After a long list of awards and titles that made people numb, the system politely said goodbye, and Bai Liu's small TV went off with a "click". However, a lot of viewers had already gathered in front of Bai Liu's small TV by this time. They were exclaiming and discussing:

"Newcomer?! A complete newcomer? My whole community is shocked. Newcomers are too good nowadays. The rewards for clearing a level took ten minutes to announce..."

"Isn't this the most amazing thing? Didn't you notice that this guy has collected all the monster books? Many masters can't collect all the monster books when they clear the true end!"

"I've already bought his video and I think it must be very good!"

"Me too, I was really shocked. There was a long list of rewards and more than 10,000 charging points. How did they do that..."

"I'm more curious about how he got over a thousand thumbs down. Logically speaking, his clearance data is already very impressive, so why would anyone still give him thumbs down?"

The purchase index of Bai Liu's game video "Siren Town" soared straight up, and hundreds of copies were sold in an instant.

This is why everyone wants to come to the core area. The audience here is very generous and relatively rational. No matter if they are here to reward and charge, or someone like Bai Liu who has already cleared the level and finally came here to show his face, most of them are willing to spend dozens of points to buy your video to see what kind of monster you are or a potential newcomer.

Someone has calculated that the minimum number of charging points that can be obtained by promoting a position in a core area is in the thousands.

Wang Shun looked at Bai Liu's blackened screen with some reluctance: "Mushen, when do you think Bai Liu will enter the game next time? Do you think he will still choose single-player games? I kind of want to squat on his little TV."

"How do I know if you ask me?" Mu Sicheng narrowed his eyes. "Bai Liu should have logged out of the game from the exit in the new player area. You'd better go to the new player area and catch him and ask him directly. Bai Liu's mental state hasn't recovered yet, so he should not be very clear-headed. If you can do him a favor now, maybe he will be willing to play games with you in the future."

"Shepherd God, you really are..." Wang Shun's expression was complicated, "So shameless..."

"Aren't you going?" Mu Sicheng was not bothered by Wang Shun's accusation. He shrugged and smiled evilly, but the evil look was ruined by the puffy cheek from the lollipop in his mouth. "I'm very curious about his [Rookie Skills]."

"The top player among a group of new players will receive [New Player Skills], and the system will hide the player's new player skills. It is said that the skills are linked to the player's truest desires. I want to know what the inner desires of someone like Bai Liu are."

Wang Shun was actually very curious, but he was confused: "But normally everyone knows that this kind of thing should be kept secret, right? Bai Liu shouldn't tell us."

"But Bai Liu's current mental level is only 0.1. Do you think this is normal? It's a miracle that he didn't go crazy when he came out." Mu Sicheng looked at Wang Shun innocently. "I think Bai Liu couldn't even stand steadily when he logged out of the game. His mind was definitely not clear. If we pretend to be system staff, can't we get everything out of him?"

Wang Shun: “…”

Mu Sicheng, you are such a bad guy.

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Bai Liu came out covered in water. He was soaked all over, and his vision was blurry, as if covered by a layer of frosted glass. He felt dizzy even when standing. Bai Liu had to hold on to the wall to catch his breath and regain his strength. He felt that he had a little hypoglycemia, so he squatted down. As soon as Bai Liu squatted down, his legs became weak and he sat down on the ground. After sitting down, Bai Liu tried several times, but he couldn't stand up anymore, so he just sat on the ground and accepted his fate.

"I am so weak." Bai Liu sighed from the bottom of his heart.

There were not many people at the exit of the rookie area. After all, apart from Bai Liu, no other player had passed the level. Bai Liu took advantage of the break to sort out the rewards and props he had obtained, and while sorting, he let out a sigh.

His guess was right; the reward for collecting all the monsters in the book was indeed the "biggest".

This size does not mean that the props collected from these monster books are very powerful. For example, [Sea Dive] and [Sculpture Shell] are very normal props that increase attribute panel points. As a game designer, these props are as ordinary as can be to Bai Liu.

But Bai Liu still thinks these things are the biggest reward.

Because these items cannot be purchased in the game store with points.

Bai Liu searched several times but couldn't find any item in the store that matched his prop reward.

This means that the reward items dropped by the Monster Book are non-marketable and are considered limited items. This means that players cannot obtain these items by purchasing them in the game store. They can only be obtained through two methods: drops from players completing the game, and trades between players outside the system.

But the Monster Book is obviously not easy to collect, which means that these items are difficult to obtain by completing the game. So some players will obtain these [limited items in the Monster Book] through the second method - trading between players, and it is estimated that there are quite a few such people.

In other words, Bai Liu felt that if he sold the props he had obtained, he would be able to sell them for an incredibly good price.

But he will not sell it, at least now that he still needs certain basic attributes, Bai Liu will not easily sell the [Monster Book Item] he obtained.

The item that Bai Liu felt was most valuable was of course the [Mermaid's Amulet], which was equivalent to an escape and life-saving item.

For [Siren's Reverse Scales], the system directly gave him an explanation of [Unknown Effect]. For [Siren's Fishbone], the system gave a seemingly plausible and very childish explanation, saying that it could tear apart space and time, but the specific functions were left to Bai Liu to explore on his own. Moreover, the system did not even give a rating for these two props, and directly said that they were unclear. Bai Liu clicked on the supplementary explanation after [Unknown], which directly told him that the system could not rate them.

"The system cannot evaluate?" Bai Liu sighed, "This system is not working."

But what Bai Liu didn't know was that these two items came from a god-level NPC, and a god-level NPC was originally a string of complex bug data that could not be calculated for the system. It was a bit too much to force it to explain a string of bones and a piece of scale that came from the bug data.

When Bai Liu checked his rewards, he found a magical [Personal Skill Reward] with the words [Unlocked] displayed behind it. Bai Liu curiously clicked [Unlocked] twice, and the interface slowly faded, and a new page popped up - [Players, please close your eyes and imagine what you want most]

Bai Liu closed his eyes, clasped his hands together, and silently chanted three times with great piety in his heart - money, money, money.

[Players can now open their eyes to receive skills]

Bai Liu opened his eyes. In front of him was hanging a very worn-out cowhide wallet that looked like it had been used for more than ten years. The edges of the wallet had turned white, and in some places the cowhide was damaged, revealing the braided threads inside. Bai Liu looked at the wallet with a blank expression, which he had been using for a long time and was reluctant to throw away.

Is this his new skill?

[Player Bai Liu's skill item: an empty old wallet (it seems to have been used for a long time, but the owner still can't bear to throw it away, which shows that he is in financial difficulty)]

[Player Bai Liu's skill identity: Poor wanderer (unemployed, penniless, your rent is due soon, and you seem to have no other way out except wandering the streets)]

Bai Liu: “…”

Is this skill used to attack the poverty of others (such as him)?

[System: Of course not]

[Player Bai Liu's skill: You can use everything in your hand to exchange with others. As long as the other party promises to give you something, you can put it all into your wallet]

[The opponent's skills, points, props, life, even soul and faith can be turned into coins and put into your wallet, becoming tools in your hands. You are a devil's trader, a seemingly poor vagrant, but the person who trades with you can sell everything he has. ]

[Even though you have nothing now, you will have everything in the future, because your desire for money is endless, so sooner or later you will have the richest wallet in the world, even though it is full of helpless souls]

[How to use the skill: Trade. After both parties agree to the transaction, neither party may regret it, and may not sell the things obtained from the same person to the same person again. If one party dies during the transaction, the soul of the party who failed to fulfill the transaction responsibilities will be imprisoned in the wallet.]

"Wow." Bai Liu was a little interested. "This skill doesn't sound very humane."

[System: Do you hate this skill? ]

"No." Bai Liu smiled. "On the contrary, I like it very much. It suits me very well. I want to ask, if the other party does not know that I have this skill and reaches a deal with me, will the deal be established?"

[System: When there is a (coin) relationship between the two parties, and (coin) enters the item wallet at least once, the transaction is established]

"Money-related?" Bai Liu touched his chin, "For example?"

[System: For example, if you want to get someone's props, you use the points (coins) in your wallet to buy it from him, and he agrees. Regardless of whether he knows you have this skill or whether he sincerely agrees, the moment he takes your points coin, the transaction is established and his props become yours.]

"Even if I only use one point to buy a very expensive item from the other party, and use a joking tone, as long as the other party agrees, it's fine, right?" Bai Liu smiled even more brilliantly.

【System: Yes】

"Tsk tsk, this skill is really shameless." Bai Liu commented sincerely, "But I can't wait to try it out."

[System: Your current points balance is 15781. Do you want to put all of them into your wallet?]

Bai Liu nodded: "Pretend."

After Bai Liu cleaned up his items, he checked his own attributes. Almost all of his attributes were red, which was terrible because he was overdrawn by Bai Liu in the game:

【Player name: Bai Liu】

[Health: 20 (A 200-pound man can kill you with one sitting. You are recovering slowly.)]

[Physical Strength: 7 (unsteady standing, automatically recovering)]

[Agility: 7 (body stiffness, muscle soreness, automatic recovery)]

[Attack: 1 (Your full-strength attack is like a two-month-old cat's paw gently patting you, automatically recovering)]

[Intelligence: 45 (original value 89, halved due to critical mental value, will return to original value after mental value recovers)]

[Luck: 0 (You have been incredibly unlucky throughout your life. If there is one person in the game who will meet a god-level NPC, that person must be you)]

[Skill: Empty Old Wallet]

[Identity: Poor wanderer]

[Spirit value: 3 (Logically, you should be so crazy that you turn into a monster. I'm shocked that you can still maintain your sanity. But now I think about it, maybe you are already a monster when you have sanity. Regardless of whether you are crazy or not, staying rational and calm is one way for you to be a monster. Horrible player! The value is being automatically restored)]

Bai Liu seemed to have not noticed the long string of words after the mental value that described him as a monster, and asked calmly: "How long will it take for these values ​​to return?"

[System: Based on your current recovery speed, you will be fully recovered within three to five days after leaving the game]

Bai Liu is not the type of person who likes to procrastinate: "Then let's leave the game."

Before he could finish his words, he saw two people tentatively walking towards the entrance.

Mu Sicheng and Wang Shun were speechless and amused when they saw Bai Liu sitting on the ground with his head leaning back against the wall of the exit. It was obvious that Bai Liu was no longer conscious and was resting in such a decadent posture.

It seems that the reduction in spirit value has indeed had a serious impact on Bai Liu.

But when they walked over, Bai Liu raised his head, looked at Mu Sicheng and Wang Shun straight in the eye, and said the first words he had seen them. Then the expressions of the two men changed.

Bai Liu asked: "Are you here to spy on my personal skills?"

Mu Sicheng's smile froze. He squatted down with his hands on his knees and looked at Bai Liu. He asked with interest, "How can you be sure that we are here to spy on your personal skills? What if we are here to kill you or rob you? After all, you should be very rich now and have a lot of props on you."

Wang Shun was about to say that it was impossible to kill people in the system lobby, but when he saw Bai Liu seemed to be really thinking about it, he realized that Bai Liu had just come out of the game and didn't know about this.

"It shouldn't be possible to kill anyone in this hall." Bai Liu came to this conclusion after just a few seconds of thought.

Wang Shun was shocked and blurted out: "How do you know?"

The interest in Mu Sicheng's eyes became more and more intense. He was sure that Bai Liu did not know that "you cannot kill people in the hall" just now, because when he said "I want to kill Bai Liu", Bai Liu subconsciously retracted his legs and avoided him. This is the automatic reaction of humans to objects that can hurt them.

But just a few seconds later, Bai Liu came to the correct conclusion.

"Reason?" Mu Sicheng raised his eyebrows.

"Because if the game player logs out, he can be robbed and killed, there must be a lot of people waiting at this opening."

Bai Liu shrugged, "But I've been out for ten minutes, and I haven't seen any other creatures except you. If you can kill people in this game, then there must be a lot of robbers here, but there are none here, so I guess killing should be prohibited here, and robbery is probably prohibited as well."

There is actually another reason why Bai Liu can make this guess. From the perspective of a game designer, if killing is allowed in a place where players are very weak, the balance of the game will be greatly destroyed.

It's like allowing players to wait and kill people next to the resurrection point. If this design is used in a non-massively multiplayer online game, the gaming experience will be very poor.

If players who have completed the game were robbed and killed as soon as they logged out, the game would quickly become deserted and would not operate so perfectly.

Mu Sicheng whistled and said with admiration: "Bingo, you guessed it right."

Wang Shun's eyes were complicated. Previously, Mu Sicheng had said that he was trying to bluff Bai Liu and trick him into revealing his skills. But now, it seemed that Mu Sicheng couldn't even tell a lie in front of Bai Liu. With his IQ, he and Mu Sicheng had basically said goodbye to deceiving Bai Liu...

"I'm curious about your current mental state." Mu Sicheng looked at Bai Liu, who was clear-headed and calm, and exclaimed, "You don't look like a player whose mental state was only 0.1 just now. Did you buy yourself a mental bleach to restore your mental state?"

Bai Liu seemed to have clear ideas, just like a player with normal mental state. Apart from the explanation that he bought bleach to rinse his mental state, Mu Sicheng could not think of a second reasonable explanation.

"My current stamina is only 3." Bai Liu said calmly, "I'm still replying."

Mu Sicheng: "..."

Wang Shun: “…”

Mu Sicheng and Wang Shun's eyes were both briefly dazed and numb, but Wang Shun was the first to ask in disbelief, "How much do you think your spirit is worth now?!"

"3." Bai Liu asked naturally, "What's wrong?"

"3..." Wang Shun's words were a little unsound. He looked at Bai Liu as if he was a strange creature that shouldn't exist in the world. "Bai Liu, do you know what a mental value of 3 means? You should be in a state of overlapping hallucinations, and your consciousness and body are being tortured..."

"I have never had my spirit value drop below 60, but when it did, I felt very uncomfortable and couldn't even speak clearly. Many players who had their spirit value drop below 20 basically went crazy as soon as they left the game. Your spirit value was only 3, and then you were like this..."

Wang Shun gestured at Bai Liu's whole body with his hands. His expression was indescribable. He seemed to have no idea what words to use to describe Bai Liu. However, Bai Liu became a little interested. He leaned against the wall and asked Wang Shun lazily, "What's wrong with me? I think I'm quite normal."

Yes, it is normal, but Bai Liu's current "normality" is extremely abnormal! No one can maintain a "normal" state when the spirit value is 3!

"You, how can you still think and answer our questions? Your mind should be in a mess, and your IQ should be reduced by half!" Wang Shun was a little incoherent.

"Indeed, my mind is a bit confused." Bai Liu nodded in agreement. "My intelligence has indeed been reduced by half, but this does not prevent me from thinking about your problem with an intelligence of 45. This problem is not difficult."

Wang Shun was speechless.

Bai Liu was indeed tormented by a twisted consciousness, which seemed like a desire from the bottom of his heart, constantly urging him and tempting him, as if to turn him into a monster that did all kinds of evil. However, this was almost always the case when Bai Liu wanted money since he lost his job.

There is a voice saying in Bai Liu's ear, "Go beat up the boss who fired you," "Go beat up that young master Mu Ke who was parachuted in to replace you," and so on. With Bai Liu's intelligence, he can easily beat up these two people without being discovered.

But Bai Liu is used to using the law to restrain himself. He has a lot of big books on law at home and can almost recite them by heart. Bai Liu's bottom line for himself is "not to violate the generally accepted rules established by the group you belong to." As a "member of the human group," he cannot violate the laws and regulations established by the "human group."

Bai Liu was already accustomed to restraining his abnormal desire for money, so being tortured by this level of uncontrolled desire was not painful or itchy for him.

...But what is spirit value bleaching agent...Bai Liu narrowed his eyes and thought about the name of the item spoken by Mu Sicheng. The name sounded a bit like [Blue Medicine], which is something that restores the player's status.

But Bai Liu did not directly ask Wang Shun what the spirit value bleaching agent was. These two people had already deceived him once, so Bai Liu turned his head and looked at Mu Sicheng, thinking - this guy obviously looked more playful...

Wang Shun asked: "Bai Liu, how did you guess that we came to ask you about [Personal Skills]?"

"If you are not here to kill me, you are here to find me because you want something from me, or you are looking for my cooperation, or you are just curious about me and want to spy on me."

Bai Liu spoke slowly and clearly, "But as a newcomer, I don't have much valuable information for you. My various values ​​and item rewards are open to you. The only thing hidden is my [Personal Skills]."

He raised his eyes and looked directly at Mu Sicheng and Wang Shun: "So I guess you are here to ask me what my [Personal Skills] are. Normally I shouldn't tell you, but you came anyway. I think it's because my current mental state is abnormal. You think I'm not in my right mind and I'm likely to be tricked by you. Am I right?"

Wang Shun was completely speechless and he let out a long sigh.

Bai Liu guessed everything correctly!! He even predicted their plans to take advantage of the loopholes!!

Mu Sicheng came closer and carefully examined Bai Liu: "I am now very doubtful about your spiritual value. I feel that I can't use your personal skills today."

"Not necessarily." Bai Liu raised his lips slowly, and looked at Mu Sicheng leisurely, "How about we make a deal? I'll show you my skills, and you'll help me restore my mental strength with mental bleach."

"...Are you serious?" Mu Sicheng looked at Bai Liu with some suspicion, "Don't try to deceive me. I have a tool that can tell whether you are honest or not."

Bai Liu spread his hands and smiled: "You are welcome to judge."

"But why should I help you clean your spirit for free?" Mu Sicheng thought about it and immediately regretted it. He smiled maliciously, "Spirit bleach is not cheap. I can wait until the next time you play the game to see your skills. You will definitely use them, right?"

Bai Liu took out a point from the wallet hidden in his pocket. This point turned into a silver coin and was pinched between Bai Liu's fingertips: "I won't work in vain. I'll give you a point."