Chapter 1152: Chapter 151: Vending
The colossal mecha raining firepower from the sky,
large buildings collapsing amid flames and explosions.
Screams, fleeing, despair,
counterattack, slaughter, blood...
When I opened my eyes again, Li Ang was already back in the offshore waters of Yin City, his body submerged below the ocean surface.
Seawater surged from the side, contacting the remnants of Deep Sea People blood on his body, sparking a sizzling, corrosive sound.
Li Ang kicked the seawater, leapt out from the surface, nonchalantly shook his palm to release plant tendrils, piercing the sea and absorbing a large chunk of seawater below,
preventing Deep Sea People blood from spreading indiscriminately.
The deep-sea civilization in this Deep Sea Monster World script task was highly advanced, with the Deep Sea People having an evolved history no less long than that of Earth’s humans,
their blood might carry pathogens that could cause diseases to Earth’s organisms.
Although Li Ang himself studies biological weaponry, enjoys breeding, nurturing, and improving Bug Nest species, often releasing mass destructive biological weapons,
he is, after all, an exemplary student representative,
the blackboard with the theme "Our Biodiversity, Our Food, Our Health" for the "2021 Yin City Special Alert on Invasive Species" event outside Experimental Middle School of Yin City was his handiwork.
By the way, it seems the Experimental Middle School is being demolished...
Li Ang shook his head somewhat regretfully,
his memories and commemorations in Yin City,
are fading away with the progress of urban projects.
Li Ang sighed, not caring about the tens of thousands of "pitiful" Deep Sea People who died at his hands minutes ago,
stepping onto invisible stairs, boarding the Longqing Cruise Ship,
greeting Chaichai who was busy watching dramas, starting to review the rewards from the task.
First is the reward for completing the script task,
totaling 1000 Experience Points and 3300 Game Currency,
the former brought Li Ang’s Experience Bar to Lv26, 2356/2500, just over a hundred points away from leveling to Lv27,
the latter’s 3300 Game Currency is rather insignificant for him now, but better than nothing.
The most crucial, however, is the substantive reward,
which is the reward of an item or scroll of the same level as the highest quality item carried by the player upon completing the script task.
Li Ang considered this task fairly complete, moreover he carried with him the epic-level Shining Dice of Destiny,
thus, his final reward would also be an epic-level item or scroll*1.
"Currently I am not lacking in weapons and armor,
having the Heart Monkey Staff, Colt Revolver, and the Mirage Dragon Red Mane Coat.
The power system has Swamp God Power and Spiritual Energy.
Counting everything up, the best, most cost-effective item at this stage should be a consumable item or scroll, right?
Both being of epic quality, consumables must definitely be stronger and impose fewer restrictions than permanent items..."
Li Ang mumbled as he moved his consciousness to the inventory, clicking on the treasure box.
As a flash of light passed by, an item appeared in the slot.
"Hmm? This is...."
Li Ang raised an eyebrow, his tone somewhat surprised.
The object in the inventory was a large rectangular metal cabinet,
the surface matte black, with eight supporting legs below,
A standard three-prong plug cord extended from the back bottom, the cord 1 meter long, the plug bottom marked with 220v.
While the front of the metal cabinet consisted of two parts,
The right side featured a 24-inch HD liquid crystal panel, below which was an English QWERTY keyboard, next to it was a very complex 8-ring safe lock dial,
a coin slot, and a bill slot.
On the front left side, there was a surface taking up most of the area, made of explosion-proof transparent glass, behind which used slanted metal plates, divided into five compartments parallel to the ground.
Below the explosion-proof glass was a long strip of metal plate that could be pushed inward.
"Is this... a vending machine?"
Li Ang smacked his lips,
what appeared in the inventory was a more than two-meter-high black vending machine,
besides not having cola, Sprite, orange juice, Pure Leaf, Farmer’s Spring, Lay’s chips inside,
was completely like the vending machines on the street,
even made Li Ang recall the times he went to the park with Wang Congshan, bought drinks from the vending machine,
Wang Congshan’s purchased cola got stuck while dropping, after joking about the class leader, Li Ang bought another one, attempting to push Wang Congshan’s cola down,
only for the second bottle of cola to get stuck further, and the stack increased,
until it got stuck at the fifth bottle, both got angry and kicked the vending machine, only then retrieving all the colas,
almost attracting the park’s security guard uncle.
"Hmm... such a thing could be of perfect quality too..."
Li Ang focused his consciousness on the vending machine, clicking on the item description.
[Name: Terminal Vending Machine]
[Type: Anomalous Item]
[Quality: Epic]
[Special Effect: Equivalent Electronic Commerce. The Terminal Vending Machine allows the user to conduct cross-border transactions; transactions must follow the principle of equivalence, and the user must pay for the extra circulation fee during the cross-border transaction process with their own energy]
[Consumption: Depending on the frequency and intensity of cross-border transactions]
[Cooldown: Depending on the frequency and intensity of cross-border transactions]
[Equipment requirement: Level 27 or higher]
[Remark: Only one bound active user may exist for the Terminal Vending Machine at a time. Until the previous user dies or disappears, no other being can use the Terminal Vending Machine]
[Remark: The 8-ring password dial on the right side of the Terminal Vending Machine’s front serves as a world coordinate locator. Users can rotate the password dial to transport the Terminal Vending Machine to different worlds. The transmission location is random. Upon completion, multiple passive users (customers) of the Terminal Vending Machine may exist. The active user of the Terminal Vending Machine can only communicate with customers via the LCD screen and keyboard and negotiate transaction content. The transaction process must follow the principle of equivalent exchange, restricted by the Terminal Vending Machine rules]
[Remark: When carrying out random transmission, the Terminal Vending Machine requires a standard reality world week to engrave local world coordinates. Users can access worlds they’ve previously visited through a personal binding method]
[Remark: Using, retrieving, and deploying the Terminal Vending Machine consumes the user’s energy]
[Remark: The Terminal Vending Machine has a self-healing function. When the Terminal Vending Machine takes damage, it will inflict certain harm to the user]
[Remark: Current Binder—None]
[Remark: 60 commodity lanes, 300 large capacity bottles, smart, energy-efficient, cooling, profitable! Enter the era of big screen interactive vending! You’ve missed stock surges, missed 50 Yuan per share of Maotai, missed Bitcoin, but you absolutely cannot miss the Terminal Vending Machine!!!]
"..."
Li Ang looked at the item description and couldn’t help but blink.
The description of the [Terminal Vending Machine] was the most verbose and lengthy he had encountered throughout the entire kill game, even more so than the Shining Dice of Destiny or the Axis Cube,
not even close.
"Terminal Vending Machine..."
Li Ang tapped his forehead, his mind racing, "From the item description, this seems to be a mobile store capable of random/point-to-point teleportation?
The user bound to the item can send the Terminal Vending Machine to different worlds,
where they can trade with the indigenous residents of those worlds,
selling goods and purchasing items under the rules of equivalent exchange.
The trading process requires the user’s own energy to pay for the ’toll’ of items, similar to a Star Gate.
If bound, it can even access worlds the player has visited before..."
Li Ang’s eyes gradually lit up, the value contained in this item far exceeded his expectations,
comparable to the False God Remnant Flame that could assist in ascending the God Sealing Staircase.
"A mobile store leading to a myriad of worlds,
if teleported to a high-level world, like those Xianxia or fantasy worlds where mountains can be moved and seas filled at a whim,
simply trading some Spirit Stones, Spirit Veins, Sword Talismans, or magical treasures
could bring immense profit.
Even if it teleports to a low-level world,
for example, an apocalyptic world filled with biochemical monsters, it could trade with apocalyptic wanderers and collect unique local biological gene samples, which would always be profitable."
Li Ang rubbed his palms together and immediately bound the [Terminal Vending Machine],
lifting it with one hand and placing it by the wall of the yacht cabin under Chaichai’s curious gaze,
plugging its rear plug into the socket.
The rectangular [Terminal Vending Machine] lit up its liquid crystal panel as soon as it was powered on,
displaying a line of black text on a white background.
[Welcome to the Terminal Vending Machine. Terminal Vending Machine, with increased storage, no need for frequent restocking. Safe and anti-theft, easy replenishment, convenient and fast, helping you become a new-era cross-border tycoon!]
However, perhaps because there were no products inside or due to a lack of world coordinates,
after displaying this welcome message, the Terminal Vending Machine showed no further prompts.
"Are the conditions for equipment not met?"
Li Ang thought he was only at Lv26, just over a hundred experience points from Lv27, and shook his head slightly regretfully, putting the vending machine aside.
A hundred or so experience points could be quickly accumulated by finding routine tasks in the real world—as Li Ang currently had enough resources, he could completely commission others to find routine tasks for him without running around himself.
Having just exited a script task, there was no need to rush,
after putting the vending machine away, Li Ang turned to retrieve the Automated Pet Box and the Alchemist’s Magic Box from his inventory.
He moved the Automated Pet Box into the Alchemy Workshop,
then personally entered the Pet Breeding Box, taking out stack after stack of documents and a large number of jars containing deep-sea biological samples.
The greatest harvest from this script task,
besides the reward of the [Terminal Vending Machine],
was the human mech data and deep-sea biological samples from the Deep Sea Monster World.
Upon Li Ang’s observation and research, the combat power of the PPDC Mechs was not weak, even without the A.T. Force Field, their mechs could serve as main battle weapons in conventional warfare.
However, the PPDC Mechs have a fatal flaw: the metal raw materials they use are a rare metal isotope that is abundant in the human world of the Deep Sea Monsters but nonexistent on Earth.
Without this metal isotope, many critical parts of large mechs would break or damage due to insufficient load-bearing capacity.
In other words, the PPDC’s mech construction blueprints and metal smelting processes could only be used in the human world of the Deep Sea Monster script task.
This greatly reduced their value.
However, while large mechs couldn’t be constructed, smaller mechs using less metal could be replicated,
Li Ang planned to hand over these data blueprints to the Bug Nest Brainworm, having the Bug Nest establish an assembly line factory,
to produce some semi-living, semi-mechanical mech units—the purpose of these units being to enhance the Bug Nest’s combat capability in mineral-rich areas, adding the finishing touch.
Aside from the mech data, the deep-sea biological samples also represented significant wealth,
as the Deep Sea Civilization, as Li Ang had thought, had always strictly adhered to several basic principles of civilized warfare,
only using distinctly styled technological creations to wage cross-dimensional wars with human civilization,
until Li Ang, who accidentally intruded, gave them an incomprehensible dimension-reducing strike.
However, the Deep Sea Civilization did indeed have a knack for bio-modification technology,
their created Deep Sea Beasts had combat power not inferior to high-level players,
and when releasing the A.T. Force Field, they became invulnerable to all manner of attacks, even high-level players like Dawn could be suppressed.
"The prerequisite for generating A.T. Force Field is having a spiritual organ. And the prerequisite for producing spiritual organs is possessing a large number of deceased psychics."
Li Ang thought silently, "Currently, the Bug Nest only has the Brainworm sequence as all psychics.
Beneath the Brainworm, only a few units possess spiritual potential.
Killing the Brainworm and turning their brains into Deep Sea Beasts seems too cruel and wasteful, it’s certainly not an option.
That leaves only two paths,
one, using the Pineal Organ acquired from the Deep Sea World to create a Bug Nest version of the Deep Sea Beast.
Two, having the Bug Nest Tyrant attempt to learn how to release an A.T. Force Field.
The two plans do not conflict and can be handed over to the Bug Nest Brainworm for simultaneous execution..."
Li Ang quickly decided the utilization method for all his harvests,
as the creator of the Bug Nest, he was now able to delegate his plans to the Brainworms under his command for execution.
In a way, it’s "the creator moves his mouth, the Brainworm runs its legs off".
This was unavoidable,
no matter how energetic and all-round capable Li Ang was,
facing the comprehensive development plans of the Bug Nest, it was impossible for him to manage everything personally—which is why delegating complex and repetitive tasks to the Bug Nest Brainworm was the most efficient way.
Furthermore, Li Ang had to spend more time honing the Swamp God Power and spiritual techniques—
the unique environment of the kill game dictated that players must constantly think of strengthening themselves, and even if they couldn’t excel in all aspects, they could not have particularly obvious weaknesses either.
After completing the task summary and planning,
Li Ang, with the Automated Pet Box and Alchemist’s Magic Box in tow, made another trip to the seabed,
handing over the mech data and biological samples to the Brainworm of The Portal World,
then returned to the real world for rest.
