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Chapter 30: Chapter 29: "Red Nickname Card": 1000 Star Coins/7 days

And in the mall, he saw many interesting products.

For instance—

"Backpack Expansion Ticket": 10k Star Coins (limited to the first 5 expansions).

"Free Attribute Exchange Coupon": 200 Star Coins (available only for the first five uses for all players).

Chen Miao looked thoughtfully at the Free Attribute Exchange Coupon and nodded his head. Doctor Gou had once given him three of these coupons, and they were very useful. After he had allocated all of them to Strength Points, he distinctly felt his body brimming with strength.

He even felt like he could now punch a 1.4-meter-tall little lolita to death.

He had originally thought that this item could be used indefinitely, but now it seemed that each player could only use it five times, which limited the appearance of some bug-level things, such as archers swinging axes.

That was understandable, though.

If this item could be used without limit, then some pay-to-win players would simply max out all their Attribute Points, which would indeed be a bit buggy.

But right after that, he looked at some of the products on the next page of the mall, his expression slightly odd as he fell silent on the spot.

"Red Nickname Card": 1000 Star Coins/7 days (allows your name to appear in red on various leaderboards).

"Pink Nickname Card": 2000 Star Coins/7 days.

"Purple Nickname Card": 2000 Star Coins/7 days.

"Rainbow Nickname Card": 10000 Star Coins/7 days.

"..."

Chen Miao stood silently, his face expressionless, momentarily at a loss for words. There were just too many things prompting his silence; he hadn't thought that the "Star Coin Mall" would actually sell such things.

Now he finally understood why most Supernatural Profession Players' names on the leaderboard were in grey, while those at the top were in various colors—it turns out these things could be bought with money.

And they were not just expensive but exorbitantly so!

The cheapest, the Red one, cost 1000 Star Coins, and even after purchasing, it could only be used for seven days, it damn well wasn't even permanent.

The exchange rate between Star Coins and Federal Credit Points was roughly 1:20.

1000 Star Coins, that's about equivalent to 20k Federal Credit Points.

Throwing 20k into this, just to make your name appear in red on the leaderboard for seven days—no one with money would waste it like that, right?

The most expensive "Rainbow Nickname Card" astonishingly cost 10k Star Coins for seven days!

But Chen Miao had compared, and the light effect of that "Rainbow Nickname Card" was static. Although it looked nice, it was different from his dynamic Rainbow Brilliance effect—his effect was dynamic, with the Rainbow Brilliance continuously wrapping around his nickname on the leaderboard, making it look quite stunning and even more high-end.

The one sold in the mall was still limited to seven days, whereas his was permanent, as long as he could keep possessing this item.

That meant this item, which he had originally thought wasn't very valuable, had to be worth at least 200k Credit Points!

That was just an estimate!

"..."

Chen Miao's mouth twitched slightly out of control once again; he couldn't say that this item didn't deserve a D-grade level anymore. After all, it came with an effect worth 200k Credit Points. But if he were given 200k Credit Points, he damn definitely would not buy this thing!

Especially such a flashy effect appearing in the inconspicuous 367th place on Fengtian City's leaderboard, it seemed even more bizarre!

It was like giving a beggar, who could barely afford to eat, a jade bowl for begging that couldn't be sold.

He couldn't help but sigh once more, feeling amazed and commenting, "The disparity between the rich and poor in this world also doesn't seem to be small."

Below, there are people like Hungry Monkey who work physically hard every day for a pittance; and above, there are those who throw in a few hundred thousand Credit Points each week, just to change the light effect of their name on the leaderboard.

No wonder ordinary Lifestyle Occupation players can't see the leaderboard.

If they did, the dissonance they'd feel in their hearts would be huge.

If it weren't for seeing others throw money around as if it's nothing, most people could be happy every day just because they got paid today.

...

Chen Miao turned his gaze to other leaderboards.

There are many rankings.

But the most authoritative and frequently checked by people are only two, one is the level ranking, and the other is the combat power ranking.

So far, he had not made it onto the combat power ranking.

He didn't replace his name.

It was normal not to replace it, as he hadn't even evaluated his own combat power yet, it would have been strange to replace his name on the combat power ranking.

The criteria that determine a player's specific combat power value have nothing to do with the player's level, items, or profession.

If players want to evaluate their own combat power, they only need to enter the 'Combat Power Evaluation' type secret realm within the Secret Realm Building, with several different levels available, such as 1000 combat power, 2000 combat power, 3000 combat power, etc.

Players can freely choose different levels.

Then inside the secret realm, the difficulty will continue to increase until the player can no longer persist and exits the secret realm, whereupon their overall strength at the last moment before exiting is used to evaluate the specific value of their combat power.

The combat power value is the most direct representation of a player's strength.

After all, having a high level doesn't necessarily mean one can fight, but a high combat power indicates that the person certainly knows how to kill.

But that doesn't mean someone with higher combat power can completely overwhelm you, as instances of lower-powered players killing those with higher combat power occur almost every month; after all, there are too many contingent factors when it comes to killing.

Especially since—

Killing is different from fighting.

The battlefield is not in the ring, but in everyday life, and there are simply too many ways to kill someone.

For instance... psyops, hostage-taking, coercion, kidnapping, seduction, poisoning, ambush, planning, mobbing, and so on.

And Doctor Gou's combat power value was 4700.

"What a pity."

Chen Miao sighed with a hint of regret, glancing at the countdown of the soon-to-end secret realm. He really wanted to test his current combat power level, but combat power could only be tested in the Secret Realm Building, and after killing so many people in this secret realm, it probably wouldn't be so simple for him to enter the Secret Realm Building again.

He also didn't know.

Could his combat power reach 300 with his Tao Wood version of the Thompson Submachine Gun?

Doctor Gou, with the Sword Emperor Profession at lv.18 and a combat power of 4700; him, a lv.3 gunman, shouldn't it be reasonable to have a combat power of 300?

At that moment—

The F-level secret realm 'Medal of Warfire' officially ended!

A flash of white light, and Chen Miao, along with Hungry Monkey, abruptly appeared on the 68th floor of the Secret Realm Building, in the vast open space. The moment they landed, Chen Miao, who was already prepared to run, suddenly noticed that none of the elders who had escorted their children to the secret realm were there.

He didn't know where they had gone.

Before he had time to figure out the situation, a woman in work clothes came over and handed him a letter.

"This letter was entrusted to us to give to you, to be handed over when you come out of the secret realm."

"By the way, why aren't the others here?"

There was a hint of confusion in the woman's eyes, as it clearly never crossed her mind that those people might have died. After all, everyone knew that the Experience Secret Realm was almost absolutely safe and that no one would die.

"Oh."

"They are still in the secret realm for team building, they'll come out later."

Chen Miao frowned, opened the letter in his hand, skimmed it briefly, then stuffed it into his chest pocket, and stepped towards the elevator entrance, leaning on his cane with one hand.

Doctor Gou had... encountered trouble.

This letter was a will, settling his affairs.

But the question was why settle them with him, he sure as hell wasn't named Gou.

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