Feng Bujue spent a whole hour before he finished bathing the cat. When he was done, there were many claw marks on his arms, and he was covered in sweat, but at least it was done. Initially, he wanted to do more housework, but after that, he gave up on that idea. Bathing the cat … as an after-dinner exercise, it was a bit too much.
He sat on the sofa and wanted to catch his breath. Since he was already seated, he switched on the television. Since he had already switched on the television, he did not want to watch the commercials for 998 RMB, so he switched to the streaming channel. Since he was already there, he might as well watch something. Therefore, he clicked on the list of horror movies.
Horror movies loved sequels the most. After watching the first episode, no matter how bad the movie was, even out of curiosity, the audience would go back to check out the sequel. The mentality would be, 'What if the sequel is not bad? Otherwise, why would there be a third episode? '
After watching the second episode, if it was still bad, the audience would wonder, 'What happened to the third episode? Why is there a fourth episode? What happened after that? How can such a horrible story continue? Will there be more to it? '
In any case, Feng Bujue watched three horror movies that were each ninety-minute long, and his final conclusion was, "The four hours of my life have once again been wasted by bad movies."
He raised his head to look at the clock. It was around 10: 30 pm. It was too early to log into the game and switch to sleep mode. If he switched to non-sleep mode … he would probably run into a long scenario, and by the time he finished, it would already be 2 am.
That would be awkward. Feng Bujue's eyes moved back to the television. "Should I watch the fourth episode as well?"
Five seconds later, he slapped himself on the face to banish that scary thought. Then he lay down in the gaming hub and logged into Thriller Paradise in non-sleep mode.
The log-in lobby was the same. After Feng Bujue appeared in the elevator, the first thing he did was look at the social tab on the screen. Brother Long was offline, and so was Blade Runner. Xiao Tan was not online, but Passing Rain and Laughing Soul's names were lit up. If they could be seen in the friend list, it meant that they were also logged into the server in non-sleeping mode. Unfortunately, they were already in the [In-Game] state.
Feng Bujue checked the system mailbox. There was a private message and a system mail.
He first opened his private message. The sender was Meng Jingchan, and the content of the message was only one sentence: "Brother Feng, if you do me the honor, why don't you add me as a friend and come to the conference room for a chat when you're free."
"What?" Feng Bujue muttered to himself. "No reward." He deleted the email directly. "You just want to get information about the Anomalies from me, right? At most, you want me to join Regulation." Feng Bujue's guess was not far from the truth. He was too lazy to reject the other party in person. Anyway, if Meng Jingchan did not receive a friend invite or email response, he would understand.
Then, Feng Bujue opened the system mail. The content of the mail was good news.
The title of the mail was "Compensation Letter to Player Feng Bujue."
He clicked open the mail, and it was a long letter. He almost had to turn the page.
It started with a polite greeting. It was a formal opening, something like, "Dear player, due to the abnormality in the scenario, we have caused you inconvenience." It went on for about three hundred words before it touched on something more practical. In other words … the previous scenario was forced to end by the player, so there would be corresponding compensation.
"Due to the uniqueness of the reward system for EXP and Game Coins, unfortunately, you are still unable to obtain the corresponding reward from the scenario. Therefore, we will compensate you with double the reward for clearing the scenario. You will be able to randomly draw two learnable Skill Cards. "
Even though the last part of the mail said, "If you have any questions, please contact customer service." But Feng Bujue understood that going further would not do him any good. Furthermore, the compensation was already quite good. If he was too greedy, he might not even be able to get it.
In the previous scenario, it was because the flag was stuck that they could not clear the scenario. It was not because the players had completed the conditions to clear the scenario but were unable to obtain the reward. There was a fundamental difference between the two. Because in the former scenario, it was still unknown whether the players could clear the scenario or not. Even if everything was normal, they might not be able to clear the scenario.
Furthermore, this compensation reward was something rare in the early stages of the game. Regulation would gladly accept it. After all, they did not suffer any huge loss; it was just the game time of one scenario. Unlike Feng Bujue, who had lost so much money and returned to his previous life in one night.
After reading the mail, Feng Bujue did not hurry to the storage room. Instead, he went to the market to sell the magazines in his pocket. A magazine of bullets that cost 700 Game Coins was sold for only 65 Game Coins. He had no idea how the system calculated that …
He bought another three bottles of Life Points Recovery Potion (Medium) and then went to the storage room. There were already two glass columns inside. He walked up to them and picked up the two Skill Cards. He held them in his hands and examined them.
The skill of the first card was:
[Name: Evil King's Black Dragon Flame]
Skill Card Attribute: Active Skill, Disappears after one use.
Skill Type: Spiritual Arts
[Effect: Release the Black Dragon to devour you and your enemies]
Consumption: Survival Points 100%
[Prerequisite: Sorcery Mastery E]
[Remark: Eat or be eaten … This problem has been solved.]
"Settle my ass! Isn't it just being eaten? "Feng Bujue shouted. His Sorcery Mastery had indeed increased by one level after the previous scenario. The skill in front of him was a sure-kill skill. As a one-time consumable skill, the cost of activating it was all of the player's Life Points. In other words, after the skill was used, whether the enemy died or not, the player would die.
As for the second Skill Card, it was an extremely precious Passive Skill Card. It was just that its effect was a little strange.
[Name: Ice Alchemist's Persistence]
Skill Card Attribute: Passive Skill, Permanent
Skill Type: Workmanship
Effect: Increase the success rate of all active skills by 10%
[Prerequisite: Workmanship D]
Remark: Mr. W.W. always warns us that even if you are creating 'ice', out of respect for chemistry, not even a fly is allowed in the lab.]
"Isn't this just Heisenberg? Ice Alchemist? What is this skill hinting at? " As Feng Bujue grumbled at this ridiculous remark, he quickly learned the skill.
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