Chapter 1 Midnight Login

Midnight, Feng Bujue was already lying in the game pod, having selected the option to log in instantly after falling asleep.

These days, Brother Jue had a very sharp ability—he could precisely control things like going to the bathroom or sleeping, things that are usually "following your gut" kind of actions.

This ability didn't exist when he was studying the Heavenly Book of遁甲 (Dunjia), nor when Qi Zhi was integrating his spiritual body, but only after Simon unlocked "some kind of power" within him did he naturally master this skill.

From then on, Feng Bujue could fall asleep instantly whenever he wanted; he could also decide when to wake up—and the time was accurate to the minute.

Moreover, his sleep was very efficient and of high quality.

He had experimented... he only needed to sleep for an hour to maintain a good state for the next sixteen hours.

Of course, this kind of situation was okay for a day or two, but it would still lead to fatigue in the long run.

[Access type is sleep mode, adjusting... adjustment complete, please set the time to load the game, or return to the previous options.]

[Setting complete, the connection program will start immediately after you fall asleep, good night.]

These were the last two voice prompts Feng Bujue heard before falling asleep.

When he regained consciousness, he was already standing in the familiar landing space.

Feng Bujue stretched his arms and walked to the touch screen, operating on the interface a few times.

He opened the social bar and found that many people on his friend list were online, and all of them were [In Game].

But this was also expected. Most of his friends were professional or high-end players. After obtaining the "limited-time experience" qualification, these players would definitely make good use of every minute.

It was rare for someone like Feng Bujue to play for a few hours in non-sleep mode during the day... For professional players, every hour spent playing in non-sleep mode during the experience period was equivalent to losing eight hours of game time; even if they wanted to do so, the studio would not allow it.

"Hmm... Miss An is online." Feng Bujue looked at the community members again. Only An Yueqin was online, and she was already [In Game]. "No one else is on..."

Anyway, Brother Jue had already sent messages to his friends online during the day. Since team mode couldn't be queued during the limited-time experience, everyone could leave messages if they had something to say, or play single-player games if they didn't.

"Well... time is limited, I'd better hurry up and queue for a script." Feng Bujue browsed the information on the touch screen for a while and then prepared to join the single-player mode queue.

But at this moment, he heard a voice prompt: [The extra reward from your previous script has not been claimed, please claim it before starting a new script]

"Eh?" Feng Bujue said immediately upon hearing this, "That's right, what about the extra reward?"

When he obtained the [Rat Hammer] and [just_we] in the afternoon, he was actually wondering—where was the place to claim the extra reward?

After the storage room was renovated, the glass pillars that generated the rewards no longer appeared, and the flip drawer on the wall... when Brother Jue approached and used it, it didn't give any prompts about extra rewards.

Because he was logged in using non-sleep mode at the time, he didn't spend time looking for it carefully and hurriedly logged off. Now, after being reminded by the system, Brother Jue remembered this again.

"Hmm..." Feng Bujue thought, "This information is not in the update patch or the FAQ..." He looked at the social bar again, "If I ask someone... they are basically racing against the clock to grind instances, and now it's only the first night, most people probably haven't even cleared the first script."

Thinking of this, he clicked on the customer service option, which he almost never used.

[Please enter the question you want to ask] A window quickly popped up on the screen, with voice and text input methods available below the window.

Feng Bujue chose voice, directly held down the record button and asked, "Excuse me, how do I claim the extra reward for the Fear rating now?"

After speaking, he released the record button, and the audio was automatically saved and generated into a file.

Brother Jue then clicked send.

As a result, the reply came in less than a second...

[Please enter the "Scary Box" to claim]

"Automatic reply?" Feng Bujue knew that this message was automatically sent by the system as soon as he saw the reply speed.

If it were a manual customer service, even if the customer service received the audio one second after Brother Jue sent the message, clicked it open immediately, and then he/she listened to the content, thought, and then replied by typing or voice... this series of actions would take at least tens of seconds, it was impossible to reply within one second.

"Well... it turns out this customer service system is quite convenient." Feng Bujue didn't like to use this before because he didn't like to deal with strangers (of course, not liking it doesn't mean he wasn't good at it). He didn't know that more than half of the work of Thriller Paradise's customer service system was done by the optical brain—many simple questions could be answered directly by the system based on keywords.

"Okay..." Two seconds later, Brother Jue pressed the button next to the elevator door and muttered, "Then let's take a trip to the 'Scary Box'."

Before he finished speaking, the elevator door opened.

Sure enough, the shape of the Scary Box had also changed...

At this time, what appeared in front of Feng Bujue was a space that was less than eight square meters. It looked only slightly larger than the elevator room.

In this space, there was a table and a sofa chair, both pieces of furniture were facing the elevator door and were fixed to the ground.

On the table was a colorful gift box, the size of which could probably fit a basketball, its surface was an exaggerated color mixed with red, green, blue and purple.

"Ha! I can finally browse the merchandise while sitting." For Brother Jue, who often stood in the Scary Box for several hours, this change in space undoubtedly improved the user experience.

"Okay... let me sit down and see if it's comfortable..." As Feng Bujue spoke, he took two steps forward and sat down on the sofa chair.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he sat down...

Duang~

Accompanied by a sudden sound, the box on the table in front of him suddenly popped open.

From the box popped a grotesque-style puppet with a spring connected to its lower body.

[Hee hee hee...] Then, the puppet made a few bizarre laughs and said, [Please choose an extra reward.]

As he said this, a window floated in front of Brother Jue, with three options:

[One, Skill Value 4000 points]

[Two, One additional skill slot]

[Three, One Title Reset right]