Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!

Finally, Bai E pinpointed the target's location—on the right side of the chest cavity.

A rice grain-sized foreign object, seemingly made of flesh and blood, was delicately extracted by Bai E using tweezers, trying to emit ripple after ripple of invisible waves under the lock of Spiritual Energy.

Its biomaterial composition perfectly concealed within Nova's own body, no wonder even her Spiritual Energy failed to detect this tiny thing.

"This is it!" Nova, whose will had always been lucid though her brow was constantly furrowed, also sharply sensed the anomaly with her Spiritual Energy, and stared at the small object held by Bai E's tweezers with a look of surprise on her face.

This thing was her shackles.

With this object inside her body, the shadow of being controlled by others always loomed over her heart, never dissipating.

Now that it had been removed, she felt as if the sky had broadened, the earth had opened up—a complete freedom.

"Thump~ Thump~"

Her brow twitched slightly, pulsing like a heartbeat.

Spiritual Energy jumped, rising and falling.

Spiritual Energy... had it improved again?

Bai E shifted his gaze from the tracker held by the tweezers to Nova's face, full of disbelief...

The talent of these native geniuses, is it so unreasonable?

"Snap!" With a light effort of his hand, the tracker completely shattered under the directed explosion of Spiritual Energy.

Bai E smiled at Nova, whose complexion was slightly pale, and offered his blessings, "Congratulations, you're free now."

"Hee~" Nova, who had been tightly pursing her lips, causing them to become somewhat dry, showed a broad smile on her face, which seemed particularly bright against the backdrop of blood-stained bandages on her body.

Bai E pressed down on Nova, who wanted to get up, and gently advised, "You've lost a lot of blood, rest for a while." Discover hidden stories at My Virtual Library Empire

"It's fine, I'll heal up quickly."

"No." Bai E applied a bit more pressure with his hand, "An injured person should receive meticulous care; things are different now, you need to get used to it."

A drifting heart is far more tiring than physical pain, and even the strongest people have their moments of vulnerability.

He liked... Nova's personality very much.

"Oh~" Nova blinked, her eyes fluttering, without making a sound.

Opening the sealed door, Bai E pushed the bed with Nova directly into the next room, a resting chamber, before he finally took off his own equipment and changed into a more normal attire, leaving with Gong Yan.

"Have you learned it?"

"Mhm mhm~" Gong Yan nodded vigorously.

"Good." The cheats of players and the talent of the natives are both unreasonable.

Though he himself had both, hee hee!

["Teaching" completed. Through the feedback from "teaching," you have gained a total of 780 battle experience points and 920 general experience points.]

"Do you have any must-do tasks on hand recently?"

During the surgery for Nova, Bai E also recalled the problem of the two warriors from Grey Iron City—

Stabilizing Repair Fluid.

Nova's endless regenerative capabilities allowed her to perfectly adapt to those implanted bio-chemical organs, but the two regular humans had to occasionally endure the backlash from the foreign organs.

The Stabilizing Repair Fluid, needed at regular intervals, was their knot that had to be untangled head-on.

Certainly, Blackwater City had nothing of the sort; Bai E had never heard of anyone in the city developing such technology, so naturally, there would not be a corresponding "antidote."

Ultimately, they had to find a way from Grey Iron City.

He couldn't leave himself, and the players would likely be curious about the new map's discovery, a win-win!

Bai E decided to entrust this task to the players.

Upon hearing their leader's question, Gong Yan's eyes lit up, and she shook her head vehemently, "No, no!"

"That's good... I happen to have some things to assign to you all."

Bai E brought several players together, facing their eager eyes, he narrated the cause and effect, "These three are escapees from another city called Grey Iron City..."

"Oh~"

The three players looked at each other, their eyes conveying understanding.

As expected! The leader was still the same leader, a professional scavenger.

Having interacted with him over time, they had guessed some of Gilder's background, probably another of the leader's finds, like the mouse person he had picked up before.

Always collecting scraps, all they saw were newly acquired members, without a glimpse of the original ones.

"That city practices a mandatory trend of body modification, using endless modifications to collect data and perfect their technology, but at the cost of every single living being. These three are rebels who disagreed with this ban, yet even as they fled in haste, they still carry marks from that city within them. The bio-chemical modification is not a perfected technology; the implanted foreign organs create severe conflicts with the human body. The Stabilizing Repair Fluid is the key resource that can alleviate this conflict, only available in that city."

At this point, Bai E paused slightly, his steady gaze sweeping across the four players before him, "Therefore, I need you to risk everything to obtain enough Genetic Stability Repair Fluid capable of temporarily easing their symptoms from that nefarious city. Are you willing to undertake this extremely dangerous mission?"

Willing!

More than willing!

The players' eyes shone with an excited gleam.

New plot, new mission, new map!

Even though they hadn't fully explored Blackwater City, the prospect of unlocking clues to a new city was always more exhilarating.