Players are coming, fortunately I have a time travel simulator

"Finally, I have my own house."

Zhou Ning couldn't help but sigh. He inserted the key into the keyhole and turned it gently. The door opened inwards.

The decoration of this house was far more exquisite than Zhou Ning had imagined. There was a set of chairs in the entrance hall, watercolor paintings hung on the wall, and three umbrellas hung on the umbrella stand, which was quite luxurious.

Passing through the entrance door, Zhou Ning saw a spacious hall, which was estimated to be 80 to 90 square meters. The floor of the hall was covered with wool carpets from the Kingdom of Byron, and there were potted plants, stone carvings and other items.

There is a staircase on the front side leading to the second and third floors. There are many more rooms than imagined, including bedrooms, study, living room, bathroom, and even a billiard room.

Zhou Ning: ...

Although this house cost him one-third of his life, it now seems that its high price was justified.

Since there was always a part-time cleaner in charge of cleaning, there was no dust or odor in the room, and even the bedding was brand new. Zhou Ning came to the master bedroom on the third floor, took off his coat, and went to the balcony.

Not far from here is Witsel Church Square and St. Raymond's Cathedral. With the Wandering Gunner's super vision range, he can already see the pointed dome of St. Raymond's Cathedral. After putting on the Phoenix battle suit, he can glide there, giving him a special sense of security.

After taking a hot shower in the bathroom, Zhou Ning sighed comfortably, sat down in front of the chair, opened the control panel, and found that his accumulated experience had reached 127 million, an astronomical figure that was impossible to obtain in the early stages of the game.

But there is no way, the NPC based on the player template is just so unreasonable.

It takes about 17 experience points to upgrade a Wandering Gunner from level 18 to level 9. Zhou Ning spent 100 million experience points without hesitation to upgrade the Wandering Gunner to level 25. When the level reached 20, as expected, the prompt appeared again:

Your [Roaming Gunner] has reached level 20 and received a professional specialty reward. Please choose your professional specialty from the following three specialties. Note: This professional specialty will directly affect all Roaming Gunners, so please choose carefully.

This is the difficult part for career mentors, having to silently shoulder everything for players who have switched to the Roaming Gunner class. Zhou Ning complained to himself and looked at the three options.

[Moving Shooting: Makes your hands more stable, greatly reduces the loss of shooting accuracy while moving, attack power +5%, additional +5% when equipped with a revolver.]

[Revolver Mastery (Intermediate): Increases the firing rate of your revolver series weapons by 14% and the penetration power by 18%.]

[Gorgeous Dance Steps: Gives you excellent body perception and coordination, making you more adept at using gorgeous footwork for melee or ranged attacks. Skills are also +20% more visually appealing.]

At first glance, this time it seems a bit difficult to choose. The first option is average. It may be good for players, but for a sharpshooter like me, it only increases the attack power by 10%.

The second option is an enhanced version of the level 10 talent, which increases attack damage by about 12%-14%, which is pretty good, but it conflicts with the talent I chose first.

In comparison, the third option seems to be a better choice. Increasing perception and coordination should be of great help to the observation Haki and one's own combat. The viewing experience is the core element of the Wandering Gunner. Just being handsome is enough.

Zhou Ning quickly made a choice based on his preference: "Gorgeous Dance Steps."

[You have acquired the expertise [Gorgeous Dance Steps]!]

After upgrading to level 25, the experience gained from upgrading to the next level increased to nearly 24. The last 5 levels of the Wandering Gunner would require at least 300 million. However, the huge experience investment also made Zhou Ning's combat effectiveness soar.

Total level reached 42, personal attributes:

[力量36、敏捷147、体力63、意志48、精神58、魅力100]

Life: 756/756

Stamina: 945/945

Willpower: 48/48

Combat power: 7698

[Note: Your strength is no longer what it used to be, but your appearance is still your biggest label.]

His combat power surged by another 2000 points, and his agility even reached 147 points, almost reaching the level of an ordinary class at level 70. Zhou Ning expressed his anticipation for future development.

At the rate he was gaining experience now, he would hopefully be able to max out his level in a short period of time, reaching the upper limit of 60 for players in the first version.

As for whether it's possible to advance further after reaching level 60, Zhou Ning said it's not clear yet. However, completing the Wandering Gunner class advancement is likely to be a major issue.

His current combat prowess, combined with his tricolor domineering aura and Phoenix armor, puts him among the strongest Transcendents. He should be able to easily defeat even average Transcendents. However, his current problem is his limited skills and expertise, and his lack of any useful unknown artifacts or Transcendent items. He's still a long way from truly top-tier combat prowess.

The biggest priority of all Zhou Ning's recent actions is to harvest players' experience and money as quickly as possible. The longer it is delayed, the more disadvantageous it will be. Although the market potential in Darkland City is almost exhausted, doesn't there still exist Xilin Town?

Zhou Ning decided to go to Xilin Town tomorrow to take a look.

As for combat effectiveness... Although the current fighting style of the Wandering Gunner is powerful, it is still somewhat monotonous. After obtaining a new method of making devil fruits, Zhou Ning had a new idea. Maybe eating a devil fruit would be a good idea?

In addition to the relatively frustrating ordinary animal-type fruits, the mythical beast-type, natural-type and more powerful superhuman-type fruits are all within your range of choice, which can greatly enrich your fighting style.

Although we don’t know the specific types of devil fruits at present, we still have to go back to the world of One Piece, or draw from the One Piece prize pool. Maybe we can draw the devil fruit we want, or even the devil fruit encyclopedia can meet our needs.

He looked at the time, but it was only 9 o'clock in the evening. Zhou Ning had always been curious about the new map. Since he had money now, he might as well go to the new map and try it out first.

Opening the game simulation interface, there were 59 time-travel coins left after the last simulation. After spending the night, he added 1 minimum living allowance, leaving 60 coins. Zhou Ning spent 400 Victor Towers without hesitation and recharged 40 time-travel coins in one go. He chose the new map [Empire Storm] and clicked on the time-travel.

[Preparing to travel through time...Travel Coins -100]

【Please select the time travel mode...】

【1. Directly cross over.】

【2. Use the parallel world template to travel through time.】

As usual, Zhou Ning chose 2 to check it out first. If the price was right, he would buy it regardless of its quality.

After shuffling the cards, in the bright light, three cards were spread out with a swish.

Zhou Ning was very familiar with the first template. He had seen it twice. It was himself wearing a purple suit, clown makeup, and an exaggerated smile.

It was none other than the crazy clown Zhou Ning who had created miracles before.

His personality is capricious and unpredictable. His talents are Criminal Genius (purple), Evil Charm (purple), Explosive Genius (purple), Gun Master (purple), Dyslexia (gray negative talent), and Supernatural Physique (purple).

Skills are intimidation and extortion (master level), explosives manufacturing (expert level), and negotiation (expert level).

Zhou Ning: ...

I seem to have a strong connection with Gotham recently. First it was Batman, then the Joker. It wouldn't be surprising if the Riddler and the Penguin show up someday...

Compared with before, Crazy Joker's talent has also added a skill of extraordinary physique. According to Zhou Ning's guess, it may be related to the injection of Tony Stark's super serum from the Marvel world.

The price also increased directly from the cheap 25 Time Travel Coins to 75 Time Travel Coins. Zhou Ning said that he was not short of money now, so he bought it without hesitation.

The second template is also a return, it is the architect Zhou Ning, priced at 3 time-travel coins. Don’t think about it, just buy it!