Chapter 348: Official Settlement, Graduation Imminent

Fate City.

The lottery results settled, and all 99 game pods now had clear owners.

The Fate Clan members who had drawn game pod usage rights could barely hide their joy, so excited they couldn't hold back laughter.

Those who hadn't drawn a game pod wore disappointed expressions.

But deep in their hearts, hope had already been kindled.

Unlike the days-dragging-like-years torment when they first arrived on Earth, this waiting now suddenly had a clear meaning.

The arrival of the next batch of equipment would bring new opportunities.

Those clan members who had once privately doubted the Lord of Fate's decision now looked toward the Tower of Fate with a few more shades of gratitude in their eyes.

Their leader of the Dragon Sparrow lineage, while seeking a chance for transcendence, had not forgotten to bring them along toward a shared future.

Their future fate had completely shifted from impermanence to a fixed trajectory.

Just as the clan members were returning to their rooms to continue checking player-related information on the Star Net, Brother Ming Hou was attempting to contact the Star Net from atop the Tower of Fate.

100 game pods simply weren't enough.

The Eclipse Clan engineers who delivered the game pods had stated clearly: these hundred latest-model game pods were merely part of a support project.

To get more, they'd have to wait for the next round of the support project to launch, which required him to apply for approval.

Or directly spend money to purchase from other races.

But there were two problems here.

Currently, the Eclipse Clan only produced the latest-model game pods. Apart from the hundred gifted through the support project, any additional game pods would have to be reserved and custom-ordered.

The only purchasing method that could skip the reservation was to spend the currency under the player system: Shou Shou Jili.

But he didn't even have player qualifications, so how could he have Shou Shou Jili to pay the Eclipse Clan?

Using the resources he'd brought along to trade with other races capable of producing game pods for older-model equipment wasn't difficult.

But these races' game pod production lines were outdated, adapted for races predating the Earth Alliance, with no game pods specifically adapted for the Fate Clan.

After all, each race differed in body type and life characteristics.

For physical adaptation, the most complete option remained the latest-model game pods provided by the Eclipse Clan.

So he could only choose to contact the Star Net, hoping to exchange spiritual resources for game pod equipment, preferably with fast delivery.

The communication device in his hand flickered briefly before successfully connecting to the Star Net.

Facing his request, the Star Net didn't agree directly, but instead provided a resource list.

Most of the items on the list were resource types they had gifted to the Earth Alliance upon arrival.

The Star Net's behavior was no different from outright robbery.

But Brother Ming Hou, with no other channels, still chose to agree.

Most of the resources he carried had been given away to representatives of various races during the descent phase, to speed up integration with the Earth Alliance.

Asking him to produce such a massive quantity of resources at this point was clearly impossible.

With no other choice, Brother Ming Hou could only seek help from his clan members.

They had also carried considerable reserve resources before following him down to Earth.

Upon learning of Brother Ming Hou's difficulty, the clan members' attitude was the complete opposite of before.

Although the game pods were merely junk forged from a pile of non-spiritual materials, exchanging high-quality spiritual resources for them was no different from giving them away.

If they had learned this news a day earlier,

they would surely have raised objections, even going so far as to imprison the Lord of Fate and take him back to Monster World to find a way to cure his mental illness.

But after learning the hidden truth about Earth, the game pods now held special meaning in the Fate Clan members' eyes.

This was a key link to becoming a player.

Let alone exchanging spiritual resources, they'd even be willing to trade life intensity for them.

Facing the difficulty Brother Ming Hou mentioned, the clan members didn't even need to be told explicitly—they proactively brought out the resources they carried, hoping only to get their own game pods as soon as possible.

After gathering enough resources, Brother Ming Hou directly tore through space and descended upon the Moon, delivering them in person.

In response, the Star Net received him by projecting an avatar.

After dispatching robots to pack and take the resources away, it offered a solution:

In 20 days, the Fate Clan would receive 30,000 latest-model game pods, custom-made according to the Fate Clan members' life characteristics.

The next round of qualification distribution could arrive at any time; Brother Ming Hou had originally wanted the Star Net to speed things up.

But the Star Net stated that priority had to be given to player orders already paid for in Shou Shou Jili, with the Fate Clan coming second.

Getting it done within 20 days was already giving the Fate Clan priority.

Although helpless, Brother Ming Hou had no choice but to agree.

At this point, the initiative was entirely out of his hands.

The resources he gifted were certainly high in quality, but in terms of true quality, they clearly couldn't compare to Shou Shou Jili.

Shou Shou Jili's only flaw was that it couldn't be applied to "reality."

But in the foreseeable future, universal ascension would eventually arrive, and the importance of real-world resources had already significantly diminished in the Star Net's eyes.

After handling the subsequent arrangements, Brother Ming Hou returned to Fate City.

After that, like his clan members, he returned to his room and began obsessively refreshing forums and watching livestreams.

Having completely broken free from the shackles of life, the entire Fate Clan was going through internet addiction withdrawal.

Measuring the lands of Monster World through the players' perspective.

This feeling was quite wondrous.

In Monster World, every wisp of wind might carry killing intent, every shadow hid lethal danger.

They had to keep their nerves taut at all times, maintaining full vigilance during exploration.

No one could predict whether, in the next second, some terrifying powerful race would suddenly tear through space and bring a calamity of utter destruction.

But at this moment, what filled their hearts was an absolute sense of security.

Because behind this world, there were higher-dimensional deities standing guard.

Although they had not yet obtained player qualification, they could watch through the screen as players in the livestream rooms charged about wildly in Monster World.

This kind of experience made them feel it was very interesting.

Dangerous zones that once required risking one's life to probe could now be watched while lying on the sofa, laughing.

The regional traps that had cost them dearly to figure out were repeatedly demonstrated, broken down, and even used for shenanigans in the player livestream rooms.

What fascinated the Fate Race members most was the barrage culture.

Real-time inspiration tips flashing past were priceless treasures in Monster World.

It was as if, during the exploration process, countless hidden hints were guiding them on what to do, adding much companionship and fun to the exploration.

During this period, new discoveries in the Painful Painful Minghun library also sent the members of the Fate Race into wild joy.

There were three special Painful Painful Minghun in the test library, namely: Great Fortune, Auspicious Fortune, and Blessed Fate.

Although these three Painful Painful Minghun had not yet been contained, they were quite well-known among the player faction.

They were one of the options used for Star Vein test combinations when Monster World launched the test tower function.

But the characteristic effects of these three Painful Painful Minghun were despised by players.

Whether Auspicious Fortune or Great Fortune, their characteristic effects were all passive boosts to the embedder's luck.

But the manifestation of this kind of luck would not show up in a short period of time.

According to the research faction's review of materials and inquiries with guides, they discovered that the effects of luck-boosting Painful Painful Minghun required time to wait, and this time might be very long.

Every time a player died, this kind of luck blessing would reset to zero, and would be recalculated after re-entering Monster World.

The reason was that players who died and entered the little black room were no longer within Monster World's framework, so they could not receive the continuous blessing of luck.

The only ones interested in this type of Painful Painful Minghun were the toddler squad who had embedded the "Infinite Painful Painful Minghun."