Chapter 1705: Shield and Gate

"Hamster Shield?"

He raised an eyebrow, Lin An looked with interest at the equipment list, a shield engraved with a mouse head, only the size of a finger.

Rather than a shield, it looks outright like a ring.

The name is strange, and the shape is also strange.

Having seen too much equipment, Lin An couldn't help but feel a strong curiosity.

Generally starting from blue equipment, these equipment names are one cooler than another; such strange equipment is still rare.

"Fragile Hamster Shield (War Star Level)"

"Equipment Attributes: Constitution +1, Physique -10%"

"Equipment Rules: Unable to Withstand, Hamster Dash"

"Unable to Withstand: After using this rule, when you receive any damage, damage is reduced by 3%, and you gain a kinetic effect equal to 50% of the damage taken."

"Hamster Dash: When you enter a critically injured state, you can actively release the kinetic energy stored in the shield, discard the shield to gain acceleration in the opposite direction to escape. This acceleration ignores attribute limits and has a low-level space-breaking effect."

"Equipment Note: This equipment comes from the Spirit Rat Civilization, it is the beloved item of the Spirit Rat Leader, and it is remarkably effective against the Zombie Cat Calamity."

"Exchange Price: 30 points"

?

After reading the equipment description, Lin An slowly typed a question mark in his mind.

The art style suddenly shifted; accustomed to the bloody and sinister creations of the Doomsday System, after seeing this equipment he instantly felt a strong sense of absurdity.

If it weren't a product of the system, he would even think it's fake.

However, after seeing the explanation of the Spirit Rat Civilization and the Zombie Cat, Lin An could barely accept it.

In the Doomsday Game, there are indeed many strange dungeons and worlds. For example, glow, and the Blood Corpse Secret Realm.

The former is a Meme World with a 'love' quest, while the latter is simply a zoo of a certain advanced human civilization.

With so many civilizations, having a rodent civilization is also quite normal.

Even more absurd fantasy-system worlds exist.

According to Chu An's theory, all human fantasies and games could possibly appear in some corner of the universe and be manifested by the Doomsday System.

Or rather, humans cannot even imagine things that don't exist; what we can imagine are all influenced by higher-dimensional holographic consciousness, thus creating these works.

"Rat People and Zombie Cats?"

"Similar to humans and zombies?"

Lin An laughed helplessly.

"Rat People are opposed to Zombie Rats, right? But upon further thought, mice might fear cats more, so the manifested disaster becomes cats?"

He didn't dwell on these minor details; Lin An simply noted this information silently and then considered whether to exchange this equipment.

To be honest, at first glance this shield is truly trash, completely unsuitable for his needs.

Just 1 point of Constitution, not even as good as blue equipment.

One rule reduces damage, which is better than nothing; the other simply adds an escape ability.

But, there's no other choice.

After Lin An examined a large amount of defensive equipment, this one counts as useful.

It's not that those equipment are bad, but he can't afford them, or simply can't use them.

The equipment is too expensive.

A piece of equipment with a defensive rule that can weaken War Star Level attacks costs at least 100 points at the cheapest, and the weakening is only about 10%.

Moreover, those equipment have great limitations; the most Lin An has seen is an Energy Defense Rule, which can only resist the corresponding rule.

Equipment that can defend against all types, even if War Star Level, are astronomically priced, often requiring several hundred points.

Most importantly, these equipment need charging, and also require the power of Fifth Stage rules.

Otherwise, after using it once, one must wait at least 24 hours for it to automatically recover.

For Lin An, buying a defensive equipment at high cost only to be able to use it once—how could he tolerate that?

"Wanting to buy equipment that can withstand Fifth Stage damage with the points in hand is truly too difficult."

"Being able to find some useful equipment is already not bad."

"It's only normal; if such equipment were cheap, which Fifth Stage wouldn't make one? Even if it only weakens a bit more, in Fifth Stage battles it gives a huge advantage, enough to decide life and death."

Lin An secretly smiled bitterly, feeling as if he had returned to his past life.

Equipment has always been important and extremely valuable. But in this life he is too strong; the early huge advantage let him obtain a large amount of equipment before Fifth Stage, even changing sets of gear in sets.

After suddenly entering the difficulty of Fifth Stage, as a weakling he naturally resembles an ordinary person in the Apocalypse; any high‑level equipment is desirable but out of reach for him.

"Hamster Shield, the two rule skills are actually combined."

"Unable to Withstand gives a speed‑escape ability; it looks useless, but for me it actually has another use..."

Lin An's eyes flickered as he looked at this shield that somewhat resembled a toy, and he had another idea in mind.

"3% rule reduction, combined with his Eternal Body, can barely be counted as 6% reduction?"

"Spreading damage to the future he can't use, but the past still works."

"6 points of damage reduction looks okay as well."

"Combined with his upcoming attribute enhancement and limit‑break after the rule reduction, his defense also counts as a decent improvement."

"Of course, the key is the rule that converts borne damage into kinetic energy for speed‑escape."

"Hamster Dash..."

"The name sounds ridiculous."

"But the acceleration effect can break attribute limits and even comes with a space‑breaking effect; upon reflection, this is essentially a space rule."

His eyes flickered, Lin An thought seriously.

Ignore these two weird rule names; the essence of these two rules is actually kinetic absorption plus spatial rule.

Running away?

No!

He can completely, after absorbing kinetic energy with the shield, accelerate in the opposite direction!

For him, rather than saying this is a defensive shield, it's better to say it's an acceleration device that breaks the spatial seal!

"Can exchange!"

Soon, after Lin An simulated the usage effect several times, he simply exchanged this shield out.

Thirty points, not too expensive. Although it didn't meet the ideal requirement, just the effect of breaking the spatial seal is enough for him to make up his mind.

"Hum"

Along with confirming the exchange, a hamster shield only half a palm-sized fell into Lin An's palm.

After playing with it a few times, Lin An simply hung it on his forearm.

With the thought of looking for more usable equipment to exchange, even if points are insufficient early preparation, Lin An simply continued to look.

Two minutes later, after not knowing how many keywords he had switched, Lin An's eyebrows suddenly rose.

As seen, after he had examined tens of thousands of equipment props, a strange black wooden door again caught his attention.

"Corpse Guard (Star-Destroying Level)"

"Prop effect: after placement, combines with surrounding objects to generate a rule gate, maximum duration 60 seconds. After placement, cannot be moved, can resist up to three attacks of Star-Shattering level rule."

"Equipment note: silent protection, it is composed of some corpse remnants, once the last line of defense of a civilization."

"Exchange price: 300 points"

In the exchange list, only seen a black stone door carved with a gray-white corpse with head lowered and limbs spread, slowly rotating.

Precisely speaking, this corpse with limbs spread in a protective pose constitutes this door.

"A stone door prop only two meters in size?"

"Can it block Star-Shattering level attacks?"

The price of three hundred points, he cannot afford to exchange now.

Moreover, a stone door prop that cannot be moved, basically unusable in combat, seems useless to him.

It seems as if he thought of something, Lin An's gaze suddenly became solemn.

But before he could generate more thoughts in his mind, a respectful voice suddenly sounded outside the exchange point.

"Lin Emperor, those escaped Fifth Stage, we have already captured them back."

The voice is somewhat weak, even low.

As seen, outside the exchange point, the pursuing Hei Di and Chimera Emperor are now staring fixedly at the door before them, as if wanting to see how that "Lin Emperor" inside is doing.