I guess it was just a coincidence.
No wonder the nine people before me failed to complete this Hidden Occupation quest. Those who desired it lacked the strength to complete it. For a rookie Gunman who couldn't possibly own a personal ammunition production line, buying 200,000 bullets directly from the personal panel would cost at least tens of thousands of Star Coins.
That's hundreds of thousands of credit points. Selling blood would certainly not be enough. Guess you'd have to take out a loan at usurious rates.
As for selling a house?
I laughed. Which ordinary person owns a house?
For someone strong enough to complete it, they'd think, buddy, if I'm this strong already, why wouldn't I choose a stronger Hidden Occupation? Why go for this one?
...
Soon—
After experimenting with everything, Chen Miao was ready to leave the Secret Realm. By that time, he had already killed enough zombies—500 in total. He didn't even aim to kill; it felt as if he hadn't done anything and the zombies just delivered themselves to his gun's muzzle.
The quest was strangely completed.
An F-grade Secret Realm, so easy.
No pressure at all.
Chen Miao sighed slightly, feeling sentimental, completely at a loss about the purpose of the existence of an F-grade Secret Realm. It was this easy, providing no pressure; it was like strolling in a park.
Obviously, by then he had already forgotten how suspicious and cautious he had been when he first entered an F-grade Secret Realm.
He then glanced around and prepared to leave this Secret Realm.
The perfect completion condition for this Secret Realm likely required killing the vast majority of zombies in the city. It was not a difficult task for him, but the city was not small. To eradicate most of the zombies, he would have needed to spend a considerable amount of time,
and even a significant amount of Star Coins.
A mere perfect grade for clearing an F-grade Secret Realm wasn't worth the effort.
It would be a loss.
Only someone with a deeper purpose would make a losing deal, and he had no reason to do so.
If it weren't for the girl staring at him, crying, and insisting that he must come to pick her up when she left, he wouldn't have been so desperately motivated.
Three years had passed.
In these three years, his strength had grown stronger and stronger; he devoted nearly all his time to studying the secret realm "Apocalypse Paradise". Perhaps the heavens were watching over him, for this secret realm had not been perfectly cleared by anyone yet.
After searching for information online, he realized that this secret realm hadn't been perfectly cleared not only within these three years but had remained unconquered for a full eleven years since its inception.
He had spent three years raising the clearance progress of the secret realm from a maximum of 11% to a staggering 97%. He had a premonition that just three more trips into the map would bring him to 100%.
Then, he would be able to go to Jingjiu City.
...
Meanwhile, Chen Miao had already left the secret realm and was preparing to return to the graveyard. Out of curiosity, he searched for information about "Apocalypse Paradise" online and discovered that the secret realm had been created 11 years ago and had never been perfectly cleared.
He recalled the 97% clearance progress he had seen.
This was a low-level solo secret realm.
How could one person come close to annihilating all the undead in an entire city?
Even for him, accomplishing such a feat was nearly impossible, unless the rewards were extremely enticing. Then he might risk it all, exchanging a large number of Star Coins for bullets and start 'cleansing' the city. Otherwise, it was simply not worth it.
As a member of the Gunman Profession, his cost for bullets was already among the lowest, yet even then, it was unsustainable for such excessive use.
This was also why this secret realm had not been perfectly cleared for so many years; those capable of doing so didn't find it worth the massive sacrifice for a perfect clearance rating of an F-level secret realm.
The entrance to this secret realm was not solely located in the suburbs of Fengtian City.
These unexplored secret realm entrances were present outside the suburbs of every city. Whichever city managed to clear it perfectly first, the secret realm would then permanently appear in the corresponding Secret Realm Building of that city. This was also a testament to a city's heritage, signifying a greater variety of secret realms for the supernatural to choose from, indicating the overall strength of the city.
Chen Miao pursed his lips, feeling a slight sense of awe; the world was indeed not in want of strong individuals. It was necessary to be cautious when out and about to avoid inadvertently provoking a formidable figure.
It was at this moment
that he suddenly saw a large group of people blocking the entrance to the graveyard, clamoring about something. His brows furrowed and he strode toward them.
He feared that the old man, annoyed, might have buried all these people, and he was counting on developing peacefully here. He didn't want any significant social incidents kicking up that might draw the high attention of the Fengtian City Government.
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