"Hahaha...cough cough"
"I won!"
On the icy ground, Tang Qi hugged the exploded dog corpse and laughed brilliantly.
Just now, he gambled.
With his ordinary human physique, if he was chased and unarmed, it would be impossible to fight against a monster mad dog.
But if there were extraordinary weapons, everything would be different.
In the end, he paid the price of a wounded arm and successfully unsealed Blood Python No. 1, blowing up the dog's head at the last moment.
Feeling the corpse in his arms gradually cooling, Tang Qi struggled to get up, did not immediately look at his injured arm, but looked at the domineering pistol still in the other hand.
In his eyes, the changed special interface popped up.
[Artifact: Blood Python No. 1]
[Status: Restored]
[Information Fragment 1: This is a weapon that followed its original owner through wars. In an accident, it killed a cave demon dragon. After being stained with the blood of the demon dragon, it gained extraordinary power—Dragon Prestige (pseudo).]
[Information Fragment 2: Its basic attributes are explosion and armor penetration. It can modify bullets to add different temporary attributes.]
"Good stuff!"
Although Tang Qi was just a novice who had just stepped into the extraordinary realm, he still had basic identification ability.
Especially under his omniscient golden fingers, the information of this extraordinary firearm was clear at a glance, which was definitely a weapon that could instantly increase Tang Qi's combat power.
This can be seen from the Brownk dog-faced man who has become a corpse in his arms.
"Hmm?"
Just as Tang Qi's thoughts turned to the monster corpse in his arms, he immediately saw the collapsed mad dog corpse suddenly begin to rot.
The body full of meat tumors deflated little by little like a deflated balloon. A huge rotten spot appeared, the skin and flesh dissolved, then the bones, from snow white to pitch black. A breeze blew over, as if it had dissipated like dust.
Where the corpse disappeared, a hazy spirit rose, keeping howling. It was the drug addict killed by Tang Qi.
When he saw Tang Qi, he was like seeing a terrible enemy. His already distorted face showed an even more resentful look. Screaming, he turned around and ran away.
Unfortunately, at this moment, a white jade palm suddenly stretched out and directly grabbed its neck.
Before it could scream, there was a sudden "bang" in Tang Qi's palm, and a faint golden flame ignited.
As soon as the flame touched the resentful spirit of the drug addict, it melted quickly like residual snow encountering the sun. It struggled desperately with hands and feet, but still couldn't match it after a second, and turned into flying ashes.
In Tang Qi's mind, suddenly at this moment, it seemed to see a stream composed entirely of golden dots, converging from his palm, surging into that strange space shrouded in mist in the blink of an eye.
"Boom"
Tang Qi only felt his body tremble, and an extremely warm feeling enveloped his whole body, accompanied by endless power flowing through his limbs.
A chase and counter-kill should have exhausted all of Tang Qi's stamina.
But now, apart from the faint pain in his arm, Tang Qi felt no exhaustion at all, and his condition was unprecedentedly good.
"This feeling...?"
"Hum"
Tang Qi slowly got up, suddenly closed his eyes, entered his own spiritual space, and came out quickly again, looking at himself again.
Sure enough, the expected scene appeared.
The skill column changed again.
However, this time, the change occurred in the golden furnace meditation method.
Originally blank, an extra bracket appeared, with the words "entry level, progress 0.01%".
"The meditation method has also entered."
Feeling the spiritual power filled in his mind, Tang Qi showed a smile at the corner of his mouth and said lightly.
At this moment, he suddenly understood the decryption method of the golden furnace meditation method.
The sun is a golden furnace, and the only fuel is the soul.
Perhaps he found the correct path to cultivate meditation?
Tang Qi vaguely understood something, but still had some faint doubts.
But this is not a good place to think. Tang Qi took off his coat and wrapped his severely injured arm. He glanced at the ground that should have been in a mess.
Because the monster corpse disappeared, there were only some black ashes, six yellow bullet shells from Blood Python No. 1 and a few drops of blood from Tang Qi himself.
Although it was deep night and remote here, and there was no corpse or anything, even if someone appeared, there was no need to worry about explanation.
However, based on the principle that it is better to do less than more, Tang Qi still handled it.
He picked up the bullet shells and put them in the box with Blood Python No. 1. He also kicked some mud to wipe the blood.
After confirming that there was no problem, Tang Qi turned and walked home.
Back in the brick and stone building, Tang Qi treated his arm with a rather strange method, rough disinfection with strong alcohol, applying herbal medicine. Neither the original owner nor Tang Qi himself possessed this knowledge, which obviously came from Old Morgan, the native of Sahar Continent.
Tang Qi swallowed half of his soul and gained some fragmented knowledge.
After everything was done, Tang Qi neither cultivated the newly entry meditation method nor tinkered with the newly acquired extraordinary weapon Blood Python No. 1.
Instead, he quickly went downstairs into the cramped storeroom again, dragged out a bundle of old newspapers, magazines and other publications. The top one showed the date as yesterday.
He carried these publications exuding the fragrance of ink upstairs to the study. Tang Qi quickly browsed through them.
His focus was different from ordinary people. He didn't read political news or business information.
He specifically looked for strange news and unreliable urban legends published in some tabloid newspapers, or simply some bloody cases that sounded very bloody.
Divine Eagle Calendar 102, April 29 - The famous tourist attraction Ghana Snow Mountain in the Federal Union is suspected to have appeared snow monsters. A giant covered in ice and snow rushed out of the depths of the snow mountain, snatched a child from a couple of tourists and escaped.
On April 30, the central district of Saint Eagle's Nest, the first metropolis, collapsed. Suspected mermaids appeared in the sewer. The official explanation was that certain marine organisms had accidentally entered the sewer.
On the same day, the second metropolis Jiati City, cult members mysteriously disappeared before being escorted to the police station after the police prevented them from self-immolating under the statue of the Lord of Thorns.
On May 1, a serial killer appeared on Federal Highway No. 5, killing more than a dozen people along the highway. Devil-like runes were left at the murder scene.
...
Looking at more and more of such information, Tang Qi's frown became tighter, and the vague guess in his heart gradually became clear.
Going further back, Tang Qi was not satisfied with the Divine Eagle Union and directly expanded his search range to the entire Blue Star.
The relevant information exploded several times directly, bombarding Tang Qi's mind.
On April 30, 102, in the member state of Francie, the European Union, a blood-colored mist suddenly erupted in an old castle in the countryside and did not disperse until early the next morning. All life within the shrouded area had died.
On May 1, a cruise ship passing by in the southern Atlantic Ocean was suspected to have been overturned by a giant squid-shaped sea monster. Most of the crew on board died. The few survivors were in a state of chaos and madness.
On May 2, strange and horrible roars were detected in the deep Eritrean Ocean, seeming to be a monster fighting in the deep sea. One day later, a large area of sea water in the central Pacific was dyed blood red.
On April 28, a fierce light column suddenly erupted in the Siren Trench. The light column pierced through the ocean and even briefly illuminated most of the trench. In the light column, one could vaguely see the phantom of a pair of wings. Many people firmly believed that it was very likely a miracle.
The source was the "Wings of Freedom" lost for hundreds of years in the Divine Eagle Federation. It was rumored that the federal government had organized scientists and religious scholars to investigate and salvage.