41: Black treasure chest!

“Just compensate me with 7 corpse spirit orbs, and also give me that car,” Lin Chuan said, pointing to the modified vehicle, which must have been a high-performance Hummer before its modifications.

The burly man with a knife scar above his eyebrow bone, one of the four-person team, immediately turned cold at these words.

The atmosphere became somewhat tense for a moment.

Yet, Lin Chuan, facing four people, showed no fear, maintaining a calm and collected demeanor.

Luo Shuhong was cursing inwardly.

She really wanted to scream, 'What kind of compensation is this? This is clearly outright robbery!'

However, women are naturally intuitive!

Luo Shuhong had a vague feeling that if anyone on her side dared to utter a single 'no'.

The man in front of her wouldn't waste words.

He would act!

He possessed great strength but lacked the noble virtue of cherishing and protecting women.

Luo Shuhong noticed that during the brief silence from her side, the man in front of her was already growing impatient.

Finally, her keen intuition ignited a strong will to survive. Luo Shuhong gritted her teeth, took out 7 corpse spirit orbs from her dimensional ring, and handed them to Lin Chuan.

She hesitated, then tentatively asked, “That car…”

However, before she could finish, Lin Chuan swept a cold gaze over her and kindly reminded, “I advise you not to bargain. I don't have much patience.”

Luo Shuhong swallowed hard and promptly shut her mouth.

She took a step back, held out a hand to stop her three teammates, and kept her eyes on Lin Chuan, “The keys are in the car. You can drive it away directly.”

“Thanks,” Lin Chuan said, surprisingly politely, before turning to get into the car.

Not long after, the modified Hummer drove away right before the four people's eyes!

Because the group of Corpse Eaters had not been led too far away, the four dared not delay and quickly rushed back to the villa.

All four of them looked displeased, and Luo Shuhong finally dared to unleash her fiery temper, cursing aloud:

“That damned pretty boy! Don't let me ever run into him again!”

The skinny, dark-skinned youth looked conflicted and hesitant, subtly saying, “Sister, if we run into him next time, we might still get robbed…”

“Get lost!” Luo Shuhong kicked him, her charming and sexy face full of arrogance, “Next time I run into him, this old lady will definitely be stronger than that pretty boy!”

“Sister,” the little nurse in white suddenly popped up and asked weakly, “That person was covered in Corpse Eater corrosive fluid from head to toe, so you couldn't even see his face. How did you know he was a pretty boy?”

“Do I even need to look? This sister has seen more men than you've eaten grains of rice! So what if I didn't see his face? Next time I run into him, I'll recognize him by his smell!”

Luo Shuhong was as arrogant as ever.

On the other side, Lin Chuan drove the modified car towards the Star River Bay residential area where his uncle's family lived.

A section of the highway was severely congested, making it impossible for vehicles to move.

There was no other way; Lin Chuan had to stop the car, store the modified Hummer in his dimensional ring, and then sprint on foot through that section of the road.

Fortunately, the massive vehicle blockage also made it extremely difficult for the Corpse Eaters to move.

While running through the vehicle wreckage, Lin Chuan still had the presence of mind to Incinerate some well-preserved corpses, casually plundering some attribute points.

After passing this heavily congested road, Lin Chuan noticed that the number of Corpse Eaters had significantly decreased.

He noticed a gas station not far away.

It seemed that a player with decent strength had cleared out the Corpse Eaters inside.

Looking up at the gas station sign again, Lin Chuan remembered that one of Hai City's four vending machines in his previous life was located at that very gas station!

In his previous life, when he went to that gas station's vending machine to shop, he even got into a conflict with the powerful individual who dominated the vending machine there.

However, at this current point in time, the game vending machine had not yet spawned.

The person he clashed with in his previous life might not necessarily be at the gas station now.

Lin Chuan was in a hurry to find his uncle, so he didn't pay much attention to the gas station.

With a wave of his hand, he released the modified car that he had stored in his dimensional ring.

As he restarted the car, in the beam of the headlights, Lin Chuan suddenly saw a black treasure box lying conspicuously by the roadside!

His gaze paused, but he didn't stop at all, instead stepping hard on the accelerator and continuing to drive into the distance!

Killing Game treasure boxes are generally divided into seven colors.

From lowest to highest level, they are white, green, blue, purple, orange, red, and gold!

And black treasure boxes have a completely different meaning from these seven colored treasure boxes!

Black treasure boxes are also called 'mystery boxes,' and the items opened from them can be good or bad, and they directly affect the person who opens the treasure box!

That is to say, items opened from the seven-colored treasure boxes can be given to others or traded in the market.

But the items inside a black treasure box will take effect on you the moment you open it, and cannot be resisted or traded.

This is also a way to prevent players from cheating.

In his previous life, black treasure boxes were popular among players for a period of time.

The forums often reported news of people changing their fate against all odds by opening mystery boxes—

Some people's Talent evolved directly from C-grade to S-grade!

Some gained dual profession qualifications!

Some awakened new Talents!

Some even saw their attributes skyrocket, directly reaching the current maximum possible attribute limit!

Such exciting cases drove countless people madly addicted to opening mystery boxes!

Even Lin Chuan couldn't resist the temptation and became immersed in it.

After all, everyone has curiosity.

An unknown item that has the potential to bring you benefits, anyone would be unable to resist wanting to open it.

Like Pandora's Box, its temptation to people is simply too strong!

However, Lin Chuan's luck was average, and he did not become one of those fabled cases of changing fate by opening mystery boxes.

The mystery boxes he opened had relatively minor effects.

Sometimes he received blessings, sometimes curses.

The blessings and curses he received were all low-grade, with negligible effects.

A few times, with better luck, he did acquire skills or Talents, but for him, with his Fireball Talent, they were merely icing on the cake, better than nothing.

Once, with bad luck, one of his Talents was instantly stripped away.

It was that time that made Lin Chuan extremely apprehensive!

Fortunately, what was stripped from him was just an unimportant C-grade Talent!

If it had been his Fireball Talent that was stripped…

He could barely imagine how he would bear such consequences!

It was only after that incident of having a Talent stripped that his addiction to opening mystery boxes slightly subsided.

But he still hadn't completely quit.

After all, who doesn't want to soar to the heavens effortlessly?

Gambling, truly, is highly addictive and very difficult to quit.

He truly quit opening mystery boxes.

Or rather, all players worldwide truly became wary of mystery boxes.

They learned their lesson from Terao Yuina's death.

Terao Yuina's S-grade Destiny System Talent was considered invincible and unsolvable at the time!

He was the invincible powerhouse in the hearts of all players, frantically revered by countless people!

Even Lin Chuan, despite coveting his Talent, dared not confront him!

But even such a favored prodigy, seemingly a child of destiny, died under a mystery box curse!

It is said that after Terao Yuina opened a black treasure box, he was suddenly enveloped in black mist, and then all signs of life vanished!

A top-tier powerhouse who could have dominated the apocalypse died so absurdly!

There was no battle, no struggle or resistance whatsoever.

Even the several green crystals bound to him didn't take effect!

He just died, so suddenly!

At the time, many people found it hard to accept such a result, even thinking that Terao Yuina was deliberately faking his death and playing a joke on everyone.

It wasn't until Lin Chuan Incinerated Terao Yuina's corpse that he was absolutely certain Terao Yuina was truly dead.

The man known as the 'Spokesperson of Destiny' died so casually, under the allure of a black treasure box!

It was then that players worldwide finally awakened through Terao Yuina's death!

It turned out that all those cases of people soaring to the heavens and changing their fate by opening mystery boxes were just survivor bias.

Many unknown individuals died during the process of opening mystery boxes.

And because the dead cannot speak, the deaths of those people remained silently unacknowledged!

It was only with the death of a prominent figure like Terao Yuina that the terror of the black treasure box was finally taken seriously.

Lin Chuan also learned his lesson from Terao Yuina's death and completely quit opening mystery boxes.

In fact, to prevent himself from becoming addicted again, he directly blocked all news related to black treasure boxes.

Even if he encountered one on the road, he would directly ignore it, never even taking a second glance!