Chapter 99

After Feng Bujue returned to his login space, he disbanded the party to avoid a case in which he would hold Little Tan and his friends back when they wanted to queue for an available party . He had assigned Like Rain as the Deputy Head of the Union and let her handle the Union’s badge . Although she got disconnected once, from her consistent performance, apparently, she was a very reliable person and she wouldn’t mess up with this simple task .

Feng Bujue didn’t hurry to enter another scenario . After spending 100,000 coins, he had 379,000 coins left, which was enough for him to equip himself with something good .

First, he went to the [Mall – Section 10] to sell that children baseball bat to the shop . The price was so reasonable . Just 1000 coins, around 5 RMB . This suited the ‘None’ attack power well . Moreover, this item didn’t grant any useful attributes .

Bullets, medicine supplements, and lighting devices were the supplies Feng Bujue intended to buy . Still, he didn’t hurry now; instead, he went to see the costumes first . Those things would cost big money, but they could enhance players’ attributes . Moreover, those were the things he needed to purchase sooner or later . Let’s see what kind of costume he could afford with around 380,000 coins .

Feng Bujue didn’t care much about his appearance in the game, but it didn’t mean that he didn’t care at all . He felt quite fine to wear the newbies’ default garments . Everyone had to wear them once, and they were all free . However, if he needed to buy something, he wouldn’t want to wear a weird mix just because of the attributes boosts . Wearing that style of clothing and bragging around, he didn’t have such guts .

There were numerous costumes, so if he wanted to check out one by one, he would have to stand there until dawn . Thus, Feng Bujue had his own way to choose . Right at the beginning, Feng Bujue was like he got two kinds of diseases which burst out his desire of buying costumes of the American Superheroes style . Soon, he found out that superheroes costumes prices were such a ripoff . For example, the ‘Dr . Doom’ costume was priced at 900,000 coins . This costume had three parts, namely, helmet, clothes, and a hooded cape, which meant there were three places to be boosted . However, players couldn’t buy separate components, as they could only use 900,000 coins to buy the whole set .

With the small amount Feng Bujue had, he could only look at these costumes .

In comparison with the players who could use 1,000,000 coins, which was around 500 RMB, to purchase five extra slots in the bag like Little Tan and Dispirited, Feng Bujue’s 380,000 coins from the beginning of the game till now was only worth 190 RMB . However, his plan was to earn enough to make up the loss he had invested into the game cabin . To make it clearer for you, he was now using the NL2055 standard single-player cabin, priced at five digits . Double the amount he paid for this kind of game cabin and he could already buy a car . Of course, it didn’t include the paperwork for the car…

“Hmm, in fact, this costume is not good . Green hat (1) . Moreover, the armor and the cape don’t look convenient for movements,” Feng Bujue consoled himself .

After that, he found another costume he really wanted to buy—Deadpool, a costume designed in black and red tights and no cape . It was much suitable for moving; moreover, there were belts to carry guns or sword, which helped save the slots in player’s bag . This costume included two components, the mask and the suit, which meant it could provide only two attributes boosts .

By the way, the cost of the Deadpool costume was 700,000 coins…

Feng Bujue comforted himself one more time, “Yeah, too despicable, too lowly, does not suit my tall image…”

If anyone could hear his words, that person would surely ask him two questions . The first question, “So why do you search for it?” The second question, “What kind of image do you have?”

He then tried to search for other characters’ costumes . The conclusion was, famous characters’ costumes were all priced over 500,000 coins, and the strangest thing was the Batman costume, which cost 2,000,000 coins . According to the exchange rate of this week, it cost 1000 RMB . Of course, this costume was super . It had five components: the head cover, the upper garment, the lower garment, a belt and a cape (Clothing slot is divided into five small boxes: head, footwear, upper body, lower body, and accessories . No matter how many components the costumes had, even if it had only one piece, still, it would take the whole five boxes) . Also, players could have five boosts for his attributes . Moreover, he could wear more equipment on his body, which could help him save the slots in his bag .

After a while, Feng Bujue was about to give up . It seems the whole armors weren’t what he could afford; he’d better purchase the garment and then mix them together . First, he needed the upper body and the lower body clothing . After he had those items, if he still had money, he would buy more accessories .

When he came up with this thought, Feng Bujue suddenly had an idea . He followed the style and the colors to search, and finally, he found a costume that suited him well . He even beamed a contented smile .

If Batman is a career, besides the innate talents one must possess, perhaps there’s another requirement, which is to have the properties of around 700 million USD . On the contrary, the requirements to become his opponents are quite low . For example, there’s a guy who gives him headache the most, also the one who thinks life and wealth are cheap enough .

First, Feng Bujue spent 120,000 coins to buy the upper body garment—a purple suit coat whose hem reached his knee lined with a dark blue plaid shirt accompanied with a tie and a dark green vest suit . Then, he spent 80,000 coins to buy a pair of trousers whose color was one or two shades darker than the coat as the lower body garment . Finally, he used 40,000 coins to buy a pair of dark leather gloves .

Feng Bujue had spent 240,000 coins in total to purchase the Joker’s costume . Of course, he wasn’t that exaggerated to dye his hair green or cover his face with white powder, cut his mouth’s corners and put on lipstick… He wasn’t fanatical though .

After he acquired the costumes, when he wanted to equip them, he had to think about which random attribute boosts he would choose . The three random attribute boosts generated for him were: slight increase in Physical Value’s recovery speed, slight reduction of Physical Value consumption when carrying heavy objects, and slight increase in Survival Value’s recovery speed . Feng Bujue almost didn’t consider anything as he immediately chose the increase in Survival Value’s recovery speed since it would benefit his Body-Spirit Congregation Technique . Theoretically, his Body-Spirit Congregation Technique was still very useful at the later stage of the game, thus, it wasn’t a bad choice to boost this attribute .

Random attribute boosts from the lower body garment was a little bit terrific: first, under the circumstances that the player went upside down (using his own force), it could significantly increase the Physical Value’s recovery speed; second, slightly increase bouncing ability; and third, greatly increase Spiritual Value’s recovery speed while player’s Survival Value would be decreased accordingly with the same rate .

The first one was kind of deceptive as long as he read it . Although it stated ‘significantly increase’, when players put himself upside down, perhaps his Physical Value would decrease… This was like one advanced forward and the other one held back . Was it different from ‘slightly increase’? Basically, it was just a troll . So, Feng Bujue had chosen the second option, which looked the most common .

The gloves belonged to Accessories Category . The boosting options he got included slight reduction in Physical Value consumption when carrying heavy objects, slight reduction of the effect of bleeding status, and slight increase in the attack power of user’s punch . These three options had different tendencies . The first one was relatively neutral; the second one belonged to a defensive kind, and the third one, of course, had the offensive tendency .

Feng Bujue had weighed them for a while . Eventually, he chose the second option . Presently, he had three weapons including a pipe wrench, a dagger and a pistol that he could use as he pleased . With this situation, in which he could arm himself fully, he didn’t need to use his fist due to that ‘slightly increase’ . This was like throwing away a watermelon to pick up a sesame . Moreover, he recalled how terrible Like Rain was in her bleeding status during the scenario of the Yousuke High School . Currently, there was no member of his Union that wanted to develop further in Curing Specialty, and he couldn’t be able to always keep bandage, antidote, scald meds or items to cure special effects, etc . with him . It wasn’t because he didn’t have enough money, but it was because of the limited storage . Thus, if he had such a special boost, he could ease his mind somehow . And, the gloves weren’t expensive . Once he had more coins, he could always buy the same pair and choose another boost .

Upon this thought, Feng Bujue patted the nape of his neck . “Argh! I forgot to ask Little Tan to give me back the Winchester . It’s been a few days, 80% this dude has forgotten it . ” However, he shrugged immediately as he thought, “Well, that weapon is very practical . Just let him keep it . It can support him much . ”

After Feng Bujue had selected all the boosts for his attributes, in summary, he had spent 240,000 coins to increase his Survival Value’s recovery speed . He could now jump higher and reduce the consumption speed of his Survival Value… All above these… he had formed his style .

In his clothing slot, there were still two unoccupied boxes, which were the headwear and the footwear . Anyway, Feng Bujue now had 140,000 coins . If he purchased one of these, he wouldn’t be able to afford the other . Moreover, he had intended to buy more supplies . Thus, he didn’t continue on checking costumes any further .

Although the items had been placed in his clothing slot, he needed to return to the login space to put them on . There was no situation that a player could change his/her appearance in the public areas .

Feng Bujue bought five blood bottles, but he didn’t buy the large ones . He had bought the Survival Value Supplement (Medium) . About the pricing, the supplement’s prices weren’t based on the ratio as 30 small bottles cost 2,000 coins; 50 medium bottles cost 6,000 coins, and the large bottles, which could fully recover player’s Survival Value, cost 12,000 coins . This kind of pricing was based on the type of bottles and the description in Thriller Paradise: “Could only pile up five layers max . Continuously using the item will relatively reduce its effect . ” It seemed that the small bottles were better, however, taking three small bottles could only recover slightly more than that of a medium bottle . They were at the same price, but it took more slots in the bag .

Plainly, the large supplement bottles could save space and ensure the efficiency, and, of course, this kind of fast and convenient items cost a lot .

In the end, Feng Bujue bought a flashlight and two magazines of bullets for his pistol . Each magazine contained seven bullets . Since he still had one last bullet in his pistol, these two magazines each took one slot of his bag . Fortunately, although the costumes he had bought couldn’t be compared with the professional costume that came with the dagger scabbard, pockets for bullets, etc . , there were some pockets in his coat where he could keep these magazines of bullets .

After he was done with shopping, Feng Bujue left the Mall and returned to his login space . When the elevator door slid close, he received a system’s notification that said [Your Clothing Tab has been opened . ] .

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In China “wearing a green hat” is an expression that Chinese use when a woman cheats on her husband or boyfriend because the phrase sounds similar to the word for ‘cuckold’ . This apparently dates back to the Yuan dynasty when the relatives of prostitutes were forced to wear green hats .