Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 21 Skill Lv2
[The conditions for clearing the instance have been met, and rewards are being calculated.]

Beside the deep purple space-time tunnel, a team of four was collecting their spoils. This was already their sixth successful collaboration.

The Barbarian happily announced that he had gotten a piece of blue equipment. Everyone applauded and congratulated him, but the Wanderer couldn't hide the sour look on his face.

The witch lamented in the channel that it was becoming easier and easier to run around the map, and everyone was gradually developing a tacit understanding. Especially the mage was becoming more and more dominant against elite monsters, as if he had a weak spot. The sword guard would be overloaded after being kicked two or three times, and then be slaughtered at will.

While everyone was busy, the Barbarian suddenly sent a message about leaving the team. Because he was about to break through level 4, he could no longer obtain disaster coins and experience. He planned to look for higher-level reverberations in reality, and he might not have time to go to the dungeon in the future.

Although I expected this day to come, I didn't expect it to come so early.

As [Flying Grass] finished speaking, [Starry Eyes] coyly stated that she, too, planned to leave the team. Her real-world level was quite high, with a good chance of obtaining remnant relics. She might even be attempting to clear a higher-level dungeon.

The rogue looked at the mage and shook his head.

[Nightingale]: Since everyone has left, let's just go here. I'll be a burden if I stay. Mage is actually capable of soloing.
Lin Bo was indeed confident that he could face two elite monsters at the same time, mainly because he was familiar with the sword guard's response method. He only needed to increase the distance between himself and the shield soldier to break the battle into two duels.

[Lighthouse Guest]: I'll take you on a map tour
[Nightingale]: Really, no need. I'm just a burden. Although I can't help much, at least I can't hold the mage back.
The online player community divides netizens into three levels: big guys, buddies, and noobs.

There is nothing shameful about clinging to the big guys. After all, it is just a matter of convenience for them to advance the map, and they can finish the task with just one click.

But for a player with dignity, it is really unacceptable to stay by your buddies' side and watch them sweat and bleed like a parasite.

Lin Bo was silent for a moment and nodded.

After returning to the lighthouse, he paused for a rare moment. In the dungeon chat, [Nightingale] began calling friends again, looking for teammates to run the Infernal difficulty level together.

Today's challenge attempts have been exhausted, and the dungeon rewards are 108 Disaster Coins, 540 General XP, three pieces of gray equipment, and two pieces of white equipment. These items are either duplicates or useless, so I sold them directly to the merchant for a total of 87 Disaster Coins.

Lin Bo looked at the 380 disaster coins he had saved and casually browsed the cargo list on the Duolian Duoyi platform.

Dungeon invitations are often out of stock. After all, this thing is the most hard currency in the current version. Even invitations of novice difficulty are rarely circulated in the market. Even if a few invitations are occasionally put on the shelves, they are immediately sold out.

Lin Bo asked Brother Agilent when the invitation letters would be restocked.

[Agilent]: Don't count on it. If you're not wealthy enough, you won't be able to snatch it from others. And to be honest, the invitations circulating on the trading platform are somewhat problematic.

[Lighthouse Operator]: Is there a trap?

[An]: It's more or less the same. Either the returns are known to be extremely low, or the intention is extremely malicious. When you trade with other players in the future, be careful of a special kind of dungeon invitation. The envelope will be stained with blood, or even with flowing fresh blood.
[An]: If the invitation letter looks like this, it means that a player is trapped in the dungeon and cannot be resurrected and return to the real world.
[Lighthouse Guest]: How do trapped players escape?

[An]: I don’t know the details, but it is said that we have to wait for the next player who gets the Bloodstained Invitation to clear the dungeon. Those trapped players will offer a portion of their wealth as a reward to increase the dungeon rewards and attract other players to clear the dungeon.
Lin Bo said he learned a lot.

He gave up the idea of ​​buying a copy invitation on the trading platform and decided to find an opportunity in reality.

Lin Bo got a lot of debris in the dungeon today, but he was not in a hurry to hand it over to the enthusiastic scrap yard. Instead, he used it to practice the surface touch and endoscopy method.

The mechanical guard whose neck was pierced by the electrified short spear must have had multiple short circuits and fuses in his body. These very minor injuries are difficult to judge unless you are an experienced veteran.

Lin Bo continued to use his ability to hear all things, skipping the reasoning process and finding the answer directly. In just half an hour, he had accumulated enough skill proficiency.

Surface touch and endoscopy: Lv1 (60.9/60)

【Upgrade requirements met】

"upgrade."

A familiar cold current surged from the center of his eyebrows, passed through his skin again, and gathered in his palms.

Lin Bo quietly savored the feeling brought by the skill upgrade. He felt as if a layer of fine invisible hair had grown under the skin of his hands, like a probe. Any movement would trigger a burst of nerve signals.

Surface touch and endoscopy: Lv2 (0.9/300) By touching an object, you can perceive its overall internal and external structure.

Skill upgrades bring very intuitive progress.

On the one hand, it is the skill itself. Now Lin Bo can not only sense the damage points inside the mechanical wreckage, but even the tiny internal structures, such as hairsprings, gears, motors and other small-sized parts, can be vaguely captured.

He put his hand on the wooden storage box and tapped it gently. He could guess through the box how many books and clothes were inside.

On the other hand, his heightened sense of touch synergizes with his Listener trait, allowing him to more clearly perceive previously intangible "languages." Even stone, in his hands, breaks its silence and speaks.

Lin Bo patiently dismantled all the scraps collected today, increasing his experience in surface touch endoscopy. He then picked and chose, keeping some of the parts he thought were useful, and finally gave the rest to enthusiastic netizens.

[Picking up trash makes me happy]: Oh, you are so thoughtful. You even helped me to take them apart, saving me a lot of time.
[Lighthouse Guest]: Something that comes handy
[Garbage Pickup]: Are you practicing your watch-touch endoscopy technique? Hehe, just thinking about you scratching your head with junk makes me want to laugh. Experience the torture I went through back then~ If you need more weird junk to practice with, just let me know and I'll definitely arrange it.
Lin Bo did have this need. The experience that the mechanical guards could provide for tactile endoscopy was limited. As a mechanic, his research path would inevitably require him to come into contact with various types of machines. The two of them hit it off immediately.

He took the initiative to contact [Starry Eyes] again. This soul-calling witch was an expert in the field of medicine. Lin Bo planned to buy some herbs from her to practice the pharmacist's tongue identification.

[Lighthouse Guest]: If it's not too much trouble, I'd like to buy some non-toxic medicinal herbs. I don't need too much, but I want more varieties.

[Starry Eyes]: Sure, Master, do you need anything else?

[Lighthouse Guest]: That’s all for now.
[Starry Eyes]: Master, are you planning to study medicine? Wait a moment! (Offline)... (Online) I'm back, Master, let's open a trading channel.
The sea-blue vortex opened, and a large number of ancient scriptures fell out from the passage. Lin Bo flipped through them and found that they were all medical books.

For all text materials, during the transaction process, players can choose to spend a certain amount of disaster coins to let the automatic translation module of the comprehensive network translate a copy, and only hand over the copy while retaining the original.

Previously, [Picking up trash makes me happy] had sent Lin Bo a lot of knowledge materials related to mechanics, and now [Starry Eyes] was so enthusiastic that Lin Bo was overwhelmed.

[Lighthouse Guest]: This is so... I don't know how to thank you.
[Starry Eyes]: It was Brother Mage who always took care of me and Brother Nightingale in the dungeon. If I didn’t do something, I would feel very indebted. We should keep in touch in the future. If there is a chance to meet again in a dungeon in the future, let’s run the map together again!

[Lighthouse Guest]: Of course

Lin Bo sat at the head of the bed, flipping through a medical book, but he didn't read a single word. Suddenly, he felt very good and couldn't help laughing to himself for a while.

The sun is about to set, and it's time to light the lighthouse as usual.

(End of this chapter)