Chapter 5

The ten-second countdown ended.

[System: Game over, now entering the reward settlement page!]

[Reward Settlement:]

[Game: 'Magic World: Beginner']

[Character: I Crave Bras]

[Rating Details:]

[Level 68, 11,790 points awarded]

[Arena: 437 total victories, 100 consecutive wins achievement, 18,650 points awarded]

[Completed 125 E-rank tasks, 77 D-rank tasks, 23 C-rank tasks, 12 B-rank tasks, 3 A-rank tasks, 17,660 points awarded]

[Obtained 18 gold items, 4 dark gold items, 3 special items, 1,364 gold coins, 14,990 points awarded]

[Skill information: None, 0 points awarded]

[Total Score: 63,090, ranked 1,027 among all players]

[Note: You brought out 3 Sunflower Seeds, 1 'Witch's Night I' game voucher, and 2 points of Home Reputation. Items and rewards brought out of the game do not participate in the reward settlement.]

[System: Based on your score and ranking, you have earned 820 Home Points, 1,307 Home Silver Coins, and can draw two chests from the following ten chests as rewards.]

After the settlement, Chen Bing looked at the settlement page with a pained expression, his heart bleeding.

This was not the first time; the scene was all too familiar, and he was experienced in this.

As expected, there was a problem with the settlement score. A bunch of Master and Grandmaster skills were rated zero, and the data for all other scoring items had a certain degree of deviation, with the data being rolled back to some extent.

Fortunately, the 'Sunflower Seeds' and the 'Witch's Night I' voucher were successfully brought out of the game, and the rare 2 points of Home Reputation were still intact. Otherwise, this would have been a total loss.

"Entering the game using a virtual game pod can also cause the game to crash. It seems the problem lies with my body."

Chen Bing stroked his chin in deep thought.

Other players thought that since virtual games had only been on the market for a short time, the technology was not yet mature, and there was a problem with the server.

But that was not the case. After this incident, Chen Bing had thoroughly confirmed that the problem was not with the game server but with his body!

In the past two months, the five games that had crashed and ended prematurely could all be attributed to him.

In these five different virtual games, if there were bugs, Chen Bing would encounter them 100% of the time, and even if there were no bugs, he would still play the game in a way that caused bugs, leading to server issues.

The recently ended game 'Magic World: Beginner' was no exception.

Initially, Chen Bing, like other players, thought it was a problem with the game server. However, after two consecutive games crashed due to bugs he encountered, he began to feel something was off.

'Home' had been in beta testing for two years and public testing for two years, and there had never been reports of anyone encountering bugs. Why did he keep encountering them?

He started with a cheap second-hand virtual helmet, suspecting it was the problem. So he rented a nearly new, problem-free virtual helmet from the game store.

But the next two games still had issues. Chen Bing, not believing in superstition, used the high-end virtual game pod at the hottest game club before the start of 'Magic World: Beginner'.

But the game still couldn't escape its fate and was once again ruined by him.

"Could it be that during the last mission before leaving the military, when I destroyed the lab in Africa, I was affected by some kind of radiation, causing a problem with my body?"

Chen Bing couldn't help but speculate.

Although he had served in the military for five years after graduation and had forgotten a lot of useless knowledge, he was still a former top student from Haidong University and wouldn't forget the important things.

"Should I go for a medical checkup? But that doesn't make sense. After that mission, everyone underwent strict medical examinations, and no problems were found. The equipment in the 9th Wild Team is the most advanced in the country, and if the military couldn't find anything, a civilian hospital definitely wouldn't be able to. Damn, they say Ultraman in Japan is a result of radiation mutation. I won't turn into Ultraman, will I?"

Chen Bing looked worried.

Feeling that a civilian hospital wouldn't be able to find anything, Chen Bing ultimately decided to go to the hospital for a checkup.

One can't joke about health issues. Even if he did turn into Ultraman, it would be better than mutating into a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, green from head to toe.

[System: Please draw two chests from the following ten chests as rewards!]

The settlement page had long displayed ten identical copper chests. Chen Bing hesitated for a long time before the system prompted him.

Chen Bing glanced at them and casually tapped two.

The draws were completely random, and he had no control over what he would get.

Copper chests were the lowest tier, but that didn't mean they couldn't contain good items. With incredible luck, a copper chest could yield an excellent item.

However, compared to silver and gold chests, copper chests were far inferior.

Silver and gold chests would always contain items of at least good or rare quality, and the chance of getting an excellent item would be significantly higher.

"Damn, I already got the Blessing of the Gods set. If the game hadn't had issues, I would have been the first place. First place can open three gold chests and even draw an equipment item from the game if they're lucky!"

Looking at the row of copper chests, Chen Bing couldn't help but feel frustrated. His hard work had been in vain.

[System: You opened a copper chest and obtained a 'Low-Level Pet Incubator'!]

[System: You opened a copper chest and obtained a 'Fate Box'!]

...

[Item: Low-Level Pet Incubator]

[Type: Common Consumable]

[Quality: Common]

[Can be brought to Home: Yes]

[Requirements: None]

[Usage: Can incubate a first-stage pet egg, completing the incubation instantly with a very small chance of the pet advancing or becoming stronger.]

[Description: A common pet incubator with low value. Even if you lose it by accident, don't worry, because you'll soon get a brand new one!]

...

[Item: Fate Box]

[Type: Portable Treasure Chest]

[Quality: Common]

[Can be brought to Home: Yes]

[Requirements: 1,000 Home Points]

[Description: Open it! Open it! This box whispers in your ear, telling you to open it, and it might change your fate!]

...

"Another low-level pet incubator... The chance of getting this thing is way too high. Including the ones in the Home storage, I have three now? And the Fate Box, isn't this the super-pit item that's said to make anyone who uses it look foolish?"

The two chests yielded a somewhat broken white spherical device, the low-level pet incubator, and a black, worn-out box.

Chen Bing glanced at them and felt his face turn black.

On the game forum where he had been researching, someone had opened a 'Life Spring' Home building from a copper chest, which was a super-rare item even a gold chest would find hard to produce, causing many players to envy.

He, on the other hand, got two useless items from the same copper chests, not even a rare item.

First-stage pet eggs weren't hard to come by, but countless predecessors' painful experiences warned newcomers not to incubate low-level pet eggs casually. Pets hatched in Home would need to be raised to adulthood and released to free up the pet slot unless you could find another player to take them over.

Carrying an useless pet would only be a burden, draining your experience points and only useful for cuteness—if the pet was cute.

Unless you were certain the pet would be excellent, don't incubate pet eggs lightly.

Very few people chose to incubate first-stage pets. Low-level pet incubators were not rare and could even be found in the Home store, priced at 1,000 Home Silver Coins. Initially, some people bought them, but now, almost no one would want them, as the limited pet slots in Home meant that buying a large number of incubators wouldn't guarantee hatching an excellent pet.

As for the 'Fate Box', it was an even bigger pit.

Opening a Fate Box required 1,000 Home Points. While it was possible to get good items, the greater chance was to receive various negative statuses.

These negative statuses wouldn't easily disappear and would persist until the next game, only disappearing after completing special tasks in the next game.

Starting the game several steps behind others, by the time you could play normally after removing the negative status, you would be far behind in levels.

1,000 Home Points was not a small amount. After the game settlement, Chen Bing had only earned 820 Home Points, and his total Home Points were just over 4,000.

Using 1,000 Home Points to open a negative status was a huge loss.

Chen Bing's consecutive draws of these two items could be considered unlucky. Even drawing some Home Silver Coins would have been better, as they could be used to build Home and buy game items from the Home store or other players, far better than these two useless items.

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Normally, after opening the chests, players would exit the virtual space and return to reality. But Chen Bing unexpectedly found that he didn't exit immediately, and a line of green text appeared before him.

"Tsk, what the hell is this? So unreliable, even showing gibberish!"

But the text was all gibberish. Chen Bing could barely recognize a few letters that looked like English, but the meaning of these gibberish letters together was incomprehensible.

However, Chen Bing still took a screenshot and sent it to his Home email for safekeeping.

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