Chapter 93: Hidden Advanced Difficulty (910 Seeking Subscriptions!)

What's wrong?

Yue Li finished exchanging the resources she needed to exchange, and upon looking up she saw Qin Chuan's wonderful expression.

"I've discovered a small problem." Qin Chuan looked at Yue Li. "Among the four resources needed for Xiao Qing and Xiao Hong to advance, isn't there one whose description includes the phrase 'only appears in random areas and time periods'?"

"Exactly." Yue Li nodded. "I once saw a post on the Dream World forum discussing how, for every Spirit Beast advancing from Growth Tier to Elite Tier, among the four intermediate resources required, one always has such a description."

"That's right." Qin Chuan wore a strange expression as he handed the self-selected intermediate resource in his hand to Yue Li. "Try it out—can you use it to select those two resources?"

"Let me try… huh?" Yue Li received the golden light cluster, and not long after she showed a dazed expression. "There's such a restriction?!"

Obviously, her attempt also failed.

"Yeah, and this restriction is well hidden." Qin Chuan gave a helpless smile. "Originally, I thought advancing would be much easier than evolving."

Evolving requires crafting a piece of Starlight Equipment; the quality of Starlight Equipment varies with the amount of materials, so to obtain high-quality equipment you need to gather more materials before evolving, and crafting Starlight Equipment can fail.

Therefore, to want high-quality equipment, the quality of the equipment forging stone cannot be too low either.

"We're about to leave the Dream World; then we'll naturally find out." Qin Chuan spoke softly, at the same time beginning to consider the possibility of using the sundial needle to find rare intermediate resources.

Unless at the exact moment of probing, the rare resource happens to be within range, and by the time Qin Chuan goes to it the resource hasn't disappeared yet.

They had already obtained the Growth Tier Spirit Beast ranking settlement reward a week earlier, so they must have discovered this problem, but simply hadn't made it public yet.

By comparison, the requirement of four intermediate resources for advancement is ridiculously easy.

The more materials, the greater the loss from failure.

The way they held in hand to obtain the achievement was made public immediately after everyone learned of the existence of hidden achievements.

Being unable to obtain it through self-selected or random intermediate resources means its scarcity will greatly increase, and more importantly, it is not fixed in a specific location, which further raises the difficulty of obtaining it.

"After all… they probably already knew this last week."

Because the location of this resource keeps changing, the Second Day's Gift only shows the instantaneous probe result and cannot dynamically capture resources within range.

Until now, he discovered that among them there is one that is a rare intermediate resource.

The Special Affairs Group will belatedly share some key information that most players temporarily cannot use, in order to gain a faster development speed, but it will not always keep secrets.

This has happened before when the achievement leaderboard appeared.

This probability is too small.

Thinking about probability, Qin Chuan then thought of combining it with Yue Li's luck blessing.

Relying solely on the Second Day's Gift makes it very difficult to find rare resources.

Before the first weekly settlement, although official-level players were few, they weren't completely absent; at least among the people Qin Chuan knows, Ji Huai is one.

"The total number of official-level players in the Dream World has already exceeded one million." Yue Li spoke softly. "After this weekly settlement, I expect many people will discover this problem, and I think the Special Affairs Group should release the relevant information."

Qin Chuan originally thought that way.

This way, the difficulty of evolving has greatly increased.

After this settlement, the rare intermediate resource will certainly be known to everyone; the information that the Special Affairs Group has never disclosed will also likely not be an exception.

But soon, he denied his own speculation.

The Second Day's Gift probes of the previous five Dream World days all had Yue Li's luck blessing, yet he probed five times and found no rare resources at all.

This indicates that the position of the rare resource may not be affected by luck, or there may be some mechanism he is not yet aware of.

Therefore, we need to use the Third Day's Gift to lock onto the rare intermediate resource.

This way, no matter where the resource appears, he will know about it immediately.

It has been six Dream World days since the last use of the Third Day's Gift; on the next Dream World day, this gift can be used again.

Thinking this through, Qin Chuan felt certain in his heart.

Among the Growth Tier advancement resources, there exists a rare resource, which for him might not be a bad thing.

He temporarily withdrew the self-selected intermediate resource into his item equipment slot, feeling his luck time about to end, and Qin Chuan unhesitatingly used today's resource probe.

Soon, a look of joy appeared in his eyes.

His luck was decent; nearby there was a piece of Starlight Equipment material suitable for Shui Hua.

However, going to look for it now is already too late; he'll have to wait until the next time he enters the Dream World.

Luo, see you tomorrow.

Looking back at Yue Li's smiling face, Qin Chuan returned a smile.

All right, see you tomorrow.

【07:59:59/08:00:00】【00:00:07】

【08:00:00/08:00:00】【00:00:08】

【Dream World Entrance Closed】

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Warm sunlight streamed through the opened curtains of the floor-to-ceiling window, gently falling on the girl lying on the hospital bed; her delicate features were also coated with a layer of gold, as if the Creator had fashioned a perfect artwork.

The girl's brows furrowed slightly, like ripples on spring water, and then her pair of water-cutting eyes slowly opened.

"Yue Yue woke up?" the lovely woman beside the bed smiled.

"Little Yu Sister." Lin Yue's gaze gradually focused. "What time is it now?"

"It's almost nine." Du Yu chuckled lightly. "Wait a moment."

She turned and quickly fetched hot water, skillfully washing Lin Yue's face.

"Thank you, Little Yu Sister…" Lin Yue felt a bit embarrassed. "I'm always having you do these things for me."

"No problem." Du Yu smiled. "Besides, I think you'll soon be able to do these things yourself."

"During this period I've devoted almost all my healing ability to your right hand; after today's rehabilitation treatment ends, your right hand should be able to return to normal."

"Really?!" Lin Yue's face instantly lit up with surprise and delight.

A few years ago, after being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS, her limbs quickly developed weakness and gradually deteriorated.

If it weren't for Du Yu's rehabilitation treatment during this period, her condition would very likely have spread from the limbs to the torso, causing even more dire consequences.

Although only her right hand has recovered for now, to Lin Yue this is nothing less than a ray of light in the darkness.

"Thank you, Xiao Yu-jie!" Lin Yue's eyes reddened slightly, but she also hesitated a little, saying, "Just… why the right hand?"

"Of course it's because the right hand is more convenient to use." Du Yu spoke with a smile, pleased with her treatment results, "I deliberately didn't tell you beforehand—do you like this surprise?"

Lin Yue fell silent for a moment, then glanced at her left hand.

"Mm… I really like it."

(End of chapter)