My Computer Leads to an Instance Dungeon-Chapter 95 - 88: Instance Settlement! Overwhelming Fortune, and the Over-limit Element

Chapter 95: Chapter 88: Instance Settlement! Overwhelming Fortune, and the Over-limit Element

Fang Zhen got off the motorcycle. First, he took the backpack containing the Gold Rope, silver ropes, and Dog Head Gold off the motorcycle, picked it up, and walked toward the Light Gate.

Other than the Ruby Necklace, the items in this bag were the most valuable things he had obtained in the dungeon. ’I can’t let anything go wrong.’

He carried the bag and stepped through the Light Gate.

After a moment of dizziness, his surroundings had changed to his living room at home.

Fang Zhen placed the backpack in the living room, then turned and walked back toward the Light Gate.

With another slight dizzy spell, he returned to the hillside at the edge of the Dark Forest where he had just been.

"Hehehe, get dizzy enough and you get used to it." He chuckled and walked toward the cloth sacks filled with Cinnabar Ore.

There were four sacks in total, all gray burlap bags. The sacks came up to his knees and were filled with a considerable amount of Cinnabar Ore. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

He walked over, opened one of the sacks, and took a closer look.

Inside was indeed Cinnabar Ore, and the quality was excellent.

Fang Zhen lifted one of the ore sacks. It was quite heavy, feeling like it weighed at least 12.5 kilograms.

’More than I expected.’ He felt a pleasant surprise.

When he had estimated his earnings before, he had calculated that Ande would give him twenty-five kilograms of Cinnabar Ore.

At that time, he estimated that twenty-five kilograms of Cinnabar Ore could be exchanged for 375,000 yuan.

But now, the amount of Cinnabar Ore that Ande had provided exceeded his estimate.

Before Fang Zhen’s eyes were four sacks of ore, each weighing more than 12.5 kilograms.

By a conservative estimate, the four sacks of ore weighed over fifty kilograms in total.

The weight had doubled, which meant the value had also doubled.

The estimated selling price could now reach 750,000 yuan.

Double the happiness.

Seeing his expected income increase by 375,000 yuan, a smile spread across his face, and he felt a new surge of energy.

"Hahaha, I’m not moving Cinnabar Ore, I’m moving renminbi!" Fang Zhen laughed heartily, feeling even more motivated to work.

「Five or six minutes later.」

Fang Zhen had already passed through the Light Gate several times, finally moving all the Cinnabar Ore into his living room.

He passed through one more time, back to the Dark Forest side.

’This really is manual labor.’

And after passing through the Light Gate so many times, Fang Zhen felt a little dizzy.

’I wonder if passing through the Light Gate drains stamina, or has some kind of debuff.’ He decided to avoid such frequent crossings in the future.

On this side, only the Jue Ying motorcycle and his gear were left.

Fang Zhen pushed the Jue Ying motorcycle, carried the rest of his gear, and entered the Light Gate.

After a moment of dizziness, he was back in his own living room.

Instantly, a wave of security washed over him.

"Nothing beats being home." Fang Zhen let out a long sigh of relief.

In the dungeon, even after clearing the mine and drinking celebratory wine with the Redstone family, he hadn’t dared to relax.

He even had trouble sleeping at the inn.

The feeling of being a stranger in a strange land, so vigilant you wish you could sleep with one eye open... who could possibly understand?

Only now, back at home, did he feel truly relaxed.

After that sigh of emotion, Fang Zhen looked around his home.

Suddenly, he thought, ’Is my living room a bit small?’

Strictly speaking, his living room wasn’t small. Its space and layout were quite generous, more than enough to entertain a few friends.

But right now, the living room contained a training dummy for practicing skills, gear like the Hunting Crossbow and its backpack, a long spear, empty glass bottles for making Molotov Cocktails, and a metal drum of spare gasoline.

On top of all that, there was the external hardware for the "Dungeon Life Game," four sacks of Cinnabar Ore, and even a motorcycle.

Anyone’s living room would feel cramped and small with all this stuff in it.

And ever since he got the "Dungeon Life Game," the curtains had been drawn more often than they were open, which only intensified the feeling of the space being too small.

Fang Zhen shook his head. The space wasn’t big enough, but he didn’t trust renting another place. He would never feel safe leaving the "Dungeon Life Game" in a rented house that belonged to someone else.

He set that issue aside for now. After parking the Jue Ying motorcycle, without even taking off his gear, he strode into the computer room.

The computer running the "Dungeon Life Game" was still on.

Just then, a dialog box popped up in the "Dungeon Life Game."

"Congratulations, you have cleared the Normal difficulty dungeon ’Redstone Town Mine’ in the Nameless World setting."

"Proceed to the settlement screen now?"

Fang Zhen had been through a dungeon settlement screen once before, so he was familiar with the process. He simply clicked the ’Yes’ confirmation option with his mouse.

Instantly, digital fireworks and streamers burst across the computer screen, accompanied by the sound of popping fireworks.

’Huh? Is it my imagination? Why do the celebration effects seem a little better than last time?’ Fang Zhen wondered.

But that wasn’t important.

After the screen calmed down, the Merit Points settlement dialog box appeared.

"Congratulations on clearing the ’Redstone Town Mine’ dungeon.

Dungeon World Setting: Nameless

Dungeon Difficulty: Normal

Base Merit Points for Dungeon Completion: 85

Performance-based reward calculation in progress. Please wait, please wait..."

"Your performance in the dungeon: Exceptional. As this was the second dungeon you have experienced, your performance exceeded the level of ’Excellent’ and is worthy of praise.

Exploration Performance: Excellent

Key Item Acquisition: Excellent

Dungeon Development Completion: Exceptional

Skill Acquisition and Development: Excellent

Other: Exceptional

Calculating comprehensive score, calculating...

Your comprehensive performance bonus is: 335 Merit Points

Congratulations, your final reward for the Normal difficulty dungeon ’Redstone Town Mine’ in the Nameless World setting is: 420 Merit Points"

"Eheh?"

Seeing the final reward settlement, Fang Zhen’s eyes shot wide open, and his heart began to beat a little faster.

’So many Merit Points from this settlement?’

’The "Dungeon Life Game" is being this generous?’

Fang Zhen vividly remembered not having enough Merit Points to solidify many of the traits and skills he had wanted last time.

He even remembered it being quite painful.

This time, he had guessed the Merit Points settlement would be higher than when he cleared the Dark Path dungeon, but he never expected it to be this much higher.

Last time, for clearing the Dark Path, the base reward was only 35 Merit Points, and the comprehensive performance bonus was 50 Merit Points, for a total of just 85 points.

This time, the base reward alone was 85 points, matching the entire total from the last dungeon. The comprehensive performance bonus reached a staggering 335 points, bringing the final reward to 420 Merit Points.

Comparing this to the settlement for the Dark Path dungeon, Fang Zhen felt like he’d been hit by a tidal wave of wealth. A wave of happiness washed over him.

He also just learned that the system’s evaluation grades weren’t just Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor. Above "Excellent," there was also an "Exceptional" rating.

’Perhaps the previous Easy difficulty dungeon in the Nameless World was too simple to get a rating higher than Excellent.’

The Redstone Town Mine was more complex, so the rating ceiling was also higher.

’I wonder if there will be an even higher rating than ’Exceptional’ in the future?’

Fang Zhen felt a surge of excitement and looked forward to the upcoming skill solidification phase.

He felt that this time, he might be able to solidify quite a few skills from the dungeon.

With this in mind, he focused his attention on the dialog box, waiting for the skill solidification section to appear.

However, the dungeon settlement screen didn’t proceed like last time. The dialog box suddenly turned gold, and a line of text appeared that hadn’t been there during the previous settlement.

"Detected that character ’Fang Zhen’ activated elements exceeding the dungeon’s world setting. Correcting this event. Correction in progress, correction in progress..."

"Generating correction assessment..."

"Correction assessment generated. Results are as follows:

Detected that character ’Fang Zhen’ activated elements exceeding the dungeon’s background setting. Correction assessment has generated Option 1 and Option 2.

Option 1: Correct the elements obtained by character ’Fang Zhen’ that exceed the world setting. The character will retain the abilities appropriate to the Nameless World. The excess elements will be converted into a partial amount of Merit Points and returned to character ’Fang Zhen’. The specific amount returned will be intelligently determined by the game’s internal rules.

Option 2: The character will spend 100 Merit Points to undergo a truly random dice roll assessment (1d24). A roll of 13 or higher will allow character ’Fang Zhen’ to retain the abilities from elements exceeding the world setting. A roll lower than 13 will completely delete the element and the abilities gained from it.

Please select Option 1 or Option 2.

Hint: You are facing a critical choice that may have a profound impact on your fate and game experience in dungeons. Please choose carefully."