The thirteenth district, the lowest level of the Earth's human space base, the closest place to the Earth's surface, and also the area most vulnerable to disasters and diseases. In the entire human space base, it was known as the slums.
The space base had a pyramid-shaped structure, with fewer spaces as it went up. Above the thirteenth district were twelve other districts. Districts one to three were the residential areas of officials, tycoons, or celebrities, with extremely limited space and the furthest away from the Earth's surface. Districts four to six were the residential areas of the upper-middle class, with limited space. Districts seven to nine were the residential areas of the middle class, with relatively average space. Districts ten to twelve were the residential areas of ordinary civilians, with more ample space.
Despite having the most space, the thirteenth district was considered the least desirable place to live, a population of roughly 40% of the total Earth's human population lived there.
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At this moment, Chen Mo has arrived in the thirteenth district, as Liu Tianhao had expected. He had no choice but to come here since he was now penniless, having spent all his in-game coins purchasing a staff for Mingyue. At the same time, Liu Tianhao had forced him to terminate his contract and took away all his wages, bonuses, and a massive amount of deposit for the current year in the game. As for the valuable money he had earned in the game over the years, he had spent everything on buying two space positions for his parents to move out of the thirteenth district.
No matter what happens, Chen Mo would never ask his parents for the money again. Therefore, he decided to keep silent about returning to the thirteenth district.
Fortunately, Chen Mo still had an idle space position in the thirteenth district, located in the center of the district, which was considered a decent place to live. After Chen Mo arrived at his allocated space position, he lay down and closed the space cabin. At the same time, he used his World Card to directly open the door to the Second World.
"Please set your new character name!"
"Nameless!"
"Please set your new character appearance!"
"Randomly adjusted!"
"Please set your new character's first profession!"
"Craftsman!"
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"Congratulations, your game character Nameless has been created successfully. Based on your location, I will now teleport you to the Hundred-Li Town, No.1188 in the Huaxia Thirteenth District, wish you a pleasant game!"
When Chen Mo's top-level character, "Brother is a Legendary," committed suicide, he immediately created his new character. He chose to use the "low-key" name, Nameless, and selected Craftsman as his initial profession, while leaving all other professions to be randomly assigned.
Not only was this because Liu Tianhao had limited his new character from choosing a combat profession, but it was also because he believed that he had to make this choice.
Normally, most players would take up life professions such as craftsmen or chefs as their second or even third profession, but there were also a few players who aspired to become life profession experts and chose life professions as their primary profession. Chen Mo was the third type of player!
As a new-level 1 combat level, Chen Mo wore a system-gifted valueless cloth robe and wielded a system-gifted valueless wooden sword. Unlike other new players who would typically venture out to kill monsters and level up, Chen Mo made his way confidently from his spawn point to the warehouse in Hundred-Li Town.
The first thing he wanted to do after his rebirth was to obtain an item - this item was the key to his revival!
At the entrance of the Warehouse in Baili Town, there are not many players here at this time. After suicide and rebirth, all non-bound items and coins in the player's inventory and warehouse will be cleared. Therefore, compared with his previous large warehouse, the new novice gift warehouse seems particularly small and empty.
However, before his suicide and rebirth, he had already donated all his high-level equipment, materials, scrolls and other items in his warehouse to the guild warehouse of King, the elite guild he established. These items are mostly for high-level players above level 60, and other players in the guild need them more than he does after his suicide and rebirth.
The only item left is this special book, which is black with a lock mark.
Locked items are bound items that will not disappear even after suicide and rebirth.
Once such items are in the inventory, they cannot be traded, sold, or discarded. This "Tian Gong Treasure" is such an equipment. Chen Mo carefully took out this "Tian Gong Treasure" from the warehouse. Because of its appearance, Chen Mo chose this self-suicide and rebirth path!
This is a strange book, but also a "ominous" item that people have to face huge sacrifices.
When Chen Mo got this book, he had no choice because the book had already been bound to him automatically when he picked it up. This strange thing was the first time Chen Mo had met it. In fact, it is not tradeable, not sellable, not discardable, and even indestructible, but it has a crazy usage condition!
"Please open for the first time using Tian Gong Treasure! Once successfully opened, it will be available for life!" When Chen Mo first saw this, he was quite excited. However, a follow-up explanation made him fall from heaven to hell directly: "Open condition: Character level should not be greater than level 1!"
What does "level not greater than 1" mean?
In fact, it means that only players with level 1 can open it. However, at that time, Chen Mo's "Bro Only a Legend" was already the first level 100 character in the entire District 9!
In addition, the binding restricted him from trading this item to any player and could only be used by himself. Therefore, he had only one way to use the book - suicide and rebirth!
Tian Gong Treasure Level 1, not tradeable, not sellable, not discardable, not destructible, attached with a portable manufacturing space, and has the following five blessings:
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1. After the character equips Tian Gong Treasure, it will permanently make the character gain twice the experience accumulation speed for all life occupations in the game;
2. After the character equips Tian Gong Treasure, all crafting formulas for items below level 20 for all occupations in the game will be transparent to this character, and when crafting any item, the item recipe will be exempted;
3. After the character equips Tian Gong Treasure, it will permanently increase the probability of all life occupations in the game by 10%!
4. After the character equips Tian Gong Treasure, it will permanently increase the character's luck value for all life occupations by 10 points;
5. After the character equips Tian Gong Treasure, it will permanently increase the character's maximum level for all life occupations by 1. At the same time, the current maximum level that this character can reach for all life occupations will increase by 1.
In a world where rare items are extremely scarce, the value of a book like the "Heavenly Artisan's Handbook" is undoubtedly infinite. Its level 1 five major blessing functions alone are overwhelming, and what's more, it is an item that can be continuously upgraded. As the level of this amazing book increases, its blessing functions will become stronger and stronger.
Upon receiving the "Heavenly Artisan's Handbook," Chen Mo was conflicted for an entire night. On one hand, he had worked tirelessly for six years to achieve his glorious victories. On the other hand, not using the book may lead to waste and potential missed opportunities that could propel the entire guild, or even the entire "Second World" into a new era and chapter - the only chance to do so.
Of course, if it were just as simple as that, Chen Mo may have been able to make a decision already. However, after carefully reading the restriction instructions of the "Heavenly Artisan's Handbook," he discovered the following information:
Once the "Heavenly Artisan's Handbook" is equipped, it cannot be taken off. However, as it is not tradable, discardable, sellable, or even destructible, there is no need to worry about it dropping. Nevertheless, it does have durability. The "Heavenly Artisan's Handbook" has a durability of 1/1, and to make matters worse, its durability cannot be repaired by any means. Moreover, if the user dies once in the game, the durability of the "Heavenly Artisan's Handbook" will automatically decrease by 1. When its durability reaches 0, the item will disappear!
This means that if Chen Mo chooses to use the "Heavenly Artisan's Handbook" during a suicide respawn, he will face the challenge of not being able to die, not even once, while other players can die as many times as they want. Otherwise, once the "Heavenly Artisan's Handbook" disappears, his suicide respawn will be meaningless. He will not only lose his six years of glorious achievements, but his honor and status in the "Second World" as well.
This is undoubtedly a huge gamble!
However, if he succeeds in ushering in a new era for the entire "Second World," the benefits he will receive will be unprecedented. Before the "Heavenly Artisan's Handbook," the vast majority of equipment came from monsters dropping them. Good equipment was too difficult to forge, requiring a good blacksmith, complete materials, and the ability to obtain equipment blueprints and understand the manufacturing formulas. All three must be present. Because of this, the term "god tier artifact" has always been a distant legend in the "Second World."
The biggest shortage in the entire "Second World" now is top-tier equipment. Good equipment is often priceless, and because of this, the "Second World" has been running for six years now. Even including the character "Brother only a legend" before Chen Mo, level 100 players still can't get a set of 80-level full-body red treasures or higher. Not to mention equipment of the same level and grade.
One of the reasons for this phenomenon is the suppression of player legions by monster legions in the "Second World." The "Second World" system runs independently, and the monster legions have been suppressing player legions in terms of momentum. Because crafting top-tier equipment is too difficult, most of them can only rely on elite monster drops. This directly leads to the shortage of players in the "Second World."
If this situation continues to develop, Chen Mo's intuition as a former top player is very clear. The "Second World" will face a disaster in the near future. Perhaps after this disaster, the status relationship between the player legion and the monster legion will reverse. Based on the current strength of the player legion in the "Second World," there is no one who can stop this disaster.
In the end, Chen Mo still chose the irreversible "self-harm" road!
However, he understood more than anyone else that his previous status doomed him to be a person admired and envied by many, not only outside the guild but also within it, where struggles were frequent. Once his new character information was leaked, it would bring countless troubles. Many people might simply want to kill him for a thrill, while others might be commissioned to do so, and some might just want to kill him once.
Therefore, he had to be cautious and careful when dealing with his suicide rebirth. To ensure the safety of his new character after the suicide rebirth, he took several insurance measures, including using the name "Nameless" - a nondescript and "low-key" gaming name.
Even so, he knew that the road ahead was long and arduous. Once he died, everything would be for naught. Fortunately, the biggest chip he had to "survive" was that, apart from himself, no one else in this world knew the true reason why he committed suicide and was reborn. Keeping this secret would be his biggest advantage to "struggle and survive" in the future.
With that in mind, Chen Mo, who had just been reborn, was now at level 1. As he placed his right hand on the black cover of the "Heavenly Work Bible," a burst of white light flickered and appeared: "Congratulations, player Nameless, you have successfully opened the 'Heavenly Work Bible,' and the five major blessing functions will also be activated simultaneously!
Note: This item cannot be removed, dropped, discarded, traded, or destroyed. The durability is 1/1, and one point of durability will be deducted each time the game character dies. If the durability is reduced to 0, the item will automatically disappear. Please remember, remember!"
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At the same time, a virtual light car had arrived at the center of the Thirteenth District, just outside Chen Mo's spatial location.
On the car, Mingyue and Chen Chen were both looking at the light inside Chen Mo's spatial location, indicating that the person using this spatial location was now in the game of "Second World."
"Mingyue, my brother is really pitiful. He can only start from scratch here in the Thirteenth District. Li Fatzi is too despicable!"
"Well, seeing him enter the game again for the first time must mean that he has created a new character, which proves that he hasn't been defeated. I'm relieved!"
"Mingyue, why don't we pool our resources and buy a spatial location for my brother? We can't afford to buy one in other districts, but even if we buy one for him in the Tenth to Twelfth District, it would be much better than here in the Thirteenth District!"
"Your brother would never accept it, I am very sure of that. His vision and goals are definitely not limited to this. Li Tianhao simply does not understand your brother, if he wants to completely destroy him, he will ultimately regret it!" Mingyue smiled slightly, which was rare: "Let's go!"
"Ah, Mingyue, since we're here, why not go in and meet my brother?" Chen Chen couldn't help but smirk: "If my brother knew that Mingyue came to the Thirteenth District to see him, he would be so happy. He fell in love with you at first sight six years ago and has been pursuing you for six years. He has always been devoted to you, and when he left the game, he even spent all his game coins buying you a superb magic wand. This proves how much he loves you. Even I can see that Mingyue cares about my brother, why not..."
As Mingyue listened, her face couldn't help but show a hint of bitterness and helplessness, but it quickly disappeared.
"Because your brother and I can never be together!" Mingyue said, and at the same time, she had activated the virtual light car. In an instant, they had left the Thirteenth District's boundaries: "So, you must never tell your brother that I came here. Seeds that cannot germinate should not be buried in the ground unless..." Mingyue's tone was very determined, but when she said the word "unless," a hint of longing for a beautiful love story could still be seen in the eyes of a young girl. However, within half a second, Mingyue had shaken her head slowly, secretly ridiculing herself for being naive. Nevertheless, if one observed