Chapter 1 Aftermath

After Feng Bujue returned to the login space, he first left the team to prevent Xiao Tan and the others from being unable to enter the queue when scheduling scripts due to his absence. He had already handed over the authority of the vice-leader to Si Yu, and the matter of the badge was left to her. Although there had been an unexpected disconnection, judging from Si Nvxia's consistent performance, she was clearly a very reliable person, and she wouldn't mess up something she had taken upon herself.

Feng Bujue didn't immediately schedule a script. After spending 100,000 points, he still had 379,000 game coins, enough for him to arm himself.

He first went to the mall in district number 10 and sold the [Children's Baseball Bat] to the system store. The price was really fair, only 1,000 game coins, which was fifty cents, perfectly matching the value of this equipment with "None" for attack power and no useful attributes.

Bullets, supplements, and lighting equipment were the supplies Feng Bujue planned to purchase, but at the moment he wasn't in a hurry to buy them. Instead, he first browsed the clothing section. That was where the big money was spent and where he could gain attribute points. Moreover, it was something he would have to buy sooner or later, so he wanted to see what kind of clothes he could afford with the 380,000 he had on hand.

Feng Bujue wasn't very concerned about his image in the game, but he wasn't completely indifferent either. He didn't mind wearing the default newbie clothes; after all, everyone had to wear them, and they were free. But since he was going to spend money now, he wouldn't just throw on a bunch of random stuff just to add some attribute points and then parade around, since he wasn't confident he could pull off the "Sharp Brother" look.

Faced with a massive selection of clothing, it would probably take him until dawn to look at each item, so Feng Bujue naturally made some choices. At first, he had a moment of *chuunibyou* (middle-schooler's disease) and had a strong urge to buy a set of American comic character clothes to show off. But he soon found that specific American comic character sets were all shockingly expensive. For example, a "Doctor Doom" set cost a full 900,000 game coins. This set was divided into three parts: a mask plus armor, an outer suit, and a hood with a cape, meaning there were three places where he could increase attributes. But this set couldn't be bought separately; he had to spend 900,000 to buy the whole thing at once.

Feng Bujue's game coins seemed a bit insufficient.

Compared to players like Xiao Tan and Bei Ling, who could spend one million game coins, equivalent to about five hundred RMB, to buy five slots of inventory space, Feng Bujue had only about 380,000, which was only about one hundred and ninety yuan. And his plan was to earn enough money for a gaming pod, which was definitely a long and arduous task. You should know that the nL2055 standard single-player gaming pod he was using cost five figures. The price of two gaming pods could buy a car, of course, not including the license plate...

"Hmm... Actually, this set isn't that great. The hood is green, and the armor and cape would make it inconvenient to move around," Feng Bujue said, comforting himself.

Then he searched for another character he wanted to buy – Deadpool. That red and black suit was relatively tight-fitting, and there were no capes or anything, so it would definitely be convenient to move around. Moreover, the belts and straps on the body could help carry swords, guns, and other equipment, saving inventory space. This set only had two parts, divided into a headgear and a full-body suit, which only added two attributes.

However, the Deadpool set also cost 700,000...

Feng Bujue comforted himself again, "Hmm... Too cheap, too perverted, doesn't fit my tall image..."

If someone else heard him say this, they would definitely ask him two questions. The first question: "Then why are you searching?" The second question: "What did you say about your image?"

He then looked through many other characters. In summary, basically any set with an established image cost more than 500,000. The most outrageous one was the Batman set, which cost two million game coins, equivalent to about 1,000 RMB at this week's exchange rate. Of course, this set was indeed superior, divided into five parts: a headgear, an upper garment, lower garment, a belt, and a cape (the clothing slots were divided into five slots: head, feet, upper garment, lower garment, and accessories. Established image sets, no matter how many parts they had, even if there was only one part, would fill all five slots). This was equivalent to adding five attributes, and he could also hide a lot of tool-like equipment on his body, greatly saving inventory space.

After seeing so many, Feng Bujue gave up. Sets were apparently not something he could afford. He should just buy individual pieces and mix and match himself. He would start with an upper garment and a lower garment to get two attributes, and if there was enough money left, he would consider accessories.

Thinking of this, Feng Bujue suddenly had an inspiration. He searched by color and style separately and successfully found a combination that he was very satisfied with, and then revealed a smug smile.

If Batman were a profession, then the threshold for taking the job, in addition to personal talent and ability, should also include a family fortune of seven hundred million dollars. But becoming his opponent was very low cost. For example, the one who gave him the biggest headache had an attitude full of contempt and ridicule towards money and life.

Feng Bujue first spent 120,000 game coins to buy an upper garment. The style of the clothing was: a purple suit coat, with the hem reaching about the knees, lined with a dark blue plaid shirt, a dark green waistcoat and tie. He then spent 80,000 game coins to buy a pair of trousers that were slightly darker than the purple suit as lower garment. Finally, he spent another 40,000 to buy a pair of dark-colored leather gloves.

In total, Feng Bujue spent 240,000 game coins to complete his Joker set. Of course, he wouldn't go so far as to dye his hair green, cover his face with white foundation, and cut open both sides of his cheeks with a knife and smear on lipstick... He wasn't that fanatical yet.

After purchasing the clothes, he had to choose random attributes in order to equip them. The three attributes generated for the upper garment were [Slightly increases stamina recovery speed], [Slightly reduces stamina consumption when moving heavy objects], and [Slightly increases survival value recovery speed]. Feng Bujue chose the survival value recovery speed without much consideration, because this could serve his Spirit Gathering skill. In theory, the Spirit Gathering skill could still be surprisingly effective until late in the game, so any attribute that could synergize with it was good.

The random attributes for the lower garment were a bit outrageous, namely [Significantly increases stamina recovery speed when upside down (using one's own strength)], [Slightly increases jump height], and [Greatly increases mana recovery speed, but survival value recovery speed decreases by the same proportion]. Feng Bujue definitely rejected the last one first among these three. The first one looked more and more like a scam. Although it said "significantly increases," stamina should also be decreasing when upside down... After this increase and decrease, wouldn't it be no different from "slightly increases"? It felt like he was being played. So Feng Bujue chose the second attribute, which seemed relatively normal.

The gloves were accessories, and the random attributes Feng Bujue drew were [Slightly reduces stamina consumption when moving heavy objects], [Slightly reduces the impact of bleeding effects], and [Increases punching power slightly]. These three had different tendencies. The first was more neutral, the second leaned towards defense, and the third was naturally geared towards attack.

Feng Bujue considered for a while and chose the second one. He already had three weapons in hand: a pipe wrench, a knife, and a pistol, all of which he could choose. When he could use weapons, there was no need to use his fists for this "slight" increase in effect. That would be like losing a watermelon to pick up a sesame seed. Moreover, Feng Bujue still vividly remembered how miserable Si Yu was made by the bleeding effect in the script at Ye Jie High School. It seemed that there were no medical specialists in the club yet, and he couldn't specifically prepare bandages, antidotes, burn medicine, and other things to remove special effects in his bag. It wasn't that he didn't have money, but there weren't enough inventory slots. So choosing such a special effect was a precaution. Besides, the gloves were cheap, and when he had more money in the future, he could buy another pair of the same gloves for 40,000 and randomly roll three attributes again.

Thinking of this, Feng Bujue slapped his forehead and said, "Hey! I forgot to ask Xiao Tan to return the Winchester to me just now. After not seeing him for a few days, the kid probably forgot." But he then shrugged and thought, "But that weapon is quite practical, it's good for him to have it, it'll help him more."

After Feng Bujue selected all the clothing attributes, he summarized. After spending these 240,000, his survival value recovery speed increased, his jump height increased, and the rate at which his survival value was lost would slow down a bit when he was inflicted with the [Bleeding] abnormal status. And then... he established his own style in terms of appearance.

There were currently two empty slots left in his clothing section, namely the head and foot. However, Feng Bujue still had 140,000 game coins left at this time. If he bought one, then he probably wouldn't be able to afford the other. Besides, he was also planning to replenish supplies, so he ended the browsing of clothing.

The items had already been equipped in the clothing section, but the appearance changes could only be made in the login space, so there would be no situation where players' appearances changed back and forth in public areas.

Feng Bujue then bought five bottles of blood. He didn't buy large bottles, but instead purchased Survival Value Supplement (Medium). In terms of pricing, supplements weren't priced proportionally. The small bottle that recovered 30% cost 2,000 game coins, the medium bottle that recovered 50% cost 6,000, and the large bottle that recovered full cost as much as 12,000. This pricing was obviously based on the note shared by all blood bottles in Thriller Paradise: [Maximum stack size is 5. The effect will gradually weaken with continuous use of this item]. It seemed that the small bottle was more cost-effective, but if you drank it repeatedly, three small bottles might only recover slightly more blood than an equivalent medium bottle, and it would also take up more inventory slots.

To put it bluntly, buying large bottles of supplements saved the most space and was the most reliable. This safe, reliable, and convenient experience naturally required spending more money...

Finally, Feng Bujue bought a flashlight and equipped the pistol with two clips of corresponding bullets. Each clip had seven rounds, because there was still one last bullet in his gun that hadn't been fired. These two clips of bullets would each take up an inventory slot. Fortunately, he had now bought clothes. Although it wasn't like some professional sets that came with scabbards, ammo pouches, and other settings, the inside and outside of the suit coat had several pockets, and he could put the magazines in his clothes after he changed.

After finishing shopping, Feng Bujue left the mall and returned to the login space. After the elevator doors closed, he received a system prompt: [Your clothing section has been opened].