Chapter 74 - 0074: Harvest
In a remote suburb.
Su Lu found a forest ranger’s temporary dwelling, which was currently unoccupied.
Dora helped the violent woman sit down. The woman snorted coldly, pulled out a silver dagger, and forcefully dug out a bullet from her arm.
Pfutt!
The wound was gushing blood from being sliced open, an agonizing sight to Su Lu.
This violent woman was ruthless, not just to others, but even more so to herself.
“What’re you looking at!”
She gasped for breath, her mouth twitching slightly: “Haven’t seen a woman before?”
“Indeed, it’s rare to see such a fierce woman…” Su Lu showed no emotional reaction, and asked expressionlessly: “Are you a transcendent?”
“So are you!”
The violent woman replied confidently. Both Su Lu’s spirit oppression and his strength and speed were beyond what any ordinary person possessed.
“Sister…what are you guys talking about?”
Dora opened her eyes wide, completely confused.
“Huh?”
Su Lu was shocked. The sister was a transcendent and yet the younger sister did not know?
“Dora, I’m sorry…there are some things that it’s better you don’t know.” The violent woman gestured towards the door with her eyes: “Go find some water, be careful not to be noticed. And…don’t eavesdrop!”
She clearly knew her sister well.
“How could I eavesdrop?”
Dora stuck out her tongue. Although she really wanted to stay, she was so accustomed to her sister’s commands that she obediently left.
“My transcendent profession comes from a professor I met in school. I didn’t want to involve Dora…
The violent woman sighed, watching the departing figure of her sister: “Let me introduce myself. My name is Angie! Angie Ribby!”
“Su Lu! Su Lu Pottery! A friend of Ms. Dora!” Su Lu shrugged his response. The next moment, his eyes widened.
“Help me!”
Angie rolled up her sleeve, took out a red blood vial, a yellow tube, a hanging needle… She skillfully inserted the needle into a vein and began blood transfusion.
As the blood flowed into her body, her originally pale face turned rosy, and even the wound on her hand began to heal quickly.
“Impossible!”
Su Lu exclaimed.
“This is ‘blood therapy’, my occupational pedigree!”
Angie rolled her eyes: “My profession leans towards healing, good at mixing various bloods; I use blood transfusions for treatment. This is the most basic healing blood vial. I added slug blood to speed up wound recovery!”
“That’s not scientific… no! What I mean is… that’s very mystical! No! A slug’s doesn’t have blood, right?”
Su Lu really wanted to ask a question, aren’t you first going to match the blood type and check for agglutination reactions?
Later when he thought about it, since it went across species, why should he bother about matching blood types?
The problems with this were so many, he didn’t even know where to begin complaining.
“I like to call it blood, got a problem with that?”
Angie’s wound had healed. She tidied herself up, packed away her equipment, and spoke seriously: “Thank you for saving me, in the future I’ll give you one free treatment! But…please stay away from my sister, I want her to be a normal person!”
“I understand!”
For a person like her, who was seemingly aloof but deeply cared for her sister, Su Lu immediately gave his guarantee.
In fact, in his perspective, Angie was far more valuable than her sister.
She was a transcendent doctor!
Though it pains him to say, perhaps one day he would need her help.
After all, no one can guarantee they will always be healthy and safe!
Just the thought of being injected with all sorts of bizarre blood gave Su Lu goosebumps, and he deeply felt that he should avoid contacting Dr. Angie in the future unless absolutely necessary.
“How should I reach you?”
Su Lu asked.
“Nia City Ribby Clinic, I’m a doctor there!” Angie nodded: “My sister should be back soon. ”
She nodded at him, her intentions very evident.
“Well then… hope we won’t meet again!” Su Lu politely bowed and quickly left.
He still had a lot on his plate to take care of.
Especially the scenario at Kira’s apartment, the stage was already set, just waiting for the characters to step on.
“Sister! ”
Not long after he left, Miss Dora came in carrying a bucket of water and asked in surprise: “Where’s Mr. Pottery?”
“He’s gone!”
Angie replied coldly.
“How could you do this?” Dora dumped the water bucket on the ground in anger: “He saved us!”
“You’re also dangerous… I finally know, the secret you’ve been hiding!”
Tears welled up in Dora’s eyes: “Why… why don’t you ever let me ask you about this? Why keep it a secret from me?”
“You don’t need to know these things!”
Angie was cold and expressionless: “I’ve booked the train tickets for tonight, we’re going home!”
“Angie Ribby, huh? Interesting!”
While hurrying along, Su Lu began to ponder: “I forgot to ask about her transcendent profession, but that would be crass… knowing she’s from the medical field is enough!”
He remembered the anaesthetic gas that Angie had used back at the factory, which must’ve been one of her abilities.
It works well on ordinary people, but he wasn’t sure about its effect on transcendent beings. He certainly didn’t want to be the one to test it.
After returning to the inn, he looked at the pool of experience in his property bar.
[XP: 420]
After the slaughter, the accumulation of experience was formidable.
Not only from the previous black market stronghold, but more importantly, the factory battle where he took down a beak monster, purified many wandering spirits and killed a bunch of thugs.
This was the largest amount of experience he had gained in a single instance, and it was even enough to advance to [Mystical Scholar]!
“To advance from first level to second requires 400 experience points?”
Su Lu pondered: “No… it looks like just 400, but in reality, the previous skill and attribute enhancements are all included… a new [Spirit Medium] cannot directly advance!”
He fell into a dilemma.
Although he could advance to [Mystical Scholar], this would mean his strength would increase further. From then on, ordinary people probably wouldn’t be able to provide him with much experience, even if he killed them!
“Damn experience penalty rules, based on what I know about it, the best strategy would be to suppress one’s rank and try to harvest as much experience as possible early on… but if your strength is too low, it’s very easy to fail. And once your strength is high, the experience provided by low-rank targets decreases sharply. It’s truly a dilemma…”
If back when he got the property bar he had done what he did now, the experience he got might’ve even been doubled!
But more likely, he would have ended up dead at the hands of a gunman.
So, every choice has its pros and cons, and it’s for him to decide!
“Looking at the experience penalty or deduction rules, you should suppress your own rank at the very beginning and try to reap as much experience as possible, to avoid the awkward position of being a high-ranker with no available experience… but…”
Su Lu wore a contemplative look: “This time, it’s for the inheritance, I just got to go all out! A first-rank [Spirit Medium] can’t deal with a second-rank evil spirit!”
He had made up his mind to sacrifice some of the future for an increase in current strength!
Without the present, what future is there talk of?
Su Lu decided, he will promote himself immediately to [Mystical Scholar]!