Li Ang clicked on Chaichai’s phone screen and continued playing the video content.

The screen showed a middle-aged appraiser with two goatee patches and a humorous appearance, eloquently speaking in front of the camera.

"Dear audience, this knife has a straight blade front, a curved end, one and a half hands long, with a cross-shaped guard and a handle protruding to the left, resembling a heron’s beak. This kind of knife is called a messer, specifically a kreigsmesser, meaning the German war knife. This weapon was popular in 15th to 16th century Central and Northern Europe, used by civilians to fend off robbers and thieves in the forest. At the time, some dignitaries also used it for hunting or as a handsome ceremonial weapon..."

The appraisers invited as guests on the program "Slaughter Field Evaluation" are all talented individuals with impressive skills, knowledgeable about astronomy above and geography below,

capable of discussing antiques, precious jewelry, cold weapons, modern armaments, furniture, luxury goods, everyday items, food, animal specimens, technological products...

in detail.

Players hold an unwritten belief regarding the transcendent equipment and items produced by Slaughter Field games, that strong equipment isn’t necessarily beautiful, but beautiful equipment must be strong.

For instance, an ordinary pencil or an eraser might be broken quality common creations, useful only for writing assignments, or they might be perfect quality rule-level items.

Whereas a long knife embedded with precious stones, crafted with exquisite craftsmanship,

generally speaking, its quality is never low—at least excellent or rare.

An excellent appraiser must have a clear and comprehensive understanding of an item before actually performing the appraisal skill,

even possessing an inexplicable "premonition" about unappraised transcendent items,

able to sense the item’s inherent value and decide whether to appraise it—since appraisal skills consume spiritual power and have cooldown times.

Just like other logistics professions, becoming an appraiser during training consumes considerable resources, even large guild organizations cannot train too many,

Lone wolf appraisers not affiliated with guild organizations are even rarer.

Consequently, appraisal fees are relatively high for low-level common players.

The Watcher’s Guild invested money to invite numerous appraisers for the production of "Slaughter Field Evaluation,"

where the Watcher’s Guild assists low-level players in paying appraisal fees,

with the condition that these players must agree to have the appraisal process turned into a TV program for broadcast.

Of course, the Watcher’s Guild is not primarily a charity,

but akin to Netflix in the real world, investing everywhere to shoot web-based programs related to Slaughter Field games.

Such as "Forgemaster Competition"—inviting logistics skill players specializing in forging within the Slaughter Field games to participate, using limited transcendent materials to forge equipment. The best final product wins and receives a perfect quality forging skill scroll.

"Rebuilding A New Life"—inviting plastic surgery experts from Gen-Sys Biotech Company, Prometheus Laboratory Company, and the Demon Scientist Alliance to reshape the appearances of ordinary people lacking confidence in their looks or whose appearances were destroyed in disasters.

"Wilderness Hunt"—inviting a Lv15 player to hunt 20 low-level players and common elite individuals in extreme environments like snowfields, ice mountains, and wilderness. The former chases and the latter flees, with the final winner receiving hefty rewards.

"The Master Chef"—inviting logistics players specializing in cooking to a competition, preparing various incredible, magical dishes like glowing fried rice, dumplings that cause clothes to burst and transcendence upon consumption, or lobster soup reminiscent of childhood memories and inducing tears.

There’s even a program named "Battle of the Spirits," inviting five mediums with spiritual skills to crime scenes, directly conversing with the deceased, helping police unravel cases and discover the truth.

A true underworld program.

Due to the Watcher’s Guild’s wealth, their programs are of high quality and effective; once released, they captivate the masses,

Chaichai has already topped up significant money onto their family’s online platform—the Watcher’s Guild has learned from some domestic video platforms, implementing VIP, Super VIP,

and can watch next episodes earlier by paying more.

Premium VIP can even watch the episodes after next.

Li Ang watched for a while with his phone, and admittedly, the program effects are quite good,

although he is also a logistics skill player, he hasn’t really used alchemy for logistics work—real-world alchemists, either working on high-tech auxiliary projects in chemistry and materials science laboratories,

or occasionally heading to construction sites, completing construction projects swiftly, practically handling the workload of a thousand people by himself,

are generally busy.

However, transcendent individuals specializing in other logistics skills are relatively more leisurely,

some mid-to-low-level logistics players can even occasionally enjoy life, becoming beloved plastic surgeons, appraisers, chefs, mediums, or designers.

Watching these shows can be considered as understanding the daily life of low-level players now—the Mirage Dragon mutation in Yin City signified international recognition of transcendent phenomena, an invisible watershed,

before the mutation, Transcendents had to hide themselves,

afterwards, they stepped into the spotlight, and their survival environment wasn’t as perilous,

some newcomers who became players post-mutation enjoy relaxed and comfortable environments, unaware of the dangerous situations their predecessors faced.

Li Ang slightly mused, then returned the phone to Chaichai, turning to exit the cabin and head to the deck.

Next to the Longqing cruise ship, the ferry named Oasis completed its remodeling project,

with residents consisting of players, people with abilities, and their families expanding from over five hundred to over one thousand five hundred.

Recently, Liu Wu Dai and Mule have been busy advancing the Ark Plan,

the unappraised equipment system released along with the Slaughter Field game update further disrupted war-torn regions, generating more refugees and disaster victims,

some Transcendents seek asylum with the Ark Plan.

Liu Wu Dai and Mule agreed after consideration to accept some Transcendents.

Now, the Oasis ferry boasts a lively atmosphere fit to be called bustling,

Liu Wu Dai enlisted an alchemist engineering team to carry out extensive modifications on the ship’s structure,

building large medical rooms, schools, sports halls, gyms, training rooms, shooting ranges within the ferry,

allowing ordinary people aboard to live as if on land.

If all goes well, floating islands will be constructed beside the cruise in the future,

the islands will be made of steel, striving to cover them with soil for cultivating various crops, connected via iron chains with the cruise, able to cruise together,

enabling the cruise to truly sustain itself, like Noah’s Ark on the sea.

Li Ang casually glanced at Oasis; all residents on the ship underwent blood sample collection, and gene samples were stored within the worm nest, expanding its genetic library.

In the eyes of others, the Ark Plan might seem a foundation for surviving the future—a fleet of armed ships comprising different power system Transcendents with manufacturing capacity in industrial and agricultural production is a force not to be overlooked anywhere.

But in his eyes, it’s just so-so,

not even worth his effort to control these residents aboard using spiritual energy and the belief system.

At this moment, a community basketball match is being held on the deck of Oasis,

A group of people running and moving on the newly built basketball court, surrounded by family members cheering them on,

During halftime, there’s a singing performance segment,

Some hungry people can go and grab food cooked by their family members,

It looks harmonious and exceptionally warm.

Li Ang wasn’t very interested in the ordinary people’s family joy, he withdrew his gaze and teleported to the Game Square, heading towards the Immaculate Furnace.

The Immaculate Furnace shop had already been expanded, occupying a bigger area than before, 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

and the merchandise provided inside had become richer.

After the incident in Yin City, the whole world witnessed Li Rising’s power, guessing that Li Rising hid his true strength in the Lost World,

and possibly had ownership of The Portal.

Li Ang simply stopped hiding,

and directly offered new products in the Immaculate Furnace shop under the guise of creations from The Portal World.

For example, Portable Gills — attachable to the neck to temporarily gain the ability to breathe underwater,

Crown Jellyfish Toxin — just a drop can kill invisibly, but it loses its activity in a very short time once taken out of the container and must be kept in water.

Eastern Azure Eagle — this creature resembles an eagle, has four eyes, can live in Earth’s environment, breathe regular air, and its grip power rivals a level 5 player, with extremely fast flight speed. After training, it can serve as a scouting device and indicate enemy direction through its calls from afar.

Some items on the new product list are genuine creatures from The Portal World,

while some are creations from the Brain Worm Hive.

How many Game Coins can be earned is secondary, Li Ang mainly wants to see how much effect the Hive-produced sub-creations can have in the increasingly intense Slaughter Field games.

As for whether these products will be bought and researched by other organizations...

The product list of the Immaculate Furnace will be vetted by the Brain Worm, and the creatures and biological materials provided will undergo extensive genetic modification without revealing too much information about The Portal World.

And whether players will take the goods to engage in armed conflict,

Li Ang isn’t very concerned either.

There are plenty of weapon-selling merchants in the Game Square already, and compared to those lunatics from the Demon Scientist Alliance who openly sell weapons of mass destruction,

he’s considered to have a lot of integrity.

Li Ang walked into the Immaculate Furnace shop, greeted Laura the mule girl behind the counter, and handed over several pieces of equipment produced by the Forging Furnace to Laura.

Let her notify the customers who reserved these items to come and claim them.

"The Alchemy Workshop is still at perfect level, the Forging Furnace inside can only produce items one grade lower, which is at the excellent level. For now, it doesn’t serve much purpose for me.

Need to figure out a way to upgrade the Alchemy Workshop."

Wearing the Dragon Head White Lab Coat, Li Ang restocked the shelves of the Immaculate Furnace shop, absentmindedly thinking, "My Alchemy has been practiced to intermediate level for so long, yet I don’t know how to continue upgrading.

Had previously asked the mule to inquire,

heard that the Logistics Skill wanting to breakthrough to advanced level,

aside from extensive practice and having an epiphany on this basis, reaching perfect mastery,

can also directly use an advanced Skill Scroll to achieve it in one go.

And advanced Logistics Skill books are mostly single-use consumables,

even if there are, guild organizations definitely wouldn’t sell them for cash—late-stage advanced logistics skills are practically money trees.

If trading items, it might be feasible,

but definitely need to bring out items of equivalent value.

Perfect, even epic..."

After the Sibi King incident, Li Ang’s False God Remnant Flame charge bar raised to a third,

yet didn’t bring any immediate enhancement to Swamp God Power,

nor did it reveal more fragmented memories about the faith-based enthronement system.

His Spiritual Energy is still hovering around level six and hasn’t reached the breakthrough point—previously gained some friendship-based information from the Side Truth, learned a few basic Psychic Abilities, better than nothing.

All considered, Li Ang’s personal strength entered another bottleneck period, with nothing to do but to exercise diligently day in and day out.

After restocking the shelves, Li Ang muttered to himself, "All things considered, it’s about time for me to execute my script task."

A few days ago, Wang Congshan and Liu Wu Dai triggered a script task, two people teamed up.

The task was to find two accidentally intruding living couple at the haunted plaza and escort them to a safe area.

The difficulty wasn’t very high, Wang Congshan and Liu Wu Dai completed it smoothly with an A+ rating, the reason for not achieving S+ might be because one of the ordinary civilians courted death, provoked the Lone Ghosts in the plaza and got seriously injured, later saved a life with Liu Wu Dai’s potion, affecting the rating.

Wang Congshan and Liu Wu Dai already completed the script task, recently idled, the former continued developing Traveling Mage and Axis Cube, the latter pushed his own Ark plan.

The other members of the Cold Crow Guild, the mule and Laura (Laura recently introduced into Cold Crow), also partnered up and cleared it.

And the remaining Li Ang, unsurprisingly, must execute the script task solo.

As he was muttering to himself, the cold mechanical system notification sounded in his ear.

[Task trigger conditions fulfilled]

[Task type: Script task (Solo)]

[Task name: Farewell My Love]

[Task objective: At 19:00 tonight, holding a handgun-type firearm, wait in a closed room]

[Task reward: Announced upon receiving the next task notification]

[Failure penalty: Termination]

Finally arrived.

A white light flashed across the monocle beneath Li Ang’s Dragon Head Mask, his heart as calm as water.