Chapter 54: New Feature – Painted Skin

Glazed light is connected to the extraordinary.

If a halo surrounds the body and is blessed within the aura, it symbolizes that the person has an extraordinary status.

If a halo condenses above the head, it indicates extremely good fortune.

If a halo attaches to the surface of an object, it mostly means that it is an extraordinary item, or possesses a certain characteristic.

However, the "spatula" redeemed from the [Eerie Black Market] last time did not present a glazed color at all. This human-skin mask, on the contrary, bloomed with such a conspicuous radiance, and it is very likely to be a characteristic item!

Chen Ye could not help feeling his breathing accelerate.

He did not expect the return gift from the faceless family to be so generous!

They directly gave back a characteristic item.

At this stage, the value of any characteristic item is very high. Even if he cannot use it himself, he can take it to the [Eerie Black Market] to exchange it for another characteristic item.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Chen Ye warmly exchanged pleasantries with the old man. During their conversation, the posture of shaking hands never stopped, just like biological brothers who had been out of contact for many years having a long-awaited reunion.

From the conversation, Chen Ye learned that the old man in front of him was named Lin Shu, and he was temporarily acting as the head of the family.

Because the eldest leader had not returned for many years, someone needed to take charge of the overall situation at home, and as the second leader, he naturally took over this position.

At the same time, the bag of items handed over could be used in conjunction with the human-skin mask.

It was also a consumable.

If used up, it would need to be purchased at Pawnshop No. 3333 in Yong'an Market.

Chen Ye was very curious about what was actually inside this bag.

However, the other party never mentioned this topic for a long time. In order to maintain courtesy, Chen Ye chose not to ask about it directly, but instead followed the flow of the conversation.

"May we meet again by fate in this vast world."

At parting, the two cupped their fists at each other, exchanged a few pleasantries, and then left.

Harboring excited emotions, Chen Ye quickened his pace and hurried back toward Xining Alley.

He couldn't wait to know what kind of use the human-skin mask had...

Returning to Xining Alley, which was surrounded by a faint blue light.

Just as Chen Ye turned a corner from an alley entrance, he suddenly encountered three familiar figures!

Those three faces turned around at the same time; they were Iron Rod, Kitchen Knife, and Chainsaw.

It was none other than the "Gluttonous Spectre" whom he hadn't seen for a long time!

Chen Ye was stunned for a moment, and instinctively drew out his suona.

The three figures in front of him instantly kicked up a burst of dust and ran out of sight!

"Hey, what a buzzkill!"

Chen Ye shook his head and smiled. He had actually wanted to show them the results of his latest progress, but he didn't expect them to run so fast.

However, thinking that he still had the human-skin mask to study, Chen Ye chose not to chase after them while playing the suona.

Returning to his resting place.

Before walking over, Chen Ye touched the oil-paper bag, intending to take out some sugar-roasted chestnuts and share one with the erhu-playing old man by the way. As a result, as soon as he reached inside, he awkwardly found that it was empty.

The sugar-roasted chestnuts made previously had many bought up by other players in the [Eerie Black Market], aside from his own daily consumption.

Fortunately, the quantity of the three ingredients Chen Ye bought earlier was large enough, and they had been processed into many "pinecones" by Miss Squirrel Fish.

Currently, there were still two large bags of "pinecones" hidden in a small warehouse not far away, which was piled up with abandoned sundries.

When he walked over, Chen Ye found that the erhu old man was gone, and next to him was a bucket containing half a bucket of water, which had neither been finished nor taken away.

"Not here?"

Chen Ye's heart stirred slightly, but he didn't pay too much attention to it. Who knew where he might have gone to earn performance fees.

He first took out the ingredients from the warehouse.

Making a fire, heating the pot, adding oil...

He had to admit that the newly bought mobile cart had more convenient cooking functions, a stronger fire, and was easier to operate.

After the pot boiled, Chen Ye skillfully stir-fried the "pinecones", frying them into golden sugar-roasted chestnuts.

After all, the delicacy still needed to be prepared first.

Throughout the process, Chen Ye repeatedly jumped back and forth while stir-frying, and his eerie value rose to seven thousand points.

A large pot of sugar-roasted chestnuts was finally freshly baked!

If he ate them himself and was frugal in his daily consumption, it would be no problem at all to last for several weeks.

After finishing all this.

Chen Ye finally took out the human-skin mask.

"Ding!"

At the same time, the bloody cell phone popped up a prompt—

[Detection: You can absorb this human-skin mask and acquire a new characteristic—Painted Skin!]

[Painted Skin: You will additionally acquire a "face" and can paint on it to change your desired appearance.]

[Eerie Value +1000!]

Opening the bloody cell phone, his personal information instantly gained a new characteristic—

Player: Chen Ye

Identity: [Wandering Musician]

Characteristics: [Wandering Tune], [Blessed], [Wandering Heart], [Apprentice: Musician, Chef], [Painted Skin]

Spiritual Object: Wandering Map

Personal Assets: 115 Coins

Title Halo: None

Exclusive Talent: Eyes of Fortune

Eerie Value: 8050

Cleared Games: 0

Compared to the very beginning, except for not having cleared a game yet and not unlocking a title halo...

Chen Ye's characteristics had become rich!

His eerie value, because of the additional [Painted Skin] characteristic, instantly surged by one thousand points.

The leaderboard finally broke through the top twenty barrier, and even leaped to the fifteenth position.

Taking another huge step forward!

Chen Ye's mind stirred, and he opened the communication public screen of [Destiny Jianghu].

Sure enough, as his eerie value instantly surged by a section, it once again sparked a wave of discussions among the players.

[Crap! Did you guys see that?]

[How is Chen Ye's ranking flashing like he's teleporting, jumping straight from outside the top twenty to fifteenth?]

[Am I seeing things? When I just opened the leaderboard, I clearly saw that this大佬's score was seven thousand. How did it suddenly become eight thousand?]

[This is a sudden rise to prominence!]

[I thought Big Brother Chen Ye was just growing slowly and getting faster slowly, but I didn't expect him to have such powerful explosive force. He's standing tall like a pillar!]

[This is the real badass...]

Currently, Bai Chen, who ranked first, had just broken the ten-thousand mark.

Flower Young Master, who ranked second, also seemed to be exerting force, closely following behind with an eerie value of nine thousand seven hundred.

The terrifying growth rate of Chen Ye attracted the attention of players at the top of various leaderboards.

But what was even more surprising was...

There was actually the explosive force of instantly increasing the eerie value by a thousand points!

If this happened a few more times, wouldn't he directly overtake the top two?

"However, Painted Skin is just an independent characteristic and has not merged with other characteristics to form a professional identity."

"Generally speaking..."

"If a professional identity in the Eerie Era can merge four to five characteristics, it can evolve into a second-turn profession!"

"Compared with a first-turn profession, a second-turn profession possesses stronger functionality and coverage. Basically, it simultaneously merges two complete first-turn professions, and both its completeness and practicality are far beyond comparison with a first-turn profession."

"You can never have too many characteristics."

"The more characteristics one possesses, the more likely one is to enter the fusion sequence and mutate into a second-turn profession."

"When the second-turn mutation arrives, the instantly skyrocketing eerie value will usher in its true peak!"

PS: There will be another bonus chapter at midnight tonight!