Chapter 3

Who would have thought the first thing HongLu did after being revived was to challenge Xuan? Zheng knew HongLu was intelligent but he always felt HongLu was still a bit behind Xuan. The way of thinking and a person’s intelligence were important but equally so were composure and experience. There was basically no one who could beat Xuan on these two traits.

(But… it’s good if we can ocassionally see Xuan get embarassed. Not much hope but HongLu could probably create some obstacles for him. It’s not the best feeling when he always gets the spotlight.) Zheng gave HongLu glances of encouragement. However, HongLu recognized his circumstance and didn’t say anything provoking afterward. He chuckled as he asked Zheng what happened after Resident Evil.

The team stayed in The Mummy for three days. There wasn’t anything else important in this trip. What they received from Jonathan was merely a message. It didn’t mention much about the treasure from China. This kind of bonus missions required too much effort. After a short discussion, the team decided to ignore it for now. Things might change the next time they return to this world after the next movie.

Everyone rested well in these three days. Xuan displayed his invincible fishing skill. They bought and tasted precious wines. ChengXiao searched for the pyro-woman of Egypt to no avail… Everyone felt lazy and out of energy after the battle in the Lord of the Rings. They took this opportunity to rest and regain stamina in preparation for the next movie.

In these three days, Zheng gained a little experience with energy condensation using infinitesimal control. This wasn’t God’s dimension so he didn’t dare to practice in large amount of energy. He condensed the energy a little bit at a time then stored them in various parts of the body. As the genes at those areas acclimated to the condensed energy, the energy became stable with no sign of exploding.

Though storing condensed energy in his body felt like storing bombs. One slip of the mind and he would get blasted. Well, he couldn’t maintain the fourth stage at all times.

“Speaking of which, the two bat wings that grew from my back during the peak of the fight, could they be the genes from my ancestors? Are they gigantic bats or vampiric creatures?” Zheng thought maliciously. Then he remembered another fact that dropped his mood. When he encountered his clone in Resident Evil, he saw those bat wings on his clone the whole time. Would that mean his clone could maintain the fourth stage indefinitely? “If that’s the case, his power startling. I wonder how long will it take to catch up to his steps… or my own steps.”

Three days quickly passed. The team returned to God’s dimension. HongLu immediately saw the woman he created… A woman much older than him. As he embraced her, ChengXiao whistled, making the woman blush.

Zheng gave ChengXiao a pat on the shoulder. Then laughed. “I am going to revive TengYi. Our team is basically complete… The next time we meet that team is the time we take revenge!”

“That’s also the case.” Xuan didn’t pay much attention to what he said. He brought out a little notebook. “These are the abilities of our team members and their best enhancement paths. There are also their rewards, points, and the amount they could gift to other members. This is what we should focus on. Revenge and the like can wait until you become experienced with energy condensation.”

Zheng had no words in reply. He took the notebook and looked over the detailed list of information. “It’s detailed but why don’t I see your information? I don’t know how many points you have but you give me the feeling that you aren’t planning to become too strong. That’s not good. You should also exchange some abilities. Based on this data, YinKong can gift a rank A reward and 10000 points. Why don’t you let her get you that ability?”

Xuan was surprised. He couldn’t guess what Zheng was thinking of and asked. “That ability? Which ability?”

“Lambda Driver!” Zheng sounded certain. “It’s a device. God can insert the exchange into your brain and form its support structure using your brain cells. The force that powers this device is willpower. The stronger your faith is, the more force you can use to power this device. You can attack at will and defend at will.”

Xuan frowned. He pondered over it. “This isn’t logical… The technology and magic we encountered up to this point can in some way be explained with science. However, that doesn’t apply to this device. Even if we were to attempt an analysis using the quantum theory…”

“Stop. Stop.” Zheng interrupted him. “I don’t know about quantum theory but one thing is certain. If you can exchange it from God, then it should exist. We have encountered things as mythical as Xiuzhen. An ability that uses willpower as its source of energy wouldn’t be out of the ordinary. Anyway, you must get the enhancement. Even if you don’t use it offensively, it’s good for defense. It’s decided then. YinKong, please. One rank A reward and 8000 points. Get Lambda Driver for Xuan.”

Xuan was about to open his mouth but YinKong seemed to be prepared. She went over to God and connected her mind. Xuan stopped trying to say anything and stood there.

(It’s a tier A ability. You’ve used us as test subjects so let’s use you to test this ability this time. The description looks powerful. However, its placing a device in the brain feels weird.) Zheng smiled at Xuan.

After YinKong finished, a beam shot down on Xuan, lifting him off the platform. Once he floated up several meters, the beam focused on his brain. After quite some time, Xuan slowly descended.

“How’s the ability? Is it powerful?” Zheng immediately asked after Xuan landed. However, he realized his question was too quick. No one could tell the power of the ability right after exchanging.

Xuan glanced at him. He shook his arms and legs then slid the pistols out from his sleeves and put them back. He repeated these actions a few times then walked to his room. The rest of the team looked at each other. They all followed Xuan to his room.

Xuan’s room was clean. Not that it lacked things. The floor was filled with little tools and instruments. However, there were barely any furnitures or decorations. Xuan walked into the basement. The others saw large machineries and instruments there. No one knew how many points Xuan spent on these things. No wonder he never exchanged any enhancements or abilities.

“This reminds me that we still have the precious metals from the Lord of the Rings. They can craft a lot of rings or something else. Hoho. They are equivalent to so many points.” Zheng said as he walked. He also sighed to himself. Xuan still did not possess any feelings, at least when it came to lifestyle. He was too plain that it felt like a piece of white paper.

The team accompanied Xuan to a wall in the basement. The wall was formed by a thick white metal. On the surface were remnants of bullet shots and other destructive traces. They could tell it was used for Xuan’s weapon testing. Everyone knew Xuan was going to test his ability.

He put on a strange device that covered his eyes. About a minute later, he took off the device. There was a sense of sharpness in his eyes that was rarely seen from him, as though it bestowed feelings to him.

Before Zheng got a chance to take another look at Xuan’s eyes, the two Gauss pistols slid out of his sleeves. As Xuan pulled the triggers, Zheng could see a seemingly existing wave of energy came upon Xuan’s hands and pistols. The energy wave blocked the bullets for just an instant then the bullets flew away.

Bang! The loud sound caused pain to their ears and made them a little dizzy. After the team recovered, what they saw on the wall was a hole twenty meters in depth and fifty meters in diameter. The Gauss bullets caused such destructiveness.

“Not possible to maintain this power at all times.” Xuan’s eyes returned normal. He said calmly. “Only the first shot after hypnosis possesses exceptional faith. I can destroy the wall. I created this room with metal walls that are thirty meters thick. So this shot carried my belief… However, this is only hypnosis. The hypnosis breaks off after I bestowed my faith to the first attack and I no longer have the faith to use this ability.”

Would one really succeed as long as one firmly believed in it? Such power could only be described with idealistic. However, the destructive of the power was in fact displayed in front of everyone. Could a human survive the same force that caused destruction on the wall?

Without a doubt, immense power represented similarly huge burden on the user. The power required having absolutely no doubt with the attack and dropped the user’s mental stamina to an extremely low level. Fortunately, team China did not have to worry too much about this because they exchanged a new rune word formation through the other two teams. The formation could convert electricity to psyche energy, while they could convert Qi into electricity. The key to using these rune words was mithril, which they also obtained a large quantity from the Lord of the Rings. They reaped great profit in terms of psyche energy. The only problem that remained was how to increase the belief and faith.

Kampa and ChengXiao believed that the more hot tempered and simple minded a person was, the more they could reach into the potential of the power of faith. However, such people were also more easily to hesitate and doubt their attacks. When that happened, they would fail to even initiate this ability. Xuan’s calm personality provided stability to this ability. And in a certain sense, he basically would not doubt himself.
Anyway, the power of faith had both advantages and disadvantages. In order to perfectly utilize this power, he had to craft a bunch of items. First were two to three mithril rings to store Qi. Then a mini converter that turned Qi into electricity. And another one that turned electricity to psyche energy. These items must be portable in order be useful, which added more complexity to their designs. These items would consume Xuan’s time.

Once Xuan’s power of faith was settled, Zheng planned to revive TengYi. Somehow, Xuan requested to revive TengYi through him. Which meant that he would bear the past of TengYi.

(This is actually a great idea. He doesn’t possess feelings. Then let him feel what others had experienced. The separation of life and death touches one’s heart the deepest. Too bad we forgot to let him bear these experiences when we revived so many people.) Zheng agreed after a moment of thinking. TengYi’s revival only required a small amount of points. It wasn’t anything Xuan couldn’t afford. He took over the Book of Amun-Ra then stood under God.

Xuan’s mind connected with God. Soon, a beam of light appeared next to him and along with it was TengYi. Xuan showed an expression of confusion then he contemplated.

“How’s it? Have you felt any feelings?” Zheng immediately asked. “TengYi is a good man. He used to be a tomb raider but he isn’t nefarious… Xuan, you all right?”

Xuan’s expression subsided. He breathed out and said. “I will go test the Lambda Driver. I have a feeling this ability still has great potential to be excavated. And the feeling I felt from TengYi…” He did not finish then turned around and walked to his room.

The rest of the team looked confused. Something strange obviously happened to Xuan based on his actions. He seemed urgent but his face remained so indifferent, lacking any emotions. So, no one could tell what happened to him. They watched as he ran back to his room.

The team woke TengYi up. His mind was still back at the time of their team battle in The Mummy against team India. He obviously hadn’t caught up with the reality. Zheng explained a lot before he realized he had been dead for a long long time. He returned to this world by being revived.

Zheng slapped his shoulder and said. “Give it your best. There’s no more revival if you die again. Don’t worry. We obtained a lot of points and rewards in the last movie. We have enough to get you enhancements. There’s also a dragonshard necklace for each member and we can get you some defensive equipment. We won’t be stingy to a bro.”

TengYi looked over at everyone here. Some of them he didn’t even know. But he was experienced enough to tell that all these people were much stronger than him. He smiled bitterly. “The gap between everyone and me has become so wide. There’s probably no chance for me to catch up.”

Zheng laughed. “Nope. How could the bros not help you? We are fighting together once more. This time, we will all leave this realm together, and back to the real world together!”

The original members were basically gathered after TengYi’s revival. The only one missing was that bold man who couldn’t be revived. When Zheng occasionally saw the cigarette butt he left behind, he felt rather down. Zhang Jie was the only one who couldn’t revive. God had taken away this right from him since the beginning because he was also a Guide.

“Now we are going to exchange our enhancements and items. We obtained a lot of points in the previous movie. However, only Heng, YinKong, Zero and I obtained ranked rewards. YinKong already exchanged an ability for Xuan. For the three of us, Zero doesn’t have enough for himself. The Mystic Eyes of Death Perception needs at least a rank A reward to evolve to the next stage. I advise that you save your ranked rewards for now. You can spend the points for the next level Gauss bullets. The next movie is Transformers, a sci-fi movie. We are going to need the firepower from you. Save the ranked rewards, enhance your physical stats and exchange a bunch of bullets.”

Zheng then turned to the others. “You can also do the same as Zero. We all have at least several thousand points. Get some physical stats and sci-fi weapons or grenades. You can also save some points for when you get the rewards to spend them. Then you can exchange various enhancements.

Heng, I think you should get the Lightning Elven Archer bloodline. It upgrades your Wind Elven Archer bloodline for just a rank B reward. I feel it’s worth it. You should exchange some stats for TengYi with the remaining points and rewards.

YinKong, you can also upgrade The Shining bloodline and get some items you think would be useful. Save any remaining points and rewards so you can help other members after the next movie.”

Zheng then laughed and said. “And now HongLu. Your enhancement is a connection to the Weave. You can only contact the low levels of the Weave. I need a rank A reward to upgrade Tiger’s Soul. I can help you level up your magic enhancement with the remaining ranked rewards. I know you need a lot of points to exchange magics after having the enhancement. Haha. The thing I got the most from the Lord of the Rings is points. We have revived all our members. We will only need to spend our points to exchange enhancements and save them for the return to the real world from now on. Don’t worry about the exchanges. I can get you a lot of magic, like we can get the super lightning array Saruman used. Haha.”

Zheng was very happy. All the members aside from Jie was revived. But there was nothing he could do about Jie. This completed one of his wishes. He also had never gotten such a large amount of points and ranked rewards. Compared to the poor days, he felt like he could take on any movie world. He was aware this wasn’t a good feeling to have as it might lead to him underestimating the enemies. However, he wanted to relax occasionally.

(I wonder if we can farm points in Transformers. The movie shouldn’t be too difficult based on the plot. AllSpark might be a quest item that possessed infinite amount of energy. We must get it in our hands. Our members have become strong. We have sci-fi items, magic, weapons. It can’t be that Megatron is stronger than me. Hope we can relax a bit in the next movie.)

“I am going to exchange… God, give me the tier A Tiger’s Soul.”