Players are coming, fortunately I have a time travel simulator

That night, Zhou Ning slept soundly. In his dream, he seemed to have traveled through many worlds, leaving different traces of himself in those worlds.

Suddenly, Zhou Ning woke up with a start and realized that he was dreaming.

He stood up and looked around, finding himself in a dark room.

The room was pitch dark, the only light coming from a beam of light that shone down from the ceiling and onto the desk.

Zhou Ning walked over quietly and saw a book lying on the table. The title of the book was "Leoncavallo's Opera in Four Acts".

Suddenly, there was a creaking sound of a chair being dragged across from the desk. Zhou Ning looked up and saw a young man sitting on the chair. He lowered his head and was writing something on the pages of a book with a quill pen.

Zhou Ning gradually approached and saw the young man's attire clearly. He was wearing a black tuxedo, a standard gentleman's attire, and looked less than thirty years old.

Just when Zhou Ning walked up to him, the man suddenly stopped writing and raised his head. His face was young and handsome, but there was a hint of indifference and madness in his eyes.

Zhou Ning was startled and woke up suddenly from his dream. He opened his eyes and saw that it was already bright sky.

Zhou Ning: ...

He was stunned for a long time before he climbed out of bed. This was like a horror movie, who could stand it?

After checking the control panel, he found no indication of being affected by the evil god, but his willpower, which had been depleted, was almost restored.

Is it just a pure nightmare?

He told Jasmine what he had just dreamed about. She pondered for a moment and said, "Perhaps you have been affected by some extraordinary object."

"A supernatural item like a book?"

Zhou Ning immediately thought of the book with his name on it that he had seen in the TV series before, but he didn't have any further impression of it. He picked up the pocket watch, opened it and took a look.

It was still early, but he was not sleepy, so Zhou Ning got up, washed up, sat down at the desk, and began to study what he had gained last night.

The first is the Epic Vampire Zhou Ning's Possession Card, which is the same as the previous one. It can possess the full power of the Epic Vampire Zhou Ning for 15 minutes.

What Zhou Ning paid more attention to was the second reward, the copy pass for "Lost in the Fog City".

Click on the inventory, click on View, and a prompt will pop up on the panel immediately:

["Lost in the Fog" Dungeon Pass: You can pay to enter a random dungeon themed "Lost in the Fog" and travel through it in your true form. Death will mark the end.]

There was a detailed explanation below. Zhou Ning took a closer look and suddenly realized that this was another new trick used by the simulator to cheat people out of money: this function was somewhat similar to backtracking, but it was a first-person perspective, and completing the story was considered a clearance.

If I must say, it is a bit similar to the scenes in infinite flow novels, but the time, scene, opponent and plot are all random. It may be the world in the original comics, or it may have been changed by your time travel.

Take Lost in Twist for example. It may ask you to travel back to the 19s and kill Dio Brando, who became the boss in the first story, or it may ask you to travel back to 90 and kill yourself who has just become a vampire.

This actually has an advantage, which is that you can precisely control the behavior in the copy, and maybe get everything you want at once, making your dream come true in one go.

The disadvantage is that it can only be used once, and the price of traveling through time is quite expensive - 100 traveling coins, which is simply a life-threatening price.

Zhou Ning decided to save it first and use it when he was stronger, so as not to waste it.

……

Since I have been attending very few classes recently and there is no news about the academic exchanges I promised to attend, the next period of time should be both free and busy.

The next day, throughout the day on Thursday, in addition to continuing to borrow books from the school library, Zhou Ning was busy making various productions in his alchemy laboratory.

The materials required to make the robotic arm include a large amount of silver moonstone, silver ingots and steel ingots, with a cost of nearly 300 Viktoras. Zhou Ning spent almost twelve hours to successfully make one, and the result was much better than he had imagined.

Through the engraving of the alchemy array, it can not only assist itself in work, but can even independently manufacture simple low-level potions. Since the robotic arm is considered its own mechanical creation, it can also provide itself with experience after successfully manufacturing the potion.

At present, it can provide about 7000 experience points a day, and can also produce a large number of low-level healing potions. Zhou Ning couldn't help but sigh at the unscientific alchemy in this world.

In the evening, Zhou Ning went to the West family's Silas Herbal Medicine Shop again and spent another 1000 Victa to buy all the herbs he would need for the next few days at one time.

The huge fortune of 3000 Vekta accumulated with great difficulty was reduced to less than 700 in an instant. But Zhou Ning still did not stop spending money.

"Can you help me find an alchemy shop? Preferably near Wake University."

When handing over the devil fruit to Ian, Zhou Ning made a request to him.

The Sun Guardians attached great importance to him. After paying an annual rent of 500 Victa, Zhou Ning got a ready-made alchemy shop, which was very close to Zhou Ning's current alchemy laboratory. The equipment inside was quite complete and there was even an independent warehouse.

Zhou Ning was very satisfied with this, but the only regret was that he had to recruit employees for the store himself.

Batches of alchemical materials were delivered to the warehouse. In order to be able to reap the benefits smoothly when the players arrived, Zhou Ning began to work frantically in the next few days after stockpiling enough herbs.

First of all, there are devil fruits. Although most players may not be able to save up enough money to buy devil fruits in a short period of time, it is better to be prepared than not. It is not a big problem to prepare some in advance.

The current daily production capacity of devil fruits is about 4, and the experience gained is also very considerable.

In addition to the Devil Fruit, Zhou Ning also crafted a large number of [Flight Potion] and [Lucky Potion]. These two items, along with the [Primary Healing Potion] crafted by the robotic arm, could be sold. As for the [Transformation Potion], Zhou Ning made very few, intending to use it only for himself. Players were too shameless; in previous lives, they had used this thing to cause many major incidents.

During this period, Zhou Ning occasionally asked Sherlock about the news of Harrison Rivers, and the answer was that there was no conclusive evidence yet and they had to wait a little longer.

Newspapers reported that both the House of Commons and the House of Lords had passed the "Poor Law Amendment" bill, and that a Poor Law Promotion Committee had been established, with Harrison Rivers serving as chairman.

Time passed day by day, and everything was very peaceful. Zhou Ning did not have the strange dream again. He was busy for a week, and a large number of finished medicines gradually accumulated in the warehouse.

The progress of the giant mission has been improving from time to time. It has reached 23% even though he is completely slacking off. I guess Sherlock and the others must be busy to death.

……

On Thursday night, Zhou Ning stretched his body after completing all the preparations. This week's busy schedule not only allowed him to accumulate a large amount of herbs, but also the accumulated experience exceeded 30 for the first time, which was a huge number.

At this moment, a prompt suddenly popped up on the panel:

[Important reminder: The first public beta of "Apocalypse" will officially begin at noon tomorrow. Please pay attention to the game forum announcement.]

[Important Note: The fifth episode of the series "Apocalypse" has been released simultaneously on the forum and various platforms. This series is automatically generated by the optical computer. Players interested in learning more about the game's background are welcome to watch it.]