11: Heirloom Upgrade

Ding! Bee Doctor skill pack (S-rank) purchased!

Skill Unlocked: Efficient Rescue!

Skill Unlocked: Hormone Gun!

Skill Unlocked: Smoke Screen!

Skill Unlocked: Hive-Tech Smoke Grenade!

The system prompt sounded.

Xiao Yun spent a total of 100,000 yuan to unlock the operator skills for Dragon and Bee Doctor.

Besides that,

while selling supplies earlier, Xiao Yun hadn't forgotten to keep one copper coin.

For ordinary people, a single copper coin seemed useless.

But for Xiao Yun, this was an important item to upgrade his family heirloom!

Xiao Yun's thoughts stirred.

The next second, the military dagger appeared in his hand.

He brought the copper coin closer, and the moment it touched the blade, the copper coin was absorbed by the dagger.

Ding! Upgrade successful!

military dagger

Type: family heirloom

Level: 2

Damage: 14

Movement Speed Bonus: 0%

Attack Speed: Fast

Attack Range: Extremely Short

Special Skill: None

Upgrade Requirement: Rusty Pirate Copper Coin x3

The system panel appeared.

The upgraded family heirloom dagger's damage increased by 2 points.

Its other attributes remained unchanged.

"A 2-point damage increase per level, that's not bad."

Xiao Yun thought to himself.

After all, the family heirloom was free and didn't drop in any game.

And it could continue to be upgraded.

Xiao Yun felt that once it was upgraded to a certain extent, this dagger might turn into a divine artifact!

"GTI members, attention! The restricted area will refresh in 3 minutes!"

After Xiao Yun completed this series of operations,

the announcement from the loudspeaker above instantly echoed throughout the entire hall.

However, the surrounding crowd continued to chatter, with only a few moving to enter the restricted area.

Xiao Yun had figured it out.

In this day and age, whose money was the easiest to earn?

Of course, it wasn't Hafk's or Asala's money that was easiest to earn.

It was the players' money that was easiest to earn!

Ordinary people entered the restricted area at great risk, with extremely low extraction rates and ridiculously low drop rates.

If one treated this as a business, it would only result in losses year-round.

However, even so,

there were still new people continuously hoping to change their fate through the restricted area.

There's a saying that during a gold rush, the people who make money aren't the gold miners, but the people who sell them gold mining equipment.

In this world, it remained true.

Therefore,

Eight Warehouse was crowded with so many merchants.

Over 80% of them had never entered the restricted area.

Most of them acquired weapons and equipment at low prices, then resold them.

Some even more unscrupulous ones ventured into loan and mortgage businesses.

However,

none of this affected Xiao Yun.

He was a knife runner!

As long as he didn't bring equipment, he would never lose money!

Without much thought,

Xiao Yun had rested here for forty minutes.

That meant an entire game had passed, and the next game would start in three minutes.

His physical condition had mostly recovered, and he had unlocked Dragon's skill pack.

Xiao Yun felt it was time for the next match.

"I hope this round drops more small gold for me."

Xiao Yun thought to himself.

big red and Big Gold, he no longer dared to hope for.

After all, the drop rate in this restricted area world was even lower than in the plains.

He just hoped this round would drop a few more gold items, allowing him to earn a little more.

"If I had the Bounty Hunter skill pack, maybe I could increase the drop rate."

Xiao Yun thought to himself.

The system had many ways to increase the drop rate.

The Bounty Hunter synergy was just one of the ones Xiao Yun was most familiar with.

Losing streaks increased the drop rate, waiting for a big lucrative extraction to harvest.

Wait...

If he never extracted, wouldn't the drop rate keep accumulating?

Xiao Yun seemed to have thought of an ultimate bug-exploiting method.

"I need to reach 5 million quickly and try."

Xiao Yun silently thought, stood up, and walked out of the warehouse.

However,

he had barely taken two steps when he felt countless gazes converging on him.

Xiao Yun frowned. Had someone targeted him?

Sure enough, the next second,

a person wearing Level 5 armor and carrying a fully modified Wild Bull walked over.

"Brother, are you going to the restricted area?"

Seeing this person's equipment,

Xiao Yun's first thought was that he wanted to team up with him.

But then he reconsidered.

He had no helmet, no armor, and no weapons, so why would he ask him to team up?

"How can you go to the restricted area without bringing some equipment?"

"Come and see our latest modified gun, the Crazy Wild Bull!"

"Such a powerful weapon can be yours for only 88,000!"

Sure enough,

the person immediately began to promote his merchandise.

It truly was the players' money that was easiest to earn!

The Wild Bull in his hand only had a handguard and a scope installed.

This set of modifications for the Wild Bull cost less than 30,000, yet he dared to sell it for 88,000?

He must have thought he was a newbie, easy to fleece, right?

"No need."

Xiao Yun replied indifferently.

However, he didn't expect that one after another, merchants would approach him.

"Student, buying a helmet or armor? Mine are cheap!"

"Handsome, come buy from me! If you spend over 5,000 here, I can even give you a back massage~"

"Brother, don't listen to them, they all just want to earn your money, but how can you go to the restricted area without equipment? Bring a knife, I just happen to have extras, I'll sell you one."

...

Seeing Xiao Yun about to walk out of Eight Warehouse,

the merchants next to the Exchange immediately became eager.

This was a duck in hand!

They couldn't let him get away.

As fewer and fewer people entered the restricted area, the business of these equipment merchants became increasingly difficult.

Initially, they only needed to sell at 5% lower than the Exchange to sell quickly.

Compared to the Exchange's 20% transaction fee, this meant they could earn a 15% price difference.

However, by now,

even with prices 15% lower than the Exchange, they often received no inquiries.

Some even increased their discount to 18%, yet it was still difficult to sell.

"No, I won't bring any equipment."

Seeing more and more people surrounding him, Xiao Yun waved his hand.

"I'm just going into the restricted area to familiarize myself with the map; I don't expect to extract."

Hearing this,

the surrounding merchants showed no intention of backing off.

"If you're familiarizing yourself with the map, you need to avoid enemies, right! I have a damaged headset here, the Exchange won't even take it, but there's no problem with its sound range enhancement, I'll sell it to you cheap for 3,000 yuan!"

"Buy a stamina stim! One shot and you can run half the map, 15,000, only 15,000!"

"Brother, even if you're just familiarizing yourself with the map, you should buy a backpack, what if you find some big loot? Buy a bag!"

Xiao Yun's explanation did not make the merchants leave.

Instead, they became even more enthusiastic in their sales pitches!

Seeing this, Xiao Yun was quite speechless.

It was like getting a telemarketing call.

He shouldn't have responded to them in the first place; the more he responded, the more they'd try to sell him.

So, Xiao Yun stopped saying a word.

It wasn't until he walked out of Eight Warehouse that most of the merchants stopped following.

However,

there was still one girl who relentlessly chased after him.

"Do you want a keycard?"

She asked in a very soft, hushed voice.

Originally, Xiao Yun didn't want to bother.

However, upon hearing what she was selling, he suddenly became interested.

Keycard?

She actually had a keycard?