bookbashuk Chapter 128 Purple Quality! AFK Grinding?
Chapter 128 Purple Quality! AFK Grinding?
The atmosphere inside the carriage was somewhat strange.
The special operations team members, guns at the ready, stood back to back in a circle, as tense as a pack of huskies who had wandered into a wolf pack, their eyes fixed on the car windows from which scratching sounds were coming from.
Meanwhile, their "backbone," Jiang Ming, was squatting on the ground, fiddling with a large flashlight he had taken from the school's security room, with the crystal ball of "Wraith Fire" that he had just bought at a high price next to him.
"Brother Jiang, what time is it? You still have the mind to fix a flashlight?" Xiao Zhang swallowed hard, his voice trembling. "It seems like something outside is trying to get in..."
"What's the rush?" Jiang Ming didn't even look up. His fingers deftly removed the back cover of the flashlight, poured out the few nearly dead dry cell batteries, and tossed them aside. "It's good that you're in. Saves me the trouble of going out to look for them."
He picked up the crystal ball that sealed the green ghost fire.
It feels icy cold to the touch, even a bit chilly.
The green flame danced wildly within the crystal, as if sensing its impending doom, emitting a silent shriek.
"Although it is a product of the dead, its energy essence is universal."
Jiang Ming narrowed his eyes and activated his talent.
[All things are synthesized!]
In his field of vision, a complex golden light path instantly connected the ordinary black industrial flashlight and the [Wraith Fire].
This is no longer a simple physical assembly, but a deep fusion of technology and magic.
"Melt it for me!"
Jiang Ming suddenly clenched his five fingers.
Snapped!
The crystal ball in his hand shattered instantly, but the green ghost fire did not dissipate. Instead, it seemed to have found an outlet and frantically crawled into the flashlight's battery compartment along Jiang Ming's finger.
Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!
A sickeningly loud electrical hum rang out.
The originally black plastic shell began to twist and recombine, and dark green lines resembling blood vessels appeared on its surface.
The glass lens at the lamp head shattered instantly, replaced by a stark white lens made from polished bone.
A cold and violent aura emanated from this brand-new "flashlight".
【Ding! 】
Synthesis successful!
Congratulations on obtaining: Soul Scorching Spotlight (Purple Epic)
[Item: Soul-Burning Spotlight]
[Quality: Purple]
[Type: Magic/Technology - Off-hand Weapon]
[Energy: Vengeful Flames (Automatic charging, currently 100%)]
[Effect 1 - Direct Death Ray: Upon activation, releases a "Soul-Burning Beam" with a range of 50 meters. Deals 300 true damage per second to all spirit units within the ray's radius and inflicts a "Stun" effect. Inflicts blindness and mental intimidation on physical creatures.]
[Effect 2 - Wide Area Mode: Adjusting the lens creates a fan-shaped light curtain with a radius of 15 meters, halving damage but revealing invisible units.]
[Review: Afraid of the dark? This lamp will not only light your way, but also conveniently scatter the ashes of any ghosts blocking your path.]
"Purple……"
Jiang Ming's lips curled into a fanatical smile.
This is the first piece of purple equipment he has crafted!
Although it's just a secondary weapon, its attributes are practically tailor-made for this train.
300 points of true damage per second?
This means that those who just endured the arduous labor in the abyss would die instantly if they were exposed to the light for only two or three seconds.
"Mr. Jiang...?"
Chen Qi looked at the green-glowing, grotesque-looking thing in Jiang Ming's hand and instinctively shrank back. "What is this...?"
"As long as you don't give up, there will always be more solutions than problems."
Jiang Ming stood up, gripped the flashlight handle with one hand, and pressed his thumb on the switch, which had turned into a skull shape. "Tell the brothers to put their guns away. This thing works better than bullets."
Before he could finish speaking...
boom! ! !
Finally, a glass window on the side of the carriage gave way and was smashed by a pale white hand.
Debris flew everywhere.
A vengeful ghost, semi-transparent and dressed in tattered funeral clothes, roared as it crawled in.
It had no lower body, trailed long plumes of black smoke, and its rotting face was filled with resentment as it lunged at Xiao Zhang, who was closest to it.
"Ah!!" Xiao Zhang was so frightened that he pulled the trigger tightly, and the assault rifle spat out fire wildly.
Da da da!
The bullet pierced through the ghost's body and struck the opposite carriage wall, sending up a string of sparks, but it did nothing to stop it.
"Die! We're all going to die!!"
The vengeful ghost let out a piercing scream, its sharp claws about to tear Xiao Zhang's throat apart.
"It's so noisy."
A cold voice rang out.
Click.
Jiang Ming pressed the switch.
Om-!
A blinding, ghastly green beam of light shot out from the bone lens and precisely enveloped the vengeful ghost.
"squeak--!!!"
The originally ferocious ghost, now like a snowman doused with concentrated sulfuric acid, let out an extremely mournful scream.
Its translucent body twisted and smoked wildly in the green light, and its originally illusory spirit began to melt like a candle.
one second.
two seconds.
The once arrogant and domineering ghost vanished completely in front of everyone, turning into a wisp of green smoke.
[Defeat a Lv.5 vengeful spirit to gain 500 experience points.]
The carriage fell into a deathly silence.
Xiao Zhang remained in the firing position, his mouth agape. He looked at his smoking gun barrel, then at the flashlight in Jiang Ming's hand that was still emitting a green glow, and was completely dumbfounded.
"What... what kind of cutting-edge technology is this?"
Chen Qi's eyes twitched violently.
He had worked as a special agent for over a decade and had never seen anyone use a flashlight to kill a ghost!
"Don't just stand there."
Jiang Ming turned the beam of light towards another car window that was being hit. "This is a great place to rack up points. Open all the windows and let them in."
"Wh...what?!"
Ellie, the elf who was tied up like a dumpling in the corner, almost choked when she heard those words.
Open the window? Let the ghost in?
Has this human gone mad?!
"Shut up if you don't want to die." Jiang Ming glanced at her, his eyes revealing no hint of a joke. "Chen Qi, go open the window. Since we've come to the Burial Ground, how can we not bring back some local specialties? It would be a waste of this ticket!"
Looking at Jiang Ming's eager expression, Chen Qi suddenly felt that compared to the vengeful ghosts outside, this human seemed more like a monster.
He gritted his teeth: "Open the window!"
As the special operations team members cautiously rolled down several windows, the previously blocked cold wind instantly filled the entire carriage.
woohoo-
The sound of the wind was mixed with countless howls and wailing.
This is a wasteland of burial grounds, a forbidden zone for the living and a paradise for the dead.
The undead creatures that roamed the wasteland, who could only helplessly rage outside the car window, now saw those dark entrances and rushed in like stray dogs that hadn't eaten for three days seeing meat buns.
"They're here! At three o'clock! Two!"
"There's one here too! And it's a big one!"
The special operations team members shouted nervously, raising and lowering their guns repeatedly—they remembered Jiang Ming's orders: physical attacks were useless, so don't waste bullets.
"Calm down."
Jiang Ming stood in the middle of the carriage, like a traffic policeman directing traffic, except that he wasn't holding a baton, but that deadly [Soul-Burning Spotlight].
Sizzle—!
A green beam of light swept across.
The two ghosts, who had just crawled halfway into the body, didn't even have time to scream before they evaporated in the pillar of light, turning into two pure wisps of soul energy that dissipated into the air.
[Defeat a Lv.3 Wandering Ghost to gain 300 experience points.]
[Defeat a Lv.4 Aggregate of Resentment to gain 400 experience points.]
At this moment, what Jiang Ming held in his hand was not a flashlight, but the scythe of death.
He even activated the "wide area mode".
The originally concentrated beam of light instantly dispersed, transforming into a huge fan-shaped light curtain that covered half of the carriage.
The undead that had just squeezed in rushed into the green light barrier like moths to a flame.
Lower-level monsters vanished instantly, while higher-level elite monsters seemed to be trapped in a quagmire, their bodies smoking and unable to move, only able to watch their bodies slowly dissolve in despair.
"This is hardly a battle..."
Chen Qi leaned against the wall, looking at the scene before him, feeling his worldview shattered. "This is simply... a one-sided massacre."
What was originally a terrifying supernatural film was turned into a hack-and-slash adventure by Jiang Ming.
"What are you standing there for? Finish him off!"
While maintaining the light, Jiang Ming shouted to the group of stunned team members, "Didn't you see that big guy isn't quite dead yet? That's a physical zombie, shoot him in the head!"
"Ah? Oh! Yes!"
The team members then realized what was happening.
While light can instantly kill spirits, it can only immobilize and weaken tough, resilient zombie-like undead.
Da da da da!
Gunfire erupted again.
This time, the team played exceptionally well.
Monsters that were normally impossible to kill became incredibly vulnerable under the green light, unable to move at all, and were practically sitting ducks.
"Awesome! That's so awesome!"
As Xiao Zhang changed the magazine, he shouted loudly, having long since forgotten his previous fear.
Watching those terrifying monsters fall to the ground with their heads blown off by his gun, the adrenaline rush was almost addictive to him.
in the corner.
Ellie curled up in a ball, her silver eyes filled with shock. The impact of this scene on her was even greater than when she had just been captured.
In the doctrines of the Elven race, the undead are considered blasphemous beings who must be purified by high priests using sacred magic—a solemn and dangerous process.
But what is this human doing?
He held a strange alchemical tool and was processing these terrifying undead in batches, as if he were sweeping up garbage.
And... that look in his eyes.
The kind of look that sees a monster fall not for justice, nor for survival, but purely for some kind of...profit.
too frightening.
This human is more like a demon than a ghost.
"Um?"
Jiang Ming suddenly raised an eyebrow.
Under the continuous high intensity of monster killing, the flashlight's beam dimmed slightly.
"The battery drains so quickly?"
He glanced at the energy bar at the end of the flashlight.
Although the flames of vengeful spirits can recharge automatically, they cannot withstand such a high intensity of output.
"Perfect, I'll use you guys to recharge."
Jiang Ming turned off his flashlight, and with a sudden movement of his left hand, he grabbed a fish that had slipped through the net—a female demon whose body was now only half its original size.
Just as the succubus was about to scream, a black rune suddenly lit up on Jiang Ming's palm.
Jiang Ming turned off his flashlight, and with a sudden movement of his left hand, he grabbed a fish that had slipped through the net—a female demon whose body was now only half its original size.
Just as the succubus was about to scream, a black rune suddenly lit up on Jiang Ming's palm.
【Soul Drain】!
This was a little trick he learned while crafting the [Burning Soul - Spotlight Searchlight]. Although he wasn't as skilled at it as a necromancer, it was enough to power up the searchlight.
"ah--!!"
The banshee let out a short, mournful cry, and her entire spirit was instantly sucked into Jiang Ming's palm, flowing down his arm into the flashlight.
hum!
The previously dim green light surged again, even brighter than before.
"The battery life issue is resolved." Jiang Ming nodded in satisfaction and pressed the switch again.
The killing continued.
In just ten minutes, the floor of the carriage was covered with a thick layer of ashes and various debris dropped by the dead.
[Experience points full, level increased to Lv.15!]
[Gained +5 free attribute points.]
It's finally been upgraded.
Jiang Ming let out a long sigh and moved his slightly sore wrists.
Such opportunities to stand still and grind monsters are rare. If he could keep grinding, he was even confident that he could reach level 20 in a short time.
However, the good times did not last long.
Clang!
The train suddenly jolted violently, and its speed began to decrease noticeably.
The undead that were frantically trying to crawl inside seemed to sense something even more terrifying. They suddenly screamed and scattered, disappearing completely in the blink of an eye.
"What happened? They got away?" Xiao Zhang put down his gun, still feeling unsatisfied.
"They didn't run away."
Jiang Ming turned off the flashlight and walked to the window to look outside.
The scenery outside has changed.
It was no longer a gray wasteland, but a pitch-black, seemingly frozen, deathly silent forest.
The trees were twisted and gnarled, like ghostly hands reaching towards the sky.
The microphone on the radio crackled twice, and the emotionless female voice came through again, this time with an eerie, low tone:
[The train has entered: the desolate black forest.]
[Due to the special environment of this station, the carriages will automatically switch to "silent mode".]
[WARNING: A highly dangerous creature known as the "Listener" exists outside the area, extremely sensitive to decibel levels. All passengers are requested to remain quiet, refrain from loud noise, use of amplification equipment, and...screaming.]
Those who violate this rule will bear the consequences themselves.
Snapped.
As soon as he finished speaking, the bright incandescent lights in the carriage went out instantly, replaced by a few dim red emergency lights, making everyone's faces look as pale as if they had just been pulled out of a pool of blood.
The train slowed down noticeably, and the sound of wheels rubbing against rails suddenly became extremely faint, as if the entire train was walking on tiptoe.
Outside the window was an impenetrable darkness.
Occasionally, huge tree shadows would flash by, their branches twisted like countless hands reaching out in mid-air, clinging desperately to the edge of the car window, making an extremely faint "rustling" sound.
"Brother Jiang..." Xiao Zhang was about to speak when his voice got a little louder.
"Shut up."
Jiang Ming didn't turn his head, his voice was very low, but it was cold.
He raised his hand and turned off the [Scorching Soul Spotlight].
In this pitch blackness, the green light was so conspicuous that it was practically guiding the monsters outside.