Server-Wide "Welfare" Event

These past two days, in Ruoshui Sanqian's memory, Player 001 had always been a quiet, aloof big shot.

She rarely spoke in the chat channel, and when she did, it was only to relay info or sell goods.

Staring at the twenty wooden fences she'd snatched, Ruoshui Sanqian opened the comment section below the red envelope and typed her first message: "Thanks for the red envelope, big shot! Hit the jackpot, so happy (＞y＜)."

On the other side of the island, Monster Slayer had just finished off the creature in front of him when the system notification chimed.

Hearing the sound, he excitedly opened his panel. He'd killed quite a few more monsters today and yesterday, so now that the big shot was looking for him, he could actually offer up some meat.

Why was he so sure? Because he'd set her as his only special follow.

To avoid another incident of leaving the big shot hanging, he'd marked her as a special follow right after their last trade.

Opening his friend list, Monster Slayer's smile froze. He'd thought the big shot had messaged him, but it turned out she'd just posted a status.

A bit disappointed that his meat hadn't sold today, he still clicked into Player 001's feed.

The moment he entered, a red envelope popped up—bright red background with golden text reading: "Good Luck and Great Fortune."

Before his brain could react, his finger had already honestly tapped "Open."

[Congratulations, Monster Slayer, you've grabbed: one steamed bun.]

Monster Slayer carefully noticed on the red envelope reward page, above his name, a line of text: [Congratulations, Ruoshui Sanqian, you've grabbed: twenty wooden fences.]

Then he checked the total prizes: twenty wooden fences, one steamed bun, one bottle of water. Total red envelopes: 3.

Monster Slayer smirked: "I'd say my luck's pretty decent. Only three envelopes total, and I snagged one."

He took a screenshot and saved it to his backpack.

"Next time someone says I've got bad luck, I'll just show them this picture, heh."

Then he opened the comment section below the red envelope: "Thanks, big shot. My luck's not bad—managed to grab one out of three."

"(Screenshot), the bun was delicious."

Ji Xinghe didn't see any of their comments. She was deep in skill training.

In her mind.

There was still that little girl and the old man with white eyebrows, except the girl now looked two years older.

Without overthinking, Ji Xinghe followed the girl's rhythm, sensing every move, every thought...

Opening her eyes again.

[Successfully learned skill: Purification Technique.]

"Purification Technique: Support-attack hybrid skill."

"Skill details: Increases resistance to environments like mutation and poison gas. Can consume a certain amount of mental energy to purify spoiled or mutated food."

"Can also purify not-fully-mutated creatures (current success rate for purifying food: 90%, for purifying living creatures: 50%)."

"Attack direction: When facing Dark Creatures or Deformed Monsters, Purification Technique can be used as an attack skill. Damage dealt equals self's magic attack power × 2."

"Skill mental energy cost: 10."

"Skill cooldown: 120 seconds."

"Huh? A dual-purpose skill for attack and support?"

Ji Xinghe pulled out some Deformed Meat and released a soft, bright white light from her hand.

"Purification Technique."

The next second, the white light enveloped the lump of meat, and the gray-misted Deformed Meat gradually turned into a natural meat color before her eyes.

Excitedly, she picked it up to inspect.

"White Wolf King Meat (500g): Purified meat, no different in essence from fresh beast meat, even better in taste."

She waved Xiao Xi over.

Seeing it trot up eagerly, Ji Xinghe rubbed its Vine: "Take this meat and eat it."

Xiao Xi's Vine lightly tapped, and it began eating slowly and gracefully.

Today, watching Xiao Sha eat so elegantly, it decided to follow suit—couldn't embarrass the big sister's reputation.

But the more it ate, the bigger its bites got, sneaking glances at Ji Xinghe. Seeing no sign of annoyance or impatience on her face, it grew bolder.

Gulping it down ravenously, why was this meat even better than this morning's? It just couldn't hold back.

After testing the skill, Ji Xinghe opened her panel to check how her trade market goods were doing.

Most of the basic materials were half-gone, except for stone.

Maybe she'd listed too much stone, driving down the whole market's price. Originally, 4 units traded for one Wow Coin, but now it had dropped to 6 units.

Uh...

After a moment's thought, she decided not to change the price for now. She had plenty of stone, and if she adjusted, others would have to follow. Those players with only stone might get weeded out during the market shift.

It wasn't that she was being saintly—the main thing was that she still had other materials to sell. Stone wasn't her only market, just her most abundant material.

If she didn't lower her prices, even if others did, they couldn't drop them by much.

Aside from basic materials, her 1,500 wooden fences had already sold out. She glanced at the last transaction timestamp: 07:36:09.

It seemed there was still demand for wooden fences. She remembered putting them up close to 7:00, and they were cleared out in under an hour.

She withdrew all the wood from the back end into her inventory.

Wood +4,500 units.

She continued crafting fences.

[Ding, deducted Wood ×4,500. Crafted 2,250 Wooden Fences.]

[Wooden Fence crafting countdown: 06:18:59]

Another six hours. It looked like these fences would only sell twice during the newbie period.