111: Miss Akiba is shocked
Lin Ling quickly put away his equipment, his gaze sweeping over the console, and he found that there was still a first-grade enchantment stone in the slot.
Just as he was about to retrieve it, a somewhat cold female voice came from outside the door.
"Cao Hou, what are you doing at the laboratory door?"
"No... nothing?"
"Move!"
Lin Ling didn't have time to make the console return the enchantment stone, so he immediately used his stealth skill, and his figure instantly disappeared.
The laboratory door was pushed open.
A beautiful, big-breasted woman with a livid face walked in.
Lin Ling had originally planned to retrieve the enchantment stone after going stealth, but he never expected that as soon as this woman entered, she would spot the enchantment stone on the console at a glance.
Seeing this, Lin Ling didn't bother with much else and flashed out of the laboratory.
He didn't want to get too entangled with this crazy woman; instead of staying, he might as well go to the Dream Trading Post to see if he could buy all the materials to unseal the Level 50 seal, as well as Ice Silkworm Silk.
Wouldn't it be better to find one or two skill books than to stay here?
At this moment, the suppressed anger in Autumn Leaf's heart instantly erupted. She picked up the enchantment stone from the console and coldly snorted:
"Cao Hou, are you taking private jobs again? I just said last week that no private jobs are allowed before the election. Did my words fall on deaf ears?"
Autumn Leaf's roar echoed in the laboratory.
Cao Hou shrank his neck but dared not say a word.
He knew that his young miss was sharp-tongued but soft-hearted; letting her scold for a while would be fine.
"Cao Hou, you can go. The Qiu Family can't keep a great deity like you," Autumn Leaf suddenly said.
Cao Hou suddenly looked at Autumn Leaf, his eyes filled with disbelief.
"Miss, I, Cao Hou, have been with the Qiu Family for eight years. You wouldn't be so heartless, would you?"
Autumn Leaf's expression did not soften in the slightest. She looked at the advanced forging system in the laboratory, which was still running, and said:
"This time, the Qiu Family is being removed from the position of Forging Guild President. Without national subsidies, we will face even greater difficulties. You should find another way out in advance. I'm a bit tired. From now on, the Qiu Family will no longer contend."
Cao Hou trembled. "Miss, did we not get the cooling crystal?"
Autumn Leaf nodded, then turned to look at the service desk directly opposite the laboratory door.
The plaque on the wall, 'Capital's Number One Forging,' looked so glaring at this moment.
"Perhaps there's another way," Cao Hou said, a little anxious.
"Heh heh..." Autumn Leaf let out a cold laugh, a bitter expression on her face. "Our guangyin pendant is now only missing a cooling crystal. Besides the cooling crystal, unless we can get an Ice Silkworm Slough."
As she spoke, her gaze involuntarily turned south.
"The Ice Silkworm Cave is the most difficult of the Four-turn dungeons. Five-turn Professionals cannot challenge it, and Four-turn Professionals simply cannot clear the Nightmare difficulty.
But only by killing the Ice Silkworm King on Nightmare difficulty is there a chance to obtain the Ice Silkworm Slough.
We've tried many times before and never succeeded. Without the core material, how can we make the guangyin pendant? Without the guangyin pendant, we have no chance of winning the election."
Autumn Leaf said, throwing the enchantment stone in her hand into the trash can. Her heart was filled with a deep sense of powerlessness.
"Miss..." His expression was dim, but he had no ideas either.
"Never mind, let's go. I'll post a bounty, hoping that the powerful individual who took the cooling crystal can sell it to us."
Autumn Leaf said, then prepared to shut down the advanced forging system.
But as her finger touched the power-off button, her gaze also fell on the ling tian magic robe attribute panel on the system screen.
At this moment, her pupils suddenly contracted.
"This... this is... a specialized weapon set? A perfect-grade rough embryo? How is this possible?"
Click...
The system finished shutting down.
The set on the large screen instantly disappeared.
"No... no... bring it out."
Autumn Leaf restarted the system, her eyes burning with fervor.
Although she only saw it for a moment, she could confirm that this was absolutely the most perfect specialized weapon set she had ever seen.
And based on her experience, to create a perfect-grade rough embryo, Enchantment Stone Purification must at least reach second grade.
The advanced forging system started, but the data had already been cleared.
Looking at the empty system interface, Autumn Leaf's eyes suddenly lit up.
She suddenly looked at the trash can on the ground.
"enchantment stone... enchantment stone..."
She muttered, rushing towards the trash can as if crazy, carefully rummaging through it.
Finally, a look of wild joy appeared in her beautiful eyes.
The enchantment stone she had thrown away was held out in her hands.
"System, scan!"
[Scanning...]
[Beep beep beep, scan successful.]
[The mana loss rate of this enchantment stone is 9%, purification level First-grade enchantment stone.]
"First-grade? It's actually First-grade?"
"My heavens, I've been desperately seeking second-grade enchantment stones, and yet someone is already using first-grade enchantment stones to make specialized weapons?"
"Cao Hou, did you see it? It's a first-grade enchantment stone, sob sob sob..."
Autumn Leaf was ecstatic, crying with joy as if in a frenzy.
Meanwhile, Cao Hou was already dumbfounded.
How could there be a first-grade enchantment stone?
Could the young man who came earlier be a hidden expert among the forging Professionals?
Could he be a Seven Turns Forging Grandmaster?
But it seemed there was only one Forging Grandmaster in Dragon Country, and that one was already over seventy, and also the president of the Jinling Forging Guild.
"Cao Hou!" Autumn Leaf suddenly looked at Cao Hou and said, "Where did this enchantment stone come from?"
She naturally didn't believe that Cao Hou had refined it himself.
Although Cao Hou's forging skills were not bad, he was still far from being able to refine a first-grade enchantment stone.
"It wasn't a private job just now; it was a young man borrowing the advanced forging system," Cao Hou said truthfully.
"Where is he?"
Autumn Leaf grabbed Cao Hou's shoulder and asked excitedly.
"He left," Cao Hou said.
Autumn Leaf was anxious. "Where did he go? Why did you let him leave?"
"I don't know either. When you came back, he was still inside, but when the door opened, he was gone. He might have had an invisibility item; he probably just left not long ago."
As Cao Hou spoke, Autumn Leaf had already rushed out of the laboratory.
But a moment later, she walked back with a face full of disappointment.
There was no trace of the mysterious Grandmaster.
"Miss, why don't we post a bounty and find someone to help us clear the Ice Silkworm Cave?" Cao Hou's eyes lit up.
"No one can clear it," Autumn Leaf shook her head.
"How do you know if you don't try? The challenge tokens for the Ice Silkworm Cave are quite expensive, so very few people have come to challenge it.
But don't we still have the last Ice Silkworm Cave token?
If we provide the token and offer a high reward, someone might respond."
Cao Hou said, and the more he thought about this idea, the more reliable it seemed.
A flicker of confusion crossed Autumn Leaf's eyes, and she could only nod.
"I'll go to the Trading Post first. If that doesn't work, I'll try the Mission Temple?"
After Autumn Leaf finished speaking, she turned and rushed towards the Trading Post.