Chapter 16 To Try It?

Li Ang asked, "Want to try it?"

Miss Chai hesitated, gently placing the game controller on the coffee table. She nodded, stood up, and cautiously reached out, touching the front armor plate of the Azure Moth Armor.

Her palm passed through the solid armor without any resistance, the contact surface rippling like water.

Miss Chai slowly "melted" into the interior of the Azure Moth Armor. A moment later, the puppet's face gradually dissolved, revealing Chai Cu翹's features.

In addition, dense black hair quickly sprouted from the puppet's head.

The pale body, like modeling clay, rapidly adjusted its shape to match Miss Chai's appearance.

The red and white bodysuit armor also changed its curves with the body, conforming to its contours.

After a long while, the puppet abruptly opened its eyes, floating lightly in the air. It turned around and slowly landed back on the ground.

"How does it feel?" Li Ang raised an eyebrow and asked.

"A little... strange."

Miss Chai breathed in the air deeply, her fists clenched, fingernails digging into her palms, her skin covered in goosebumps.

Since becoming a Wraith, she had never breathed air, smelled scents, or tasted flavors. Even touch felt like it was separated by a thick layer of gauze, with no real sensation.

It was like being trapped in a narrow, enclosed, dark single-person prison—painful, agonizing, and devoid of interest, only able to numb herself with entertainment.

Re-experiencing the long-lost human senses, Chai Cu翹 couldn't help but close her eyes and exhale a breath of stale air. She turned around and hugged Li Ang next to her.

"Thank you."

Li Ang's arms, suspended in mid-air, awkwardly swayed for a moment, hesitating before gently patting Miss Chai's back.

*Hmm, I don't know what material this Azure Moth Armor is made of. Miss Chai feels almost like a living person now, and even has a pleasant woody fragrance on her.*

After a moment, Miss Chai also released Li Ang, feeling a bit embarrassed. She patted the latter's shoulder with a rather bold and mature air, and said earnestly, "We'll be living together from now on. We need to buy toilet seat cushions for the house."

"Buy your head!"

Li Ang's eyes twitched, and he waved his hand. "Let's go to the enclosure first and try out the puppet's special effects."

"Okay, okay, whatever you say."

A joyful occasion brings a refreshing spirit. Miss Chai smiled brightly, grabbed a bunch of snacks from the snack box on the cabinet, held them in her arms, and obediently floated behind Li Ang, eating snacks as she went.

The two, one human and one puppet, teleported into the enclosure. Li Ang cleared a space and set up the camera, allowing Miss Chai to freely unleash her skills.

"Watch carefully."

She floated in the air, struck a pose, and shouted loudly, slamming her fist toward the ground.

Boom boom boom boom boom—

The ground trembled, and dust flew everywhere.

With Li Ang's eyesight, he could only barely see the afterimage of Miss Chai's fist.

After a few breaths, she finished and stood back, only to see a giant semi-circular pit one meter deep had inexplicably appeared on the originally flat ground.

The pit wall was smooth and without cracks, like fine porcelain.

*'This is the effect of the impact punch combined with the petrification skill.'*

Li Ang examined the semi-circular pit, silently thinking, "The strength and agility are close to 10 points for both attributes. When fighting, the body can be as hard as steel, and with the red and white armor, it can withstand machine gun fire for a while."

Afterward, the two did some more evaluations.

"The optimal height for hovering is about 10 meters above the ground. Beyond that, the speed of hovering upwards will gradually slow down. The judgment range of the hovering effect is still unclear—perhaps it's the vertical distance from the solid ground?"

"The petrification effect is stronger than expected. A full-power punch can petrify things within a meter of contact. The petrification effect will gradually disappear after thirty minutes."

"The stronger the force, the stronger the petrification effect, and the longer the duration of petrification."

"The impact force of the punch is even more terrifying than a construction pile driver. Splitting monuments and cracking stones is easy, and ordinary steel can be easily dented like modeling clay."

"However, the consumption of Yin energy is quite terrifying, and it will cause slight cracks in the fist of the Azure Moth Armor—requiring about fifteen minutes to heal."

"Chai Chai's current combat power on paper can be used as the final boss in certain script missions—the movement speed is very fast, the attacks are fierce and high-frequency, sturdy and durable, and can self-heal. If she can't win, she will smartly run away..."

Li Ang muttered to himself, using paper and pen to record the data of Miss Chai's state in the Azure Moth Armor.

Even Li Ang himself, without using Ripple energy, would probably find it difficult to gain an advantage in a fight with Miss Chai—the steel body and petrification effect were too OP.

Li Ang's muttering did not disturb Miss Chai's interest at all. She flew back and forth in the not-so-spacious enclosure, waving her fists at the air with "heh ha heh ha," and occasionally striking various strange poses.

After a set of physical tests, she only sweated a little—

Perhaps because the Azure Moth Armor came from a complete ritual material, it could eat, drink, and excrete like a normal person.

Moreover, probably because of the White Fiend Stomach Pouch and Blood Clan Stomach Pouch that were stuffed into the forging furnace together, Chai Cu翘, who controlled the Azure Moth Armor, could eat a lot of things in one go without feeling full or nauseous.

Furthermore, eating could actually slow down the consumption of Yin energy. Normal routines were about as effective as hiding in the Soul-Guiding Banner.

Anyway, Miss Chai laughed sadly when she heard the news.

Now she had a legitimate reason to stay in the puppet's body for a long time and be a useless bum who lived off of others.

Li Ang dragged the silly-smiling Miss Chai out of the enclosure. The latter immediately brought a large pile of snacks, piled them on the coffee table, lay down, and continued playing games, occasionally raising her head to munch on potato chips, seaweed, chicken feet, braised pig trotters, and gulping down ice-cold cola.

"Degenerate."

Li Ang was saddened by this, but seeing that Miss Chai had been suppressing herself for so long, he allowed her to relax for a while.

A WeChat call rang, Li Ang answered the phone, and exchanged blessings with Wang Congshan, who was watching the moon on her balcony. He also walked to the balcony and looked up at the round, flawless moon.

After chatting for a few words, he hung up the phone. Miss Chai, being quite perceptive, paused the game, bounced to the balcony, grabbed Li Ang, and asked him to watch the moon with her.

At this time, the full moon hung high, the lights of ten thousand homes in the city, the city's lights were just beginning to light up, and the fireworks display at the far end had just begun, with fireworks soaring into the sky and bursting with crackles.

Lively, noisy, but not annoying.

The slightly chilly night breeze quietly arrived. Li Ang glanced at Chai Cu翹, who was staring blankly at the moonlight, and stretched lazily with a smile.

At least compared to last year, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival wasn't so lonely.

Suddenly, a system notification sounded in Li Ang's ears.

[Mission trigger conditions have been met]

[Mission Type: Regular Mission (2v2v2v2v2v2 Team Deathmatch)]

[Mission Name: Moon God's Coronet]

"Huh?!"

Li Ang was stunned when he heard this. He was just standing on his balcony watching the moon, how could he have triggered a regular mission?

Moreover, judging from the mission type, it was a team deathmatch with six teams of two, a total of twelve people!