Chapter 113 - 90: Five Days Later, the World Changes, Inheriting 100% of Game Abilities

In this life, Shen Fei planned to get to the bottom of Ethereum Punk.

In this life, standing at the very apex of power, he could easily tell that while Ethereum Punk might be strong, he couldn’t possibly be *this* strong. The ability to establish such a powerful Forum and the Credit Points system that everyone would later use couldn’t have come solely from an inherited game ability. Otherwise, it would just be too outrageous. When it came to abilities inherited from the game, no one could surpass him. And the abilities Ethereum Punk had demonstrated so far... were a little too ridiculously strong.

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"0.3 Credit Points per month, single room for rent within the 5km safe zone in Qing City! PM if interested. Utilities not included!"

Upon entering the Qing City section of the Forum, all Shen Fei saw was information related to real estate. In an apocalypse defined by inherited game abilities, the Qing City online forum wasn’t filled with ability discussions or experience-sharing on killing monsters. Instead, like some pre-apocalypse real estate website, most of the posts were about property...

"13 Credit Points, looking to buy a property near the Nanshan Villa district. Size doesn’t matter, even 20 square meters will do!"

"You want to buy a place near the Nanshan Villa district for 13 points? In your dreams!"

"Then how much?"

"At least three digits!!"

Casually clicking on a thread, Shen Fei saw that most of the real estate transactions revolved around the 5km radius of his own location, the Nanshan Villa district. It was all because of the safe zone he had created.

Browsing the website, Shen Fei even saw many Ability Users who had inherited game powers taking orders from people with no powers, simply because those people owned property within the 5km zone and the Ability Users wanted to get in. The apocalypse had arrived, and because of Shen Fei, real estate had somehow become a crucial asset once more...

The good news was that although the 5km radius was bustling and densely populated, no major incidents had occurred. Because of the existence of the Cyan God, no one dared to cause trouble within the Qing City area. Of course, this also had to do with the fact that Shen Fei had already eliminated all the players in Qing City who had inherited evil powers...

Then after tonight, I’ll expand the safe zone’s range to 50km. Looking at the bustling real estate market for the 5km safe zone online, Shen Fei couldn’t help but mutter to himself.

He had already inherited over five hundred Defense Towers, and he now had more than just a single Attribute Enhancement Tower that could increase their range. Moreover, as a massive number of Defense Towers were inherited, hundreds of new Bonds were also formed. Among them were Bond effects that increased attack range.

He had yet to inherit the Ten Thousand Linked Bonds skill, which would allow the number of Bonds to reach into the tens of thousands. But just by relying on the ordinary Bond effects between the Defense Towers, Shen Fei could now secure a 50km radius.

As long as his own safety was guaranteed, Shen Fei was willing to shelter others. But he wasn’t about to let those property-owning landlords continue to bleed everyone else dry.

Since the 5km range is what’s causing this real estate boom, I’ll just expand the safe zone to 50km. If 50km isn’t enough, as I continue to inherit game abilities, I can expand it to 100km, or even 200km...

WHOOSH.

After a brief look at the Qing City news from the past five days, Shen Fei opened his personal account on the Forum.

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[Account Nickname: Cyan God]

[Location: Qing City]

[Credit Points: 122,132]

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Another reason Shen Fei felt Ethereum Punk’s power was completely unreasonable was that everyone’s account was automatically verified upon logging into the Forum. People with established titles even had those titles automatically displayed. For example, when he logged into the new Forum, he was automatically given the nickname "Cyan God." His balance of over one hundred thousand Credit Points was due to this verified account. The landlords he was sheltering within the 5km radius had been secretly paying him "protection money." Although he never asked for it, these people, prompted by a post somewhere, were still sending him countless Credit Points every day...

The downside of this account verification is that I can’t use an alt to post anonymously!

The Forum was great and very convenient. It didn’t just have discussion sections; there were also quest boards, a bounty area, a trade center, an intel hub, and more... Shen Fei liked all of these sections. What he didn’t like was that with a verified account, he could no longer speak freely... Anything he posted would be displayed directly under the name Cyan God.

"The rules are evolving faster and faster!"

"Certain special zones have already started to form!"

Browsing the information-sharing section, Shen Fei saw that many formerly tropical regions, after six days of "brewing" under the influence of inherited game abilities, were surprisingly, gradually, transforming into a massive ice Domain that covered a range of a full thousand kilometers.

And as the Earth expanded and more game abilities were inherited, all sorts of terrain—deserts, wastelands, poison zones, haunted lands, and more—were rapidly taking shape.

Shen Fei remembered that in his previous life, when the large-scale invasion of NPCs and monsters began, many bosses and NPCs had taken up residence directly within these special regions. These areas were off-limits to humans!

Over the course of this week of inheritance, giant mountain peaks were also rising from within the deep mountain forests, which had themselves expanded countless times over. And out in the endless oceans, which had also expanded by some unknown factor, all sorts of mysterious islands had surfaced...

As game abilities continued to be inherited, the effects of the "Version 4.2" update from five days ago were still developing. "Datafication" was beginning to manifest in every aspect of life. Wrecked cars on the road were now showing low health bars. When someone with idle hands came along and depleted their remaining health, the cars would explode...

Shen Fei had even heard that, in some places, the rules were evolving so quickly that bugs had started to appear.

Anyway, to put it simply, in these past five days,