Not long after sending off Xu Qinghe's remnant soul, the familiar electronic chime rang in her ears, and the light and shadow before her eyes suddenly shattered.
In the next second, Bai Ci was back in her personal independent space.
After going through so many instances, and since her points had never been of much use, she, like those Hedonists, had invested most of her points into furniture and space renovations.
Now, this once-monotonous system showroom had been gradually transformed by her into a cozy home.
A soft beige carpet covered the floor, a simple fabric sofa sat in the corner, and a vase on a shelf to one side held budding flowers, with a warm, soft yellow light enveloping the entire space.
Fortunately, the system offered a cleaning service for purchase; otherwise, this kind of fluffy carpet, while comfortable, would have been a real nightmare to maintain.
As for her exercise equipment, it had all been moved into a newly expanded space, designating that area as her workout zone.
Bai Ci stretched her limbs, collapsed onto the blanket-covered rocking chair, and opened the final evaluation screen for this instance.
She had a hunch that she had ridden someone's coattails to a massive score again.
Just as Lin Wenyu had said, “The experience of being carried by the Boss is absolutely amazing,” she had now experienced it firsthand as well.
For most of this instance, she had been trapped in the Xu estate, her movements restricted at every turn, leaving her with no opportunity to actively search for clues.
Most of the strategies throughout the run had come from that Boss, ultimately bringing the story to a relatively happy ending.
Under normal circumstances, she probably would have received a B-rank or A-rank evaluation, but she had the passive skill “Unswerving” on her side.
Although this passive restricted her in certain ways, once she saw the impact it had, she understood that those restrictions were entirely worth it.
Once she could secure an S-rank evaluation entirely on her own, she would look for a reliable team to join.
Bai Ci reasoned that fighting solo would always have its shortcomings. Moreover, her class was not a combat-oriented one to begin with, making cooperation even more essential.
And with the prerequisite of earning an S-rank evaluation on her own, she wouldn't end up marginalized in a team. Even if she made a bad call and fell in with the wrong crowd once, it wouldn't affect her too severely.
The final evaluation panel popped up quickly. The system's loading speed was always excellent, never lagging for a second.
[Instance Name: Wang's Tailor Shop]
[Basic Information]
Player: Bai Ci
Time Elapsed in Instance: 22 days, 18 hours, 22 minutes
Overall Evaluation: S
Combat and investigation performance were average. Plot contribution was significant. Through roleplaying the character, successfully deceived the enemy, and disrupted enemy plans through multiple on-the-spot actions, creating conditions for victory.
Following this event, the Double Snake Cult has been completely eradicated, and no one will suffer from them again.
[Basic Rewards]
EXP: 100
Points: 300
[Special Rewards]
1. Gift: Body Stitching
A thread connects the broken bones; a thousand strands bridge life and death. The false scheme to mend the heavens ultimately returns to the truth of dust and earth.
(Effect: As long as the original, intact body parts are found, any bodily damage can be stitched together, healing all injuries. Limited to one use per instance.)
2. Class Advancement: The Husband-Jinxing Ghost Bride (Hatched)
Wind and moon are but illusions; destiny binds deep love. Life and death cannot tear them apart; the bond exists by borrowing life.
The world fears the curse of the ghost bride, unaware that yearning is worth ten thousand gold. Tying one's ups and downs to another, a single thought of attachment carries through this life.
Was it because she had just completed a historical instance that the descriptions this time were so literary and poetic?
Bai Ci sat up straight as she looked at the rewards on the panel. Putting the poetic language aside for a moment, the main thing was that there were just too many pleasant surprises.
Another S-rank evaluation, and a class advancement to boot.
She first retrieved the item [Body Stitching] and took a brief look. It was a spool of thin, translucent white thread, along with a needle.
After carefully sensing how to use it, Bai Ci was momentarily struck speechless.
This thing had to be stitched manually.
If someone's head got cut off, you had to manually stitch the head back onto the neck, and then the person who died from decapitation would come back to life.
If it was stitched on crookedly, that person would just have to accept their bad luck and live with a crooked neck.
They were already being brought back from the dead, so why demand so much?
Even though it could only be used once per instance, this effect was truly formidable. The only limitation was the “original, intact body parts” mentioned in the effect description.
This meant that it would only work if you stitched the body while the corpse was still fresh.
If the body had already withered into a mummy, or if the head had turned into a skull, stitching it back together would be useless.
In other words, you either had to get to work while it was still warm, or you had to keep the corpse in excellent, fresh condition.
As expected of the reincarnation of the Wenqu Star; he had gifted her a truly wonderful item.
Her only regret was that she couldn't stitch her own head back on if it came to that. At most, she could only stitch her own arms or legs.
After examining the item, Bai Ci eagerly opened her main personal panel to check all the information of her advanced class.
[Player Information]
Name: Bai Ci / Lora
Identity: Bai Ci / Lora / ???... (Item Effect)
Level: 5
Current EXP: 90/100
Points Held: 434
Core Attributes: Physicality 10 (HP 100/100), Spirit 12 (Spirit Points 10/10), Agility 11
Unallocated Attribute Points: 1 (Acquired after leveling up)
Current Status: None
Current Class: The Husband-Jinxing Ghost Bride (Expand to view details)
Time until next instance opening: 119 hours, 45 minutes
Instance History: Collapsed (Expand to view details)
She had originally intended to look at her class, but as soon as she expanded her personal stats, Bai Ci's gaze was involuntarily drawn to the status bar.
The curse [What is Love], which had accompanied her through two instances and played a massive role in both by jinxing crucial NPCs to death, had completely disappeared.
But it made sense. How long could that one percent really last?
With such a useful buff suddenly gone, a subtle trace of regret welled up in her heart.
Suppressing this regret, she clicked to expand her brand-new class.
Wow!
Because the new class merely added a prefix to her original one, the two skills from her initial “Ghost Bride” class had not disappeared; instead, they remained completely untouched in the skill bar of her new class.
[Class]
“The Husband-Jinxing Ghost Bride”:
1. Cloud Rendezvous (Passive)
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2. Unswerving (Passive)
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3. Widow (Active)
Can summon a black register.
① The register will automatically record the information of all NPCs with the “Rain's Message” status.
② After a recorded NPC dies, the register will randomly acquire one of that NPC's abilities. The player can use this ability through the register, though some abilities may have usage restrictions.
4. Shears (Active)
Can summon a pair of red-handled shears.
① The fortune of NPCs with the “Rain's Message” status will continuously condense into “cocoons” around them, with a limit of five “cocoons” per NPC.
② The Shears can pierce fully formed “cocoons.” Each time a “cocoon” is broken, the corresponding fortune will be completely drained.
The more fortune is lost, the worse the NPC's luck becomes, and the higher the probability of them encountering accidental mishaps.
Rate on N.U.
