The task description stated that killing enemies for loot boxes was only one of the main ways to obtain Quest Items. For Players with Charm as their primary attribute, they could even obtain them from within by joining a gang.
Luckily, Assassin Moth was a twisted Batman cosplay fan, so his own hideout faithfully recreated the Batcave's interior setup. Otherwise, Cheng Tian would not have known where to find a computer.
Since this was adapted from the 1989 movie, while it incorporated Black Technology, some aspects inevitably retained things that belonged to that era—
Namely, computers of this era still mainly ran on DOS commands. Memory was measured in KB, practically ancient by modern standards. Once powered on, all one saw was a black screen and a white cursor constantly blinking as it waited for a command.
Forget Cheng Tian's generation—even people one generation older would consider this high-end knowledge from nearly forty years ago. By Cheng Tian's time, hardly anyone still dealt with it.
Rather, because the era Cheng Tian now lived in had developed too quickly, there was already a gap in computer-related knowledge.
Those kids of the new generation only knew how to clutch their phones all day, play mobile games, and scroll short videos. Their lack of computer knowledge exceeded even Cheng Tian's imagination.
They did not know how to compress or extract files, how to install games, that desktop icons were merely shortcuts, how to find torrents, or that buying a monitor meant they still needed to connect it to a computer tower...
All one could say was that those Taobao sellers who charged people to remotely install Steam were earning every cent as compensation for emotional distress.
Watching these brats who did not even know how to find torrents, Cheng Tian finally understood why