Zhang Heng was also very interested in the effects of the Moresby Bone. After the appraisal results were out, he tried it out once.
Unlike the other game items he owned before, the Moresby Bone's activation conditions were very strict. It required a pre-ritual. Fortunately, the preparation of the ritual itself was not complicated. However, it would take about nine hours to complete.
After the ritual was completed, the holder of the Moresby Bone would enter a time loop.
It was an empty, white world. Other than the constant resetting of time, there was nothing here, not even death.
At the same time, this was also the best training ground. Take archery as an example. Since time was reset, there was no hunger, thirst, or fatigue. There was also no need to eat or sleep to recover. As long as you wanted to, you could train your archery skills to the max. But in reality, no one could endure such a boring cycle for a long time. Zhang Heng estimated that even a mentally strong person would collapse after half a month.
This place was too desolate. Zhang Heng did not know how the monster called Moresby managed to stay here for tens of thousands of years. Just like when it entered, when it came out of the time loop, it needed someone to perform a ritual. This was also why Moresby was completely trapped here after the destruction of the Alkiz people.
If it weren't for the strange man in the Tang suit who accidentally broke the balance of time, the monster would most likely be trapped in this cycle forever.
Even so, the value of this game item could not be concealed. Just the immortality property of the time loop itself was enough to tempt many people.
Since Zhang Heng had an extra 24 hours, his desire for this item was not as strong. After some hesitation, he decided to put it up for auction. It was mainly because he had just joined the game, and he had only completed three rounds of the game. Although he earned points at an impressive rate, he was still lacking.
After deducting the 5% processing fee, Zhang Heng ended up with a total of 2,755 points. With this income, he finally turned from a spectator to a participant in this auction.
Zhang Heng swiped the tablet in his hand and something on the fourth page caught his attention.
[Paris Arrow] Grade: D, Function: Shoot the target's weak point after it leaves the bow. Current bid: 410
The name and function of this arrow reminded Zhang Heng of a pillow story he heard when he was a child.
During the Trojan War, the most powerful hero of the Greek Alliance was Achilles. Legend had it that he was the son of Peleus, the hero of the Argonauts, and Thetis, the Sea Goddess.
There were many versions of his story. One of them was that his mother, Thetis, learned from the Goddess of Fortune that her son would die on the battlefield, so she soaked Achilles, who was still a baby, in the River Styx, making his body invulnerable.
But because she was carrying Achilles upside down at that time, the latter's ankle was not immersed in the water of the Styx River, so it became Achilles' only weakness.
In the later Trojan War, Achilles killed countless enemies and was victorious in every battle. He killed the number one warrior of Troy, Hector, but later he became enemies with the Sun God Apollo. According to the German author Schwab's Greek Mythology, Achilles was eventually killed by Apollo's divine arrow in the ankle.
But in Homer, it was Paris, the Trojan prince, who killed Achilles. His arrow, guided by Apollo, struck Achilles in the ankle.
Whether it was the name or the description of this game item, it was very similar to the arrow mentioned in Homer's Epic.
After learning about the dangers that players faced in the real world, Zhang Heng wanted to equip himself with some game items. This Paris Arrow was a perfect match for his Lv2 archery skill. As long as he could hit his target, the arrow would automatically hit the enemy's weakness.
Moreover, this kind of item had a relatively narrow range of application. It was only targeted at players with archery skills, so the competition was not that fierce. After more than half an hour, it had only increased by 65 game points. Compared to other popular items, it was relatively quiet.
As the auction continued, Ding Si's phone kept ringing. Obviously, he had a customer.
Ding Si wasn't surprised. Everyone who came to the auction wanted to see if there was a game item that suited them. If the bidding was fierce and they didn't have enough game points, they would naturally seek help from the Chamber of Commerce. They would either exchange their game items or use them as collateral.
For the next hour, Ding Si's fingers never stopped working, completing one transaction after another. When he got up and went out for a while, he finally received a lot less messages.
"I just received a big order, and I have almost used up all my game points. My work for the day is considered done." Ding Si came back with a beaming face.
"Congratulations," Zhang Heng congratulated him. The auction on the sidelines was coming to an end. The price of the Paris Arrow that Zhang Heng had his eyes on had risen to 445 points, and Zhang Heng had added 20 game points to it. This time, no one competed with him for the item. In the end, he managed to get the item at a price of 465 points.
Other than that, he was interested in a pair of earrings that could protect the wearer from being burned by fire. However, the price was too high, and Zhang Heng gave up on it in the end. As for the unappraised section, Zhang Heng browsed through it briefly. There were all kinds of items, including some that looked old, and some modern items like a Samsung mobile phone and a Gucci handbag. It was hard to tell what these items were used for just by looking at the pictures.
It was too risky to try his luck. Just as Zhang Heng was about to close the product page, a picture caught his eye. It was a key, and the engraving on its tail looked familiar.
Zhang Heng remembered where he had seen this pattern before. When he used Shadow Moment, he had stared at the crow in the dark, and he was very familiar with its eyes. Although the picture was a little blurry, he could still recognize the crow from the engraved pattern.
Zhang Heng's heart skipped a beat. Among all the game items he had, only the Shadow Moment had an unknown origin. Perhaps he could find some clues from this key. More importantly, the Shadow Moment was a Grade-D game item. Based on that, this key was likely to be a Grade-D game item as well.
Now that no one was bidding for this item, Zhang Heng easily won it with only 100 game points. Now that he had 2,292 game points left, Zhang Heng decided not to buy any more items. So, he closed the tablet in his hand.
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