【The script is complete, rewards are being calculated.】

【Experience gained: 440000, Game Coins: 100000】

【Items and equipment obtained: Bear's Everyday Knife】

【Completed accepted tasks: 88】

【Special, hidden tasks completed: 0, Worldview cracked: None】

【Jump scares triggered: 0 times, Highest jump scare value: 0%, Average jump scare value: 0%】

【Your fear rating is "Brave as a Lion," you can receive an additional reward, please select later.】

【Technique Value gained: 2435】

【Technique Value bonus experience: 24350, Game Coins: 100000】

【Script completion reward: 90% base experience bonus: 396000】

【Side quest rewards: Wind, Forest, Fire, Mountain, Yin, Thunder.】

【Settlement is complete, please continue.】

As the settlement screen refreshed, a system prompt also sounded: 【Your title has been updated to——Scheming Madman】

"Oh? Title change." Feng Bujue's expression changed slightly, and he muttered, "Scheming Madman Feng Bujue... Hmph... Sounds pretty cool..."

As he spoke, he brought up the game menu and turned his attention to his brand new "Title Ability."

【Name: Divine Prediction】

【Special Ability Type: Active】

【Cost: Complete one divination act (form or tool not limited)】

【Effect: Perform a divination with 99% accuracy on any objective event that has occurred, is occurring, or will inevitably occur (Cooldown time is ninety minutes, of which, events that have not yet occurred may change due to interference after calculation, leading to a decrease in accuracy)】

【Note: A single toss of the divine cup determines good or bad fortune; a second divination reveals the spiritual truth. Clearly seeing the matters of this year, yet explaining next year's matters differently.】

"Hmm... the skill is not bad..." Feng Bujue looked at the skill bar and thought, "But the last poem... feels out of place here..."

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While Brother Jue is pondering the new skill... let's first explain here what Brother Jue actually did in the script just now...

In fact, his plan was not complicated. After going through it in chronological order, everyone will know the secrets.

At 11:45, Haliers and his party left the pirate base.

At 11:50, Brother Jue packed his things and went out with a backpack (filled with items from his inventory).

At 12:00, when the twenty-two people were being inspected by the pirates at the cruise ship, Feng Bujue had already arrived at the location of the Juise ore and started digging with a military shovel.

At 12:05, Haliers and his party had finished boarding; the pirates then collectively evacuated the Dolphin and came to the stern to clean the congealed slurry with a special spray gun (containing special chemical raw materials).

On the other side, Brother Jue had just finished mining and was attacked by bird droppings from a parrot... He immediately decided to retaliate.

At 12:20, the Dolphin weighed anchor and prepared to set sail. At the same time, Feng Bujue used a small piece of Juise (which turned into a strange metal cannonball in mid-air after being shot out by Yi Da) to solve the parrot. At this point, all of Brother Jue's side quests, as well as the main quest [Complete at least six challenges given by the production team], were declared complete.

At 12:30, the Dolphin had gradually moved away from Cannabis Island. And Feng Bujue returned to the pirate base once again.

He put down his backpack, sat in the chair in front of the monitoring station, and then began to record himself... This recording was the "communication" that Max saw at one o'clock in the afternoon.

In this video, Feng Bujue only spoke three times in total...

At the very beginning, he elaborated on something unbelievable to Max, successfully guiding the content of the conversation. After finishing this first paragraph, Brother Jue deliberately paused for a while, as if he was really communicating with the other party in real time.

Judging from the actual results... Max's reaction completely matched Feng Bujue's prediction. It's just that Max's response speed was slightly slower. When Brother Jue in the recording began to say the second paragraph, Max still had the last few words unfinished, so... it looked like Brother Jue "interrupted the other party expressionlessly."

And Brother Jue's second paragraph was both an explanation of the first paragraph and a provocation. Whether it was the former or the latter, it was enough for Brother Jue to achieve his real purpose, which was to further attract Graybeard and Max's attention.

As for the last paragraph mixed with strange laughter, it was purely to pave the way for his "appearance"...

At 12:37, Feng Bujue set the communication time and set the recording to play immediately. Then, he changed into a pirate outfit (available at the base), put on his backpack, and headed towards the coast.

With the help of the [Oxygen Snorkel], Feng Bujue approached the Parrot along the coastline through "underwater walking." At this time, most of the pirates were already very relaxed, and the few people on guard were all looking in the direction of the sea... Everyone believed that Stephen Carbon was still in the base at the heart of the island watching the monitors, and it was impossible for him to appear nearby. Even if he did... what could he do alone?

At 12:52, Feng Bujue quietly boarded the ship. Soaked to the bone, he calmly walked into the submarine with a bag on his back...

Brother Jue is a very good at doing infiltration work. He knows very well that the key to doing this kind of thing is to be calm. The more cautious you are, the more likely you are to attract attention and reveal your flaws; on the contrary, as long as you put on an indifferent look, even if it is a bit strange, others will not ask you anything... At most, they will just give you a few more glances.

At 12:55, Feng Bujue ambushed a pirate and asked about the whereabouts of Graybeard and Max.

Brother Jue's plan was flexible. Before coming, he had thought about it. If Graybeard and Max were in two different places, then he would sneak into the submarine and directly assassinate the former. But if they were together, with Max's vigilance, it would be difficult for him to approach smoothly... At that time, the recording would come in handy.

At 1:05, the tablet in Max's hand was connected. Completely unaware of Brother Jue's conspiracy, he naturally thought that this was a communication (Haliers and Cap's remarks also misled Max, of course, this was all arranged by Brother Jue in advance), so he, and Graybeard next to him, relaxed their vigilance at this moment...

How could they have imagined that the person "communicating with them on the island" was already on the submarine, walking over with two grenades in his hands...

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Di Di——

Two soft beeps interrupted Feng Bujue's thoughts. He looked up and saw a dialog box pop up on the display screen inviting him to enter the conference room.

"Ah! Crap... I'm late." Feng Bujue realized that the real time was already 2:30 AM, an hour and a half later than the time he had agreed with his companions.

This hour and a half in reality is fifteen hours in the game. If they watched a movie in the conference room waiting for him, they probably would have finished the extended version of *The Lord of the Rings*.

Brother Jue didn't even claim the reward and turned around in a hurry, pressing the button leading to the conference room.

After the door opened, he quickly apologized: "Sorry... the script was too long..."

In the conference room, Xiao Tan and Xiao Ling were... actually watching a movie.

"It's okay." Xiao Ling replied, "After we logged in and saw you were still in the script, we knew you probably wouldn't be able to arrive on time, so we queued up for a script with Sister Qin. As a result, it took more than ten hours to complete, and we only finished an hour ago."

"Oh..." Feng Bujue glanced around the conference room: "Then where is she?" He paused, "Why isn't Ruo Yu here either?"

Because he came in a hurry, Brother Jue didn't check the friend status in the social panel just now, so he didn't know.

"Sister Qin... logged off to sleep." Xiao Tan replied, "She said it was the first time she had played such a long script, and she was a little tired."

"My cousin... went to explore the Thriller Box, saying she didn't want to affect our alone time." Xiao Ling continued Xiao Tan's words, "She said she would contact her when you were ready."

"Hmm..." Feng Bujue thought for a while, "Okay... then you guys can just watch for a while longer. I just came out of the script and need to prepare. After I'm done, I'll contact Ruo Yu, and then we'll meet here."

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To make a long story short, one minute later, in the storage room.

As the white light condensed, Feng Bujue's additional reward appeared.

【Name: Bloodstained Spoon】

【Type: Weapon】

【Quality: Trash】

【Attack Power: Weak】

【Attribute: None】

【Effect: None】

【Note: Yes, this is indeed a weapon, and it can be used to kill. Haven't you seen *Murder with Utterly Inefficient Weapons*?】

"Hehe..." Feng Bujue looked at the thing and chuckled twice, "I'm a level 46 person, and I can still get this kind of thing, which can also be considered a skill..." He wasn't too frustrated about this, anyway, he would just go to the mall and sell the trash.

Then, Brother Jue walked to another glass pillar and received his side quest reward.

This time the side quest reward was quite strange. Logically speaking... six tasks, if six items were rewarded, then these six items should be placed in six glass pillars respectively. However, there were only two glass pillars in this room. That is to say... the "Wind, Forest, Fire, Mountain, Yin, Thunder" were all inside this one.

"Speaking of which... what exactly are these six?" Looking at the gradually condensing white light, Feng Bujue murmured, "Judging from the names... could they be some kind of elemental stone?"

He guessed right. Strictly speaking, these were indeed elemental stones. However, compared with ordinary elemental stones, they were vastly different...

If you want to describe the difference, it is like Lafite from 1999 and raisins that are nine months past their expiration date... that kind of feeling.