Chapter 64

Ten books were no problem.

Subsequently, Lin Ye stuffed all his clothes and pants together and also successfully placed them into one empty slot, but subsequent clothes went into a second empty slot.

Lin Ye experimented repeatedly, such as stuffing books into clothes, attempting to store them in the same slot, but it failed; it did not succeed.

After repeated experiments, Lin Ye had a general understanding.

"Items of similar nature can be stacked together, but I don't know if there is a limit on volume and weight."

He estimated there was; the amount of clothes and books he experimented with was too small, far from enough. He needed further experiments.

"After a slot is used, you cannot put the same type of items into the same slot."

"As for taking them out..."

Soon, all the clothes appeared on the bed at once.

Lin Ye understood the situation regarding taking them out.

But regardless, the unlocking of the backpack slots provided him with huge convenience—carrying items with him, and if there were dangerous items, he could put them into the backpack slots.

"Equipment, equipment from the Strange Game. I haven't even extracted the three white-quality items yet!"

"Extract."

Lin Ye flipped to the mail section in the panel, saw two emails, and chose to extract them.

[Congratulations, you have obtained Alloy Dagger x1, Quality: White.]

[Congratulations, you have obtained 100,000 Yen, Quality: White.]

[Congratulations, you have obtained Gas Mask x1, Quality: White.]

The quality of equipment and items starts at White as the lowest, and upwards they are Blue, Purple, Orange, and Gold, with Gold being the best. Skill quality is also distinguished by these colors to indicate quality and rarity.

"My time-stop superpower should count as a skill; the quality must be at least Gold, right!"

Lin Ye smiled, but unfortunately, the time-stop superpower didn't appear in the panel section.

The 100,000 Yen could be spent, while the alloy dagger and gas mask were items that could be bought in reality, so they didn't count as particularly good items.

"Better than nothing."

Lin Ye casually put the gas mask and alloy dagger into the backpack slots.

He opened the drawer, and when putting the notebook in, he suddenly saw the item wrapped in a piece of cloth in the drawer.

"This is..."

Lin Ye remembered.

During the concert attack on Monday, the mysterious black bead he had dug out from that man's forehead.

He opened the cloth and took out the black bead.

In an instant, relevant information appeared in his field of vision.

"This really is an item from the Strange Game."

He had guessed right.

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[Name: Snake Eye Orb]

[Category: Strange Object]

[Quality: Blue]

[Ability: After use, it will cause fear in the target object, making them fall into fearful illusions. The duration of the fear, the effectiveness, and the number of targets will be determined by the user's mental strength.]

[Usage Condition: User's mental strength must reach at least 18.]

[Note 1: Can be used without reaching the mental strength value, but it will greatly consume mental strength and face higher strange contamination.]

[Note 2: If the user wears it on their forehead, it can reduce mental strength consumption to a certain extent, lower the mental strength requirement, and the fear deterrence effect will be increased.]

[Special Reminder: This item belongs to Strange Objects. Every use of a Strange Object will face contamination and erosion from the Strange Object. Please use with caution, game player.]

"Blue item, Strange Object."

The decision to take this bead away because he felt it was strange back then was correct.

"That black-powder guy was a game player."

"He wore it on his forehead because his own mental strength didn't meet the usage requirements for the Strange Object."

Lin Ye looked at the Strange Object in his hand and decided to find a time tomorrow to test it. Afterward, he put the bead into the backpack slot.

A game player's backpack slot could be said to be the safest place.

After tidying up the desk, Lin Ye stretched his muscles and bones to relax, then finally took off his clothes and turned off the lights to rest.

The night was deep, the room was quiet, and the sound of light, steady breathing arose.

Time passed,

Lin Ye was woken up by his alarm clock.

Six o'clock.

He endured the sleepiness, got up, and changed into sportswear.

"Exercise continues."

After a half-hour jog, Lin Ye returned to his room to wash up and eat the breakfast he had bought from the convenience store.

After getting fully prepared, he left the apartment and went downstairs.

Today, he had to go to the fire department and the police station to find more information about the Chiba train station fire accident.

"If you have connections at the top, this kind of information is easier to get."

If not for time-stop, it would be very difficult for him to obtain the relevant information silently.

But considering that the relevant information might be strictly sealed, Lin Ye had actually prepared himself to come back empty-handed.

More than half an hour later,

Lin Ye arrived near the fire department. He found a place to change his clothes, put on a hat and mask, and with the help of time-stop, successfully infiltrated the fire department.

He found the area map of the fire department and headed towards the archives room.

The archives room door was locked.

"The key."

Lin Ye went straight to the person in charge's office. After some trouble, he successfully obtained the key.

Entering the archives room,

Lin Ye looked at the rows of bookshelves and finally found the record file for the 'April 8th Chiba Station Fire Accident' based on the date.

'Click...'

'Click...'

Lin Ye took photos directly, but he was in the fire department's restroom.

Because the phone's camera function couldn't be used during time-stop, to prevent someone from passing by the archives room during the 'normal time flow' process of taking photos and discovering the abnormality in the archives room, he took the materials out of the archives room and came to the nearest restroom to finish the shooting.

It was a bit troublesome, but it was safe.

"Who took our department's key? The chief can't find the key now and is looking everywhere."

"No, wasn't the key always in the chief's office?"

"If it were in the office, I wouldn't be here asking you. You guys ask the people around later."

"By the way, did you encounter any suspicious people?"

"No."

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In the restroom, several firefighters were talking.

Lin Ye knew that if he had stayed in the archives room, the abnormality would have been discovered. Although it wouldn't be a big problem—with time-stop in hand, he wouldn't be exposed, and it was even more impossible for him to be caught—Lin Ye wanted to be as silent as possible.

Come quietly, leave quietly; no one would notice.

A few minutes later,

The materials were returned to the archives room by Lin Ye, and the key was placed by him into the trash can in the office he had taken it from.

When time-stop ended once again,