November 1st, Sunday, Halloween, also Zhang Yanhang's first day in the Ashen World, 6:01 PM, Ashen World, Raccoon City, Dulda Apartment, downstairs.

According to Zhang Yanhang's scan results, the Lucky Slot Machine in Raccoon City had already been normally refreshed, so, filled with anticipation, Zhang Yanhang immediately teleported to the Lucky Slot Machine in Raccoon City, eager to know whether after a month, the Lucky Slot Machine in Raccoon City had refreshed the second and first prizes.

Looking at this already all-too-familiar Lucky Slot Machine in Raccoon City, Zhang Yanhang immediately pulled the metal lever on its side.

As the metal lever was pulled, a familiar damping sensation gradually emerged, and after a few days interval, the long-awaited time pause descended once again upon Raccoon City. Simultaneously, the text option box, which Zhang Yanhang yearned for day and night, also appeared before him.

Zhang Yanhang immediately started checking the contents of the text option box in front of him.

[Please select the specific content for this draw of the Lucky Slot Machine]

[Option One: 777 (First Prize, 'T-virus Serum (Essence Extraction)', Dark Purple Quality, Artifact.)]

[Option Two: ✬✬✬ (Second Prize, 'T-virus Enhancing Potion', Purple Quality, Artifact.)]

[Option Three: ✬✬✬ (Second Prize, 'T-virus Enhancing Potion', Purple Quality, Artifact.)]

[Option Five: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Beta-type Hunter, First Tier Three Stars, Ordinary Monster.)]

[Option Four: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Licker, First Tier Two Stars, Ordinary Monster.)]

...

[Option Two Hundred Seventy-Eight: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, Police Zombie, First Tier Zero Stars, Ordinary Monster.)]

...

[Option Six Hundred Forty-Five: ❂❂❂ (Third Prize, T-001 Prototype Tyrant, Second Tier One Star, Ordinary Monster.)]

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[Option Eight Hundred Seventy-Three: ✫✫✫ (Fourth Prize, Thank you for participating, no physical prize.)]

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"Holy crap! Did the prize pool really refresh? And not just the second prize, even the first prize has refreshed..."

Previously, the Purple Quality T-virus Enhancing Potion in the second prize and the T-virus Serum in the first prize would naturally have been of no use at all to him, who is now a Fourth Tier Awakened.

But now it's different. He acquired the Hundred Taboos Skill, which allows him to ignore usage requirements and forcibly use the T-virus Enhancing Potion and T-virus Serum.

"Previously, I was a bit worried that the attribute values provided by the Limitless Universe Skill might not be enough, but now it seems that once I use these two bottles of T-virus Enhancing Potion from the second prize and the T-virus Serum from the first prize, I should be able to directly max out the attribute values to the Fourth Tier limit.

But I just don't know whether the 60% boost from the Heaven and Earth Devourer Skill will be effective on this or how it will manifest—will it directly make the boostable attribute values even more?"

Zhang Yanhang thought it should definitely work, but how much it could boost was indeed unknown, as attribute values aren't percentages and can't be that precise.

Zhang Yanhang felt that it had been a long time since he last saw the T-virus Enhancing Potion. After all, the last time he saw it was during the first draw from the prize pool, which was indeed quite a long time ago, with a solid one-month interval in between.

Therefore, Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but click on the attribute list of the Purple Quality T-virus Enhancing Potion from the second prize to take a look.

[T-virus Enhancing Potion]

[Quality: Purple]

[Type: Artifact]

[Origin: Ashen World, Raccoon City, Outer Zone, Lucky Slot Machine.]

[Usage effect: Strength +1, Intelligence +1.]

[Usage requirements: Strength below twenty-five points, Intelligence below twenty-five points.]

[Score: 110 (Purple Items are scored between 71 and 150.)]

[Introduction: Developed and manufactured by the Umbrella company, the 'T-virus Enhancing Potion' can be used to enhance the human body and mind. However, they later discovered that human strength has limits, far from reaching the level comparable to B.O.W. (Biological Combat Weapon), so they gradually abandoned this direction and shifted more funding towards creating the perfect 'Ultimate Biological Weapon'.]

"Although it's been a long time, it still feels as familiar as ever. This is probably the charm of enhancing artifacts."

After looking through the attribute list of the T-virus Enhancing Potion, aside from the feeling of familiarity, Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but start pondering a question: how exactly should the Heaven and Earth Devourer Skill provide a boost when there's only a one-point attribute value increase?

"If it could increase five attribute points, then perhaps it could boost three attribute points, totaling an eight-point attribute value increase. But the T-virus Enhancing Potion can only increase one point in Strength Attribute and Intelligence Attribute each. How exactly can this be boosted? Could it possibly increase by 0.6 attribute points?

No, attribute values don't have decimal points, so that situation certainly can't exist…"

Zhang Yanhang thought it over and concluded that the most likely scenario is that this 60% boost effect becomes inactive due to the low attribute values, but exactly what the situation is won't be known until it's used later. But no matter what, he believes the Heaven and Earth Devourer Skill won't disappoint his earnest expectations in this regard.

"But even without considering the Heaven and Earth Devourer Skill's boost, just these two bottles of T-virus Enhancing Potion alone can provide me with a four-point attribute value increase, which is still quite impressive.

"This is why I have the Hundred Taboos Skill, otherwise, let alone the Fourth Tier, just considering the usage requirement of less than twenty-five points in Strength and Intelligence for this T-Virus Enhancing Potion, I could have only used it at the First Tier."

Aside from the refresh of the First Prize and Second Prize, Zhang Yanhang also discovered a new change, or rather, a very significant change in this prize pool.

Zhang Yanhang found that the number of monsters in this prize pool had effectively undergone a super multiplication of a super multiplication.

He just counted the number of options in the prize pool list and was astonished to find that, from a few hundred text option boxes, it had suddenly sprung to over a thousand this time.

Moreover, the additional text option boxes were not meaningless options like 'Thank you for participating,' but were all legitimate Third Prize options that allowed the drawing of monsters.

Upon careful verification, Zhang Yanhang discovered that the Third Prize pool now contained a total of seven hundred options, with each type of monster in Raccoon City occupying a hundred slots in the prize pool.

In other words, the Third Prize pool now includes a hundred Ordinary Zombies, a hundred Police Zombies, a hundred Zombie Dogs, a hundred Lickers, a hundred Beta-type Hunters, a hundred Gamma Type Hunters, and most importantly, a hundred T-001 Prototype Tyrants.

The Third Prize pool is indeed quite extravagant now. If it had been at this level a month ago, Zhang Yanhang would have been thinking of ways to exploit it every day.

When asked why the number of monsters in the Third Prize pool suddenly increased, Zhang Yanhang could only speculate, with high probability, that it was similar to the refresh in the First and Second Prizes, caused by the passage of time leading to these changes.

"This prize pool is really ridiculous now, with a small Third Prize pool managing to cram in seven hundred monsters."

Zhang Yanhang seriously suspected that if there were more types of monsters in Raccoon City, it might be very possible to squeeze in more than a thousand monsters into a prize pool.

"But though even a hundred T-001 Prototype Tyrants were refreshed, the most important Lord Monster in the Raccoon City area, the T-103 Tyrant·Tracker, still hasn't appeared in the prize pool list."

Considering the uniqueness of Lord Monsters to a region, Zhang Yanhang felt that no matter how much more time passed, it probably wouldn't appear, so he didn't hold any expectations for such a thing in the first place.

"However, in any case, even without the Lord Monster Tracker, the seven hundred monsters in the prize pool alone are already quite beneficial to me..."

Zhang Yanhang had been worried about the Rank Penalty he would face after advancing to the Fourth Tier, but now, with the seven hundred monsters in the prize pool available, the number of treasure boxes dropped will definitely exceed when there were only a hundred monsters before.

"The only torturous thing is that the 'standing punishment' time has become longer."

Previously, Zhang Yanhang used to spend about five minutes drawing from the prize pool each time. Now, with seven hundred options, he estimated that he'd have to 'stand' for at least half an hour.

At this thought, Zhang Yanhang became even more annoyed with the Lucky Slot Machine's fixed draw time method, but annoyance was futile; drawing was necessary, and humans are just inherently contradictory like this.

"So, I choose Option One, the First Prize Dark Purple Quality Artifact [T-Virus Original Liquid (Essence Extraction)]."

After carefully perusing the over a thousand options, Zhang Yanhang quickly made his choice, the Time Pause immediately disappeared, and the symbols on the Lucky Slot Machine spun rapidly, soon stopping at '777.'

However, when the gacha containing the First Prize T-Virus Original Liquid popped out, he didn't use it immediately. Instead, he planned to use it together with the treasure boxes after finishing off the monsters.

So, after storing the T-Virus Original Liquid in his Waist Bag, Zhang Yanhang quickly pulled the metal lever on the side of the Lucky Slot Machine again, but thinking that he would have to pull it seven hundred more times, he foresaw it would be quite torturous.

......

November 1st, Sunday, Halloween, and also Zhang Yanhang's first day entering the Ashen World. At 6:36 PM, in Ashen World, Raccoon City, on a dilapidated street that had long been wrecked by Zhang Yanhang himself.

Zhang Yanhang mechanically pulled the metal lever on the side of the slot machine, and upon seeing new monsters pop out of the gacha, began pulling the metal lever again, repeating this cycle seven hundred times.

When he finally extracted the last monster from the prize pool, Zhang Yanhang, looking numbly at the tide of corpses in front of him, sighed quietly. He could never have imagined that upon entering the Ashen World, he hadn't done anything yet, and had already spent over half an hour just drawing from the prize pool.

But fortunately, he had finally emptied the prize pool. Looking at the T-001 Prototype Tyrants constantly charging from the outer zone but being completely immobilized by the Ordinary Zombies, Lickers, and Hunters surrounding him, Zhang Yanhang felt inexplicably amused.

So, out of a desire to assist these T-001 Prototype Tyrants, Zhang Yanhang activated the Death Wave Skill.

As a circle of transparent waves spread from his body as the center, the monsters surrounding him soon fell as if they were wheat being mowed down. In less than a breath, the street once filled with zombies now had no standing monsters; at the same time, the T-001 Prototype Tyrants finally achieved release, successfully entering the state of liberation.

[Successfully killed Second Order One Star monster 'T-001 Prototype Tyrant (Ordinary)' ×1, Soul points +30.]

[Successfully killed Second Order One Star monster 'T-001 Prototype Tyrant (Ordinary)' ×1, Soul points +30.]

[Successfully killed Second Order One Star monster 'T-001 Prototype Tyrant (Ordinary)' ×1, Soul points +30.]

...

With the monsters' death, Zhang Yanhang's ears were immediately filled with the high-frequency intense kill prompt sound; however, since it was only seven hundred times, Zhang Yanhang was already immune to this level of kill prompt sound.

To significantly affect him now, at least a five-digit level of kill prompt sound is needed.

But it must be mentioned that for the six-digit level of overclocking kill prompt sound like the last time when cleaning Greenland, he still hadn't found a good solution; even after experiencing it once, he'll still crash if it happens again in the future.

After all, this skill is more about familiarity; only by experiencing it more can he develop more resistance, so once he experiences it a hundred or eighty times more in the future, he'll surely become completely immune, alright, that's just him daydreaming.

Looking at the ground littered with monster corpses, Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but sigh, "Spent half an hour on the draw, and only one second fighting monsters. Thankfully, it's currently just the Raccoon City's Lucky Slot Machine that's become like this due to time factors; otherwise, if every Lucky Slot Machine required half an hour for each draw, it would be even more torturous."

If it really became like that, then Zhang Yanhang might not need to do anything else when he comes to the Ashen World in the future, but has to stand for one or two hours first to clear the prize pool, which feels exceptionally tormenting no matter how he thinks about it.

But fortunately, the other regions' Lucky Slot Machines are still some time away from reaching a month, so there's no need to worry about that issue for now.

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