Two good friends left around five in the afternoon. Feng Bujue saw them to the door, and the three bid farewell with mutual curses.

Feng Bujue slammed the door shut, quickly tidied up the house, then went to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and took out a pile of ingredients.

His eyes changed. He put on an apron, rolled up his sleeves, washed his hands, all in one smooth motion. Two seconds later, with a face full of excitement, he said in a chuuni (affectedly juvenile) tone, "Hohoho... The nuisances are finally gone. It's been a while since my dark cooking time..."

He looked at the table full of ingredients and moved with lightning speed.

"Season the kelp with wine and soy sauce... Adding it to raw rice can bring out the umami... The ratio of rice to fish is one cup of rice to one slice of marinated salmon... Cut the burdock into shreds and mix it with maitake mushrooms torn by hand..." He muttered as he cooked. Although his movements looked very rough, every step was precise, a case of being rough on the outside but meticulous on the inside.

"Hmm... that should take care of the rice." He put the finished product into the rice cooker, pressed the cook button, and then turned his attention to the side. "The leftover fried tofu and rapeseed from yesterday can be used to make a light-flavored braised dish, plus the previously prepared vinegar-pickled white radish and raw scallops... This is it!" He fiercely turned on the gas stove, placed a frying pan on it, and poured a large amount of salad oil into the pan. After the oil temperature rose, he made a salt-fried scrambled egg. "Next is to drizzle a little oil to sauté the braising ingredients..." He added the ingredients while talking to himself, "Wine! Dipping sauce! Water! Mirin!"

This guy, like a lunatic, got deeply into character and cooked by the stove for nearly an hour, finally making himself six dishes and a soup, including various vegetables, meat, fish, protein, etc... The combination was quite balanced.

"Hmph... Completely satisfied." After finishing, he breathed a sigh of relief triumphantly. Then he sat down at the large kitchen table, poured himself a drink, and pretentiously tucked a piece of cloth into his collar, acting like he was eating Western food, but he was still holding chopsticks and a spoon in his hand.

At this moment, Assas directly jumped onto the table, slowly climbed to Feng Bujue's dishes, completely ignored his master, and lowered his head to eat the plate with fish.

"A meow star enjoying the fruits of my labor, you must be shocked by your master's superb skills, oh hahaha!" Feng Bujue said with his usual idiotic tone.

Hearing this, Assas raised his head and glanced at Feng Bujue, his eyes seeming to say: Stupid Earthling.

A few seconds later, Feng Bujue sighed. He tore off the cloth from his collar, returned to his usual demeanor, and looked at the ceiling, saying, "Sigh... Loneliness..."

...

More than a week had passed since the end of the Cang Ling Sword Debate scenario.

Recently, the names on Feng Bujue's friend list had gradually increased. For example, Young Master Atobe, several friends of Brother Long, Little Tan, and several friends that Si Yu and the others had met during the game. In short, the total was more than twenty people.

Feng Bujue and Si Yu had almost the same attitude toward socializing. They were the type who really didn't want to expand their social circle and liked to actively distance themselves from others. It was difficult to become their friend, and those who were considered friends by them were pretty much on a sinking ship...

Although the number of friends had increased, the members of Hell's Frontline were still only four, not even enough to form a six-person team. The system-given guild buff had been changed twice, but the effect was still relatively average. After all, they were at the bottom level in both guild rankings.

However, putting aside the guild's strength, Feng Bujue's personal strength was now among the top fifty players in the game.

After this period of time, Feng Bujue's data was as follows:

Title: [Unfathomable Maniac], Experience Value: 187500270000, Skill Value: 11300, Game Coins: 1020000.

Specializations: General C, Machinery D, Investigation D, Fighting D, Shooting D, Medical E, Spiritual Arts D, Summoning nA

Inventory 815: Mario's Pipe Wrench, Flashlight, Eighteen Bronze Men's Folding Stool (No. 5), ***-500(1320), Anti-Gravity Catapult, Miss Moxxi's Bad Touch, Vajra Bell, Proyan Bina's Vacuum Cleaner

Equipment: Jazz Dance, Spider Silk Gloves, Death Poker (Psychic Weapon), Echo Armor, Goblin Gas Mask.

Space 310: Puzzle Card - Monkey, Puzzle Card - Sunglasses, Puzzle Card - Strawberry.

Skills: [Not-So-Hasty Repair], [Spirit Sense Gathering Technique], [Take This!], [Ice Artificer's Obsession]

First, let's talk about the change in experience...

After players reached level 20, the upper limit of experience points required to level up underwent the same qualitative change as at level ten, with an additional zero added to the end. Relying on the advantage of being able to get extra rewards every time, Feng Bujue was basically leveling up at a rate of one level per day. Of course, in terms of level, he still couldn't compare with those professional players in large guilds who were responsible for leveling up. Their online time was definitely longer than his, their dungeon runs were more planned, and they also had the assistance of experience cards. Currently, the player ranked first in level on the server was already level 32. Don't underestimate this five-level gap. After level thirty, the experience points were seven digits...

But level doesn't represent strength. Feng Bujue, who was in the advanced stage of the game, had a characteristic that could be seen from his specialization levels—no weaknesses.

For example, let's say there's a sport, like tennis, that can divide a player's strength into more than a dozen abilities, such as speed, reaction, stamina, serve, backhand, prediction, etc... Each item is calculated on a ten-point scale.

Then, top players usually have three or more abilities that are ten points, and the rest are generally above eight points, with only one or two shortcomings that are six or seven points.

The strength of ordinary players is often that each ability is around seven points, with only one or two reaching nine points, and several around five points.

If you measure Feng Bujue by this standard, he is like a person whose abilities are all at the level of eight points. Theoretically speaking, this type of athlete is extremely rare.

People whose abilities are all above six points can only be called mediocre. But to make all abilities reach above eight points may be even more difficult than becoming a top player.

This is "comprehensiveness," or rather, all-around.

In baseball, it's like a guy who is proficient in hitting, running, fielding, throwing, and pitching. There hasn't been such a person in the world yet, because usually being able to do two of these five things can make you a baseball star.

In Thriller Paradise, Feng Bujue is the only player in the entire server who can achieve all specializations advancing at the same pace.

Next, let's talk about the changes in game coins and items...

Feng Bujue earned a lot of game coins from leveling up to level 27, but one million of them had been turned into five inventory slots. This was also something that couldn't be helped. The ten-slot novice inventory was really not enough. Now he was using the upgraded "standard inventory."

After Cang Ling, Feng Bujue's ***-500 had consumed some more in other scenarios, and he had put on Proyan Bina's Vacuum Cleaner at level 20. In the past few days, he had also gained some equipment, averaging at least one item per day, but those were not very suitable for him, so he either gave them to his teammates or auctioned them off. Therefore, from the data, Feng Bujue had only gained one more puzzle card in the past few days.

Finally, let's talk about skills. I believe everyone has seen that the first permanent active skill that Feng Bujue learned has evolved after he used it many times...