The startled cry came from Lu Jinyan, the newbie player whose talent gave him an extremely low presence.
That cry instantly drew everyone's attention.
As a complete newcomer who had yet to awaken his personal ability, Lu Jinyan had actually drawn a legendary S-Rank Ability Blind Box from the vending machine without being able to reach hard pity!
This meant that once he completed his ability mutation, he would immediately possess two abilities, becoming one of the very few human players with dual abilities.
For any player, this was undoubtedly an enormous and rare advantage in the Nightmare Game, opening up countless possibilities for both clearing future games and surviving in the long term.
"Lu, your luck is just ridiculous." Zhou Shirong stood beside him, his voice carrying undisguised envy as well as heartfelt happiness. "How do you feel now?"
It would have been a lie to say he wasn't envious, but after partnering up for so long in this game, the two had developed a solid rapport and trust. They could be considered friends.
"I... I don't know how to describe it." Lu Jinyan opened his mouth in bewilderment, his expression still dazed as he struggled to take it all in. "I thought something like a capsule toy would roll out of the machine, but... the blind box seems to have gone straight into my body."
"But I can feel it just sitting there, like a box that hasn't been opened yet."
Lu Jinyan was relieved about that. After all, if the machine had actually dispensed a physical blind box or capsule, a newcomer like him would have had no way to protect such a precious extra ability, no matter how little presence he had.
He reached up and touched his chest, as though confirming that the power was