There's not much to say about the task log, only two items: "Kill the Human-Faced Cat" and "Kill the Possessing Ghost." I guess I can check accepted tasks here in the future.
In the Shop interface, the only accessible section for now is the shelves, which display a total of twenty items, refreshed daily. It's just that the prices, well...
"Sith Warrior Force Lightsaber," "Red Skeletal Long Battle Halberd," "Asakusa Twelve-Floor Evil Spirits Retreat Amulet," "Griffon Hippogryph Heavy Chest Armors," "Gauss Pistol," "Minor Alchemist Cane," "Intermediate Restore Potion," "Wired Royal Floating Cannon"...
Out of these twenty items, the cheapest cost 2,000 Game Coins, which was simply beyond the reach of new players.
Li Ang scrutinized the Shop shelves and couldn't help but draw in a sharp breath.
He wasn't sighing at the costs, but rather because if these equipment items could be analyzed and researched, they would be of tremendous significance to the state. Just one Sith Lightsaber could provide the state with several technologies, including super batteries, plasma confinement devices, and portable strong magnetic field generators. Furthermore, it could guide the overall direction of national scientific and technological development. The Gauss Pistol and Floating Cannon from the technological side, or the Alchemist's Cane from the magical side—each could spark unprecedented innovation in human scientific research.
If the state has established an official player team, then they should be running all over the world right now, triggering tasks to earn Game Currency. Li Ang pondered. Moreover, since these equipment pieces appear on the Shop's shelves, it means players might encounter similar extraordinary items during tasks, or even more significantly, come into contact with, or perhaps even enter, those other worlds...
Li Ang thought for a moment, then shook his head and turned his attention to his inventory, where a simple wooden chest made of old planks and rivets was placed.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Is this chest the reward for completing the task?
Li Ang silently chuckled, rubbing his hands together like a green-headed fly, and clicked on the wooden chest.
With a flash of white light, the chest opened to reveal... a woman's wallet?
[Name: Gucci Zumi Dark Green Grain Leather Woman's Wallet]
[Type: Luxury Item]
[Quality: Ordinary]
[Special Effect: None]
[Equipment Requirements: None]
[Notes: Created in Italy; understated, luxurious, and elegant. The sweat, grease, and scent of mature woman's perfume on it suggest that its original owner was a wealthy woman around fifty years old.]
Li Ang took a deep breath and inspected the wallet in his inventory. After several minutes... he finally determined that it was genuinely a Gucci wallet from a fifty-year-old wealthy woman.
What a joke...
Li Ang's expression was one of exasperation. Inside the wallet were seven or eight bank cards, including both domestic ones and Visa and MasterCard cards.
Besides these, the wallet contained facial tissues, a makeup bag, about a dozen condoms of various models and styles, and a thick stack of red banknotes, estimated to be worth around ten thousand yuan in total.
Li Ang sighed. The happiness of a wealthy woman is truly beyond imagination...
He had no intention of using the bank cards or pawning the luxury wallet. The best approach was to take the cash and burn everything else, thoroughly eliminating any potential traces that could expose him.
Ten thousand in cash, TSK TSK TSK.
His sudden, unexpected wealth, like a clap of thunder on a clear day, put Li Ang in such a cheerful mood that he even flashed a radiant smile at the English teacher on the dais, causing the latter to shudder and his lecture to falter.
By evening, the campus was mostly empty as students had headed home. The underground parking lot, however, was brightly lit.
Police cars had cordoned off the exterior of the parking lot with police tape, but the officers themselves were standing outside the cordon, looking as if they had nothing to do.
Inside the parking lot, a group of burly men in black suits and sunglasses was divided into two teams. One team was taking photos and collecting evidence like forensic investigators, while the other wielded devices resembling mine detectors, pacing back and forth like sappers among the vehicles with shattered windows.
Suddenly, a special police officer in sunglasses shouted, "Chief, Psychic Response detected! Strength: Level 1. Type: Possessing Spirit. Judging from the dissipation of the Spiritual Energy, at least five hours have passed since its elimination."
"Indeed." The middle-aged man known as the Chief, his temples graying and his face stern, nodded. He turned to his male assistant beside him and asked, "Have all the surveillance feeds here been cut?"
"All cut," the assistant replied. "The individual is very professional in anti-surveillance techniques. The scene was processed cleanly, so no useful footage was captured. Most of the remaining traces at the scene have been thoroughly erased. Even some vehicles' dash cams were dismantled and destroyed."
"Hmm," the middle-aged man said indifferently. "Is the teacher who was possessed awake yet?"
"He's awake, lying in a special ward and being questioned." The assistant shook his head and sighed. "Naturally, he has no memories from the period of possession by the Spiritual Body. He passed out after the Spiritual Body was eliminated, so he can't provide information on who killed it. As for the emergency call to the hospital made by the one who did, the audio was recorded, but he used very professional voice modulation—there's no way to trace the individual."
The Chief's face was unreadable. "Seems like we're dealing with a seasoned player."
After a moment of hesitation, the assistant asked, "Chief, should we conduct a covert investigation of all the faculty and students in the school?"
"We can investigate, but it's not necessary." The Chief shook his head. "First, it would alert the quarry. Second, the player who eliminated the Spiritual Body is still at a low level; in the current situation, they're not worth investing significant resources to find."
"Third, judging by their overall actions, they still fall into the Lawful Neutral alignment. A heavy-handed investigation might turn them against us. Lastly, we don't know if this player undertook a regular mission or a scenario mission. If it's a regular mission, that's one thing. But if it's a scenario mission, the player who killed the Spiritual Body could be from anywhere in the world. Right now, the supernatural incidents on Qianhua Road are growing more severe and could turn into a mobile Natural Disaster at any moment. That situation is far more important than this one."
"So..." the assistant hesitated, "seal the records?"
"Seal them," the Chief nodded. "If the person who killed the Spiritual Body is part of this school's staff or a student, we can come back to investigate after dealing with the supernatural phenomenon on Qianhua Road. It won't be too late then."