Chapter 31: Game Hall (1/2)
The system politely bid farewell after the long list of rewards and titles. Then Bai Liu’s small TV went out with a pop but by this time, many viewers had gathered in front of it and were marveling and discussing.
“Newcomer? A pure newcomer? I’m completely shocked. The newcomers these days are too good. The instance clearance rewards have been broadcasting for 10 minutes…”
“That isn’t the most powerful thing. Didn’t you notice that he has collected all of the monster book? Many great gods can’t collect the monster book when clearing the true ending!”
“I have purchased his video to watch it. I think it must be very good-looking!”
“Me too! I’m really shocked. Such a long list of rewards and more than 10,000 charged points. How did he do it?”
“I’m more curious about where the 1,000 people stepping on him came from. It stands to reason that his clearance data is very good. How can anyone step on it?”
The purchase of Bai Liu’s Siren Town game video climbed straight up and hundreds of copies were sold in an instant.
This was the reason why everyone wanted to come to the core area. The audience here was very generous and their thinking was relatively rational. Bai Liu had already cleared the instance and showed up here. Some were willing to spend dozens of points to buy the video to see what type of monster or potential newcomer he was. Someone once calculated that the number of charged points that could be obtained from a promotion position in the core area was in the thousands.
Wang Shun reluctantly looked at Bai Liu’s dark screen. “God Mu, when do you think Bai Liu will enter the game next? Do you think he will choose single player games? I kind of want to wait in front of his small TV.”
“Why ask me? How should I know?” Mu Sicheng narrowed his eyes. “Bai Liu should’ve logged out in the newcomer area. You can go to the newcomer area to catch him and ask him directly. Currently, Bai Liu’s mental value hasn’t recovered and his mind shouldn’t be clear. If you take advantage of this to increase your good impression then he might be willing to take you to play games in the future.”
“God Mu, you are really…” Wang Shun’s expression was very complicated. “So shameless…”
“Aren’t you going?” Mu Sicheng didn’t care about Wang Shun’s accusation. He shrugged and smiled wickedly but this image was destroyed by his cheek that was bulging on one side due to the lollipop. “I’m very curious about his newcomer skill.”
“The first player in a group of newcomers to clear the instance will get a newcomer skill. The system will conceal the player’s newcomer skill and this skill is said to be linked to the player’s real desires. I would like to know what Bai Liu’s desires are.”
Wang Shun was actually very curious but he also felt doubts. “Under normal circumstances, everyone knows that this type of thing should be kept secret, right? Bai Liu shouldn’t tell us.”
“Bai Liu’s mental value is only 0.1 right now. Do you think he is normal? It is a miracle if he isn’t crazy when he comes out.” Mu Sicheng looked at Wang Shun innocently. “I think that Bai Liu might be unstable when he comes out of the game and his mind definitely isn’t sober. Why can’t we pretend to be the system staff to find it out?”
Wang Shun, “……”
God Mu, you are such a gangster.
Bai Liu came out covered in water. He was all soaked and his eyes were dazzled, like they were covered with a layer of frosted glass. He felt like the sky was spinning as he stood and he had to hold onto the wall, gasping to recover his strength. He felt like he was low in blood sugar so he squatted down. The moment he squatted, his legs softened and he directly sat on the ground. After sitting down, Bai Liu tried a few times but couldn’t stand up. In the end, he slumped down on the ground.
“I’m really weak,” Bai Liu inwardly sighed.
There was no one here at the entrance of the newcomer area. After all, none of the other players had cleared the game except Bai Liu. Bai Liu took advantage of this to rest and organize the rewards and items he got.
He guessed correctly that the rewards from collecting the monster book were indeed the ‘biggest’. This type of ‘bigness’ didn’t mean that all the items from collecting the monster book were awesome. For example, Stealth in the Sea and Statue’s Shell were very normal items that increased the panel attribute points. As a game designer, these types of items couldn’t be more ordinary for Bai Liu.
Nevertheless, Bai Liu thought these things were the biggest rewards. It was because they couldn’t be purchased using points in the game store.
Bai Liu had searched several times but couldn’t find any items in the store that corresponded to his item rewards. This showed that the reward items gained from the monster book were non-marketable and were considered limited items. In other words, these items couldn’t be obtained from the game store. They could only be obtained by the player when clearing the game or through a transaction between players outside the system.
However, the monster book obviously wasn’t easy to collect and this meant it was difficult to obtain these items through the game. Thus some players would obtain these limited items through the second method: transactions between players. These people probably weren’t few.
In other words, Bai Liu felt that he would be able to get an incredible price if he sold the items he got. Even so, he wouldn’t sell them. At least not now when he needed to increase his basic attributes. Bai Liu wouldn’t easily see the monster book items he got.
The item that Bai Liu considered valuable was naturally the Merfolk Amulet, which was equivalent to an escape item.
For the Siren King’s Reverse Scale, the system had directly given him an explanation that the effect was unknown. The Siren’s Fishbone also gave a specious explanation that it could tear through space and time but Bai Liu had to explore the specific function by himself. These two items weren’t rated by the system and stated it was unclear. Bai Liu clicked on the supplementary explanation after ‘unclear’ and it told him directly that the system couldn’t rate it.
“The system can’t evaluate it?” Bai Liu sighed. “This system doesn’t work.”
The thing Bai Liu didn’t know was that these two items came from the god-level NPC and this NPC was originally a string of bug data that couldn’t be calculated by the system. It was a bit difficult for it to judge the bone and scale from the bug data.
Bai Liu checked his rewards all the way to the end and found a very magical ‘personal skill reward’ with the word ‘unlocked’ displayed after it. Bai Liu curiously clicked on the ‘unlocked’ twice. The interface slowly faded away and a new page appeared. [Please close your eyes and imagine what you want.]
Bai Liu closed his eyes, clasped his hands together and muttered piously three times, ‘Money, money, money.’
[The player can now open your eyes to receive the skill.]
Bai Liu opened his eyes and found a very worn-out leather wallet floating in front of him. It looked like a leather wallet that had been used for more than 10 years. The edges of the wallet were white, the leather was damaged and the braided thread inside was exposed. Bai Liu looked at this wallet that he hadn’t been willing to throw away even after using it for a long time.
This was his new skill?
[Player Bai Liu’s skill item: Empty Old Wallet (it seems to have been used for a long time but the owner is still reluctant to throw it away. It is enough to see that the owner is stingy with money.)]
[Player Bai Liu’s skill identity: Poor wanderer (unemployed, no money, your rent is about to expire soon. You seem to have no way other than wandering the streets.)]
Bai Liu, “……”
Was this skill used to attack the poverty of others (such as himself)?
[System: Of course not.]
[Player Bai Liu’s skill: You can use anything in your hand to exchange with other people. As long as the other party promises to give you something, you can put it in your wallet.]
[The other party’s skills, points, items, life and even soul and beliefs can be turned into coins and put in your wallet, becoming tools in your hand. You are the devil’s trader, the seemingly poor tramp. However, the person who trades with you can sell everything they own.]
[You might have nothing now but you will have everything in the future. It is because your desire for money is endless. Sooner or later, you will have the wealthiest wallet in the world, even if it is full of the souls of the helpless.]
[Skill Usage: A transaction. After two parties agree to the transaction, they can’t go back on it. They can’t sell things obtained from a person to the same person. If one of the parties dies during the transaction, the soul of the person who hasn’t performed the transaction duties will be detained in the wallet.]
“Wow.” Bai Liu was a bit interested. “This skill sounds inhumane.”
[System: Do you hate this skill?]
“No.” Bai Liu smiled. “On the contrary, I really like it. It suits me. I would like to ask, if the other party doesn’t know I have this skill, is the transaction still valid?”
[System: If there is a coin relationship between the two parties and a coin enters the item wallet at least once, the transaction is established.]
“A money relationship?” Bai Liu touched his chin. “For example?”
[System: For example, you want to get someone’s item. You can use the coin in your wallet to buy it from him. It doesn’t matter if he knows you have this skill or if he really means to agree. The moment he takes your coin, the transaction is established and his item is yours.]
“Even if I suggest buying an expensive item from the other person for 1 point in a joking tone, it will be established as long as the other party agrees?” Bai Liu’s smile became brighter.
[System: Yes.]
“Tsk tsk, this skill is really shameless.” Bai Liu commented sincerely. “Still, I can’t wait to try it.”
[System: Your current points balance is 15,781. Do you want to fully load it into your wallet?]
Bai Liu nodded. “Put it in.”
After organizing his items, Bai Liu checked his panel attributes. Almost all his attributes were red and miserable because Bai Liu had overworked them in the game.
[Player name: Bai Liu]
[Health: 20 (a 120 kg man can kill you by sitting on you but you are slowly recovering.)]
[Physical strength: 7 (unsteady when standing, automatically recovering.)]