Star Abyss Walker

Chapter 165 Opening Soon

"Old horse."

Taking advantage of a break in Lao Ma's transaction, I put my arm around his shoulder and asked, "Do you have any materials like module cores or module components for sale here?"

"Module core?"

Old Ma frowned and said, "I don't know much about these high-tech gadgets. Please wait a moment."

He made a phone call right away: "Xiao Li, come in for a moment."

Soon, a young man with dyed blond hair and wearing a suit walked in, looking extremely respectful, and said with a smile, "Boss, what are your orders?"

“My brother here has a need for the core module, you two talk to him.”

"Row!"

Xiao Li pulled up a chair and sat down, glancing at the ID above my head with a smile. He couldn't help but shudder, then respectfully said, "So you're the master Zhu Ying... May I ask what you need?"

"I'd like to buy a module core and module components, serial number R-225. Do you sell them here?"

"Wait a moment, let me check."

He immediately took out his phone, checked the cargo information, and then said, "Yes!"

"Great!"

I was overjoyed: "What's the price?"

"Module cores are quite expensive. The R-225's module cores are precision-grade materials. The official price from the Beihai Precision Industry Group is 35 Star Coins. Module components are cheaper, but still cost 8 Star Coins. Moreover, both of these precision materials are strictly controlled by the Crimson Dragon Kingdom, and ordinary people simply cannot buy them. Our player organization only managed to obtain them through secret channels."

"understood."

I turned to look at Lao Ma and said, "Lao Ma, I'll take both the module core and the components. Let's round it down to 40. That's not unreasonable, is it?"

"Ah."

Old Ma just took over a large batch of goods from me, which must be a big order. I didn't haggle at all, so he must have made a lot of money. So I nodded and said, "Xiao Li, let's go with the price Ding Han said, 40 yuan a fixed price."

"Okay, I'll go get the goods!"

Xiao Li immediately got up and left, returning shortly afterward with two packaging boxes in his hands.

I opened it on the spot and confirmed that it was the corresponding module core and module components of R-225 before handing over 40 Star Coins. As always, I left the black market almost clean. After buying the core, I only had 3 pocket money left in my extradimensional storage space.

Then, he reached into the extradimensional storage space, embedded the module core into the component, and handed it to the mini robot, saying, "You can install it yourself, right?"

"Commander, rest assured, leave everything to S-1!"

The miniature robot quickly transformed, its chest opening to house the component containing the module core. After connecting to the power source, it shuddered and stood still with a "buzzing" sound. The characters 0101010101 kept flashing in its eyes as it merged and upgraded.

Just ten seconds later, the little robot's pupils turned blue again, it stood at attention and saluted me, and said in a synthesized voice: "Reporting, Commander, the S-1 autoloading mini robot has been successfully upgraded and has obtained the 'auto-magazine switching' module!"

"very good!"

I nodded in satisfaction: "Set the priority: automatic switching to full magazine has a higher priority than automatic reloading!"

"Yes, Commander, new settings have been loaded!"

"very good!"

I am very satisfied. This will be very convenient. For example, when fighting a BOSS or in PvP, after emptying a magazine, I can switch to the Wind Sword as my primary weapon and engage in close combat. Then, the moment I create distance, I can immediately take out the gun with the reloaded magazine and continue close combat. This saves 1-2 seconds of magazine switching time, which can sometimes be enough to decide the outcome of a battle!
Soon after, the fat man had completed the transaction, buying a large quantity of bullets for his bomb guns. He also spent a considerable sum to purchase 10 RPG rockets for unforeseen circumstances.

In fact, such spending is quite necessary. In the setting of "Star Abyss", the higher the output, the greater the chance of getting good items from the power crystal. It is a reasonable investment that can continuously snowball the advantage.

This is the same principle as being unable to catch a scoundrel if you can't bear to part with your wife.

……

It's eleven o'clock.

The fat man glanced at the time and said, "How about... we grab a late-night snack before we call it a day?"

"Okay!"

Cai Cai smiled and said, "I've had a very fruitful day, shall I treat you?"

"Okay, you do it!"

So, the group left the player black market excitedly, rushed into a hot pot restaurant in the ancient city, ate and drank their fill, and only left when they were burping with satisfaction.

It was now midnight.

"Ding dong!"

Suddenly, a system ringtone sounded in my ear—

Congratulations! You have achieved the top ranking on the leaderboard in the regional quest "Conquest of Twilight Wasteland" (S-rank main quest). Rewards: 6.8 million character experience points, and an additional reward: "Wasteland Fury Knee" (Quality: Purple).

……

Purple leg warmers!

A slight joy welled up in his heart, and he hurriedly opened the interdimensional storage space. Wherever his eyes fell, a pair of heavy leg guards with electronic components embedded on the inside lay quietly in the corner. His gaze lingered for a moment, and their attributes floated out.

【Wilderness Fury Knee】(Quality: Purple)
Rank: Tier 3

Defense: 95
Strength: +30
Spirit: +29
Blessing: Powerful - I, increases attack power by 100 points.
Blessing: Resilience, increases own health by 1500 points.

Strength required: 400
……

It's alright. The attributes are average, not top-tier equipment, but because it has the "Powerful-Ⅰ" attribute, which adds 100 points of attack power, it can be considered a mid-tier top-tier equipment!
If it were the "Mighty Force - II" attribute, it would increase attack power by at least 200 points depending on the equipment's grade. Unfortunately, the chance of getting Mighty Force - II on purple equipment is extremely low, almost zero, so there's no point in hoping for it.

"Clap!"

With a soft click, the purple leg guards replaced the previous blue leg guards, and then the upgrade was confirmed, directly reaching level 34. Looking at the Yuanli Furnace again, after two days and two nights of hard work and extracting a large amount of experience, the Yuanli Furnace had also reached level 33. Thus, the personal panel at this time had greatly improved compared to before going to the subjugation mission.

"How about it?"

Ruolin stood in the cold wind and smiled, "What did everyone get as the final reward for the mission? Ding Han, you came in first place, did you get orange-tier equipment?" "Orange-tier equipment?"

I said speechlessly, "Dream on... A pair of purple leg guards, not bad, with a powerful -Ⅰ attribute that adds 100 attack, this kind of reward can only be considered mediocre."

"Yeah, that's definitely not good enough."

Ruolin said, "I was ranked tenth on the leaderboard and was rewarded with a pair of purple arm guards. The attributes are pretty good. Although it doesn't have the Powerful-I attribute, it does have the Sturdy attribute, which perfectly matches my class characteristics."

Shield-type super warriors are destined to be tanks, and armor is the class's trump card attribute; the higher the better, that's what makes a qualified tank.

"I'm just average."

Cai Cai said helplessly, "I was rewarded with a blue boot. Damn it, this is like being an African chieftain."

Koumi said, "I rewarded you with a blue gauntlet."

"I rely on..."

The fat man said speechlessly, "I also got blue gauntlets as a reward. This developer is really stingy..."

"Okay."

I glanced at everyone and said, "The experience points from the final mission are pretty good, enough to level up, right? That's enough, what more could you want?"

"Too."

Cai Cai grinned.

"It's so cold today..."

I frowned and said, "Fatty, let's take a taxi home."

"okay!"

So everyone went to flag down a taxi. Soon after, a taxi stopped, and Fatty and I got in and headed straight for the neighborhood.

It was already 12:30.

Standing downstairs, I looked up in the direction of 401. There were no lights, so Lin Qingying must have already gone to sleep. I went upstairs, tiptoed to open the door, washed up a little, and then went to bed.

……

Perhaps it was because I hadn't slept for two days and two nights in the Twilight Wasteland that I slept so soundly that I didn't wake up until noon the next day.

When she pushed open the door, she found a breakfast on the dining table in the living room, along with a note written by Lin Qingying: "I'm going to work now, remember to eat."

Her handwriting is very neat and beautiful; it truly reflects her personality.

Unfortunately, the spicy soup had long since gone cold.

So, I picked up the hot and sour soup, put it in the microwave for a quick spin, and then ate it as is.

After finishing his meal, he leaned back on the sofa and sent Lin Qingying a message: "Just woke up."

A few minutes later, she replied to the message: "I'm eating in the company cafeteria. I'll just throw away the breakfast if it gets cold. Come downstairs and eat."

"it is good."

I didn't say much, and directly opened the Dark Web on my phone, trying to find some information I needed.

"drop!"

Suddenly, a message came from Milo: "Han'er, open Jiutian Music Network... or any other music network, it doesn't matter, open it and see who's at the top of the charts!"

"what?"

I hurriedly opened my browser and went to Jiutian Music Network. To my surprise, the number one hot song was "The Ordinary Road" sung by Milo, and its popularity was far ahead of the second place!

Then I opened several other popular music websites, and without exception, the number one hot song on all the music websites was this song, "The Ordinary Road," which had only been online for five days!

"Good guy!"

I quickly opened a voice call and said, "Luo'er, if you become rich and powerful, don't forget me!"

"rest assured!"

Milo said, "With just one word from you, you can take all the royalties from my songs and use them to buy weapons to level up!"

"Reliable, that's what a good brother should say."

"How have you been lately?" Milo asked.

"Just getting by!"

I smiled slightly, sprawled out on the sofa like Ge You, and said, "The player ranking is not bad. I got first place in points in the regional mission that just ended in Huaining City. As for the combat power ranking... Star Abyss hasn't released a combat power ranking yet. If it does... I think I'll probably be number one in the Huaining City regional ranking if nothing unexpected happens."

"Awesome!"

Milo laughed heartily: "Excellent, excellent, excellent! You and I, brothers, one scholar and one warrior, one white and one black, roam the martial world, unmatched by anyone!"

"Wow, they can even use idioms now..."

"Nima..."

Milo said, "By the way, I have officially signed with Jiutian Music Network and become a music artist under their management. In addition, I received news from Huaining City that the Feiyang chain internet cafe has been renovated and is ready to open. The computers, lines and other equipment have been installed, and the store manager and network administrators have been recruited. It is scheduled to open tomorrow."

"Tomorrow? Time flies..."

I was slightly taken aback: "It's only been a few days, and all three hundred computers have been installed and moved in?"

"Fast?"

Milo said, "Think about it carefully. Back when we were in school, some internet cafes outside the school were about to go out of business due to poor management. In order to rip off students for membership fees, they did it like this: they emptied the entire internet cafe overnight... Remember, overnight! That's what you call efficiency. Xiao Bei said that our efficiency here is not considered fast."

I was stunned; what he said made perfect sense.

(End of this chapter)