Before everyone could recover from the shock of the scroll, all the players' system panels burst into dazzling red light again!
[System Announcement: The sea monster extermination event has concluded successfully, the first phase of the sea survival game has come to an end, and the game mall system is officially open!]
All players can use their accumulated points to redeem various survival supplies, weapon and equipment blueprints, special items, and some rare privileges in the mall.
[Friendly reminder: Mall items will be updated from time to time based on game progress. Some ultra-rare items are in limited supply, so please be on a first-come, first-served basis!]
"Mall system?!"
"Finally it's here! I've been eating sashimi all day and it's almost tasted bland!"
"Hurry up and take a look! Check out what great stuff there is! Points... can I exchange them with points?!"
In an instant, both the deck of the Lucky One and the communication channels of each survivor team were boiling like boiling water.
Countless eyes, greedily and eagerly, were cast towards the glittering "mall" icon that had just been unlocked on the system interface.
However, when players actually opened the mall and saw the prices of the goods inside, wailing sounds came one after another.
"Damn it! What a profiteer! A bottle of the most ordinary purified water costs 100 points? A palm-sized piece of compressed biscuits costs 200 points? I worked so hard to save up for a long time, and I only got a little over 3,000 points!"
"The guy above, be content! I just escaped death from a sea monster, and my points barely exceed a thousand. What's the difference between opening this mall and not opening it? I'm going to buy a hammer!"
Lu Ye casually glanced at the long string of numbers in his points column.
Three hundred and ninety-seven thousand eight hundred and fifty points!
In the cleanup operation just now, his individual and team performances were overwhelming, so the points rewards were naturally outrageously generous.
At this moment, this number is enough to make 99.9% of the players sigh in despair.
He browsed the mall interface. Those products that were considered "sky-high" in the eyes of other players were just a drop in the bucket for him.
In addition to the most basic food and water, there are also some C-level and D-level weapon blueprints, low-level building materials, and occasionally one or two B-level equipment or props can be refreshed. The price instantly soars to tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of points, which ordinary players cannot afford at all.
Shen Shu's cold voice sounded beside him, with a hint of insight.
"It seems that this mall system is more like a sort of 'minimum living allowance' mechanism. At least it allows players struggling on the brink of life and death to use a small amount of points to buy the most basic necessities of life, so they won't be quickly eliminated due to lack of food and clean water."
She frowned slightly, obviously analyzing the logic behind the game system.
Lu Ye nodded in agreement.
That's true, otherwise this first wave of selection would have eliminated more than 90% of the unlucky people.
However, the difficulty of obtaining these points and the speed of consumption clearly indicate that they are encouraging competition, confrontation, and even... plundering among players in disguise.
Lu Ye was not very interested in the dazzling array of ordinary goods in the mall. His attention soon returned to the blank parchment scrolls in his backpack.
The most urgent thing is to acquire the skills first.
With a thought, he quickly found the redemption option for the "Blank Skill Scroll" in the mall.
The price is quite reasonable, 5,000 points per ticket.
Without hesitation, he placed an order to redeem five more tickets. Together with the ones rewarded by the system, he had exactly ten tickets in his hand.
[Ding! You successfully purchased 'Blank Skill Scroll x5', consuming points.]
Seeing that Lu Ye was ready to fight a big battle, Che Jiajia quickly reminded him with a somewhat anxious tone.
"Boss Lu! This blank scroll has a particularly tricky setting, so be careful! Once opened and used, if you don't successfully spawn and select a skill within three days, the scroll will automatically expire and become a piece of waste paper! So, if you open too many at once and you're unlucky and don't get what you want, it's totally unprofitable! It's a huge loss!"
Her face was full of solemn expression.
"Oh? Is there such a saying?" Lu Ye raised his eyebrows, then grinned nonchalantly, revealing a row of white teeth.
"It's okay, I have an idea. I just want to try out some space-related skills, like short-distance teleportation or a portable storage space."
He weighed a blank scroll in his hand, his tone as relaxed as if he was discussing what to eat in the evening.
"For this kind of skill, doesn't it just require hands?"
Just... just having hands?!
Che Jiajia almost couldn't breathe, her beautiful almond-shaped eyes widened as if she had heard some fairy tale.
This Boss Lu...does he have some catastrophic misunderstanding about the true difficulty of skill farming?!
Deep in her heart, countless thoughts flashed through her mind like a barrage of thoughts.
Back then, she was so worried about that B-rank [Empty Hands] that her hair was almost pulled out. She didn't know how many "non-African" scrolls she had secretly "sacrificed" and how much effort and resources she had spent.
As for B-level combat skills, that is a luxury that one cannot even imagine!
Not to mention...the space system!
That is the rarest and most bizarre skill type in the legend. The probability of its appearance is several times lower than that of a powerful attack skill of the same level!
He certainly didn't know how outrageous the probability of a blank scroll yielding a skill of a specific type was!
He must have thought this was as easy as opening a blind box!
Che Jiajia could almost foresee the tragic scene of Lu Ye beating his chest and stamping his feet in front of a pile of scrolls that had turned into waste paper.
Lu Ye didn't have time to pay attention to other people's complicated mental activities. He held a blank scroll and concentrated his mind slightly.
[Blank skill scroll in use...Random skills generated...Please wait...]
A faint white light flashed on the surface of the scroll!
A line of brand new light golden handwriting slowly emerged and solidified on the parchment scroll.
[Talent Empowerment Scroll: Healing Enhancement (Rank C): Passive auxiliary skill. When the user masters or uses a healing ability, this skill increases its healing effect by 20%. If this scroll is applied to specific equipment, it can grant the equipment a faint, continuous healing aura.]
"Huh? From the medical department?" Lu Ye raised his eyebrows and subconsciously glanced at Shen Shu beside him.
Although this cold-outside-but-warm-inside beauty has decent combat capabilities and is skilled in using a scalpel, she is a doctor after all, so having a healing-related skill is always icing on the cake.
Without hesitation, he handed over the newly produced C-level scroll.
"Here, beautiful Dr. Shen, this is for you. It should come in handy."
Shen Shu was slightly startled, and a barely perceptible ripple flashed in her cold eyes.
She stretched out her white fingers, took the scroll that still held a trace of residual energy, and whispered two words: "Thank you."
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