“Of course!”
Chu Fu immediately looked toward his carrying pole.
The very first item in the goods made her heart race.
[Resurrection Scroll: Price 100 Gold Coins.]
Chu Fu remained unmoved.
She continued browsing.
[Rosemary Essential Oil: After use, transforms you into the opposite gender, with a small chance of becoming a hermaphrodite. Price: 1 Gold Coin.]
[Big Big Bubble Gum: Expands continuously when chewed, increasing both defense and attack power for 10 minutes. Price: 10 Gold Coins.]
[Eraser: Erases a segment of the target’s memory. Price: 50 Gold Coins.]
This was truly bizarre.
But all these items had unique functions.
Especially the Eraser.
Chu Feng had used one before.
He had once stolen a divine-tier piece of equipment from a deity’s follower and then erased the memory from that follower’s mind, leaving them completely unaware that they had lost a divine-level item.
Bubble Gum could make you bigger, which was incredibly effective when facing oversized monsters.
Otherwise, a monster’s attacks would come with a crushing effect, dealing damage that was far too overpowered.
However, none of these were Chu Fu’s goal.
She locked her sights on a treasure chest.
[Wishing Chest: Can be opened to obtain the item you desire. Price: 1 Gold Coin each.]
Chu Fu immediately bought 40 of them!
Those 40 were paid for with the money in her own bag. As for why she had asked Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao for money, it was because the mysterious merchant, Tianheng, only appeared when a player obtained their first 100 Gold Coins.
If you wanted to activate the mysterious merchant, you could also piggyback off someone else’s encounter.
His items were truly wondrous.
Chu Fu took out a Wishing Chest and concentrated her mental energy.
“Experience card, experience card, experience card!”
Chu Fu opened the chest.
[Joyful Lollipop (Gold-grade item): Consuming it brings extreme happiness, lifts your mood, nullifies negative status effects, and cleanses curses.]
A gold-grade item—not a loss.
But this wasn’t what she wanted!
Chu Fu began murmuring again.
“Game experience card—one that lets you extract in-game abilities into the real world!”
[Piggy Bank (White-grade): Smashing it gives you 10 Copper Coins.]
It was “experience card,” not “extraction," and somehow it got tangled up with money.
And exchanging 1 Gold Coin for 10 Copper Coins? You’ve got to be kidding!
Chu Fu grit her teeth and started frantically clicking.
[You obtained: Broken Fishing Rod (Damaged-grade): The line is already snapped, the hook is missing, and it cannot fish.]
[You obtained: A Bundle of Twine (White-grade)]
[You obtained: Potion of Strength (Silver-grade): Strength +1.]
[You obtained: Tiramisu (White-grade Food): A delicious dessert that increases satiety upon consumption.]
[You obtained: Purple Poison Mushroom (Silver-grade Plant): Purple has a certain charm, so anyone who sees it will desperately want to eat it.]
Money was flowing like water.
But her pockets were full of junk.
Thankfully, a consolation prize appeared: this mushroom could actually mutate.
[Mutated Purple Poison Mushroom (Silver-grade):
Trait 1: Can lure monsters within 100 meters to continuously approach.
Trait 2: Each spore it releases also contains poison, capable of infecting enemies’ lungs. The mushroom can grow anywhere upon landing, with an extremely fast growth rate.]
“Could this be the legendary ‘Mesmerizing Mushroom’?”
Chu Fu immediately placed this mushroom into her Spiritual Plant Pouch. After harvesting a batch of watermelons, she planted it there.
Whenever she encountered mutated plants, she would first preserve their seeds. This mushroom spread via spores, and Chu Fu had little experience with that.
Fortunately, although the spores were invisible to the naked eye, they could be captured using mental energy. Soon, they propagated within her Spiritual Plant Pouch.
They had spent 10 Gold Coins and only got one Silver-grade item—an absolute loss.
But Chu Fu gritted her teeth and kept opening.
And she had to hurry up; otherwise, the mysterious merchant would leave in 10 minutes.
If these 40 Wishing Chests produced nothing good, Chu Fu planned to bet everything on the 80 Gold Coins she had left.
Thinking this, she closed her eyes, decided not to look at what she was opening, and frantically clicked in her mind while chanting “Experience card… experience card… experience card!”
Finally, the system emitted a cheerful notification.
[You obtained: New Version Experience Card.]
[New Version Experience Card: Grants priority experience of the game invasion version. Using this card allows you to extract your in-game character’s abilities into reality for 3 hours.]
She’d got it!
It took a full 39 chests to finally pull it out.
Chu Fu looked at the smile on Tianheng, the mysterious merchant, and felt like she was staring at a bastard who enjoyed messing with players.
Always giving you the good stuff at the very last second, creating a tidal wave of joy after a come-from-behind victory, tempting you to open a bit more.
Chu Fu wasn’t falling for it!
Card-pulling and chest-opening—nothing good ever came of them!
Chu Fu casually opened the last chest.
[A Little Poison Cloak (Rough-grade): Poison Attack +1. Special Trait: Can grow.]
Rough-grade was one level below White-grade, but one level above Damaged, because it was still usable.
But what did “Traject: Can grow” mean?
Chu Fu’s eyes went wide.
Had she stumbled onto a divine artifact?
Chu Fu immediately took out [A Little Poison Cloak] from her inventory.
It looked like a piece of rotten wood on the outside, inlaid with a small piece of turquoise. The most important thing was that the turquoise only had a faint hint of green at the very top, and its quality didn’t seem good at all.
[Growth Condition: Absorb a little bit of poison to advance to White-grade.]
“That’s far too outrageous, isn’t it?”
Chu Fu stared at the poison requirement.
But then, her expression suddenly paused.
Come to think of it, she currently had two poison-related items with her.
A Poison Vial.
And the Purple Poison Mushroom.
What’s more, the Purple Poison Mushroom could release spores, which contained poison. Even a single small mushroom could spew out 100,000 spores.
In an instant, Chu Fu’s expression grew brighter.
But now wasn’t the time to study the cloak.
Chu Fu went to find Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao and Suture Saint.
The two were still in town doing quests.
Since the servers hadn’t merged yet, the number of goblins outside was five times smaller. Everyone had decided not to hunt today, waiting only for midnight to arrive so they could start competing for B.O.S.S. Bosses and then dive into dungeons afterward.
“Jiao Jiao, here’s your money back. Saint, take this. Wait for Major Li’s message, and then extract the sew-corpse technique offline to help save the two soldiers.”
Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao saw the extraction card and immediately pressed for details.
“Where did you get this? Wow, I want one too!”
Chu Fu naturally planned to share her guide with the Thorn Guild. If they could be trusted, everyone could accumulate 100 Gold Coins, acquire this item, and get a full +1 to all stats—a fantastic deal.
Jiao Jiao hurriedly asked, “Besides the experience card, what other good stuff did you open?”
Chu Fu took out [A Little Poison Cloak].
“I’m not sure if this counts as good stuff. Mainly because its advancement condition is too harsh. I plan to head outside the city and test it.”
Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao looked thoughtful.
…
Inside Wangxi Manor.
Chu Feng stepped out of the gaming pod and headed to the kitchen.
In the kitchen, the nanny had already started simmering chicken soup.
It was meant to nourish Chu Fu properly.
“Great, I’ll go pick some grapes from the yard. Fufu loves them!”
Chu Feng said, leaving the kitchen.
At that moment, a ghostly figure trailed behind Chu Feng.
