The white light scattered, and Zhang Yue descended into a city shrouded in mist, resembling a fairyland.
[Tenth World · Sky City]
[Background: The human continent has been ravaged by parasites. These parasites use their powerful parasitic abilities to take over all living beings on the continent. Driven by them, humans were forced to abandon the continent they depended on for survival and built Sky City, using its height to avoid the attacks of these parasites…]
[World Task 1: Please obtain energy crystals by killing parasites within Sky City to forge a pair of orange wings (Progress: White/Orange)]
[World Task 2: Please kill ten lord-level parasites within Sky City (Progress: 0/10)]
Looking around, one could see that everyone traversing this Sky City, whether they were Professionals or NPCs, had a pair of wings on their backs!
There were wings of various colors: white, green, blue, and purple.
This is the characteristic of the Tenth World.
Professionals must rely on wings to fly to the continent, where they can kill parasites to obtain energy crystals from their bodies, which can be used to craft or upgrade wings.
Besides granting flight, wings have another feature: they can enhance a Professional’s attributes!
The quality is distinguished by color, and the higher the quality, the greater the attribute bonuses.
Ultimately, when a Professional leaves the Tenth World, they can permanently gain the attribute bonuses by merging their wings!
Therefore, collecting energy crystals to craft high-quality wings and selling them for profit is a major attraction for countless veteran Professionals in the Tenth World!
As a result, Zhang Yue was immediately surrounded by a group of veteran Professionals upon entering the Tenth World!
“Hey buddy, want to buy wings? Not for 998, not even 648! Just 88,000, and you can take home a pair of orange wings!”
“Just arrived in the Tenth World, huh, buddy? Those white wings won’t do. Want me to sell you some high-quality wings? Blue, purple, orange, red—you name it, we have it!”
Veteran Professionals who have been in the Tenth World for several years all have at least orange wings.
Thus, Zhang Yue’s white wings immediately exposed his newbie status!
Every Professional entering the Tenth World automatically receives a pair of white wings from the System.
[White Wings]
[Owner: Zero]
[Effect 1: Grants flight ability, flight speed +5% / Flight ability only effective in the Tenth World]
[Effect 2: Increases all attributes by 5%. When the Professional clears the Tenth World, they can merge the white wings by consuming 100,000 Psionic Energy to gain a permanent 5% all-attribute boost]
[Experience Points: 0/100 (Experience points can be gained by absorbing energy crystals)]
These white wings are indeed quite basic.
Facing the shouts around him, Zhang Yue considered spending some money to buy high-quality wings.
Although directly purchased wings can’t be used to complete the “forge a pair of orange wings” World Task, Zhang Yue would eventually have to upgrade a pair of orange wings himself from white.
However, the 30% all-attribute bonus effect of orange wings was very tempting!
Generally, wealthy people start with orange wings in the Tenth World.
Just as Zhang Yue was about to buy wings, someone in the crowd recognized him.
A girl Mage in a purple mage robe with orange wings on her back excitedly exclaimed, “Oh my! The newly crowned top Professional in the national server, Zero!”
With the Mage girl’s reminder, the others also became excited.
“It’s really Zero! Wow! I never thought I’d see the legend in my lifetime! Zero, I’m your idol—no, you’re my idol!”
“You’re amazing! I just watched your video of single-handedly taking down the Empire Guild. It was so cool, it struck a chord with me!”
“Master, I’ll give you a pair of high-quality wings. Can we be friends?”
It seems that Zhang Yue’s recent actions against the Empire Guild have indeed boosted his fame!
Of course, wings are something these people have spent a lot of time and effort upgrading in the Tenth World, and Zhang Yue didn’t intend to take advantage of them.
He planned to buy a pair of orange or red wings at market price.
At that moment, a girl Priest with white wings on her back but holding several pairs of purple wings squeezed through the crowd to Zhang Yue, anxiously saying, “I… I’ll sell you these three pairs of purple wings for 50,000, okay?”
The girl had long black hair and a delicate appearance.
Her ID read [Li Mo].
Her eyes, filled with anxiety and a hint of pleading, looked intently at Zhang Yue.
She seemed eager for Zhang Yue to buy her wings.
The purple wings, with a 50% flight speed boost and a 20% all-attribute bonus, weren’t extremely high-quality, but they were worth about 20,000 each on the market.
Li Mo was selling three pairs of purple wings for a total of 50,000, which was a loss of 10,000!
Such a loss-making deal indicated that the girl really needed money!
However, there were mocking voices from the crowd:
“Oh, isn’t this the infamous scammer girl Li Mo from the Tenth World? What, trying to scam money again?”
“Hah, you think the master will be interested in your shabby purple wings? I wouldn’t take them even if they were free!”
Unexpectedly, Zhang Yue quietly stared at the girl for three seconds before saying, “Alright, let’s go with the market price.”
Zhang Yue asked the girl to open her Feixin payment code and transferred 60,000 to her on the spot, then took the wings.
At this point, people around advised, “Brother, don’t trust her, she’s a well-known scammer here, always deceiving people emotionally and financially. Don’t be fooled by her innocent appearance!”
“Yeah, who knows how many people she’s scammed!”
Meanwhile, the Priest girl Li Mo received the money, thanked Zhang Yue, and hurriedly turned to leave.
People around shook their heads, “Ah, she just got away with a few thousand bucks again!”
“Brother, you spent 60,000 on her three pairs of purple wings. You’d be better off spending 50,000 on a pair of orange ones from me. I could even give you a discount…”
Zhang Yue ignored the others, quietly watching Li Mo’s figure gradually disappear…
On the other side.
Li Mo ran, suddenly flapping her white wings, and took off.
She left Sky City, flying down to the land occupied by parasites.
Below Sky City, the ground was dark.
Countless creatures with eight legs and a tail (resembling facehuggers) crawled on the ground.
They were searching for prey.
Once they targeted a wild rabbit, boar, or deer, they would leap onto it, attach themselves, and evolve into a giant alien creature (resembling xenomorphs) by consuming its flesh!
The entire continent had almost become the territory of these [Parasites] and [Parasitic Beasts].
Li Mo landed in the ruins of a city.
In the ruins, a dozen high-level Professionals, already reaching the Tenth World’s ceiling at level 65, were teaming up to hunt parasites.
Li Mo approached them and hurriedly said, “I’ve gathered enough money. Can you fulfill your promise to help me now?”
Among the high-level Professionals, a black-armored Warrior named [Wolf Fang] led the group. He slashed a parasitic beast beside him.
Then he approached Li Mo, speaking sharply, “Pay first.”
Li Mo wasn’t foolish: “I’ll give you a 30,000 deposit first, and after it’s done, I’ll pay you the remaining 70,000!”
Wolf Fang said indifferently, “That’s not acceptable. Payment for services is only fair.”
“Or you can find someone else! But I doubt anyone else in the Tenth World can help you.”
Li Mo hesitated for a while but eventually transferred the 100,000 she had painstakingly saved: “Alright, I’ve paid you. Now help me!”
Unexpectedly, Wolf Fang took the money and reneged on his promise: “Help you with what? Who are you?”
Then, with a lecherous gaze, he looked Li Mo up and down, smirking, “Be my girlfriend, and I’ll help you. How about it?”
Li Mo’s face turned red with anger: “You liar! You’re all liars!”
Wolf Fang chuckled, “Liar? Compared to you, I’m still ashamed in that regard!”
“Spend the night with me offline, and I’ll refund you 30,000. Plus, I’ll help you with that task tomorrow. How about it?” The lecherous Wolf Fang reached out to touch Li Mo.
At that moment, a cold wind blew.
Wolf Fang instinctively looked up and saw a Beast Tamer in a robe standing not far behind Li Mo, staring at him with icy eyes!
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