Chapter 599: Chapter 180: Laborers
Chewing on beef jerky, Elba seemed to sense something and turned to Su Changxing: "What’s up with you? You seem different from before."
Su Changxing turned to Elba and sighed: "Are wizards always this sensitive?"
Just now, someone else became an Extraordinary, increasing his mysteriousness, but Elba sensed it.
Elba shook his head and said, "You’re trying hard to disguise yourself as an ordinary person, but that makes the energy fluctuations more obvious, which is counterproductive."
Su Changxing nodded: "You’ve reminded me of something."
"Where are we going now?" Elba asked.
"Let’s go back to where we were earlier; there’s still some business to attend to," Su Changxing thought for a moment and said.
"What business?"
"We need to prepare,"
...
Not being able to leave the Donglin Region only strengthened Su Changxing’s resolve. Sometimes, only when on a dead-end path do people find the courage to forge ahead.
Donglin City was a dead end, his dead end, and everyone’s dead end; it was the only way.
In a trance, he felt as if he had returned to that night in the Zombie World before heading into the No-Man’s Land, except there was not so much despair.
Even if they failed, there was still a retreat, still other options.
So what if they were subjugated by other worlds, bowing and scraping? At least they would survive.
People change, minds change, ideas change, and even the purest faith changes over time.
Su Changxing didn’t know if he had changed, but he felt those around him had, moving from despair about the apocalypse to numbness, and then to hope.
Upon waking from a deep dream, he opened his eyes, stared at the dim ceiling for a while, and then sat up.
After returning to He Kou Town with Elba, he took a short nap to replenish necessary sleep.
By now, the drawbacks of the Dreamer had minimal impact on him, reduced to the lowest level, especially since advancing to Tier Seven, where the Dreamer constituted a small part of his extraordinary power.
Afterward, he continued crafting ancient bronze pendants in the Pocket Galaxy, but the speed was still too slow; it needed to be faster, as they didn’t have much time.
So he turned his attention to the data stream like the colorful sunset.
This was an additional power, relying on the Pocket Galaxy, which he could only access when deploying his domain.
"The data stream is a higher-level power and should easily separate mysterious items."
"If these data streams can be used to separate the special substances in mysterious items, the speed of crafting pendants will increase."
Su Changxing thought, constantly trying to use his spirit to interact with the data stream, attempting to control it.
Externally, he couldn’t control the data stream, but in the Pocket Galaxy, he should be able to; he possessed immense control power there.
As he interacted with the data stream, ripples, like a stone cast into water, formed clearly.
Since then, this was the first time Su Changxing actively sought contact with the data stream, a dangerous act, as unknown things are often perilous.
Nothing existed there.
He only felt the cold emptiness, like a congealed but not warm flame.
The words "Order" appeared in his mind.
This seemed like the purest power; these were order, or rather the meaning they conveyed was order.
"How can this be?"
Su Changxing fell into confusion; this was entirely different from his expectations, thinking it was a power left behind by some higher-level existence.
But it wasn’t; it was like mountains, water, the rising and setting sun—something inherently there or should have been there.
The data stream adhered to his domain because they are order, inherently rules fused with domains.
Heavy, very heavy.
Su Changxing found himself unable to move the data, so he increased his strength, amplifying his spiritual output.
When he used up most of his spirit, these data streams began to ripple more significantly, with their original structure slowly disrupted.
Finally, a tiny string, possibly the most basic unit of the data stream, was extracted from the Galaxy by him.
This tiny string of data struggled to return to its former place but couldn’t escape Su Changxing’s grip.
Soon, its struggle weakened, seemingly becoming docile, displaying strong adaptability.
Su Changxing gained a host of bizarre knowledge from this tiny string of data, like meaningless symbols, yet they existed.
This tiny string of data constantly changed forms in his control: cube, triangle, sphere, and later humanoid shapes and various small animals.
Then, he controlled the data stream, spreading it over an abandoned car, and in an instant, the entire vehicle shattered.
Such a tiny string of data possessed astonishing destructive power.
Su Changxing was full of amazement, becoming increasingly adept at controlling this tiny string of data, feeling its affinity for him grow.
This thing seemed like a small life, possessing its own consciousness.
Soon, with just a small spiritual guide, he could control this tiny string of data stream’s behavior.
There seemed to be hope.
Then, he attempted to use the data stream to touch a mysterious item resembling a key.
Normally, he would have to peel away the special substance bit by bit, a process taking quite a while.
The moment of contact, the entire key began to rapidly separate, and at a visibly fast pace, the special substance was stripped and gathered together.
Su Changxing felt as though he had gained a hoe for digging, reducing the difficulty to epic level.
This tiny string of data stream acted as a tool in his Pocket Galaxy, magnifying his control power.
"What is this thing? It’s insane."
Su Changxing was dumbfounded, not expecting such a small string of data to be so effective.
And they fit perfectly, like the data stream was meant for this task.
He didn’t ponder too long, using the opportunity to separate mysterious items within the Pocket Galaxy with the data stream.
This could save a large portion of time in crafting pendants.
He wasn’t easily satisfied and returned to the data stream galaxy to snatch another small segment, wasted some methods to subjugate it, and had it work for him.
For that, Su Changxing generously named these two small segments of the data stream, Xiaoyi and Xiao Er.
A simple and practical name.
Led by Xiaoyi, Xiao Er began their work, separating the mysterious items one by one.
Xiaoyi separated Rank C Crown, Xiao Er separated Dingguan.
