Chapter 71 Intermission 18

Chapter 71 Intermission 18

The area before his eyes was much smaller than the storage room and only slightly bigger than the elevator. The ceiling was white, and a soft glow filtered down from above. The floor was decorated with black and white tiles, like a chess board. The strangest thing was that, other than the elevator door, all the walls in the room were fitted with funny mirrors.

The reflections of Feng Bujue looked stranger than the one before it. Not only was the physical shape distorted, even his presence was changed by these mirrors. Inside these mirrors, one could see joy, anger, sadness, greed, madness, dullness, blankness... It was as if each reflection represented an emotion or desire.

"And I thought this would be a large shared public space like the market," Feng Bujue mumbled to himself. His eyes were attracted to the only object in the room. In the middle of the floor was a large, intensely colorful box. It was a one meter by one meter cubed.

"So... if I open it, there will be a clown attached to the box springing out to scare me..." Feng Bujue shrugged and smiled as he walked to the box. Suddenly, the system announced, "When you’re at the Thriller Box, you can open the special menu to browse the objects on sale."

"Tsk... So, this is just for decoration?" The rather disappointed Feng Bujue opened the menu. The list of items was long, surprisingly long in fact. There were more than four thousand items, and all of them were at least excellent quality.

In just two days of the closed beta, or fifty hours in real life, and five hundred hours of sleeping mode and one hundred hours of non-sleeping mode, the combination of both modes would add up to twenty-five days. In this period, each randomly generated scenario would have one or two items that players were unable to bring out of the scenario. Other than that, there was countless pieces of equipment inside the scenarios that the players did not even discover. All these items, after having their attributes adjusted, would show up in the Thriller Box.

The open beta had started at 8 am, and it was since then that everything in the Thriller Box had started their countdown toward demolition. By then, six hours had passed and so everything generated at the start of the open beta in the Thriller Box had the tag saying, "Remaining time of existence: six Days seventeen Hours thirty-eight Minutes". Other than that, there were quite a few items that were added after the start of the open beta, and their countdown started the moment when the scenario that they were generated in ended.

Out of curiosity, Feng Bujue searched for ’Zombie-Must-Die’, which he had encountered in his tutorial. He did manage to find it, but the attributes of the sword had been changed.

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Item Name: Zombie-Must-Die

Item Type: Weapon

Quality: Excellent

Offense Points: Slightly Strong

Element: None

Special Effect: Its attack can melt a zombie instantly.

Equip Requirement: Fighting Mastery D, Level 18

Remarks: One of the earlier products made by the legendary dwarf blacksmith, Orr All-Must-Die. A cunning goblin merchant used several bottles of Sorghum Wines to trade for the sword. Half a month later, Orr forged another blade called ’Goblin-Must-Die’.

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As a weapon with a specific purpose and acceptable damage, the updated equip requirement was more logical. As a level eighteen player with fighting mastery, no matter what their equipment was, fighting against a zombie should not be too difficult, but it should not be too easy either. However, that would change if said player had this sword; they would basically be able to kill every zombie without suffering any damage in return.

Feng Bujue had the time of his life, looking through the list of equipment for about an hour.

In Thriller Paradise’s menu, a page would show one hundred items, and each item only consisted of its name, type, and price. Only by clicking on them would the details show up.

Feng Bujue naturally did not click on every single thing. He only checked out the things that interested him and scanned through most of them. Some pages only took him ten seconds to read before skipping over. Even so, it still took him so long, and there was quite a number of equipment that caught his attention.

When he was done, he closed his eyes and let out a sigh. He arranged his thoughts and used the search function to pull out an item that he had purposely marked in his mind.

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Item Name: Casey Jones’ Mask

Item Type: Armor

Quality: Excellent

Defense Points: Medium

Element: None

Special Effect: When equipped, the player’s fighting mastery will be viewed as one level higher than the player’s actual level, but the maximum level that this effect can influence is Level C.

Equip Requirements: Male character, Level 15, bound after equip.

Remark: The owner of this mask spent his free time hanging out with four mutant turtles who lived in the sewers and had a passion for pizza. As a youth without any superpowers, he still had a passion for fighting street crime, and this mask slowly became his symbol.

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The mask sold for five hundred Skill Points, and its main value was the low equip requirement and had the feature of strengthening its wearer.

Before level twenty, it was hard for players to raise their mastery to level C, and this mask’s effect was there to help players breakthrough that threshold. As something that had its lifespan, this mask would be immensely useful for players between level fifteen and twenty. Even after level twenty, if the players’ fighting mastery had not risen to level C, then the item would still have its uses.

Currently, Feng Bujue’s mastery levels were: General Ability E, Workmanship E, Sleuthing E, Fighting E, Marksmanship D, and Medic F. Other than that, after the open beta, the list of mastery in the menu changed. The original font became smaller, and a new grayed out area appeared. This meant that two new masteries had been introduced into the game, but for now, Feng Bujue had no idea what they were.

In any case, this mask was worth more than its price, so Feng Bujue did not hesitate much before purchasing it. Even though he was level thirteen, levelling up to fifteen would not be so difficult. Theoretically speaking, he only needed to clear another four scenarios.

After buying the mask, Feng Bujue took it back to his storage. Then, he returned to the market to place Kenny’s Hooded Jacket on the auction house with 110,000 as the starting price and 140,000 as the selling price. When he made that listing, he paid four thousand Game Coins as a processing fee. This fee was decided by the system and was different depending on the item listed. The difference in price was based on the item’s attributes, so technically, one could base the item’s actual value on the listing price that was given by the system.

If no one bid on the item in twenty-four hours of real-life time, the item would be taken down from the listing and returned to the player. If it was sold, the money would be mailed instead.

After dealing with all that, Feng Bujue returned to his log-in space. It was 3 pm in real life, so he had technically half a day to spend in game. He set up a short-term goal for himself—before the sun rose the next morning, he had to reach level fifteen and level up his workmanship to D so that he could equip Echo Armor and Casey Jones’ Mask. Then, it was time to go and experience the Killing Game mode.