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

【Experience gained: 1500, Game Coins: 15000】

【Items and equipment obtained: Eye of Hatred, M1911A1 Pistol, Western-style Kitchen Knife, Baseball Bat, Flashlight *2】

【Completed Accepted Tasks: 55】

【Special Ending Reward: Gift of the Time Lord, please claim later】

【Special, Hidden Task Completed: 0, Worldview Decryption: The Ring of Time】

【Fear Value Surge: 0 times, Highest Fear Value: 0%, Average Fear Value: 0%】

【Your Fear Rating is Fearless, you can receive an additional reward, please select later.】

【Technique Value gained: 300】

【Technique Value bonus experience: 3000, Game Coins: 30000】

【Script Completion Reward: 80% base experience bonus: 1200】

【Settlement is complete, please continue.】

(The settlement content here is used as an example of the previous settings: the flashlight has batteries, the gun has bullets. These small items are consumables below Excellent quality and do not occupy the grid count of the knapsack when installed inside tools or equipment. The pipe wrench was not obtained from this script, so it will not be included in the settlement. Items in similar situations will not appear in the settlement menu.)

"The reward for deciphering the worldview is really exaggerated..." Feng Bujue thought, "Not counting that 240, the total Technique Value I got in the whole script is only 60 points."

"Brother Jue! You're rich!" Wang Tanzhi exclaimed excitedly in the team channel, "I actually leveled up to level ten directly! And I got over twenty thousand game coins!"

Hearing this, Feng Bujue calculated instinctively that Xiao Tan's Technique Value gain was between sixty and one hundred and fifty. He replied, "I saw it. The team list shows the levels." He also saw the friend request sent by Long Aotian, and while clicking accept, he said, "Don't forget to accept Brother Long's friend request."

"Okay, I already clicked accept," Wang Tanzhi replied. "You invite him to the team."

After a few simple operations, Long Aotian's voice appeared in the communication channel: "Yo, your levels have doubled, Brother Feng is already level 11." His level at the moment was the same as Feng Bujue's, also level 11.

Some people are bound to ask, why does this situation occur? Let us take a look at Feng Bujue's character details so far:

Game Nickname: Feng Bujue, Level: 11, Experience: 135011000.

Technique Value: 430, Game Coins: 51500.

Specializations: General F, Mechanics F, Investigation F, Combat F, Shooting F.

Knapsack 710: Mario's Pipe Wrench, Eye of Hatred, Western-style Kitchen Knife, Baseball Bat, Flashlight *2, M1911A1 Pistol.

Login Space 130: Jigsaw Card: Monkey.

Everyone has seen his experience value. That's right, the experience required to go from level 11 to level 12 is 11000, not 1100.

The level-up experience in Thriller Paradise changes in a step-like manner every ten levels. From level 1 to 2, you need 100, then 200 from level 2 to 3, and so on. From level 10 to 11, you need 1000. Then, when players reach level 11, they will suddenly see an astonishing leap.

In addition to the 1500 experience for clearing the level and the 1200 reward, Long Aotian also had over one hundred and seventy Technique Value (Technique Value accumulated in combat can sometimes be accurate to single digits), and the settlement reward was nearly four thousand five experience, but when he leveled up to 11, he was shocked to see that he was still seven or eight thousand short of level 12.

The two exchanged information, and then told Wang Tanzhi about the experience situation after level 11. Then, Long Aotian was the first to remember to ask, "By the way, what are your titles?"

Feng Bujue casually replied, "Cold-Blooded Headshot Maniac."

"Uh..."

The other two were speechless, leading to a brief silence.

A few seconds later, Wang Tanzhi chuckled and commented, "Actually, this system is pretty reasonable. Basically, in that script just now, all your attacks were headshots... and you acted very cold-blooded."

"What about your title? Screaming Rich Kid?" Feng Bujue immediately retorted.

"How could there be a rich kid title in the game!"

"That's true... Rich kid is a race, not a profession," Feng Bujue replied.

"My title is \[Panicked Sneaker]..." Wang Tanzhi was too lazy to continue arguing with him and quickly blurted out his title.

Feng Bujue pondered, "Hmm... to express the panicked mental state and the inability to face the enemy head-on... this system is spot on."

"Is that a needle? It should be a knife, right? Strangers will despise this title!" Wang Tanzhi said.

"There's not much difference. Strangers will either start despising you the moment they see the title, or start despising you from the moment you let out your first helpless and pointless scream..." Feng Bujue said.

"Haha..." Long Aotian smiled, trying to smooth things over, "Actually, Brother Wang, you don't have to worry too much. Titles can change every time you complete a script. After that one, my title changed. Now it's \[Squad Defender]."

The three of them chatted for a few more sentences. Long Aotian said that he had been online for quite a while and was going to go offline to rest for a few hours, and would log into the sleep mode channel in the early hours of the morning. Wang Tanzhi didn't want to play anymore today and wasn't planning on logging in again tonight. Including the tutorial, he had already played four consecutive scripts, and continuing would be self-abuse. Feng Bujue also said that he would log off after getting his settlement items. It wasn't that he was too tired to play, but that he was consciously controlling his level.

The level cap during the closed beta is 20. For non-professional players, there's no need to rush to level up. When the number of players who reach this level exceeds 10% of the total number of closed beta players, the closed beta will end, followed by server shutdown, waiting for the system to be fully upgraded to the official version before opening the public beta.

Thriller Paradise has long attracted the participation of a large number of game studios. As mentioned earlier, on the afternoon of the first day of the closed beta, Feng Bujue could find some guides written by level 10+ players on the forum. Obviously, most of these articles came from members of professional game studios. These people are professionals, playing games with planning and division of labor. For this type of game, it must be a two-shift system, with one group starting in sleep mode from eight in the morning, and the other group fighting in non-sleep mode, and then switching shifts at night...

According to the relevant legal clauses of 2055, game pods have strict restrictions on players' online time. The real time for logging into neuro-connected games in non-sleep mode cannot exceed ten hours. Due to the 1:10 time ratio in sleep mode, the connected real time must never exceed eight hours, and a general recommended value is four hours or less. If both modes reach the time limit within twenty-four hours, the connection will be forcibly disconnected, and you will have to wait until the next twenty-four hours to log in again.

In other words, a person can play neuro-connected games for a total of eighteen hours a day, ten hours in a conscious state and eight hours in a sleep state. That's the limit. Replacing the game pod won't help. All neuro-connected networks will no longer accept the citizen's ID number. This is stipulated by law, mainly for the sake of the user's health. In the early days of the invention of neuro-connected games, there were some people who stayed connected except for eating and going to the toilet. They basically all ended up with sudden death or irreversible brain damage. Of course, this cannot be blamed on the game pod or the game, because as early as half a century ago, in the era when fourth-generation computers were still popular, many people died suddenly in internet cafes. Who can be blamed for that?

After saying goodbye to Xiao Tan and Brother Long, he ended the communication and disbanded the team. Feng Bujue then opened the elevator door and turned to enter the equipment retrieval space.

Two glass pillars still appeared in that room. Inside the pillar on the left, an item was already floating. Presumably, that was the gift from the Time Lord. If he hadn't achieved the ending of sealing the Demon Gate earlier, this reward naturally wouldn't exist.

Feng Bujue first stored one of the two flashlights in his knapsack into the login space, reducing the knapsack capacity to 610, and then went to retrieve the item. During this time, he glanced at the special ability that the title gave him in the menu. This ability was displayed above the skill bar and did not occupy the skill bar.

\[Name: Concussion]

\[Ability Type: Passive]

\[Effect: When attacking the target's head with a blunt weapon, there is a 30% chance to stun them for two seconds]

\[Note: It doesn't matter if you don't blow it up with one hit. Try harder, it's just a head.]

The special ability of this title is not bad, it's passive anyway and doesn't consume stamina. It should be very useful when fighting low-level monsters, in conjunction with \[Mario's Pipe Wrench]. However, when encountering powerful monsters, non-humanoid monsters, incorporeal ghosts, or bosses... then there probably won't be any chance for Feng Bujue to hit the target's head with a blunt weapon.

Feng Bujue quickly walked to the first glass pillar, inside which was a small glass bottle containing half a bottle of sand.

\[Name: Slow Quicksand]

\[Type: Consumable]

\[Quality: Excellent]

\[Effect: Break the container to slow down all monsters within a hundred-meter radius by ten times for one minute]

\[Note: This bottle contains some inferior time dust. If you are besieged by a large group of monsters, this bottle of stuff might help you escape.]

"This is indeed a valuable consumable with strategic value. Xiao Tan and Brother Long each have a bottle too, right..." Feng Bujue muttered, and came to the second glass pillar.

\[Please select your additional reward: 1. Randomly draw a piece of equipment corresponding to your level, 2. 50000 Game Coins (limit), 3. 4400 Experience Points]

At level 11, the value of this Fear Rating is undoubtedly reflected. Among the three-choice rewards given by "Fearless", the maximum number of game coins is 50,000, and the equipment is not mentioned for the time being, but that "40% of the current upgrade experience cap" is now too powerful.

Theoretically speaking, as long as Feng Bujue's illness doesn't get better, he only needs to experience two scripts at any level and successfully survive, and he can basically level up.

However, because of this, Feng Bujue didn't want to choose experience even more. He was really a little worried that his never-changing Fear Value would attract the attention of the game company and be considered cheating, so he tried to be as low-key as possible, anyway, he didn't want to level up too fast.

So, he chose equipment again. Although he doesn't lack weapons now, both ranged and melee, he is lacking in defense. He hopes to draw a reliable piece of armor.