Chapter 273 Hairband Wrapped with Knife

Han Cheng's corpse lay on the ground, a bloody hole in his chest.

Chen Yu waited for a moment before squatting down and expressionlessly searching the body.

"Broke."

Chen Yu murmured, patted the dust off his hands, and stood back up.

What a shame...

Han Cheng's belongings should all be in his personal inventory, not carried on him.

The only useful thing left in the entire area,

was likely that blade stuck in the ground in the distance.

[Republic of China Ghost-Head Blade]

Description: A ghost-head greatsword forged during the Republic of China era. The blade is wide, the spine is thick, and dark blood crust from years of killing has congealed on the edge, impossible to remove even after countless sharpenings.

Effect 1: The resentment energy entwined around the blade increases or decreases with the wielder's emotional fluctuations. The stronger the killing intent, the heavier the blade's momentum. resentment can significantly enhance strength and speed, but each use stacks a layer of residual killing intent in the wielder's consciousness, accumulating over time.

Effect 2: The blade carries the residual will of Calamity, so the material has been deeply eroded and restructured by resentment.

Note: Only the Awakened themselves can activate the effects.

Just like the firearms Chen Yu had obtained before, the active activation effect was practically non-existent for him.

But the difference was,

this blade had two effects, and while Effect 1 was meaningless,

Effect 2 was more of a passive one, so it remained unaffected.

Chen Yu looked down at the blade in his hand...

Unusually, the purple patterns carved on the blade, which had completely dimmed with Han Cheng's death, suddenly began to light up spontaneously?!

First, a faint purple light appeared at the base, then it rapidly spread toward the tip!

The entire blade was Awakened within seconds!

"Buzz!"

The ghost head blade suddenly jerked out of his hand with immense force!

The blade flipped half a turn in the air and then shot toward the distance!

"Whoa, trying to run?!"

Chen Yu's expression changed; it was already too late to reach out now!

He hurriedly pulled out a black hairband!

The hairband extended on its own in his palm, accurately wrapping around the end of the hilt in mid-air!

"Buzz!"

Snap!

Chen Yu gripped the hairband with both hands, his feet sinking into the ground as he pulled hard!

The next moment, the light from the purple patterns on the ghost head blade suddenly began to recede...

Dimming layer by layer,

retreating from the tip toward the hilt,

until it was finally extinguished completely!

Phew...

Just now, the stamina Alice's hairband had drained from his body was extremely staggering!

Nearly more than half of his stamina had vanished in an instant!

On the bright side, the ghost head blade fell back into his hand, as quiet as a piece of scrap metal!

"Could it be the residual will of Calamity mentioned in Effect 2?"

"So this blade doesn't want to be used by me?"

Chen Yu frowned, pondering the strange scene just now!

Who would have thought

that a blade would actually try to run away?!

"Fortunately, I have Alice's hairband. After wrapping it around the ghost head blade... it seems it's no longer resisting..."

Chen Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

He tentatively let go and gave it a toss, finding that nothing happened!

Chen Yu gripped the hilt and applied a little force with his wrist, giving it two simple swings—

The blade sliced through the air, making a low whistling sound!

To be honest, the weight of the ghost head blade was much heavier than he had expected!

By a rough estimate, it was at least over forty pounds...

This figure is already in the extremely exaggerated range for weapons; even if a normal blade were made to this size, its weight would only be a little over a dozen pounds.

But this ghost head blade couldn't be measured by common sense at all.

It wouldn't be easy for an ordinary person to use; after all, it was comparable to holding a compressed iron ingot.

But for Chen Yu, this weight was just right. He gave the hilt a single-handed twirl, and the ghost head blade spun half a circle in his palm before coming to a steady stop, tip pointing down.

To put it bluntly, a forty-pound blade in his hand wasn't much heavier than an iron pipe.

The center of gravity was perfectly distributed,

and the inertia when swinging could be completely controlled by him. It felt perfectly natural.

"It's a pity I can't use Effect 1..."

Chen Yu felt a sense of regret. He also envied Han Cheng and the others for being able to slash out energy waves with a single strike.

It would be a lie to say it wasn't cool.

But when Chen Yu used a blade to hack people, it was just plain, unadorned hacking.

Chen Yu first drained Han Cheng's corpse, then calculated the details

of the consumption and gains from this battle.

There were two most important points:

1. golden body card consumption: 17 cards, remaining: 37 cards!

2. free attribute point growth: 7 points!

Overall, Chen Yu felt he had lost out!

Although free attribute points were a potential investment from a long-term perspective,

the importance of the golden body cards was self-evident!

The probability that the reward would happen to be golden body cards the next time he could take the girls on a mission together wasn't high!

Chen Yu even began to wonder...

If he heavily increased his luck, would the mission rewards be more inclined toward golden body cards?

But he didn't dare gamble,

ultimately choosing to put the points into Perception.

[Basic Attributes]

constitution: 104 (1+3)

Agility: 41 (28+3)

Perception: 36 (23+3)

charisma: 23 (10+3)

spirit: 19 (6+3)

luck: 23 (10+3)

Yes, after several significant increases, Chen Yu's Perception had also reached an exaggerated level!

36 points!

This was almost the value of some professional high-tier Perception Awakened!

Of course, Chen Yu didn't have any active Perception-type skills, but passive Perception was enough!

He closed his eyes and could even feel the rhythm of his own heartbeat within his chest...

Shui Bobo rolled over on his shoulder; he could hear a hint of sleepiness trailing at the end of that syllable, completely different from the gurgle it made when it was hungry!

These feelings were all extremely subjective, yet extremely important!

But the next second...

Chen Yu frowned because he heard footsteps!

They were coming from behind the bushes not far away!

Chen Yu put Han Cheng's corpse into his personal inventory and slipped behind a thick palm tree!

Patter, patter, patter.

The footsteps were fast, urgent, and hurried, deliberately suppressed as they stepped on the gravel!

Chen Yu peeked slightly from behind the tree and saw a sturdy figure cautiously approaching this direction. The newcomer was Xu Yuanzhou!

He seemed to be one of Han Cheng's people?

S-rank strength, if I recall...

Chen Yu continued to watch,

Up ahead, Xu Yuanzhou was holding a pointer in his hand, the tip twitching as it pointed toward where Chen Yu was!

"What's going on..."

"Suddenly it's all over the place?"

Xu Yuanzhou cursed under his breath. This was the [Main Body Pointer] Han Cheng had given to his confidants!

The purpose was to allow his trusted subordinates to find Han Cheng himself using the pointer's direction in case everyone's positions were scattered after entering a mission!

Of course, this mission didn't involve scattered positions...

But at this moment, it had a use; he could rush to the scene and help Captain Han!

Xu Yuanzhou's footsteps paused, and he looked down at the pointer: "No... it's not moving at all... It was clearly very active just now; the location shouldn't be wrong!"