Wasteland Border Inspector

Senior Collector!

Seeing the Level 3 rank displayed on the panel, Cheng Ye was momentarily dazed, a slight smile involuntarily tugging at the corners of his mouth.

Unlike the Inspector’s rank, every promotion of a Collector directly enhances their clearance, without any falsehood.

He glanced down, and upon seeing the first change, he felt a wave of relief.

The charging value’s capacity index doubled, increasing from 2 to 4.

Calculating at 200 kWh per capacity index, the Collector can now store 800 kWh, which is not a small amount.

Even using a fast charging station at the Public Works Bureau, it would take a full 8 hours to fully charge.

According to the summer electricity rates, 15 Contribution Points are required for every 100 kWh, so a full charge would cost 120 Contribution Points.

"Nice, now even if I go to the Wilderness, there’s no worry about the charging value depleting quickly."

Cheng Ye felt more at ease, as if a weight had been lifted from his heart.

After all, the Wilderness wouldn’t allow him to charge freely; only at some Shelter Cities along the way could he possibly recharge.

And with 800 kWh, as long as there’s no intensive search, it’s enough to last a long time.

Continuing to look down, the activation of Level 4 skill search permission was entirely as he expected.

According to the New Martial system correspondence, skills of this level are basically various combat skills of the Embryo Realm.

However, ordinary combat skills are not very useful; the truly valuable ones are those with special talents.

After all, the physical talent at Level 3 has already made a noticeable difference for him, and he can hardly imagine the breakthrough Level 4 physicality would bring.

Looking at the search probability again, Cheng Ye nodded in satisfaction: "Sure enough, Level 1 and Level 2 skills now have a 100% success rate, Level 3 has a 50% probability, and Level 4, as long as the compatibility is maximized, can also be 100% successful."

"It’s just the energy consumption..."

His gaze skimmed over the changes in search energy consumption, and after some quick calculations, Cheng Ye couldn’t help but be surprised.

Here, the percentage is calculated based on the total charging value after the rank promotion, using 800 kWh as the base:

Level 1 skills still require 80 kWh per search, unchanged from the previous level, consistent with before.

Level 2 skills increased to 120 kWh per search, 20 kWh more than before, likely due to the 100% success rate.

Level 3 skills remain at 240 kWh per search, unchanged.

The newly introduced Level 4 skills are even more demanding, requiring 480 kWh per search. In terms of Demon Eye Sponge tentacles, you’d have to cut 120 just to match one search.

"Luckily, I’ve decided to take up the appointment at Yue Ye next year; otherwise, Dapo Town’s small hydropower station wouldn’t be able to support such high consumption!"

At this rate of change, Level 5 in the future will probably be even more extreme.

And when the time comes to truly search for Extraordinary skills, who knows how much energy will be consumed in a single search.

Setting aside the search energy consumption, the compatibility rate requirements align with the rules of the previous promotion, with Level 3 skills only requiring 50% compatibility to be searched.

This means Jiang Chuan’s Limit-Breaking Tendons can finally be obtained without any pressure, and Mu Shuang’s four physical talents can be acquired easily as well.

Even when going to the Wilderness in the future or other Shelter Cities, achieving 50% compatibility shouldn’t be a difficult task.

The only challenge is for someone with Level 4 skills to reach 100% compatibility.

"If it comes to it, I’ll just put up a takeout order at Pinghai Building; maybe someone with Level 4 skills will offer ’door-to-door service’..."

While pondering a solution for Level 4 skill compatibility, Cheng Ye refocused on the panel to review the last few changes in permissions.

Information searching no longer decreases in quality, and item searching indeed opened specific options, but the energy consumption also increased, from the previous 100 kWh per search to 160 kWh per search.

The energy consumption for Information Fusion remained unchanged, keeping the original standard.

After calculating these data changes, Cheng Ye frowned slightly; this indicates that upgrading the Collector’s rank does not reduce the energy consumption of lower-level skill searches.

Each level of skill seems to have a fixed baseline, and no matter how high the rank, the energy consumption won’t drop below that baseline.

"Huh, there’s really a new search option?"

His gaze fell on the last line, and Cheng Ye immediately straightened up in a flash of excitement.

The promotion hints were too cryptic, not clearly stating what differences the new choice would bring after selection.

According to the name and introduction, a Sharp Investigator needs to travel to more places and bring back more things.

Surprisingly, this exactly corresponds to an additional search option.

Resources?

What is this?

Cheng Ye was full of doubt. He dismissed the hint on the panel and searched around but couldn’t find the entrance or detailed explanation for this new option.

The resource search compatibility required and energy consumption per search, none of this critical information was available.

"It seems like, just like those new search options before, I’ll have to actually perform a search to know the specifics."

Cheng Ye felt a bit itchy to try it, but it was already late at night, and being in an underground space with nothing available for testing, he could only keep it in mind and try it another day.

He raised his hand and touched the pendant, observing it in the light.

The next second, a line of prompts popped up on the panel:

[Detected change in Collector’s rank, Collector is matching the rank...]

[Match successful, current storage slots changed: 4→8]

[Detected increase in maximum charging value index, Collector is matching...]

[Match successful, each item extraction energy consumption relatively reduced by 50%]