Chapter 67

It took Feng Bujue quite a long time to finally recover and find a fair explanation for what had just happened . He assumed that the bad*ss called Woody wasn’t a normal Game Master, and his rank would be much higher than Pan Feng and Hua Xiong .

If he could build some stuff as he pleased, like that button in players’ login space, then the scene when he had left—going through the glass wall and disappearing—was intentionally created .

When Feng Bujue carefully thought about the way he disclosed his identity, those confusing words, and his question, he found that they were somehow meaningless . Unless there was actually a supernatural force in this world, that guy was just trying to be mysterious .

In case what he had seen weren’t his illusions, the feeling of fear had appeared meant his illness was getting better . Starting to be afraid… he just thought of this as good news then .

In short, what Feng Bujue could think about for an explanation was just that . As for unreasonable explanations, Woody’s words were already unreasonable themselves .

If he could come up with a ‘reasonable’ conclusion, Feng Bujue wouldn’t think about it further . Anyway, besides his mischievous behaviors, that Game Master didn’t warn him whether his ‘lost feeling of fear’ was appropriate for the game or not . This also gave Feng Bujue a feeling that he had nothing to worry about .

He had put this short episode aside, not letting it affect his mood in trying the Open Beta Version .

His look then shifted to the operation area near the elevator booth, which only has four buttons now . Nothing suspicious . Perhaps, normally, those buttons should be there .

“Storage” was definitely the metal room where he would receive rewards, bonuses, and store his items . Feng Bujue has yet to claim his rewards from his Fear Rating for the previous scenario, and he could get them now . But, he chose not to since the Mall opened . From now on, game currency would start to be useful, thus, he didn’t hurry to claim his bonus . He first wanted to check out the other places before deciding what kind of bonus he would choose .

First, Feng Bujue pressed the button of the Conference Room . The system immediately notified him .

[Your Conference Room has been created . You can invite your friends, teammates, and players that aren’t listed in your blacklist for a meeting here . The maximum capacity is ten persons]

[When you are in the Conference Room, other than the Mall or the Box of Fear, you can use a new feature in your menu, which is the Chatbox to communicate with your friends . ]

After the notification was over, the elevator doors slid open . Outside was a metal room even bigger than the storage room . It was a spacious place with bright lighting . A long conference table stood amidst the room equipped with ten black office chairs with casters .

The surface of the table was silver, seemingly a shiny and smooth plane . With a closer look, there were ten round planes with different colors arranged near the edge of the long table .

When Feng Bujue entered the Conference Room, the elevator doors behind him closed . He hesitated a moment since it was different from the storage room . He turned around and found a switch next to the door, which seemed to be used when he wanted to exit the room .

[On the ‘Conference Table’, you can open a special menu to check the items in your bag and storage . You can check the items’ properties on the table without taking it out . ]

After he had read the introduction at the table, he then tried to see the effect with the Mario’s Pipe Wrench . The 3D projection of the item immediately appeared on the table and slowly rotated itself . At the same time, the description of the item was displayed in the ‘Conference Table’s Menu’ in front of him . If there were other players in his conference room, they could also check the item’s description in their menu .

“So, besides giving the party members a place to discuss, arrange, and exchange items, this could be used to carry out personal auctions, etc,” Feng Bujue muttered .

This display function was to allow players to show the items to other players . Because, in this game, if a player wants to show an item to another player, they have to hand that item to him . In Close Beta, they could only unconditionally do that . In Open Beta, players could choose between ‘Gift’, ‘Exchange’, or ‘Display’ options . Of course, this option was just a click in the player’s brain . The player just needed to send a nervous signal to the system to conduct the action . It didn’t take even an entire minute to display one item .

When Feng Bujue stepped away from the table, the display immediately ceased . He pushed the switch next to the elevator doors and the doors opened again . After entering the login space, the doors closed .

Next, he pressed the ‘Mall’ button . The system’s voice resounded, [You are connecting to the Mall, please wait… The section this time is: No . 17 . ]

[The Mall is a large public place . In order to avoid making a big crowd, the Mall will be divided into different sections . You can change your default Mall Section in your login space . If you don’t setup a preferred section, the system will randomly send you to a less crowded section . Each section can hold five thousand players max . Players are required to queue in order to enter a full-packed section . ]

When the notification was over, the elevator doors slid open . At the first glimpse, the outside looked like an extension of the New York Stock Exchange . However, the space was much bigger .

A round, metal tower stood in the middle of the place . Numerous virtual screens appeared from two meters to eight meters from the ground, circling the tower . Those screens were displaying real time changing data . Most of the players were gathering around this ‘information tower’ . This situation resembled the stock market in Hong Kong back in the 1990s .

After Feng Bujue stepped out of the elevator, a few seconds later, the doors closed then opened again . Another player walked out of the booth this time . Feng Bujue turned around to discover roughly one hundred elevators arranged neatly in this area . They constantly closed and opened as players regularly came in and out every few seconds .

These doors were only the interception and the dimensional hubs . Every time they closed or opened, they connected to another place . When he needed to leave, Feng Bujue just needed to get into one of those doors, and he could return to his own login space .

Of course, some guys tried to enter one elevator together side by side for a fun experiment, but they all failed, as one of them would be stopped by an invisible wall . The Conference Room had the same operational rules . When a player accepted the invitation from another player, he had to enter the Conference Room from his own elevator booth and login space . After he had entered the room, his elevator would close . In other words, the ten players had to enter or leave the Conference Room one by one .

Feng Bujue headed to the central area of the Mall, looking here and there to see the surroundings . He found that the ceiling was really high—too high to visualize the distance between the floor and the ceiling . The walls around the place were curved, making the whole place look like an upside down bowl .

There were four paths leading to the central information tower, which were separated by four 90-degree fan-shaped objects . Also, many visual screens appeared above those objects with freshly updated information . This central area was the focus of the Mall—the Auction House .

There were other shops situated around the area, which were managed by the system . The number of visitors coming here wasn’t small, however, the system was selling some fixed items—even if they wanted to replace them with new items, this would be the story of the next quarter . . . Also, this was the reason why players would just leave right away after taking a look or buying something . As such, the number of players at these shops was less than that at the information tower .

Players in this section were bustling back and forth . Feng Bujue decided to walk around the shops, but suddenly, someone called out to him, “Ah! It’s you!”