138: Chapter 138 What are you thinking?

Chen Xi watched her look of grim resolve, and his mouth twitched slightly.

"What are you thinking?"

Chen Xi helplessly pointed at her right hand:

"Stretch out your hand."

"Huh?"

Ye Fei opened her eyes, momentarily stunned.

"Based on your class characteristics, the conduction of power mainly relies on mental links and command gestures. Therefore, the most suitable location for your class core card socket is the 'Shenmen point' on your wrist."

Chen Xi secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart:

Thank goodness it's the wrist. If it were the chest or the inner thigh again, my glorious image as captain would probably be truly unsalvageable.

"Ah... oh!"

Hearing Chen Xi's words, a flash of daze passed over Ye Fei's face.

Subsequently, her face turned even redder.

She hurriedly extended her right wrist; the blue veins were faintly visible on her fair, snowy skin.

Chen Xi's expression turned solemn as he gently pressed the card against the inside of her wrist.

"Fusion!"

Buzz—!

A dazzling golden light flashed. The card instantly transformed into countless points of light, seeping into Ye Fei's skin.

There was no agonizing pain as she had imagined; instead, a warm current flowed down her arm and instantly spread throughout her entire body.

Ye Fei felt as if her soul had been washed by some kind of power, becoming incomparably transparent.

At the same time, a brand-new class panel unfolded in her mind.

[Class Advancement Successful!]

[Advanced to Beast Tamer.]

As the advancement completed, Ye Fei felt an extra pale-gold tattoo pattern on her wrist, looking like an eye and also like a door.

"Try out your new ability."

With a thought from Ye Fei,

A black light flashed, and that dying little black dog with a festering back appeared on the floor.

"[Revival Blessing]!"

Ye Fei subconsciously used the new skill she had just comprehended. The tattoo on her wrist lit up, and a green light filled with vitality enveloped the little black dog.

A miraculous scene occurred.

The bone-deep wound on the little black dog's back actually healed, scabbed over, and fell off at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Immediately following that, its body began to swell. Its originally emaciated torso became strong and powerful, its black fur became glossy and sleek, and it even faintly emitted a heart-palpitating pressure. Its eyes were no longer cloudy, but had turned into a spiritual gold.

"Woof-woo—!"

[Skill: Revival Blessing]

[Able to rapidly heal negative statuses and wounds on the body. The same target can only receive the buff of Revival Blessing once every 24 hours.]

The little black dog let out a roar full of vigor.

"Little Si!!"

Ye Fei hugged the little dog in a pleasant surprise, her tears almost falling.

Not only that, when Ye Fei looked up at Chen Xi again, she was surprised to find that her vision had changed.

Chen Xi's body was shrouded in a faint layer of golden radiance, and deep within that radiance, there seemed to be the phantom of a sleeping giant dragon.

Skill 2: [Eye of Spirit Vision]

[Description: Able to see through the soul essence of all living beings, discerning their emotions, weaknesses, and bloodline potential.]

"Thank you! Thank you, Captain!"

Ye Fei stood up excitedly and gave Chen Xi a deep bow:

"I feel... I'm really different! I will continue to work hard and absolutely not let this card go to waste!"

Chen Xi smiled and nodded:

"No problem, just keep up the good work from now on!"

After settling the excited Ye Fei, Chen Xi returned to his own room alone.

He closed the door, took a deep breath, and called up his own attribute panel.

With Ye Fei's advancement, as the captain bound with the [Myriad Rivers Return to the Sea] talent, he also simultaneously received the attribute feedback from Ye Fei's advancement.

[Name: Chen Xi]

[Class: Miracle Card Maker (Unique Hidden)]

[Level: Lv.27]

[Strength: 445 (+) (class core card bonus)]

[Agility: 408 (+) (class core card bonus)]

[Physique: 466 (+) (class core card bonus)]

[Spirit: 427 (+) (class core card bonus)]

[Talent Skills: Miracle Creation, Miracle Deduction, Card Affinity Reflection, Myriad Rivers Return to the Sea, Sovereign Judgment, Miracle: Sublimation]

Looking at this series of numbers breaking 400, Chen Xi couldn't help but clench his fist, feeling the power surging through his body like a river.

One must know that for an ordinary Lv.30 Warrior, the strength attribute would at most be slightly over 300. Yet he, a mere Lv.27 "Support," had all attributes crushing pure combat classes of the same level!

These attributes should be about the same as a Second-Tier Fierce Beast!

However, the increase in power did not let Chen Xi lose his head.

He glanced at the pitch-black night outside the window, remembering the purple bat he saw in the Black Swamp Forest yesterday, as well as that space rift that opened on its own.

"There must be an explanation for this matter."

Chen Xi organized his thoughts, pushed open the door, and headed straight for the Administration Building.

...

Commander-in-Chief's Office.

Commander Sun had just finished handling a day's worth of official business and was preparing to rest when he saw Chen Xi knock and enter.

"It's so late, and you're still not sleeping? Coming to claim credit?"

Although Commander Sun said so, he still poured a glass of water for Chen Xi.

"Commander Sun, I'm here to report the situation."

Chen Xi didn't waste words and got straight to the point, recounting the discovery deep in the Black Swamp Forest yesterday.

From the purple bat's eerie surveillance, to its proactive opening of a space rift to escape, to the unusual aura emanating from that rift, every detail was covered.

"You mean..."

After listening to Chen Xi's description, Commander Sun's originally casual expression instantly became incomparably solemn. He abruptly stood up and paced back and forth in the office:

"That bat... has intelligence? And can open doors itself?"

"Yes."

Chen Xi said in a heavy voice:

"This is completely different from our previous understanding that 'rifts are random natural phenomena.' I have reason to suspect that behind these space rifts, it's not a chaotic void, but rather a highly intelligent 'brain' in control."

"They are deploying troops into our world in a planned and premeditated manner, and are even conducting reconnaissance."

Commander Sun stopped in his tracks and stared intently at Chen Xi:

"This is shocking intelligence. If true, our strategic deployment against fierce beasts will have to be torn down and restarted."

"I will immediately classify this matter as top secret and report it to the higher-level military command."

Having finished the official business, Commander Sun sat back in his chair, looking at the young man before him with burning eyes.

For some reason, the more he looked at Chen Xi, the more pleasing he found him, but at the same time, the more he felt he couldn't see through him.

"Speaking of which..."

Commander Sun picked up his teacup and asked with feigned casualness, though his tone carried a hint of curiosity he couldn't hide:

"You kid... why are you so powerful?"

"Just a freshman, with a team of only four people, and you slice up Third-Tier Fierce Beasts like vegetables."

"Do you have some... unique trick for dealing with fierce beasts? Or maybe some ancestral secret manual?"