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Chapter 489: Compromise for Game Mechanics

Because his opponent was an architect, Feng Xue had no intention of holding back. He used all his strength and punched him.

After the physical transformation and the enhancement of the Philosopher's Stone, Feng Xue is now a completely different person. This punch is not fast, but it seems to be wrapped in the might of heaven, like a meteorite falling from the sky, seemingly slow, but it is unavoidable!

Seeing the fist approaching, the architect, who was no longer able to dodge, suddenly felt his anger drop to the freezing point. He raised his arms and kicked forward, as if he was going to use the legendary force-dissipating technique, but unfortunately...

"boom!"

After being hit by the punch, he had no time to jump back and his whole body turned into a bloody mist.

[Operation ends, perfect tactics]

[Node settlement: Fantasy +3, Exposure +4]

[Your terrifying force of killing a top assassin with one punch has shocked the entire city's underworld. Under your pressure, they provided you with information on channels for hiring assassins, and you obtained [Secrets of the Black Market].]

[No drops in this exploration. ]

……

"Oh, another secret location. And if it's a black market, it should be the same as the one we opened before, the kind that can accept bounties..."

Feng Xue muttered to himself that he was used to the fact that there were no drops. Or rather, five collections were found in seven explorations (with three breaks), which was a high drop rate in itself.

But the exposure point has risen to 9 again, so I’ll take a break first.

Exposure - 9 (10)

"Not bad, not bad, as long as it returns to zero!" Feng Xue looked at the exposure value that had returned to zero. He was too lazy to care whether there was any overflow and began to think about the next exploration.

In fact, at this time, you can directly use the secret board to open a black market, and then obtain intelligence through the black market. However, with the previous lessons, Feng Xue feels that buying and gambling on intelligence in the black market will greatly increase the risk of being exposed, and may even lead to an ambush in the plot. Moreover, he now has two sets of "time + place" combinations. As long as he gets two more targets, he can form a group directly.

In this case, if you open a new map but the target is not there, you may lose more than one or two actions if you go back to find the location.

Besides, there are still a few maps of the beach that have not been visited yet, so it doesn’t hurt to give it a try.

"Then run twice to see if you can get the target board. If you can, use the black market to open the second dangerous road and evil enemy. If you have enough action, you can take tasks to get collections. If you don't get it after two attempts, you will have some left. Then you can lock the target board with time and location, and then unlock the black market. Then you can go directly to the octagonal cage. Anyway, the last target will be exposed whether it is opened or not."

With a plan in mind, Feng Xue immediately turned the roulette wheel -

【Afternoon·Reef·Secret Investigation】

[After shocking the gangs in the whole city, you have become the undisputed king of the underground. You only need to set the rules, and your subordinates will enforce the rules. You will hide the task of gathering intelligence among many gang behaviors. You come to the beach again with nothing to do. You want to relax, but you find a drifting bottle in the crack of the stone. There seems to be a rolled-up paper in the transparent bottle. You decide -] [1. This is really strange. Open it and see what is written.]

[Second, this place is not a place where few people go, there must be a trick. ]

Looking at this option, Feng Xue didn't hesitate and clicked one directly. Just kidding, he just finished the transformation, super brave, okay?
However, to his surprise, this time there was no plot cg or animation, but a very retro style of directly popping up the settlement -

[You opened the drifting bottle and took out the contents. What you never expected was that the secret you had been pursuing for so long actually found a clue in this drifting bottle. Exposure +2, you obtained [Secret·Character].]

"Fuck! It actually happened?" Feng Xue didn't have much hope at first, but who would have thought that the less hope he had, the more likely it was to happen.

but……

“Isn’t this a bit deliberate?”

Feng Xue frowned. What he meant by deliberately was not the situation where the target just happened to fall out, but the situation where the animation was deliberately not turned on.

Without thinking too much, he was sure that the drifting bottle must contain incredible information, and it might even be so important that if he read it, he could directly package the Shadow City without running the map. In order to avoid this kind of "brute force clearance", the game mechanism deliberately hid the content on the note. He even suspected that this just right secret board was simply a compensation thrown by the gold finger, which probably meant "this board is given to you, just pretend you don't know"?
But even so, he had nothing to say. Glancing at the exposure value of only 2 points, Feng Xue directly clicked on the secret board -

【Evening】+【Black Market】+【Character】

[Dangerous road and dangerous enemies]!
"Oh, is this where the black market is? It seems a bit far from the fishing port..."

Feng Xue looked at the unfolded black market map, which looked similar to the structure of Jingbin City, consisting of intelligence dealers (secrets for secrets), anonymous ghost markets (collections for secrets), reward lists (tasks for collections), weapons dealers (collections for collections) and desperate gambles (tasks for secrets).

However, what really caught his attention was that this time the dangerous enemy was not opened in a separate selection box, but directly fell on the position of [Weapons Merchant].

"Interesting, is this hinting that the city's core secrets are related to weapons?"

Feng Xue didn't think much about it and directly clicked on the node——

[You combined the information you got from the drifting bottle with the news you got these days and found out that the biggest black market merchant in the city was actually an ordinary sailor in distress a few years ago. In just a few years, he grew from a worthless sailor to the biggest black market merchant. You are sure that he has the information you need.]

The words flowed and the pictures unfolded, which made Feng Xue more concerned about the details of the information in the bottle. However, after searching his pockets and finding that he did not have any paper with him, Feng Xue could only give up. At this time, in this even somewhat gorgeous room, a middle-aged man with a cigar in his mouth and the aura of a gangster boss said gloomily:

"I know you're a good fighter, but these are not things you should know. Leave now. I will maintain the integrity of a black marketeer, and no one will know what you asked me."

"You know this is impossible." Feng Xue did not speak, but the voice flowed out of his mouth spontaneously. The black market businessman in front of him frowned and put the cigar aside like a big boss. Immediately, more than ten murderous auras burst out from different directions.

However, since he already knew that Feng Xue was a dangerous and formidable enemy, how could he possibly let his guard down?

【Light Pattern Fluctuation·Emperor】!
(End of this chapter)