Chapter 52, Teammates Die
Zhong Bingxuan opened the system shop to search for defensive items.
Low-level defense talisman: 100 points each, defends against low-level strange and physical attacks, lasts for 3 minutes.
Intermediate Defense Talisman: 500 points each. Defends against intermediate-level strange attacks and high-damage physical attacks for 10 minutes.
Advanced Defense Talisman: 1000 points each, defends against advanced strange and super physical attacks, lasting for 30 minutes.
Top-tier defense talisman: 5000 points each, provides defense against Ghost Kings and above, a portion of the Ghost Emperor's power, grants immunity to any physical attack, and lasts for 1 hour.
Physical attacks are easy to defend against, but strange attacks are not so easy to deal with.
In the system shop, the cheapest item is the defense charm, while the protective shield is more expensive. A low-level protective shield costs 1,000 points, not to mention a high-level protective shield, which requires at least 50,000 points and is considered a damaged version. A normal version costs 100,000 points.
Not only are they expensive, but they are also ineffective against strange mental attacks. Their only advantage is that, unlike defensive talismans, they are not disposable items and can be reused.
The next dungeon is a supernatural dungeon. Zhong Bingxuan can only choose defense runes. Top-tier defense runes are too expensive, but the dungeon level is five stars, so she has to buy one as a backup. She will use the rest of her points to buy high-level defense runes.
Zhong Bingxuan spent all her points again and checked her personal attributes to see if there was any room for further reorganization.
[Congratulations to the player for unlocking their personal panel.]
Name: Zhong Bingxuan
Lifespan: 15,430 days
[Points: 90]
Occupation: None
[Skills: Dangerous Prediction, Death Reload]
Guild: None
[Team: Rain or Shine]
——Property Panel
[Strength: ??? (Born with superhuman strength, grows stronger when facing stronger opponents.)]
Agility: 10018 (Lightning speed.)
[Charm: 1019 (A peerless beauty, with exquisite features.)]
[Spirit: 26 (General level of old humans, mediocre level of new humans.)]
[Luck: 15 (The chosen one of the old humans, the unluckiest among the new humans.)]
[Physical Constitution: 10020 (An unkillable cockroach.)]
Endurance: 66 (Death's pain will make you stronger, young man, bravely face death!)
Stamina: 80/110 (Take a bath to relax and restore stamina.)
[Mana: 50/104110 (A Dangerous Prophecy deducts 20 points each time; death requires reloading the save, so your patience is key.)]
[Fullness: 55/110 (You might need a warm breakfast to fill your stomach.)]
Cards: 90 Disguise Cards, 1 Equivalent Exchange Card, 5 Advanced Defense Talismans, 1 Top-Tier Defense Talisman, 2 Transparent Darts, 1 Beast-Butterfly-Insect Transformation Card, 1 Black Gold Limb-Severing Life-Sustaining Pill, 1 Clue Book, 10 Talent Cards, 100 Sets of Agility Potions, 10 Enhancement Stones, Weather Forecast Card.
I used a lot of disguise cards in the last dungeon, but it was this disguise card that prevented Zhong Bingxuan from standing out and being targeted in crowded places. It's a pretty good item.
I forgot about Agility Potions and Enhancement Stones. I don't know how to use them.
Agility Potion: Increases own speed by 300% for 10 minutes.
Enhancement Stone: Increases weapon hardness and attack power (requires crafting table processing).
When Zhong Bingxuan saw the brief introduction to the strengthening stone, her eyes lit up at first, but then she felt heartbroken.
She had seen the crafting station in the system store before, and it cost 100,000 points. Not to mention that she spent money like water and couldn't save any money at all, even if she didn't spend any money, she wouldn't have 100,000 points. It was just for decoration. She should go and see if Hanmo had finished it.
Lacking funds to upgrade her weapons, Zhong Bingxuan decided to avoid the issue and went to discuss matters with Li Hanmo.
The reason was that when Zhong Bingxuan and Li Hanmo arrived at the shore in the previous instance, the system automatically sent them back to the train, instead of them having to find the boarding point themselves as before.
Zhong Bingxuan found it strange, so she opened her clay doll to check it out. The doll had received messages left by her other teammates, and that's when she learned the details.
It turns out that Fu Yucheng and Zhong Linlin were unlucky and encountered a five-star instance called the Vengeance Hunt, which belongs to the supernatural resurgence. Their destination happened to be the beautiful Osda, where Zhong Bingxuan and Li Hanmo disembarked.
When Zhong Bingxuan and Li Hanmo appeared on the giant ship, Zhong Linlin saw that their signals were online and immediately sent a message to Zhong Bingxuan and Li Hanmo requesting support, as Fu Yuchen had been mysteriously kidnapped.
However, the two were doing a quest at the time, and the two teams in different instances couldn't contact each other at all; they could only see each other online.
Once Zhong Bingxuan and Li Hanmo had completed their missions, the news arrived.
Before Zhong Bingxuan could even react to what the beeping sound meant, the Doomsday Train, worried that Zhong Bingxuan might take advantage of the doll's bug to randomly enter the dungeon and disrupt its fairness, didn't even need the two of them to find the boarding point; it directly sent Zhong Bingxuan and Li Hanmo back onto the train.
With her teammate in danger, Zhong Bingxuan, as the team leader, naturally couldn't stand idly by.
I just got back and now I have to go down into a dungeon, hoping to rescue my two teammates in time.
It's just that actively choosing a dungeon is different from passively selecting one.
The latter allows first-class cabin owners to choose for free, while the former requires Zhong Bingxuan to use a certain number of points as a handling fee.
Because Zhong Bingxuan had the system blocker, a money-devouring beast, and didn't have many points on hand, she granted Li Hanmo access so that he could find the grudge hunting dungeon and rescue his two friends.
The difficulty of a five-star dungeon is unimaginable. Zhong Bingxuan wished she could be fully armed, but unfortunately she lacked points and could only buy a few defense runes.
This was only because she had a relatively easy time getting through the previous dungeon, Zhongbingxuan, and still had plenty of mana potions left. Otherwise, considering the cost of mana potions, she wouldn't even be able to buy the cheapest one-time defense charm.
"Ah Xuan, get everything ready. We'll start in an hour. How about I go downstairs this time and you rest for a bit?"
Five-star dungeons are too dangerous, and Li Hanmo doesn't want his lover to take the risk.
"What do you take me for? You can only share the good times but not the bad? This dungeon is too dangerous. Even Fu Yuchen, a veteran player with more than ten runs, was captured by the monster. If you go alone, you'll just be sending yourself to die. I might as well go instead."
At least she has the ability to reload save files, so she won't really be completely helpless.
"How can I, a grown man, live with the shame of watching my woman go to her death while I indulge in pleasure? Enough said, let's go get a meal, and then I'll head to the dungeon to rescue her."
Knowing he couldn't persuade Zhong Bingxuan and unwilling to listen to his lover's advice, Li Hanmo took the initiative to change the subject.
"Yeah, I'm starving."
Even with the fact that she had saved his life before, the captain of the giant ship always thought of Zhong Bingxuan first, treating her better than the other players on the ship.
But with supply ships unable to reach them and relying solely on their savings, Zhong Bingxuan dared not indulge in lavish meals and drinks to avoid provoking others' envy and potentially causing her to suffer a setback due to others' jealousy. As a result, she often went hungry.
If it weren't for Linlin's accident, Zhong Bingxuan's worry would have overwhelmed her and made her forget her hunger, and she would have already asked the staff to bring her food.
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