Chapter 60 - Unboxing

The Slaughter Field Game system is quite intelligent.

It evaluates individual players’ performance during team quests to ensure fair scoring and to prevent anyone from slacking off, dumping all the work on teammates, lying flat, and still snagging a high score.

“Wonder how the others scored.”

Li Cheng listened to the system’s prompt as he climbed out of the hotel bathtub.

After changing out of his flamboyant costume and storing it in the Backpack, he slipped on his pajamas, lied down on the bed, stretched out lazily, and began to check his actual gains.

After applying the 1.6 multiplier, the reward Experience Points shot up to a whopping 480.

Li Cheng leveled up twice, with his Experience Bar soaring from the original Lv2, 60/200,

to Lv4, 20/400.

This netted him two free attribute points.

Similarly, with the 1.6 multiplier, the reward Game Coins reached a staggering 800 points, convertible to eight million RMB in cash at the current exchange rate!

If sold on the backstreets’ black market, you could even get a 20%-25% premium, close to ten million RMB.

“Ten million, a whole ten million…”

Li Cheng took a deep breath, hugged his pillow, and started rolling back and forth on the bed, from headboard to footboard, and then back again.

No wonder he was so thrilled; the man from the ancient Qin Dynasty was terrified of poverty and had never seen so much cash before.

“Ahem, stay calm, stay calm.

No matter what, I’m a player now, I need to have some dignity.”

He took some deep breaths to calm himself, steadying his mind, rubbing his hands together like a buzzing fly.

“It’s time for the thrilling moment of opening the box—”

Since neither Li Cheng nor Insect Master were typical Lv2 newbies, the actual difficulty of this quest was more akin to a four-person dungeon between Lv4-Lv7.

Hence the rewards were generously exceptional; an S+ rating directly granted a fine quality skill scroll.

[Special Effect: Parallel thinking.

Enhances the connection within the brain’s frontal parietal network, increases working memory capacity, allowing the brain to perform multiple cognitive tasks simultaneously.

In other words, multitasking.]

[Note: So itchy!

I’m going to grow a brain!]

Hmm…this skill…

Li Cheng rubbed his chin, the so-called working memory is a limited capacity memory system for the temporary processing and storage of information.

If we consider the human brain as a computer, the prefrontal cortex is the CPU, the cerebral cortex is the hard disk, and working memory is the cache.

When performing cognitive tasks, the prefrontal cortex takes information received from the outside world and combines it with memories, experiences, and knowledge stored in the cerebral cortex, placing them in the working memory system for comprehensive calculation.

The cache of a computer is very small, and the same principle applies to the human brain.

The capacity of human working memory is actually around 4, meaning it can maintain approximately four pieces of complex information at the same time.

Once the amount of information increases, accuracy will plummet dramatically.

Therefore, multitasking is extremely difficult.

“Being able to think and multitask parallelly is very helpful in battle, allowing one to simultaneously observe the enemy’s movements, strategize the next action for one’s side, and collect information about the surrounding environment, and when necessary, also figure out how to escape.”

Li Cheng silently thought, “Also, it can be kept active during normal times to speed up the learning process.”

If there are no accidents, he is very likely to learn this skill.

He temporarily stored the skill scroll in his backpack and opened the fourth reward.

As a bright light flashed, a strangely shaped…

door frame?

appeared in the item slot.

[Special Effect: Burned Prison.

Opens a bone prison that can collect holographic images of all transcendent lives killed.

Pay a certain price to briefly mimic the ability of a certain holographic image.]

[Note: This is a forgotten prison, or rather a collection gallery.

Its surface is engraved with a line of lost text, “We are the gravediggers of history, and the guardians of civilization.”]

“Huh?!”

Li Cheng’s mouth hung open as he blinked.

This Holographic Bone Corridor, like the Insect Lord’s Divine Calamity Crystal, belongs to the fine quality tier.

However, the latter is consumable, only usable once.

Whereas the former, as a portable item, can be used multiple times and, as noted, has the potential to evolve.

Unlike when the Slaughter Field Game just started and every player wished to break a single Game Coin into pieces for use, with years of development and an expanding player base, the circulation of Game Coins in the market has also increased.

Banks located in shabby streets, besides their primary duties of storage, custody, and financial services, also have an important business—providing loans to players in need.

Suppose a player takes on a quest rewarding 800 Game Coins but feels their equipment is insufficient to complete it, they might borrow 1000 Game Coins from a bank, or rent equipment worth 1000 Game Coins, then return the Game Coins to the bank after succeeding, along with a certain amount of interest.

This practice of lending and renting is not only done by banks but also by major guilds.

They lend equipment to internal members according to their applications to help them complete quests.

For this, a sophisticated and cumbersome calculation system was designed to measure profit and assess risk—if a player falls in the task, the loss is total, and the guild can’t even recover the principal.

“According to the discussions on the forum, players below Lv10 mainly use equipment of and quality, and only a few players can afford to use items of quality.

Like Jingzhe Xiazi, at her current level of Lv2, it is quite exaggerated and luxurious for her to have two fine quality consumable items.

As for Perfect Level items, they are precious at any stage.

Even core members of large organizations need to go through multiple approvals to borrow them.”

Li Cheng paused for a moment and muttered, “Have I finally experienced a stroke of luck, with fortune favoring me?”