In the dog’s dream, it was fighting a very strange flesh-and-blood creature.
To be precise, the Dog of Death was being hunted.
Chen Qi had never imagined life could take such a form: a pair of falcon wings, a pair of human hands, hind legs like a bull’s hooves, a thick turtle shell, and, strangest of all, no head.
But this cobbled-together lifeform was actually forcing the dog, with its Bloodline Ability, into a steady retreat.
’What a disgrace to Extraordinary creatures.’
If the Dog of Death knew of this assessment, it would surely feel indignant.
It wasn’t that its Bloodline Ability was weak, but that its opponent simply couldn’t be killed.
Especially since its opponent could continuously change its form in response to its attacks.
By the end, it had even evolved a dog’s mouth.
The Dog of Death had been careless and gotten bitten, only to discover that its Bloodline Ability was starting to become ineffective against the monster.
It was as if the monster had gained some kind of resistance by devouring its blood.
As a wily old mutt that had survived for several decades, the Dog of Death saw things were going south and immediately fled, diving into the sewers.
The poor thing had barely managed to escape the monster’s pursuit only to fall into Chen Qi’s hands.
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’There’s something this strange in the Lanyu Kingdom?’
’Could it have been triggered by the tremors from the previous game?’
Within the Lanyu Kingdom, no matter what strange event occurred, it could always be traced back to the King’s Game.
This was an ironclad rule, one that Chen Qi had verified multiple times.
That bizarre flesh-and-blood monster was clearly not an ordinary lifeform. Even if it had been artificially created by a player, it would still be connected to the game.
Chen Qi was only slightly curious about the flesh-and-blood monster.
But it was impossible for him to spend time searching for it now.
At most, he would just have Taruno keep an eye out for any information about it.
Chen Qi’s most important task right now was to save the unconscious Red Falcon King.
Of course, before that, he had to take care of the Dog of Death.
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"Mutt, I definitely can’t let you run free for a while, but you can roam this mountain as you please."
"But if you dare to leave, watch out for your legs."
Inside the metal apparatus, Chen Qi lifted the dog’s head from the R-type login device.
After a few flicks to the forehead, the Dog of Death finally woke up.
Then, it got a stern lecture.
Perhaps because of the further Awakening of its bloodline, the dog’s intelligence had clearly increased quite a bit.
After Chen Qi used a virtual projection to demonstrate the consequences of the "Dog of Death leaving the mining area," the dog nodded repeatedly, indicating it understood.
Chen Qi thus came to a conclusion: this mutt was indeed much smarter than the Red Falcon King.
Although it might have been because it was naturally gifted, a Bloodline Awakening definitely helped boost its intelligence.
Tossing the dog aside, the creature kept looking back as it walked away, eventually finding a remote cave and ducking inside.
Chen Qi had no time to build a kennel for it. At his summons, the glittering silver Source Ore emerged from the ground.
"Xiaobai, you’ve been a huge help this time."
A small iron block was spat out from the Source Ore’s body. Chen Qi took it in his hand, satisfied. This was the life-saving medicine for the Red Falcon King.
Under Chen Qi’s control, the Source Ore once again transformed into an exquisite silver-white gauntlet.
And the B3-grade Biological Gene Module was magnetically levitating in the palm of Chen Qi’s silver-white right hand.
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’Truly incredible. I’ve seen all kinds of mechanical locks, and I thought this kind of obsolete relic would only appear in the slums.’
’I never expected something as precious as a B3-grade Biological Gene Module to be protected by a mechanical lock.’
’But the craftsmanship is simply masterful, so seamless that I didn’t notice it at all before.’
A silver light bloomed in Chen Qi’s right eye as three Spells rotated to the left.
The small iron block’s Matter Field appeared in his vision. Everything was normal, with no issues whatsoever.
But when Chen Qi injected his Consciousness into the Source Ore and gained its perspective, everything was completely different.
The small iron block’s supposedly seamless Matter Field was actually pieced together; it wasn’t natural at all.
But the assembly technique was so advanced that the Repulsive Force between the different Matter Fields had been cleverly converted and redirected, making it appear truly seamless.
At the very least, Chen Qi’s current Spiritual Eye couldn’t see through it, and his Spirituality hadn’t detected it either.
Chen Qi had even used the Source Ore to inspect it before and had found nothing.
It wasn’t until he tossed the small iron block to the Source Ore and it underwent a long period of Assimilation that some clues were revealed.
At that time, because Chen Qi had acquired the memories of the Mountain God’s cells, he had gained a deeper understanding of the Matter Field and decided to try cracking the small iron block again.
And that’s when the Source Ore gave him a big surprise.
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’This small iron block seems to be a single piece, but it’s actually a Magic Cube.’
’It’s just that the way to move the cube isn’t by using Brute Force in the physical world, but by disrupting its Matter Field.’
’In other words, the small iron block isn’t in its true form. I need to help it return to its real appearance.’
Chen Qi had already tried to crack the small iron block’s Matter Field hundreds of times.
Although they all ended in failure, he had already figured out the correct method.
CLICK! CLACK!
With a thought, Chen Qi began to borrow the Source Ore’s power to manipulate the small iron block’s Matter Field.
With the Source Ore’s intervention, the small iron block’s once-seamless Matter Field fell into disarray, starting to fragment yet magically maintaining a certain balance.