and clothing fragments from the severed limbs were scattered among them, looking particularly terrifying in this deadly atmosphere.

"We're too late..."

The leading special forces captain looked at the bodies of the special forces members lying on the ground and couldn't help but sigh.

Two team members were responsible for guarding, while the others were responsible for collecting their comrades' military badges and usable weapons.

After completing these tasks, the accompanying criminal investigation team began to analyze the traces of fighting.

"Knock knock knock."

Just then, there was a knock on the window of the black car parked behind.

The special forces captain, who had attracted attention, took advantage of the break in the criminal investigation team's investigation and stopped in front of the vehicle.

As the bulletproof glass slowly descended, a woman's face gradually emerged.

Her facial features are delicate and three-dimensional, and she looks very heroic. Her straight nose has smooth lines and her lips are bright, like a blooming rose, which is particularly eye-catching in this gloomy environment.

Her skin has a healthy wheat color due to long-term travel, and her neat shoulder-length hair is slightly shiny in the afterglow of the setting sun.

"Investigator Lin Qiutang, please get some rest. We'll handle the current investigation. You haven't had a good night's sleep in several days because of the investigation of the entity and the suppression of the rioters."

"I'm fine," Lin Qiutang shook her head and looked at the special forces captain, her eyes filled with anxiety. "Captain Chen, what happened? Did those guys do it?"

"The investigation isn't complete yet, but it's pretty close."

Captain Chen's eyes flashed with gloom, and his voice was filled with uncontrollable anger: "Those bastards from the 'Order Gang' are targeting us!"

"What a bunch of heartless beasts!" Lin Qiutang was also furious. "Just the entities and strange beasts have left us overwhelmed. Several shelters have been closed and evacuated because they can't resist the entities' invasion and maintain order.

A while ago, the Doomsday Cult emerged, and now there's the Order Cult! Are these beasts trying to drive humanity into a dead end?

"Those scum are antisocial lunatics. In peacetime, they're always looking for chaos. Now that it's the end of the world, of course they're going to show up and act tyrannically.

What about the Order Gang? This group of bastards who want to take advantage of the chaos to establish a self-indulgent and reckless group are the ones who are driving the destruction of order! "

"..."

Listening to Captain Chen's angry curses, Lin Qiutang was silent for a while and then sighed tiredly.

She glanced at the time on her watch, then turned her gaze toward the distant hills where the sunset was about to disappear. She said, "The sun is setting soon. We need to speed up. To me, those lunatics are nothing to be afraid of. The entities that roam the night are far more dangerous, not to mention the fog that can contaminate our cognition."

"Understood. I'll ask them to hurry up."

Captain Chen saluted her. As he was about to leave, he seemed to remember something. After a moment of hesitation, he couldn't help but ask, "Investigator Lin Qiutang, how about we consider the advice from above and seek help from a private investigator?"

"...Are you saying we should recruit qualified individuals who aren't part of the official investigation department?"

Lin Qiutang smiled bitterly, shook her head and said, "They have considered it, so how could I not have considered it?

The problem was that Yunlan City had been strategically abandoned by the provincial authorities. Communications were unavailable, and all contact had been severed. None of the teams that had left Yunlan City to seek support had returned...

Now we are isolated and helpless. If this news gets to those qualified people in the private sector, what do you think they will choose?

Are they going to become the kings of their own world by grabbing resources like the Doomsday Faction and the Order Faction, or are they going to cooperate with an official department that is now a mere shell?"

"Probably, the former is more common. Resources are tight right now, and those with the ability and qualifications would definitely prefer to take their fate into their own hands rather than leave it to us."

Lin Qiutang nodded slightly and continued, "Judging from the movement of supplies and the direction of military deployment before the disconnection, something major must have happened in Jinchuan, the provincial capital.

I don’t even dare to imagine what happened in a large city with a population of tens of millions that would trigger such a massive military mobilization…”

"Jinchuan City is the strategic heartland and lifeline of our province. Its importance is self-evident, but what about the people of Yunlan City? These are human lives. Are the people here unimportant?"

"Sacrifice the rook to save the king, sacrifice the small to save the big. Any leader who cares about the overall situation will make this choice. If it were you, you would make the same decision."

"I know, I just know, that's why I can't stand it...Fuck it!"

Captain Chen opened his mouth angrily, wanting to say something, but in the end, he couldn't get the words out.

After a moment of silence, Lin Qiutang took out a blood-stained skull necklace from his pocket.

She found this skull necklace in Exhibition Hall No. 2 of the Cultural Center when she went to investigate the Doomsday Sect's base today.

Of course they knew that the Cultural Center had become a base for the Doomsday Cult, but they turned a blind eye because they were short of manpower and couldn't deal with Zhao Feng, a qualified person.

Now that she had finally freed up her hands and wanted to settle the score with those lunatics, she was surprised to find that the group had been wiped out long ago.

As for who did it, Lin Qiutang is just beginning to seek the answer from the skull necklace.

She possesses a special ability. By touching the deceased's belongings, she can recall the deceased's last experiences in life and witness the unknown past with her own eyes, just like watching a movie.

She took a deep breath, gripped the necklace tightly, and focused her mental energy on it.

Slowly, a powerful and continuous force drew her consciousness into darkness, and bizarre images kept emerging in her mind.

Through this skull necklace, she saw a scene that she would never forget in her life -

The dancing puppet girl, a person with the talent to manipulate telekinesis, is an automaton far beyond the capabilities of modern technology.

Especially the face of that qualified person shocked Lin Qiutang immensely.

Qiyin...

How could it be you?

Haven’t you already...

Is he dead already?

Chapter 48 Pope: Lin Qiutang!

In the villa that is regarded as a safe house, Shen Qinyin is busy planning the next use of the Desire Stone.

Excluding the recent reinforcement of the house, upgrading the door to a stigma door that can block strange beasts and entities, and the consumption of the upgraded battery, Shen Qiyin currently has 330 desire stones left in her laptop.

She stared at her fingers in a daze. The small telekinetic ring sparkled under the light of the desk lamp, and the light reflected into her eyes was a little dazzling.

Shen Qinyin opened her palm and stared silently at the plain-looking ring, her brows slightly furrowed.

While planning how to use the Desire Stone, Shen Qiyin had been thinking about one thing.

After experiencing Tang Miao's injury, Shen Qiyin realized that mastering a skill related to "healing" has a higher priority than even means of attack to save her life.

Since even abilities like telekinesis can be acquired, it shouldn't be difficult to upgrade jewelry with skills like healing.

The problem was that when Shen Qiyin tried to upgrade the small accessories on her body to master healing skills, the notebook did not respond at all.

This made Shen Qiyin realize that obtaining equipment with skills through a notebook might not be as easy as she imagined.

At the same time, she also had a new question: why when she needed to improve skills such as mental strength, she could directly upgrade it through an ordinary ring?

Could it be that it was because of the effect of the original silver ring?

Shen Qiyin remembered that the ring was specially made for her by her mother and was said to have the effect of promoting sleep and refreshing the mind.

Because of this, when Shen Qiyin needed to upgrade her mental power, it was naturally upgraded successfully by the notebook.

As for the telekinesis ring, it was upgraded again through the upgraded spiritual perception ring. Both are related to mental power, so they can be upgraded directly.

Healing belongs to the medical category, so you should need something else to upgrade the equipment with the "healing" skill.

Maybe you could try a black gallstone ring or a medical blood oxygen ring?

Magnetic rings have the effects of treating rheumatism, calming the nerves, and warding off evil spirits, while blood oxygen rings are medical devices used to monitor the wearer's blood oxygen status, sleep quality, heart rate, etc.

Although these functions have nothing to do with healing, but according to the upgrade logic of the notebook, maybe you can give it a try?

Of course, the prerequisite is to find these things.

So, where can you find it?

A community hospital? An electronics store? A shopping mall?

But that place must have been looted long ago, right?

After all, in a doomsday environment, electronic products are extremely rare. The electronic components in them basically cannot be produced before order is restored and industrial production lines are resumed. As long as they are used, there will be less and less.

Even if it had not been completely looted by the survivors, it was probably destroyed by the entities and strange beasts.

Alas, things have come to this point. There is no point in imagining it here. I'll try my luck tomorrow during the day.

In fact, without relying on these electronic products, Shen Qiyin had also tried the same method as last time to test whether telekinesis could be transformed into a skill scroll, and she was half successful.

The reason why I say half successful is that after Shen Qiyin asked Xiaoxiang to write down various knowledge points about surgery, operation, debridement, and healing in his homework notebook, the notebook did indeed show a prompt for an upgrade -

[Do you want to spend 5000 Desire Stones to upgrade the "Normal Workbook" to the "Healing Touch Skill Scroll"?]

Good news, it works.

Bad news, it requires 5000 Desire Stones.

Laughed angrily.

5000 Desire Stones?!

From the time I woke up until now, the total amount of Desire Stones I have earned is less than 1000!

Why does a skill like level 1 telekinesis only require 50 desire stones, while a level 1 healing skill costs a hundred times more?

Although skill scrolls, which allow users to directly master skills without relying on equipment, are relatively expensive, it is still too high anyway.

If calculated this way, even a healing ring would cost one or two thousand!

Forget it, after all, healing is a buggy skill that is related to human life, so it is normal to charge a high fee. I can only say that I understand.

Since there was no hope for the skills for the time being, Shen Qiyin had to change her thinking and prepare some healing items.

The medical supplies looted from the Doomsday Faction and those originally stored at home were all carefully stored in Shen Qinyin's bedroom.

Shen Qiyin found a bottle of medicinal wine used to treat skin injuries, then concentrated her mind and placed her finger on it——

[Do you want to spend 50 Desire Stones to upgrade "Traumatology Wine" to "Black Queen Potion"?]

[Black Queen Potion: Applying this potion to wounds can speed up wound healing and increase the user's pain tolerance for a certain period of time.]

[Note: This potion has side effects. It will reduce the user's sanity to a small degree. When sanity is extremely low, it is very likely to cause the user to collapse and go insane.]

While the treatment is effective, it also has side effects, which fits my stereotype that "cheap goods are not good."

Next, Shen Qiyin tried different upgrade directions, such as modern style and sci-fi style, but the upgraded items were all similar.

Either they're too expensive, or, like this thing, have the side effect of reducing sanity.

After much deliberation, Shen Qinyin finally asked for the Black Queen Potion.

Although this thing will deduct sanity, if the time comes to use it, losing some sanity is better than losing your life directly.

The most important thing is that this bottle of medicine is very cost-effective. According to the instructions in the notebook, this small bottle of medicine can be used at least three times.

After the upgrade was completed, Shen Qinyin took the potion in her hand, weighed it, and looked at it carefully.

This is a small bone bottle with hideous faces and twisted runes carved on the bottle body. The potion is a turbid dark green color. Upon closer inspection, there seems to be a layer of light mist floating in the bottle.

Just holding it in your hand makes your hair stand on end.