Chapter 116 - 92: Compendium of Family Abilities

"Son!"

"Son!"

"Bro!"

"Brother Fei!"

When Shen Fei came out, he was met with four warm greetings. Shen Fei’s parents, his younger sister, and his sister’s best friend, Li Xiaohong, were waiting in the main hall.

Aside from Li Xiaohong’s Succubus game, which she had only spent a few thousand on and thus had only inherited from four times, Shen Fei had spent one million on Krypton Gold for each of his family members’ games. Now, each of his family members had completely inherited one item from their games.

"I’ve inherited all my vegetable-planting skills!" Mrs. Shen said with a nod, meeting her son Shen Fei’s gaze.

Four days ago, after hearing that Father Shen was the honorary director of the Tourism Management Office and discovering Granny Jia’s disappearance, Mrs. Shen had been elected by everyone as the community director of the Nanshan Villa district. Those who had previously followed Granny Jia in slandering Mrs. Shen had all come over with their entire families to respectfully apologize. Their humility during the apology was directly proportional to their previous arrogance.

As the community director, Mrs. Shen had been very busy these past few days. Not only had she shared her family’s food with the women and children of the community, but more importantly, the Nanshan Villa district was the center of the five-kilometer safe zone. Even though no one dared to force their way into Nanshan Villa or force people to move there due to the existence of the Cyan God, there were still plenty of underhanded methods being used, such as buyouts, enticements, and trickery. And Mrs. Shen was upholding justice for her neighbors in the villa district. Since the entire villa district was within the five-kilometer range, her safety was still guaranteed, even though she was making public appearances.

"Son, which item should I inherit next?" Mrs. Shen, who had inherited 100% of her vegetable-stealing and planting skills, asked her son, Shen Fei.

After a week of development, even the most oblivious people now understood the benefits of inheriting game abilities.

My game being maxed out with Krypton Gold... that could only be my son’s doing.

Having already heard from her husband that their son was the one protecting Qing City, Mrs. Shen had been very happy these last few days. Regarding the inheritance of her next game ability, she wanted to hear her son’s opinion.

"Inherit the farmland next!" Shen Fei answered directly. "Let’s get food production sorted out first!"

After a week of chaos, humanity’s stored food supplies were almost depleted. It was time to use game abilities to start growing food. Although the gamified high-yield seeds, special crops, and so on could only be inherited next week, it was necessary to first inherit the land that could accelerate growth.

Shen Fei had originally thought that his mother’s inheritance from the vegetable-stealing game would be over in at most three waves: skills, land, and seeds. But having had nothing better to do at home these past few days, he had taken the time to thoroughly study his family’s games. Only then did he realize he had underestimated the game abilities his mother was inheriting.

In this vegetable-stealing game, there wasn’t just farmland; there was also a pasture, with cattle, sheep, and horses, as well as sheepdogs, guard dogs, guardian snakes, and all sorts of other things. Moreover, besides the bread trees that could directly bear bread, the game also had a huge pile of various things, like flat peaches, ginseng, lingzhi mushrooms, and whatnot.

In terms of abilities inherited from the game so far, his mother’s, in some respects, were not even weaker than his. This was especially prominent with the arrival of the Neutral City. The importance of his mother’s abilities became even more apparent.

"Okay! I’ll listen to my son! I’ll choose to inherit the high-yield farmland tomorrow night!" Mrs. Shen responded quickly to her son’s suggestion.

"Dad, what about you? How’s it going?" After sorting out his mother’s matter, Shen Fei looked at his father.

With the first item’s inheritance complete, his father had also inherited all 32 of his Chinese chess pieces. Shen Fei had already tested the Fusion of five pawns from the black side and five pawns from the red side to form the "Ambush from Ten Sides" formation. It unleashed a super-strong attack, and he was very much looking forward to seeing the effects now that his father had inherited all 32 pieces.

"I’ve inherited both the Marshal and the General!"

"Perfect!"

"No, that’s not right!"

"I should say it’s perfect beyond imagination!" Hearing his son’s question, the smile on Father Shen’s face grew even wider.

SHIMMER.

SHIMMER.

SHIMMER.

While answering Shen Fei, Father Shen waved his hand. A golden figure, seated high on a throne and holding a scepter, appeared above his head. The golden figure’s appearance was surprisingly similar to Father Shen’s.

After the figure appeared, Father Shen waved his hand again, and instantly, the 16 pieces commanded by the Marshal piece appeared in neat formation. Even the Chu River and Han Border, the line dividing the board, was clearly outlined in the night. As all 16 pieces were arrayed, the faint sounds of horses neighing, cannons booming, and soldiers roaring followed.

Two Horses, two Cannons, two Chariots, two Elephants, two Soldiers, and five Pawns!

With the Command of the Marshal piece, all 16 pieces moved in concert. The Celestial Horse flapped its wings, carrying a Soldier high into the sky. The Cannon carriages boomed, coordinating powerfully with the Chariot pieces. More importantly, after binding with the Marshal piece, no one could ever snatch the 16 pieces from Father Shen’s hands again. All the pieces instinctively protected Father Shen, who was bound to the Marshal piece.

"Here, take the General piece. You bind with it. That way you’ll be a bit safer!" After excitedly showing his abilities to his son, Father Shen took out a golden chess piece and handed it to Shen Fei. He had bound with the Marshal piece himself but had not bound with the General piece. Knowing his son was a Tower Master with a physically weak body, he planned to give the General piece to his son.

"No need. I’ll just use a Soldier piece for now. You hold onto the General piece!" Shen Fei refused his father’s offer.

Once the General piece was bound, it couldn’t be unbound, and he didn’t want to waste this cooldown. He no longer had a use for the Golden Celestial Horse because he had already inherited his Teleportation Gate Tower. At this moment, the only chess piece still useful to him was the Soldier piece, which could act as a close-quarters bodyguard.

However, once he inherited his Crystal, equipment, skills, and other things, he would still return the Soldier piece to his father. For someone who plays Chinese chess, it was obvious that binding both the Marshal and the General was the only way to unleash their full power. Currently, since his father hadn’t bound the General, the 16 pieces belonging to the General could still be used by others. It was fine for him to use them for a while, but he had no intention of binding with one directly.

"That works too! You and Yueyue can each take a Soldier. Have your mom and Xiaohong take the two Elephant pieces for protection..." Father Shen agreed with Shen Fei’s reasoning.

Father Shen, who played the Chinese chess game, didn’t know if he had any more items to inherit. However, he guessed that there probably weren’t any. As for the saying that the origin of the Game World would begin to invade after one ran out of items to inherit, Father Shen didn’t understand it. He didn’t know what kind of "origin" a Chinese chess Game World could have. All he could do was wait quietly for the second item to become available tomorrow.

"I inherited 11 skins!"

"So? Can I let my frog out now?!"

"I feel like it really wants to go out and play!!"

Shen Fei turned to his sister, Shen Yue, but before he could say anything, she was already chattering away.

"Fine! Let it out!"

His sister’s Traveling Frog had finally inherited all its skins and skills. Shen Fei agreed to her request to let the Traveling Frog go out on its own. With this magical frog, you never knew where it would go, nor what it would bring back. But five days ago, this little guy’s unusual reaction had allowed Shen Fei to easily deal with the Go-playing, cardigan-wearing man who was secretly targeting him and Yu. Shen Fei also had high expectations for the Traveling Frog now that it had fully inherited its abilities.

"RIBBIT!"

The Traveling Frog, already impatient, let out a loud croak after Shen Yue gave the command, shrank its body, and vanished into the void with a great leap. This was the Void Walking skill, granted by one of the skins called "Void Frog".

With the frog having inherited all its skins, Shen Fei realized that unless he deployed specific Defense Towers, he might not even be able to catch the Traveling Frog with its countless skills.

"Brother Fei!"

After the frog left, Li Xiaohong, who had been staying with the Shen Family for five days, saw Shen Fei’s gaze turn to her and answered softly with her head down. Li Xiaohong’s first wave of inheritance had ended a few days ago. These past few days, aside from browsing the internet for information, she had mostly been keeping Shen Yue company. Tonight, Shen Yue’s final wave of inheritance was also complete, and an excited Shen Yue had pulled Li Xiaohong into the living room as well.

Having intentionally avoided Shen Fei for the past few days, seeing him again now made a warmth once again spread through Li Xiaohong’s lower abdomen.

Li Xiaohong had a secret that only she knew. She had discovered that she had grown a tail. A Succubus tail. Her body had started to change after the third and fourth inheritances. Although the bloodline inheritance only lasted for four days, the inherited tail was just a phantom that she could dismiss at will. But it was still an anomaly!

Moreover, through her research over the past few days, she now knew what she had inherited. She had even joined a group on the new Forum. The dozens of people in the group were all female players who had inherited the same bloodline. But compared to the flamboyant and provocative displays of the others in the group, Li Xiaohong, who had the personality of a well-behaved good girl, felt very uncomfortable.

Now, feeling Shen Fei’s gaze, Li Xiaohong felt her lower abdomen grow warm again. For the past few days, whenever she thought of Shen Fei, the pink tattoo on her lower abdomen would glow and heat up. This left Li Xiaohong at a complete loss. She didn’t know what was happening, and she didn’t dare to ask. She could only lurk in the group, seeing if anyone else had the same situation. Unfortunately, so far, no one had.

"Hey, what are you looking at!"

"Our Xiaohong is busy!"

"Byeee~, we’re going to bed!"

"We’re going! We’re going!"

Before Shen Fei could say anything, his sister was already pulling Li Xiaohong upstairs.

Li Xiaohong likes my big brother.

Shen Yue knew all about the abilities Xiaohong had inherited and the troubles she was facing. To ensure things went smoothly without any hitches, Shen Yue planned to create the right opportunity to break the ice between the two. She felt that time wouldn’t be too far off.

"Uh..."

He had just been about to ask what abilities Li Xiaohong had actually inherited, and what she planned to inherit in the second wave tomorrow. Shen Fei hadn’t expected his sister to just drag her away.

Even though she was living in the Shen family home, Li Xiaohong still wore her black-rimmed glasses and liked to keep her head down. Her clothes were also still the loose, baggy type; she hadn’t worn any of Shen Yue’s form-fitting outfits. Therefore, even though he’d heard that Li Xiaohong liked him, Shen Fei wasn’t particularly interested.

"I’m going to rest too, then!"

"Tomorrow might be busy!"

After dealing with his family’s matters, Shen Fei said goodnight to his parents and went straight back to his room.

The matter of me putting one million into their games and secretly selling my father’s shares is no longer important now.

After seven days of development, he believed that with his father’s wisdom and ability, he probably knew everything already. Since his father hadn’t brought it up, he wouldn’t either. Everything was left to the tacit understanding between father and son.