Chapter 281 A Visit to One's Status

February 5th, midnight.

Feng Bujue, as usual, fell asleep in the game pod and logged into Thriller Paradise in sleep mode.

As soon as he entered the login space, he first checked his friend list. After seeing that both Xu Huai Shang and Miss An were already "in-game," he began to slowly process his mail.

With the wedding date approaching, Xiao Tan and Xiao Ling had been busy scouting locations in Europe for the past few days and were basically offline.

As for Ruo Yu, who "hits anyone who gets close," her situation had improved recently. At least, she had no problem passing through airport security... So, she and her parents had also gone to Europe with Xiao Ling and the others to help out.

In summary, this week, the only active people online from the Infernal Front were Brother Jue, Xu Huai Shang, and An Yueqin.

Originally, the three of them teaming up would have been fine, but... because Xu Huai Shang had been subjected to various restrictions after leaving Red Sakura and her character's hard power had been greatly reduced, she needed a buffer period to improve her level and equipment... Therefore, without enough for a six-person team, Feng Bujue, a teammate who would obviously raise the difficulty of the script, had become a burden.

In the end, Brother Jue decided to let Goddess Xu and Miss An team up together; the two were of similar level, and An Yueqin, being a support-type player, could cooperate with anyone. It was perfect for her to help Xu Huai Shang through the buffer period.

As for Feng Bujue himself... he was once again in a state of being a lone wolf.

"Hmm... The number is smaller than it was a while ago, but the content..." While deleting emails, Feng Bujue realized that he, the "leader of the Infernal Front," seemed to have been regarded as a "spokesperson for Xu Huai Shang's guild." Many fans who were blocked by Goddess Xu came to Brother Jue to take a "shortcut" and wanted to send messages through him.

Regarding this kind of enthusiastic request, Feng Bujue naturally blocked them all without hesitation, eliminating any future troubles...

"Phew... Done." Brother Jue spent three minutes scanning the emails, then turned around, pressed a button, and went to the mall space.

As soon as he exited the elevator, Feng Bujue went straight to the puzzle card exchange because he had just seen a system notification email saying that the puzzle card he had listed there had been traded.

In short, when Feng Bujue returned to his storage room, he had put two more puzzle cards into his bag, which he had exchanged for the [Puzzle Card - Sparrow] and [Puzzle Card - White].

"Finally... It's all gathered..." Feng Bujue muttered as he took out the five puzzle cards stored in his warehouse, "This combination... it wouldn't make sense if it didn't produce a God-tier equipment."

A week ago, after completing the Monster Kingdom defense battle, Brother Jue received the reward of "four optional puzzle cards"; at that time, after some consideration, combined with a card he already had in his warehouse, he envisioned a series that required seven cards.

Today, returning from the exchange, he had finally gathered all seven and was ready to exchange them for equipment.

[Detecting a possible combination sequence]

After clicking on the "Combination" option in the virtual menu, the system voice sounded:

Set Name: [Hulu Brothers], consuming [Puzzle Card - Strength], [Puzzle Card - Eyes and Ears], [Puzzle Card - Steel], [Puzzle Card - Fire], [Puzzle Card - Water], [Puzzle Card - Invisibility], [Puzzle Card - Blockade] can form a combination.

These seven cards undoubtedly represented the seven abilities of the Calabash Brothers; among them, the four cards with obvious indications, "Strength," "Eyes and Ears," "Invisibility," and "Blockade," were all obtained by Feng Bujue with the reward of "optional puzzle cards," one "Steel" was originally owned by him, and the more common card names like "Fire" and "Water" were what he exchanged from the exchange.

[You have chosen to generate the set combination: Hulu Brothers, please confirm this operation.]

After Brother Jue confirmed, the seven cards turned into white light and reorganized into one, becoming a colorful card printed with the seven Calabash Brothers.

[The set has been generated, do you want to exchange it for equipment?]

Feng Bujue looked at the card for a few seconds, then chose "Yes"; after the "Hulu Brothers Card" also turned into white light and disappeared, he walked to the flip-drawer iron gate on the wall.

When he put his hand on the metal handle, Brother Jue was also quite nervous. After all... this equipment, which consumed a full seven puzzle cards, would be truly tearful if it was a dud.

Clang—

When the flip-drawer was opened, the thing that fell out didn't look like a weapon, nor did it seem like armor that could be worn, so the result was obvious. Like [just_we], it was a special equipment...

[Name: Seven-Colored Lotus]

[Type: Composite Weapon]

[Quality: Legendary]

[Attack Power: ???]

[Defense Power: ???]

[Attribute: ???]

[Effect: Fusion Refining (can only be used once)]

[Usage Condition: Universal Specialization A (this item is bound upon pickup)]

[Remark: Can refine seven weapons and equipment into one, merging them into a new weapon and equipment; when refining, you must choose one weapon and equipment as the main body; the attributes and effects of the refined item are randomly generated and are not related to the quality, attributes, effects, and quantity of the refining materials; the quality of the refined item must be legendary and will retain the basic shape of the main body.]

"Hmm..." After reading the item description, Feng Bujue thought, "As expected, it's a good thing... This is much better than randomly giving a weapon or equipment that may not be suitable for the player, it's equivalent to letting me decide the type of item myself."

Indeed, the effect of this [Seven-Colored Lotus] was to allow players to selectively DIY legendary equipment.

The remarks clearly stated that "the quality of the generated item must be legendary" and "the attributes of the refined product are random and have nothing to do with the refining materials" in order to remind players that there was no need to gather seven ridiculously strong things to combine. Even if you used seven pieces of trash to combine, the final quality would still be legendary, and the effects would still depend on luck.

And the "retain the shape of the main body" item was to allow players to decide what the final refined legendary equipment would be.

For example, players who are good at using guns can get a gun as the main body for refining and can choose whether they want a pistol, rifle, shotgun, or sniper rifle; players who are good at using cold weapons, regardless of knives, spears, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, forks, or whatever... can use whatever they want and find one with a satisfactory appearance to refine.

Similarly, armor is the same: chest armor, shoulder armor, helmet, leg guards... [Seven-Colored Lotus] can turn any part of the equipment into legendary.

For players like Feng Bujue who don't have any advantage in "randomness," this kind of reward that allows them to "choose to a certain extent" is indeed much better than directly stuffing him with a legendary item.

"So... which one should I use?" After figuring out the trick of this item, Brother Jue began to carefully consider the legendary equipment he needed to supplement.

Now, Brother Jue certainly didn't lack skills, so improving his weapons and equipment became the top priority.

"Sure enough... it's still 'that' one, it's also easy to use." Feng Bujue thought for a while, revealed a smile, and then... took out a pipe wrench from his bag.

All along, Brother Jue had been using some strange weapons, such as kitchen knives, pipe wrenches, military shovels, knives, rat hammers... Basically, he had gotten used to using this kind of shorter, unconventional weapon to fight; in the time since he lost the [Must-Break Defense Blade], he had not found a weapon that could replace its function. As a level fifty-seven player, not even having a handy main weapon was indeed a bit unreasonable.

Therefore, what he finally chose was his first main weapon in the game – [Mario's Pipe Wrench].

After deciding on the "refining subject," the next thing was easy to handle...

Feng Bujue now had plenty of storage space. His warehouse contained a lot of "garbage" that he planned to accumulate and then sell at the store, as well as "fuel" stored for the pulverizer... Including the [Children's Bat] that Doctor Manhattan got for him when restoring his equipment last time, he casually flipped through the warehouse and put together six weapons and equipment of varying qualities from "dilapidated" to "excellent."

After the materials were collected, Brother Jue immediately used [Mario's Pipe Wrench] as the main body and activated the effect of the [Seven-Colored Lotus].

[Please note that this operation is irreversible, please confirm again.]

Unsurprisingly, in this kind of situation where many items were consumed, and there were valuable items among them, the system would give a reminder.

[Confirmed, refining begins.]

The moment Feng Bujue clicked to confirm, the items he had spread out on the table turned into seven-colored lights, gathering into the [Seven-Colored Lotus].

[Please wait patiently for the time it takes for one incense stick to burn.]

"Huh?" Brother Jue was stunned when he heard this prompt, "It doesn't even use 'minutes' to measure time..."

Sayings like "the time it takes for one incense stick to burn" and "the time it takes for a cup of tea to cool" are variable; because incense sticks can be long or short, and tea is drunk at different times in different seasons, the system's "time it takes for one incense stick to burn" was really hard to estimate.

In addition, the "refining" process in front of him was more complicated than Brother Jue had imagined, with a feeling of refining elixir in an alchemy furnace. As the [Seven-Colored Lotus] on the table kept changing and emitting the seven colors of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple, Feng Bujue's white storage room also kept changing color, and the entire room was shrouded in a mesmerizing atmosphere.

"What's with this disco from more than half a century ago..." Standing by the table, Feng Bujue was inexplicably a little irritable, partly because the light was dizzying, and partly because he hated this kind of "not too long, not too short" waiting time that he couldn't put his finger on.

As a result, he waited for more than twenty minutes...

Just as Brother Jue was thinking about whether to take out a jewel and play a bit of squash, suddenly... he heard a "bang," and the lotus on the table exploded without warning.

Of course, this explosion wouldn't cause any real damage, it just bloomed into a cloud of colorful smoke.

Feng Bujue didn't even wait for the smoke to clear before immediately reaching out and grabbing the weapon on the table that had already been "refined."

[Name: z Pipe Wrench]

[Type: Composite Weapon]

[Quality: Legendary]

[Attack Power: Extremely Strong]

[Attribute: Ice, Fire]

[Effect 1: Automatically absorbs kinetic energy during strikes to charge itself]

[Effect 2: Can transform into nunchucks after charging to 30%]

[Effect 3: Both ends will be attached with ice and fire attributes after charging to 50%]

[Effect 4: Will gain the "Combo" ability after charging to 80%, the damage of repeated strikes on the same target will gradually increase within a certain period of time]

[Effect 5: After charging to 100%, will definitely cause a "Critical Hit" when attacking and hitting the head of any creature]

[Effect 6: Within a certain period of time, if the combo count reaches 70 and the critical hit count reaches 7, you can enter "z Mode". In this mode, the attack of the z Pipe Wrench will ignore defense, and the user will receive a periodic speed bonus Buff]

[Effect 7: In "z Mode", you can use "z Burst" once to release all the accumulated kinetic energy from the start of this battle, causing a terrifying blow; after releasing, you will leave z Mode and the charge amount will return to 0%]

[Equipment Condition: Melee Specialization s or Machinery Specialization s (bound upon pickup)]

[Remark: Most of us have the same experience of buying nunchucks. One day, we watched a kung fu movie, and then we bought a pair on a whim. After returning home, we enthusiastically beat ourselves up, and then we either put them on the shelf or simply returned them...

There is no doubt that this is a weapon that requires a very high level of skill, and strong physical fitness cannot help you control it better, it will only help it beat you up more powerfully; if you are not confident in your skills, it is recommended to keep the "pipe wrench mode" to fight, but if you can use it well, the z Pipe Wrench is the king of melee weapons.]

"Huh?" After reading the item description, Feng Bujue immediately complained, "I chose this for refining because I was pretty good at using the pipe wrench, and after refining it, you're telling me that I have to use the 'nunchuck mode' to unleash its power?"

Even though he faintly felt like he had been scammed, but what's done is done, he couldn't possibly throw away the weapon. There was no other way... he could only slowly hone his nunchuck skills in future battles.

After obtaining this item, Feng Bujue had dealt with his miscellaneous items; considering the many changes in Brother Jue's character state in recent months, we might as well take a long-awaited look at his current attributes—

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Madness is not Cool: Lv57

Title: [Mad · Not · Cool], Title Ability: [The Paradox of Truth]

Experience Value: 3148650057000000, Skill Value: 251, Game Coins: 2762000.

Specialization: Universal A, Machinery A, Reconnaissance B, Melee s, Shooting B, Medical C, Spiritual s, Summoning s.

Bag (1540): Survival Value Supplement (Medium) *5, Survival Value Supplement (Large) *5, Na Yuan Che Sui Powder *5, Chuck Norris's Autobiography, Chuck Norris's Razor, Deception Pocket Watch, Oxygen Pipe, Yi Da, Qi Xu Ru Lin, Dong Ru Lei Ting, Bu Dong Ru Shan, just_we, Rat Hammer, "Poker Hero" Hero ID Card, z Pipe Wrench.

Equipment: Mad Poker (Psionic Weapon), Complete Acerbic Armor, Ta Xu, Bell's Everyday Knife, Energy Gloves, Exodia Incarcerate Set, "Friend's" Headgear.

Skill Bar: Empty.

Combination Skill with Ruo Yu: Magic Art Kui Senluo.

Soul Intent: Zero Time Difference Calculation, Rewrite (Second Order).

Character Mission: None.

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There are many things that need to be explained, so let's start from the top.

First of all, the title.

After killing the Fighting Demon, because the [Fighting Demon Descends] title ability could no longer be successfully used, the [Dark Vanguard] title naturally no longer existed. That day, as soon as Feng Bujue left the script, he received the new title of [Mad · Not · Cool], which seemed to be tailor-made for him.

However, when he excitedly wanted to see the skill description of the title skill [The Paradox of Truth], he couldn't bring up the relevant game menu at all...

For this matter, Feng Bujue specifically went to customer service, but the answer he received was "No Bug, if you can't see the skill description, that is the game's own setting."

Considering his actual situation, Brother Jue speculated... perhaps this matter was related to some things in the real world; moreover, Dream Company's customer service was not the kind of department where repeated questioning could get different answers, so Brother Jue could only put this matter aside for the time being.

Secondly, Feng Bujue had improved in terms of level and specialization; because he could now freely use all kinds of skills he had once possessed or seen, his medical specialization had also been brushed to C level, and his summoning specialization had reached s level – this, he had to thank the [Zhao Ying Wang] brother who had fought with him many times.

Next, let's look at the skill value and game coins.

The last time Feng Bujue's skill value was shown, he had more than 90,000, and his game coins were in the eight digits; now both of these data have been greatly reduced, naturally because he had spent them.

Needless to say about the game coins, looking at the bag limit, you can also know that I said just now – Feng Bujue's storage space is now very sufficient, obviously, he spent all the money on buying the limit of the bag and warehouse.

As for the skill value, Brother Jue spent it all at once after getting 100,000 to buy something in the Horror Box.

And that thing was—[The Sealed Exodia].

Perhaps some people would be strange, what exactly is this thing? Is it worth 100,000 skill value?

Yes, it's worth it... In fact, the [Exodia Incarcerate Set] synthesized from this item is the most powerful piece of equipment on Feng Bujue's body at present, its value exceeds the [Complete Acerbic Armor] and also exceeds the [z Pipe Wrench] he just obtained.

[Name: Exodia Incarcerate Set]

[Type: Special Armor]

[Quality: Legendary]

[Defense Power: None]

[Attribute: Absorption]

[Effect 1: Seal Liberation Ritual (Every time the player receives a physical attack, regardless of the final damage taken, gain magic value equivalent to the energy of this attack)]

[Effect 2: The Sealed One's Anger (When the player receives a magic attack, they can release magic value equivalent to its energy to nullify or weaken it)]

[Effect 3: Seal Defense Wall (Can be activated at any time, consuming magic value to create a defensive force field, the consumed magic value depends on the size and strength of the defensive force field)]

[Effect 4: Seal Breaker (Can be used on any "defensive effect" produced by items or skills, paying magic value equivalent to its energy to nullify or weaken it)]

[Equipment Condition: Any one specialization reaches s level (bound after synthesis)]

[Remark: Composed of "The Sealed One's Right Leg," "The Sealed One's Left Leg," "The Sealed One's Right Arm," "The Sealed One's Left Arm," and "The Sealed Exodia," contains unimaginable ultimate power.]

This so-called "Incarcerate Set," if it were to be "displayed" in the form of clothing, would be a complete set of semi-transparent shackles wrapped around the hands, feet, and neck; of course... even if this set of shackles is in the "displayed" state, it will not affect the player's limb movements, it just looks quite ugly, and no one would show it.

Equipment like this that looks ugly, requires five items to synthesize, and the most critical main component costs 100,000 skill value, its effects are naturally terrifying; as far as a piece of armor is concerned, as long as it is used properly, theoretically it can withstand any attack.

Next, let's look at the [Complete Acerbic Armor]...

[Name: Complete Acerbic Armor]

[Type: Armor]

[Quality: Legendary]

[Defense Power: Extremely Strong]

[Attribute: Isolation, Buffer]

[Effect: When equipped, all damage taken by the player is reduced by 50%; all attacks with a strength judgment of "strong" or less are invalid. ps: Except for the damage caused by the axe "the trash-talking tree spirit must die."]

[Equipment Condition: Male player, Melee Specialization s, Spiritual Specialization B, bound upon pickup]

[Remark: A long, long time ago, the legendary dwarf craftsman "Ol' Gottsadieu" used the wood of the Mockery Tree as raw material, supplemented by dragon blood, demon bones, and many gems... to create a notorious artifact – the Acerbic Armor.

After this work was born, it immediately showed unparalleled divine power and unmanageable crazy characteristics. Even Gottsadieu himself could not fully control the power of the armor, nor could he destroy it.

So, Gottsadieu used a special refining method to divide the power of the armor into twenty parts, sending three of them to the elves, seven to the dwarves, and nine to the humans. And he himself... kept the main part of the armor, and hid it away.]

Compared with the original 1320 version, its defensive characteristics are obviously more powerful. This kind of damage reduction effect is basically equivalent to being invincible when facing trash mobs.

Finally, there is one more piece of equipment to mention, and that is—["Friend's" Headgear]

[Name: "Friend's" Headgear]

[Type: Armor]

[Quality: Legendary]

[Defense Power: None]

[Attribute: Isolation]

[Effect: When negotiating with npCs, the success rate of lies and persuasiveness are greatly increased; the effect of using spiritual skills is doubled (not including negative effects)]

[Equipment Condition: Spiritual Specialization A]

[Remark: The mask used by the leader of a mysterious organization, "Friend" is not only a name, a code name, but also a will to bring terror and disaster to the world.]

This is a white headgear, the face part is painted with a strange symbol, it looks... like a big eye with eyelashes and no pupils, inside it there is a hand pointing upwards with an index finger, and on the back of the hand there is also a smaller eye with a pupil; overall, it is very strange... Brother Jue naturally wouldn't show this equipment usually.

This headgear was the reward Feng Bujue received after completing his character mission [Clear more than 50 nightmare difficulty scripts]. In addition to the effect in battle, its "diplomatic" effect is also self-evident in nightmare difficulty scripts where abilities are limited.

The above is the few pieces of equipment that Feng Bujue has updated during this time; as for [Immovable as a Mountain] and [Energy Gloves], they are the restored old items, and there is no change in attributes; and [Na Yuan Che Sui Powder] was one of the two things he obtained from Lin Yan when he retrieved the [Kongtong Seal], which he had entrusted to Lute for safekeeping, and there is no need to repeat them.

In short, judging from the character state, Feng Bujue today seems to be a legendary figure, with the strength to kill anyone who stands in his way.

But in reality... those top studio players have about the same number of legendary equipment as him, and they also have items with causality characteristics... it's not like people don't have them; moreover, those professional players have mostly trained to the maximum level (with extra rewards) now.

Of course, this is also a normal phenomenon. Like most large mmorpg games that don't provide paid props, even casual players will eventually have a full set of purple and orange equipment after reaching the level cap... let alone professional players.

However, Brother Jue has an advantage that others don't have, that is—he is not restricted by the skill bar. Just based on this point, he can definitely rank in the top five of Thriller Paradise players in terms of "hard power."

"Okay, no matter what... let's just queue up for a script to try out the new weapon first." After tidying up his luggage, Feng Bujue returned to the elevator while muttering to himself.

Now that his character mission was completed and his abilities were restored, there was no need for him to stare at nightmare difficulty scripts anymore. Therefore, as he said... with the mindset of "trying out the weapon," he randomly queued up for a single-player survival mode script of normal difficulty...