Chapter 12 Not-So-Hasty Repairs

[Name: Not-So-Hasty Repairs]
[Skill Card Attribute: Active Skill, Permanently Learned]
[Skill Category: Mechanics]
[Effect: Temporarily upgrades a mechanical creation of Trash or Dilapidated quality to Normal quality for fifteen minutes.]
[Consumption: Stamina 200]
[Learning Condition: Mechanics Specialization D]
[Remark: If you don’t want to receive more complaints, at least keep those damned devices running until the warranty expires!]

Opening the skill bar to view the specific attributes reveals this data.

When the effect of this skill changed, Feng Bujue was quite surprised. He didn't expect that the skills in this game could actually level up, because the game instructions didn't mention this advanced setting. This should be something for players to explore on their own, the kind of thing that could be written in a "walkthrough."

However, after learning this, other questions arose. Aside from title skills, what about other permanently learned skills... such as passive skills, or continuous consumption skills like [Ling Shi Ju Shen Shu]? Is there a possibility of upgrading them?

Naturally, asking customer service would not get an answer to this question. He hadn't found any related posts on the game forum in the past few days, so Feng Bujue temporarily shelved it.

These were roughly the changes in Feng Bujue's life in the past week. There was also one more item that needed to be explained separately: the Vajra Bell.

After defeating the Bell Demon in the Bell Realm, Feng Bujue and Si Yu were unable to leave that space, which meant that they still had to trigger some kind of plot. So, the two of them started searching the island again.

Since the Boss was dead, the island in the center of the lake no longer had any illusionary effects or blockages, so they quickly found a huge blood-painted magic circle on an open space in the middle of the island, supported by numerous shrines. An item was placed on the core of the circle: the Vajra Bell. Only after picking up this item were Feng Bujue, Si Yu, and the NPC Lu Qingning freed from the Bell Realm and returned to the mountains north of Cang Ling Town.

[Name: Vajra Bell]
[Type: Other]
[Quality: Excellent]
[Effect: Can execute the following four commands: 1. Observe detailed information of an NPC; 2. Observe detailed information of a monster (excluding Boss level); 3. Obtain the "Death Warning" function for five minutes; 4. Double the effect of your next Spirit Arts Specialization skill (under reasonable conditions)]
[Remark: Cannot be traded after picking up (but the operation of selling this item directly to the system store will not be prevented), cooldown time of twelve hours (ends immediately after leaving the script). When all four instructions have been executed, the Vajra Bell will passively enter the cooldown state. Players can also actively start the cooldown timer for this item. During the item’s cooldown, players cannot use any of the instructions.]

This thing has no equipment requirements, and it seems to have a lot of functions. But in reality... only the first two are commonly used. Generally speaking, in long-term scripts, Feng Bujue would use the first two instructions and then actively start the item's cooldown.

The "Death Warning" of Effect Three is a bit of a joke. To put it bluntly, it uses the sound of the bell to forewarn the degree of threat. For example, if a zombie appeared in front of the player, the Vajra Bell would automatically emit a sound, and as the zombie approached, the bell would become more and more urgent. However, if a monster appeared in front of the player, the bell would be very rapid from the beginning, and when the monster's big foot fell from the sky, the bell would still be like that...

This effect might be useful in some situations... for example, in situations where the visibility is extremely low, the player cannot use the naked eye to confirm the enemy's position or strength and can only judge by the sound of the bell.

The problem is... wouldn't that expose your own position...?

As for Effect Four, Feng Bujue had already tested it. Obviously, [Ling Shi Ju Shen Shu] did not meet the "reasonable conditions" in the parentheses, so it could not get a double bonus. As a continuous consumption skill, this was also expected. The [Xie Wang Yan Sha Hei Long Bo] that Feng Bujue had once obtained could enjoy the effect of doubling, but he had already used it, and he didn't have any other offensive Spirit Art active skills.

In short, the Vajra Bell currently only allows Feng Bujue to see the specific situation of NPCs and the combat power of certain elite monsters. He usually doesn't use the other two effects.

Ding-dong—

A prompt sound suddenly rang, and Feng Bujue received an email. He operated on the touch screen a few times and came to the email browsing interface.

The title of this email was: "Two more things will be given to you tomorrow." The sender was Kuang Zong Jian Ying.

When he saw the title, Feng Bujue understood that the items in [Hard Drive 2455-A-1] had been successfully manufactured by the members of the Jianghu Studio. According to the agreement, Kuang Zong Jian Ying would give three of them to Feng Bujue.

"Well... this guy really didn't break his promise." Feng Bujue muttered, received the attachment in the email, and the item directly entered his knapsack. He immediately opened the knapsack column to check:

[Name: Endless Grenade Casing]
[Type: Tool]
[Quality: Excellent]
[Function: Manufacture hand grenades]
[Effect: Every twenty minutes, this container will generate a Mark II hand grenade]
[Remark: The creations of this container can only exist two at a time (whether the creations are placed in the container or not). The manufactured hand grenades cannot be sold to the system store or placed in the auction house. Creations that have not been detonated one hundred and twenty minutes after leaving the container will disappear]

Feng Bujue immediately took out this grenade casing from his knapsack. Its shape looked like a badminton shuttlecock tube, but it had a black metal shell and weighed much more. Unscrewing the lid and tilting it over would allow one to take out a hand grenade.

[Name: Mark II Hand Grenade (Creation)]
[Type: Consumable]
[Quality: Normal]
[Effect: Indiscriminate explosive attack]
[Remark: Delay after pulling the pin is 4-4.8 seconds, killing radius is 5-10 yards. Its cast iron shell is serrated, which is conducive to generating more shrapnel after the explosion, and the shrapnel killing range can reach 50 yards, so please lie down as soon as possible after throwing it. ]

"Well... this item is not bad, it's even a little better than expected..." Feng Bujue muttered, "Speaking of which, what exactly did the twenty design drawings in the hard drive create? They even used such a god-like piece of equipment as a gift..." He paused, as if thinking of something, "Or... because my behavior in that script left a psychological shadow on Kuang Zong Jian Ying, so he specially sent me an item related to explosions?"

"Hmph... whatever." Feng Bujue put the hand grenade back into the grenade casing and put the tool back into his knapsack.

At this time, the other three members of Hell Front were not online. The other people on the friend list were either in the game or not familiar with him. So, Feng Bujue's masochistic tendencies awakened again, and he once again turned his attention to the Nightmare difficulty single-player survival mode option on the screen...