Chapter 309: Equipment Enhancement

【You consume 10 Action Points, intending to search the mansion before you in detail. After exploring for a period of time, although you find nothing, you notice a secret room seems to be hidden within this mansion based on a few faint traces.】

The secret room might contain treasure, or it might be completely empty. You decide—】【1. Continue exploring. 【Consume 5 Action Points】】【2. Better not waste the energy. 【No cost】】 Having come this far, how could she possibly give up? Without any hesitation, Yun Mu chooses option one, to continue exploring.

【You consume 5 Action Points, continuing to explore the secrets of this mansion. Through your unremitting efforts, you finally find the mechanism to activate the secret room. Accompanied by a somewhat dull vibrating sound, a path leading to the secret room appears before you.

Happily, there is still quite a bit of property left here that could not be taken away in time.】【You obtain the item 【Gold Coin】*2500】 Huh? How much?

Can one really obtain a full two thousand five hundred Gold Coins from just the first Dice event? While Yun Mu feels very surprised, she also feels delighted. The number of squares before her is countless; these two thousand five hundred Gold Coins might just be the beginning.

【Adventure Challenge】 is just too great!

The excited Yun Mu immediately tosses the Dice that refreshed beside her high into the air. As a pleasant clinking sound rings out, the Dice finally reveals the side representing the number 1 facing upward.

This does not mean Yun Mu's luck is bad; after all, her goal is not to finish the 【Adventure Challenge】 area as quickly as possible, but to scrape up as many benefits as she can.

The standard for judging whether luck is good or bad should be the harvest from this area.

【You arrive at an abandoned arcade. The facilities inside are basically all damaged, with only one coin pusher still functioning normally.

This is a machine where you insert coins to push more coins off; in essence, this thing is really no different from gambling.

At this moment, thousands of Gold Coins have piled up inside this only remaining functional coin pusher. Perhaps if you put in a little more effort, you could harvest far more than the cost of your input, but such a result could also lead to nothing at all. You decide—】【1. Insert a coin. 【Consume 1 Gold Coin】】【2. Turn and leave. 【No cost】】【3. Smash it open directly. 【Consume 30 Action Points】】 Does this even need thinking?

Although she really wants to complain about where an arcade would come from in the Helier Empire thousands of years ago, Yun Mu also knows there is no need to be too serious about things inside a game Dungeon. As long as it can bring her profit, these are all trivial matters.

And as for the three options before her, any normal person would choose the third one, right?

Yun Mu decisively converts one Dice into 30 Action Points, then uses these 30 Action Points to smash the coin pusher before her.

【You consume 30 Action Points, eager to smash open the coin pusher before you. However, after you begin, a shrill alarm sounds, and the coin pusher swallows all the coins directly into an internal pipe. You gain nothing.】 "Huh?"

Staring dumbfounded at the message prompt that popped up before her, Yun Mu is completely stunned.

No, whose coin pusher can swallow all the coins when an alarm goes off? This kind of thing is completely counter-intuitive and doesn't follow common sense!

Unfortunately, the Game Panel cannot hear Yun Mu's complaints, and in the end, all thirty of her Action Points go down the drain.

Facts prove that the Game Panel is not a fool either; those options that look problematic at a glance might actually be traps to lure her in.

However, based on her many years of gaming experience, option 3 itself might not actually have any flaws.

This is likely just a randomly occurring event; in other words, Yun Mu could have taken all the coins inside the coin pusher, or she could have ended up with nothing like she just did. And if she had chosen option one to insert a coin—if she were the game developer, she would probably choose to set a limit on insertions, or a "pity" reward where the harvest is not proportional to the input.

After all, consuming only one Gold Coin to insert once is simply too little.

Of course, players have a probability of winning a grand prize, but that probability... it should be quite touching, to say the least.

All of the above are just her guesses and imagination. Although there is no evidence, Yun Mu believes the truth is likely not far off.

No need to dwell on it too much; better to keep moving forward.

Not feeling regret for the thirty Action Points she wasted, Yun Mu tosses the Dice into the air once again.

This time the number she rolls is relatively large; five small pitch-black dots lie on top of the white, square Dice.

Thus, Yun Mu's body immediately jumps forward five squares.

【This is a bank. The windows that once saw people coming and going are now long deserted, with only an investment cashback robot still in operation. From its somewhat damaged speakers, the seductive words "Invest 1, get 10 back" play continuously. Upon noticing your arrival, this old robot immediately winds its way before you and begins to pitch the bank's services to you.

Although the bank is long deserted, this robot might actually be able to play some small role. You decide—】【1. Choose to invest. 【Consume one-quarter of Gold Coins】】【2. Strongly support! 【Consume half of Gold Coins】】【3. Bet everything!! 【Consume all Gold Coins】】【4. Flatly refuse. 【No cost】】 Fine, fine, fine, just dropping the act entirely, are we?

They even set up a robot.

Although she is speechless inside, Yun Mu still seriously considers the matter of investment.

Invest 1, get 10 back; what a Charming temptation.

If this were the real world, she would absolutely not believe such rhetoric, but this is inside a game Dungeon!

Even if it looks no matter how unreliable, these are things that have a probability of happening, so... gamble once. Anyway, she doesn't have much money right now.

But she can't use it all; she must at least keep some to exchange for Dice.

Having made up her mind, Yun Mu decisively chooses option 2—Strongly support, directly consuming half of her savings!

【You choose to strongly support this bank's business. The robot in charge is very moved. It frankly states that because of the Plague raging, the bank's business had actually long since stagnated, and the money piled up inside the bank had no use.

Now, it decides to transfer all the remaining Gold Coins to you.】【You obtained the item 【Gold Coin】*10000.】 Ten thousand Gold Coins! Yun Mu's spirits lift; she didn't expect this wave to result in such a big haul.

In a very pleasant mood, she decides to strike while the iron is hot and immediately tosses the Dice again.

This time the number on the top of the Dice is 2, yet the event she encounters is like a basin of cold water poured on the enthusiasm Yun Mu just ignited, extinguishing it on the spot.

【Because you were too excited, you did not notice a hole in your backpack. By the time you discovered it, the Gold Coins on your person had decreased by 2000.】 A hole in the backpack?

What kind of lousy excuse is this!

Not to mention that the backpack storing game Gold Coins doesn't even have a physical form, even if there really were a backpack and it had a hole, couldn't she just walk back along the path she came to pick up the lost Gold Coins?

It's infuriating!

Yun Mu pouts in dissatisfaction, not expecting that the ten thousand Gold Coins she had just earned would lose two thousand in the blink of an eye.

Although this is still a profit for her, as she had less than one thousand Gold Coins when she first entered this area, the feeling of knowing she could have earned more makes her feel uncomfortable to some extent.

There is one last free Dice left; let's use it up. Thinking this, Yun Mu tosses the final Dice high into the air.

The number this time is 4.

【You are attacked by a group of thugs left behind in the city. These people are not in a good state; clearly, they have also had a difficult time these days. But when facing a human female who looks very weak, they can still draw their scimitars without any hesitation, examining every inch of your skin with greedy eyes.

You subconsciously feel some disgust, but these guys were originally just civilians; they only became like this because of this disaster. You decide—】【1. Knock them all unconscious. 【Consume 15 Action Points】】【2. Kill them all. 【Consume 10 Action Points】】【3. Persuade to surrender. 【Consume 5 Action Points】】 The scene before her changes again. In the ruins of the city, a group of ragged Thieves holding scimitars surrounds Yun Mu.

Looking at the greedy eyes of these guys, Yun Mu almost subconsciously wants to choose option 2, to kill them all.

But before making the choice, she hesitates a little.

It is not out of pity; she is just thinking about which option is the most cost-effective.

After all, looking at the options, persuading to surrender is the one that consumes the fewest Action Points.

But that is on the condition that it succeeds. If the persuasion fails, would she have to re-select one of the previous two options?

Forget it.

Shaking her head, Yun Mu chooses option 2, kill them all.

【You consume 10 Action Points and kill all the thugs blocking you. Perhaps these guys were once just civilians, but when they chose to pick up weapons to plunder those weak like themselves, they were no longer worth your pity.】【You obtain the item 【Random Skill Level Up Card (Blue)】】 Huh, it actually dropped something?

Yun Mu was slightly stunned, then she checked the attribute effects of the newly acquired item.

【Random Skill Level Up Card (Blue)】

【After use, a random skill level +1】

【"Hey, listen, skills aren't always better the more you have. Suppose you only have one skill, then this card is a designated skill upgrade card. Just kidding, don't take it seriously."】

Fine, no need to look at the attributes; in fact, one can guess the effect just by looking at the item's name.

As for the remark, Yun Mu completely ignored it.

There was nothing to agonize over; she tore the blue card in her hand into two halves.

Although the attribute panel did not explain how to use it, her intuition told her that this was how it was used.

【Your active skill 【Dark Magic: Shadow Manipulation lv5】 has been upgraded to 【Dark Magic: Shadow Manipulation lv6】】 【You have gained the trait 【Shadow Manipulation】】 【Shadow Manipulation: You can control the shape of shadows as you please, and even influence the actions and states of projected objects through shadows.】

Could it really be this skill?

Yun Mu felt a bit surprised, and also felt a bit unlucky.

Shadow Manipulation was a skill she learned from a skill book opened from a game Dungeon chest.

The practice difficulty was not high, and as long as there was light and shadows, she could practice at any time.

Therefore, the progress speed of this skill of hers was quite fast.

Even without this skill card, Yun Mu had the confidence to raise Shadow Manipulation to the lv6 level within the next few days.

So, this Random Skill Level Up Card was almost equivalent to being wasted.

This made her feel very regretful.

It would have been better if it had upgraded some skill where she had difficulty making progress.

Sigh, nothing to be done; sometimes luck is just like that.

After settling her mood, Yun Mu spent 500 Gold Coins to re-purchase three Dice.

However, just as she intended to continue moving forward, she suddenly noticed a huge, golden exclamation mark floating on the fourth square in front of her.

Is it a special event?

Yun Mu hesitated slightly for a moment, but finally gritted her teeth and synthesized the three Dice into one designated Die, set the number to 4, and jumped to the square with the floating golden exclamation mark.

【You have received a special task: Six Six Great Success】 【Task requirement: Please roll the Dice to get the number six six times in a row!】 【Task reward: Super Golden Spatula!】 Pfft! Seeing the message notification pop up in her mind, Yun Mu felt like she was spitting out a mouthful of old blood.

Roll the Dice to get the number 6 six times in a row? System, do you want to take a look at what kind of nonsense you are saying?

Just how lucky would one have to be to complete this Six Six Great Success task? Or could it be that designated Dice can also complete the task? If so, she would have to spend a full 3,000 Gold Coins.

Of course, if the task reward is appropriate, spending 3,000 Gold Coins is not impossible, but this Super Golden Spatula... is it really worth it? Hmm... setting aside the fact that the name of this thing easily reminds one of a certain game, Yun Mu thinks it is probably worth her spending 3,000 Gold Coins.

After all, a task like rolling the number six six times in a row was clearly not designed with the possibility of completion by luck in mind.

And as long as it is a normal game designer, the task reward usually won't let the player lose money.

Since that is the case, without too much hesitation, Yun Mu decisively spent 3,000 Gold Coins to purchase 18 Dice, and then synthesized these 18 Dice into 6 designated Dice.

Select number 6, start rolling! Da-da-da-da-da-da.

Yun Mu moved quickly and jumped to the sixth square ahead, and this time, the challenge she encountered was—

【Welcome to the Shooting club. Here, you will earn generous Gold Coins with your own strength. See the shooting range in front? Grab your gun, the game is about to start!】 This time there were no so-called game options provided for Yun Mu to choose from; she just appeared inside the shooting range of a Shooting club. A pistol lay quietly on the table in front of the shooting range, and inside the shooting range, every fifty meters, there were several high-speed moving targets swaying left and right.

The number of bullets is limited. It seems that targets further away should be able to obtain more rewards, but unfortunately, Yun Mu's 【Shooting】 skill is only lv3. It seems she won't be able to achieve any excellent results this time.

(End of this chapter)