“What the—hell—is—this!” Feng Bujue roared at the top of his lungs in the storage room.

That *what the hell* echoed with a soul-stirring resonance, more than half a month since the last one.

“What is this crap? Didn’t the game instructions say that combining jigsaw puzzle cards would at least result in a Fine-grade piece of equipment?” Feng Bujue muttered to himself.

His excitement only lasted for a few seconds. Then, his face suddenly regained its composure.

This guy's emotional changes were like a light switch. He could be calm as soon as he wanted, with only a split-second in between.

“Wait…” Feng Bujue murmured. “Could it be…” He re-examined the item description, his gaze lingering on the last paragraph of the note: 【Has been labeled as "trash" and locked in the warehouse.】

“Which means… the quality and function of this thing were filled in by that bunch of victims from the Wizards' Association, but the real quality is unknown, is that right…?” he speculated in his mind.

With such a hypothesis, his suicidal behavior began…

“Well… I should know after a try.” With that thought, Feng Bujue began to examine his equipment. “As long as I throw in three pieces of Fine-grade or above, I have a chance to get Legendary-grade equipment, right…”

Currently, Feng Bujue considered the most useless equipment in his possession to be the 【Eighteen Bronze Men's Folding Stool (No. 5)】. This thing, without any equipment requirements, might be surprisingly effective in low-level PK battles. But after leveling up, using this to whack people was not as effective as using his bare hands. Unfortunately, the quality of this equipment was only “Dilapidated,” not enough to trigger the Crusher’s special effect.

After considering for about two minutes, Feng Bujue finally selected three pieces of equipment: 【Proserpina's Vacuum Cleaner】, 【Spider Silk Gloves】, and 【Goblin Poison Gas Mask】.

As the level increased, the pace of the players' battles became faster, the fighting styles more complex, and the intensity even greater. Therefore, the usability and practicality of these three items now seemed relatively poor.

Also Fine-grade equipment obtained at low levels, 【Mario's Pipe Wrench】 and 【Jazz Dance】 were much superior. The former itself had the characteristics of a tool and could be used in conjunction with 【Not-So-Sloppy Repair】, while the latter’s passive effect was excellent and reliable.

“Okay, is this how to use it…” Feng Bujue placed the Crusher on the ground and first put the largest vacuum cleaner on the conveyor belt.

【Important reminder: Your operation is irreversible, are you sure you want to do this?】 The system prompt and pop-up window jumped out at this time.

Feng Bujue selected confirmation, and the vacuum cleaner was fixed on the machine's conveyor belt as if it had taken root. He operated the next two pieces of equipment in the same way. Half a minute later, the three pieces of equipment were lined up on the conveyor belt. Brother Jue did not hesitate, and then pulled the operating lever next to the machine.

Ku Chi Ku Chi…

A strange noise came from inside the machine. The conveyor belt started to move, and the three pieces of equipment were suddenly cartoonized. When they entered the machine from the conveyor belt, they all seemed to be "squeezed" in, and they also made a "deng" sound effect.

More than ten seconds later, after all three pieces of equipment had entered the machine, the machine began to vibrate, creaking and rattling, like a faulty engine, with wisps of purple smoke emerging from the gaps. No matter how you looked at it… this 【Zero-Type Magic-Powered Crusher】 gave people a very unreliable feeling.

After a while, the convex lens at the other end of the machine lit up. The conical beam of light focused and shot out, and a ball of white light was formed, which then condensed into an item.

【Name: De-Energized Residue】

【Type: Other】

【Quality: Trash】

【Effect: None】

【Note: Residue of substances that have lost their properties, pure trash, cannot be used in any form.】

Feng Bujue picked up the lump of residue and finished reading the item description in two seconds. Then, he silently and quickly destroyed it…

Five seconds later, he suddenly jumped up, took out the folding stool from his knapsack, and slammed it at the fan in front of him, "Die! Die, die, die, die, die…" He yelled as he hit, venting his unhappiness.

As the saying goes, three chicken ribs are as good as a piece of chicken steak. Those three pieces of equipment were at least Fine-grade, and they could be sold for some money at the auction house, but now… they had vanished into thin air.

【Prompt: Failed to create a Legendary-grade item. The energy of the items you placed has been absorbed, and the probability of successful creation next time will be slightly increased.】

The system prompt made Brother Jue regain his senses again…

He sighed and put the accordion-sized machine in a corner of the storage room.

“People are never satisfied…” Feng Bujue sighed, “Based on the gambler's mentality, for the sake of Legendary-grade equipment… I’ll probably fill in more things in the future…” He still understood his weaknesses, “But… anyway, I can extract equipment through additional rewards, it’s just that I’ll receive less experience a few times. In the future, I’ll keep those trashy Fine-grade or above items, and fill them in when I have more than three… As long as I keep accumulating, even if my luck is bad, statistically speaking, I’ll be able to create Legendary-grade equipment sooner or later.”

Thinking this way, Brother Jue felt a little more balanced.

However… he didn't know how amazing the 【Zero-Type Magic-Powered Crusher】 was. The initial value of the success rate of manufacturing items with this thing was only 0.01%, and the probability accumulation after manufacturing failure was calculated at 1% per piece of equipment (whether it was Fine, Perfect, or Legendary)… That is to say, there was only a one in ten thousand chance of success in the first manufacturing. Even after he had put in three pieces of equipment, the probability of success in the second manufacturing was only 3.01%… If he used four pieces of equipment the second time, and failed again, then the third time it would increase to 7.01%…

Of course, the above were all hidden characteristics, and players would not know about them. Only the game company could see these data through system queries.

“Okay… I’ll go browse the mall first.” Feng Bujue finished receiving the rewards in the storage room and prepared to take a trip to the mall.

Since this was a sleep-mode server, and he had logged in a little earlier than the agreed time tonight, he had an extra hundred or so minutes to do other things… It could be said that he was very leisurely.

So, he returned to the elevator room. After the elevator door closed, he pressed the mall button again, and then came to the bustling open space.

As mentioned earlier, the Thriller Paradise mall was set up as a multiple mirror space, that is, the game had n identical malls, distinguished by numbers, to divert the number of players. Brother Jue and Si Yu casually set the number as 10, so their people from Hell Frontline locked the mall entrance to the landing space in Area 10.

It was also a coincidence that there were quite a few acquaintances of Brother Jue in Area 10 at this time of the morning…