I Can Reap Qi Fortune from Players-Chapter 550 - 40: Cities Fall, Searching for the Sea of Consciousness Sealing Technique

Chapter 550: Chapter 40: Cities Fall, Searching for the Sea of Consciousness Sealing Technique

"Icefield City, Ice Rose City, a total of seven cities have already fallen?"

Ning Zheng received this news from the Kissing Fish City Lord, feeling a bit surprised.

Though the Sea Race mimicked the Human Race, the highest combat power of the 1,000 local cities was in the Three Elements Realm.

Those above the Two-Phase Realm would venture outside to establish sects.

But for the Three Elements Realm experts of the local cities to be defeated means...

Pseudo-humans can now possess high-level Cultivators!

However, it was merely surprising.

If the Pseudo-human Calamity wasn’t up to standard and couldn’t even topple some Three Elements Realm, how could it be called a disaster?

Not being a real Sea Race City Lord, the city wasn’t his livelihood or life, he could flee anytime.

Regarding this intelligence, Ning Zheng also expressed much fear: "Then aren’t our local cities very dangerous? Pseudo-humans are scarier than we thought."

The Kissing Fish City Lord’s feminine voice was very pleasant, "Should we unite... is your side still safe?"

Their true form was a Kissing Fish with big red lips.

It’s said their Divine Techniques are related to speaking, with voices that are pleasing but typically appear plump with super-large red lips after transformation.

"It’s not safe here either."

Ning Zheng thought for a moment and casually said, "But not to the extent of falling. If you want to come and seek refuge, it wouldn’t be impossible..."

If they truly sought refuge... well, Ning Zheng might really start a rebellion.

In chaotic times, gathering a group of Sea Race heroes to rebel and establish a kingdom, isn’t it the logical step?

On the Human Race side, as a Xirong Divine Craftsman, it wasn’t easy to be a rebel faction... but on the Sea Race side, striving for it, Ning Zheng had no qualms.

Even if it failed...

Ning Zheng could abandon the other rebels and escape.

Then, Ning Zheng and the worried Kissing Fish City Lord confided in each other, offered mutual comfort, and spoke of the future...

After some rambling, they ended the communication.

"It looks like our Sea Race has already lost the first wave of confrontation, not quick to react."

"As expected of the lazy Dragon Race."

Ning Zheng thought for a bit, then called for the young blacksmiths.

He informed them of the local cities being attacked, so as advisors, they would provide responses.

At that moment, Jiucai Rong also came with something: "My lord! A group of refugees has gathered outside the city, requesting us to open the gates and let them in."

"There are people outside the city?"

Ning Zheng knew the young blacksmiths had their own ideas and asked, "What is your plan?"

"We want to let them in."

Jiucai Rong said.

In their eyes, this was clearly a side quest—to take in refugees.

It’s challenging and troublesome!

Generally, a City Lord wouldn’t accept refugees for safety’s sake, who knows how many pseudo-human spies are among them.

But players are different; they play games to find challenges and gameplay, don’t they?

Now, they felt like they were playing ’Romance of the Three Kingdoms,’ in a time of chaos, developing cities, armies, domestic affairs, preparing for a big move!

Population is also productivity!

"What if there are hidden pseudo-humans among them?"

Ning Zheng posed a question, indicating that without solving this, they lacked the conditions to accept this side quest.

"Firstly, we plan to isolate them in batches."

Jiucai Rong said: "We’re planning to establish a Doomsday Tower, isolate them in single rooms, accommodate the refugees, and observe for real and pseudo-humans."

"Our existing seventy thousand residents would also be housed in an underground city, isolated from the outside refugees, as they are our basic foundation."

In short, it’s one sentence:

Open spaces are no longer safe!

In the future, it will be the era of the Sea Race’s tunnel warfare in caves.

The walls underground are naturally a strong defense.

Unparasitized Three Flowers are very weak... their strength is similar to a small octopus, as long as adults aren’t ambushed, they can kill them with a shovel.

Such Three Flowers cannot break the underground walls.

"But this plan can only be a short-term solution, right?" Ning Zheng said.

Pseudo-humans have already learned to develop low-level Spiritual Roots, avoiding detection by the Spiritual Root Tablets.

At that time, pseudo-humans that successfully parasitize could team up, break the shelter walls, and secretly throw in a few Three Flowers, leading to the fall of the underground city too.

"He has Zhang Liang’s strategies, we have an over-wall ladder."

Jiucai Rong spoke eloquently:

"[Timid Pseudo-human] is a countermeasure. Pseudo-humans have a mysterious brainwave that senses each other. By cultivating inside pseudo-human informants and keeping them in a cage on a leash, we can catch pseudo-humans among the masses."

Using inner traitors to defeat inner traitors?

Interesting!

Ning Zheng’s mouth twitched slightly, and then he said, "What if the pseudo-humans find a countermeasure too? They isolate their own brainwaves, avoiding detection."

"Even better!"

Jiucai Rong immediately said:

"Why can pseudo-humans unite? It’s because they have a mysterious brainwave."

"If they can’t use this brainwave to prove who they are... how can they trust their pseudo-human companions in the future?"

"How do you prove you’re you?"

Jiucai Rong displayed a cunning smile, already imagining a scenario.

Prior.

The humans are fearful: How can I prove this family member is not a Pseudo-human?

After that.

The Pseudo-humans are fearful: I’m afraid to send out brain waves to probe. How can I prove this person is a Pseudo-human companion and not a spy? But if I send out Pseudo-human brain waves and he’s a human spy, what if he reports me?

Pseudo-humans also fall into the self-proving trap.

They too must fight alone, hiding their Pseudo-human identity.

They become isolated one by one, not daring to exchange information, not daring to reveal their identities, unfamiliar even with fellow Pseudo-humans.

"In this way, the Pseudo-humans also have to face the dilemma... How to know I am me, once again reversing the Celestial Gang," Jiucai Rong boasted proudly about his strategy.

"Pseudo-humans, using insiders to defeat humans."

"Today, let the Pseudo-humans taste our pain, we will also use insiders to defeat the Pseudo-humans!"

Ning Zheng: "..."

So insidious.

So complex.

Are you also playing a game of espionage here, using magic to defeat magic?

These beasts, there are indeed hundreds of psychology masters outside, devising all sorts of sinister and vicious strategies against Pseudo-humans!

Pseudo-humans, the times have changed!

We return the fear once felt by humans back to you.

"This plan is good; you handle the refugees," Ning Zheng thought for a bit, then no longer paid attention.

The Pseudo-human problem mainly depends on how the Sea Race responds.

What does a single city mean to us?

It can’t affect the overall war situation at all.

What my Fish Wine City can do is stock up on food, develop secretly, and accumulate strength in chaotic times.

...

In the afternoon.

The underground city is being built in full swing.

There is no sunlight in the underground.

But it doesn’t matter...

The sun and moon of the Sea Race aren’t very bright as it is.

The Sea Race has their own natural lighting system, with various lantern fish, almost every household raises them as pets.

Humans, cut wood and light fires for illumination.

Sea Race, breed lantern fish for lighting.

Lantern fish swim in the underground caverns, emitting a glow.

Underground, hard rocks are everywhere, continuous sounds of chiseling and knocking can be heard, a few little blacksmiths riding crabs talking as they work:

"I have to say, this Sea Race is rubbish! A place without a few ancestral city walls makes it impossible for us to relocate our ancestral graves underground."

"Exactly, too rubbish!"

"In a place like Pingchang City with its thousand local cities, there are already a few thousand walls. There are some Three Elements Realms too, and quite a few Four Viscera Realms... but here it’s bare."

"There’s nothing to be done, the Sea Race and Human Race are different, the Sea Race has too many complex variations, your ancestor is not my ancestor."

"My Fat-headed Fish clan captured this city, the Golden Tuna Ancestor on the original city wall doesn’t acknowledge me and can’t help me defend the city, of course, it had to be abandoned!"

"Yes, their groups are complex, the lower-tier power dynamics change frequently, making it impossible to accumulate ancestral city walls."

"But this is limited to the low level Sea Race, the advanced Sea Race has long-lasting inheritances, and the number of same-clan ancestors in their Holy Land should not be weaker than the human Holy Land."

...

The crowd chatted and felt that the Sea Race was quite lacking.

The internal strife among various races is too serious, causing none of their ancestors to consolidate power.

"Beasts are just beasts, a bunch of tribal savages without the good habit of ancestral worship," Lin Meimei mocked.

"We humans, in our zeal for venerating ancestors, respecting the old and cherishing the young, have become so prosperous! Becoming the first powerful race of the Nine-State!"

...

They really had no rebuttal for this.

Outside of Human Race’s Nine-State, in the cities of other Divine Beasts and Demon Beasts, ancestral worship is not popular.

They really are not at all filial!

While they were building the Doomsday Sea Race city underground.

At this time, Ning Zheng went to see Princess Xin’e again, and got in touch with the Sword Fairy.

Actually.

He didn’t want to contact the Sword Fairy.

Because after Xirong was revealed to the world, too many people were watching the Sword Fairy.

Although now the Sword Fairy is still receiving guests everywhere, creating confusion, Princess Xin’e is not the most likely guest to be suspected.

But he still didn’t really want to go.

He checked the Qi Fortune Value and confirmed there was no problem before contacting the Sword Fairy.

Soon.

The Sword Fairy came to meet with Princess Xin’e.

"You want a Sealing Technique?"

The Sword Fairy paused, "Oh, we do have some in stock, but they’ve not been collected very strongly. These are things that money can’t buy!"

This kind of Sea of Consciousness Sealing Technique is a standard foundational asset for becoming a major power.

Over the years, Ximen City has done a lot of preparation to become a major power.

But the sealing techniques they acquired aren’t of a high level, they are transmitted inheritances from those second-tier forces that fell.

"Having some is good," Ning Zheng said, he didn’t ask for too much.