"Ha ha ha... *cough cough*"
"I won!"
On the cold ground, Tang Qi was holding a dog corpse with a blasted head, laughing brilliantly.
Just now, he had taken a gamble.
With his normal human physical condition, facing a monster dog alone and unarmed while being chased, it was impossible to fight back.
But with an Extraordinary Gun, everything was different.
In the end, he paid the price of an injured arm and successfully unsealed Blood Python No.1, blowing up the dog's head at the last moment.
Feeling the gradually cooling corpse in his arms, Tang Qi struggled to his feet, not looking at his injured arm first, but at the domineering pistol still in his other hand.
In his eyes, a special interface had appeared.
[Curios: Blood Python No.1.]
[State: Restored.]
[Information Fragment One: This is a weapon that has been through wars with its original owner. In an accidental event, it killed a Cave Demon Dragon and acquired the Extraordinary Power of Dragon Power (pseudo) after being stained with the dragon's blood.]
[Information Fragment Two: Its basic attributes are Blast and Armor-piercing, capable of modifying bullets to add various temporary attributes.]
"Great stuff!"
Although Tang Qi was just a beginner in the Extraordinary Domain, he possessed basic discernment skills.
Especially with his All-Knowing Golden Finger, the information of the Extraordinary Gun was laid bare, certainly a weapon that could instantly boost Tang Qi's combat power.
This was evident from the Blank Dog-faced Man who had become a corpse in his arms.
"Hmm?"
As Tang Qi's thoughts shifted to the monster's corpse in his arms, he immediately noticed that the messed-up mad dog's body began to rot.
The body full of meat tumors was like a deflating balloon, shrinking bit by bit. A large rot spot appeared, skin and flesh disintegrated, then the bones, turning from bone white to pitch black. A gust of wind blew past, and it dispersed like ashes.
Where the corpse disappeared, a misty soul that maintained a howling shape arose—it was the drug addict he had killed.
The moment it saw Tang Qi, as if seeing a terrifying natural enemy, an expression of deeper resentment emerged on its already distorted face. It screamed and turned to flee.
But at that moment, as if blessed by a sudden insight, a pale hand abruptly reached out and grabbed its neck.
Before it could scream, inside Tang Qi's palm, a faint golden flame suddenly ignited.
Upon touching the flame, the drug addict's resentful soul melted away like snow under the scorching sun, quickly dissolving. It struggled desperately with limbs flailing, but still turned to ashes in less than a second.
In Tang Qi's mind, suddenly, it seemed as if he saw a stream entirely made of golden light points converging from his palm, swiftly flowing into that mysterious space shrouded in fog.
Tang Qi felt his body tremble, enveloped by an immensely warm sensation, and the accompanying boundless strength circulated throughout his limbs and body.
A chase and counterattack that should have exhausted all of Tang Qi's stamina.
But now, aside from a faint pain in the arm, Tang Qi felt no exhaustion, and his state was better than ever.
"This feeling...?"
Tang Qi slowly got up, suddenly closed his eyes, entered his own Spirit Space, quickly came out, and looked at himself again.
As expected, the anticipated scene appeared.
The Skills section had changed once again.
But this time, what changed was the Golden Furnace Meditation.
Originally a blank space, now included a parenthesis with the text: Beginner, Progress 0.01%.
"Meditation Method, also started."
Tang Qi felt the spiritual power filling his mind, a smile appeared on his lips as he said lightly.
At this moment, he suddenly understood slightly, the decryption method of the Golden Furnace Meditation.
The Sun is the golden melter, the only fuel is the soul
Perhaps, he had found the correct path to practice the Meditation Method?
Tang Qi vaguely understood something, but still had some faint doubts.
However, this is not a good place to think, Tang Qi took off his coat and covered his severely injured arm, glancing at the ground that should have been in disarray.
Due to the dissipation of the monster's corpse, aside from some black ash, there were only six orange-yellow shell casings and a few drops of blood from Tang Qi himself.
Although it was late at night and this place was remote, plus there were no bodies or such, even if someone appeared, there was no need to worry about explaining.
But following the principle of "better less trouble than more," Tang Qi still cleaned up a bit.
He picked up the shell casings and put them in the box together with Blood Python No.1, then kicked some mud over to cover the fresh blood.
After making sure everything was in order, Tang Qi turned and headed back home.
Once back in the small brick house, Tang Qi treated his arm in a bizarre way, with harsh liquor for disinfection and applying herbal medicine, knowledge neither the original owner nor Tang Qi himself had; obviously, it came from Old Morgan, a native of the Saha Continent.
Tang Qi had consumed half of his soul, also gaining some fragmentary knowledge.
After everything was settled, Tang Qi neither practiced the newly started Meditation Method nor fiddled with the newly acquired Extraordinary Weapon, Blood Python No.1.
Instead, he quickly went down to the first floor, entered the cramped storage room, and dragged out a bundle of old newspapers and a pile of magazines or other publications, with the top one dated just yesterday.
He moved these publications, fragrant with the smell of ink, to his study room and quickly flipped through them.
His focus was different from ordinary people; he didn't read political news or business information.
He specifically looked at strange and unusual events, unreliable urban legends published in small blocks, or simply some ghastly tragic events.
April 29th of year 102 in the Divine Eagle Calendar, the famous tourist destination in the Federation, Ghana Snow Mountain, was suspected to have a Snow Monster sighting; a giant entirely covered with ice and snow rushed out from the depths of the Snow Mountain and snatched a child from the hands of a tourist couple, fleeing immediately.
April 30th, in the center of Holy Eagle Nest City, the biggest city, a street collapsed, creatures resembling mermaids were spotted in the sewer, officially explained as some marine life that mistakenly entered the sewer.
The same day, in Jiatai City, the second largest city, cult members self-immolated under the statue of the Lord of Thorns, were stopped by the police, but all the cult members mysteriously disappeared before being taken back to the police station.
May 1st, on the Federation Highway No.5, a serial killer appeared, consecutively killing more than a dozen people, the murder scene left runes similar to those of Devils.
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Seeing more and more of this information, Tang Qi's brow furrowed tighter, his initially vague guess gradually becoming clearer.
Flipping further, Tang Qi was not satisfied with just the Divine Eagle Federation, his search area expanded across the entire Blue Star.
A sudden explosion of related information began bombarding Tang Qi's mind.
April 30th of year 102, within a member country of the Europe Alliance in Franqi Country, a blood-colored mist suddenly erupted inside a rural castle, dissipating only in the early hours of the next morning, all life inside the covered area had already died.
May 1st, in the southern part of Atlant Ocean, a passing cruise ship was suspected to have been overturned by a giant octopus-shaped sea monster, most of the crew members died, and the few survivors were left in a confused and insane state.
May 2nd, deep in the Eritrea Ocean, various strange and terrifying roars were detected, seeming like a monster battle ongoing in the depths of the ocean, a day later, a large area of the central ocean was dyed blood red.
April 28th, within the Siren Trench, suddenly a violent column of light erupted, piercing through the ocean, even briefly illuminating half of the trench, within the light column a phantom of a pair of wings could be faintly seen, many claimed it could potentially be a Miracle.
The source, believed to be the Divine Eagle Federation's "Wings of Freedom," lost for hundreds of years, rumors stated that the Federation Government had organized scientists and religious scholars to investigate and salvage.
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