Chapter 280 Shop Refresh, Big Shopping Spree

As the echoes of the system announcement faded, the Public Channel of Jinghai University paused for two seconds before completely exploding.

[8th Floor - 246 - Huang Bo (tenant)]: "Regional fusion? Come on, let the brothers outside witness the firepower of our Jinghai University!"

[7th Floor - 941 - Xu Sui (tenant)]: "I was terrified during the last fusion, but this time I wish more people would come. Whoever dares to act up on our turf, we'll teach them a lesson!"

[6th Floor - 461 - Tian Li (tenant)]: "With Boss Su Ze here, whichever region comes is just free loot! With our setup, we can walk sideways across the entire server!"

The players were feeling very inflated now.

The crazy monster grinding over the past few days, which even required fighting for kills, had allowed them to completely shake off the fear from the early days of the apocalypse.

Coupled with the recent settlement evaluation...

Therefore, many people adopted a condescending sense of superiority toward the players from other regions who were about to arrive.

However, when they saw the blood-red prompt at the end saying "Difficulty Doubled," the tone of the channel changed instantly.

"What the hell? Difficulty doubled? Don't do this!"

[1st Floor - 951 - Zhao Hai (tenant)]: "Life was just starting to look up, why did it double? Are you playing unfairly or what!"

[6th Floor - 431 - Yang Min (tenant)]: "It's over, it's over. With this doubled difficulty, how are we supposed to survive?"

The channel was filled with wailing.

[3rd Floor - Wang Meng (landlord)]: "Everyone shut the hell up! Are you mourning the dead?"

[3rd Floor - Wang Meng (landlord)]: "Can you all use your brains? If the monsters get stronger, won't the dropped materials be better? If they didn't get stronger and just doubled in quantity, wouldn't that be a great thing? Which time in the past two days have you gone out and not fought tooth and nail to steal kills? If the quantity doubles, everyone can kill to their heart's content; you get combat merit points and materials and copper coins, isn't that great?"

[3rd Floor - Wang Meng (landlord)]: "Besides, if the sky falls, Boss Su Ze will hold it up. What are you cowards hiding in the back afraid of!"

As soon as these words were said, the channel quieted down significantly.

The players pondered for a moment.

It seemed... that made sense?

Immediately after, Xu Feng also posted a pinned message.

[8th Floor - Xu Feng (landlord)]: "These three days are a rest period. Everyone, hurry up and upgrade your gates and build weapons and equipment. Boss Su Ze has already arranged the tactics for dealing with the Vampires in the next round. We just need to follow the plan step by step."

"Dealing with Vampires? The boss already knows what the next round's monsters are?!"

"Awesome! Boss's intelligence network is simply invincible!"

"Then what is there to be afraid of! Just follow the boss and we're done!"

The originally low morale was forcefully pulled to its peak by these two statements.

Inside Dormitory 404.

Su Ze leaned back on the leather sofa, watching the resurging emotions in the channel, and casually closed the Public Channel chat box.

He didn't care at all about what the players thought.

He opened the Leader private chat group.

"All Leaders."

"Boss, here!" everyone replied instantly.

"Go pick a few sharp squads," Su Ze typed quickly. "Go test the effect of the Halo we just obtained."

Su Ze briefly typed out his concerns.

"The judgment mechanism of this Halo must be figured out. How is damage shared? Is there a distance limit? Can cross-Dormitory teams make it effective? If a single instance of damage exceeds the total health of the entire team, is it collective death or is one health point forcibly retained?"

"Or is it just the overflowing part that the receiver cannot bear that gets shared... In short, get all the details figured out for me as much as possible."

"Whoever does a good job will be rewarded by me."

The group was silent for a few seconds.

Subsequently, Xu Feng replied: "We understand, Boss."

Su Ze closed the private chat group and tapped his fingers lightly on the sofa armrest.

After resolving the matter of the Halo test, the next step was to prepare for battle.

The monsters for the third round were Vampires.

This kind of thing had extremely fast speed and could also heal by draining blood, so the combat mode had to be changed.

At this moment, Qiao Yunge leaned over and handed Su Ze a glass of freshly squeezed fruit juice.

"Su Ze, for the next round..." she asked curiously, "can our current weapons handle it?"

"Ordinary swords and blades are hard to inflict fatal wounds with," Su Ze took the juice and took a sip. "We need to use things that specifically counter them."

An Lan also walked over, holding the Liuying Dagger in her hand: "For example, silver and crosses?"

"Correct," Su Ze nodded.

With a thought, he directly opened his exclusive Survival Mall.

Sure enough, the Mall interface had changed drastically.

There were some new supplies.

Su Ze clicked in and saw that it was full of things specifically for countering Vampires.

[Garlic - ordinary quality]

[Price]: 10 copper coins/each.

[Evaluation: Has a certain repellent effect on the lowest-level Vampires.]

[Cross - fine quality]

[Price]: 500 copper coins/each.

[Evaluation: Has a certain damaging effect on low-level Vampires.]

[Primary Holy Water - rare quality]

[Price]: 800 copper coins/bottle.

[Evaluation: Has a certain killing effect on low-level Vampires.]

Scrolling down, there were also related basic materials, such as silver ore, holy wood branches, etc.

Su Ze scanned around, his eyebrows slightly raised.

The quantities of these conventional supplies were unlimited, but the highest quality was still stuck at the rare level.

Even in his upgraded Mall, there were no finished products of perfect quality, not even materials.

It seems that items of perfect quality were indeed locked at the upper limit at this stage.

This made Su Ze feel even more that choosing the Creator's Workshop just now was the most correct choice.

He continued to scroll down and clicked on the [Limited Time and Quantity Purchase Zone].

The countdown on it displayed: 6 days 23 hours 55 minutes.

[Rare quality - Holy Water Essence]

[Price]: 1200 copper coins/bottle.

[Quantity]: 500/500 bottles. (Limited for ordinary players, currently 500 remaining)

[Introduction: After splashing, it can cause strong burning damage to Vampires; low-level Vampires can be killed directly.]

[Rare quality - Silver-plated Arrow]

[Price]: 200 copper coins/arrow.

[Quantity]: 5000 arrows.

[Introduction: The arrowhead is mixed with high-purity silver; after hitting a Vampire, it causes 200% extra true damage and suppresses its wound healing.]

[Rare quality - Mythril Longsword]

[Price]: 2000 copper coins/sword.

[Quantity]: 100/100 swords.

[Introduction: Entirely crafted from Mythril, it has a very strong suppression effect on the Vampire race, with an attached 'Magic Breaking' characteristic.]

[fine quality - Garlic Essence]

[Price]: 300 copper coins/bottle.

[Quantity]: 2000/2000 bottles

[Introduction: Applied to objects, it can cause Vampires to feel strong disgust, dispelling part of their fighting intent/killing intent.]

These items were all limited-time purchases in ordinary players' Malls.

Tens of thousands of people fighting over such a small amount of supplies would definitely lead to bloody fights.

But his own Mall had no purchase quantity restrictions at all.

As long as he had enough copper coins, he could buy as much as he wanted.

"Holy Water Essence, give me two thousand bottles."

"Silver-plated Arrows, give me ten thousand first."

"Mythril Longswords, and Garlic Essence..."

The copper coins were dropping rapidly.

Su Ze didn't even blink.

With all the students in the school killing monsters crazily over the past few days, plus his own accumulation, he didn't need to say how many copper coins he had now; the answer was that it was enough!