Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!

Kuang Xin, who just emerged from the cave carrying a basket of dug-up earth and stones, saw a figure quickly approaching in the distance and immediately turned his head, shouting excitedly to the person below him, "The Lord has returned!"

As if sprouting from the ground, three players jumped out one after another.

"My Lord!"

The three of them looked at Bai E with ardent eyes, as if they wanted to devour him.

In the two days that Bai E had been away, they had tried to find other NPCs to see if they could get some quests, but obviously... those meager rewards were no match for what the Lord gave out.

And it seemed that as their reputation spread, many NPCs who knew them were reluctant to interact with them, let alone issue quests.

It was like when your reputation in one faction increases, it decreases with the opposing faction, stopping them from developing ties with both.

Being seasoned gamers... they were quite used to this.

So they were even more eager for the Lord's return.

"Did Your Lordship's endeavor succeed?" Gong Yan, who had twice intimidated NPCs with feigned authority, almost subconsciously gathered such information.

Bai E was in a good mood and felt no strong barriers towards the players, so with a smile, he nodded and said, "Pretty successful."

He walked straight towards the entrance of the underground base, knowing that the size of the completed construction would determine how many contribution points he would distribute.

"Whoa!"

Descending the ladder and scanning the area with a glance, Bai E was inwardly impressed.

The target for the requested task was at least 20*20*3m³. Though it was hard to tell the exact size at a glance, the scale had at least doubled since last time—if not more.

"You have worked hard these past few days," Bai E casually threw out some gratuitous words.

Dai Lian, who had made adequate preparations, displayed his professionalism, "We've measured it, and we are close to having enough space. However, we still need to do damp-proofing, pest control, and other treatments before we can complete it."

Just digging a hole in the ground wasn't enough for a complete warehouse. With cement making its way into the picture, they were about to transform into construction workers plastering walls—no surprise it was him and Kuang Xin once again... perhaps with an addition of a rat-person?

When did he ever realize he was so all-around? In the future, even if he couldn't game, he would still be quite the jack-of-all-trades in the real world...

"No worries, as long as you're working on it."

[Side Quest – Build a Warehouse (Construction Commission), progress updated.]

[Quest Reward (Stage):Faction Contribution Points (Li Ming) +60, issued.]X3

Contribution points were issued once more, and Bai E continued to carefully control their numbers.

After the players had exchanged items at the first level of the Faction Shop, the second level had long been open—

[Trait – Well-Trained, price – Basic Instruction: 60 Faction Contribution points.]

[Knowledge – Conventional Vehicle Driving, price – Basic Instruction: 25 Faction Contribution points.]

[Knowledge – Computer Hardware Maintenance, price – Basic Instruction: 25 Faction Contribution points; Professional Instruction: 40 Faction Contribution points; Expert Instruction: 60 Faction Contribution points; Gold Science Edition: 100 Faction Contribution points.] Stay connected with empire

[Knowledge – Advanced Physical Training 3.0, price – Basic Instruction: 80 Faction Contribution points.]

[Expertise – Self-Restraint, price – Basic Instruction: 100 Faction Contribution points.]

[Unlock any "two items" from the current exchange level before unlocking the choice of items from the next level, stay tuned...]

Many of his abilities seemed to be able to make it in, but traits like the inherent dullness to thoughts due to the artificial person template, battle instincts, as well as the bloodlust trait and hive will activated by the Bug Race template, plus his personal talent expertise—rapid recovery, were all impossible to teach to others.

Some knowledge skills required professional understanding, which is why there were tiered instructions; for practical skills like driving that didn't require much professional knowledge, Bai E had only set up basic entry-level instruction, trying to maintain a bit of conscience and rationality when it came to reaping benefits.

At the same time, Bai E didn't want to make overpowered things like "Overlimit Drive," "Resist Death," or "Weapon Master" available to players too quickly.

The second layer of the shop had already put out good items, so what about the third layer?

But just these were already enough to satisfy the players' ambitions and curiosity for the time being.

The three players who had just received another round of Faction Contribution points were caught in a dilemma as they looked at the exchange list.

"It seems different from the last time I checked it."

Without any available exchange, constantly monitoring the list was one of the most torturous punishments in life.

Having experienced the system prompt suddenly ringing last time, they also opted to turn off notifications of changes to the Faction Shop exchange list... a nuisance.

Looking at it now, they noticed differences—

The Gold Science Edition of Computer Hardware Maintenance was definitely not there before.

But that was not a problem; they weren't interested in it.

Dai Lian and Kuang Xin's gaze rested on "Knowledge – Advanced Physical Training 3.0," while Gong Yan's interest was undoubtedly on "Expertise – Self-Restraint."

One to improve physical attributes more quickly, the other to enhance Spiritual Energy control—both were undeniably fitting for their professions, and they had been coveting them for a long time.

Too bad they didn't have enough...

Gong Yan had spent the last distribution of Faction Contribution points without a trace left, now having only the newly issued 60 points. To exchange for "Expertise – Self-Restraint," which required 100 points, she had no choice but to save up, as the others didn't catch her interest as much.