Ch. 348 - The Root of the Calamity

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The content of Yang Yi's post was quite miscellaneous, containing a lot of information and pictures of various items. There were even pictures of the natives, including Old Dad and Zhuangzhuang.

Although there was no specific intelligence, the pictures alone could already reveal quite a lot.

The Golden Merchant Guild, this neutral organization, clearly possessed considerable combat strength. Yang Yi gave a rough description of it, and his conclusion was that he was most likely not its match.

Old Dad, in particular, was extremely powerful.

There were also pictures and information about some different Aberrations. Many of them were duplicates, since they were already recorded in the Monster Compendium.

However, the Monkey Bats, Dwarves, and High-Level Siren were not included in the compendium.

After the post was published, it underwent five minutes of emergency review before finally appearing in the view of the general player base.

It didn't take long for the first reply to appear.

These people seemed too lazy to even read the words. They simply chose to look at the pictures and only remembered the last few.

【Holy crap, a High-Level Siren! Now that's a true terror!】 

【 I have to look at this every day to strengthen my immunity. Definitely not for any other reason!】 

【 This is way too stimulating. Sanity -20.】 

【 This is something you can see for just 1,000 Seashell Coins?】 

【 Love it. Thanks!】 

【 What are you thanking him for? You're being so weird!】 

...........

It wasn't until fifteen minutes later that the discussion gradually returned to the actual topic.

The post was also quickly promoted to a featured post and archived in the Featured Section.

Yang Yi, meanwhile, received the corresponding payment for his contribution: a total of 45,000 Seashell Coins.

If he could have provided specific information about a High-Level Siren, or detailed intelligence on Zhuangzhuang and Old Dad, the value would have been even higher.

Unfortunately, Yang Yi had no opportunity to obtain such information. It wasn't as though he could recklessly launch a sneak attack on them, right?

That wouldn't be worth the risk.

Besides, there was one more piece of intelligence that Yang Yi had not revealed—the method of joining the Golden Merchant Guild.

As long as he threw the Golden Chamber of Commerce's Senior VIP Card into the sea, he could summon the Guild Master of the Golden Merchant Guild and join the guild, becoming one of its merchants.

Judging from the description, this Guild Master was a collector.

No wonder the Golden Merchant Guild treated those who possessed Contract Objects preferentially. To a certain extent, they could be considered his own people.

Yang Yi thought about it for a while and decided not to use the card for the time being, because the risks involved were impossible to control.

As a collector, the Guild Master would certainly come all the way over for a transaction.

Moreover, the information stated that the Guild Master would, depending on his mood, gift a ship, some start-up capital, and merchandise.

But everyone knew that free things were often the most expensive.

The price for these things would probably have to be paid in another form. Otherwise, the collector would have to change his name to philanthropist.

Yang Yi smiled and sat up from the bed.

Just at that moment, Ma Dabao sent him a private message, saying that this doctrine was excellent and that he would inform all the believers about it.

But Yang Yi didn't care in the slightest.

As long as the other party paid him on time, that was all that mattered.

If they didn't pay, that was fine too.

Because....

The Lord doesn't care...

Yeah, right!

Money is still necessary, of course. Consider it a sponsorship fee!

He was about to browse some other content when his private messages suddenly began flashing like crazy. They were all from Tricia.

【Praise the Great Blasphemer!】

【Praise the Great Blasphemer!】

【Praise the Great Blasphemer!】

【Praise the Great Blasphemer!】

【........】

“What’s going on?”

Yang Yi was startled. Tricia was frantically flooding the chat, and in the blink of an eye, she had sent more than twenty messages.

“Why are you praising me?”

Yang Yi’s scalp tingled slightly, and he felt extremely uncomfortable.

After she sent another twenty or so messages, Tricia was finally muted by the system and classified as engaging in malicious harassment.

Yang Yi sensed that something was wrong and hurriedly checked Tricia’s status. He discovered that her Sanity had dropped to 50, while her Vitality was 91, putting her on the verge of madness.

“Suna, what did you do? You’re practically driving her insane!”

Yang Yi muttered under his breath and immediately got out of bed, preparing to head to the laboratory and stop Suna from further tormenting Tricia’s mind.

At the same time, he felt somewhat guilty. After all, he knew what the consequences would be, so he could be considered an accomplice.

But he also wanted to understand the structure of a Light Fairy. That would be helpful for their future interactions and cooperation.

“I’ll just have to compensate her afterward.”

Yang Yi thought to himself as he entered the cabin of the Nightmare Star.

.............

Suna had already stopped what she was doing, her brows tightly furrowed.

Because Tricia was twitching all over as if she were having a fit, her eyes rolled upward, and she kept muttering all sorts of incomprehensible nonsense...

“Praise the Great Blasphemer!”

“Great Blasphemer, please save me!”

“Great Blasphemer, bless me!”

And so on.

Objectively speaking, she had actually been quite restrained. Following Yang Yi’s instructions, she had not caused Tricia any substantial harm.

Moreover, Tricia herself possessed an extremely strong regenerative ability, and her Vitality had never dropped below 90.

Suna had merely removed a small section of one of her ribs and taken a look at her internal organs, prodding them with tweezers.

After that, she had only taken things such as fingernails, hair, and withered wings—dead tissue, essentially—as well as saliva and a small amount of extracted bodily fluid.

For Tricia, those injuries were no more than superficial wounds. By now, there wasn't even a scar left.

Therefore, the reason her Sanity had dropped so drastically was largely that she had frightened herself.

It stemmed from her preconceived, stereotypical impression of witches.

............

A few seconds later.

“Suna....”

Yang Yi walked in, originally intending to stop Suna’s atrocities, but the latter had already released Tricia from her restraints.

Thus, the words he was about to say were swallowed back down, and he turned his attention to Tricia.

From the outside, Tricia didn't appear to be injured at all, but she was once again left with only a pair of wings.

She climbed up from the black cushion, tears still lingering at the corners of her eyes. Without saying a word, she immediately flew toward the outside.

Unfortunately, she couldn't escape Yang Yi's grasp.

“Let me go! You’re all demons!

“One of you is a Polluter, and the other is a witch! Neither of you is any good!

“I’m escaping! Don’t stop me!”

Tricia struggled as she spoke, preparing to flee again. Her intelligence had also severely declined.

An awkward expression flashed across Yang Yi’s face. He had indeed handled this matter poorly.

Tricia continued struggling, but with only 1 point of Strength, her combat ability was practically negligible.

It wasn't until she started biting him with her mouth that she managed to inflict slight corrosive damage with her saliva.

“Don’t you still plan on going to the Sea of Miracles?”

Yang Yi had no intention of blaming her. The moment he said this, Tricia stopped biting.

“I promise things like this will happen less often in the future. Or...” Yang Yi glanced at Suna. “I can let you take a look at what happens during my physical examination too. It’s actually not that scary.”

Tricia gradually calmed down, her expression becoming extremely serious.

“Witches are the root of all the calamities in this world. You will definitely regret this.”