Chapter 489 - 191: You Old Six!! Straight for the Base

"Communications are clear!"

"The plan is viable!"

Inside the special, ice-covered region, Shen Fei still wore a thick, quilted cotton coat despite his enhanced physical constitution. He quickly stepped into the snow-covered special region closest to Qing City. After the special region’s semi-transparent Shield, which he had blasted open, slowly closed behind him, Shen Fei opened Ninth World and ran a test with Sun Yu.

He finally confirmed the fact that he wouldn’t lose contact while inside the special region. Within the special region, although the Forum and all other forms of communication were blocked, Shen Fei’s communication through Ninth World was completely unaffected. When others entered a special region, they immediately lost contact. For Shen Fei, however, it was as if he had simply traveled to a distant place; his connection remained perfectly clear.

SWOOSH. SWOOSH. SWOOSH.

He quickly ran another series of tests on the Summoning and attack capabilities of his Defense Towers. Shen Fei confirmed that after entering the special region, his Defense Towers could be summoned and fight without any issues. Although the icy world caused the Attack Power of some of his fire-elemental Defense Towers to decrease, the Attributes of the vast majority of them were completely unaffected.

The only noticeable impact was on the range of his Defense Towers. He was currently standing not far from the special region’s Shield, but he found that the range was being cut off by that very Shield. In other words, while inside the special region, his Defense Towers could no longer attack anything in the outside world.

With the Shield blocking them, his Defense Towers could be summoned and fight freely within the special region, but their range was confined to the area inside. Even though the outside world was only a few hundred meters behind him, the Shield at his back completely obstructed his Defense Towers’ range. The effects of Defense Towers like the Detection Tower and Domain Tower had their ranges entirely contained within the Shield. As for offensive Defense Towers, unless they launched a Cluster Attack powerful enough to shatter the Shield, their attacks would also be blocked if their power didn’t reach a certain threshold.

Good enough. There are pros and cons. This way, as long as I control the power of my Defense Towers to stay below a certain limit, I can clear out this entire special region without affecting the outside world!

After testing the attack capabilities of his Defense Towers, Shen Fei immediately knew what he had to do.

In fact, he had some "experience" dealing with special regions. Never mind that he had easily broken through the Pacific Ocean special region’s Shield east of Songhai—a Shield that was impregnable to others—and annihilated the powerful Intelligent NPC and Super Boss who dared to invade Great Xia again. Even just considering northern Myanmar, he had used his Defense Towers to "clear out" a special region. Moreover, he had even made the creatures inside that special region surrender to him directly.

At that time, he had only just inherited his game-like abilities, so the Little Tree People that appeared in that special region weren’t very intelligent. Furthermore, since he had just inherited his powers, the region hadn’t had time to develop and was only a little over 10,000 square kilometers in size. However, he did indeed have experience breaking through a special region’s Shield and "clearing" it out.

Now, entering a special region again, the only differences were that this one was larger, the NPCs and bosses inside were more intelligent, and their Combat Power was higher.

Fight? Shen Fei was confident he could win! He was no stranger to special regions.

Of course, he also knew very well that this time his purpose for entering the special region wasn’t to fight his way through everything. He was here to discover the ultimate goal of the NPCs and bosses—to find out why their heads would explode the moment he asked about that very goal. This situation had made Shen Fei extremely curious. That was why, having now completed his fourth inheritance of game-like abilities, he had quickly entered the special region to probe its secrets.

"Hm?"

Just as he finished his initial tests on the Defense Towers and was about to use his Detection Tower to survey the entire special region, Shen Fei was surprised to see another notebook and voice recorder appear. They were in the dedicated space on Ninth World that he had created specifically for exchanging information with Sun Yu—the very space he had just used moments before.

"Bloodline Gemstones? Secret Realm Refresh Scrolls?"

Shen Fei was taken aback as he read the message from Yu. He quickly shifted his focus to the buy-orders section of Ninth World that Yu had mentioned. There, he saw all sorts of buy-orders for Bloodline Gemstones and Secret Realm Refresh Scrolls, with prices ten, or even dozens of times, higher than before.

Moreover, with his supreme administrative access to Ninth World, he could also see that ninety-nine percent of these buy-orders came from the various special regions. Among them, the Pacific Ocean special region, which covered the largest area, accounted for forty percent of the total buy-orders all by itself.

After version 4.6, have all the Intelligent NPCs and bosses activated their Bloodlines? And now they all want to absorb Bloodline Gemstones to increase their Combat Power?

Seeing the high-priced offers for Bloodline Gemstones, a thought surfaced in Shen Fei’s mind. He currently had over seventy Bloodline Gemstones left. And since he had just let others handle some of the monster-tide bosses, the other Neutral Cities in Great Xia had accumulated about forty Bloodline Gemstones in total.