Buddhist player

Although Bai Chen had used his talent, [Retrospection], several times, his understanding of it was still limited.

According to his current understanding, this talent can be mainly divided into three aspects. The first is containment, which allows him to contain disasters for his own use, such as the "Hand of the Prison Painting". However, he is still not clear about the prerequisites for achieving the concept of containment.

Secondly, there is picking up.

With this talent, he can pick up the talents of deceased players and use them for his own purposes... provided that the other player already possesses the talent.

As for whether other things besides talents, such as attribute points or skills, can be picked up, that remains to be verified.

Thirdly, there are cards.

Through the flat world, he can transform everything into easily contained cards, but there are certain limitations.

Strictly speaking, the latter two abilities are derivatives of the first ability, like branches extending from a large, thriving tree.

"A system built upon this foundation... perhaps a 'Collector' who specializes in collecting and manipulating disasters, or a 'Predator' possessing a myriad of talents?"

With his hands behind his head and his feet on the table, Bai Chen, reclining in his chair, began to ponder aimlessly.

His talent is extremely dependent on development, but once he successfully develops, he will undoubtedly become a nightmare for everyone.

"Hmm? Is it time?"

As an alarm clock rang, Bai Chen first glanced at the already brightening sky outside, then raised his hand and summoned the Card Collection Book.

Although the [Gray Seal] is displayed as the lowest-level gray card in the card book and there is no space to read or analyze it, the [Key of the Mechanized Guardian] is different. After he tried to put it into the card book, the countdown displayed on the card book was eight hours.

Right now, eight hours is just right.

However, when Bai Chen opened the card collection book, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

He had thought that the [Key of the Mech Guard] would undergo a quality leap like the previous [Mirror Severed Hand]. He didn't expect it to become legendary again, but he could still hope for it to become elite or perfect.

To his surprise, after eight hours of reading and analysis, the [Key of the Mech Guard] was still the lowest-level gray card, with little change in its description, except that it was now marked as having no value.

However, correspondingly, a brand new green card appeared out of nowhere next to the [Key of the Mechanized Guard].

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[Card Name: Lingering in the Hallway]

Category: Mirror Domain

[Level: Green]

[Effect: In a fixed setting like a hallway, create a spatial passage leading to a fixed alternate dimension. The puzzle rules for finding the way home must be set by the user.]

[Restriction: Only applicable to hallway environments.]

[Activation Cost: 3000 Game Coins/Minute]

[Note: An infinite sense of being lost, a finite anchor.]

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"Is this... a new disaster?"

Bai Chen was stunned as he looked at the card, which depicted an old stairwell stretching endlessly into the darkness.

It is obvious that this is the disaster that brought the host group and the dozen or so people who had previously gone missing to that other world.

...But when did I complete the containment?

"Is it the contamination that the mech guard carried with him...?"

As if he had thought of something, Bai Chen's eyes flickered slightly.

Although we don't know exactly what this "contamination" refers to, something that can turn a legendary quality item into that grotesque state can't be anything good.

This disaster, known as the "Wandering Corridor," may have been attached to the "Key of the Mechanical Guard" in the form of pollution... or perhaps the disaster itself is a manifestation of pollution.

His talent, [Retrospection], inherently possesses the ability to contain these disasters. After being fully analyzed by the card collection book, it naturally contained this disaster as well.

If he hadn't obtained this from the Suqun and hadn't happened to possess this talent, this disaster might have erupted again at some point. However, this time it probably wouldn't have been about pulling people from here to another world, but rather about pulling things from that other world to this world...

Thinking of this, Bai Chen felt a slight toothache.

"As expected, you can't just take things randomly, especially things from that strange and awful world..."

Shaking his head, Bai Chen put away the card collection book.

Although he was eager to experiment and explore the world on the moon with human faces that Su Qun had mentioned, the activation cost was too high; he couldn't afford the 3000 game coins per minute.

...In the end, he was still poor.

He thought he would become rich overnight after seeing Yin Hongxiao take out that pile of gold bricks, but unexpectedly, the money he owed only increased over time...

"Oh right, I almost forgot."

Suddenly remembering something, Bai Chen slapped his forehead.

Yuan Qing seemed to have mentioned having something to discuss with him before, but because of Su Qun's matter, he completely forgot about him. If he hadn't suddenly remembered that he still owed a lot of money, he really wouldn't have thought of him for a while.

However, just as Bai Chen was about to get up and head towards the City of Players, he suddenly sat down again.

"...Never mind, what's done is done, let's have breakfast first."

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"Finally remembered me?"

Looking up at him, Yuan Qing, sitting on the sofa, had a blank expression.

"Uh...you didn't sit here all night, did you?"

Bai Chen was slightly taken aback when he saw the obvious dark circles under the girl's eyes.

"I'm out of money. Once I leave here, I don't have the teleportation fee to teleport back in."

Although the girl's expression remained unchanged, for some reason, Bai Chen could vaguely detect a hint of gritted teeth in her words.

"Why don't you just message me privately? After all, we've already added each other... uh..."

Halfway through his sentence, Bai Chen suddenly realized something.

Just like the exorbitant teleportation fee of 100 game coins charged every time someone teleports to the Player City if they don't have a place to stay, private chat between players also costs money. One game coin per word, no bargaining, even punctuation marks are charged. It's simply outrageous.

Given Yuan Qing's current penniless state, returning to the real world would be incredibly difficult...

"Hey, have you had breakfast yet? I have some steamed buns here."

Bai Chen coughed lightly and casually took out a bag of steamed buns from his pocket and handed it over.

"Don't worry, they're freshly bought and still warm, a powder bun and a meat bun."

Yuan Qing: "………"