My Avatar is Becoming the Ultimate BOSS-Chapter 50 - 041 Travel

July 11th, early morning, Gu Yima District.

Ji Minghuan’s consciousness felt like a sea swallow, setting off from Tokyo, Japan, spreading its wings across the vast East Sea, and finally entering a residential building in China Li Jing.

Controlling the body of the game character—"Gu Wenyu," he woke up from the bed and opened his eyes.

A red and black message panel was floating in front of his retina.

[Main Task 3 Completed: Investigate what your "sister" Su Zimai is hiding.]

[Mission rewards obtained: 1 Split Point, 1 Skill Point, 1 Attribute Point.]

[Main Task 3 Updated: Establish a cooperative relationship with the member of the "Ghost Train Corps"—exorcist "Su Zimai" and thereby expand interpersonal relationships within the Exorcist Association.]

Ji Minghuan tilted his head, feeling somewhat amused: "Completing the main task of the first character with a second game character? Still works."

He had thought about using Black Cocoon to track Su Zimai, but unexpectedly, he inadvertently skipped that step.

He glanced at the clock on the wall; the time difference between China and Japan was 1 hour. It was now 9:15 AM in Japan, so it was 8:15 AM in China.

This was July 11th, and there were still 10 days left before the White Crow Travel Brigade’s move on the Tokyo Underground Auction.

Ji Minghuan yawned, with sleepy tears in his eyes, raised his hand and clicked the gear icon, pulling up the personal panel, and then allocated the just-acquired attribute point to "Speed."

[The "Speed" attribute of Game Character "Black Cocoon" has changed: C++ level → B level]

[The current three attributes of "Black Cocoon" are as follows: Strength: C++ level; Speed: B level; Spirit: C level]

Then he opened the skill tree and glanced at the development progress of each branch.

"Learn the Restraint Suppression, shall we?"

Thinking this, Ji Minghuan raised his finger and long-pressed the skill name, watching the text light up from dim, and a red and black prompt box slowly popped up in front of him.

[1 Skill Point expended, successfully learning the skill—"Restraint Suppression"—of the "Li" branch (After you use the restraint belt to bind an ability user, you can temporarily suppress their extraordinary abilities).]

[The next skill in the "Li" branch is now open for learning.]

Ji Minghuan looked at the newly unlocked skill in this branch, his eyes slightly brightened, "Should have unlocked this branch sooner."

[Superpower Stealing: After using the restraint belt to bind a superpower user, you can temporarily steal and store their ability. The ability disappears after one use (The stolen superpower has only 50% effectiveness, and the power depends on "Black Cocoon’s" attributes) (Maximum storage time: 24 hours)]

"It’s a bit stupid to steal lethal abilities since their power will be reduced, but it’s different if it’s a functional superpower," he thought, "I’ll learn this next skill."

Ji Minghuan closed the character skill tree, slid to the last page, found "Create New Game Character," and pulled up the panel.

[Split progress not completed, unable to create a new game character.]

[Hint: The Split Points required to create the next brand new game character are: 9 (You currently only have 2 Split Points, gather a total of 9 Split Points, and you can create the next "game character" in the real world)]

"The next character requires 9 Split Points?" he thought, "With such a sudden high requirement, are they afraid I’d create too many characters and drive myself into schizophrenia?"

While thinking about it, he suddenly noticed an additional option in the system panel called [Event Card], so he clicked on it out of curiosity.

[Detected player has stayed in the same city (China Li Jing) for three days, unlocking the city’s "Event Card." Every now and then, a "Card Event" might appear somewhere in the city. Completing the card event will earn you an "Event Card."]

[Tip: You can see the exclamation mark sign of "Event Cards" in the sky above the city. Head to the area below the exclamation mark to find the event trigger point and enter the "Card Event."]

"City exploration mechanic, huh... feels a bit like an Ubisoft canned game," Ji Minghuan thought, "but the whole Li Jing is so big, I couldn’t possibly run around just for this exploration mechanic; at most, I’ll stay around the city center and see if any ’Card Events’ show up nearby."

At that moment, he suddenly heard a knock on the door.

"Coming, coming."

Ji Minghuan feigned an impatient tone, jumped off the bed, twisted the doorknob, and opened the door to see Gu Qiye’s face. Today, he was wearing a blue T-shirt with an animation design of Blue Arc on it, seemingly a fan-made version.

"What’s up?" Ji Minghuan asked.

Gu Qiye leaned against the door frame with arms crossed, smiled at him, and then asked, "I plan to go to Japan a week from now. Want to come with me?"

Seriously, you too going to Japan? Ji Minghuan thought for a moment: "I’m quite interested in going to Japan, but what city? Hokkaido?"

"Tokyo, Japan’s biggest city, pretty fun."

"Okay, book a ticket for me too."

Gu Qiye nodded, hesitated a bit, and said, "Then ask Xiaomai for me whether she wants to go to Tokyo. If she does, tell her to come home first."

"Oh." Ji Minghuan said, lowering his head to text Su Zimai on his phone.

A "ding" sound rang, and the reply came quickly with just one word: Scram.

"Xiaomai declined."

Ji Minghuan looked up at Gu Qiye, internally teasing: Good brother, your sister is already in Japan, doesn’t really need your plane ticket, does she?

"Alright then, send a message telling Xiaomai to be careful at her friend’s place, stay safe, and eat three square meals."

Gu Qiye paused for a moment, hesitant to speak: "Also... could you ask Dad too, if he wants to come with us to Japan?" novelbuddy.cσ๓

"Come on..." Ji Minghuan sighed, "can’t you ask him yourself? Why leave it all to me?"

"Considering you’re coming to Tokyo, helping me with this isn’t too much, right?" Gu Qiye said, ruffling Ji Minghuan’s hair.

At this point, he seemed distracted, pondering, "The United Nations has Rainbow Wings chasing after Ghost Bell. Temporarily leaving this city shouldn’t be an issue... Though a bit unwilling, it’s what the association demands. Plus, if left to the Rainbow Wings team, Ghost Bell shouldn’t escape this time. Probably... by the time Wenyu and I return from Japan, we’ll hear the news of Ghost Bell’s demise."

"Dad says he’s going to Japan too." Ji Minghuan glanced at the reply message and replied without lifting his head.

Gu Qiye was momentarily stunned: "Okay, I’ll book the tickets."

Dad’s coming too? he wondered.

To be honest, Gu Qiye never expected Gu Zhuo Case to agree. He just thought it wouldn’t be nice to head to Japan without informing him, so he asked Wenyu to send a message symbolically, lest this old father isolates himself and ventures elsewhere for years before returning home.

"Oh well... following him doesn’t make much difference. Hopefully, he won’t interfere with my work. I still have to coordinate with the Japanese Exorcist Association to ensure the auction goes smoothly."

Thinking this, Gu Qiye turned slowly and headed toward the staircase on the second floor.