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Chapter 530 Waist Drum
I opened my eyes and found myself back in my familiar room.

"It's already daytime."

Gray Rain glanced at the sunlight outside the window. Unlike scripted missions where you instantly return to the real world, the Tremor Mission took place in the actual killing field, where the flow of time was consistent with reality.

"I'm going to rest now. Call me if you need anything."

She deftly took several liters of chilled drinks and snacks from the refrigerator, and as soon as she picked up her phone, she exclaimed, "Ahhh?!"

"What's wrong?"

Li Sheng, who was sorting out the results of the task, turned his head and saw that Hui Yu's hand holding the phone was trembling. She tried to remain calm and said, "It's nothing."

"Why are you sweating if nothing's wrong?"

Li Sheng narrowed his eyes suspiciously, then decisively used his familiar swap to catch the phone from Hui Yu's hand. He picked it up and took a look.
The screen displayed several interfaces: cryptocurrency liquidation, CS item crash, gold temporary investment stuck at the top, and betting that BLG team wouldn't be eliminated in the top 16 of League of Legends S15.

Li Sheng almost fainted from anger. "You didn't even understand junior high school math, how did you get into investing? No, where did you get the money to invest?"

"It's just pocket money. After buying a computer, figurines, games, and things like that, there's still some left."

Knowing he was in the wrong, Gray Rain lowered his head and tapped his index fingers together. One point of game currency could be exchanged for 10,000 yuan in the real world, and the exchange rate would be even higher if he exchanged it with a merchant on the black market.

A few dozen or a few hundred game coins. That's really pocket money.

Li Sheng rolled his eyes. "You're only one year old and you already dare to invest. If you keep going like this, you'll be doing quantitative trading in the A-share market at two, leveraging to speculate on cryptocurrencies at four, and by eight you'll be a high-flyer or a Shonen Jump pilot. What if you knock down the flowers and plants?"

The aerial acrobat seems to be immune to falls and is an unkillable nano-metal robot. After being enhanced by the Silver Wing Light Path, it can swim in magma with ease and will not melt into molten steel like the T800.

Huiyu retorted stubbornly, "I've seen short videos saying, 'If you don't manage your money, your money won't manage you.' No kid cries every day, and no guy keeps losing. In the future, when you're drinking Moutai and driving a Hermba, you'll thank yourself for having the courage right now."

Besides, this inventory overflow was due to the Tremor Mission; we were constantly in the killing field and didn't have time to leave the warehouse."

"I dare say that you'll definitely buy health supplements when you get old if you watch short videos."

Li Sheng laughed in exasperation, "Luckily it's just pocket money. If the position were any higher and we were about to be liquidated, would you be asking me to elbow the NYSE, NASDAQ, and US Stock Exchange at lightning speed?"

Gray Rain immediately changed his tune, "111, really? I'll short it right now."

"??? You little brat, you've got too much of a nerve. I'll show you what's what."

Li Sheng knew the saying, "A sapling won't grow straight if it's not pruned, and a person will become unruly if not disciplined," so he immediately placed the ash on his knees and began to beat his buttocks vigorously, like beating an Ansai waist drum.
To prevent the dust from turning off the pain sensors, they also wore a pair of stun gloves.

Only after Huiyu begged for mercy did he finally put her down, panting. He made up his mind not to give Huiyu pocket money anymore, but to get her a fixed-amount consumption card for the neighborhood, so he could check the bill himself at the end of the month.

After scolding Huiyu and sending her to do her homework, Li Sheng finally had time to look at the task log.

[Overall player performance: S+, game coins and experience points increased to 160%]

[Rewards being processed]

Although this mission was a three-in-one event, in retrospect, the path to victory wasn't as strictly restricted.

First, there's the ice axe carried by the Fungus King and his crew. The quest provides one, and Will, the astronaut from Dreamland, has another. Both can chisel through the dome, but having fewer ice axes requires more high-pressure gas redundancy. Second, there's the four-dimensional cube carried by Wanli Fengdao and Bartmores. The cube's known function is to generate a dissection table, instantly killing the Alpha Python.
If we don't rely on the box, but instead capture the small python parasitizing the priest in the Land of Dreams and pin it to the dissection table in the castle, we should, maybe, possibly be able to kill it instantly.

Alternatively, they could betray Alpha and place him on a mechanical platform to feed the Alpha Python, helping Alpha evolve. To some extent, this could also be considered completing the mission and installing the "Annihilation Device".

Annihilating the remaining personality also counts as annihilation, right?

There are many ways to complete this ending, but helping Will regenerate the mechanical civilization and fulfill Sentinel Prime's last wish is probably the most difficult and has the highest success rate. The rewards are naturally the most generous as well.

[Task Reward 1: 4000 Experience Points]

[Task Reward 2: 5000 Game Coins]

With a 1.6x multiplier, this "Reset to Zero" event provided Li Sheng with 6400 experience points and 8000 game coins.

From its original level 24, with 72 experience points and 2400 experience points, it leveled up twice.
Upgraded to Lv26, 1572/2600.

Additionally, the following trait was activated: [Abandon Divine Authority: -1 Charisma, +3 Intelligence]

The scene that matches his traits is Li Sheng standing in the center of the town, denying that he is the god and prophet of the new mechanical civilization, and refusing to let the mechanical life forms worship and submit to him.

Li Sheng doesn't follow the charisma route, so a mere -1 charisma has no effect on her. She happily adds the trait, "Not believing in religion reduces charisma and increases intelligence; materialism is truly not deceiving me."

Ignoring the fact that idealism in the killing field is also true in a certain sense, the mission rewards 3 and 4 are random items and random skill scrolls, respectively. Given the difficulty and tremor attributes of this [Zero Reset], the minimum guarantee is perfect quality or higher.

Li Sheng didn't rush to open the box, but instead looked at the last two items.

[Task Reward 5: VIP Trial Card for the Mall*1]

[Task Reward 6: 5 Free Attribute Points]

The value of 5 free attribute points goes without saying; the higher the level of a transcendent being, the slower the leveling process. Even a single attribute point can bring a significant boost.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Li Sheng will likely allocate all his attribute points to Intelligence and Perception.

The VIP trial card for the mall is even better. And because Li Sheng's level has increased, after using it this time, all twenty slots in the mall (originally fifteen) will be refreshed with discounted items of perfect quality or higher.
The discounts are comparable to national subsidies, the Double Eleven shopping festival, and Pinduoduo's billions in subsidies.

Even if they can't use them themselves, they can still make a fortune by listing them on the auction house—epic items are never hard to sell; the big guilds would rather pay a premium to buy them than let them fall into the hands of their competitors.

Moreover, an epic item is enough for extraordinary individuals below level 35 to build a power system specifically for it.

"Let me bathe and burn incense first."

Li Sheng went into the bathroom, took a thorough shower, lit aromatherapy, donned a sexy Taoist robe, wore a headscarf, a cross around his neck, Buddhist prayer beads in his left hand, a bundle of spaghetti in his right, and chanted a prayer from the Mechanical God Cult, his feet moving in the Eight Trigrams Step.
"Where there's a will, there's a way! Open it for me!"

He shouted, and the black VIP trial card in his hand vanished into thin air, while the player panel's shop section was completely refreshed.

Looking around, there are fifteen perfect squares, four epic squares, and one legendary square.

(End of this chapter)