Chapter 39: The Pearl Tower, World's Tallest Skyscraper

After completing the system check-in on Mist Island, Wang Kun turned his attention to the spiritual essences of the island’s flora. The first things to catch his eye were the ancient willow trees that had stood for a thousand years. With deft and decisive action, Wang Kun soon gathered all the willow heartwood into his possession.

Deep beneath Mist Island, within the Yumo ship, the intelligent lifeform Babata sensed Wang Kun moving above. “A little planetary-level, first-tier spiritual force user… But his brain domain width is only eight. Still far from meeting the master’s standards for accepting disciples!” Babata, with its demonic visage, sighed in disappointment.

While Wang Kun was busily harvesting the spiritual essences of the island’s plants, such things meant little to Babata. After all, every plant spirit on Mist Island had been nurtured from the fragments of a single wood crystal Babata had shattered. Even if Wang Kun excavated all the plant spirits from the island, Babata could restore them in no time.

Half a day later, Wang Kun, after collecting more than forty plant spirits, ceased his digging. He feared that if he went too deep, he might prematurely expose the underground Moyun Vine. Wang Kun wanted to quietly amass wealth, not reveal Mist Island to the world just yet.

With his spoils secured, Wang Kun left Mist Island. But instead of returning to Base City, he set out for his next target. Having a thorough understanding of the plot, Wang Kun knew that besides Mist Island, there were three deadly zones on Earth.

Of these three, the most dangerous was the insect race’s mother nest. With his current abilities, Wang Kun couldn’t even approach the outskirts, so venturing there wasn’t an option. The mechanical race’s ship posed a slightly lesser challenge, but entry required a cosmic-level power. The third was the Black Dragon Mountain ship beneath the Pacific Ocean—an artifact Wang Kun could attempt once his strength improved.

For now, the only relic Wang Kun could access was the Number Nine Civilization Ruins on the North American continent. This site was a legacy left by the Yumo star lineage to select disciples on Earth. With his current capabilities, Wang Kun could only try his luck there.

A few hours later, Wang Kun’s ship arrived at the entrance to the Number Nine Civilization Base. Before coming, Wang Kun had notified Hong, expressing his wish to visit the relics. Page 1 of 3

Hong did not refuse Wang Kun’s request and readily agreed, as every discovered relic had already been visited by all the councilors and powerful figures on Earth. Wang Kun, being a newly appointed councilor, was only making a trivial request.

“Councilor Wang,” greeted a red-haired elder at the entrance of the Number Nine Ruins, bowing respectfully. He was merely a War God; and before a councilor, any War God must show deference. It was the respect of the weak for the strong.

Soon, Wang Kun entered the hall outside the underground entrance to the Number Nine Civilization Ruins. At that moment, a familiar voice echoed in his mind.

Beep! Special location check-in: (Activated, current special location detected: Mist Island.)

“Deep Blue, I want to check in!” Wang Kun immediately called out the system’s activation phrase in his mind.

Beep! Check-in successful!

Congratulations, host, you have acquired the spiritual force master’s cultivation secret method “Basic 312 Forms,” the spiritual force master’s attack secret method “Sky Escape,” Auxiliary Lightbrain +2, and Black God Suit +6.

As expected, the check-in earned him yet more Black God Suits. Perhaps, because this was the source of the Black God Suits, he received six sets at once. Counting the three sets previously awarded by the system, he now held nine sets in total. Additionally, Hong had given him one set. Excluding the set Wang Kun used himself, he possessed nine complete sets of Black God Suits—making him unambiguously the richest man on Earth. Even Hong might not own as many.

After successfully checking in at the Number Nine Ruins, Wang Kun feigned interest for a few minutes, then departed the base. Over the next few days, he visited several other ancient civilization relics. Unfortunately, none yielded any results; the system showed no reaction whatsoever.

This pattern revealed a rule to Wang Kun: only places closely tied to the protagonist triggered the system’s response. On Earth, the relics related to the main character, Luo Feng, aside from the three deadly zones, included the Yumo ship beneath Mist Island.

But since Wang Kun had already visited Mist Island and failed to elicit a reaction from Babata, the intelligent lifeform, it meant he couldn’t complete the system’s check-in task at the Yumo ship for now. Of the other three deadly zones, only the Black Dragon ship was relatively accessible. Page 2 of 3

Wang Kun decided to wait until his strength stabilized before attempting to reap the benefits of that relic. Thus, he returned to Jiangnan Base City, rested for about ten days, and on September 16th, he entered a new dungeon world.

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A swirl of time and space, and Wang Kun appeared on a bustling street. Though he arrived suddenly, the passersby nearby noticed nothing unusual.

At the same time, Wang Kun’s mind filled with a brief overview of the current dungeon world.

“Sky Rescue—the world’s tallest skyscraper on Hong Kong Island?”

After surveying his surroundings, Wang Kun immediately spotted a super skyscraper soaring into the clouds to his left. The building rose like a coiled dragon, standing majestically in Kowloon, Hong Kong Island.

He recalled the plot of this world: it was relatively simple—a story centered on an international crime syndicate. Years ago, while extorting the tech tycoon Zhao Longji of Hong Kong Island, Zhao secretly manipulated events, using his hacking skills to locate all the syndicate’s bank accounts. He packaged all the data into a USB drive and hid it in his newly built Pearl Tower.

When the syndicate learned of this, they obtained the controller for the Pearl Tower’s fire safety system during its grand opening. They set fire to the middle floors, orchestrating a blaze to destroy the Pearl Tower.

Ultimately, the protagonist rebooted the tower’s control system, and the fire was extinguished by the building’s safety system.

After recalling the plot, Wang Kun realized the entire narrative revolved around the Pearl Tower. This made it highly likely to meet the system’s criteria for a special location check-in. In previous worlds—Youth’s End and Myth World—he hadn’t encountered any special locations eligible for system check-in. Of the three dungeon worlds he’d experienced, only the first had triggered a special location check-in.

If this world’s Pearl Tower, the central building tied to the plot, didn’t qualify, Wang Kun would suspect that only the first crossing into a dungeon world granted that check-in privilege.

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