Strolling Through the Forbidden Zone (Part 1)

  "The off-road vehicle in front of you is a modified AGX911 model produced by the Messerschmitt pany. It has a four-wheel-drive structure, external suspension, and powerful performahe fuel inside is enough to let you drive two thousand kilometers."

  Doctor Anna led Li Aozzi and Nuo Mi to the underground garage. The maintenance personnel dispersed, and a wild-looking off-road modified vehicle appeared in front of them.

  "Wow!"

  Nuo Mi's eyes lit up:

  "I like it!"

  Li Aozzi knocked on the headlights, and there was no gravel residue in the gaps. It could be firmed that it was assembled from parts inside Abyss.

  After iing it, Li Aozzi opehe trunk and said:

  "Take some supplies down, repce them with fuel tanks."

  "Are you sure? This car go two thousand kilometers on a full tank—"

  "You don't uand." Li Aozzi shook his head: "Gasoline has other uses."

  Nuo Mi g him and casually opehe driver's seat door.

  "Yo!"

  There was already someone in the driver's seat, a woman about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, adjusting something in the car. She turned her head and smiled at Nuo Mi:

  "You're Li Aozzi? I thought you were a man."

  "Hey," Nuo Mi turo Anna: "Who is this woman? Weren't we supposed to go alone?"

  Anna was indifferent:

  "ZX-101, you are still in critical dition monit, and Mr. Li Aozzi, acc to the level, is also under isoted jurisdi. inally, you were not allowed to go on field missions, but the situation is special now. We need your strength, and we ask for your cooperation. Miss Qiu Ran will be responsible for monit your safety ah levels."

  The red-haired woman ughed heartily. She looked simple and ho, like a rustic vilge woman.

  "Tch!"

  Nuo Mi muttered:

  "Monit is monit, but who knows what they'll do behind our backs."

  Li Aozzi didn't mind. He stepped forward and shook hands with Miss Qiu Ran:

  "o meet you, Miss Qiu Ran. I'm Li Aozzi, and this is Nuo Mi. We will need your assistance for the uping tasks, so please take care of us."

  "You're too kind, too kind."

  Qiu Ran ughed heartily, looking very down-to-earth. Her features were kind, and it was hard to dislike her when looking intreen eyes.

  [Hint: Qiu Ran has joined your team]

  [Team module unlocked. You view team member information here]

  [Name]: Qiu Ran

  [Race]: Carbon-based lifeform - New Geion Homo Sapiens - Frost People

  [Gender]: Biological Female

  [Age]: 24 years old

  [Tempte]: Ordinary ral NPC (Health limit +10%)

  [Fa]: Abyss Humanitarian

  [Total Level]: lv.15

  ——[Main Profession]: lv.0 Civilian

  ——[Sub Profession]: lv.15 [Maintenance Worker]

  [Health]: 150/150 (Healthy)

  [Energy]: 120/120

  [Attributes]:

  Strength — 9

  Dexterity — 7

  stitution — 14

  Charisma — 12

  Willpower — 5

  [Talent]:

  Racial Talent ? Teamwork — New Geion Homo Sapiens possess strong teamwork abilities. When you are in a team, experience gain increases by 50%. This effect is lost when leaving the team. (Active: Current gain: 3.375)

  [Expertise]:

  [Skilled Worker] — You are profit in repair and assembly tasks. Even a robot would think twice before peting with you in repairs. Repair and assembly speed of meical creations increased by 120%.

  [Ability]:

  [Spontaneous bustion ? tact] — You have a certain degree of ability to ge and create oxidatioing phenomena.

  The essene is the phenomenon of bustion. bustible materials being rapidly oxidized by oxygen will cause fires, and you have the ability to accelerate oxidation.

  Holy, no one would want to bee your enemy because the pain of being slowly buro death far surpasses other ways of dying.

  However, this ability does not make you immuo fire damage. Fire makers often do not have a good end, and you might be the same.

  Rating: Omi

  Range: 15 cm forward from the palm

  Current Development Level: tact level. At this level of development, the energy ption rate is 100%.

  Possessed Skills:

  [Meical Repair], [Emergency Handling], [Vehicle Enha], [Advanced Vehicle Proficy], [Basic Meical Fuals], [Superspeed Disassembly]

  Tier: Ordinary Person

  "Average attributes. Only stitution and charisma are det, and not even a bat profession."

  Li Aozzi looked at the attributes and didn't pay much attention.

  Without a main profession, it basically equates to having no bat power. The six main profession systems are the foundation for stepping into the extraordinary.

  "Sihere's no problem, I'll expiarget and precautions of this mission..."

  Anna's surface work was very thh. She carefully introduced the background of the White Fang gang, their strength, and the popution, power position, and rules of the wanderer gathering pce.

  However, Li Aozzi had been mingling ier world for two whole versions. He could walk from the Scyl Church to Devil's Valley with his eyes closed, then go to Ashes Cemetery to farm treasure chests for basic materials to enhance his gear's photon level... It was just like clog in for work.

  Nuo Mi cared even less. As a warrior of the Rose Army, she was raised by the iives and snow swords of the outer world. She was daydreaming, staring at the ants on the ground.

  Li Aozzi focused mainly on Qiu Ran.

  The fact that she had no main profession caught his attention, making Li Aozzi realize he had overlooked some areas, such as sub-professions and development issues.

  In "Abyss of Stars," there are many powerful sub-professions. Some sound very cool and mysterious, like [Collector], [Emperor], [Schor].

  But these professions have no bat power. They only provide prestigious status and attribute bonuses, but ot help you step into the extraordinary.

  In his previous life, Li Aozzi took areme approach, abandoning all sub-professions and iing all resources into the main profession [Starfall Master].

  As a result, his bat power was astonishing, standing out among pyers. This pystyle, known as the "Extreme Path," was quite on.

  However, the Extreme Path had many serious problems:

  First, the attributes were singur, making it easy to be tered in professional arenas.

  Sed, the pystyle was fixed, with no room for tactical breakthroughs. It could only rely on teammates for support to relieve pressure.

  Most importantly, Extreme Path pyers could only serve as the core of a team, ing resources equivalent to six people. If the core was broken, the eeam would perish.

  Such a price was uable for clubs that valued stability and victory. Behind clubs was capital, and capital couldn't afford to lose a vast profit prospect for a bit of eai effect.

  Normally, solo professions could follow the Extreme Path, and [Starfall Master] was no exception. Not only Li Aozzi, but almost all Starfall Masters followed the Extreme Path.

  However, as a Starfall Master expert, Li Aozzi khat this profession wasn't only suitable for the Extreme Path. Ordinary pyers walking the Extreme Path were barely better off.

  "To make [Starfall Master] flourish, I must build good retions with the unity and lower the entry barrier for pyers— even if there are no pyers iure, I don't want the number of [Starfall Masters] to be too few."

  The number of pyers determihe volume of their voice. If the [Starfall Master] group is too small, people will dare to disrespect their authority.

  Few people mean it's hard to have fresh blood and innovation— and the abilities of [Starfall Master] often involve stelr transformations and ic ges, making innovation ily slow.

  Without more [Starfall Masters] in actual bat, exging insights, and maintaining basiheritahis profession would have no future.

  "I really 't follow the Extreme Path. For future development, I must bee a retively versatile individual, which means following the All-Enpassing Path."

  Li Aozzi thought:

  "By the way, this woman's ability is quite good, rated Omi. Unfortunately, it's just 'Spontaneous bustion'. If it were Ignition, Thermal Manipution, or Temperature Reversal, the potential would be much higher."

  High-temperature fmes have always been a mainstay in bat. Electric discharge abilities are not rare, ariergy is quite on. However, discharge abilities rated Zeta or above are very few.

  Abilities involving fmes, high temperatures, and molecur motion start at least at Lambda rating. Their potential is very high, their destructive power is strong, and most importantly, they are very rare.

  Fme abilities ily have purification properties, making them popur in both magical and teological ps. They have a wide range of applications, and those aiming to bee high-level bcksmiths must master fme or temperature abilities.

  Electric discharge abilities are too on, and the human body itself has weak electric discharge capabilities. Low-level electric discharge abilities are generally not as effective as meical teology.

  Discharge abilities strohan meical teology are essentially Omega level or close to Omega level.

  However, the advantage is that it's very easy to find work, and for the natives, trolling lightning is almost a divine symbol.

  Li Aozzi had no i in discharge abilities. His target ability was far strohan any discharge ability.

  No, rather, that ability is the aor of all discharge abilities.

  In terms of output, pyers calcuted that high-temperature abilities are still superior.

  The main reason is that high temperatures cause tinuous damage...

  "Speaking of which, my mutated [Ability Pod] aodate 4 abilities."

  Li Aozzi had a thought:

  "Qiu Ran has no bat petting the spontaneous bustion ability from her shouldn't be difficult."

  The forced capture and trol of gravity are strong for ordinary targets and his capital for challenging higher levels. But Li Aozzi currently cked harvesting abilities, which greatly affected his experience gains.

  And Qiu Ran's ability... The tinuous damage from spontaneous bustion was very suitable for creating rge-scale damage with gravity.

  Quite suitable...

  Li Aozzi looked at Qiu Ran, this simple and ho maintenance worker, with a bit of affe.

  Qiu Ran was straightforward, an ordinary woman without much education. She had a good temper and listened well to Anna's long-winded instrus.

  "The Sikkim Settlement is located half the mountain. They hollowed out half the mountain, and the inside is plex, with a popution of 400 people. There's no unified leader; they're all wanderers from the outer world."

  Qiu Ran slowly repeated and analyzed:

  "So, once we get there, no one will care about our lives. There's no order, all depends on self-awareness. No one will cooperate with our as, but there may not be anyone colluding with the White Fang gaher. Every wanderer is ed about their own safety— I uand it this way?"

  "…You could say that."

  Doctor Anna adjusted her gsses and said:

  "The outer world people suffer from the Four Nations monopolizing resources, so you'd better not show civilized traits. Dress more pitifully, aiserable— your supplies are already limited. Li Aozzi insisted on exging some for fuel, so you 't st more than three days out there. Once you get the medical equipment, e back immediately."

  "I have a question."

  Qiu Ran didn't wait for Anna to respond and asked:

  "Today, I found that Asha, Luo Fan, Qiu Ming... those medical friends are missing. Were they also taken by the White Fang gang?"

  "What are y to say?"

  "It's not what I'm trying to say, Miss Anna." Qiu Ran's big eyes stared at the other: "These are our people. They were taken, and we have an obligation to rescue them..."

  "That's impossible. Don't think about it; it's unrealistic."

  Anna shook her head:

  "You don't have the resources or abilities to aplish these tasks. Their lives... we 't help."

  "Abyss Humanitarian saves so many people, but we 't even protect the lives of our own. I think this is unreasonable."

  Qiu Ran said:

  "In any case, I think we should try."

  Meanwhile, Li Aozzi's task list ged.

  [You have triggered the side mission: "Clear Love and Hate"]

  [Type]: Hostage Rescue/Challenge

  [Duration]: 47 hours 56 minutes (tdown)

  [Task Difficulty]: B

  [Description]:

  Abyss Humanitarian may not be a goanization, but those medical staff who spent sleepless nights monit and g for you were genuinely sincere.

  They have put in tless efforts to save the lives ah of people like you.

  Now, it's your turn to save their lives.

  [Progress]: 0/14

  [Settlement ditions]:

  1: Save at least 6 of the kidnapped medical staff. (Mandatory)

  2: Escort the hostages out of danger, ensuring they are unharmed for at least 30 minutes during the escape. (Optional)

  3: An eye for an eye—eliminate as many White Fang gang members as possible. Each kill grants an additional 20% experience. (Challenge)

  4: If you plete the first dition within 24 hours, you will receive an additional reward. (Challenge)

  5: Kill 5 White Fang gang members using a vehicle. (Challenge)

  6: Infiltrate the White Fang gang camp without beied throughout. (Challenge)

  [Task Rewards]:

  pleting the mandatory dition grants the base reward: 5 free attribute points.

  Each challenge pleted grants +1 main attribute and 600 experience points.

  [Special he White Fang gang members may harm the hostages at any time.