CHAPTER 21: CHAPTER 21: REFRESH

Entry: Refresh.

’You can anchor items for interval refresh; each time it refreshes, it will randomly deduct 8 points from any one of the wearer’s attributes.’

’Anchored item: Food.’

Randomly deduct attributes?

Zhou Yingting was momentarily stunned when he saw this, then his face turned extremely serious.

According to his previous experiences on the ship, this entry refreshes every eight hours, which means it refreshes three times a day.

Over the course of a day, this thing will randomly deduct a total of twenty-four points of attributes.

It’s important to know that Zhou Yingting’s current attributes are: Power, Defense, and Speed are all 34 points, and Life Quota is 13.2.

These attributes are irrecoverable once deducted unless you find other entries or other means to increase them.

However, his Spiritual Power is 200 points, and it can recover slowly.

According to the attribute description, his current Spiritual Power recovery rate is one point per hour.

If each refresh deducts his Spiritual Power, eight points at a time, his Spiritual Power will just recover by eight hours, which would be perfect.

But the problem is, this thing deducts randomly.

If this entry randomly targets his Life Quota three times, he would be undoubtedly dead.

Even if it doesn’t randomly target his Life Quota, but instead the other three basic attributes, it’s still problematic.

His other three basic attributes are only 34 points each; if they were targeted several times, they would be depleted.

Who knows if this thing will deduct into negative numbers if it hits zero?

But given the negative attributes of this entry, Zhou Yingting would not continue to wear it.

"How should I solve this negative effect?"

Zhou Yingting’s eyes flickered as he continued to read on.

’Refresh entry can be paired with the entry Lucky 4, making all random items, numbers, and entries select 4.’

Lucky 4? What kind of entry is this?

Zhou Yingting frowned upon reading this, then glanced at his attribute panel.

Going through the attribute panel in order, they are Power, Defense, Speed, and Spiritual Power.

Spiritual Power is the fourth one.

So if paired with this entry, every time the refresh entry randomly refreshes, would it always select Spiritual Power?

If that’s the case, it would indeed perfectly solve this problem.

After all, Spiritual Power can be continuously recovered, and losing one point per refresh is no issue.

But....

In just a moment, a sense of unease arose in Zhou Yingting’s heart.

According to the solution provided by his Golden Finger, this entry can solve the current entry’s trouble.

But the question is, will this new entry bring new side effects, new troubles?

So far, he hasn’t seen any entry without any side effects.

If that’s true, then to solve the current side effect, he must equip new side effects.

Then, to resolve the new side effects, he would need to fit further new side effects.

This way, it would become an endless cycle like a Matryoshka doll, wouldn’t it?

Unless one day, Zhou Yingting can form a perfect loop where all the side effects close completely within it.

But to achieve this, who knows how many entries he’d have to find to form a perfect loop.

Zhou Yingting looked at the entry in front of him, feeling quite a headache.

This refresh entry is extremely useful, and indeed, if the refreshed attributes were always to deduct his Spiritual Power, Zhou Yingting would think this entry is amazing.

But unfortunately, the attribute deduction of this entry is random!

Three times a day, with each having a one-fifth chance to deduct his Life Quota.

The probability of randomly targeting his Life Quota three times a day is not low at all.

"Let’s set this entry aside for now."

Zhou Yingting sighed, put the entry away securely.

Fortunately, this entry can be carried around, and it’s relatively easy to store when kept close.

Right now, it seems the entry from the Wali People has the lowest side effects.

Although if he encounters any plasma dungeons or the like in the future, he would suffer triple the damage.

At least this isn’t a constant side effect, relatively speaking, it’s safer.

"Beep...!"

After reading the entry in his hand, Zhou Yingting put it away and the next moment heard a horn sound.

When Zhou Yingting looked up, he saw a bus slowly pulling into the station.

At this moment, Song Qingyun and several newcomers had finished their transaction.

Seeing the transaction completed, Song Qingyun looked extremely happy, and as the bus door opened, she swiftly got off.

Meanwhile, the few newcomers watching her quick departure suddenly felt a sense of unease.

However, such thoughts did not linger in their minds as they hurriedly disembarked upon the bus’s arrival.

But as they got off the bus, they saw that more than a dozen people had surrounded the bus stop.

The just-departed Song Qingyun seemed very familiar with the leader, greeted them calmly, then left.

The remaining newcomers watched as these people surrounded them, feeling a growing sense of unease.

Who are these guys?

While the newcomers were feeling doubtful and uncertain, a man in a black trench coat approached them.

The man in the trench coat arrived, noticing everyone’s wary expressions, he smiled and gestured to calm them.

"Everyone, don’t be so tense. We are from the national 14th Bureau, specifically responsible for some post-operations of entry dungeons."

"Please use your phones to scan this code and fill in your personal information."

The man in the trench coat took out a QR code, indicating for everyone to scan it.

The group, just back from the entry dungeon, was taken aback by this sight.

Previously, they knew that someone like Song Qingyun was an old-timer, and some wealthy people were aware of entries, so it was unreasonable for the government not to know.

But now, seeing how smoothly they were being asked to scan the code, the crowd felt schooled.

"Scanning this code and providing personal information, won’t this mean all our information gets leaked?"

Someone looked at the QR code hesitantly and said.

Honestly, just getting introduced to entries, he felt like he had gained extraordinary power and didn’t want to be watched.

The man in the trench coat smiled and said, "Even without filling out this information, we already have your personal data."

With that, he pointed behind him, where a camera was located.

In today’s information age, exposed under surveillance, they indeed had no privacy.

"Everyone can rest assured, now more and more people are coming into contact with entries, and we are merely doing a simple information collation and won’t do anything to you all."

The man in the trench coat spoke, soothing the crowd.