[Identifying the item you picked up!]
[Item: Damaged miniature nuclear battery]
[Quality: Gray]
[Description 1: A product manufactured by Roser Technology Company, widely used in various electronic products]
[Description 2: The remaining power of this battery is less than 0.001%, making it unusable]
"Another useless battery."
Lin Lan looked at the crystal-clear blue cube in his hand, feeling somewhat disappointed.
A semi-transparent floating panel hung in his retina, displaying a prominent reminder apart from the item identification information.
[Only 40 minutes left for dungeon exploration, please plan the remaining time wisely]
Lin Lan casually stuffed the broken battery into his backpack, turned on his flashlight, and continued to examine his surroundings.
It was pitch black all around; he was standing in a demolished underground mall.
Due to the collapse of the upper floors, most of the passages in the underground mall were blocked by fallen debris, with only a few intact shelves, making it difficult to find valuable items.
In front of Lin Lan lay a half-section of a large air conditioning unit over three meters long, from which he had just extracted the battery, but it was just another powerless scrap.
"Didn't find any high-quality items today either..."
Lin Lan sighed, glanced at the remaining time, and started retracing his steps.
If the exploration time ended before he exited, the dungeon city would instantly fade into a virtual illusion and disappear without a trace.
While he wouldn't be harmed, he would be forcibly expelled from the dungeon, causing all the hard-earned items to vanish.
Lin Lan had no intention of experiencing that ordeal a second time.
A moment later, he arrived at the exit of the underground mall, where a sliver of crimson moonlight had descended along the broken escalator, staining the damp and desolate scene around the young man blood-red.
Lin Lan turned off his flashlight and quickly walked out of the mall, returning to the city surface.
A colossal crimson moon immediately caught Lin Lan's eye.
The red celestial body silently loomed over the city like an insect, occupying nearly one-third of the sky, pressing down with an overwhelming presence.
As far as the eye could see, the world illuminated by moonlight was a sight of devastation.
The wreckage of magnetic levitation vehicles and manned aircraft was haphazardly piled on the desolate roadsides, with collapsed skyscrapers farther away. The massive sky bridges that once encircled the buildings had also fallen, lying like city walls around the city center's outskirts.
A thick layer of dust coated all surfaces. Even under the moonlight, the entire world's tone remained dim and obscure.
However, for Lin Lan,
this silent and eerie abandoned city was an exclusive treasure trove just for him!
He glanced at his panel, where the basic information of the world was still displayed in the top left corner.
[Current Dungeon Card: Sunken Ideal City]
[Card Base: Red Moon (Unique)]
[Card Keywords: Third Epoch, Company]
[Single Entry Limit: 180 minutes]
[The highest obtainable quality item in this dungeon is of Gold quality!]
"The gold item should be hidden in the city center..."
Lin Lan murmured to himself. In previous explorations, he had meticulously searched the area around the spawn point, but the highest-quality item he found was only a blue miniature nuclear battery.
He approached a compact and elegantly designed tricycle on the roadside and threw his backpack into its compartment.
Besides the backpack, the compartment also contained two other items in good condition:
[Item: Mass-produced smart coffee machine]
[Quality: White]
[Description: As long as there is sufficient power and raw materials, it can quickly brew delicious and aromatic hot coffee using the most advanced extraction technology]
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[Item: RTXX9090]
[Quality: White]
[Description: An early screen display adapter produced by Roser Technology Company, now fully replaced by the Super Dream Rendering Device]
These were Lin Lan's harvest for the day.
Even though the high-tech graphics card was of no use to him, and those defunct batteries served no purpose, Lin Lan was still happy to collect this junk.
Not for any other reason, just to pass the time.
Moreover, the Otherworld's natives had never seen these dungeon items; with some persuasion, maybe he could sell this junk for a high price!
Lin Lan was a Transmigrator.
In his previous life, he was just an ordinary worker, but on one overtime night, fate smiled upon him.
With a blink of an eye, he found himself in a new world, becoming a down-and-out noble from a declining family.
The original owner's full name was Roland Howard.
Unable to accept the fall from grace and accustomed to a lavish lifestyle, the original owner ended his life with a dining knife, allowing Lin Lan to easily take over Roland's body.
Through his observations in the days post-transmigration, Lin Lan noted the new world seemed rich with fantasy elements.
There were kingdoms and churches, nobles and knights, and seemingly extraordinary creatures like sea monsters.
With adventurers opening up the exciting Age of Exploration, various factions fiercely competed over the sea routes.
However, Lin Lan didn't pay much attention to the Otherworld's background; he was hopelessly captivated by his golden finger.
Yes, hopelessly captivated...
Lin Lan's golden finger was the Apocalypse Card Album Management System.
Upon transmigration, a peculiar dungeon card lit up in Lin Lan's mind panel.
Simply put, with a mere thought, Lin Lan could manifest the dungeon card in reality, turning it into a portal to the card world.
He could explore the dungeon world freely, and most importantly, the items he acquired from the dungeon could be brought back to reality!
Now, Lin Lan's entire focus was consumed by the dungeon card "Ideal City," he was thoroughly engrossed, so much so that the original's background didn't matter anymore; all Lin Lan wanted to do was collect junk.
Because collecting junk was just too satisfying!
With just a few trips to Ideal City, he had already equipped his mansion's secret chamber with air conditioning and a portable water heater.
Both appliances were even powered with miniature nuclear batteries, usable for as long as he wished.
Lin Lan planned to transform that chamber into a modern secret base—a phrase childish for kids, but just perfect for a reborn Foreigner.
In the silent, empty city, the young man hummed a melodious tune, pedaling energetically on the broken streets under the blood moon. His silhouette cast on the ground by the moonlight seemed to grant the dead city its only shadow.
"Now I can drink coffee; my quality of life has stepped up a notch~"
Lin Lan felt immensely satisfied.
Although he only had two usable nuclear batteries at home, and had to swap them between appliances, he was already very content with the situation.
The road littered with city debris was somewhat difficult to traverse, but Lin Lan was very familiar with the area. He avoided the sharp alloy fragments of collapsed buildings and quickly returned to the dungeon spawn point.
A swirling light gate floated silently in mid-air.
Lin Lan pushed his tricycle into the light gate, vanishing into the scarlet night.
Simultaneously, something began to fall from deep within the sky.
Dragging a long trail of flames, the entire body burned brightly. Under the watchful red moon, the falling object's outline gradually became clear.
It was a ship.
An enormous seven-masted sailing ship.
Its masts and sails were already consumed by fire, and its hull was shattered, resembling a giant bird stripped of its wings.
Boom!!!
The massive ship crashed into the city center like a comet, with flames soaring into the sky, only to be completely eclipsed by the omnipresent moonlight.
The city returned to silence once again.