The First Round's Insanely High Drop Rate

Exiting the teaching building, Zhang Yang made his way to the academy cafeteria without incident.

Pushing open the cafeteria doors, Zhang Yang scanned the interior with his gaze.

The academy cafeteria was a two-story building, with a solid wood staircase located to the right of the entrance.

Before Zhang Yang lay the dining area for students, as well as the affordable canteen stalls catering to them.

Arriving in the spacious dining area, Zhang Yang's line of sight swept across rows of solid wood tables.

Scattered upon them were uncollected trays and small snacks that students had purchased from the store.

There were few items worth collecting, and their value was negligible.

After searching the entire first floor of the cafeteria, Zhang Yang hadn't picked up a single thing; the open-world respawned items were simply too unpalatable.

Too poor.

It was truly worthy of being a Normal-mode open-world dense respawn point—it really didn't offer a single good item, focusing entirely on setting the atmosphere.

Fortunately, the second floor of the academy cafeteria provided Zhang Yang with some consolation.

According to academy regulations, the second floor of the cafeteria was the dining area for faculty and staff.

Those who ate on the second floor were mostly academy teachers and high-level school administrators.

Therefore, the decor on the second floor was much more luxurious than the first.

The food shifted from mass-produced canteen meals to stir-fries, supporting custom orders, and the ingredients were significantly more expensive.

Reflected in the game, this meant the open-world drop rate on the second floor was higher than on the first.

On the first floor, the most valuable open-world respawn was green-tier Purified Water.

But on the second floor, Zhang Yang saw blue-tier Effervescent Tablets and canned goods.

Furthermore, Zhang Yang managed to loot a Heding City Specialty Flask in the dining hall.

A purple-tier 1x2 item—good stuff.

In a map with Normal difficulty, having a drop rate like this was already quite decent.

After scouring the second floor, having checked the dining hall, private rooms, and kitchen, Zhang Yang returned to the first floor and entered the kitchen.

In the corner of the first-floor kitchen was a door equipped with a sensor lock; the room corresponding to the Academy Restaurant Storage Room keycard Zhang Yang had just looted was located right here.

Standing before the door, Zhang Yang chose to interact. With a "beep," the door creaked open a crack.

The Academy Restaurant Storage Room keycard, which originally had 20 durability, now dropped to 19.

A keycard that costs 26,000 to use—I hope it gives me something good.

Thinking this, Zhang Yang pushed the door open and stepped into the keycard room.

The Academy Restaurant Storage Room, as the name implied, was a room where the academy cafeteria kept its backup ingredients.

The storage room was quite large and divided into multiple compartments, with different types of ingredients stored separately.

Ingredients requiring moisture protection were placed on wooden pallets one meter wide and long to insulate them from the damp floor.

Lightweight seasonings and valuable ingredients were stored separately on standardized iron shelves.

On these shelves, Zhang Yang spotted three open-world respawn points.

"Green, Purified Water, value 2052."

"Blue, Military Canned Food, value 15056."

"Blue, Low-grade Fuel, value 12912."

15k per slot—tasty.

After stowing the two blue items into his backpack, Zhang Yang casually opened a container that looked like a crate.

The search interface popped up, the 1x1 shadow magnifying glass spun two and a half times, and then a golden light flashed.

"Gold, Solid Fuel, value 68903."

A little gold item—not bad, he'd already made his money back.

Zhang Yang's mouth curled into a grin involuntarily, his hands moving with lightning speed to place the "Solid Fuel" into his secure container.

The second container was a drawer. Zhang Yang reached in, and another golden light flashed.

"Gold, Nutritious Porridge Can, value 59704."

"Blue, Hunting Matches, value 10960."

Another little gold item.

The corners of Zhang Yang's mouth widened even further.

Moreover, with only two containers yielding two gold items, such a drop rate made it hard for him not to overthink it.

This keycard room—is the drop rate really that rigged?

The final container was a safe located inside a compartment.

Zhang Yang reached out to interact, five "√" symbols filled the empty spaces, and the search interface popped up.

1*1, 1*2, two items were scanned in succession.

"Ding!"

"Red, Premium Peace Apple, value 128,888."

"Ah!"

Zhang Yang's eyes went wide.

Before he could even react, the 1*2 shadow also flashed with a red light.

"Red, Olivia Champagne, value 340,710."

"Ah!!!"

For the first time, Zhang Yang hesitated while licking the safe.

In a normal-tier map, the large safe in the card room had yielded two small reds in a row.

Was the drop rate for the first game on a new account really this heaven-defying?

Or was there something special about the drop rates of card rooms here?

Zhang Yang wondered.

By now, Zhang Yang's nine-slot secure container was already full.

It contained one slot of room cards, one slot of pocket watches, three single-slot small golds, two slots of maps, and two single-slot purples worth over 10k each.

To maximize value, Zhang Yang should have moved the two-slot gold map and one of the single-slot purple Collector items out of the secure container.

Because the gold map took up 1*2 slots but was only worth 10,759, it was the kind of item that took up space even in a backpack.

However, Zhang Yang kept suspecting that this thing must have some significance.

Therefore, Zhang Yang didn't move it. Instead, he placed the two single-slot purple Collector items and the lowest-value gold Collector item, Nutritious Porridge Can, into his backpack to make room for the Premium Peace Apple and the Olivia Champagne.

Zhang Yang placed the Premium Peace Apple and Olivia Champagne into the secure container, and once they were safely tucked away, their information popped up.

"Red, Premium Peace Apple"

"Value: 128,888"

"Household Item"

"0.6KG, 1*1 slot"

"A special apple prepared by the people of Douluo Continent to pray for peace. Eating it might bring good luck."

"Red Collector special effect: An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Consuming it will slightly improve the player's physical fitness."

"Note: There is no limit to the number of this Collector item that can be consumed; the item will disappear after consumption."

"Red, Olivia Champagne"

"Value: 340,710"

"Household Item"

"0.8KG, 1*2 slots"

"A sparkling wine produced in the Heaven Dou Empire, famous for its unique taste and bubbles, often used to celebrate important occasions and festivals."

"Red Collector special effect: Alcohol will blur the enemy's consciousness. In urban maps, enemies have a chance to enter a drunken state."

Seeing the special effects of these two red Collector items, Zhang Yang rubbed his chin.

The effects of these two red Collector items could be considered quite excellent.

The Premium Peace Apple went without saying; improving Zhang Yang's physical fitness was equivalent to increasing the limit of the spirit ring age he could absorb.

As for the special effect of the champagne alone.

It was foreseeable that once his level was higher, the bots in the map would inevitably no longer be ordinary people who only had martial spirits but no spirit power.

This was the same logic as bots in Puba wearing Tier 2 armor, or bots in Top Secret Aerospace wearing Tier 4 armor.

By then, no matter how strong the M14 was, it would take some effort to take them down.

But if they were in a drunken state, that would save Zhang Yang some trouble.

To give a sharp critique, the Premium Peace Apple could be rated as "busted," and as for the champagne, it was definitely for the "upper-class."

Additionally, [Collector] progress +2.