"I remember the small goal I set for shield value earlier seemed to be 5,000 points each, which means 80,000 points were needed to complete the small goal, but now there are still 457 points missing to reach the 80,000-point target, which isn't much."

Zhang Yanhang estimated that if the gap was only this vast, then just relying on the Yellow Medicine Grass dropped from the Raccoon City prize pool tomorrow should be enough to make up the shortfall.

After reviewing the shield value limit, Zhang Yanhang immediately continued to tally the gains from the treasure box. After clearing the gains in Talent and Artifact, the next was the equipment gains, which was the last category since he hadn't found any weapons or other items.

Regarding equipment gains, firstly, there were the two waist bags from the Police Zombies. Zhang Yanhang could merge these two waist bags into a Waist Bag +1, but due to their limited quantity, he decided not to merge them for now.

He previously had six Waist Bags +4, one Waist Bag +3, and one Waist Bag +2. He needed one more Waist Bag +2 to merge a new Waist Bag +4. However, the two waist bags this time could only merge into a Waist Bag +1, leaving him still needing a Waist Bag +1, or two more waist bags for the merger.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang planned to wait until he had gathered four ordinary waist bags before merging them into a Waist Bag +4. By then, he would have seven Waist Bags +4. And if the Police Zombies in Raccoon City dropped plenty of waist bags, he could even consider gathering eight Waist Bags +4 to merge into a Waist Bag +5.

After all, having a row of waist bags on one's waist can indeed be troublesome; although they can be nested, the hassle doesn't change as each one needs to be opened individually.

Since he didn't lack large-capacity space now, he could directly use the Stomach Space to store bulky items, and the waist bags only needed to hold small bits. In this situation, if he could indeed gather eight Waist Bags +4, it would be better to merge them into a larger one for convenience.

Accepting some loss of grid space is bearable since the storage prowess had never been the waist bags but rather the Storage Box with its 800 grids or 800 cubic meters. So sacrificing a little waist bag space is indeed not a big deal.

Besides waist bags, Zhang Yanhang also opened four set parts of Raccoon City's police standard equipment from the Police Zombie's drop treasure box, but to be honest, the White Ten-piece Set is pretty meaningless to him now, as he doesn't even need it for "smuggling" anymore because there hasn't been a smuggling requirement lately.

Moreover, besides that, Zhang Yanhang pondered on whether the Stomach Space might also serve similarly since normally, undigested materials in his stomach aren't "confiscated" when entering or leaving the Ashen World.

If this point turns out to be achievable, Zhang Yanhang thought he might not need the White Ten-piece Set at all.

To test this function, he reckoned that simply swallowing a little bit of a corpse wouldn't suffice, he would have to consume more of the ground. The Stomach Space needs to enable these normally non-exportable items to remain post-departure from the Ashen World for it to be successful.

However, although the White Ten-piece Set has been obsolete for two tiers now, Zhang Yanhang still put these four parts into the waist bag due to past sentiments. There are plenty of grids in the waist bags anyway.

Other than the equipment opened from the Police Zombie's drop box, the treasure boxes from other First Tier monsters in Raccoon City had no equipment option, only the T-001 Prototype Tyrant's drop box reliably produced equipment, or rather equipment fragments.

The outcome was uncertain whether it was good or bad luck; this time, Zhang Yanhang opened a total of twelve Coin Fragments from T-001 Prototype Tyrant's box, which weren't evenly split, with a higher proportion of Defense Coins. This time, he received nine Defense Coin Fragments and three Attack Coin Fragments.

"Previously, I only had two fragments each for Defense and Attack Coins, but now after acquiring nine new Defense Coin Fragments, I can once again synthesize a new Defense Coin, whereas the Attack Coins total up to just five, which is still halfway to fusion."

But Zhang Yanhang believed that with the prize pool refresh tomorrow, he would undoubtedly gather the remaining half of the Attack Coin fragments and synthesize a new Attack Coin.

Though these coins are Dark Purple Quality Equipment, by his current tier they'd typically be obsolete, yet due to their unique bonus effects, Zhang Yanhang has always been fond of them, as fixed damage reduction is really super useful, especially for an awakener like him who couldn't be bothered to dodge enemy attacks.

Zhang Yanhang recalls mentioning during the Third Tier that Defense Coins and Attack Coins had been retired and were unusable, but unexpectedly, upon reaching the Fourth Tier, the Hundred Taboos Skill revived them, allowing continued use.

And since Defense and Attack Coins are of Dark Purple Quality and belong to Third Tier equipment, teorhetically with the Hundred Taboos, they could continue serving even if Zhang Yanhang advances to the Sixth Tier.

Hence, Defense Coins and Attack Coins indeed have a high synthesis value.

"By the way, I wonder if there's a chance to acquire any new coin-themed equipment in this new area, if there is, I'd definitely go all out in obtaining them."

For any amulet-like equipment that takes effect from within the waist bags, Zhang Yanhang's desire remains voracious since who wouldn't fancy gear that provides bonus effects just by carrying it around and allows infinite stacking?

Zhang Yanhang promptly retrieved a long-stored Defense Coin Fragment from his waist bag and pieced it together with the other nine Defense Coin Fragments.

If Zhang Yanhang remembers correctly, this single Defense Coin Fragment was obtained during his First Tier, yet it only found use after reaching the Fourth Tier now.

It's only fair to say that the T-001 Prototype Tyrant in the Raccoon City third-prize pool was indeed too scarce, with only one available, and it refreshed only once a day. If there'd been a few more, maybe two or even three, he probably would have synthesized the new Defense Coin long ago.

Upon completion of synthesis, Zhang Yanhang promptly glanced at its attribute list.

[Defense Coin]

[Quality: Dark Purple]

[Type: Equipment]

[Origin: Ashen World, Raccoon City, Umbrella Company Base, Logistics Storage Room.]

[Durability: 100/100]

[Defensive Power: 50]

[Special Attribute: Fixed reduction of 25 points of physical damage when encountering physical attacks; immune to attacks with physical damage below 25 points.]

[Usage requirements: Constitution below 75 points.]

[Score: 210 (Dark Purple Items score range from 151 to 260.)]

[Introduction: Official cheat, most lethal! —— from an anonymous ████ in the other dimension]

"As expected, still as familiar as ever, exactly the same as before. It can consistently reduce physical damage by twenty-five points, and is immune to attacks below twenty-five points. Now, I have a total of three Defense Coins on me, so combined, it reduces seventy-five points of physical damage, while also being immune to attacks below seventy-five points of physical damage."

Even though he has already advanced to the Fourth Tier, Zhang Yanhang still feels that the Defense Coin's effect is really strong. This means that after an enemy breaks through his defense, they must inflict at least seventy-six points of damage to possibly diminish one point of his Energy Shield's shield value.

Breaking through defense is not easy, and furthermore, inflicting more than seventy-six points of damage after breaking through is even more challenging. Zhang Yanhang reckons, unless encountering a monster that uses energy attacks, otherwise, if only physical attacks are available, then even Fourth Tier Monsters, whether using normal attacks or skill attacks, would find it difficult to breach his defenses.

"Even though it's just a Dark Purple Quality Equipment, but because it is a Protective Talisman Equipment and can stack, its strength far exceeds its quality. It truly lives up to the description of being rated as the 'official cheat' equipment."

After inspecting the last piece of equipment, which is the attribute list of the Coin Fragment, Zhang Yanhang has basically finished counting the items obtained from the treasure box this time.

So, after placing the Defense Coin and the three Attack Coin Fragments into his Waist Bag, Zhang Yanhang immediately took out the first prize T-virus raw liquid and the second prize T-virus enhancing potion obtained from the Raccoon City Lucky Slot Machine pool.

However, Zhang Yanhang does not intend to drink the second prize T-virus enhancing potion first. Instead, he plans to drink the first prize T-virus raw liquid first because there are two bottles of the second prize, all boosting Strength and Intelligence. If the effect of the Swallowing Heaven and Earth Skill activates, drinking three bottles in a row would cause an overflow of attribute values, resulting in waste.

After making up his mind, Zhang Yanhang first opened the attribute list of the T-virus raw liquid for a quick look.

[T-virus Raw Liquid (Essence Extraction)]

[Quality: Dark Purple]

[Type: Artifact]

[Origin: Ashen World, Raccoon City, Outer Zone, Lucky Slot Machine.]

[Usage effect: Strength +1, Agility +1, Constitution +1, Intelligence +1.]

[Usage requirements: Strength below 50 points, Agility below 50 points, Constitution below 50 points, Intelligence below 50 points.]

[Score: 258 (Dark Purple Equipment score range from 151 to 260.)]

[Introduction: Developed and manufactured by the Umbrella company, 'T-virus Raw Liquid (Essence Extraction),' can be used to enhance the human physical body and brain. However, they later discovered the limitations of human strength, far from comparable to a B.O.W. (Biological Combat Weapon). Thus, they gradually shifted their efforts towards creating the perfect 'Ultimate Biological Weapon.']

"Compared to the T-virus enhancing potion, the attribute values increased by the T-virus raw liquid are more balanced, with each of the four main attributes—Strength, Agility, Constitution, and Intelligence—increasing by one point. This way, even if the effect of the Swallowing Heaven and Earth Skill activates, there's no need to worry about attribute overflow."

As for the two bottles of T-virus enhancing potion, the possibility of waste due to being unused at the Fourth Tier is unlikely. After all, Purple Quality is of the Second Tier Quality, so even if kept until promotion to the Fifth Tier, it would still be effective. This is why Zhang Yanhang does not want to risk wasting them by drinking all three bottles now.

The T-virus raw liquid is contained in a special syringe. Previously, when Zhang Yanhang used it, he would definitely insert the needle into his arm for normal injection. But now, with the Swallowing Heaven and Earth Skill, it's different. Zhang Yanhang directly ingested the T-virus raw liquid along with the syringe.

As the Stomach Space quickly absorbed it, Zhang Yanhang soon felt a warm current spreading throughout his body. However, the warm current came and went quickly, disappearing before Zhang Yanhang could truly feel it.

Upon successfully consuming the T-virus raw liquid and absorbing it, Zhang Yanhang immediately began checking his attribute list, wanting to know whether the boosting effect of the Swallowing Heaven and Earth Skill had been activated during the enhancement process. If it was activated, what form did it take? It couldn't possibly add 0.6 of an attribute point, could it?

[Strength: 100 (+3[-2])]

[Agility: 100 (+3[-2])]

[Constitution: 100 (+3[-2])]

[Intelligence: 100 (+3[-2])]

[Charm: 100 (+33[-2])]

"Overflowed by two points... Hmm? Overflowed by two points? Why would it overflow by two points? The T-virus raw liquid's effect should only increase each of the four main attributes by one point. If all of them overflow by two points, wouldn't that mean this T-virus raw liquid increased my attribute values by eight points in one go?"

When Zhang Yanhang advances one profession level, he can only gain six free attribute points. This time, he almost got one and a half levels of attribute values for free.

"My original four main attributes were all at a normal ninety-seven points, only reaching one hundred points with the equipment effects' bonuses. Now, they all increased by two points, growing from ninety-seven to ninety-nine, causing the three-point effects of the equipment to overflow by two points."

Zhang Yanhang finds the situation rather puzzling, trying to make sense of why this would happen.

"Could it be that the Ashen World also uses rounding in this situation, just like in other aspects? Because 0.6 of an attribute point doesn't exist, 'rounding up' directly results in an additional whole attribute point?"

After much thought, Zhang Yanhang considers this to be the most reasonable explanation he can come up with. Admittedly, aside from this, it's indeed hard to explain the current situation.

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