"Uh-huh, good, as expected, the first and second prizes weren't refreshed. Although I've gotten used to it, I still can't help but feel a bit uncomfortable.

After all, this is the second to last chance. If even this opportunity fails, then I can only wait until next month to enter the Ashen World again and see if the Lucky Slot Machine in Raccoon City will be able to refresh the first and second prizes after a month's time."

Emotionally, Zhang Yanhang hoped that the first and second prizes would be refreshed, but reason told him that since there hadn't been a refresh for such a long time before, even if he really waited until after a month, it still wasn't certain that there would be a refresh.

But just like what was said in the introduction of the Divination Tarot Card·Star that Zhang Yanhang had just obtained, people always need to have hope. It's hope that gives motivation, so he decided to continue to wait. After all, it was a cost-free endeavour that could be completed effortlessly.

"So, I choose Option Two, Worker Zombie." After checking the prize pool list that had barely changed, Zhang Yanhang quickly made his decision. Time Pause instantly disappeared, and at the same time, the images on the Lucky Slot Machine's screen started spinning continuously.

...

[Successfully killed a First Tier Three Star Monster, 'Beta Type Hunter (ordinary)' ×1, Soul points +10.]

[Successfully killed a First Tier Three Star Monster, 'Beta Type Hunter (ordinary)' ×1, Soul points +10.]

[Successfully killed a First Tier Three Star Monster, 'Gamma Type Hunter (ordinary)' ×1, Soul points +10.]

...

After successfully taking down the hundred monsters drawn from the Lucky Slot Machine's third prize pool in Raccoon City with a single Death Wave, Zhang Yanhang began to stand quietly in place, waiting for the Drop treasure boxes to refresh.

After quietly standing next to the pit of corpses for a few seconds, Zhang Yanhang was surprised to find that this time, the hundred monsters from the Lucky Slot Machine's third prize pool in Raccoon City had actually dropped seven Treasure boxes for him, consisting of two Ordinary Zombie treasure boxes, two Licker treasure boxes, one Zombie Dog treasure box, one Police Zombie treasure box, and one Beta Type Hunter's Drop treasure box.

As to why this happened, Zhang Yanhang wouldn't think it was because of good luck, but rather he believed that during his previous cleanup in Raccoon City, there had been a bit of a surplus, and that surplus of monsters didn't drop treasure boxes.

For example, the last batch of Lickers he cleaned up in Raccoon City didn't drop a treasure box, so he felt that it must have been because enough quantity had accumulated on the Lucky Slot Machine's third prize pool side here in Raccoon City to drop a treasure box. Otherwise, under normal circumstances, twenty-four Lickers definitely wouldn't drop two treasure boxes.

But although the number of dropped treasure boxes was two more than usual, Zhang Yanhang didn't care much. After picking up the seven Drop treasure boxes and putting them into his Waist Bag, he had no excess sentimentality and instead went straight towards the Demonized Swamp Zone. He wanted to check if the Lucky Slot Machine's third prize pool there had refreshed.

...

October 28th, Wednesday, three days after the Double Ninth Festival, and also Zhang Yanhang's fourth day into the Ashen World, 5:32 AM, Demonized Swamp, forest area, Lucky Slot Machine.

Compared with the constantly disappointing Lucky Slot Machine in Raccoon City, Zhang Yanhang felt that the Lucky Slot Machine in the Demonized Swamp was undoubtedly much friendlier to him because he found that the Lucky Slot Machine in the Demonized Swamp had actually already refreshed at 5 AM.

"This way, before the Transmission Channel closes tomorrow morning at 6 AM, I can still freeload one more time from the Lucky Slot Machine in the Demonized Swamp, not bad at all.

The Lucky Slot Machine's third prize pool in the Goblin Plain can provide me with roughly ten thousand Soul points; I wonder how many Soul points the Lucky Slot Machine here in the Demonized Swamp can provide me."

Although he hadn't yet started checking the prize pool list, just from the strength of the monsters alone, Zhang Yanhang believed that the Soul points revenue from this Lucky Slot Machine's third prize pool in the Demonized Swamp was definitely higher than that of the Goblin Plain, as for how much higher, he would only know after clearing it out.

Of course, the Soul points revenue was just an added bonus, what Zhang Yanhang mainly hoped for was that the Lucky Slot Machine's third prize pool in the Demonized Swamp would refresh with more Demonized Saber-toothed Tigers and Demonized Mammoths.

After all, his Purple Quality Cloud Tiger Shoulder Armor +5 was waiting to be promoted to Dark Purple Quality, and the Dark Purple Quality Ivory Pendant +4 was waiting to be upgraded to Light Golden Quality Ivory Pendant +5.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yanhang immediately pulled the metal lever on the side of the Lucky Slot Machine in the Demonized Swamp. Time Pause once again descended upon the Demonized Swamp Zone, and at the same time, a long list of familiarly formatted but not too familiar content text options appeared before Zhang Yanhang's eyes.

[Please select the specific content of the Lucky Slot Machine's draw]

[Option One: ❂❂❂ (Third prize, Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar, Second Tier Three Stars, Ordinary Monster.)]

[Option Two: ❂❂❂ (Third prize, Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar, Second Tier Three Stars, Ordinary Monster.)]

...

[Option Forty-two: ❂❂❂ (Third prize, Demonized Saber-toothed Tiger, First Tier Three Star, Ordinary Monster.)]

[Option Forty-three: ❂❂❂ (Third prize, Demonized Mammoth, Second Tier Two Star, Ordinary Monster.)]

...

[Option Seventy-nine: ❂❂❂ (Third prize, Demonized Emperor Crocodile, Second Tier Two Star, Ordinary Monster.)]

...

[Option 153: ✭✬✭ (Fourth Prize, thank you for your patronage, no physical prize awarded.)]

...

After carefully inspecting the newly refreshed prize pool list for the third prize of the Demonized Swamp's Lucky Slot Machine, which had reached 100% clearance, Zhang Yanhang suddenly doubted whether he had seen incorrectly.

For he startlingly discovered that there seemed to be twenty Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boars in the third prize pool, although there were only supposed to be seven in the entire Demonized Swamp Zone?!

Moreover, besides the twenty Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boars, he also found there were twenty Demonized Saber-toothed Tigers, twenty Demonized Emperor Crocodiles, and twenty Demonized Mammoths, with the remaining twenty slots divided equally between the weakest creatures, the Demonized Maned Tooth Beasts and the Demonized Dogtooth Giant Apes, occupying ten each.

"Well, that's quite preposterous, isn't it..."

Previously, the best scenario Zhang Yanhang had anticipated for the Lucky Slot Machine in the Demonized Swamp was simply to match the Goblin Plain - that is, for the lowest-tiered and mid-tiered creatures to equally occupy twenty slots, leaving just one slot for the higher-tiered creature like the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar.

Yet reality turned out to be better than Zhang Yanhang had imagined, as he was given twenty Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boars directly, which was three times the normal designated quantity for the Demonized Swamp.

"Based on the drop rate of one treasure box per seven killed Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boars, wouldn't these twenty be able to provide me with three Drop Treasure Boxes? And if I add the refresh tomorrow, wouldn't that be six Drop Treasure Boxes?

With these six Drop Treasure Boxes, won't my Light Golden Quality Demon Pig Bracelet +1 stand a great chance of being promoted directly to a Golden Quality Demon Pig Bracelet +3? No way, right? Could it be that my very first proper Golden Quality Equipment with additional attributes is coming just like that?

And with these twenty Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boars, even if the Demon Pig Bracelet +3 doesn't make it to Golden Quality, then gathering sixteen Demon Pig Bracelets to form a Demon Pig Bracelet +4 is an absolute sure thing. With the number twenty, even if the drop rate decreases after a tier promotion, it should only be a matter of ten or eight days..."

Of course, compared to something like the Demon Pig Bracelet +4, according to Zhang Yanhang's previous fusion processes, the Demon Pig Bracelet +3 shouldn't really have any problems.

After all, the Demon Pig Bracelet +1 had already made it to a Medium score in Light Golden Quality after just one fusion, and with that rate of increase, it shouldn't need to be fused all the way to +4 to reach Light Golden.

Zhang Yanhang clearly remembered that the fusion of the Demon Pig Bracelet increased the score by 35 points, and there were only ninety points in total for Light Golden Quality. Looking at it that way, three fusions would absolutely suffice and even leave some room to spare.

In other words, by tomorrow, Zhang Yanhang estimated that he should really be able to obtain a Golden Quality piece of equipment. Although he didn't know just how powerful Golden Equipment could be, considering it was after all Fourth Tier Equipment, it had to be much more powerful than Third Tier Equipment.

"Moreover, aside from the possibility of promoting the Demon Pig Bracelet through fusion, those twenty Demonized Saber-toothed Tigers and twenty Demonized Mammoths should also be able to help me elevate the Purple Quality Cloud Tiger Shoulder Armor +5 and the Dark Purple Quality Ivory Pendant +4 up to Dark Purple Quality and Light Golden Quality, respectively.

It's just that, compared to the Ivory Pendant +4 which only needs two more to reach Light Golden Quality, the Cloud Tiger Shoulder Armor +5, still needing five more to upgrade to Dark Purple Quality, has a much bigger gap.

After all, a Demonized Saber-toothed Tiger is a First Tier Monster, and I need to kill twenty to get one Treasure box, but even with this one, I can only clear the Third Prize pool of the Lucky Slot Machine twice before leaving the Ashen World.

Which means I can only kill a total of forty Demonized Saber-toothed Tigers and obtain two Demonized Saber-toothed Tiger Drop treasure boxes, which still leaves a certain gap from promoting the Cloud Tiger Shoulder Armor to Dark Purple Quality.

It seems that the matter of upgrading the Cloud Tiger Shoulder Armor +6 will have to wait until the next time I come to the Demonized Swamp when they should have started refreshing the Demonized Saber-toothed Tigers, and even without relying on the Lucky Slot Machine's Third Prize prize pool, I should be able to easily obtain the remaining parts of the Cloud Tiger Shoulder Armor.

Comparatively speaking, the scenario of the Ivory Pendant, which only needs two more pieces, is much better as they come from the Same Tier Monster, requiring only seven kills for one Drop treasure box.

Thus, after clearing this round of the Third Prize pool, I should immediately be able to obtain enough Ivory Pendants to fuse into a Light Golden Quality Ivory Pendant +5."

With this situation in mind, Zhang Yanhang speculated that his minor goal of compressing the time to empty a Machine gun magazine to under two seconds seemed very hopeful.

"So, the question arises, why exactly did the Lucky Slot Machine's Third Prize pool in the Demonized Swamp Zone refresh with twenty Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boars this time?"

Zhang Yanhang found it normal for the other monsters to occupy twenty slots, but the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boars were certainly abnormal, given that their number in the Third Prize pool was double the standard amount of the Demonized Swamp Zone, which was clearly not normal.

"Could it be because the base strength level of monsters in the Demonized Swamp is quite high, so the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar isn't judged as a high-level monster but is actually a mid-level monster like the Demonized Mammoth and Demonized Emperor Crocodile?

And in addition to the fact that the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar is a collective monster unlike the Chief Shaman Goblin Maka Bagga of Goblin Plain, is that why they can refresh so many as twenty? It's not impossible."

Zhang Yanhang thought this guess was quite likely. After all, the Second-tier Monsters in the Demonized Swamp like the Demonized Mammoth and Demonized Emperor Crocodile start at Second Tier Second Star, and they are only one star away from the Demonized Four-eyed Wild Boar, with not too great an Attribute gap, so being judged as the same Rank of monsters is very possible.

Of course, this is just Zhang Yanhang's speculation. As for what the actual situation is, that can only be determined by clearing a few more new zones' Lucky Slot Machines to accumulate more experience.

"So, I choose Option Thirty-seven, First Tier Three Star ordinary monster, the Demonized Maned Beast."

After carefully reviewing the list from the Lucky Slot Machine's Third Prize pool in the Demonized Zone, Zhang Yanhang quickly made his choice and, as usual, preferably started with the weakest monster.

Although Zhang Yanhang now knew that the monsters drawn from the Lucky Slot Machine's Third Prize pool had Intelligence defects and would not Escape, or that due to some special mechanism they would continuously attack him, the drawer, so in reality, it wouldn't matter which one is drawn first.

But to take fewer hits, or in other words, fewer of the stronger attacks, Zhang Yanhang still chose to start with the weakest monster from the Third Prize pool.

As Zhang Yanhang made his choice, Time Pause instantly disappeared, and the symbols on the Lucky Slot Machine screen began to spin non-stop, eventually stopping on three symbols representing the monster. Simultaneously, an Egg containing a First Tier Three Star ordinary monster, a Demonized Maned Beast, immediately popped out of the delivery slot below.

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