To Harm the Righteous Path, I Had No Choice But to Make Games
Chapter 348: Searching with Divine Sense
Zhou Qiaoling always felt like something was off.
When she first started playing Naraka: Bladepoint, the moment equipment and items randomly dropped from a loot pile would indeed make her heart race.
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Especially the moment that golden light flared up.
However, after playing for a long time, she didn't feel much anymore.
The 【Immortal Masters Secret Casket】 looked like something similar to a loot pile; logically, she shouldn't have felt surprised.
Yet she felt an impulse that made her ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) heart race uncontrollably.
"What exactly is it? So mysterious..."
Zhou Qiaoling licked her lips. Her instinct for gathering wealth seemed to have been triggered as she rushed toward the Immortal Masters Secret Casket in a few quick steps.
Following the System's prompts, she placed her palm against the casket, and her Divine Sense followed her palm into the Immortal Masters Secret Casket.
"Strange? I can't move my body? And what are these black squares in front of me...?"
Zhou Qiaoling looked at the scene before her with curiosity, quickly understanding the intent behind this design.
Can't move while opening a container?
Divine Sense is busy investigating the container; one cannot do two things at once!
Items in the container have to be revealed one by one?
With low cultivation and limited Divine Sense, one has to scan them out bit by bit!
This search mechanism was actually Lu Ze's replica of delta force from his previous life.
Otherwise, if it followed normal logic where opening a container revealed everything inside, the thrill of winning the lottery would be significantly diminished.
Furthermore, the reason was easily accepted by Cultivators.
It was perfectly reasonable for a Cultivator with a low Realm to use Divine Sense to explore the interior of a storage space!
Instead of everything bursting out all at once like a loot pile, items popped out one by one under the exploration of Divine Sense.
This loot-dropping mode made Zhou Qiaoling's breathing increasingly rapid.
"A blue item, an unknown female Cultivator's bellyband? Okay, okay, so Junior Brother Lu has this kind of taste... I'm definitely going to Senior Sister Li's place to expose him, hehehe!"
"A purple item, a Judge's Pen? Whoa, it's worth over twenty thousand, twice as much as the bellyband!"
"Why is this one revealing so slowly..."
"Wow!"
The moment a golden halo lit up in Zhou Qiaoling's Divine Sense, she couldn't help but scream out loud.
"A golden Formation Design Blueprint!"
This scream naturally reached the ears of Zhong Yi and Zhou Yue through the team voice chat function.
"Junior Sister Zhou, what's wrong?"
Zhong Yi asked curiously.
"No, nothing!"
Zhou Qiaoling hurriedly shook her head, stuffed the Formation Design Blueprint into her backpack, and then ran non-stop toward other containers in the area.
"Something's wrong!"
Zhou Yue was the first to sense something was off. He had been practicing with his gun in the military camp tent and quickly put down the weapon in his hand.
How could he not know the nature of his money-grubbing younger sister?
"Old Zhong, let's go. There's probably some treasure ahead. If we're late, not even the crumbs will be left!"
By the time the two of them jogged out of the tent and reached Zhou Qiaoling's side, they saw her standing before a large crate with a silly grin on her face.
"Hehe, gold... another gold one..."
Behind her, several containers lay scattered about.
But they were all open.
"I knew it..."
Zhou Yue's teeth itched with frustration.
Every container in the entire area that could be opened had been picked clean by Zhou Qiaoling.
Fortunately, when the tutorial guided them to this point, a 【Immortal Masters Secret Casket】 would fixedly refresh in front of each person for the player to familiarize themselves with the search process.
"Blue, blue... purple?"
Zhong Yi experienced the process of searching a container with 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 an unknown outcome! Junior Brother Lu's design is simply Genius!"
"Exactly, exactly! This Illusion Realm is simply too much fun!"
Zhou Qiaoling nodded with lingering excitement, completely forgetting that not long ago she had been shouting about Lu Ze being at his wit's end and the Illusion Realm being boring to the extreme.
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Zhou Yue, standing to the side, was dumbfounded by their conversation.
"Wait... isn't there only one thing in this Immortal Masters Secret Casket?"
"How could that be? Items are not only categorized but also divided by color Rank!"
Zhong Yi, somewhat bewildered, took out the two items he had opened; one flashed with blue light, and the other with purple light.
"What!? There are other colors!?"
Zhou Yue, looking like he was questioning his life, took two green items out of his backpack.
【Pitch-Black Face Towel (Green) x2: Said to be a cloth used for washing the face by a certain Sect true disciple in ancient times, it is pitch-black.】
After clearly reading the text annotation, Zhou Yue's face became even darker...
【When searching for high-value items, you can place them inside the Reincarnation Seal. Even if the extraction fails, the items can still be taken out of the battlefield.】
"Reincarnation Seal?"
Zhong Yi opened his backpack and indeed saw a separate 【Reincarnation Seal】 slot at the very bottom, which contained 2 single-grid spaces.
"Both the backpack and the Reincarnation Seal are composed of grids... items are also divided into different grid sizes? Interesting..."
Zhong Yi looked at the one-grid and two-grid items in his backpack, and many associations formed in his mind. He vaguely seemed to understand Lu Ze's intention for such a setup, and a smile involuntarily tugged at the corner of his mouth.
On the side, Zhou Qiaoling was distressed: "What? Only two grids? It's completely not enough space..."
“...”
Zhou Yue looked at the only two one-grid items in his backpack and very much wanted to experience Zhou Qiaoling's distress.
After the crucial tutorials on firearm usage, container searching, and the safety box ended, the newcomer guidance part entered the acceleration phase.
Once the simple skill teaching was completed, the three of them followed the System guidance to the extraction point and engaged in combat with another Cultivator.
With Zhou Yue's presence, the combat phase presented no difficulty, and they soon cut down the fully equipped NPC.
"Hmph, a piece of cake!"
Zhou Yue finally regained his confidence on the battlefield and proudly walked over to the enemy's corpse.
After a moment, the corpse collapsed into a perfectly square box.
In the setting, this thing belonged to a type of Magic Treasure like a Soul Casket used to store the Primordial Spirit.
Of course, after experiencing Lu Ze's Illusion Realms one after another, Cultivators were no longer unfamiliar with the setting of turning into a box upon death, and few people bothered to nitpick it.
Zhou Yue opened the box.
"Whoa!? What kind of gun is this 【Heavenly Soldier · Type IV】? It looks so powerful!"
Zhou Yue's mouth watered as he looked at it.
As a reward for the newcomer level, the equipment and supplies on the NPC were exceptionally rich.
Zhou Yue was still waiting for the items in the box to finish revealing when he suddenly felt something go "swish" and disappear.
"What the hell? Where is my 【Heavenly Soldier · Type IV】?"
"Wait, wait, wait!! Where's that purple 【Glazed Pendant】 from just now??"
"Holy crap! What was that golden thing?? It disappeared before I could even see it clearly!!!"
Seeing the newly refreshed items disappear one by one, Zhou Yue, sensing something was wrong, quickly looked at Zhou Qiaoling, who had stood before the box at some unknown time.
"Yummy, hehe... yummy..."
On Zhou Qiaoling's back hung a 【Heavenly Soldier · Type IV】 that looked extremely familiar to him, and the backpack behind her was getting more and more bloated.
"ZHOU!! QIAO!! LING!!!"
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【Extraction Successful!】
【Nimble Little Zhou:】
【Extracted Value: 884,167 Spirit Stones】
【Genius Cultivator:】
【Extracted Value: 214,973 Spirit Stones】
【No Breaking, No Standing:】
【Extracted Value: 63,299 Spirit Stones】
Looking at the settlement interface, Zhou Yue couldn't help but roll his eyes at Zhou Qiaoling beside him.
Fortunately, he wasn't particularly interested in supplies, gold coins, or the like. The combat mechanism of operation xianyuan continent was very novel, and Zhou Yue was very much looking forward to battling other Cultivators.
"This Illusion Realm is surprisingly good!"
Zhong Yi reflected on the various parts of the newcomer tutorial and felt more and more that operation xianyuan continent had infinite potential.
The firearm combat and the mechanism of searching for items with Divine Sense made him feel that there was much to be achieved.
The only thing that left him feeling puzzled was, what was the point of specifically creating an extracted value in the final settlement?
What use could the supplies have once they were brought out?