[Dear Player Alice, your authority level in All Beings is Level 1. Information and shop related to your authority level have been unlocked. Please work hard to level up and strive to save the world~]
Save the world?
For a split second, Yin Luo thought this was some kind of hot-blooded youth online game.
A bizarre game that drags people on the verge of death into a terrifying supernatural world, you’d think the accompanying APP would be designed to match that atmosphere a bit, right?
It wasn’t until he saw the prices of the items inside that Yin Luo realized why Ying Zixin and Zhang Hengheng had reacted so strongly to his amount of over two thousand points.
[One Ragged Talisman: 10 Points]
[Item Review: A piece of waste paper utterly useless. Its greatest function is to cheat you out of 10 points. Its secondary function is that it heats up and burns to ashes upon encountering yin energy. Tsk, so not environmentally friendly.]
[One Fruit Knife: 8 Points]
[Item Review: An utterly useless fruit knife. Its main function is cutting fruit. The reason it costs you 8 points is that it has a special coating, preventing it from being detected by metal scanners.]
[One Old Pen: 30 Points]
[Function Intro: A low-quality pen with no ink at all. Its only use is to play the summoning pen spirit game, but all it can summon are little ghosts that know nothing yet have ideas about your warm, living body.]
[Anti-inflammatory Medicine: 5 Points]
[Function Intro: Go read the label at a pharmacy yourself.]
[One Roll of Gauze: 5 Points]
[Function Intro: No way, no way. No one would actually buy this trash and let it take up a backpack slot, right? Oh wait, some people don’t even have the points to expand a Game Backpack slot~]
[Saliva of a Hundred-Year Green Zombie: 30 Points]
[Function Intro: Bleeeurgh—]
“……”
Yin Luo looked at the function reviews and felt whoever wrote these was truly a genius.
Just by reading the text, that infuriating passive-aggressive sarcasm smashed right into your face through the phone screen.
But these items were either suitable for newbies or too limited in use, none were useful to him.
If he spent points on things like this, then he’d truly be the sucker.
He kept scrolling down.
[One Low-Level Talisman: 80 Points]
[Function Intro: Can block one small attack from one little ghost, one time. Hmm, if it’s two small attacks, then you need to buy two.]
[Professional Grappling Technique Video Course (Total 120 Lessons): 12 Points]
[Function Intro: After learning, wanting to punch demons and kick Fierce Ghosts is still a bit too optimistic for these 12 points. But beating up your noob teammates is doable. What, you still want to split the cost with someone? Knowledge is priceless, understand? This is much more reliable than the 1200 bucks for ten lessons plus a crappy martial arts uniform at your neighborhood gate.]
[Scarlet Fruit Pill: 50 Points]
[Function Intro: A newbie perk. Can repair a certain degree of internal and external injuries in a short time. But don’t even think about it for missing limbs. For just these points, do you think this is a charity?]
[One Stick of Low-Grade Nether Incense: 20 Points]
[Function Intro: Burning it can attract some unsophisticated little ghosts. Careful, they eat fast~]
…
After looking at more, one could roughly figure out the rules for the point pricing in this Game Shop.
It seemed that basically, if an item existed in the real world, the price would be low, like wound medicine, or video courses.
But once it involved the supernatural or anomalies, the prices of these goods soared.
But Yin Luo still wasn’t very interested and kept scrolling.
[Mystery Lucky Bag: 100 Points]
[Function Intro: Oh my, look what this is! A mysterious, unknown, adorable Lucky Bag! It even has a pity system! Twenty pulls guaranteed to yield a useful item! One hundred pulls guaranteed to yield a good item! Quick! Come! Buy! It!]
This was the only item along the way whose introduction had a completely different tone.
That aloof ‘buy it or don’t’ attitude instantly transformed into the full-faced, genial smile of a street-side salesperson. Every single word was coaxing the Player into buying it.
This looked extremely conspiratorial; the intent to swindle was practically jumping off the page.
After all, for many newbie Players, they couldn’t even earn 100 points from clearing a single Novice Instance, let alone spending a hundred points to draw for an unknown item.
And those High-Level Players who could afford this amount already had established power systems and needed specific, targeted items.
Points aren’t like real-world money; a single point can stump a hero, much less points earned through risking one’s life.
But… Yin Luo really did have over 2000 points, okay.
But, it has a pity system, okay.
But, it’s a Lucky Bag, okay.
For 100-point items, he was completely uninterested, but 100 points for a draw, Yin Luo admitted, he was tempted.
Rather than buying those other items that looked weird and weren’t very useful to him, better to buy this Lucky Bag, which might also be useless but was at least interesting enough.
Go straight for twenty pulls!
Charge with 2000 points!
“Oh, right.” On the other side, Zhang Hengheng, who was discussing leave with his counselor, suddenly remembered something and said, “Alice, if you see that Lucky Bag, I suggest you don’t buy it, because…”
In an instant, golden light flashed.
Yin Luo’s usually flat tone was uncharacteristically chirpy: “Twenty Lucky Bags, I got something!”
“Cough, cough cough… cough! Cough!” Zhang Hengheng choked on his water on the spot.
Yin Luo looked at the nineteen normal Lucky Bags and one golden Lucky Bag displayed in his APP’s item list, feeling completely unsurprised.
This so-called ‘guaranteed after X pulls’ usually only yielded something at the guarantee. But the joy of pulling gacha—ah, no—pulling Lucky Bags, was genuine.
This kind of unknown, exciting purchasing method really hit the spot for him.
“First Lucky Bag, Low-Level Talisman 3.”
Yin Luo calculated mentally. One Low-Level Talisman was 10 points, three were 30 points. One Lucky Bag cost 100 points.
“……?”
Hold it in, next one!
“Second Lucky Bag, this is…”
Yin Luo carefully finished reading the item description, a pile of nonsense, and summarized: “A red thumbtack that, once nailed into a wall, cannot be removed by any means for three days. But it will fall off on its own after three days.”
“……”
Yin Luo suddenly wanted very much to press this into the brain of whoever (or whatever) designed this Lucky Bag.
“Third Lucky Bag, a magical plant root that turns your face green for a day after eating it.”
Yin Luo looked at that so-called plant root, which looked like a green slug oozing yellowish-brown slime, and felt his face was turning green even without eating it.
Just at this moment, Zhang Hengheng’s voice comforted him from the living room: “It’s fine, Alice. You have lots of points anyway, two thousand points, you blew them, so what… don’t worry, you gotta be open-minded.”
Ying Zixin, having left only briefly before learning of this kid’s mess, was speechless.
Yin Luo didn’t believe it. He wouldn’t believe his luck was that bad. He always felt his luck was pretty good.
“The good stuff must be later. Fourth Lucky Bag, Scarlet Fruit Pill 3, that’s not bad…”
Seeing this, he remembered the damage that idiot Lei Jue had caused him.
He’d heard that guy would also need to lie in bed for three days after returning to reality?
The white-haired youth patted the rabbit doll, which couldn’t move in the real world. “Well done.”
“Fifth, a useless puzzle piece…”
“Sixth, a key to an unknown Instance location. Can spend 100 points to identify it.”
“……”
After experiencing a whole lot of random junk, Yin Luo finally unboxed an interesting little gadget.
“Eighteenth, one roll of magical Corpse Silkworm Silk. Usually fine, transparent, as if non-existent. Upon contact with yin energy, it becomes hard and possesses tenacity. The stronger the yin energy channeled, the sharper and tougher it becomes. At its limit, it can cut through concrete.”
It becomes hard upon encountering yin energy?
Corpse Frost Power should also count as a yin energy category, right?
Yin Luo’s mood, which had nearly been driven to murderous intent by the Lucky Bag opening, finally calmed down.
He took back his previous words. This Lucky Bag was amazing.
This was practically tailor-made for him.
Previously, condensing blood into ice threads was sharp enough, but being ice, they inherently lacked tenacity.
In his non-complete Fierce Ghost state, Yin Luo had absolutely no way to deal with a direct, full-frontal assault like Lei Jue’s. But if he had possessed this roll of Corpse Silkworm Silk back then, the result would have been vastly different.
Perhaps the first thing to fall apart wouldn’t have been his wheelchair, but Lei Jue’s body?
He’d find a chance to test it out later.
See if it was easy to control.
“Nineteenth, a pair of chopsticks. No matter what you pick up, it tastes like Fish-Flavored Shredded Pork.”
“Huh?”
The white-haired youth looked more closely at the item description.
[A pair of magical silver chopsticks, purely hand-carved with exquisite patterns, yet yearning for the taste of fish-flavored shredded pork from the cheap restaurant downstairs. Even if what you pick up is sht, what enters your mouth will taste like those bulk fish-flavored shredded pork sauce packets that cost a few dozen bucks on certain online shops. Spend a few more points to customize them to flavors like Farmhouse Stir-fried Pork, Sweet and Sour Ribs, or Sour and Spicy Chicken Gizzards, or other sauce packets.]
So many things to complain about, so little time.
But at least they were interesting enough.
For Yin Luo, this was actually much more useful than those ragged talismans costing 10 points each.
Next was the last one, also the only golden one. The white-haired youth’s anticipation was maxed out.
“A special expanded backpack slot? What’s this?” Yin Luo read the description above. “Compared to a normal Game Backpack, the space is larger, the scope wider, and it can even hold spiritual entities.”
“It’s just the initial 100 points to unlock 10 slots of the Game Backpack, but through the Lucky Bag draw, it was sold to you as a single special expanded slot for 100 points.” Zhang Hengheng poked his head out from the doorway, grinning. “And it came out on the 20th pull’s guarantee, too.”
Yin Luo: ???