Strange Era: An exclusive talent every month

"If you want to buy it, just pick whatever you want."

"Alas, business has been miserable recently. This big pot of sugar-roasted chestnuts has not been sold yet."

"It's not easy to have so many customers here, but they are still being ruined like this. I really don't want to do this business!"

The old woman selling chestnuts sighed, her tone vaguely showing off.

Chen Ye smiled inwardly. He had actually seen that the other party said and did this deliberately. In fact, he was preparing ingredients for himself.

He took out three copper coins from his pocket and put them on the grandmother's trolley. Then he selected three larger "meat sculptures" and slowly approached...

During the whole process, the luck halo above his head remained normal. Instead of changing in a bad direction, there was a faint blue light and purple energy lingering around him.

"Purple energy means you can get help..."

"Blue light is related to creation..."

"The combination of two different luck halos means that I can get the sugar-roasted chestnuts passed down by the old grandma?"

Chen Ye continues to accumulate the color forms of different luck auras, thereby increasing his experience and forming a systematic knowledge base.

At present, it seems that in addition to the eight basic colors, the luck halo also has a certain degree of color difference and the interweaving of multiple colors. Even in some special circumstances, the halo will condense into a specific pattern, which has symbolic meaning.

At the beginning, the talent of [Eye of Luck] will feel very abstract when used.

But as Chen Ye's understanding deepened, he slowly understood the meaning expressed by the luck halo, as if he had mastered a brand new language!

Looking around, Chen Ye's eyes adapted to the darkness and could see all nearby objects clearly.

He quickly found a thick hemp rope from an abandoned shop not far away, and tightly tied the three pieces of ingredients together.

Bow your body and lift it up with all your strength.

"Huh……"

"It's not as heavy as I thought?"

Chen Ye suddenly felt a little surprised. He had thought that these three big guys, together more than three times his size, would be difficult to carry with the strength of this thin body.

In fact, there is some weight, but not as heavy as imagined.

It's just that...the rotten flesh was stuck to his back, and through the thin shirt, there was a cold, sticky, disgusting and slippery feeling, which made Chen Ye feel as if there was a dark giant worm lying on his back, with an inexplicable liquid secreted from the bottom. The rancid smell became stronger.

However, in order to continue on the road to become the "God of Cooking", Chen Ye had to hold his nose and hold back everything.

Anyway, I was a wanderer, and my clothes were in tatters. I was used to this shabby and dirty outfit, so the discomfort of carrying carrion on my back was not that strong.

“Grandma, where should we go to find professionals who handle ingredients?”

Chen Ye packed up the three pieces of rotten meat and carried it on his back. Then he turned to the old woman selling chestnuts and asked.

"Come with me."

"The professional who handles the ingredients is a rather peculiar-looking lady. We all call her 'Miss Squirrel Fish'."

"Her shop is near No. 21 Shitou Road, on the left side of the east gate exit of Xining Alley."

"Although she is a bit Alzheimer's and slow to react, she is kind-hearted and very diligent. She stays in the store day and night... Oh, as long as you have such unprocessed low-quality ingredients, or have the need to exchange ingredients, you can always You can go there to find her."

The old woman selling chestnuts pushed the cart and led the way while introducing Chen Ye with her back turned.

However, her pace seemed very slow, but from time to time she would suddenly appear from the entrance of the alley here to the end of the opposite alley.

Chen Ye sometimes didn't even bother to maintain a wandering walking posture, and had to trot quickly to keep up, for fear of losing the old lady's position.

He couldn't help but feel a little puzzled. Based on his own experience, it was difficult to determine what kind of characteristic ability this was.

Teleportation system? Teleport system? Time system?

All in all, there are too many types of characteristics in "Strange Era", which are divided into 'appearance' and 'essence'.

The so-called 'appearance' refers to the form of expression of characteristics, such as [flash], which can instantly span distances of more than ten meters, hundreds of meters, or even thousands of meters.

But ‘essence’ is the type of characteristics. Even different types of characteristics will have similar ‘appearances’.

For example, Chen Ye's [Wanderer's Boots] can theoretically achieve the effect of [Flash] based on the continuous expansion of the weirdness value.

But the essence of [Wanderer's Boots] is 'displacement', which can only increase movement speed and efficiency.

If there is a wall in front of you, even if you can cross the wall with enough distance in one step, your forehead will be hit hard with a big bump.

But if it is [Flash], then you can directly ignore the wall and appear on the other side of the wall.

Even if the 'appearance' of the characteristics is the same, due to the different 'essence', there will be huge differences in the actual application process.

Chen Ye is still unable to tell what type the old woman selling chestnuts belongs to, whether it is an identity occupation or a special item, or whether it is with the help of rules...

All in all, there are countless possibilities in this world, and he increasingly knows that he needs to remain humble and cautious. Even as a closed beta player, you must always understand that there is endless knowledge here.

Only by always maintaining a humble apprentice's heart can we take every next step successfully!

"Haha, if I let that old lady say it, she would probably say something like 'a true master always has the heart of an apprentice'..." Chen Ye joked in his heart.

When he thought of this, Chen Ye suddenly felt that he meant something to his apprentice, and he seemed to have a digestive feeling similar to that when practicing Erhu. My heart is clear, enlightened, and my mind is clear. In an instant, the whole world fell into his eyes and became clear and bright.

Unconsciously, Chen Ye had bypassed most of the maze-like Xining alleys.

A huge stone arch appears in front, with stone lion sculptures standing on both sides, majestic.

It is the east gate of Xining Alley.

On the left side of the door, only a small shop of about five square meters was still open, with a warm light shining from the window.

"This is where Miss Squirrel Fish is." The old woman selling chestnuts said as she walked forward pushing the cart in her hand.

She came to the door of the cabin, knocked politely three times, raised her voice and shouted:

"Ms. Squirrel Fish, we have new business!"

Squeak!

Soon, the wooden door was slowly opened...

A figure as bloated as a meat ball slowly squeezed out from the small door!

The figure walking out of the house had fish gills on both sides of its face. From the outline of the face, a human nose, eyes, and mouth could be vaguely discerned... The long chin was so slack that it could almost hang to the ground, but the lips could The top and bottom are closed, and the neck is as long as a turtle.

The back of the body like a two-meter giant rat has dense scales!

Observing carefully, the scales on the back turned out to be bloody bone fingers, just like the hallucination that Chen Ye had when he first looked at the old lady's sugar-roasted chestnuts!

The bone fingers grow on the back like petals, swinging back and forth as they walk, like fluttering water plants.

When Chen Ye's eyes fell on Miss Squirrel Fish for the first time, the only thought suddenly came to his mind -

"I don't usually eat that stuff on my back, right?"