Chapter 129 Back to the Beginning

As the white light faded, Feng Bujue returned to the landing space.

The touchscreen quickly displayed the script's reward settlement.

[Script completed, rewards being calculated.]

[Experience gained: 120000, Game Coins: 100000]

[Items/Equipment obtained: None]

[Accepted missions completed: 33]

[Special/Hidden missions completed: 0, Worldview broken: Incarceration of the Mind]

[Fear value surge: 0 times, Highest fear value: 0%, Average fear value: 0%]

[Your fear rating is Fearless, granting an additional reward. Please select it shortly.]

[Skill Points gained: 3580]

[Skill Points converted to experience: 35800, Game Coins: 100000]

[Script Completion Reward: Randomly draw one learnable Skill Card.]

[Settlement complete. Please continue.]

At the same time, a system prompt sounded: [You have reached Level 29. Stamina cap increased. Current stamina: 2900/2900]

"Well... I finally made it to twenty-nine..." Feng Bujue muttered, looking at the game menu.

He and his three teammates had left the Deduction Club with unbelievable ease.

After that "Zhuan Xie Zun" flew away, it took them more than a minute to recover from their shock and break the silence.

The four of them briefly discussed the previous situation, and Feng Bujue briefly explained his encounter with the puppet Billy, which served as an explanation for the Boss's last few words. But there were still many oddities about this hidden Boss that the players couldn't figure out.

They then picked up the book that the Boss had pointed to, wanting to see what the so-called "back door" was all about. Unexpectedly, the moment they opened the book, the four of them were teleported to a chaotic and distorted space, and received a prompt that all main missions had been completed and they would be teleported in 180 seconds.

"Well... I shouldn't have opened that book." Feng Bujue muttered to himself with some annoyance, "There seems to be a massive amount of information that could be found in that Deduction Club..." He vaguely felt that this Zhuan Xie Zun was of great significance in the game, even more valuable than the Four Pillars.

Just then, several notification sounds rang out, and Feng Bujue's attention returned to the screen.

The friend requests from [Qiu Feng Se] and [Yu Zhong Ji Chang] came as expected.

Honghu really didn't send Jue-ge a friend request. It seems his personality is somewhat similar to Feng Bujue's...

Feng Bujue thought for a while and accepted them. This time, the lineup on his friend list was quite impressive. Counting the previous [Shiva], [Qisha], and [Zhao Ying Wang], this was practically an all-star team.

After adding them as friends, he immediately walked out of the elevator to collect the rest of his rewards in the storage room.

But after taking a few steps, he suddenly thought, "Wait... the hidden storyline seems to have been messed up by Billy." He tilted his head and said, "According to what that Zhuan Xie Zun said, it seems that Billy pleaded on my behalf, so he let us go."

"If it weren't for Billy's help, Zhuan Xie Zun would have appeared as an enemy, or not appeared at all." Feng Bujue frowned, thinking, "In that scenario, we'd have to rely on ourselves to solve the puzzles, find a way to recreate the four keys, and escape the Deduction Club. Or, we'd have to take the initiative to find Zhuan Xie Zun and kill it."

This was Feng Bujue's way of thinking, which is what we often call biting the hand that feeds you...

In fact, Billy had helped him a lot this time. It was clear that the mission [Defeat the true 'Boss', or escape the Deduction Club] only allowed them to choose the latter option.

X-23 had already described Zhuan Xie Zun's strength as second only to the Four Pillars. That meant it was a world-class Boss in Thriller Paradise, whose data was unique and closely related to the changes in the entire game world.

To put it simply... when facing this kind of Boss, gather six strong, fully leveled players with top-tier equipment before even considering the issue of killing it.

As far as the current game progress was concerned, even if the top six players on the combat power rankings teamed up, they couldn't kill this guy.

And Feng Bujue's intention to kill Zhuan Xie Zun was purely wishful thinking. This was mainly because Jue-ge had encountered relatively few setbacks since he started playing, and had hardly suffered any losses against leader-level monsters like Samodir and Billy. So he had the illusion that all the monsters mentioned in the missions could be killed...

In reality, there were countless powerful Bosses that players couldn't kill... and most of them didn't even give players a chance to challenge them.

Take the Four Pillars for example. Since the game's launch, no player in Thriller Paradise had ever faced a Four Pillar in combat.

Although there were often posts on the forum discussing the game's behind-the-scenes plot, and many people pieced things together to describe those four gods in great detail, these were all... circumstantial evidence. No one had actually fought them.

When the system generated scripts, it wouldn't give a group of players who had just passed level thirty, or hadn't even reached level thirty yet, a chance to challenge the Four Pillars. At most, they would be mentioned in some plots, or make a cameo appearance.

Like the script where Feng Bujue encountered the Lord of Time, he only heard a voice. Even if he was crazy enough to want to attack the Lord of Time at the time, he wouldn't know how to fight.

............

"Alright, let's see what I've drawn this time." Feng Bujue came to the first glass pillar and first drew the script completion reward.

His specialization levels were generally very high. A "learnable" Skill Card could be a skill from any specialization. Of course, what Feng Bujue wanted most now was a Summoning skill.

Unfortunately... he didn't have that kind of luck...

[Name: Stinky Chicken "Bomb"]

[Skill Card Attribute: Active skill, disappears after one use]

[Skill Category: Shooting]

[Effect: Launches a rotten egg at the target, causing a huge amount of aggro, attracting it to attack you (must use a shooting weapon when activating this skill, weapon form is not limited).]

[Consumption: 1 Stamina Point]

[Learning Condition: Shooting Specialization D]

[Remarks: Cannot be used on players. ps: Many people have told me that I must have been out of my mind when I designed this skill, but Bob from the technical department told me that this skill wasn't too bad. So I kept it, anyway, not every set of data has the possibility of being generated, maybe no one will ever see this line.]

"What is this garbage..." Feng Bujue couldn't help but complain, "This kind of useless effect... and it's a one-time consumable skill? What a rip-off!" He couldn't wait to throw this Skill Card on the ground, but then he thought that since it was a one-time consumable, it wouldn't occupy his skill slot for too long. Besides, with such a useless effect, probably no one would want to buy it, so he might as well learn it, since there was no loss anyway.