"Red? Two slots?"

Hearing Zhou Qiaoling's description, Zhong Yi's interest was piqued.

He had searched very few supplies; except for weapons, everything else was a single-slot item.

Since he hadn't put weapons into his backpack, he hadn't noticed that weapons were actually multi-slot items.

"Junior Sister Zhou, let me see!"

Zhou Qiaoling hugged the gold bar protectively, but considering Zhong Yi's character, she quickly tossed the gold bar out of her backpack.

"Junior Sister Zhou, do you have any other multi-slot items? Can I borrow them all to take a look?"

Zhong Yi raised an eyebrow; his previous hypothesis felt like it was being validated.

"I do... let me look."

Zhou Qiaoling nodded and started rummaging through her backpack.

"Purple 【Starfall Iron】, blue 【Dancing Songstress】, golden 【Runic Ruler】..."

Before Zhong Yi and Zhou Yue, items of various colors spilled onto the ground, leaving the two of them dumbfounded.

"You can eat way too much...!!"

Zhou Yue gritted [N O V E L I G H T] his teeth and turned to run out of the 【Deacon Hall】, hoping to scavenge some rooms that Zhou Qiaoling hadn't 'eaten' yet.

"Stupid big brother, don't bother looking. I've finished everything over here~"

Zhou Qiaoling reminded him with a giggle.

"Curse you!!!"

Zhou Yue roared at the sky, forced to vent his anger on an Asala Shield Cultivator who was slowly approaching the door with a shield raised.

Looking at the various items spread on the ground, a smile suddenly curled on Zhong Yi's lips.

"I understand!"

"In this Illusion Realm, the number of slots an item occupies is related to its physical size..."

"And the more slots it takes, the higher its value!"

Hearing Zhong Yi's analysis, Zhou Yue, who had just finished off the Asala Shield Cultivator, felt his heart suddenly thumping as he opened the backpack.

Because inside the Asala Shield Cultivator's backpack, there lay a massive 6-slot shadow!

"What!? More slots mean it's more expensive? Then I'm rich, hahaha!"

Zhou Yue laughed loudly, staring intently as the shield cultivator's backpack slots rotated one by one, his heart beating faster and faster.

"Six slots! It's six slots!! I, Zhou Yue, have finally had a change of luck!!!"

"What?? My unlucky brother actually found a six-slot item???"

Zhou Qiaoling said in disbelief.

Until now, the largest item she had found was a four-slot 【Golden Compass】, and it was even golden-tier.

In her current understanding, a six-slot item was definitely something amazing.

At the very least, it would be golden-tier!

"I, Zhou Yue, have finally obtained... uh? A bag of, corn??"

Looking at the blue-background 【A Bag of Corn】, the corner of Zhou Yue's mouth twitched slightly.

"What is that? A Bag of Corn?"

"...That's right, A Bag of Corn."

"What color?"

"Blue."

"Hahahahaha!! Did this shield cultivator just finish farm work before coming to fight?"

Zhou Qiaoling couldn't help but double over with laughter.

"Hmph, it's six slots after all! It's worth nearly thirty thousand Spirit Stones!"

Zhou Yue stubbornly put 【A Bag of Corn】 into his backpack, and immediately felt his body sink heavily.

Taking another look at 【A Bag of Corn】, the description said some special Spirit Medicine was used during cultivation, making it ten times heavier than ordinary corn...

"Old Zhou, you can't calculate value like that."

Zhong Yi poured cold water on Zhou Yue again.

"Six slots for thirty thousand Spirit Stones means an average of only five thousand per slot... I recall most blue items are around ten thousand per slot."

"..."

The corner of Zhou Yue's mouth twitched again.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. How did he pick up such a piece of junk?

Not only was it deathly heavy, it was a damn cheap item!

In a fit of rage, Zhou Yue took 【A Bag of Corn】 out of his backpack and slammed it onto the ground.

"Ow!!!"

The corn smashed heavily onto his toes, and his health bar symbolically dropped by 1 point.

"The East Building is fully searched... I remember the 【Administrative Palace】 has two buildings, right?"

Zhou Qiaoling pointed to the west side.

There was a long corridor connecting the East and West Buildings, cluttered with various debris.

Just then, a thunderous burst of intense gunfire came from the west side.

"Someone's fighting!"

Zhou Yue's eyes immediately grew fervent.

"This gunfire... it feels extraordinary!"

Zhong Yi couldn't help but frown.

The gunfire from the West Building was dense and crisp, with an extremely high rate of fire, vastly different from the 【mingju 15】 they were using.

"What's there to fear! The better his gun is, the more excited I get!"

Without another word, Zhou Yue raised his gun and charged into the corridor.

After successive setbacks in scavenging, he desperately needed a battle to dispel his frustration.

At this point, even if a Fragment of the Heavenly Dao showed up, he'd have to exchange a few blows with it!

"Big brother, I support you! I'll provide backup from the first floor!"

Zhou Qiaoling blinked and scurried downstairs in a flash.

"Oh? How did my little sister suddenly become so sensible?"

Zhou Yue felt a warmth in his heart, but soon realized something was wrong.

"Dammit!! You must have heard the gunfire is on the second floor and want to go to the first floor to scavenge for yourself!!!"

As he spoke, the gunfire from the West Building, accompanied by a few short screams, abruptly stopped.

Zhou Yue immediately held his breath, raised his 【mingju 15】, and instinctively tilted his head against the stock.

He moved very slowly, the "creak" of his feet on the metal plates echoing in the air.

As he got closer to the West Building, a burst of eerie music suddenly exploded in his ears.

For some reason, it made his hair stand on end. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

"Old Zhou! Something's wrong!"

Zhong Yi suddenly realized he might have missed something when checking the map earlier. He opened it again and indeed found the 【Administrative Palace】 landmark enveloped in a massive red circle.

It clearly displayed:

【Boss Activity Range】

"There's a big monster here!!!"

Just as Zhong Yi shouted this warning through the Jade Slip, a series of extremely rapid footsteps came from Zhou Yue's left.

After the sound of a roll, a sinister laugh followed.

"I see you, little rat!"

Zhou Yue's heart sank.

In the xinshou jiaocheng, the "Instructor" had told them that each team's communication was transmitted through their own Jade Slips.

Different teams could not communicate through speech!

Which meant...

This hair-raising, gruesome voice was not made by a player, but by an NPC like an Asala Loose Cultivator!

Combined with Zhong Yi's analysis, it was clearly the Boss guarding the Administrative Palace!

"Heh, a Boss? Just in time! See if I don't skin you..."

Zhou Yue laughed instead of being afraid, his battle will ignited once more.

He was confident that in terms of combat, he didn't fear anyone!

However, before he could finish his sentence, a black figure suddenly rolled out from the corner of the dark corridor ahead.

The black shadow was incredibly fast. In the moment it stood still, Zhou Yue only had time to see a red mask and a black cloak.

Then came muzzle flashes too fast for the naked eye to track.

"Rat-tat-tat!!"

A string of Spirit Bullets flickering with purple flames erupted from the Boss's gun.

Almost instantly, before Zhou Yue could even pull the trigger, he felt a wave of dizziness in his forehead.

Two Spirit Bullets sank into his brow, and Zhou Yue's health bar was instantly emptied!

"Holy crap!?"

Zhou Yue let out a cry of shock.

Fast.

It was simply too fast!

The bullets were like a rainstorm, recklessly pouring out of the opponent's firearm.

Zhou Yue, who had just fallen, didn't even have time to crawl before he instantly turned into a corpse.

【Evil Venerable Yide (Boss) has killed No Breaking, No Standing!】