In Shell Town, Dark Shadow was someone everyone looked up to!
While the vast majority of players had yet to even reach level 3...
Dark Shadow had already reached level 7!
If this had been an ordinary online game, people would probably have offered a few words of praise and marveled at his progress.
But now...
The Godforsaken Game was a supernatural game tied to their lifespans!
How could they not feel envy and jealousy?
Under countless envious gazes, Qin Feng returned to Shell Town. First, he activated the Portal in the basement beneath the square, earning 1 reputation point.
Then he returned to the square and opened his stall again!
Quite a few other players had been running stalls around the broken flower bed.
But when they saw Qin Feng appear, they all gathered around him.
"The big shot's finally here! I've saved up a hundred and fifty days of lifespan, just waiting for him to sell something!"
"Last time he showed up, he sold an Ice Spike skill book that sent Gray Rose straight to second place on the level rankings. That was insane!"
"Obviously! You think anything he sells would be ordinary?"
Quite a few people gathered around in anticipation.
Everyone knew that many of the items Qin Feng sold had quality grades!
At this stage, many players could farm ordinary monsters, but they couldn't kill bosses.
They could accumulate lifespan and farm monsters for poor-quality equipment and a small amount of ordinary equipment, but they had no way to obtain high-grade equipment or skill books...
Buying from Qin Feng was currently their only option.
After all, even if they encountered a boss, they couldn't beat it!
Any useful equipment or skill books Qin Feng offered were guaranteed to sell out.
For example, the Silver Grade warrior skill book, War Cry, dropped by the Cursed One, sold immediately for 300 days of lifespan...
That was certainly no small price.
A single skill book had earned him nearly a year's worth of lifespan!
Many other warriors wanted to buy War Cry too, but they couldn't afford it. They could only watch enviously as a level 4 warrior bought the skill book...
"300 days of lifespan for one skill book. Is it worth it?"
"Living longer without money is just torture. You might as well trade your lifespan for money..."
"That's why I say you're shortsighted. That skill book will double his monster-farming efficiency. What's a mere 300 days of lifespan compared to that?"
"Exactly! If you're strong enough, never mind 300 days-even immortality isn't impossible!"
Besides that skill book, there were also some lower-grade equipment pieces and skill books.
Poor quality, ordinary, Bronze Tier-he had them all.
Items with better attributes commanded higher prices. Footwear that increased movement speed and skill books with crowd-control or speed-boosting effects, for example, could sell for 50-80 days of lifespan.
The rest were cheaper, going for just 20-40 days.
Besides selling items, Qin Feng had also posted a notice at his stall saying he wanted to buy items such as Storage Backpacks...
Before long...
A beautiful young woman with a slender figure approached Qin Feng gracefully, wearing black mage robes with a staff hanging at her waist.
She was the young Prophet from Wang Meng's team, a hidden-class player who went by Black Plum Big Li!
Prophet was a mage-type class and could wear mage equipment.
Thanks to their class passive, Prophets were considerably stronger than ordinary mages, especially when it came to damage.
"Hey, big shot! I've got what you need."
The pretty young woman stepped up beside Qin Feng.
Her eyes sparkled as she extended a small, fair hand, showing Qin Feng a ring.
Qin Feng took a look:
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[Spatial Ring: Contains 12 storage slots. Does not occupy a ring or backpack equipment slot.]
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Qin Feng was a little surprised to see it.
Each player could carry at most three Storage Backpacks. In other words, three backpacks were the limit.
But a Spatial Ring was a special storage item that didn't occupy a backpack slot.
In other words, it provided extra storage space!
Any monster could potentially drop one, but the drop rate was extremely low.
In his previous life, a Spatial Ring could sell for at least ten years of tradable lifespan. That was... more than 3,650 days!
So Qin Feng asked, "How much do you want for it?"
Black Plum Big Li said mysteriously, "I don't want your lifespan... I just want to add you as a friend. Also, I'd like you to join our team and help us kill a boss."
After a moment's thought, Qin Feng sent her a friend request.
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[Player 'Black Plum Big Li' has accepted your friend request!] [Player 'Black Plum Big Li' has sent you a private message!]
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Qin Feng opened the private chat interface.
After chatting privately with her for a while...
He soon learned what had happened.
Wang Meng had logged off and hadn't returned yet. Bored, the pretty young woman had wandered around farming monsters, only to discover a Gold Tier boss!
She certainly couldn't fight it herself.
Originally, she had planned to wait until all her teammates were online before going together.
But on second thought, even with her whole team, they probably couldn't beat a Gold Tier boss...
The Bronze Grade Sprinter from earlier had already left a deep impression on her!
And now she happened to run into Qin Feng.
So she decided to get acquainted with him and use the Spatial Ring in exchange for his help in one fight.
Qin Feng thought for a moment, then asked, "What's that Gold Tier boss called?"
Black Plum Big Li shook her head. "I was too far away to see clearly. But its Gold Tier health bar was unmistakable. It was aboard a ship in the swamp, and it looked all battered and broken..."
A ship?
Qin Feng nodded, an idea forming in his mind.
He sent her a private message. "I can help you fight it. If the boss drops equipment or skill books you can use, you can have them. Everything else goes to me. How does that sound?"
The pretty young woman was a little surprised. "Huh? What about Captain Wang Meng and the others?"
Her plan had been for Qin Feng to join her team, defeat the boss, and let everyone take whatever drops suited them.
But that would be far too unfair to Qin Feng.
Qin Feng shook his head. "Your team has every class covered. If nothing for my assassin class drops, wouldn't I just be working for free?"
Black Plum Big Li thought about it. He had a point.
A Gold Tier boss certainly wouldn't be easy to deal with.
So she settled for the next best thing and continued, "Then let's do it your way. But I have one request. If equipment for Captain Wang Meng and the others drops, could you sell it to us at a small discount?"
Qin Feng nodded. "No problem."
The pretty young woman nodded. "Okay, then we'll set off once the captain and the others log in~"
Seeing that most of his items had sold, Qin Feng shook his head. "No need to wait. Just take me there. I can kill it alone."
At those words, Black Plum Big Li froze for a moment. "Huh?"
She was stunned.
Kill a Gold Tier boss... alone?
Wasn't he getting way too full of himself?
In her eyes, Qin Feng might level up quickly, deal high damage, and appear and vanish like a ghost, but the demon bosses in the Godforsaken Game were incredibly strong too!
Especially a Gold Tier boss—they had no idea what skills it had!
Yet this big shot was actually so certain he could solo it...
Wasn't that going a bit too far?!
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