Zhou Qiaoling couldn't help but feel that something was a bit strange.
When she first started playing Naraka: Bladepoint, the moment equipment and items randomly dropped from the loot piles truly made her heart race.
Especially the moment the golden light flashed.
But after playing for a long time, she didn't feel much anymore.
The [Immortal Master's Secret Casket] looked exactly like a loot pile. Logically, she shouldn't feel any surprise.
Yet, she felt a constant urge that made her heart beat faster.
"What exactly is it? So mysterious..."
Zhou Qiaoling licked her lips. Her instinct for hoarding wealth seemed to be triggered as she closed the distance to the Immortal Master's Secret Casket in a few quick strides.
Following the system's prompt, she touched the casket with her palm, allowing her divine sense to enter it through her hand.
"Strange? My body can't move? And what are these black grids in front of me...?"
Zhou Qiaoling looked curiously at the scene before her, but quickly understood the intention behind this design.
You can't move when opening a container?
Because your divine sense is probing the container, and you can't multitask!
The items inside the container have to spin out one by one?
With low cultivation and limited divine sense, you have to scan them out bit by bit!
This search mechanism was actually Lu Ze's replica of Delta Force from his previous life.
Otherwise, following normal logic, if you could see all the items the moment you opened the container, the thrill of the "lottery draw" would be significantly reduced.
Furthermore, the reasoning was easily accepted by cultivators.
It made perfect sense for a low-realm cultivator to use their divine sense to explore the inside of a storage item!
Instead of everything bursting out all at once the moment it was opened, like a regular loot pile, the items popped out one by one under the exploration of the divine sense.
This loot-drop mode made Zhou Qiaoling's breathing grow heavy.
"A blue item, an unknown female cultivator's dudou? Well, well, well, Junior Brother Lu actually has this kind of taste... I definitely have to go to Senior Sister Li and expose him, hehehe!"
"A purple item, a Judge's Pen? Whoa, it's worth over twenty thousand, twice as much as the dudou!"
"Why is this one spinning so slowly..."
"Wow!"
The moment a golden halo lit up in Zhou Qiaoling's divine sense, she couldn't help but scream in surprise.
"A golden array design blueprint!"
This scream was naturally transmitted to Zhong Yi and Zhou Yue's ears through the party voice function.
"Junior Sister Zhou, what's wrong?"
Zhong Yi asked curiously.
"N-nothing!"
Zhou Qiaoling quickly shook her head, shoving the array design blueprint into her backpack, and then ran non-stop toward other containers in the scene.
"Something's not right!"
Zhou Yue was the first to notice something was amiss. He had just been practicing with his gun in the military camp tent, but he quickly put down his weapon.
How could he not know the greedy nature of his own sister?
"Old Zhong, hurry up! There's probably some treasure ahead. If we're late, there won't even be crumbs left!"
By the time the two of them trotted out of the tent and arrived at Zhou Qiaoling's location, they saw her standing in front of a large chest with a silly grin on her face.
"Hehe, golden... another golden one..."
Behind her, several containers were scattered around in a mess.
It was just that they were all open.
"I knew it..."
Zhou Yue gritted his teeth in anger.
Every single container in the entire area that could be opened had been stripped clean by Zhou Qiaoling.
Fortunately, when the tutorial guided them to this point, an [Immortal Master's Secret Casket] would fixedly spawn in front of each person for the players to familiarize themselves with the search process.
"Blue, blue... purple?"
Zhong Yi experienced the process of searching the container with his divine sense, and the corners of his mouth immediately curled up.
"I think I understand why Junior Sister Qiaoling is so happy... The probability of items appearing is likely completely random, so every item in every container is a gamble with unknown odds! Junior Brother Lu's design is simply genius!"
"Right, right, this illusion realm is simply too much fun!"
Zhou Qiaoling nodded, still wanting more, completely forgetting her words from not too long ago when she yelled that Lu Ze was out of ideas and that the illusion realm was extremely boring.
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Zhou Yue, who was standing to the side, was completely dumbfounded when he heard their conversation.
"Wait... isn't there only one item inside this Immortal Master's Secret Casket?"
"How could that be? Items aren't just categorized by type, they're also graded by color!"
Zhong Yi, looking a bit confused, took out the two items he had opened; one flashed with a blue light, and the other with a purple light.
"What!? There are other colors!??"
Zhou Yue, doubting his entire life, pulled out two green items from his backpack.
[Pitch-Black Face Towel (Green) x2: It is said to be a cloth used by a true disciple of a certain sect in ancient times to wash their face. It is incredibly black.]
After reading the text description clearly, Zhou Yue's face turned even blacker...
[When high-value items are found, they can be placed in the Reincarnation Seal. Even if the extraction fails, the items can be taken out of the battlefield.]
"Reincarnation Seal?"
Zhong Yi opened his backpack and sure enough, he saw a separate [Reincarnation Seal] slot at the very bottom, which contained 2 single-grid spaces.
"Both the backpack and the Reincarnation Seal are made up of grids... and items come in different grid sizes too? Interesting..."
Zhong Yi looked at the one-grid and two-grid items in his backpack, and many associations formed in his mind. He faintly seemed to understand the intention behind Lu Ze's setup, and a smile involuntarily crept onto his lips.
Beside him, Zhou Qiaoling was endlessly distressed: "What? Only two grids? I can't fit everything in at all..."
"..."
Zhou Yue looked at the only two one-grid items in his backpack, desperately wishing he could experience Zhou Qiaoling's distress.
After the crucial tutorials on gun usage, searching containers, and the safe box concluded, the beginner's guide entered an accelerated phase.
Once the simple skill instruction was finished, the three of them followed the system's guidance to the extraction point and engaged in combat with another cultivator.
With Zhou Yue present, the combat phase was not difficult at all, and they quickly slew the fully-armed bot.
"Hmph, a piece of cake!"
Zhou Yue finally regained his confidence on the battlefield and proudly walked over to the enemy's corpse.
A moment later, the corpse collapsed into a square box.
In the setting, this thing belonged to a type of soul casket magical treasure used to store the primordial spirit.
Of course, after experiencing Lu Ze's illusion realms one after another, the cultivators were no longer unfamiliar with the setting of turning into a box upon death, and rarely did anyone take it too seriously.
Zhou Yue opened the box.
"Whoa!? What kind of gun is this [Heavenly Soldier Type-IV]? It looks so powerful!"
Zhou Yue drooled as he looked.
As a reward for the beginner's level, the equipment and supplies on the bot were exceptionally rich.
Zhou Yue was still waiting for the items in the box to finish spinning out when he suddenly felt something go "swish" and disappear.
"What the hell? Where is my [Heavenly Soldier Type-IV]?"
"Wait, wait, wait!! Where did that purple [Glazed Pendant] from just now go??"
"Holy shit! What was that golden thing?? It disappeared before I could even get a clear look!!!"
Seeing the newly spawned items vanish one after another, Zhou Yue realized something was wrong and quickly looked toward Zhou Qiaoling, who was standing in front of the box at some unknown point.
"Delicious, hehe... delicious..."
Zhou Qiaoling carried a Heavenly Weapon Type-IV, a weapon he was incredibly familiar with, on her back, and her backpack was bulging more and more.
"Zhou!! Qiao!! Ling!!!"
...
[Evacuation Successful!]
[Smart Little Zhou:]
[Extracted Value: 884,167 spirit stones]
[Genius Cultivator:]
[Extracted Value: 214,973 spirit stones]
[Break to Build:]
[Extracted Value: 63,299 spirit stones]
Looking at the match results screen, Zhou Yue couldn't help but roll his eyes at Zhou Qiaoling beside him.
Fortunately, he did not care much about supplies or gold coins. The combat mechanics of Operation Immortal Abyss were quite novel, and Zhou Yue was eagerly looking forward to battling other cultivators.
"This illusion realm is surprisingly good!"
Zhong Yi thought back on the various parts of the beginner tutorial and felt increasingly certain that Operation Immortal Abyss had limitless potential.
The mechanics of using firearms in combat and divine sense to search for loot made him feel the game had a lot to offer.
The only thing that baffled him was the specific inclusion of an extracted value on the final results screen. What did that mean?
What was the use of bringing these supplies out?
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u Chenyuan transmigrated into a female-oriented novel about a real and fake heiress, becoming the CEO elder brother of both. Unfortunately, the entire Lu family—including himself, the CEO—were mere cannon fodder in the story. Determined to save himself, Lu Chenyuan took action. The spoiled, attention-seeking fake heiress? Thrown into the harsh realities of the working class to learn humility. The love-struck real heiress? Pushed toward academic excellence, so lofty goals would blind her to trivial romances. As for the betrayed, vengeful arranged marriage wife… the plot hadn’t even begun yet. There was still time—if he couldn’t handle her, he could at least avoid her. "CEO Lu, are you avoiding me?" Mo Qingli fixed her gaze on Lu Chenyuan. For the first time, the shrewd and calculating Lu Chenyuan felt a flicker of unease.
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