The shop interface displayed a total of ten items.
But their prices were not cheap at all!
Even Lin Bei, who enjoyed a 50% discount, felt that the Braves Shop was a bit too shady.
For example, a barrel of common quality fuel surprisingly cost 1 brave badge.
Even with the 50% discount, one badge could only buy two barrels of common fuel.
Another example: Fine quality fuel still cost ten brave badges per barrel even after the 50% discount!
In comparison, the Oil King was simply too generous.
If Lin Bei were to use brave badges to exchange for fuel here, he would be a total sucker!
Moreover, based on what the NPC mentioned earlier about the difficulty other Survivors faced in obtaining brave badges, the prices of these items in the Braves Shop were indeed a bit high.
Other Survivors couldn't trigger multi-fold Critical Hits when acquiring supplies like he could, so after working themselves ragged all day, they might end up with less than ten brave badges.
This kind of haul, when placed in the Braves Shop, could only buy half a barrel of Fine quality fuel at full price!
Isn't this price outrageous enough?
Of course, for Lin Bei, who possesses the Resource Critical Hit System, these prices were barely acceptable.
Among the ten items on the shop interface right now, fuel occupied four different quality levels—common, excellent, Fine, and excellent quality—taking up four product slots.
Besides that, there were some survival supplies and equipment items.
In terms of survival supplies, there was excellent quality food and water, originally priced at 5 brave badges per serving.
The equipment items were also quite ordinary.
[Alloy War Spear]
Quality: Fine
Price: 150 brave badges
[Alloy War Crossbow]
Quality: Fine
Price: 300 brave badges
[Healing Bandage]
Quality: Fine
Price: 50 brave badges
[invigorating cigarettes]
Quality: Fine
Price: 50 brave badges
[Prompt: As a distinguished VIP Member of this shop, you can purchase all items at half price!]
That's right, aside from the fuel, which had excellent quality, the other nine items only went up to Fine quality, which was disappointing.
The key was that their prices were ridiculously high.
Even if Lin Bei was carrying a massive sum, he couldn't just waste it like this.
"I didn't expect a single Fine quality invigorating cigarettes to sell for so much! One stick actually costs 50 brave badges! That's a bit too shady!"
"It's a pity I can't open my own shop, otherwise... what business would these NPCs have here?"
After internally complaining about the Braves Shop, Lin Bei's gaze fell upon the only excellent quality fuel.
[premium fuel]
Quality: excellent
Price: 100 brave badges/barrel (Discounted Price: 50 brave badges/barrel)
Although Lin Bei didn't want to be a sucker, honestly, he was very curious about how much his shadow tank's performance would improve after being loaded with excellent-grade fuel.
So... he was a little conflicted.
It wasn't that he felt bad about spending his brave badges.
Rather, as a traditional Huaxia Person, one consumer concept was deeply ingrained—
That is, "I can buy expensive things, but I cannot buy things that are overpriced."
This consumer mindset is hard to change in a short time.
But... "Forget it, it's not much anyway, just 50 brave badges. I'll treat it as an early test!"
In the end, Lin Bei decided to bite the bullet once and buy a barrel of excellent quality premium fuel to test the performance improvement of the shadow tank.
[Prompt: You purchased premium fuel (excellent) ×1!]
[Prompt: You triggered a ten-fold Critical Hit effect!]
[Prompt: You obtained premium fuel (excellent) ×10!]
The prompt message flashed and disappeared before him.
Seeing this, Lin Bei froze on the spot.
Since items purchased from the Braves Shop appear directly in the Temporary Transaction Space, he immediately opened the interface.
Sure enough, ten barrels of fuel, emitting a faint purple glow, were quietly stacked in one area of the Temporary Transaction Space.
"This... this works too?"
"Items bought from the Braves Shop... can actually trigger the system's Critical Hit effect?"
"Adding the 50% discount... this... this is ridiculously awesome, isn't it?"
Lin Bei's mood immediately underwent a 180-degree change.
He knew that his Resource Critical Hit could trigger at least a ten-fold effect. In other words, he only needed to pay half the price to purchase goods that were at least ten times the quantity or quality!
What did this represent?
This meant that when he bought items at the Braves Shop, the maximum price he paid was 5% of the original!
If his luck was better and he triggered a hundred-fold Critical Hit effect, 0.05% off was also possible!
To Lin Bei, how could the Braves Shop be considered black-hearted?
It was simply the most generous shop possible!
"This is great!"
What else could he say?
This round, he was essentially slapping himself in the face!
But Lin Bei didn't mind; instead, he was extremely delighted.
Thus, he immediately swept up all the fuel in the shop.
However, all items in the Braves Shop had purchase limits. For example, the shop only stocked two thousand barrels of common fuel in total.
As for the excellent, Fine, and excellent quality fuels, the purchase limits were five hundred, one hundred, and twenty barrels, respectively.
Lin Bei spent a total of 4,000 brave badges and took all the fuel!
Critical Hit prompts flashed continuously.
[Prompt: You purchased Primary Fuel (common) ×2000!]
[Prompt: You triggered a 100-fold Critical Hit effect! You obtained Advanced Fuel (Fine) ×2000!]
[Prompt: You purchased Intermediate Fuel (excellent) ×500!]
[Prompt: You triggered a 100-fold Critical Hit effect! You obtained Intermediate Fuel (excellent) ×50000!]
[Prompt: You purchased Advanced Fuel (Fine) ×100!]
[Prompt: You triggered a 20-fold Critical Hit effect! You obtained premium fuel (excellent) ×200!]
[Prompt: You purchased premium fuel (excellent) ×19!]
[Prompt: You triggered a 10-fold Critical Hit effect! You obtained premium fuel (excellent) ×190!]
In the end, Lin Bei obtained a total of 50,000 barrels of Intermediate Fuel, 2,000 barrels of Advanced Fuel, and 400 barrels of premium fuel!
He loaded all the fuel into the kun bag. He only needed to wait patiently for a period of time, and the 50,000 barrels of Intermediate Fuel would Refine into 50,000 barrels of Advanced Fuel!
At that time, they could be used directly for the shadow tank!
Lin Bei's mind conjured the magnificent scene of tens of thousands of shadow tanks launching a full-scale attack at his command, filling his heart with immense pride!
"This money... was well spent!"
However, the other items in the Braves Shop held little appeal for him.
He originally wanted to upgrade the Braves Shop's level while he was there, but the NPC had disappeared, and he couldn't operate it alone, so he had no choice but to leave.
In a corner of the island, there was an empty patch of ground.
Lin Bei took out a shadow tank and filled it with premium fuel.
Then, he opened the Tank Information Panel.
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[shadow tank]
Level: 20
Quality: excellent
Description: Amphibious Main Battle Tank, weighing 15 tons, wide firepower coverage, outer armor covered with Optical Stealth Coating, capable of avoiding most radar detection.
Maximum Water Speed: 40 km/h (Fuel bonus 20→40)
Maximum Land Speed: 120 km/h (Fuel bonus 80→120)
Average Fuel Consumption: 20 liters/100 km
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Sure enough, after adding excellent quality fuel, the shadow tank's performance increased significantly!
Moreover, the average fuel consumption was reduced to one-tenth of the original!
This meant that a shadow tank with a full tank of excellent quality fuel could achieve an astonishing average cruising range of 9,000 kilometers!
To put it simply, if Lin Bei were still on Blue Star, the shadow tank's terrifying cruising range would almost allow him to drive round trip across Huaxia from east to west!
It was that outrageous!
"Why bother with Fine quality fuel? Everything needs to be switched to excellent quality to be truly powerful!"
The kun bag can Refine and upgrade materials stored within it, raising them up to Perfect quality.
Therefore, with the kun bag in hand, he could easily create a formidable Armored Tank Army!
"Just thinking about it is exciting."
Lin Bei looked expectant.
Soon, he watched the sky gradually darken and couldn't help but frown.
"That's strange. It's already dark, so why hasn't there been an announcement about the Invasion Event?"
Lin Bei felt curious.
The reason he was still on the island was that he planned to finish the Invasion Event before using the Dungeon Entrance to enter the Instance Dungeon to farm experience.
But the Invasion Event was late in arriving, leaving him puzzled.
He didn't know whether to leave or stay.
If he didn't leave, he was afraid he would miss the once-a-day opportunity to use the Dungeon Entrance the next day, losing a chunk of experience.
But if he left directly, and something unexpected happened today, like Marine Creatures Stealing Home Base, it wouldn't just be a matter of losing experience; he would be utterly destroyed.
Therefore, he could only wait silently.
But as time passed, he grew impatient.
Just then, an announcement prompt echoed across the sky.
[Announcement: Attention all Survivors! A rare Christmas Eve is coming today. The drop rate for all supplies at night will be tripled! Please seize the time and strive to become stronger!]
"Christmas Eve?"
Lin Bei was surprised, but quickly breathed a sigh of relief.
Since there was no danger tonight, he could now set off for the Underworld.
As for the triple supply drop rate on Christmas Eve, he had the Master-Level Fishing Rod to automatically fish for supply treasure chests anyway.
Therefore, he didn't need to do it himself; he just needed to instruct Nilu to remember to move the treasure chests away from the shore in time.
After all, with the triple drop rate combined with the terrifying fishing speed of the Master-Level Fishing Rod, if he didn't keep an eye on things, the supply treasure chests might pile up and eventually fall into the sea, resulting in a tragedy.
Lin Bei was very cautious regarding these matters.
In short, it was four words—Absolutely Stable!
"Hmm... using only one tank is still too risky. Since this is my first time entering the Underworld, I should play it safe and bring a hundred tanks to test the waters first."
"I hope the Monsters inside aren't too outrageous."
Lin Bei immediately fueled up hundreds of shadow tanks, then came to the area where the Dungeon Entrance was located, ready to start the battle.
However, as soon as he approached, he saw a familiar Hunched Black Figure leaning against the stone wall at the gloomy Dungeon Entrance, looking up at the night sky and casually smoking a cigarette.
"Holy crap? Isn't that Stinky Treasure?"
"Didn't he just log off?"
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