On Blue Star, in the year 2150, it was almost an era of real-name internet access.

The internet was not a lawless place.

Therefore, many people in Lin Chen's class knew that his game ID was Lin Zhong Chen Xi (Dawn in the Forest).

So, the news of Lin Chen continuing to invest money in the game quickly spread in the class group.

Even when Lin Chen called the class advisor to ask for leave, the advisor earnestly said to Lin Chen, "Lin Chen, although your parents are gone, you can't mess around! I heard that you've mortgaged your house to play 'New World'? Everyone is deleting their accounts, and the game is about to shut down. Listen to the teacher and cut your losses!"

The class advisor was kind-hearted and advised Lin Chen.

In the student group, most of the comments were sarcastic.

Saying things like he's lost his mind, his brain is filled with water, and so on.

Lin Chen's borrowing money from Brother Hu had now been revealed by Ye Tenglong.

These things were all within Lin Chen's expectations.

When he borrowed money from Brother Hu, Lin Chen had thought that with Ye Tenglong's nature of fearing nothing would go wrong and being bent on harming others without benefiting himself, he would definitely take the opportunity to attack him.

Lin Chen just didn't want to pay attention to him.

As for the class group's complaints, he simply turned a blind eye to them.

Moreover, Lin Chen also saw that those who complained about or mocked Lin Chen had all deleted their accounts, so when the game officially shut down and the monsters began to invade the world, it would be their doomsday!

Lin Chen would not remind them of anything; he was not so kind.

Just wait and see how these people cry!

After talking with Bai Shuyi, Bai Shuyi said that she was going back to her room to play the game.

Lin Chen also went online immediately.

Liu Mengyao was already waiting in the game. When Lin Chen came online, he saw that she was talking with A Qi, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Li. Lin Chen sent them away and said to Liu Mengyao, "Let's go to the warehouse first to sort out the materials for the handmade equipment, and then we'll find Dao Jianxiao (Sword-laughing) to help us craft it. Once that's done, we'll go to the Nantianmen (South Heaven Gate) dungeon!"

"Okay!" Liu Mengyao nodded, but she asked, "Why do we have to find Dao Jianxiao? You've recruited so many NPCs; can't you recruit a Refiner NPC as well?"

That makes sense!

Lin Chen's eyes lit up, and he realized that many functional profession NPCs in the game were also recruitable, so he continued to refresh in the recruitment hall.

Recruiting these functional NPCs was actually very simple.

There was no need to look at their combat power.

Just look at their proficiency level.

There were also many NPCs with the title of Master, which could be used immediately.

[ Duan Zhutian, Shan Jing Race (mountain spirit), Forging Level: Master, Proficiency: 200,000, Recruitment Price: 400 million gold coins!]

[Yao Linglong, Elf Race, Alchemy Level: Master, Proficiency: 300,000, Recruitment Price: 400 million gold coins!]

[Kui Shan, Tu Ling Race (earth spirit), Formation Level: Master, Proficiency: 100,000, Recruitment Price: 500 million gold coins!]

[Lin Qiaoqiao, Human Race, Sewing Level: Master, Proficiency: 300,000, Recruitment Price: 400 million gold coins!]

Good heavens, a Master is a Master.

The price list, the cheapest Master, was 400 million gold coins.

Among them, the formation master cost 500 million!

No wonder so many players liked to join those large guilds, especially those with a main city and a Master sitting in town. They were particularly attractive to players. These Master-level NPCs alone were tempting enough.

"Buy!"

Lin Chen gritted his teeth and bought them all!

He continued to gamble that in the future, when the game invaded reality, players' houses, territories, and cities could be inherited, and these NPCs could also be inherited!

If that were the case, then Lin Chen's strength would be greatly enhanced in the future.

First of all, he would not only have his own city, but also the combat power of three Glory Legions and the assistance of four double-S-rank NPCs. In the future, there would also be four sub-professional Masters in Lin Chen's Sky Moon City!

After the game invaded the world, although it brought a devastating disaster, with the huge number of Blue Star humans, they should not be completely wiped out. Some people even retained their strength from the game, and people would definitely be able to reunite.

At that time, people would continue to live.

Even have children.

And they should also adapt to the new world.

Adults work hard to learn skills to survive, and newborns start leveling from scratch...

Then in the future, would they also need equipment?

With these four Masters, Lin Chen's Sky Moon City would definitely be a city for humans to survive.

What's more, Lin Chen also stockpiled a large amount of supplies!

Ordinary players' warehouses were only so big, but the City Lord's Mansion's warehouse could be infinitely large. Lin Chen continued to expand it, and now his warehouse had also received a steady stream of various props and materials from Zhang Chunlin.

Among them, there were a full hundred Eternal Crystals!

In the game, these hundred Eternal Crystals were a huge fortune.

If it were the old "New World," these Eternal Crystals would be worth one billion!

Lin Chen took twelve Eternal Crystals on his body, gave half to Liu Mengyao, and then a backpack of handmade materials. He calculated that he could make a full two hundred sets of level 100 handmade equipment, namely cloaks and belts.

Crafting took time.

Even with Master-level blacksmiths and tailors working together, it still took half an hour.

So Lin Chen and Liu Mengyao went to strengthen their equipment.

All four pieces of the set were upgraded with Eternal Crystals.

Then, they continuously strengthened them.

Anyway, the equipment would not be damaged, so they just kept strengthening with their eyes closed.

[Congratulations to player Lin Zhong Chen Xi for being favored by the Goddess of Luck, the equipment Magic God's Hurricane Holy Pendant has been successfully strengthened to +16!]

[Congratulations to player Lin Zhong Chen Xi for being favored by the Goddess of Luck, the equipment Magic God's Hurricane Armor has been successfully strengthened to +16!]

[Congratulations to player Lin Zhong Chen Xi for being favored by the Goddess of Luck, the equipment Magic God's Hurricane Boots has been successfully strengthened to +16!]

[Congratulations to player Lin Zhong Chen Xi for being favored by the Goddess of Luck, the equipment Magic God's Hurricane Scepter has been successfully strengthened to +16!]

[...]

A series of strengthening messages were on the public screen.

But this time, no one in the world channel paid attention to Lin Chen's madness anymore.

Because they were even more crazy!

The difference was that Lin Chen was still investing like crazy, while these players were frantically selling equipment and materials, as well as deleting their accounts. As Lin Chen expected, many people were also collecting top-quality equipment all over the world channel.

"I'm not short of money, sell me any top-quality equipment. I'm melting equipment live on Kuaiyin!"

"The servers are shutting down soon, what's the point of playing! Come, come, come, various equipment and materials are on sale..."

"..."

Many streamers or self-media authors took this opportunity to run to the game to collect equipment and materials, and then start live broadcasts or shoot videos. Anyway, this game was dying, but the popularity was still so high. When else would they ride the hype?

In this crazy situation, it was easy to overlook that Lin Chen and Liu Mengyao had strengthened four pieces of equipment to +18.

Because the equipment upgrade +18 messages were constantly scrolling on the message bar, many live streamers and video shooters did not use Eternal Crystals. Anyway, their gimmick was to melt the equipment, so it didn't matter if the strengthening failed!

"These people riding the hype are really shameless. Every piece of equipment they waste now could be of great help to humanity in the future!" Lin Chen was secretly angry.

But he didn't have a better way... This was why Lin Chen had snatched two sets of top-quality equipment yesterday.

Now, Lin Chen could only give Zhang Chunlin a death order, asking him to use his connections to collect more materials and equipment.

He wanted as much as they could get!

Half an hour later, it was finally time for Duan Zhutian and Lin Qiaoqiao to deliver the goods.

Two hundred sets of handmade items, four hundred pieces of equipment.

The crafting fee was a total of four million gold coins!

Not cheap.

Moreover, all of these handmade equipment were unidentified!

At this time, identification scrolls were needed.

Zhang Chunlin directly mailed Lin Chen ten thousand top-quality identification scrolls.

But that might not be enough.

In the game "New World," it was very difficult to get top-quality handmade equipment. At most, one nine-star piece of equipment could be obtained from ten thousand pieces, and all ten thousand pieces of equipment had to be identified with top-quality identification scrolls.

The equipment in this game would have a star-shining effect depending on its quality.

Ordinary quality equipment had one or two stars.

Then there were excellent 3-4 stars, outstanding 5-6 stars, and perfect 7-8 stars.

Equipment that reached nine stars or more would have a different suffix: Legend, Epic, Myth!

Among them, Myth was the best.

Lin Chen didn't expect these two hundred sets of handmade items to produce Myth equipment.

The key was that the equipment attributes also had to match his profession, which was very difficult.

Even though both NPCs who made the equipment were Masters, the probability was still very low.

However, Zhang Chunlin had not yet received any top-quality handmade equipment suitable for him, so he could only make it. Lin Chen paid gold coins again, this time asking Duan Zhutian and Lin Qiaoqiao to directly create a thousand sets of handmade items.

Then Lin Chen and Liu Mengyao continuously identified them. As rays of light flashed on the equipment, Lin Chen already had a backpack full of handmade items.

Liu Mengyao was the same, but she couldn't help but complain, "Lin Chen, many of my two hundred pieces are five-star. These are top-quality identification scrolls! The probability of getting good handmade items in this game is too low!"

"'New World' is like that, but there should be some seven-star and eight-star equipment, right? I got a cloak here that's quite suitable for you, eight-star, you can barely make do with it."

As Lin Chen spoke, he handed the equipment to Liu Mengyao.

[Blessing of the Moon God]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Level: 100]

[Profession: Universal]

[Spirit +500]

[Constitution +300]

[Physical and Spell Damage Reduction +12%]

[Forger: Lin Zhong Chen Xi]

Handmade equipment had the signature of the crafter.

Although it was forged by NPCs, Lin Chen was the one who gave the money and materials, and Lin Chen was the one who identified it in the end, so naturally it would be signed with Lin Chen's game ID.

Out of four hundred pieces of equipment, only one was usable.