The game servers shut down, but only I know about the invasion of reality.

On Blue Star in 2150, it was practically the 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 Linzhong Chenxi (Morning Sunlight in the Forest).

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

Even when Lin Chen called the class advisor to ask for leave, the advisor spoke earnestly with him, saying, "Lin Chen, although your parents are no longer here, you can't act recklessly! I heard that you've mortgaged your house to play 'New World'? Everyone is deleting their accounts now, and the game is about to shut down. Listen to your teacher and cut your losses!"

The advisor was being kind, even advising Lin Chen a few times.

In the class group, however, there was mostly ridicule.

Things like, "Has he lost his mind?" and "Did his brain get waterlogged?"

The matter of Lin Chen borrowing money from Brother Hu had now been revealed by Ye Tenglong.

All of this was within Lin Chen's expectations.

When he borrowed money from Brother Hu before, Lin Chen had thought that Ye Tenglong, with his personality of fearing not the world in chaos, would definitely take the opportunity to attack him.

Lin Chen just didn't want to bother with him anymore.

As for the complaints in the class group, he simply ignored them.

Moreover, Lin Chen had seen that all those who complained about or ridiculed him had 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 wouldn't remind them of anything; he wasn't that kind.

He would wait and see how these people cried!

After talking with Bai Shuyi, she said 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 up, 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, sort out the materials for the handmade equipment, and then find Dao Jianxiao (Sword-laughing Saber) 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 refining master NPC too?"

That made sense!

Lin Chen's eyes lit up. Only now did he realize that many functional profession NPCs in the game could also be recruited. So, he continued to browse in the recruitment hall.

The recruitment of these functional NPCs was actually very simple.

There was no need to look at their combat power.

Just look at their proficiency level.

Among them, there were also many NPCs with the title of Master, which could be said to be plug-and-play.

[DUANZHU TIAN, Shanjing (Mountain Spirit) race, forging level: Master, proficiency: 200,000, recruitment price: 400 million gold coins!]

[YAO LONGLING, Elf race, alchemy level: Master, proficiency: 300,000, recruitment price: 400 million gold coins!]

[KUI SHAN, Tuling (Earth Spirit) race, 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 was a Master.

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

Among them, the formation master was even 500 million!

No wonder so many players liked to join those large guilds, especially those with a main city and a Master stationed there. It could especially attract players to join. These Master-level NPCs alone were enticing enough.

"Buy!"

Lin Chen gritted his teeth and bought them all!

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

If that was the case, then Lin Chen's power would be even stronger in the future.

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

After the game invaded the world, although it brought a devastating disaster, with the vast number of the Blue Star human race, it shouldn't be completely wiped out. Some people might even retain 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 would work hard to learn skills to survive, and newborns would start leveling up from scratch...

So, would they need equipment in the future?

With the existence of these four Masters, Lin Chen's Tianyue City would definitely be a city where humans could survive in the future.

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

The warehouses of ordinary players were only so big, but the warehouses of the City Lord's Mansion could be infinitely large. Lin Chen kept expanding them, and now his warehouses had also received a continuous stream of various props and materials from Zhang Chunlin.

Among them, there were a full one hundred Eternal Crystals!

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

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

Lin Chen took twelve Eternal Crystals with him, 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 capes and belts.

Crafting took time.

Even if it was a collaboration between a Master-level smith and tailor, it would take half an hour.

Then Lin Chen and Liu Mengyao went to enhance the equipment.

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

Then, it was a continuous enhancement.

Anyway, the equipment wouldn't be damaged, so they just kept enhancing with their eyes closed.

[Congratulations to player Linzhong Chenxi for being favored by the Goddess of Luck, successfully enhancing the equipment, Divine Hurricane Holy Amulet, to +16!]

[Congratulations to player Linzhong Chenxi for being favored by the Goddess of Luck, successfully enhancing the equipment, Divine Hurricane Armor, to +16!]

[Congratulations to player Linzhong Chenxi for being favored by the Goddess of Luck, successfully enhancing the equipment, Divine Hurricane War Boots, to +16!]

[Congratulations to player Linzhong Chenxi for being favored by the Goddess of Luck, successfully enhancing the equipment, Divine Hurricane Scepter, to +16!]

[...]

A series of enhancement 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 crazily, while these players were crazily selling equipment and materials, and also deleting accounts. As Lin Chen had expected, many people were also collecting top-quality equipment everywhere in the world channel.

"I'm not short of money, sell me any top-quality equipment you have. I'll melt the equipment live on Kuaiyin!"

"The servers are shutting down anyway, what's the point of playing? Come on, come on, a big fire sale of all kinds of equipment and materials..."

"..."

Many streamers or self-media authors took this opportunity to come to the game to collect equipment and materials, and then stream or make videos. Anyway, this game was dying, but its popularity was still so high. If they didn't take advantage of this time, when would they?

In such a crazy situation, it was easy for people to overlook the fact that Lin Chen and Liu Mengyao had enhanced four pieces of equipment to +18.

Because the message bar for +18 equipment was constantly scrolling. Many streamers and video makers didn't use Eternal Crystals. Anyway, their gimmick was to melt the equipment, so it didn't matter if the enhancement failed!

"These people who are riding the coattails are really not offline. Every piece of equipment they waste now could provide huge help to humans in the future!" Lin Chen thought angrily in his heart.

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

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

He wanted as much as he 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 equipment, four hundred pieces in total.

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 ten thousand top-quality identification scrolls to Lin Chen.

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 equipment could be produced out of ten thousand pieces, and these ten thousand pieces of equipment had to be identified with top-quality identification scrolls.

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

Ordinary quality equipment had one or two stars.

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

Equipment that reached nine stars or above would have different suffixes: Legendary, Epic, Mythical!

Among them, Mythical was the best.

Lin Chen didn't expect that these two hundred sets of handmade equipment could produce Mythical equipment.

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

Even if both the NPCs making 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 the gold coins again, and this time asked Duan Zhutian and Lin Qiaoqiao to directly create one thousand sets of handmade equipment.

Then Lin Chen and Liu Mengyao kept identifying them. As rays of light flashed across the equipment, Lin Chen already had a backpack full of handmade equipment.

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 equipment in this game is too low!"

"'New World' is like this, but there should be some seven-star and eight-star equipment, right? I got a cape here that's quite suitable for you, eight-star, good enough to use."

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

[Blessing of the Moon God]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Level: 100]

[Class: Universal]

[Spirit +500]

[Constitution +300]

[Physical and Magical Damage Reduction +12%]

[Crafter: Linzhong Chenxi]

Handmade equipment also had character signatures.

Although it was crafted by NPCs, Lin Chen was the one who paid the money and provided the materials, and Lin Chen was also the one who identified it in the end, so naturally it was signed with Lin Chen's game ID.

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