Chapter 13

[You have killed the 'Charger (Bronze-tier)'.]

[You have gained 600 experience points.]

[Congratulations, you have reached level 3!]

[Congratulations, you have gained 2 evolution points!]

[You have gained 55 days of tradable lifespan.]

——

As the boss fell, a series of system notifications rang in Qin Feng's mind.

After throwing the Poison Dart, he had activated *Shadow* again, returning to his invisible state.

"Right now, the cooldown for *Shadow* is still 26 seconds—it's a bit too long."

"It's slowing down my efficiency when killing monsters…"

"However, with the evolution points, it's still best to evolve *Greedy Hand* first."

Qin Feng thought to himself.

He silently approached the Charger's corpse and collected the pile of loot.

To Wang Meng and his team, the scene was incredibly eerie.

They didn't see a single person.

Yet the loot next to the boss's corpse suddenly disappeared!

"Friend, thank you," Wang Meng said seriously, making a gesture of gratitude toward the empty space, knowing that the mysterious expert was nearby.

"Thank me?" Qin Feng replied casually, his voice seemingly coming from all directions. "Out in the wild, you shouldn't trust others so easily…"

Wang Meng's expression became stern. "I understand. Thank you for the reminder."

In the Forsaken Game, only towns were safe zones.

Once outside, players could kill other players. If killed, both their **tradable lifespan** and **non-tradable lifespan** would be halved!

Of course, only tradable lifespan could be looted by players.

Non-tradable lifespan couldn't be directly looted unless it was absorbed by monsters. After killing the monster, 50% of that lifespan could be converted back.

It was clear that if Qin Feng had any ill intent toward Wang Meng's team, he could easily eliminate them, but there was no point.

They didn't have anything worth taking!

At that moment, Wang Meng realized that if this expert had wanted to harm them, he wouldn't have bothered to warn them in the first place.

This made Wang Meng even more grateful.

"We'll take our leave so as not to disturb you further. My name is Wang Meng. If you ever need help, feel free to contact me."

Wang Meng was tactful. After saying this, he prepared to lead his team away.

However, the girl covered in sludge, who had called herself "pretty," suddenly waved her hand and shouted, "Hey, big bro! I'm Black Plum Li! Can I add you as a friend?"

"…"

Hearing the girl announce her codename, Qin Feng almost laughed.

He actually knew this girl—from his previous life.

Her real name was Lin Liyu, with her father's surname Lin and her mother's surname Li. That's how she came up with the name "Black Plum Li."

She was indeed beautiful, with a lively and cute personality, not to mention an impressive figure.

As for her class, it was a hidden class called *Prophet*, which was much stronger than a regular mage.

In his previous life, Qin Feng had teamed up with her a few times.

"Looks like she started this life the same way as before, joining up with Wang Meng's team early on."

"Later on, she became an official member of Daxia…"

Qin Feng shook his head subtly.

There was no need to forge ties with her now.

He replied casually, "Sorry, I'm not interested."

The girl, unwilling to give up, tried to keep pestering Qin Feng, but the middle-aged priestess in the group, looking exasperated, dragged her away.

As Qin Feng watched them leave, he couldn't help but feel a bit nostalgic.

Wang Meng's class, *Holy Shield Warrior*, was indeed tanky.

And the middle-aged priestess in the team was also a hidden class—*Oracle Priestess*—which had double the healing output of a regular priest.

If not for them, this team wouldn't have lasted so long.

"My attacks may seem like instant kills."

"But the long cooldown of *Shadow* creates too much delay between attacks."

"It took me almost two minutes to deal with this boss and the three Polluters…"

In two minutes, an ordinary team would've been wiped out by the Charger long ago.

Qin Feng shook his head, not thinking too much about it.

Still, this run had been a fruitful one!

Once Wang Meng's group left, Qin Feng turned toward the Charger's corpse and activated *Greedy Hand*.

——

[Congratulations, you have gained 2 evolution points!]

[You have gained 55 days of tradable lifespan.]

——

A Bronze-tier boss had yielded a total of 4 evolution points, 110 days of tradable lifespan, and five pieces of loot.

"Not bad."

"One of the drops is a piece of equipment, and there are two skill books…"

Only one of the pieces of equipment was usable for Qin Feng.

In the Forsaken Game, due to the wide variety of classes, it was common to receive items that were for other classes.

——

[Charger's Leather Greaves (Bronze): Assassin equipment. Physical defense +9, all-element resistance +5, cooldown speed +15%. Requires Level 2.]

——

The defense and resistance stats weren't particularly useful to Qin Feng.

But the 15% cooldown speed was nice.

He equipped it immediately!

*Shadow*'s cooldown dropped from 26 seconds to 22.61 seconds—a noticeable improvement.

In the Forsaken Game, there was no "cooldown reduction," only "cooldown speed."

In the late game, it was possible to stack cooldown speed by several hundred percent.

For example, with 400% cooldown speed, cooldowns would be four times faster, or five times as effective—so a 20-second cooldown would only take 4 seconds.

Simply put, **final cooldown time = base cooldown time / (1 + cooldown speed)**.

"Time to keep hunting."

"With one more evolution point, I can evolve *Greedy Hand* to Emerald tier."

Remaining invisible, Qin Feng ventured deeper into the dark forest.

Meanwhile, his tradable lifespan had already reached 268 days!

"I've still got a lot of equipment and skill books for other classes."

"Once my inventory is full, I'll head back to town and trade everything for tradable lifespan…"

"Then, I can consider extracting the gear and skills into the real world!"

To put it simply...

Qin Feng's current combat power and resource stockpile were equivalent to what had taken him a day or two to accumulate in his previous life.

It might sound like his progress in his past life had been incredibly slow.

But…

There was a reason for that.

As more players gathered in town, the monsters outside would start to gather as well.

New players would find it increasingly difficult to hunt monsters.

In fact, many player teams would end up being hunted by groups of monsters, repeatedly losing lifespan!

Just like what was happening in Shell Town right now…

Wang Meng, leading his hidden-class team, had already retreated to an area closer to the town, where only level 1 monsters spawned.

But to their shock, when they arrived, they saw a six-person team being surrounded by over ten Crawlers!

Facing a single Crawler was something most teams could handle now.

But…

Over ten Crawlers?

"Holy crap, that many Crawlers? What the hell!?"

One young man shouted in panic, only to be pounced on by three Crawlers, who began tearing into him with their fangs!