You've been ruined by games all your life!

Chapter 63 Deep Sea Gold Exchange
The meeting with Da Tun is a week away, so Chen Lai can do other things now, such as choosing the next script, or thinking about how to resolve the conflict between Tianyu Zhoufu and Liuyan.

Chen Lai wasn't in a hurry to choose a book; he was more concerned with building his own power.

Previously, Jia Xiu suggested that he abandon the conflicting forces and focus on one side, because players have limited energy, and they can't always get items with the word "unique" when entering a dungeon. Instead of strengthening multiple abilities, it's better to figure out a single build first.

That makes sense, but Chen Lai is different from the average player. If he carefully selects his dungeons, he can indeed pull off a winning streak every time, without worrying about wasting his money or lacking unique items to enhance his build.

However... ability compatibility is indeed a big problem. If one possesses abilities from four different elements, but they conflict with each other, the result would not be a king of rogue cultivators, but rather a running bug.

Therefore, we need to find something as soon as possible that can be compatible with everything and reconcile the conflicts within our bodies.

In this deep-sea game with infinite possibilities, there must be such things, but it's too troublesome to search for them one by one. If there are any available, everyone can exchange them. Zhang Long seemed to have mentioned something about buying and selling between players before, what was it again?

Thinking of this, he reopened his private chat with Zhang Long.

[Dawei Tianlong: Bro, where do players buy and sell goods? Do they set up stalls on Penguin Island?]

[Reincarnated as a dump truck: Have something to sell?]

[Dawei Tianlong: How often do players sell unique items to each other when they want to buy something?]

[Reincarnation Mud Truck: There are many, brothers. Not all unique items produced by the Great Vortex are good. Some come with curses or unbearable side effects. If you use such things as the foundation of your abilities, your life is ruined.]

[Reincarnated Dump Truck: The place you're looking for is north of Penguin Island, called the Deep Sea Exchange. It's mostly a barter system; they don't usually ask for money, since the Deep Sea Company buys things at the original price. If they want money, just sell it directly.]

After carefully reading Zhang Long's reply, Chen Lai nodded slightly. This made a lot of sense. Players traded with each other either to exchange for unique items belonging to their own faction or to find a more suitable build... If it was for money, wouldn't it be more convenient to just recycle?

With that thought in mind, he closed the private chat interface, told Fuheishener, and left the underwater warehouse.

The way to reach Penguin Island from the underwater warehouse is different from escaping from the whirlpool. Instead, a cute jellyfish emerges from the deep sea, which players call "Little Snail".

The jellyfish will carry you to the surface until you finally reach the surface, where you'll find Penguin Island.

"A thousand yuan for protection! A thousand yuan for protection!"

"Winter break deep-sea tour package, 1998 yuan per child, let's go see the sights!"

The penguins stood in front of different whirlpools, shouting loudly. The whole island was filled with penguins swaying and staggering... It seemed that some parents had actually brought their children into the game, planning to join a tour group.

After all, traveling in real life is expensive and you don't get to experience the cultural characteristics. It's different in games. From ancient times to the future, you can find any kind of scenery and cultural landscape you want, and there are even some educational benefits.

Thinking about it this way, it's actually quite normal to join a group and hire someone to protect your child.

Chen Lai walked around and looked at the game, and the more he looked, the more interesting he found Deep Sea Games. The players were using their creativity and imagination to come up with some really amazing things that made people's eyes go black.

For example, a player might be looking for a "death buddy" who is determined to explore every major vortex and experience different ways to die... This would definitely not be enough money, so he needs a buddy to help him recycle the equipment that has been destroyed.

There was also a player organization called "Ice," which gathered a large group of people interested in contraband. Their sole purpose in entering dungeons was to find special drugs within the dungeons. The neurostimulants in Cyberpunk were once extremely popular among them.

And so on, and many more. This game world has accommodated too many people, and countless strange and wonderful dreams. Chen Lai also has a dream: he wants to perfect the enhancement and construction of all four elements, and become the freest person in the Deep Sea game!

This feeling is probably similar to those who pursue the highest efficiency in body training in the Soul Arena, squeezing out every last bit of gold to push their abilities to the peak.

As he walked, Chen Lai traversed Penguin Mountain and Penguin Sea, heading north towards Penguin Island.

There aren't many people on the north side of Penguin Island. The most popular services in Deepsea are actually located near the whirlpool. Only professional money-grubbers would have a demand for things like player trading.

The five large characters "Deep Sea Gold Exchange" are scribbled in a very rough manner on the igloo of the Eskimos. The entrance to the igloo is very narrow, probably just wide enough for a penguin to pass through.

Chen could see clearly that several penguins with uneasy expressions quickly went in, and came out again a short while later, their expressions still furrowed, probably because the problem hadn't been solved.

He didn't look for long before staggering forward and slipping into the ice house.

Who designed this? It looks like a door, but it turns out to be a slide.

The slide twists and turns, and when Chen Lai reached the end, a bright and open view suddenly appeared before him.

Countless cutting board stalls were pieced together, each displaying items in gold or red. Some stalls had penguin owners behind them, while others had no penguins at all, only signs that read "The owner has gone to sea."

"Going to the sea... you mean the Great Whirlpool?" Chen Lai couldn't keep his composure, but the player remained as abstract as ever.

He randomly picked a stall and looked around. The stall owner was selling the Blood-Drinking Sword, which was the only item he owned and was golden.

"The Blood-Drinking Sword, it's a blood-sucking sword, right? Why is it hard to sell this? Those with buffing abilities would probably want it, right?"

When Chen Lai started chatting with the boss, the penguin that was browsing the Deep Sea Forum immediately sat up.

After hearing Chen's words, his expression became very constipated: "It is bloodsucking, but it's sucking its own blood. If it were sucking other people's blood, it would have been sold long ago."

"?" Chen Lai scratched his head. No wonder, probably no one would want to use such a useless ability as their own structure or foundation.

"So what do you want to exchange for?" Chen Lai continued to ask the boss, wanting to figure out what the penguins in this gold exchange wanted.

"What do you want to exchange?" The penguin boss gave Chen Lai a knowing look: "Any unique item without side effects, anything will do, even if it's damaged."

"..."

After bidding farewell to the shopkeeper, Chen visited a few more stalls. The shopkeepers' requests were all pretty much the same: they had obtained items with serious side effects from the vortex and wanted to exchange them for something truly usable.

Things like [Heavenly Curse] + [Gift of Fuheishen], or [Six Eyes], are things they dream of. They have virtually no side effects and are exceptionally powerful.

The more Chen Lai browsed, the more he felt that it would be difficult to find what he wanted. Most of these "unique" items were useless, with no compatibility or conflicting functions whatsoever.

Just as he was losing patience, a skeletal penguin appeared before him, and his cutting board was empty... no, a spell appeared in the groove of the cutting board, which looked like a large red item.

(End of this chapter)