Chapter 297 Fishing for the Abyss Treasure Chest, a Job-Changing Specialty Item?
The next second.
Chen Ye did not hesitate to focus his spirituality on the abyss treasure chest embedded in the rock wall of the strait.
When the spirituality turned into a "fishhook" and caught the treasure chest, a heavy feeling suddenly came over him.
But this feeling of effort was immediately washed away by the surprise of the harvest.
This is a special item that may help him, and it is of great significance.
Chen Ye used his spirituality without reservation and fished the abyss treasure chest ashore at the fastest speed.
Bang!
A huge ripple was shaken by the water surface...
The treasure chest broke through the water surface, splashing huge waves, making a perfect parabola in the air, and was about to fall heavily on the boat.
This abyss treasure chest is heavier than before. If it is smashed directly, there is a possibility of capsizing.
Chen Ye's face instantly exploded, turning into the mouthparts of a [devourer]. Every piece of flesh and blood on his face bloomed like petals, like a swimming octopus, stretching out its tentacles, hugging, and steadily catching the falling abyss treasure chest.
"Oh my god! This thing is really heavy!"
The moment he caught the treasure chest, Chen Ye felt as if his face was cramped, and he couldn't even laugh.
The flesh and blood closed and gathered again into that handsome young face. Chen Ye pinched his cheeks on both sides to relieve the soreness of the facial muscles from excessive pulling, and then his eyes fell on the abyss treasure chest in front of him.
Boom! Boom!
Suddenly, an unusual noise came from inside the box!
It seemed that something had come alive inside the box and was about to lift the coffin lid to resurrect.
Chen Ye was startled by the sudden noise and quickly swallowed a piece of 'Golden Fried Griffin', triggering the characteristic of [Demon Devouring]. Golden hair grew on his skin and wings grew on his back. When he flapped his wings, the air around him surged rapidly. His figure immediately soared into the sky and hovered above it. He stared at the treasure chest intently, fearing that something would suddenly run out of it.
Observe the treasure chest from a closer distance...
In addition to the faint glazed light, there is also a decayed human figure outline inside, which is filled with a faint blood light, intertwined with the ink-black chains, forming mechanical arms and legs, but the only thing missing is the head.
"There is danger in the treasure chest!" Chen Ye further confirmed this with the help of the color and outline seen by the Eye of Luck.
Dong! Dong!
The thing in the box is still knocking, as if trying to break free from its confinement.
At this moment, in the center of Chen Ye's vision, next to the blood-colored treasure chest, lines of blood-colored text began to condense——
[Chaos Puppet]
[Type: Taboo (contains uncontrollable characteristics)]
[Description: There was once an excellent puppeteer who carved puppets every day and fantasized that he could make a castle made of puppets. His dream came true, and his servants, teachers, and children were always with him in the form of puppets... Until one day, the puppeteer's desire was more than that, and he wanted to create a country made of puppets. But one day, he suddenly committed suicide. When people found his body, only the parts of the puppet were left, but the head was missing! ]
[Characteristics: Puppet Master, Chaos, Control]
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"Isn't this a relic extracted from the body of a high-sequence professional after his death?"
Chen Ye saw the description of the blood-colored text on the panel, and his expression changed uncontrollably, and his eyes were covered with a layer of deep gray.
Any existence in the Weird Era, including the natives and players, needs to rely on absorbing characteristic items to gradually advance to higher professions and unlock stronger characteristics.
Therefore, they have already absorbed a huge amount of characteristics in their bodies...
Some children born by high-sequence masters will naturally unlock the corresponding professions.
According to the law of conservation of characteristics, when a high-sequence master dies, the corresponding characteristic items will also be extracted from the body, thus becoming a way for players to kill monsters and upgrade.
However, only when different items are extracted after the death of a high-sequence master can it contain multiple characteristics.
And these multiple characteristics combined, without the control of complete consciousness, will become uncontrollable items, constantly radiating characteristic energy to the surroundings, causing pollution, curses and other similar effects.
Such items are often named "taboos".
Chen Ye did not expect that there would be a taboo in this abyss treasure chest, and he immediately felt tricky and difficult.
Usually, taboos, as uncontrollable items, cannot be directly integrated as characteristic items for job transfer.
Either through purification or special treatment by the Fiery Sun Church, the uncontrollable can be converted into controllable, or by forceful absorption, which requires the cost of losing control. Even if the subsequent profession is successfully integrated, it will bring great risks to oneself.
Items like this can't help but make people feel tricky and difficult to deal with...
If you touch it rashly, it will bring unpredictable risks and crises to yourself.
Chen Ye fell into deep thought, he was hesitating whether to open this treasure chest.
"[Chaos Puppet]... is a special item that naturally precipitated from a puppet master after his death. It is not all of the characteristics, but part of it."
"Without a head, only a body, it already contains three characteristics..."
"So, this puppet master was at least a fourth-level profession when he was alive!"
"But judging from the description in the bloody text, this puppet master has worked hard towards the goal of building a puppet kingdom. It is very likely that he has reached the fifth rank, or even close to the sixth rank... But such ambition is too much. Crazy, and the process is inhumane... No, even the trick is a bit too much... The collapse of the middle path is almost expected. "
"If a powerful person reaches this level, even if only a part of his characteristics are released from his body, it will bring great danger to the surrounding things. The characteristics and authority of a higher sequence are enough to cause a crushing effect on the middle and low-sequence professions... …”
"But equally, if you can successfully control this forbidden object, the benefits it will bring are unimaginable, and you may even gain abilities beyond your current professional level."
Chen Ye's expression changed a bit, and he finally decided to throw a dice to decide whether to open the abyss treasure chest.
He took out the dice and continued to recite in his mind:
"The crisis of opening the abyss treasure chest..."
"The crisis of opening the abyss treasure chest..."
"The crisis of opening the abyss treasure chest..."
After reciting silently three times and concentrating his spiritual energy, Chen Ye threw the dice upward.
The dice fell back onto the palm, revealing the number directly above it, only "1".
"The danger of opening the treasure chest is great..."
Chen Ye frowned slightly, and when he saw the numbers on the dice, he was sure that opening the treasure chest would be a threat to him.
Do you just give up like that?
Taking a deep breath, Chen Ye decided to change the question -
"My success rate in overcoming the treasure chest crisis..."
"My success rate in overcoming the treasure chest crisis..."
"My success rate in overcoming the treasure chest crisis..."
This time, Chen Ye threw the dice again, and the number on the head changed——
"5!"
The probability is actually quite high... does it mean that after a fierce struggle, the crisis can still be solved?
Chen Ye's pupils suddenly became a little darker.
However, he did not open the treasure chest rashly and immediately. Instead, he recalled the prompt information described in [Study in Scarlet] again in his mind and thought about countermeasures:
"The puppeteer suddenly died one day without a head... He wanted to build a country, which would inevitably involve huge interests and make enemies everywhere..."
Combined with other information in the description, this puppeteer also made all his relatives and friends around him into puppets, and he was a complete madman.
The most likely outcome for such a madman who acts recklessly is to die at the hands of justice.
certainly……
Although the results of "just sanctions" in the Strange Era are just, the process is not necessarily just.
Boom! Boom!
The [Chaos Puppet] in the box is still trying to make noises.
But according to the prompts, Chen Ye knew that there was no "living consciousness" in it.
It's just an uncontrollable characteristic that turns into a taboo and affects the surrounding things through its own operation.
Since the corpse can move...does it mean that the body has been cursed in some way? From the [Undead]?
Several possibilities flashed through Chen Ye's mind.
If it was a curse that caused the puppeteer to fall into death, then his body after death would most likely have residual characteristics and squirm in a way that is close to the "undead".
In this way, the [Fire Sun] characteristics of [Undead] and [Cursor] can be restrained, and the remaining evil spirits of the corpse can be driven away, thus turning the uncontrollable into controllable.
However, these speculations cannot be verified yet. If something goes wrong, it will be fatal!
Just to be on the safe side...
Chen Ye decided to change his approach and use tarot divination to divine the success rate of doing so.
He took out the [Tarot Cards], gathered his mind again, and focused on the description he wanted to ask:
"Can the method of using the blazing sun to deal with the crisis inside the box be successful?"
Chen Ye meditated on the specific operation process while spreading out the Tarot cards. Then, he divined for himself and selected three Tarot cards and arranged them separately:
Past: Four of Pentacles (right position)
Now: Demon (reversed)
Future: The Hanged Man (reversed)
Chen Ye's eyes moved slightly and fell on the three newly drawn Tarot cards. He concentrated his thoughts and combined his intuition to analyze the meanings of the cards:
"Four of Pentacles, this means that I have a relatively good foundation in the past and is a relatively stable card. On this issue, it means that I have enough chips and trump cards in my hand to face the possibility of opening the abyss treasure chest. crisis encountered.”
"The devil is reversed... This should be related to the curse inside, but in a reversed state, it may not be as difficult to deal with as imagined."
"The Hanged Man reversed... symbolizes a liberation, mirroring each other with the devil. As long as we can find a solution, we can escape from it."
Putting away the tarot cards, Chen Ye gradually came to a conclusion.
Take out a sugar-roasted chestnut that has been prepared for a long time from the mountain roll, swallow it, and restore your spiritual deficiencies again, until your spiritual power is completely full again...
Afterwards, Chen Ye walked up to the treasure box, took a deep breath, and his face suddenly cracked open. In the form of [Devourer], he gained stronger mobility, and his mouthparts turned into tentacles against both sides of the box, ready to open at any time.
at the same time……
His hands transform into sharp scissors.
Activate execution mode!
A ray of silver sword light flashed through the opening of the treasure chest like a crescent moon.
The chain that sealed the opening of the treasure chest was broken instantly.
Bang!
The top cover of the Abyss Treasure Chest seemed to be automatically bounced open by a force...
"Woo woo woo!"
"Woo woo woo!"
A creepy cry came from the treasure chest.
Chen Ye's mood suddenly tensed up, and the cry made him get goose bumps all over his body.
Without any hesitation, he immediately communicated with the spirit and summoned the [Secret Scroll of the Blazing Sun Prayer].
The holy blazing sun suddenly rose to the top of his head and dispelled the darkness.
"Woo woo woo!"
"Woo woo woo!"
Amid the cry, a skinny, black hand bone stretched out from the Abyss Treasure Chest, accompanied by a thick and gushing black mist, which spread out...
[Chaos Puppet] slowly crawled out of the box. It only had a body, no head, and every step was as stiff as a machine.
When the puppet crawled out, Chen Ye suddenly felt that his body was out of control and moved, as stiff and awkward as a puppet. Even his thinking ability began to decline, as if he was about to lose the ability to think for himself.
Chen Ye gritted his teeth and tried his best to open his spirituality to the highest state, maintaining his self-rationality to ensure that he had enough thinking ability to make the right strategic judgment for the next step.
At this moment, the [Chaos Puppet] was surrounded by dark chains.
These dark chains were like the long hair of a witch, growing and extending infinitely, spreading to the surroundings, binding Chen Ye's body, and restraining his actions.
Chen Ye knew that the [Chaos Puppet] would turn the surrounding objects into puppets...
He did not dare to neglect it and immediately communicated with the [Secret Scroll of the Blazing Sun Prayer], which bloomed with a brighter blazing sun.
The spirituality condensed and transformed into a fire snake. The flames containing sacred attributes immediately burned all the evil things around, tore the dark chains, and engulfed the surrounding darkness with unstoppable fire.
Chen Ye suddenly felt the joints of his body loosen up, just like rusty mechanical parts suddenly smeared with lubricant, moving flexibly and freely, as if reborn.
He waved the two [Devil Scissors] in his hands to execute the puppet.
Click! Click!
These extremely sharp scissors can cut everything.
However, when they fell on the [Chaos Puppet], they made a "clang" sound and rubbed sparks.
The puppet figure retreated several steps and was attacked, but the parts on its body were not damaged at all.
"This guy is really tenacious... However, the characteristics of [Fiery Sun] have already had a lot of effects."
Chen Ye noticed that when the sacred fire summoned by [Fiery Sun Prayer Scroll] destroyed the black chains around the puppet, the opponent's mobility was obviously declining, including the control of itself.
He once again released the flame with all his strength to burn the chains.
"As long as we keep attacking like this, sooner or later this puppet will be purified of all the evil characteristics, thus eliminating the uncontrollable crisis of the taboo..."