Fortunately, there was a one-sided curtain between them; otherwise, the old man might've seen Leo with his mouth hanging open and thought he had overestimated Leo's worth.
The reason the old man had so many coins was that he had almost become rich after selling the items he bought from Leo at high prices.
Well, for the same reason, almost no one in Channel 99 had any money left. Everyone had spent their coins before arriving at this station and had bought items from the old man.
Hesitantly, Leo took out the three-page intelligence document he had prepared from the desk drawer and handed it to the old man, all the while continuing to stare at the mesmerizing, colorful coin in his hand.
At that moment, a sharp glint appeared in the old man's eyes, but it disappeared again before Leo noticed.
Contrary to what the old man expected, Leo wasn't memorizing the information; he had written it down on a piece of paper. Had the old man known this earlier, he probably would have executed the plan he always had in mind to kill and loot Leo.
Even though the third station prohibited battles between players, it was unknown whether Leo, as an NPC, was included in that rule.
The old man sighed, thinking "Hasten work, the devil will meddle in it" and left the store.
Leo didn't know what the old man was thinking, and even if he did, he wouldn't have been upset.
What he had in his hand could raise his system level by one stage.
At that moment, a beautiful figure in her forties encountered with a muscular, tattooed man in a side street of the third station.
The man stuck out his tongue, licked his lips, and unabashedly stared at the woman's ample chest.
As soon as the woman saw this, she ran away without looking back.
The man laughed maniacally, thinking that if he acted at the right moment, he could destroy her train and turn her into his permanent slave, and then he followed her.
After all, like every novel character with disgusting personality, this man also considered himself somewhat of a good person, and he intended to ask the woman if she wanted to voluntarily join his train crew. If she accepted, he might play with her in a slightly more merciful way.
The moment the woman entered the street where the muscular man stood, a thick red energy line shot up from above her head and flew rapidly toward Leo's location. But because the distance was so great, part of the energy dissipated midair, leaving only a one-centimeter radius of bad luck energy.
Leo would have been surprised if he had realized that the red bad-luck energy had come from such a distant place, because in the past year he already knew every detail of his luck-collecting range. For some unknown reason, the range of his luck energy collection had increased.
As Leo accelerated his movements, a golden energy thread of the same size also approached him.
Leo cursed loudly and quickly used the coin he had just obtained to raise his level. This time, since his invincibility level didn't increase by a major step, he ignored the feeling as much as he could and began looking in the system shop for something that could further boost his strength.
The last golden energy thread that arrived for Leo surprisingly came from the same woman.
While the woman was fleeing from the muscular man, she happened to cross paths with Sonia and Alice in another side street.
Even though she passed by Alice and Sonia without saying anything, Alice squinted her eyes while looking at the muscular man following the woman.
Five days later, when the doors opened and all the players began to leave the station, Alice would secretly follow the middle-aged muscular man. Such a coincidence; when she arrived at the scene, it would be too late.
By the time Alice got there, the beautiful MILF's train would have already been destroyed by the muscular man. Even Alice killed him and destroyed the train, the beautiful MILF would lose her player status because she no longer had a train.
With no other choice, Alice would have to claim the beautiful MILF's slave rights from the system and make her cook meals for her.
Back to today…
After a long search, Leo found hundreds of items that could enhance his power.
Among them, only three caught his attention:
[Assignable Stat Points: 10,000 System Points]
[Super Soldier Serum: 100,000 System Points]
[Energy Weapon: 85,000 System Points]
After reading the details of these items, Leo smiled.
The assignable stat points were essentially the same as the system's previous "Strength +1."
The Super Soldier Serum was a bit risky.
The chances of failure or success depended entirely on how much pain the user could endure.
According to the details, if Leo successfully absorbed the serum's effects, all his physical stats would increase by twenty points each.
Although Leo had never checked his stats, he guessed that physical stats were divided into three categories: Agility, Strength, and Physics.
If he thought more realistically, there would be more categories, but since this system was based on the novels he had read, the first things that came to mind were likely correct. After all, Leo's source of knowledge was the novels he himself had read.
This meant the serum's potential value ranged from 0 to 0.6 million system points.
The last item was simply a weapon, a gun that fired Star Wars–style energy bullets.
It could be charged with solar energy and fired a total of 100 rounds at full charge.
Leo thought this weapon could be very useful in the world it came from. The gun had many advantages, but after staring at it for a long time, he grimaced and returned to the first two options.
Weapons were flashy, but seducing men silently and without recoil didn't make them as appealing as it might seem. Most importantly, Leo still believe his world is a peaceful one.
In the end, Leo chose not to trust his unreliable system, which was made up of tens of thousands of system ideas that authors had carelessly thrown together, and opted for the safer, more certain choice:
10 assignable stat points.