Shut down the infuriating "All Players Unlimited Grand Auction" section.
Meng Yi revised his assessment of the atmosphere in "Evolution Paradise" again and again, each time lowering it further.
According to "Old Xu," the promotion of ranks in the paradise was brutally cruel.
The "Magical Loli," who was about to take the 6th Order Assessment, had verified this with her complete lack of shame and bottom line.
High-Level Players who had escaped the "Gu Worm Identity" caused trouble every day, while the top-level 15th Order Players turned a blind eye, causing the atmosphere in "Evolution Paradise" to become increasingly "simple folk and outstanding talents everywhere."
"To be fair, if I were the 'Chess Player,' I'd turn a blind eye too."
"The harsher and more extreme the environment, the more it can nurture unconventional 'talents.'"
"No number of 'Novice Village Newbies' can compare to a single High-Level Player in value."
To be honest, Meng Yi was quite interested in the things the "Beasts" sold, but the time was not right yet.
Everything that existed had a reason. If he was incapable of doing something now, it was because his realm was too low and his accumulated knowledge insufficient.
Once he escaped the "Novice Village" and competed on equal footing with the "High-Level Beasts," buying bait and analyzing the principles and laws contained within it, turning them into nourishment for his own rapid transformation, would be more appropriate.
After sorting out his restless thoughts, Meng Yi began searching the Auction House for the "Knowledge-based" category.
Tier 5 Players did not need to run around everywhere. The rank search included Tiers 1 through 5.
He clicked the rank search in the upper left, locked it to "Tier 5," then opened the category filter on the left and locked it to "Knowledge-based."
The result was obvious: it was completely empty.
Searching the "Knowledge-based" category for "Tiers 1–4" brought up a window saying "Not Yet Open."
"Are Tier 5 Players the first watershed for 'newbies'? Is Tier 5 the bottom line set by 'Evolution Paradise' and the 15th Order Players?"
Meng Yi no longer entertained fantasies of "finding a bargain."
There were no idiots who had made it to Tier 5 in "Evolution Paradise," and the higher-ranked Players were even less so.
The paradise did not prohibit the spread of knowledge, but it did prohibit unimaginative repetition.
For the sake of his own life, Meng Yi steadied his mindset and casually browsed the Tier 1–5 items in the "Auction House."
Equipment, bloodlines, skill scrolls, basic materials... It had just about everything.
There were quite a few high-quality goods worth a second look, and the average standard of the products was a notch higher than that of the "Commercial Street" stalls outside.
"Ah, if only I weren't so short on money."
Meng Yi shook his head with a laugh and closed the "Auction House" light screen. He treated the few hours of browsing as nothing more than satisfying his curiosity and broadening his horizons.
He had already decided during the Selection Dungeon stage to use the "World Origin Crystals" he obtained himself. How could he possibly slow his own growth to buy external items that would be eliminated sooner or later?
He had come full of enthusiasm and left utterly uninterested.
He had already visited the "Commercial Street" and "Auction House" in the "Free Trade Zone." That left one more establishment: the "Pawn Shop."
With the mindset of "Since I'm here anyway," Meng Yi decided to take a look at the "Pawn Shop."
What?
Hadn't Meng Yi said not long ago that he would never go there even if he were beaten to death?
Sure enough, no one could escape the "True Fragrance Principle."
The "Pawn Shop" had an architectural style similar to that of the "Auction House." There were still no staff inside, and all business was handled by the perfected mechanisms of "Evolution Paradise."
In the private reception room, the familiar light screen appeared once again, while Meng Yi's Personal Information Panel appeared beside it.
Meng Yi tried dragging the "S-Rank Title · Nirvana Foundation" onto the light screen. The indifferent, icy prompt of "Evolution Paradise" echoed in the depths of his mind.
[Prompt: Pawn the "S-Rank Title · Nirvana Foundation" in exchange for 2 S-Rank World Origin Crystals + 150,000 Paradise Coins?]
"No!"
One could never have too many life-saving methods. Only someone with a scrambled brain would sell a high-authority "resurrection token."
Meng Yi currently had no use for the S-Rank World Origin Crystals either. He planned to try pasting the effect of the "S-Rank Title · Nirvana Foundation" onto himself, turning its one-time effect into a permanent passive ability of his own and thereby deepening his "Cellular-Level Immortality · Blood Rebirth."
He tried a few other items as well.
The C++-rank "Psionic Power" he had developed through the Mind System and Biochemical System was valued at 7 C-Rank World Origin Crystals + 34,000 Paradise Coins.
The "Longevity · Type 3 · Gene-sire" he had developed himself was valued at 3 C-Rank World Origin Crystals + 16,000 Paradise Coins.
His chemistry, biology, medicine, and genetics from his previous life, combined with his scavenging and robbery in the Warhammer Hive City in this life, as well as Umbrella Corporation and GeneTech from the Selection Dungeon, had fused into the "Proficient-Level · White Studies" he had pioneered. It was valued at 2 C-Rank World Origin Crystals + 14,000 Paradise Coins.
His Expert-Level Explosives, Expert-Level Unrestricted Combat, Beginner-Level Cold Weapons, Beginner-Level Firearms, and the branches derived from the "Psionic Power" Meng Yi had developed himself were worth considerably less.
The second-most valuable "item" on Meng Yi was "Psionic Power · Microscopic Domain Interference (Cellular-Level)," whose pawn value reached 11 C-Rank World Origin Crystals + 79,000 Paradise Coins.
"Oh? After all that, I'm not actually dirt-poor?"
If he sold everything he knew, he could go to the Player "Player: I'm a Magical Girl" and buy B+-Rank World-Destroying Forbidden Curse Scrolls wholesale.
That irritable Magical Loli, who had once treated Meng Yi with indifference and even mocked him, would at least have to kneel and kowtow several hundred times before loudly calling him, "Generous Boss!" upon hearing this windfall of good news.
"No! I'm not selling!"
Meng Yi closed the "Pawn Shop" light screen. He would have to be an idiot to sell himself as a "product."
The line of large, red, bold, pinned text in the "Pawn Shop" was perfectly clear.
Once "Knowledge-based" or "system-based products" were sold, they would not be returned. Players would "fundamentally" lose everything they possessed and be unable to reproduce it by following the same steps, exploiting a bug, and farming "coins."
Behind every rule, there was destined to be at least one painful and weighty story.
"I understand how High-Level Players make money now."
Meng Yi rubbed his chin in thought. After touring the three major category sections of the "Free Trade Zone," he had an idea of his own.
What would happen if he made crippled versions of single-function Enhancement Potions and sold them to Tier 2, Tier 3, and Tier 4 Players?
"Possible! Very possible!"
The "Potion · Blood Rebirth (1h Limited)" would probably be in short supply in the Tier 3–4 Player area.
As for whether the Players being fleeced were greedy for an external shortcut, delayed their own growth because of external items, and ultimately died in a brutal rank-promotion dungeon, that had nothing to do with Meng Yi, who would be making a fortune.
"Wait, if I can think of such a harmful, self-benefiting scheme, then the other Tier 5 and even higher-ranked Beasts must be far worse!"
"Damn this Shit Pit Paradise! The shortcuts to making money haven't even begun, and it's already packed with those damn Beasts!!"
"A scam! An utter scam! This goddamn paradise is full of pits."
"Players who can survive and advance to Tier 5 have all been Beasts crawling through pits. The Tier 5 watershed really lives up to its name!"
He understood now. The Tier 1–4 "true newbies" cursed the Tier 5–10 Players as black-hearted Beasts.
The Tier 5–10 "fake newbies" cursed the Tier 11–14 High-Level Players as shameless sword tombs.
The Tier 11–14 wage earners cursed the 15th Order Top-Level Players as ultimate Beasts and supreme sword tombs.
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