Chapter 77 - Bats

Even for a super-large organization, the Hidden Room is an extremely important strategic resource and foundational asset; they’re even willing to commit murder for it.

After thinking it over, Li Cheng placed the Stone Key at the very bottom of the Backpack, deciding not to take it out on usual occasions—for the sake of his own safety as the note mentioned that the keys attract each other.

Next, it was time for the exciting unboxing moment, the random item rewards *2 mentioned in the mission rewards.

Li Cheng, rubbing his hands together like a fly, clicked to open two treasure chests.

[Special Effect: Speed Swinging.

After shooting out the hook claw, gain an extra directional acceleration to move in a nearly impossible manner in the eyes of others]

This item is a hook gun, completely black and quite heavy, with a bat symbol on one side.

The tip features a hook claw spike, with a motor, steel cable, and winch in the middle of the gun body.

“Uh…

it surely isn’t stolen from some brother who doesn’t want his name revealed, orphaned and by day a super-rich philanthropist, by night a vigilante of the city, right?”

Li Cheng criticized with a comment and lightly experimented with it in the Holographic Bone Corridor, finding the hook gun unexpectedly useful.

The length of its steel cable can reach up to 20 meters, equivalent to the height of a seven-story building.

After firing, pressing a button once can quickly pull up the shooter, and pressing it twice can retract the hook claw and rope ahead of time.

Moreover, unlike the non-superhuman items sold on Killing Field Slum Street, this hook gun has the special effect of “gaining an extra directional acceleration,” which allows the user to step forward slightly after hooking onto a building above and swing out far while rising.

“The consumption of Spiritual Power is small, and the cooling time is also short.

If used well, one could cosplay both Batman and Spiderman at the same time.”

Li Cheng put away the hook gun and turned to the second item.

[Special Effect: High-efficiency hemostasis.

Spray the liquid onto the wound to form a gel that stops blood flow, solidifies injuries, and prevents them from worsening, lasting up to 5 hours]

This is a small and exquisite gray-white metal spray can, with a graphic user manual sticker attached to its surface.

“The concentrated liquid inside turns into a quick-expanding blue gel upon contact with oxygen.

Its emergency aid effect is quite good, no less powerful than some medical skills.

It can solidify injuries, buying time to return to the Killing Field and have a doctor in the slum sew up the wound.”

Li Cheng put away the spray can, opened his personal panel, and read a system notification he had just received.

The so-called refers to a special evaluation given by the system based on the player’s specific performance in missions.

A title grants the player a special ability, either active or passive, equivalent to an extra skill.

Players can have multiple titles but can only equip one at a time, and there is a 48-hour cooling period when switching titles.

Like the Stack Soldier encountered during the Death Curse Torrent mission, his title allowed him to reduce consumption and lower use conditions when using data-related skills.

As for Li Cheng…

his player nickname on the personal panel blurred, and after a brief delay, new words emerged in front of him.

[Special Effect: Abyss of Reckless Gambling.

Consume Sanity Points to increase the probability of a random event one time.

The enhancement effect depends on Sanity Points]

As Li Cheng read the nickname description, the system automatically projected the scene of him picking up a Mysterious Box from the corridor floor, unleashing the Hell Monk, and making a desperate gamble to turn the tides when pursued by the evil spirit Alma.

“Life-Sacrificing Gambler, feels like showing this title during the next script mission would damage my shining image.

And this note, could it mean Captain China, Yan Shuangying, the great hero, is also a Lv5 Summoner?

Uh, considering his performance, the average Lv5 player is no match for him.”

Li Cheng murmured to himself, begrudgingly equipping the title but inwardly admitting its value.

The Trait System mentioned in the system notification is similar to the Title System, also provided by the system based on player performance.

The difference is that traits directly affect the player’s panel data.

For example,

Traits will be updated in real-time according to the player’s current status.

If a player has been forced to undergo a frontal lobotomy, then all their traits related to Intelligence will be cleared.

Similarly, if the player recovers from a broken bone, their injury-related traits will also disappear on their own.

In certain situations, players can consciously “farm points” to obtain exceptionally powerful traits.

For example,

The ‘Innocent Child’ here is somewhat similar to the Daoist concept of being naturally pure and immaculate, with exceptional innate intelligence but lacking self-awareness.

The Alien Species Out of Control mission only lasted less than two hours, and Li Cheng didn’t manage to farm any traits, which didn’t surprise him.

He stretched lazily and lay back down on the bed to check his last gain.

After he killed the Pyramid Head in the Holographic Bone Corridor, he also obtained a temporary Passive Skill named .

It slightly increases attack speed after wounding a living target.

It’s a pleasant surprise.

After adding a free attribute point to Strength (in order to use the Pyramid Head’s Straight Blade), his current character panel became:

[Lv5.

Experience Bar at 240/500]

(Human Limit)

(Top Sprinter Level)

(Genius)

(Professional Marathon Runner Level)

(Professional Hunter Level)

(Somewhat handsome)

Earning money naturally means spending it.

Over the next few days, Li Cheng frequented the Killing Field Slum Street to buy enough Strong Gene Inhibitors for two months’ worth of use, and then contacted a Driver to buy something from him.

The player ID of the Driver is , probably inspired by the protagonist name from games like Pocket Monster Red·Green.

He is affiliated with the Thousand Throats Beast Guild, which specializes in breeding Magic Pet Beasts and has dedicated logistics players within to craft related items.

The Driver sold Li Cheng a constant temperature reptile box with space-folding and automatic feeding functions at an employee discount.

Normally, Li Cheng could place the mantises, crickets, and rhinoceros beetles that have come into contact with the Master of Insects in it, so he wouldn’t have to feed them every day.

After dealing with the hidden dangers, the only thing left in front of Li Cheng is one issue—moving.

Staying at his aunt’s house was not a long-term solution; the player identity was just too dangerous, with an uncertain future, and one never knows when they might die in a Script Task.

Returning as a heap of decomposed flesh and bones would still be considered lucky.

If he brought back evil spirits, resentful ghosts, curses, or memetic contamination…

it would inevitably bring harm to his family.

Li Cheng exchanged a large sum of cash in the slum street and asked Yuan Zhixia to help forge two years’ worth of bank statements, and then he came clean to his aunt’s family.

“You want to move out, Xiao Cheng?”

Uncle Xue Jingming, who was sitting on the sofa, was especially surprised and hesitated, “What’s…

going on?”

“I’m fine, it’s just that the college entrance examination is coming, and I want to move to a quieter place.

The vacated room can be transformed into a study room, which will also be beneficial for my younger cousins’ studies.”

Li Cheng smiled and took out a dozen bank cards, as well as a stack of bank statements and stock trading records, “Aunt, uncle, look, these are my stock market earnings over the past two years.

I started from my freshman year in high school when I used the two thousand yuan of pocket money as start-up capital to invest in the stock market, and in nearly two years, I’ve made a little money.”

In China, minors can purchase stocks, provided they hold valid ID documents and have the consent of their legal guardians, who must sign the relevant agreements.

Conveniently, during Li Cheng’s freshman year at Zhuo Yue Middle School, there was an interest course in investment and financial management, where each student was given 30,000 yuan of virtual capital to invest in a virtual market for two months.

Its purpose was to teach financial knowledge to students and establish healthy savings and investment concepts—although the majority ended up with losses.

At that time, Li Cheng had completed the preliminary procedures for a minor to purchase stocks, which he now conveniently used as his cover story.

“Tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands…”

Xue Jingming flipped through the bank statements, growing more and more astonished, “You made this much?”

“Yes.”

Li Cheng shamelessly nodded his head.

Yuan Zhixia had designed a full set of stock trading records for him, including photovoltaic, steel, electric vehicles, coal…

with both short and long positions.

Reaching a million-level profit in two years, the ups and downs were not exaggerated when averaged out.

Cousins Xue Lingyu and Xue Luomeng looked at him with surprised and bewildered eyes, completely unable to imagine that Li Cheng, who had been living under the same roof for so long, would suddenly reveal another side.

No, when did you become an investment genius?

“In addition to stocks and securities, I also made conservative investments and diversified my assets to increase my resistance to risk.

Even if a financial tsunami hits, I won’t lose everything.”

Li Cheng casually said, “I only came to talk to you, aunt and uncle, after I had everything prepared.”