Their commission was suspicious.

With 350 gold coins, I could buy a lollipop instead of this thing!

Chen Luo, who was agonizingly burying his head in his hands and hating his impulsiveness, suddenly felt a warm hand gently stroking his head.

When Chen Luo looked up and saw Isamara gently and carefully comforting him, Chen Luo felt even more pained!

What a swindler! What a swindler!

The pain intensified when Chen Luo realized that Isamara was right beside him.

"If only you hadn't been so quick to buy it, if only you had delayed by even 0.5 seconds... why couldn't you control yourself!" the user-friendly plugin said in exasperation.

"But those are Isamara's lines of confession!"

[Confession quotes? Do you know what would happen if you were lying in bed right now, completely unguarded, and Isamara happened to be next to you? Confession quotes?]

"What do you know? This is called romance! This is when the world of anime comes to life! That's my waifu from 2D!" Chen Luo cried out in anguish.

Do you want Mebius's hair and her hat to be the same color?

"What do you know? The reason why two-dimensional paper doll wives are called paper doll wives is because they are only wives when they are paper dolls." Chen Luo snorted coldly and stood up resolutely.

【Then you can sell this item, which cost 350 gold coins, back at half price. At least you can get less than 200 gold coins back.】

"No, I want to put this book at the very top of the warning panel in my backpack to remind myself to learn from my mistakes!"

When did the warning panel appear in the backpack?

"It wasn't there before, but it is now."

[You just want to hear Isamara calling you Lolo nonstop, right? Tch.]

Chen Luo snorted inwardly, too lazy to continue talking to the humanized plugin. Instead, he began to explore the basement for any hidden treasure chests or similar items while constantly refreshing the merchant's inventory.

The term "product backend" might sound a bit unfamiliar, but if we switch to "daily replenishment," it becomes much easier to understand.

The faction's only merchant offers various hidden benefits, including discounts when farming daily supplies.

In addition to the fixed 5% discount on purchase prices that all merchants can enjoy, Chen Luo's daily supply refresh may also randomly offer even greater discounts.

The 5% discount on the purchase price is fixed and is not reflected in the daily supply.

For example, when Chen Luo refreshed the page for the 22nd time, the next line showed normal numbers without any discount, but the first few lines in the upper right corner had a -99%, -75%, and -50% indicator.

This is the kind of item that you absolutely won't regret buying.

Not every merchant will buy the items in these daily supplies.

Other merchants don't offer such huge, randomly reduced discounts.

Although there are occasionally good items in the daily supplies, most of them are things that would be thrown on the ground and even dogs wouldn't want to eat.

For example, slime jelly.

This thing is quite expensive to make; it's made from a whole slime and compressed into a jelly the size of half a palm, but its only purpose is to satisfy hunger.

As a result, this thing is expensive to produce, but has very little actual value, and it tastes terrible; even dogs wouldn't eat it!

These high-priced but low-value items are everywhere in the daily supplies, and you can only occasionally find a good one.

It's like picking up treasures in a garbage dump; you might just find an antique that someone else threw away.

But what most of the things in a landfill are, those who know, know.

Chen Luo still had quite a few gold coins, after all, he had indeed spent a long time tilling the land and opened many treasure chests.

The only pity is that Chen Luo threw the gold coins into the river, which did produce silver gold coins and gold gold coins, but the problem is that the Abyss Passage does not recycle the other two types.

What a pity!

Otherwise, they could have profited from the Abyss Passage!

Chen Luo knew that since the Abyss Passage dared to launch this merchant system, it could guarantee that the Abyss Passage would only profit from it and would not lose money.

But when it comes to exploiting loopholes, the River God is still the better one.

If the Abyss Passage dares to recycle silver and gold coins, Chen Luo could empty it out in less than two months.

After all, the daily supply shop can be refreshed 100 times a day.

“Let’s go. There’s nothing left to search in this basement. It’s time to go back to the surface. Then I’ll take you out of the abyss passage. Let’s go embrace the sunlight.” Chen Luo turned to Isamara, who had been following behind him, and said.

Isamara simply continued to tug at Chen Luo's clothes, saying nothing else and showing no further interest in leaving the abyss passage or the church.

Isamara isn't particularly interested in embracing the sun, but she is very interested in embracing you.

"..."

The basement treasure hunt is temporarily over.

This time, I found 5 treasures in the basement.

Four twisted relics and one Isamara.

As for the broken magic mirror... Chen Luo has already buried his allies.

Although the magic mirror was lying to Isamara that only her beloved could see its true form, the shadowy curse did indeed prevent others from spying on Isamara.

All that's left to do is wait for the three-day game tester mission to end, and once Xiao Xilin's identity mission is complete, Chen Luo can then help Isamara create her identity mission.

Before this, Isamara could temporarily maintain her ability to travel outside the city by relying on the candy that Chen Luo gave her.

When Chen Luo and Isamara emerged from the basement, they found that the dark clouds over the town were indeed slowly dissipating, and faint sunlight was filtering through the clouds and dappling the ground.

[Mysterious Town: Exploration Completed 82.3%]

The so-called exploration level probably refers to smashing the faceless statue that each household worships. That statue constantly exudes a strange power and is the source of the chaotic energy that supports this town.

The town is considered cleared only after all the statues are destroyed. After clearing the town, enter the church, search the area, and you can open the basement behind the church to obtain the final reward.

Five items equivalent to high-level equipment.

The most valuable item is naturally the disposable magic mirror, followed by the four additional items found.

Unfortunately, before the town was even cleared, Chen Luo took the reward, and Isamara used the one-time magic mirror.

Chen Luo took out the game test feedback he had written, which had the word "planner" written on it.

Chen Luo originally planned to write about the game's imperfect mechanics, but after thinking about it carefully, he realized that imperfect mechanics would benefit puzzle gamers like himself, so he wrote instead: "The developers listen to player feedback very much."

As the four groups of people heading to the town explored the rooms marked with red dots, they continued to smash the prominently displayed statues.

Chen Luo also entered the church and swung a sledgehammer to smash the last remaining part of the statue's foot.

Chen Luo and Isamara stood in front of the church, enjoying the sunlight that shone on them as the clouds gradually dispersed.

Due to Chen Luo's division of responsibilities and grouping methods, the four groups completed their tasks almost simultaneously.

[Mysterious Town: Exploration Completed 100%]

Ordinary gifted individuals naturally cannot see things like exploration progress, so when ordinary gifted individuals or cultivators of the abyss passage explore a region, they often use whether the region's iconic features have completely disappeared as the evaluation standard.

For example, in the Poison Fog Swamp, when all the poisonous fog in the Poison Fog Swamp has dissipated, it means that the area has been completely conquered.

Similarly, the fact that all the dark clouds above the town dissipated also illustrates this point.

"Wow, there's a bunch of pixelated characters standing next to my cousin!" Su Yuan exclaimed in shock after finishing the fight.

"..." Chen Luo, who was standing there ready to welcome everyone, suddenly fell silent.

Ugh, is this what you call a mosaic? This is more like a shadow, okay?

Even the worst-case scenario is that you could make Isamara's body look like a Shadow Priest, which is better than having a mosaic effect.

And where did you get the idea that mosaics are there?

"Xiaoyuan, come here. I think there are some things I need to talk to you about alone..."

"Ah? No, no, let's not. We've just finished exploring this town, it's time to go get the final reward." Su Yuan quickly shook her head.

Although Su Yuan didn't know what Chen Luo planned to talk to her about, she instinctively sensed something was wrong.

"I've already received the final reward," Chen Luo said calmly.

"Then let's talk about that NPC next to you, cousin! The quest is already complete, right?" Su Yuan had been following Chen Luo for so long that she had mastered the art of changing the subject.

Upon hearing Su Yuan mention this matter, Chen Luo also felt that it was indeed necessary to introduce Isamara to everyone first.

"Her name is Isamara..."

Chen Luo needed to consider both those who had already played Arknights and those who hadn't.

Fortunately, explaining Isamara's true identity isn't too difficult.

However, the explanation regarding the world that Little A and Isamara lived in was very complicated.

After all, once timelines are involved, things become very difficult to understand and explain.

"Oh, I get it. So, in the future, cousin, you threw a crystal ball through the river of time to the present and obtained the method to solve the problem of the Sea King in the real world line of Terra, right? And the NPC next to you is the leader in that crystal ball?"

"Although there may be some differences in understanding, this interpretation is not wrong."

"So, for the next period of time, cousin, you'll be fishing non-stop in order to retrieve that crystal ball?"

"There's no rush. The rivers of time aren't interconnected. That crystal ball was thrown into the river of time in the world of Terra. If I want to fish it out, I'll have to go to that river of time," Chen Luo said, shaking his head.

"And it wasn't my future self who threw the crystal ball from the future into the present. Rather, the river of time forever connects the past, present, and future. It's just that it was thrown from downstream to upstream. Oh well, none of that matters."

"The most important thing now is that this area is about to respawn, and we should evacuate. Then I'll go to a safe spot I've never been to before to check it out."

Once the exploration progress of a region reaches 100%, that region will gradually be refreshed.

All the tasks in this eerie town have been completed; it's time to head to a safer spot.

Chen Luo, the game tester, hasn't finished all his daily tasks yet, so he can't rest!

However, some people's focus was not on the area being refreshed, but on the shadowy figure next to it.

Isamara...

The person who knew the law remembered that when they used to play with Chen Luo's computer, they seemed to have seen her wallpaper on the computer.

Lolo must really like this anime character, since it's been chosen as a computer wallpaper.

"Lolo, you... can't help her remove the shadow?" the Herrscher of Knowledge asked.

“It’s not impossible, but she currently lacks official status, and her fame is quite high. It’s better to leave her in the shadows,” Chen Luo said.

"Can you see her whole face?"

"I can see it, but it's a bit blurry."

Even if it's only 0.0001%, that's still a little bit.

"OK then……"

As long as it's not completely visible, it's fine.

Isamara's shadow not only enveloped Isamara, but now, standing next to Chen Luo, Isamara also shrouded half of Chen Luo's body in shadow.

The Law Master feared that these two might secretly do something behind his back, such as committing a crime.

If you can't see it clearly, then there's no problem. Even if Chen Luo really likes this two-dimensional wife, he wouldn't be sticking to a dark shadow like that, would he?

"..." Liu Huaixi looked at Isamara, who was now holding Chen Luo's hand and was clearly visible in his sight, and remained silent.

As for shadows, Liu Huaixi could indeed see some, but they didn't significantly affect her senses.

Given his own predicament, how clearly could Chen Luo, whose talent surpassed his own, possibly see things...?

"Xiao Xi, can you see Isamara's figure clearly now?" The Herrscher of Knowledge's voice suddenly rang in Liu Huai Xi's ears.

"Yes, but there will be a shadow," Liu Huaixi said.

"Oh."

Having confirmed that Liu Huaixi had not lied to the Herrscher of Knowledge, he nodded in satisfaction.

"So next we have to take a magic carpet for two hours back to the nearest illusory gate, then go through the illusory gate to the blank hall, and then head to the safe point?" Yunxia asked.

“No, there’s actually a private illusory sect in this strange town. Come on, I’ll take you there,” Chen Luo said.

Reaching 100% exploration of a region doesn't mean there's nothing missed. Just like in a game where the map exploration reaches 100%, there might still be one or two hidden treasure chests that haven't been unearthed.

This virtual door is located in the basement of a house in the central church district.

Although this virtual portal will soon disappear because the entire eerie town is about to be refreshed, it can still be used before it disappears.

The map designers never intended for a single team to conquer this forest village in a day; they planned for it to be done gradually...