Chapter 21

In Shell Town, "Shadow" is a presence that everyone looks up to!

While the vast majority of players haven't even reached level 3...

This "Shadow" has already hit level 7!

If this were just an ordinary online game, people would simply be impressed and admire his skill.

But now...

This game, "Godforsaken," is an extraordinary one where gameplay is tied to lifespan!

How could people not be envious and jealous?

Under the countless envious gazes, Qin Feng returned to Shell Town. First, he activated the teleportation portal in the basement of the plaza, gaining 1 reputation point.

Then he went back to the plaza and set up his stall once again!

Originally, there were quite a few others selling items around the broken flowerbed.

But when they saw Qin Feng appear, people began to gather around him.

"He's finally here! I've saved up 150 days of lifespan, just waiting for him to sell something!"

"The last time he showed up, he sold an Ice Spike spellbook, and Gray Rose shot straight to second place on the leaderboard! So powerful!"

"No kidding, anything he sells can't be ordinary!"

...

Many people gathered in anticipation.

Everyone knew that Qin Feng's items often had high tiers!

At this stage, many players can farm regular monsters, but they can't defeat bosses.

They can accumulate lifespan, and they can get low-quality and common equipment from farming small monsters, but there's no way for them to get high-tier equipment or skill books...

Buying from Qin Feng was currently the only way.

After all, they couldn't even defeat a boss if they encountered one!

Any decent equipment or skill books Qin Feng had were always in high demand.

For example, the warrior skill book "Battle Cry" dropped by the Cursed One, a silver-tier item, sold for a whopping 300 days of lifespan...

That price was no joke.

A single skill book, in exchange for nearly a year's worth of life!

Many warriors wanted to buy that "Battle Cry" skill book, but couldn't afford it and could only watch enviously as a level 4 warrior took it away...

"300 days of lifespan for a skill book, is it worth it?"

"If you're poor, living longer is just more suffering. Better to trade your lifespan for something valuable..."

"That's short-sighted thinking. With that skill book, his efficiency in farming monsters will double! What's 300 days compared to that?"

"Exactly, if you're strong enough, forget 300 days, even immortality isn't impossible!"

...

Aside from that skill book, there were also some lower-tier items and skill books.

Low-quality, common, bronze — all were available.

Items with better attributes, like speed-enhancing boots or skill books with control and acceleration effects, could sell for 50-80 days of lifespan.

The rest were cheaper, only 20-40 days.

Besides selling items, Qin Feng also put up a sign at his stall indicating he was buying storage bags...

Not long after.

A slender and beautiful young woman, dressed in a black mage robe with a staff at her waist, gracefully approached Qin Feng.

She was none other than the hidden-class Prophet of Wang Meng's team, codename "Black Goblin Big Plum."

Prophets belong to the mage class and can wear mage-type equipment.

Due to their passive class abilities, prophets are much stronger than ordinary mages, especially in terms of damage output.

"Master, master, I have what you want."

The beautiful young woman walked over to Qin Feng, blinking her lively eyes as she extended her fair hand, revealing a ring.

Qin Feng glanced at it:

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[Space Ring: Contains 12 storage slots. Does not take up ring or backpack equipment slots.]

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Seeing the item, Qin Feng was a bit surprised.

Players could only carry up to three backpacks, meaning three was the limit.

But the Space Ring was special storage equipment that didn't take up backpack slots.

In other words, it provided extra storage space!

Although any monster could theoretically drop it, the drop rate was extremely low.

In his previous life, a single Space Ring could sell for at least ten years' worth of tradeable lifespan, that is... over 3650 days!

So Qin Feng asked, "How do you want to sell it?"

Black Goblin Big Plum replied mysteriously, "I don't want your lifespan... I just want to add you as a friend, and also invite you to join our team to kill a boss."

Qin Feng thought for a moment and sent her a friend request.

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[Player 'Black Goblin Big Plum' has accepted your friend request!]

[Player 'Black Goblin Big Plum' sent you a private message!]

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Qin Feng opened the chat window.

After some brief conversation...

He quickly learned the situation.

It turned out that after Wang Meng logged off, he hadn't come back online yet. This pretty girl got a bit bored, wandered around farming monsters, and stumbled upon a gold-tier boss!

There was no way she could take it down on her own.

Her original plan was to wait for her teammates to log back in so they could fight it together.

But then she realized, even if her whole team showed up, they probably still wouldn't be able to handle a gold-tier boss...

The previous encounter with the bronze-tier "Charger" had already left a deep impression on her!

Now that she had run into Qin Feng, she figured she'd get to know him and use the Space Ring to buy his help for one fight.

Qin Feng thought for a moment and asked, "What's the name of the gold-tier boss?"

Black Goblin Big Plum shook her head. "I was too far away to see clearly. But the health bar is unmistakable for a gold-tier boss. It's on a boat in the swamp, looks all worn out..."

A boat?

Qin Feng nodded. He had a good idea now.

He messaged the girl privately, "I can help you kill it. If any equipment or skill books you can use drop, they're yours. The rest is mine. Deal?"

The pretty girl was a bit surprised, "Huh? What about Captain Wang Meng and the others?"

Her plan was to have Qin Feng join their team and split the loot after killing the boss.

But that would be too much of a loss for Qin Feng.

Qin Feng shook his head, "Your team has all kinds of classes. If nothing drops for assassins, I'd just be working for free."

Black Goblin Big Plum thought for a moment, realizing he was right.

A gold-tier boss wouldn't be easy to take down.

So she settled for a compromise, "Alright, but I have one request. If any equipment drops that's useful for Captain Wang Meng and the others, could you sell it to us at a slight discount?"

Qin Feng nodded, "No problem."

The pretty girl nodded, "Alright then, we'll head out when the captain logs back in~"

Qin Feng looked at the almost-sold-out items at his stall and shook his head, "No need to wait, just take me there. I can kill it on my own."

Hearing this, Black Goblin Big Plum froze, "Huh?"

The girl was stunned.

He's going to solo a gold-tier boss?

That's... a bit too much, right?

In her eyes, while Qin Feng leveled up fast, dealt a lot of damage, and was elusive, the bosses in this "Godforsaken" game were also insanely strong!

Especially a gold-tier boss, no one knew what kind of abilities it might have!

Yet here he was, confidently claiming he could solo it...

This was just too outrageous!