"Mind Amplification Bracelet," Qian Long said, "This is a piece of equipment I acquired last year, which can provide a certain spiritual amplification effect for the wearer. Take it."
"Expensive, right?"
"Well... It's acceptable..."
"You can tell just by looking at his reluctant expression," Bandri revealed the truth on the side: "This thing took him a lot of effort to obtain. In the end, he spent fifty purple crystals on it. Equipment that can directly enhance the user's abilities in a certain aspect is very rare."
"It's too precious, I can't..."
Li Wei's words were cut off halfway by Qian Long. He said: "Don't say that. No matter how precious, can it be more precious than my life? I am not the kind of person who forgets favor. To receive help, there must be a price to pay. This is my principle. Accept the item, take this as an offset for my life, and I still made a profit."
"Alright, then I will not refuse."
After putting on the wristband, Levi immediately felt a cool sensation in his head, as if he'd just smelled mint, yet it wasn't as harsh but more gentle and smooth.
As soon as he wore it, he knew it was a good thing.
"Thank you."
"Don't be so polite." After giving away the wristband, Qian Long became much more generous: "Let's set off quickly."
Lei nodded: "Alright, then we'll go first. The Guild Building isn't necessarily safe either; when I and Cai Yutong set out, we were attacked by some semi-mechanical creatures. You guys should be careful."
Bandari smiled and said: "Even if Qian Long is handicapped now, we've still got me, no need to worry."
...
Lei and Cai Yutong continued heading south of the Guild Building, which was where the explosion had initially come from, the location of Yiasha's convoy ambush.
In fact, Li Wei still feels a bit regretful. Bandry and Qian Long are extremely powerful, both strong experts who have activated their genetic locks, and their assistance in combat is invaluable. Bandry's arrows and Qian Long's telekinesis, even Li Wei would find it challenging to cope when facing them.
If they could travel together, then Li Wei would find it easier to plan actions and seize more resources.
But there's no choice, Qian Long was severely injured, Bandry as a good friend was concerned and insisted on accompanying him, what else could Li Wei say?
Obtaining the Hellfire Energy Crystal and the Telepathic Amplification Bracelet was an unexpected pleasant surprise.
Continuing to travel south, the journey was not smooth sailing. Scattered enemies would always appear in the surroundings.
Individual cyborg infantry are still relatively easy to deal with, but along the way, Li Wei and Cai Yutong have seen and encountered many more than just human beings who have undergone partial cyborg modifications.
For example, the biggest trouble they encountered was a huge semi-mechanical centipede, about four or five meters long and very robust in body.
This monster caused Li Wei and Cai Yutong considerable trouble. According to Cai Yutong, this is a giant irradiated centipede. Its normal individuals possess very strong combat capabilities. It requires at least two or three masters who have activated their genetic locks to team up and hunt down.
If there were really a giant irradiated centipede here, Li Wei and Cai Yutong would not even have a chance to run away.
Unfortunately, this semi-mechanical modified monster is obviously a failure.
Admittedly, it possesses immense strength and its attacks are extremely powerful. If either Li Wei or Cai Yutong were hit by those sharp, blade-like limbs on its body, they would undoubtedly be severed on the spot.
Moreover, it is highly durable. The piercing bullets fired by Li Wei have little to no effect on this massive creature.
However, these advantages cannot obscure its fatal flaws.
Its movements are clumsy, slow, and restricted to straightforward charges. The mechanical components of its body make it very awkward when twisting or maneuvering.
As a result, Li Wei and Cai Yutong are given the opportunity to defeat this monster.
Cai Yutong uses various Runic Bullets to engage from a distance while Li Wei flanks the creature, seizing opportunities to strike with his short blade using techniques like Steel Slash or even Ghost Strike to inflict damage.
The offensive methods of the two of them can only inflict very limited damage on this semi-mechanical giant radioactive centipede.
Li Wei's ghost slash is strong enough, but the reality of the battle cannot give him too many opportunities to charge up for a long time. No matter how slow the centipede moves, it cannot be slow enough for Li Wei to react after charging up for two or three seconds.
However, even the incompletely charged ghost slash has surpassed the power of any other skill he has mastered. Both the steel-cutting flash and the demon claws' full-force strike cannot match the power of the ghost slash.
Nevertheless, even with this, when Li Wei slashes out a ghost slash, it can at most leave a wound on this monster, inflicting some damage, but not much.
In Li Wei's current capability, he will feel very strenuous after continuously slashing out five or six ghost slashes.
Cai Yutong's situation is also roughly similar; she occasionally takes out her hand cannon and fires a shot. From a distance, she can attack with much more composure than Li Wei, and she can charge the energy in the hand cannon before firing, making it even more powerful than Li Wei's Demon Slash, but it still amounts to a drop in the bucket.
Together, they battered and blasted this giant centipede for two or three minutes, exhausting themselves, but failed to kill the monster.
Although it was also heavily wounded, it still had high vitality and was rampaging on the streets, chasing and killing Li Wei and Cai Yutong everywhere.
Li Wei realized that he couldn't continue like this; he even thought of using the hellfire energy crystal given to him by Banduri. It was made by a strong individual who had unlocked his genes, and when used, it could deliver a powerful strike beyond the limits, with the possibility of instantly defeating the monster.
However, after some consideration, he was still a bit reluctant to part with it.
The situation has not reached such a critical level yet.
Calculating his physical strength that was already approaching the warning line, Li Wei shouted to Cai Yutong: "Find a way to help me buy some time!"
Cai Yutong nodded from a distance, took out her hand cannon, and directly fired an energy beam at the head of the half-mechanical centipede monster, making its already disfigured head even more miserable.
The large centipede, having been struck heavily, let out a roar and charged towards Cai Yutong, temporarily ignoring Li Wei by its side.
Taking a deep breath, devil energy surged crazily from his left hand, Li Wei started gathering strength.
He intended to perform a fully charged Ghost Slash. At the same time, the white air blades swirling around his dagger also turned to purplish blue due to the rising devil energy.