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Chapter 38 People from the Investigation Bureau Arrive

After obtaining the Royal Emblem, Miao Meng did not rush to the continent of Galtilan. After all, he had just returned from Xixian City and was not in the mood to go into a dungeon for the time being.

Of course, I also wanted to be more prepared, at the very least to replace the crew's equipment and equip them with more magical artifacts.

Moreover, the common artifacts obtained in the nautical adventure dungeon are now coming in handy. Whether they add shield defense or enhance physical attack, equip them all.

At this point, the rare items obtained from the dungeon were not enough, so these crew members, being only semi-professionals, had limited equipment slots, but there were many of them.

If a crew member equips one rare item, they need 40 to 50 rare items. There are only about a hundred rare items of different types in the entire instance.

Miao Meng had only focused on exchanging for items he could use, and there were still dozens of items he hadn't exchanged yet, which meant that each crew member didn't even have enough to go around.

What else is there to say? Let's grind!

Fortunately, in "Tales of the Sea," the dungeon is not slow to score points, since the rules state that using in-dungeon items as much as possible will result in a higher score.

Besides the large amount of experience points earned from the points settlement, Miao Meng didn't rush to level up his character. Instead, he poured all of it into the Wind Sword, his soul weapon.

As your level increases, you'll actually lose experience from dungeons. So, try to keep your level low when you don't feel the dungeon is too difficult. This is the experience of veteran players.

The Sword of Wind needs to be nurtured with souls. Here, souls can refer to special materials such as soul crystals, or they can also be soul fragments in the usual sense, which are the player's experience points.

According to the secrets told by the Black Earl, Soul Armor generally has a maximum level of 20, which can increase three attributes, for a total of 20 attribute points.

When a normal soul weapon is first cultivated, it should not have any attribute enhancements. However, the Black Earl used some forbidden knowledge, which allowed the Wind Sword to gain a certain level of cultivation.

The Wind Sword was pushed to the level of more than half of the first stage experience. Of course, the main purpose was to use this method to define the attributes of the Soul Armor and avoid attribute bonuses that would be ineffective for it.

After Miao Meng got his hands on it, he didn't adjust the existing attributes. Agility, Constitution, and Willpower were all high-quality attributes for him, so he just let it develop in that way.

Then, he poured 4 experience points into it, nurturing it to the first stage of perfection, and adding a little more attribute bonus to its will and physique.

However, because this equipment is bound to the ship girl form, the original body did not receive the attribute boost; otherwise, Miao Meng's will would have reached the extraordinary realm.

While Miao Meng was focused on running dungeons to gather resources, the fireball necklace was also making quite a name for itself among investigators.

The path of the psionicist is a more dangerous route than most extraordinary paths. Its advantages are extremely obvious: rapid progress, high efficiency, and great strength. However, the price to pay is high risk of losing control and extreme mental instability.

A complete novice who knows nothing can destroy a city after just two days of studying in the corresponding library.

Although there is only one chance to attack after it comes out, that one chance is enough to inflict indelible damage on a country.

Therefore, on the surface, there is a unified international consensus to strictly control knowledge in all aspects, but this approach is simply too effective.

In addition, there are extraterrestrial evil gods spying on the main world and spreading knowledge in the dark, which leads to everyone saying on the surface that it is forbidden to use it, but in secret they all use it more and more ruthlessly.

The very existence of those evil god's followers and mythical races is a form of knowledge contamination. Even a small team using only modern firearms will be forced to become psionicists after just two or three direct encounters.

Therefore, through a long period of compromise and opposition, it has become a military competition similar to the Cold War, with psionicists fighting against psionicists and magic defeating magic.

Therefore, in this era, psionicists and investigators are considered consumables. Once you enter this industry, it means you've embarked on a fast track to success, and you'll reach the end of your life in as little as two or three years, or at most ten or twenty years.

They might go completely insane and be confined to a special mental hospital, or they might be transformed into a race and become a follower of an evil god. Of course, the greater chance is that they will achieve a great sublimation before they die.

Therefore, under such circumstances, psionicists rarely engage in frequent battles. After all, every time they use their abilities, it is a test of their mental will, and a slight misstep could lead them into the abyss.

But then suddenly a person appeared, carrying a strange necklace and wandering around, sometimes bombarding people with fireballs comparable to mortars, sometimes running away with his feet on fire.

Even when facing attacks, a red shield will protect them from bullets.

How could other psionicists not notice this situation? Moreover, this person's mental state is quite stable, and he doesn't seem to be mentally unstable despite frequently entering and leaving the battlefield, which makes him even more noteworthy.

People living in modern society can't hide information, especially with the special tricks of psychics. So Xie Chen's information quickly spread on the forum.

His beloved fireball necklace was naturally traced back to its origin.

"Miao Meng? Where did this formidable figure come from? Could he be from the Secret Society or the Knowledge Society?"

"Does anyone have this big shot's contact information? I'm willing to pay 50 yuan for his phone number."

Forum administrator's warning: The internet is not a lawless zone; please use the internet responsibly!

Even so, it was enough to attract the attention of the Investigation Bureau, especially since Liancheng, where Miao Meng was located, still had some impression of Miao Meng and his group, and had previously sent investigators to register relevant information.

I just didn't expect the other party to be so well hidden. Although on the surface they are only a Torch-level psionic user, they actually have the ability to make props.

Therefore, after a brief meeting, another team of investigators was sent to visit.

Of course, they didn't come to control Miao Meng, but rather with good intentions to achieve cooperation, since few official alchemists could create items with such low costs.

However, even now, neither the forums nor the official investigation bureau know the true meaning of the fireball necklace. It is not that the cost is extremely low, but that it has no negative impact on one's mental state whatsoever.

"This is No. 3306 in the urban village. Remember, we're here for cooperation, so don't ruin our relationship."

Unlike the investigators from last time, this time a different team was selected. After seeing the houses in the distance, the team leader turned to his team members and emphasized the same point again.

The team members below didn't have enough authority to know just how strong this alchemist was, but as the team leader, he had seen the internal recordings of the Investigation Bureau.

This alchemist, Miao Meng, possessed firepower comparable to an artillery battalion in battle, and could move freely on the sea without being affected by terrain.

I can't imagine how much of this city would be destroyed if relations really deteriorated and the other side went all out in the fight.

"clear!"

The new investigators had a high opinion of their captain; as a semi-military organization, they understood the importance of obeying orders.