My Computer Leads to an Instance Dungeon-Chapter 107 - 95: Curse Seal World: Ancient Castle Caverns

Chapter 107: Chapter 95: Curse Seal World: Ancient Castle Caverns

Fang Zhen didn’t hesitate. He clicked ’Yes’.

Soon, a dialog box appeared in the Dungeon Life Game, indicating it was searching for a dungeon.

Fang Zhen took advantage of the wait to crack open a can of Coke.

This plan had formed back when the Dungeon Life Game warned him that his strength might be insufficient to clear Act Three of the Nameless World dungeon, ’Fallen Knight’.

Before ’Fallen Knight’ began, he would search for a less difficult dungeon and speedrun it within seven days to obtain stronger skills and more Merit Points.

Only then would he have the confidence to clear Act Three, ’Fallen Knight’.

As for whether he had other ideas to increase his strength, he actually did.

The simplest and most obvious one was to buy a gun.

At the time, Fang Zhen’s first instinct was to wonder if he should buy a gun and use modern industrial technology to crush the other worlds in the dungeons.

However, as wonderful as the idea sounded, when he seriously analyzed its feasibility, he found a ton of specific, practical problems.

He even mapped it out with his usual logical approach.

To buy a gun, he had only two choices: illegal channels or legal channels.

First, the illegal channels.

There were only a few ways to get a gun illegally. It wasn’t impossible if one looked hard enough.

But this involved a very serious question of right and wrong.

’Do I really want to break the law?’

Fang Zhen wasn’t a particularly timid person. If he were that type, he would never have been able to complete, let alone clear, any dungeons.

But being bold didn’t mean being reckless.

After entertaining the idea of buying a gun, he thought it over carefully and immediately dismissed the illegal route.

The reason? Just think about it: in the last six or seven years, how many shooting incidents have been reported across the country by any media outlet?

He had the impression that the number was getting smaller and smaller.

Why the decrease?

A major government crackdown.

Fang Zhen had a very simple philosophy: never stand in opposition to the state, no matter what. That was extremely foolish, suicidal even.

In Xia Country, trying to buy a gun illegally... it wasn’t that you *couldn’t*, but what was the difference between that and having a death wish?

Every action leaves a trace. The idea of buying a gun in Xia Country flawlessly, without leaving the slightest clue, was next to impossible.

The moment you bought one, you were standing against the state apparatus. The criminal law stated it clearly: illegal purchase or sale of firearms meant three to ten years in prison. For serious cases, it was ten years to life imprisonment, or even the death penalty.

Once he understood this, he completely gave up the idea of buying a gun illegally.

The Dungeon Life Game itself required careful safeguarding, and he wasn’t about to hawk it for a measly 800 yuan. To buy an illegal gun for a dungeon, only to bring trouble upon himself, fail to get the gun, and then lose the computer with the Dungeon Life Game on it? Wouldn’t that be penny-wise and pound-foolish, a regret he’d carry for the rest of his life?

’That would be irrational.’

Even if he wasn’t caught immediately, illegally possessing a firearm meant standing against the state. It was like planting a landmine for himself—something he absolutely could not do.

So, that left only the legal route to buying a gun.

Fang Zhen’s own status wasn’t high enough to legally own a gun like some high-ranking officials, but buying one abroad wouldn’t be a big problem.

But this led to another very practical problem.

Buying the gun was easy, but how would he bring it back?

The moment he tried to bring it into Xia Country, he’d be back on the illegal path again.

Smuggle it in?

Xia Country’s customs and police would be thrilled to welcome him.

Fang Zhen had never even considered taking the Dungeon Life Game out of the country.

Without even considering other accidents, the loss rate for international shipping was between 0.5% and 2%. Would he dare to gamble on those odds?

After all, if it got lost, it would be a 100% loss. He’d never get it back.

Even if he were ruthless enough to risk losing the computer with the Dungeon Life Game, how could he guarantee he wouldn’t be checked by American customs or another country’s, or be subjected to a random inspection?

The most ridiculous case Fang Zhen knew of involved a high school classmate. After graduating from college, he went to study in America. Thinking life as a foreign student would be boring, he loaded a portable hard drive with 2TB of "educational films" from various "teachers," as well as legitimately downloaded movies and TV shows.

As a result, when he went through American customs, they accused the guy of maliciously carrying a large amount of pirated media for commercial purposes. American customs detained him and his luggage, transferring him from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Homeland Security Investigations.

Fang Zhen never saw that person again. According to the bits and pieces of news he heard, the guy was apparently criminally charged and thrown into an American prison, with no way of getting him out.

’Ah, an American prison. He could just imagine the warm-hearted welcome.’

Of course, driving through Russia was another option.

But he would still face various concrete problems and risks like crossing the border, theft, and even robbery. And those were the relatively easy problems to solve; even if he bought a gun, he still wouldn’t be able to bring it back.

As for living in Russia, the risks were incomparable to those in Huaxia. Not only would he be in an unfamiliar place, but he would also have to face the possibility of break-ins at a rate several to a dozen times higher than in Xiahai.

It was only when Fang Zhen seriously considered buying a gun, instead of just daydreaming or talking big, that he suddenly realized how safe Xia Country truly was. It had left almost no loopholes for an ordinary person to acquire a firearm.

As he acquired more skills, he himself had grown bolder. But the risk wasn’t to him personally; it was the risk of losing the computer that ran the Dungeon Life Game during one of these operations.

After thinking it over and over, he concluded that the most stable path to getting a gun was to obtain a spatial item within a dungeon. All other methods were accompanied, to a greater or lesser extent, by the possibility of permanently losing the Dungeon Life Game’s host computer.

"All I want is to get a little stronger, to buy a gun!"

"Is that too much to ask?"

Fang Zhen felt quite wronged.

He was taking the matter of buying a gun seriously.

If he really needed one, the best way was after acquiring a spatial item. Therefore, obtaining a spatial item would be the main focus of his strategy in the next phase.

Before that, if the pressure from the dungeons became unbearable, he would consider taking a risk and driving the route through Russia.

If he could still handle it, he would stay in Xiahai for now and avoid stirring up any other trouble.

Once he had thought it through, he stopped dwelling on the issue.

At that moment, the dungeon search dialog box, which had been running the whole time, produced a result.

Fang Zhen’s Spirit jolted. He leaned forward in his computer chair and carefully examined the search results.

"Based on your request, the most suitable dungeon result found is as follows:

Dungeon Name: Ancient Castle Caverns

World Background: Normal

World Name: Curse Seal World

Dungeon Difficulty: Normal

Do you wish to confirm this dungeon?"

Fang Zhen raised an eyebrow.

’Curse Seal World? A Normal world background and Normal dungeon difficulty?’

He was a little surprised.

Having experienced two dungeons, he had learned to anticipate certain things. The Nameless World wasn’t truly nameless, Easy difficulty wasn’t easy, and Normal difficulty wasn’t normal.

He didn’t know how the Dungeon Life Game determined its ratings. Even the Nameless World had Extraordinary Power, and people could die even on Easy difficulty.

Fang Zhen had just started a Normal difficulty dungeon in the Nameless World, and now a Normal difficulty dungeon in a Normal world shows up?

’How on earth is this difficulty calculated?’

And the Dungeon Life Game thought he had a chance to speedrun it in seven days?

Fang Zhen felt the Dungeon Life Game might be overestimating him a bit.

’Wait, I shouldn’t be so quick to sell myself short. Let me first assess if I have the strength for this,’ he thought.

He had read the help documents for the Dungeon Life Game’s search function before. It was supposed to be quite intelligent.

It was more like an AI than a rigid model, so it shouldn’t misunderstand his search request, nor should it be trying to get him killed.

After thinking for a moment, he decided to trust himself and the dungeon search system.

Besides, he had already spent 15 Merit Points, and canceling the dungeon wouldn’t get them back.

Fang Zhen selected ’Yes’.

"You have confirmed the dungeon ’Ancient Castle Caverns’. The dungeon has been added to your main interface queue."

"You can spend 20 Merit Points to obtain information on the world background, monsters, and bosses."

The dialog box displayed a new prompt.