I Have Everything I Need Now

After looting Lone Bamboo's box, Zhang Yang opened his personal terminal and checked the information under the Personal Info tab.

Zhang Yang

Health: 100/100

Soul Power: 99/100

After his fight with Lone Bamboo, Zhang Yang had only used one point of Soul Power.

He could also clearly feel the Soul Power in his body slowly recovering with each breath.

3.2.1~

Soul Power: 100/100.

Back to full.

His status hadn't changed, and not much time had passed, so Zhang Yang decided to keep going.

After all, this was just a beginner tutorial. It wasn't like he could actually die in here, right?

Next, Zhang Yang planned to check out that treasure chest.

He wanted to see what kind of good stuff the only high-drop-rate container in the beginner tutorial would give him.

After circling around the red alert zone of the nearest Soft Bone Rabbit, Zhang Yang continued another three hundred meters or so and reached the treasure chest's location.

He rounded a tree, then stopped in his tracks.

Behind it, Zhang Yang saw the corpse of a middle-aged man wearing a white Spirit Hall uniform. At his feet lay a wooden box.

Compared to Lone Bamboo's wooden box, this one was much more finely crafted. Not only had its edges been sanded smooth, its outer surface had also been coated with a thick lacquer to prevent rot and insects.

As Zhang Yang approached, a prompt appeared in his field of vision: "Search: Chu Xiao."

Zhang Yang reached out and opened the box labeled "Chu Xiao." A screen that felt very familiar to him appeared.

On the left was a 3D projection of Zhang Yang, dressed in rough hemp clothes and holding an M14.

In the middle was Zhang Yang's personal page.

On the right was Chu Xiao's page.

First row: Martial Soul: "Wild Boar," "None."

Second row: Helmet: "None," Armor: "Martial Soul Hall Deacon Uniform Set."

"Martial Soul Hall Deacon Uniform Set, Green"

"Value: 3992"

"Durability: 13/25"

"Protection Level: Level 2"

"Armor Effect: Offers good protection against Soul Power impacts from white Soul Power."

"Protected Areas: Full body (excluding head)"

"Durability Loss: Medium"

"In-Match Repair Efficiency: Medium"

"Equipment Weight: 1.85 kg"

"A standard uniform issued by Spirit Hall to its ordinary deacons. The fabric is highly stretchable, enough to accommodate the transformation of Battle Soul Masters with Beast Martial Souls of average size."

Its durability had dropped by half, but it was still better than wearing nothing at all, so Zhang Yang reluctantly put it on.

Third row: Chest Rig: None.

Fourth row: Pockets. Five slots in total, four of them shaded to indicate they were being searched.

Clearly, in the virtual map created by his cheat, the boxes obtained by killing Soul Beasts had been designated as map containers.

Boxes obtained by killing Soul Masters, on the other hand, were classified as bot loot boxes, or operator loot boxes.

As Zhang Yang pondered this, all four pocket slots finished searching.

"Purple, Gold Soul Coins, 10000" x 3; "Green, Silver Soul Coins, 100" x 12; "White, Copper Soul Coins, 1" x 5; and a ring called a "Pure Silver Ring."

"Huh? Just like the map said?" Zhang Yang was a little surprised. "So the information on the map wasn't a scam?"

Zhang Yang selected the Pure Silver Ring icon to open its details page.

"Gold, Pure Silver Ring"

"Value: 52113"

"Equipment"

"0.007 kg, one slot"

"Special storage equipment. Equipping it grants nine secure slots. The equipment drops upon death, but items inside the secure slots do not."

"This ring once symbolized love. Its owner turned it into a Soul Tool capable of storing items."

"What token can express my love? A pair of silver rings."

After reading the description, Zhang Yang's eyes widened. "Holy shit, nine secure slots for a single life."

His head was buzzing. The way to obtain nine secure slots was clearly beyond anything he could have imagined.

In his old world, six secure slots were for the big spenders, while nine-slot secure storage required completing Season Missions.

People had once dreamed aloud about being able to buy secure storage with in-game currency. Then all the cash hoarded by the loot goblins would finally have somewhere to go.

He hadn't expected that dream to come true in the Douluo World.

How interesting.

Zhang Yang equipped the ring.

When he saw a new 3x3 space appear in his personal interface, his whole body relaxed.

"I have everything I need now."

Sure enough, a man needed a big enough pocket to feel secure.

With his secure storage, Zhang Yang quickly stashed all the loot he'd collected this round.

The roomy nine-slot secure storage was immediately more than half full.

Next, Zhang Yang looked at the special "Dog Tag" slot behind the pockets in the fourth row.

A "dog tag" had appeared in that slot, displaying information about the person's death.

"Chu Xiao_Level 13_White"

"Game time: 0 minutes 0 seconds. The Nether Wolf killed Chu Xiao with its teeth in the Silent Forest."

Zhang Yang tried to glean whatever useful information he could from that short sentence.

"Level 13 should be the Soul Power Level of this Soul Master named Chu Xiao."

"White has replaced the game's rank. Could it mean the color of this Soul Master Chu Xiao's First Soul Ring?"

"The enemy was a Nether Wolf. A Nether Wolf..."

Zhang Yang thought it over, as if suddenly realizing something, then immediately reopened his personal information terminal and checked the map.

The red beast-claw marker indicating the Nether Wolf's alert zone was some distance away.

Normally, the Nether Wolf shouldn't have appeared here.

But Zhang Yang knew better than to trust that circle. If he did, he'd regret it for the rest of his life.

"Awooooo~~~"

At the murderous wolf howl, Zhang Yang jerked his head up and looked into the distance.

In that long, drawn-out howl, he heard fury and resentment.

"Free loot."

Zhang Yang instinctively raised his M14 to his shoulder. While his mind was still weighing the pros and cons, his body had already crept forward without a sound.

That was the battle lust etched into the heart of an Assault Master.

When gunfire rang out in the central control zone, Zhang Yang had to get involved—even if he was in the firing range.

Before long, Zhang Yang stopped and silently hid behind a large tree.

A gust of wind swept through, rustling the leaves and carrying with it the thick, inescapable stench of blood.

Zhang Yang cautiously peeked out and took in the entire scene at a glance.

A gray-white Nether Wolf stood there, staggering as it panted. A fist-sized hole in its belly was gushing blood.

Not far in front of it, a white-furred rabbit lay on its side. Its belly wasn't moving; it looked as though it had been dead for a long time.

"Did they take each other out?" Zhang Yang thought.

But how had the hole in the Nether Wolf's belly gotten there?

It was clearly a wound caused by a sharp weapon. Could a rabbit Soul Beast inflict that kind of injury?

Besides, when a Soul Beast died, its corpse was supposed to disappear and leave behind a wooden box.

Why hadn't this rabbit turned into a box?

Was it just for show, so it didn't turn into a box?

Or was it...

Zhang Yang had a theory.