The steam locomotive rumbled as it left the Northwest and headed back to the Central Plains through the mountains and wilderness.
In the carriage, Big Bluff said with concern, "Young Marshal, you should rest for a while. You didn't even get a good rest when we camped out yesterday. There's really no rush to get to Daxing Northwest."
Ren Xiaosu shook his head and said, "I'm not sleepy yet. Why don't you go to sleep first and replace me when you wake up in six hours?"
"Alright, Young Marshal, let me know when you're tired." Big Bluff was indeed sleepy. Ever since they went to the Central Plains to abduct the people from Daxing Northwest, the two of them had not had a good rest for more than 20 hours. Although they were both supernatural beings and were more energetic, Big Bluff was still getting on in years.
Ren Xiaosu was actually a little sleepy as well, but he could not wait to see what the third weapon in his palace was!
When Big Bluff went into the carriage to sleep, Ren Xiaosu immediately said to the palace in his mind, "I now have 15,000 gratitude tokens. I've met the conditions to unlock the third weapon, right?"
"Yes, do you want to spend 10,000 gratitude tokens to unlock it?" the voice from the palace asked.
"Unlock it!"
Ren Xiaosu waited quietly, but there was no sign of the weapon being unlocked this time.
In the display case that resembled a circular library bookshelf in the palace, a small, intricate compartment lit up. However, it was empty.
He was a little puzzled. "Where's the item?"
The palace did not answer him.
Suddenly, the palace started shaking. Sensing something, Ren Xiaosu stretched out his right hand and raised it horizontally. A ball of hot but harmless energy was gathering in his hand.
In the sky above the steam locomotive, a huge vortex started forming.
As the steam locomotive was moving at high speed, the huge vortex above it was also moving at high speed along with the steam locomotive.
Fortunately, this was an uninhabited wilderness. Otherwise, someone would definitely be shocked by this phenomenon.
A purple eye suddenly appeared in the gray vortex.
Ren Xiaosu looked at his outstretched right hand in a daze. Big Bluff in the next carriage was also startled. He quickly pushed the door open and ran to the front of the carriage. "Young Marshal, I think something is wrong, Young Marshal! An eye has appeared on top of my head. Did I reveal too much of Heaven's secrets, and the Heavens have come to punish me? "
"Revealing the Heavenly Secrets?" Ren Xiaosu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He complained, "What kind of secret have you revealed? You've obviously deceived a lot of people!"
However, at that moment, the massive amount of energy in Ren Xiaosu's hand suddenly started to condense and form a black stone.
The black stone was only the size of a fist. It felt warm in his hand, but the strangest thing was that the vortex in the sky had already begun to disappear, and the purple eye in the vortex had appeared on the black stone.
Ren Xiaosu asked in his mind, "What is this?!"
However, the palace replied, "Unauthorized to tell."
At that moment, Big Bluff circled around Ren Xiaosu and looked at him in astonishment for a long time. Finally, his gaze landed on Ren Xiaosu's hand. "Young Marshal, that phenomenon in the sky just now had something to do with you?"
Ren Xiaosu didn't hide it from him and nodded. He didn't mention the origin of the black stone, so Big Bluff didn't ask any further.
Ren Xiaosu looked at the palace silently. This time, the palace didn't prompt him on the progress of unlocking the next weapon. In other words, this was the last weapon the palace could give him!
Here came the problem. He was about to earn tens of thousands of gratitude tokens. Other than exchanging them for Explosive Poker cards and plant seeds, what else could he use them for?
At that moment, a new product slot on the vending machine in the palace lit up. There were small grayish-white stones inside. Each stone was the same shape, and there were also patterns in the shape of an eye on them.
Item name: Proficiency Stone.
Ren Xiaosu was stunned for a moment. What the hell was going on? Why did the palace suddenly go crazy? Why did it keep giving him something he couldn't understand?
However, for some reason, he suddenly felt that the Proficiency Stone that could be sold and the third weapon in his hand would probably become very important.
Ever since he had the palace, although it didn't look very proper, it had never done anything unnecessary!
Ren Xiaosu used a gratitude token to exchange for a practice stone. When he held it in his hand, it felt like a piece of lime and was very soft. He crushed the practice stone with just a little force. But the problem was that there was still no reaction after he crushed it.
The palace suddenly said in his mind, "No corresponding ability to increase proficiency. Proficiency Stone invalid."
Ren Xiaosu mumbled inwardly, "What the hell is this? Don't I have so many superpowers? Why can't there be any corresponding ability? Then what's the use of your Proficiency Stone?! Pui! Profiteer! "
The palace said, "Unauthorized to disclose."
But at this moment, Big Bluff suddenly said, "Young Marshal, that black stone in your hand looks a little familiar to me."
Ren Xiaosu was stunned for a moment before looking at Big Bluff. "You recognize it?"
"I'm not too sure either." Big Bluff whispered, "As you know, our Fortress 178 has fought enemies outside the Northwest before. Although we've always been victorious in all those battles, Fortress 178 has also paid an extremely painful price. The last time we fought was 17 years ago. At that time, I was only a company commander. By the time we managed to repel the enemy, only 20% of my company's comrades were left. This eye symbol is a little similar to the one I saw at that time. "
"Are you saying that something like this appeared during that war?" Ren Xiaosu wondered.
"Yes, when we were cleaning up the battlefield later, we saw a few broken pieces. When pieced together, they formed the shape of this eye." Big Bluff recalled, "But those pieces of stone looked tattered and not as exquisite as the one in your hand, Young Marshal. Furthermore, the pattern of the eye was very blurry. At that time, the commander even ordered us to search for it. In the end, we only found broken pieces and not a single complete piece. I wonder what it's used for. "
"All of them were broken?" Ren Xiaosu muttered, "Then what exactly are the enemies outside the Northwest? Why are they here?"
"The enemies outside the Northwest are also humans, but they're a little different from us." Big Bluff said, "It's said that during the early stages of The Cataclysm, about 200 years ago, they started raiding our territory. A large number of our compatriots were abducted to places outside the Northwest by them. I estimate there to be hundreds of thousands or even millions of them. Fortress 178 was also built specifically to target them. At that time, the human civilization in the Central Plains had yet to be revived. Meanwhile, they seemed to have a mysterious heritage even before The Cataclysm. So it was extremely difficult for our ancestors to deal with them, and there were many casualties. "
Ren Xiaosu wondered, 'Millions of people were plundered during the early stages of The Cataclysm? At that time, the entire Barrier Alliance probably only had a few million people, not tens of millions like it does now. '
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