Chapter 18 Not-So-Sloppy Repairs

【Name: Not-So-Sloppy Repairs】
【Skill Card Attribute: Active Skill, Permanently Learned】
【Skill Category: Machinery】
【Effect: Temporarily upgrades a junk or dilapidated mechanical creation to ordinary quality within fifteen minutes.】
【Consumption: Stamina 200】
【Learning Condition: Machinery Specialization d】
【Remarks: If you don't want to receive more complaints, at least keep those damn devices running until the warranty expires!】

Opening the skill bar and viewing the specific attributes reveals this data.

When the effect of this skill changed, Feng Bujue was quite surprised. He didn't expect that the skills in this game could actually be upgraded, because the game description didn't mention this advanced setting. This should be some content for players to explore on their own, the kind that can be written into "walkthroughs."

However, after learning this, other questions arose. Leaving aside title skills, what about other permanently learned skills… such as passive skills, or sustained consumption skills like [Ling Shi Ju Shen Shu] (Spirit Consciousness Gathering Technique)? Is there a possibility of upgrading them?

Naturally, asking customer service wouldn't get an answer to this question. He hadn't found any related posts on the game forum in the past few days, so Feng Bujue temporarily put it aside.

This was roughly Feng Bujue's changes over the past week. In addition, there was one more thing that needed to be explained separately, which was the Vajra Bell.

After defeating the Bell Demon in the Bell Realm, Feng Bujue and Si Yu were unable to leave that space, which meant they had to trigger some kind of plot. So, the two of them searched the island again.

Since the Boss was dead, the island in the center of the lake no longer had any illusion effects or blockages, so they quickly found a huge blood-drawn magic circle on an open space in the middle of the island, with numerous shrines as support points. An item was pressed on the eye of the array, which was the Vajra Bell. After picking up this item, Feng Bujue, Si Yu, and that NPC Lu Qingning were freed from the Bell Realm and returned to the mountains north of Cang Ling Town.

【Name: Vajra Bell】
【Type: Other】
【Quality: Excellent】
【Effect: Can execute the following four commands: 1. Observe the detailed information of an NPC; 2. Observe the detailed information of a monster (excluding Boss level); 3. Obtain a "Death Warning" function for five minutes; 4. Double the effect of your next Spirit Art Specialization skill (under reasonable conditions)】
【Remarks: Cannot be traded after pickup (but the operation of directly selling the item to the system store will not be prevented), cooldown time of twelve hours (ends immediately after leaving the scenario). When all four commands have been executed, the Vajra Bell will passively enter a cooldown state. Players can also actively start the cooldown timer for the item. During the item's cooldown period, players cannot use any of the commands.】

This thing didn't have any equipment condition restrictions, and it looked like it had many functions. But in fact… only the first two were commonly used. Generally speaking, in long scenarios, Feng Bujue would actively start the item's cooldown after using the first two commands.

The "Death Warning" of effect three was a bit of a chicken rib. To put it bluntly, it used a bell sound to predict the degree of threat. For example, if a zombie appeared in front of the player, the Vajra Bell would make a sound on its own, and the bell sound would become more and more urgent as the zombie approached. However, if a monster appeared in front of the player, the bell sound would be very urgent from the beginning, and when the monster's big feet fell from the sky, the bell sound would still be the same…

This effect might be a little useful in some situations… for example, when the visibility around is extremely low, players cannot visually confirm the enemy's position or strength and can only judge by listening to the bell.

The problem is… wouldn't that expose one's own position…

As for effect four, Feng Bujue had also tested it. Obviously, [Ling Shi Ju Shen Shu] (Spirit Consciousness Gathering Technique) did not meet the "reasonable conditions" in the parentheses, so it could not get a double bonus. As a sustained consumption skill, this was also expected. The [Xie Wang Yan Sha Hei Long Bo] (Evil King's Flaming Kill Black Dragon Wave) that Feng Bujue had once obtained could enjoy this doubled effect, but he had already used it, and he didn't have any other offensive spirit art active skills.

In short, the Vajra Bell could currently only allow Feng Bujue to see the specific situation of NPCs and the combat power of certain elite monsters. He usually wouldn't use the other two effects.

Ding-dong—

A prompt sounded suddenly. Feng Bujue received an email. He tapped on the touch screen a few times and came to the mailbox browsing interface.

The title of this email was: "Two more will be given to you tomorrow." The sender was Kuang Zong Jian Ying.

When Feng Bujue saw the title, he understood that the items in [Hard Drive 2455-A-1] had been successfully manufactured by the members of the Jianghu Studio. According to the agreement, Kuang Zong Jian Ying would give three of them to Feng Bujue.

"Hmm… this guy really didn't break his promise." Feng Bujue muttered, receiving the attachment in the email. The item directly entered his bag. He immediately opened the bag bar to check:

【Name: Endless Grenade Casing】
【Type: Tool】
【Quality: Excellent】
【Function: Manufacture Grenades】
【Effect: Every twenty minutes, this container will generate a Mark II hand grenade】
【Remarks: Only two of this container's products can exist at the same time (regardless of whether the products are placed inside the container). The manufactured hand grenades cannot be sold to the system store or placed in the auction house. Products that are not detonated within one hundred and twenty minutes after leaving the container will disappear.】

Feng Bujue immediately took out the grenade casing from his bag. Its shape looked like a badminton tube, but it had a black metal shell and weighed much more. Unscrewing the lid and tilting it over would allow him to take out a hand grenade.

【Name: Mark II Hand Grenade (Product)】
【Type: Consumable】
【Quality: Ordinary】
【Effect: Indiscriminate Explosive Attack】
【Remarks: The delay after pulling the pin is 4-4.8 seconds, and the kill radius is 5-10 yards. Its cast iron shell is serrated, which is conducive to producing more shrapnel after the explosion. The shrapnel kill range can reach 50 yards, so please lie down as soon as possible after throwing it.】

"Hmm… this item is not bad, it's even better than expected…" Feng Bujue muttered, "Speaking of which, what exactly did the twenty design drawings in the hard drive produce? They even gave away such a godly equipment…" He paused for a moment, as if he had thought of something, "Or… because my behavior in that scenario left a psychological shadow on Kuang Zong Jian Ying, so he specially gave me an item related to explosions?"

"Hmph… who cares." Feng Bujue put the hand grenade back into the grenade casing and put the tool back into his bag.

At this time, the other three members of Hell Frontline were not online. The other people on the friend list were either in the game or not familiar with him. So, Feng Bujue's masochistic tendencies awakened again, and he once again turned his attention to the nightmare difficulty single-player survival mode option on the screen…