Stuck in a Chinese novel - Chapter 216

Chapter 216: System update (Bonus: Review)
Chapter 216

Wei Jun curiously looked at the fist-sized sphere that Melissa was holding like it was a precious child that could get damaged from the slightest of damage.

“It’s the monster core. Almost all the monsters have it but the one that belongs to the gate boss is the most valuable.” Natasha explained since Melissa was too busy polishing and cleaning the Direhound core in her hands.

“Is that why you asked what I did with the corpses?” Wei Jun asked.

“Yes. There was a good chance some of the monsters had it.” Natasha replied.

Wei Jun nodded in reply but he remembered receiving nothing but Death Qi from killing the No-eyed Barghests unlike how he received the reward from the system by killing the Direhound.

“Is it such a precious thing?” Wei Ju couldn’t help but ask seeing the reaction of Melissa.

“Well, it is very precious. Even more precious than the body itself because it has the power concentration of the monster. In other words, having it means having the power of the said monster itself.” Natasha explained.

Wei Jun didn’t quite understand so he asked the system the same question.

[All in all, if you absorb it instead of making weapons or elixirs with it, your Qi would increase by quite a bit]

[But that would be a tedious process]

[Just processing it for absorption would be a waste]

[It is better to make something out of it]

Wei Jun nodded at the simple explanation of the system and looked at the core of the Direhound, remembering he had something similar to it in the inventory as well.

“Hey, Melissa,” Natasha called Melissa who was lost in the core and even naming it lovingly.

“What?” Melissa asked with a slightly offended expression as if Natasha had interrupted her precious time with her child.

“Don’t you think the core should go to the one who killed the monster? It’s obvious he did a lot more work than us. Even if there were tens of us, we wouldn’t have been able to defeat the monster.” Natasha said with an offended expression and tone of her own.

Wei Jun was surprised because he didn’t take Natasha as the just type but she was standing up for him to her own friend. That spoke volumes of her nature and Wei Jun couldn’t help but admire it slightly.

Melissa was also aware of her friend’s nature and also knew that she was right. Without Wei Jun, killing the monster would have been impossible, not difficult, but outright impossible for both of them.

So it was only right that Wei Jun was to get the reward and spoils of the battle as well. Because not only had he made that fight possible, but he had also saved their lives.

Melissa sighed and was about to throw the core to Wei Jun when Wei Jun said, “Keep it.”

“…What?” Melissa was taken aback and even Natasha was very much surprised. Either Wei Jun didn’t know the true value of the core, or he was just that much benevolent and none of them believed it was the latter.

And they were right, Wei Jun wasn’t benevolent at all.

But…

[It’s useless to you]

[You already have a processed one thanks to the reward from the administrator]

[Processing that and using it would be a waste of time]

[And creating something out of it would also yield no significant results]

[There are better weapons and elixirs available in the shop than what you would get after crafting something with that]

According to the system, the time spent on the core wouldn’t be worth it. Wei Jun could earn more money in that time and purchase a better anything he required from the shop which would be of a much better quality than anything he made from the Direhound’s core.

“Are…Are you sure?” Melissa asked just to be sure and Wei Jun simply nodded.

“What about the corpse? Will you take it?” Natasha asked next.

‘Is it good?’ Wei Jun asked.

[Not really]

[Its meat is good after purifying but you have a lot of it in the form of No-eyed Barghests anyway]

[You can take it if you want]

[But it would be of better use to them than you]

Wei Jun nodded and turned to Natasha and said, “You can have it.”

He didn’t know why, but he was tempted to give his share of the reward to Natasha as well. So that was why when she asked about the corpse, Wei Jun would have given it to her without even asking the system but he bit down the urge to do so.

Natasha was happy with the reward and she, just like Melissa, also hopped to the corpse of the monster and began to check its condition.

Wei Jun couldn’t help but nod his head and then made his way to the end of the lake and said, “Come on, let’s go.”

Melissa and Natasha both snapped out of their happy-go-lucky mood and began to walk as well but Natasha didn’t. She began to lift the Direhound’s corpse but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t just lift it up.

Wei Jun shook his head and carried the monster on his shoulder.

“Thanks,” Natasha said with a beautiful smile and Wei Jun simply nodded in return before Melissa began to guide their way out.

They traveled through the forest for about three hours before Wei Jun arrived at a blue eclipse-shaped structure that was giving off a strange feeling.

The structure was made of blue cloud-type gas or something and blue tendrils of lightning were flowing at its ends.

“Come on, let’s go,” Melissa said. Wei Jun nodded and followed them. Wei Jun went through the blue gate, a warm feeling enveloping him before it vanished in an instant and he was out in the open, the sun shining in the sky.

He saw Melissa and Natasha hurriedly going to tell the situation to a man standing near the blue portal who looked at Wei Jun strangely.

“He’s…” Before Melissa or Natasha could explain, Wei Jun began to breathe heavily. It wasn’t just that, his body began to perspire heavily and then it got to the point that he began to grunt and scream in pain.

It wasn’t long before he fell to the ground and passed out. Melissa and Natasha hurriedly came close to him to check on his condition.

Natasha began to cast the heal spell on him while Melissa checked his pulse. Everything was normal but Wei Jun was still breathing heavily even while he was passed out but then, everything just stopped.

And then after a few seconds, Wei Jun opened his eyes and confusedly looked at both of them before he said, “I’m having another dream of beauties.”

He sighed before he extended his chest and grabbed Melissa’s chest before he said, “These dreams are becoming more and more real, I tell you.”

Boing…

He pressed his hand on Melissa’s chest which invoked great anger from Melissa and before anyone could do anything…

[Fireball]

And then everything went blank for Wei Jun.

~

As Wei Jun came out of the gate, the first thing he saw was a clear landscape, as if somewhere in greenery, in the middle of calming woods. He turned around and looked at his surroundings.

He noticed a man standing outside the gate in an identical robe to Natasha and Melissa. If he was standing outside the gate then it meant that whatever this was, was a controlled phenomenon and Melissa’s group wanted in there by mistake like he was.

He could see Natasha and Melissa talking to the very same man and then his topic came up.

It was only right that he should introduce himself so he took a step to tell the man about his identity before any sort of misunderstanding stemmed up and became a headache he couldn’t get rid of later.

However, before he could even take one step…

[System update will now continue]

[Main Quest II has been completed]

[Shao Chen has been killed]

[Calculated efficiency of the quest is 98%]

[You haven’t left any scenario out]

[System update will now begin]

[Good luck to the user]

It was indeed a stroke of good luck because soon Wei Jun noticed that the world had become still once again.

Natasha, Melissa, and the man they were talking to were frozen as well. And most of all, the sky.

The sky split apart as if someone had torn it from the middle and extended that tear with fingers like in a fabric.

And that wasn’t all.

Soon enough, smoke of all sorts of colors began to emit from the crack in the sky and the one that came straight away to him was the darkest of the darkest smoke among all different colored smoke.

As soon as it did, Wei Jun was once again assaulted by the familiar pain like last time. He gritted his teeth to try and endure it while also staying awake but no matter how much he bit down on his tongue, in the end, he fell into the realm of unconsciousness after not being able to bear the pain.

~

Volume 2 ends.