26: Chapter 26 Why ignore my sweat and effort?!
Just after Lin Mo finished off the last assassin, suddenly, a "Boom—" sounded.
In the distant skyline, a blinding ice-blue beam of light shot into the sky.
Immediately following this, the space above the Glimmer Swamp began to twist violently, emitting a crisp sound like shattering glass.
"Damn rats!!" Accompanied by the shattering of space, Qin Lan's slightly weak yet furious voice rolled down from the sky, "You dare touch the person I am protecting?!" "Die!"
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"?" Qin Lan looked at the twelve corpses on the ground and Lin Mo, who was lying on the ground letting the swarm of bees "massage" him, and fell into silence.
"Did you kill these people?" She looked puzzled. As for Lin Mo's behavior of letting the swarm ravage him, she was already numb to it and pretended not to see.
Her voice, mixed with spiritual power, clearly reached Lin Mo's ears.
"I don't know." "They just came rushing over yelling and screaming, and then they got bitten to death by the Magic Needle Bees." Lin Mo waved his hand, looking helpless.
Qin Lan: "???" Nonsense. Could he at least try to be serious when making up lies? Did he take her for a fool?
"Where is Chen Rui?" She suddenly asked. Before she was sucked away, she had notified Chen Rui. Could it be that Chen Rui had run over, killed the people, and then left?
"Don't know him. Which small fry is Chen Rui?" Lin Mo yawned, not caring in the slightest.
"He didn't come? Fine, never mind." Qin Lan shook her head, not dwelling on such matters. It was good that Lin Mo was fine. As for Chen Rui, since he didn't follow orders to come, she would definitely teach him a lesson when she returned.
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At this moment. Somewhere in the void. Chen Rui was on the verge of tears.
"Sister Qin, Captain! Where are you? Please save me!" "Your adjutant is currently wandering the ends of the earth..." He was floating aimlessly in the void.
After receiving the message from Qin Lan, he immediately went to find Lin Mo, but ended up being hit by a Void Banishment Scroll halfway there. It was obvious that he didn't have the ability to return to reality quickly like Qin Lan. With his abilities, he would have to stay here for at least a week before he could return to reality.
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By the time Lin Mo woke up, it was already dark. He only remembered that he had gotten tired while practicing his skills and had fallen asleep shortly after lying down.
"Hiss—" He rubbed his stiff neck and sat up from the pile of insect corpses that was half a meter thick. The surroundings were deathly silent. The pungent burnt smell mixed with the cloying sweetness of the monster attracting incense was nauseating.
Looking around, within a radius of several hundred meters, the originally dark gray swamp had been completely leveled by the dense corpses of Magic Needle Bees, looking like a black-red ocean. Not far away, twelve charred corpses and skeletons of various shapes were scattered among them.
As for his skill level... Lin Mo looked at his panel and chuckled out loud.
"What are you laughing at?" A cold voice came from above. Lin Mo looked up.
Qin Lan was stepping on a floating frost staff, bending over to look down at him, her expression very strange. "You slept quite soundly." Qin Lan descended, her ice-blue robe immaculate. "Can you tell me now? How did you do it?"
"Huh?" Lin Mo scratched his forehead. "How did you manage to not get hurt?" Qin Lan had seen with her own eyes that these Magic Needle Bees had been attacking Lin Mo until they were exhausted to death. Although she didn't know why Lin Mo would do this, as long as Lin Mo wasn't hurt, she had no reason to stop him. She finally couldn't help but ask.
Lin Mo grinned and said: "This? Well, because people's constitutions are different." Upon hearing this, Qin Lan asked seriously: "In what way are they different? Do you have some kind of powerful constitution?"
"Not at all, not at all!" Lin Mo extended his index finger and shook it. "Everything I have today is thanks to my sweat and effort!" "As for my world-shaking talent and brilliance, it is not something to be shared with others."
Qin Lan: "???" What was this brat talking about??? "Do you mean you have powerful talent and brilliance? And that's why you could do this?" Qin Lan looked shocked. How thick-skinned was this brat to be able to shamelessly say such things? But in order to fully understand Lin Mo's situation, she kept her face tight and continued to ask. "Why exactly? Be specific."
"I've worked so hard, haven't you seen it?" "Effort... by sleeping?" "Is leveling up to 30 after killing two monsters also because of effort?" Qin Lan's eyes were filled with suspicion. Lin Mo looked incredulous. Damn it! What kind of look is that? How dare she ignore my effort and sweat! Is she trying to attribute everything to my talent and brilliance? How could she?!
"I've said what I needed to say; it's only because I put in enough effort and sweat that I've reached where I am today." "Believe it or not, it has absolutely nothing to do with my world-shaking brilliance and invincible talent!!" Lin Mo's tone was exceptionally firm, and his eyes revealed a determined light!
Qin Lan was covered in black lines, her face twisted. She really couldn't hold it anymore! Why was there such a shameless person in the world? However, there was indeed some useful information in Lin Mo's words. He did indeed have a very powerful talent, so powerful that it wasn't even detected by the stele when he awakened. Could it be a hidden talent?
Information in Qin Lan's mind analyzed rapidly. Hidden talents were not unheard of. Such talents were generally invisible support talents that did not manifest externally. Within the Alliance, there was also a freak who had very ordinary talent and class, but a heaven-defying hidden talent. It was the Alliance Leader's adopted daughter, Xia An, who possessed a heaven-defying hidden talent: increased monster drop rates!
Therefore, every time they went into an important dungeon, the Alliance Leader would have someone bring her along. If Lin Mo also had a hidden talent, then it all made sense! His hidden talent was increasing experience, so his leveling speed would be extremely fast. The experience-increasing talent could even apply to talents, so his talent level was definitely not as simple as one or two levels! To be able to withstand the Magic Needle Bees, it was probably dozens of levels high!
So that's it!! So that's it!! So he was using his neck to grind the blade; he really was practicing his Blocking Talent! Qin Lan's eyes grew brighter and brighter! The more she confirmed her thoughts, the more she felt that what she had thought was correct!
"So you really have a hidden talent that gives you extra experience, which is why you can level up so fast, right?" She asked directly, her tone full of excitement! The rarity of a hidden talent was not even inferior to a Kings Selection class!
As long as she brought Lin Mo back to the Alliance, his status in the Alliance wouldn't even be much worse than Su Xiaoli's!! Don't look at his trash class; he could practice secondary classes! Every time a professional changed classes, they could possess one additional secondary class. Secondary classes including Pharmacist, Blacksmith, Scroll Engraver, etc., were all very useful to the Alliance! Combined with his experience-increasing hidden talent, he could quickly train his secondary class to a very high level! This way, the Alliance would have an extra super-powerful logistics expert out of thin air! Logistics! She must bring Lin Mo back to be in logistics for Su Xiaoli!! She was absolutely overjoyed! On this trip, she had brought back two treasures for the Alliance at once; surely the Alliance Leader would agree to whatever request she made, right?
"What do you mean 'that's it'? How can you ignore my sweat and effort!?" Lin Mo complained on his own behalf! He had worked so hard, why couldn't anyone see it?