"But the boss needs some time to advance."
"No one can kill that boss right now anyway, so I'll give it some time to advance..."
"I'll head back and deal with my stuff first."
Qin Feng glanced at his inventory.
He was now halfway through level 3, and his inventory's mere ten slots were already full.
They were all equipment and skill books that didn't belong to his class.
These things were useless to Qin Feng. His best option was to exchange them for [tradable lifespan].
But to the other players in Shell Town, they were valuable items that could greatly boost their strength.
Take the mage skill book "Ice Spike," for example.
Once learned, the skill could slow a target on hit and even had a chance to freeze it... Of course, bosses had high resistance to crowd control, making them difficult to lock down.
But against ordinary monsters, it was an absolute powerhouse.
On his way back to Shell Town, Qin Feng saw plenty of people being chased down and killed by Crawlers...
His expression never changed.
This sort of thing was only common in the game's early days.
Before long, people would realize that all they needed to handle this situation was to put points into agility.
High agility meant greater speed, so they wouldn't get chased down and killed, no matter how many Crawlers came at them.
And if the Crawlers tried to flee, they could use that speed to chase them down and kill them!
That was why Qin Feng invested in agility.
When Qin Feng approached Shell Town's safe zone, he finally dropped his stealth.
However...
He opened the system panel and enabled the "Face Concealment" feature.
In the Godforsaken Game, players looked exactly as they did in real life, with no way to alter their appearance.
I'm still an ordinary person in reality. I haven't extracted any abilities yet.
I can't expose my identity.
Qin Feng understood this very well.
If his identity were exposed, his current position as Shell Town's top player would surely bring trouble to his doorstep-and might even get him killed!
Things like that...
He had seen plenty of them in his previous life.
After he enabled "Face Concealment," an impenetrable black veil appeared over his face.
He wore his starter black robe, brown Sprinter Hide Leggings on his legs, and Rottenhide Boots on his feet. Beneath the black veil, only his cold eyes remained visible!
In Shell Town, the players, all of whom came from River-Sea City, wore worried expressions.
They wanted to reach level 3 and return to reality.
But now they couldn't even kill a single Crawler. Whenever they encountered any, there was a whole pack. How were they supposed to fight?
So they all crowded into Shell Town, endlessly discussing possible solutions.
When Qin Feng returned.
His cold appearance immediately drew the attention of the surrounding players.
His leggings, boots, and the Corroded Dagger in his hand were clearly equipment dropped by monsters outside town.
The dagger and leggings in particular gave off a faint bronze glow.
They were clearly Bronze Grade equipment!
"Who's this guy? Why's he showing off so much?"
"He's got two pieces of bronze equipment. Of course he's showing off."
"Damn, could this be Dark Shadow, the guy at the top of the rankings?"
"Holy shit, I think it really is him! Boss, someone's offering ten million RMB for you to help them level!"
"Boss, I don't need you to carry me. I'll give you a hundred thousand just to tell me how you solo monsters..."
"Boohoo, boss, I've already died four times. If you'll carry me, I'll do anything you want. I'm still a virgin..."
In an instant, quite a few people crowded around him.
Some wanted Qin Feng to help them level, while others asked how he managed to solo monsters.
Unfortunately for them, Qin Feng ignored them all.
He walked straight toward the town's central square, then sat beside a dilapidated flower bed.
He opened the stall feature and put up his ten pieces of equipment and skill books.
Shop name: [Equipment and skill clearance sale. Open for ten minutes only. Buy now!]
The town was packed now.
Qin Feng figured ten minutes would be about enough.
The moment his stall opened, it drew everyone's attention!
"It's him! It's really Dark Shadow!"
"Awesome! He's actually selling equipment, and there are even two pieces of bronze equipment!"
"Did he kill a Bronze Grade boss? I heard that Bronze Grade Cursed One killed Blondie and his group of over thirty people and sent them all back here!"
"Yeah, can anyone really kill a bronze boss that strong at this stage?"
Players from all over immediately gathered around.
Soon, a woman in gray mage robes approached with her teammates.
She looked Qin Feng over with mild curiosity.
"How much for this Ice Spike?"
The gray-robed woman stepped up, took a look, and immediately pursed her lips as she asked.
Like Qin Feng, she had enabled Face Concealment.
But Qin Feng recognized her.
This woman was probably Gray Rose, currently eleventh on Shell Town's rankings.
She was likely wearing a shabby mage robe dropped by an ordinary monster. It suited her alias quite well...
Qin Feng glanced at her and said, "One hundred days of tradable lifespan."
Gray Rose's delicate brows furrowed slightly. "One hundred days? That's too much. I can't afford it. Could you lower the price?"
Qin Feng shook his head, not bothering to speak.
The common-grade skill "Ice Spike" could greatly improve a magic user's early-game monster farming speed. One hundred days was already very cheap.
Gray Rose then asked, "Can I pay cash?"
Qin Feng said flatly, "If you have plenty of cash, buy lifespan from other people first, then trade with me. I can hold it for you as long as nobody offers a higher price."
Gray Rose bit her lip lightly. "Give me a moment."
She took her teammates aside and chatted in the party channel for a while...
Half a minute later.
Gray Rose returned to Qin Feng. "All right. One hundred days of lifespan. Let's trade."
By this point, Qin Feng had farmed a total of 268 days of lifespan.
As for Gray Rose, she had at least reached level 2 and led her party to kill thirty or forty Crawlers.
However, the tradable lifespan dropped by those Crawlers had been divided equally between her and her teammates...
Now, Gray Rose had pooled her entire party's tradable lifespan to buy "Ice Spike" so they could progress faster.
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[You sold "Ice Spike (skill book)" and gained 100 days of tradable lifespan!] [Tradable lifespan: 268 days → 368 days!]
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Just as the trade finished, several people roughly pushed through the crowd and came up to Qin Feng.
Leading them was none other than the ponytailed girl in a black short-sleeved top-Sister Pear, whose alias was "Pear"!
The girl had clearly torn off part of the sleeves of the starter black robe the system gave her, turning it into a short-sleeved outfit that looked breezy and lively...
"Dark Shadow?"
The young heiress looked down at Qin Feng, who was seated beside the flower bed, and said imperiously, "I'll give you a chance. Just get me to level 3. Once we're back in reality, I'll give you ten million RMB. My dad is the chairman of Great River Industries, so don't worry about whether I can pay!"
Her words sent an uproar through the crowd.
Ten million!
Just for getting her to level 3!
Everyone around them was stunned!
"Isn't that an amazing deal?"
"For someone like Dark Shadow, getting another person to level 3 must be easy!"
"Exactly. That's ten million for practically no effort..."
But what happened next took everyone by surprise.
Sitting beside the flower bed, Qin Feng glanced at the short-sleeved girl without the slightest change in his expression. "I refuse."
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