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Chapter 35 - 40 Escape

35: Chapter 40 Escape

35 -40 Escape

[Item Name: Insect Lord’s Divine Calamity Crystal·Small]

[Type: Consumable]

[Quality: Fine]

[Special Effect: Heavenly Calculation Evolution.

Carbon-based life forms with a life essence lower than the Divine Calamity Crystal will be infected and assimilated upon contact, transforming into a form resembling the Divine Calamity; this process is irreversibly fixed and cannot be stopped]

[Consumption: None]

[Use Conditions: Carbon-based Life Forms]

[Note: Infection, assimilation, evolution.

I am the swarm, and the swarm is me]

[Note: “Who popularized the theory of evolution?” “Darwin.” “Wasn’t Darwin the one who discovered light scattering?” “That’s Tyndall!” “Wasn’t Tyndall the one who invented explosives?” “That’s Nobel!” “Isn’t Nobel the one from the survival show in the wild?” “That’s Bear Grylls!”]

Above is the item information about Blood Amber that Li Cheng saw.

According to the system’s explanation and the players’ forum, item qualities are ranked from low to high as follows: [Ruined], [Ordinary], [Rare], [Fine], [Perfect], [Epic].

It is said that there is a [Legendary] level above these.

The quality rating is only related to the item’s supernatural level and current status, unrelated to the item’s function.

For example, a hundred-year-old Peach Wood Sword that can cut down evil spirits is of [Rare] quality, while a modern main battle tank with no extraordinary elements is of [Ordinary] quality.

“If an item has multiple notes, the ones earlier in the list tend to be more serious, while those later in the list are often more peculiar.

At the same time, the item’s special effects won’t be deceitful, nor will they set language traps, and can be fully trusted.”

Li Cheng carefully inspected the words in the special effects description, “Carbon-based life forms with a lower life essence than the Divine Calamity Crystal will be infected and assimilated upon contact.

Could this life essence be similar to player levels?

This explains a lot of issues.

If the Divine Calamity Crystal is effective against any carbon-based life, it could be used as a weapon, sneakily attacking higher-level players or extraordinary beings to infect them as well, which would be too much of a bug.”

He concentrated his thoughts on the Blood Amber, and in the next instant, Blood Amber vanished into thin air, while the backpack slot in Li Cheng’s player panel now conspicuously showed [Insect Lord’s Divine Calamity Crystal·Small].

The limit for a player’s backpack slot is 20 spaces, each slot can only hold a single non-living object smaller than or equal to 60 cubic meters, items can be inserted and retrieved at any time without delay or consumption.

If one desires to hold more than 20 items, they can also employ the nesting method of space device within a space device within a space device to store a large number of items, though it is more troublesome when inserting and retrieving.

Moreover, the storage capability applies only to items “owned” by the player.

If it’s other people’s personal property, it cannot be secretly stolen and stored into the backpack at the scene.

“Items stored in the backpack will have their time progression halted, and will not interact with the external world.

Even if you store stinky tofu, canned surströmming, durian, or decomposing corpses, their odor will not leak out.

This saves the trouble of storing the Blood Amber.”

Li Cheng nodded in understanding and turned his attention to the second item.

[Item Name: Hunter Legion’s Painful Golden Arrow]

[Type: Consumable]

[Quality: Ruined]

[Special Effect: Inducing pain (discontinued).

Victims hit by this golden arrow will suffer intense pain illusions, the duration is related to the size and depth of the wound.

Even victims who physically lack the sense of pain will be affected by this effect and temporarily experience pain]

[Consumption: 100 Spiritual Power Points (discontinued)]

[Cooling Time: 30 seconds (discontinued)]

[Use Conditions: Must be soaked in the user’s blood for over a month (discontinued)]

[Note: The original quality level of this item was fine, but since it’s been consumed, it has now been downgraded to ruined.

It might be restorable by professional artisans]

[Note: Hunter Hearn firmly believes that high-end hunters often appear in the guise of prey, until he was wearing a lion’s skin and hiding among the lions, and was shot in the knee by another hunter]

This golden arrow had been obtained from the body of an ink-coloured spider, which had taken quite an effort at the time.

The reason for taking the arrow away, besides the conspicuousness of a golden arrow itself, made Li Cheng think of the wanted poster he saw in Zhangsun Yao’s World Nuclear House.

[Eugene, male, 30 years old, Lv10, former Bell Tower member, absconded after stealing seven golden arrows from the guild, now possibly hiding in Yin City]

Could this be the golden arrow mentioned in the wanted poster?

The item name suggests a high likelihood.

An item of ruined quality isn’t worth much before restoration.

Li Cheng also put it into his backpack slot, planning to bring it the next time he sees Zhangsun Yao.

After dealing with these two items, Li Cheng rummaged around, packed items like night clothes, odor remover, disposable phone, ropes for kidnapping, incendiary lighters and bleach for destroying corpses into his backpack slots—just in case they were needed.

While he was busy doing this, a voice suddenly rang in his mind,

[Task Type: Script Task (Solo)]

[Task Name: Escape to Survival]

[Task Objective: Maintain survival until escape from the dark room]

[Task Time Limit: 1 hour]

[Task Reward 1: Experience Points 100]

[Task Reward 2: Game Coins 200]

[Task Reward 3: Rare Quality Skill Scroll *1]

[Failure Punishment: Next task will become a punishment task]

[10 minutes until teleportation, start the teleportation now?]

Here it comes.

Li Cheng’s gaze sharpened.

So-called script tasks are ones that throw players into a parallel world-like spacetime to play as themselves or someone else.

The Killing Field regularly assigns tasks to players, granting rewards upon completion and punishments upon failure.

Common failure punishments include but are not limited to reducing current levels, deducting attribute points, randomly destroying one’s highest quality item, and obliteration.

Obliteration is bad enough, but if it’s a punishment task…

It might be an even worse disaster.

For example, directly throwing someone into a night parade of a hundred demons world, demanding survival for 300 nights.

Or starting with nothing but a stick, demanding to hunt down a sea monster that feeds on whales in the deep sea.

“So, the ‘tribute to the dead and to those who go to their death’ written on the player forum’s homepage already conveys this meaning.

A player’s talent is both a blessing for transcending the ordinary and a curse that cannot be shaken off.”

Li Cheng calmly tapped the table with his fingers, closed the laptop slowly, and clicked the teleportation option in his line of sight.

In the next instant, he disappeared from the spot.

When he opened his eyes again, a statue of a grinning wax figure constructed from rotting corpses stood ominously before him.