"Your mission is complete. You successfully assisted the Joker in planting bombs on the ferry, earning you a reward: Shard of God Stone x1."
"Teleportation will begin in 30 seconds."
"10, 9, 8, 7, 6..."
As the countdown continued, the surroundings quickly blurred. Then, Bai Ye's body began to shake, fade, and finally disappear.
Moments later, as the scenery became clear again, Bai Ye found himself back at the place he was before entering the City of Sin.
A desolate ancient road, with the wind occasionally blowing, carrying a slight chill, and stirring up dust.
Looking into the distance, a towering city wall could be seen.
The winding Great Wall was like a giant dragon.
Bai Ye shifted his steps, walked to a dead tree by the ancient road, and sat down. Then, a light screen appeared before his eyes.
The exchange interface had appeared!
Bai Ye's Sin Value was 1210 points, directly overflowing.
The overflow was from continuing to kill chosen ones of the Order faction after reaching the maximum value, and from killing Jiemas in the final mission, which contributed to the Sin Value.
However, it was of no use.
The World Battlefield had made no mistakes, allowing Bai Ye to exploit loopholes. The redeemable Sin Value remained at a thousand.
Bai Ye had known this for a long time. Otherwise, he could have used the Sin Value to max out, and then during the time between completing the mission and finishing, gone on a rampage to hunt down chosen ones of the Order faction, or to cause massive destruction, thereby overflowing his Sin Value and obtaining more.
However, the maximum redeemable Sin Value was 1000. As for what use the extra two hundred had...
Perhaps it was to prove that Bai Ye was a very bad scoundrel?
Bai Ye shrugged self-deprecatingly and began to browse the items.
The redeemable items were similar to those in the hidden forbidden zone during the previous city-wide chaos. Although the items were different, their tier and prices were similar.
The best items only reached Black quality, with the lowest exchange price being 500 Sin Value and the highest being 1000 Sin Value. Items starting at 500 were considered threshold items of Black quality, like the Pulse Twin Guns. Those costing 1000 Sin Value were roughly in the mid-tier of Black quality.
Without hesitation, Bai Ye first redeemed the Phoenix Perch Wutong Wood.
This item had been available during the previous city-wide chaos. However, at that time, Bai Ye only had fifty million, and after redeeming it, he had no extra money to exchange for other items, so Bai Ye chose not to. This time, because he had a surplus, Bai Ye decisively redeemed the Phoenix Perch Wutong Wood, upgrading his Phoenix ability from Blue to Black quality.
Phoenix (Ability) (Black): A power bestowed by the mythical Phoenix, capable of burning everything with flames. If the Phoenix Feather, Undying Flame, and Phoenix Perch Wutong Wood are obtained, the ability can grow and evolve. Effects: Phoenix Flame (burn targets with flame attacks), Flame Burst (can detonate Phoenix Flame at any time, causing secondary damage).
The Black quality Phoenix gained the Flame Burst effect. It had been temporarily enhanced using Loki's Lucky Wheel last time, and the power increase was quite significant.
With the remaining five hundred Sin Value, Bai Ye pondered for a moment and chose a Blue quality magic skill—Teleportation.
Teleportation (Magic) (Blue): Utilizes the magic energy scattered in the air for positioning, then performs magical traction to instantly move to that location. The duration of the pre-cast and the number of consecutive casts depend on the user's mental power. Current pre-cast duration: 2.5 seconds per positioning. Current consecutive cast count: 3 times.
Bai Ye realized two problems during his trip to the City of Sin.
The first problem was that "Soru" was very useful, so Bai Ye wanted a similar mobility ability. If there were Six Powers among the redeemable items, Bai Ye would have chosen to redeem Soru. Unfortunately, there were none.
The second problem was defensive capability. This was a reminder from Yongzhen Nanhuan. Yongzhen Nanhuan was a Red quality flying sword, but it did not unleash its full potential. The biggest issue was its strongest ability, "Heng Dao Li Ma" (Straighten Sword and Gallop). Due to Bai Ye's lack of defensive means, it could not be triggered, causing Yongzhen Nanhuan to be primarily used for strengthening the body.
While the basic increase of 30 points to physical attributes by Yongzhen Nanhuan was not low, it certainly did not reach Red quality standards. However, Yongzhen Nanhuan had an additional percentage-based increase in physical attributes, which was closely related to the user's physical attributes, and thus also did not perform to its full potential.
However, Yongzhen Nanhuan was ultimately a product of the gacha machine. Although it gave Bai Ye a reminder to pay attention to defensive abilities to avoid situations where good items are obtained but cannot be utilized effectively, it was not urgent for now. Therefore, Bai Ye chose Teleportation.
Teleportation was quite good. Although it was Blue quality, it was related to mental power. As long as the mental power was excellent, Teleportation would surely exceed Blue quality standards. Moreover, support abilities did not have very high quality requirements; suitability was the key.
After consuming three hundred Sin Value for Teleportation, Bai Ye used the remaining two hundred Sin Value to exchange for medicine.
Golden Ring Pill (Item) (Green): Can heal injuries to a certain extent and remove any negative effects.
Drugs like the Chocolate Bar that instantly revived to full status were too expensive for Bai Ye to afford. For pure healing medicine, Bai Ye still had Cheese Sticks, so Bai Ye chose the Golden Ring Pill, which could heal injuries to a certain extent and clear negative effects.
After all, Bai Ye was only 100% immune to poison; other negative statuses were still troublesome.
The Golden Ring Pill consumed 150 Sin Value for Bai Ye. With the remaining 50 Sin Value, Bai Ye redeemed two stacks of 99 Dao talismans and a box of six energy cubes.
He no longer needed to hoard Pulse Pistols.
However, the redeemed items were not the main event. Bai Ye still had a good item in his possession.
Initial Gene Modification Cell Fluid (Item) (Blue): A gene fluid that can strengthen the body by altering gene sequences. After consumption, all physical attributes will randomly increase by 5-30 points. There is a 50% chance to unlock the first gene gate. If the first gene gate unlock fails, there will be side effects from gene sequence recombination and modification.
Anything that directly increased physical attributes was a good thing.
After all, one's own strength was the foundation of everything and the most valuable way to improve one's power.
However, in the City of Sin, Bai Ye dared not use this item. If the physical burden was too great, or if there were side effects, the consequences would be dire.
And now...
Bai Ye glanced around. The wind was biting cold, desolate and uninhabited. It looked quite safe, so he could inject it.
As for the side effects...
A fifty-fifty chance!
To gamble might mean losing, but...
Without gambling, one would never win!
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