Chapter 16 There will always be a way
Time is lost in waiting, and they can only hide behind the pile of wood in search of opportunities.
In front of him was the big tent where the hooligan leader lived, and around the tent were gathered hooligan elite monsters, some walking back and forth; Some seats sit second; Some stood by the brazier, roasting the fire and chatting; There are quite a few of these hooligans, adding up to thirty or forty people, not counting those rogue assassins who can be invisible like Fan Yuntian.
This is more difficult, and the method of luring the monsters away, scattering, and killing them in batches will not work. If according to Fan Yuntian's words, 'people can see you and find you', then there is no vigilance value, like in the previous online games, you just need to control the distance between monsters, ten yards, twenty yards, those monsters watch you slaughter its accomplices, and when nothing happens, there will be no situation at all. Here, if you dare to kill its accomplices in front of these hooligans, these elite monsters with all kinds of weapons will definitely rush to it.
This is where Huaxia, the so-called five-person low-end teaching copy, wants to tell players, and it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to think about what game bugs can be used to turn batches of monsters into experience. Huaxia has no game bugs for players to exploit, and there are no cute monsters standing for players to harvest, and if you want to succeed, you can only rely on your own strength. You can do nothing, rush into the enemy crowd and kill them all; You can also battle your wits with NPCs and use various tricks to win, but only if you can do it, there are only two ways to do it - success or failure.
So the mastermind gave everyone a headache, and An Ran felt that Huaxia was the most difficult game he had ever played.
The reason why Huaxia is difficult is its authenticity and uncertainty, it is so real that it seems to make people mistakenly think that the world in the game is a real world, this world can deceive people's vision, no matter how you look at it, how you turn your body, you still feel that you are here. As a result, players' emotions are often affected by the game environment, such as people who are afraid of snakes and ghosts, when he suddenly encounters these things in the game, I am afraid that he just wants to turn around and escape, and what task leveling has already been thrown out of the clouds!
The second is its uncertainty, most of the NPCs in the game will think independently, they will use tricks, will deceive, and seem to have seven emotions and six desires, which will cause players to spend more mental and physical energy when dealing with these NPCs, which is not something you can do by sitting in front of the computer and dragging the mouse and clicking the keyboard. For example, when fighting with a monster, you need to keep doing actions to control the game character in reality, then you will be tired, you need to rest, although your game character is not tired, but you can't make it move normally, so it can stand still in place, and it will be cut off by a monster. Or when you receive a task, due to some kind of negligence, the NPC who issued the task is disgusted, then maybe he won't even send you the task to do, An Ran has experienced these situations, this is where he thinks Huaxia is difficult.
"So many rogue elite monsters! Your mother's! The sunset of the long river took a deep breath and sighed.
"Are you talking about hooligans? Noble adventurer, there must be more in the cave," said one of the patrolmen, "and these people are really trying to lure the evil wolves of the steppe here. β
"Then kill them all, it's not a pity for a group of Diao people to die." Another patrolman with a beard shook the steel knife in his hand.
The Patrol had just been freed with their help, and had just retrieved their weapons from the wall of the cabin, and the NPC soldiers of these two systems had been subjected to a lot of abuse and torture, so it was only natural for them to want to kill them.
"How to kill?" An Ran raised a question that gave everyone a headache.
The NPC patrols turned a deaf ear to his words, and they didn't bother to pay attention to this pesky adventurer unless they had to. Of course, they can't do anything about this kind of problem, so it is inevitable to look at the other three lovely, distinguished adventurers, hoping that they will answer the tricky question at present, but it is a pity that they have disappointed them.
"I don't know," replied Desert Lone, "it's hard for us to get there now, let alone how to kill them." β
"I don't know if this copy was conceived by the game planner with his ass, at the current level, only players in a team of five can face dozens of elite monsters at the same time?" The sunset of the long river simply complained.
The young man with the inch head complained reasonably, of course, they were only about ten levels, and they couldn't face dozens of elite monsters with fourteen or fifteen levels at the same time. Is this their own suffering? A lot of people will say, you can't wait until you're at a higher level? For example, if I come to farm this copy after level twenty or thirty, under the suppression of the level, isn't it as simple as harvesting wheat? Not bad at all, but will you still need the equipment and experience that comes out of here at that time? Buying a piece of tabula rasa equipment at level twenty or thirty in the system store is also stronger than silver-level or even gold-level equipment that is only fourteen or fifteen! Farming some ordinary monsters of the same level in the wild is also more experience than farming elite monsters that are too much lower than their own level here! If there is no demand, then why should players farm this quest?
So the game planning is crazy? No! What's the matter with game planning? This is what the Huaxia system did, and the mastermind just wants players to use their brains, that's all.
This kind of complaint reminded An Ran of his eventful years when he played World of Warcraft, at that time, they would also place various copies, how many days and nights had made game characters stand in the dungeons in a daze, sitting in front of the computer and discussing with teammates and meditating.
Without any experience, the first time you open a large dungeon is called 'Wasteland'. The so-called wilderness in the game is to challenge the unknown difficulties, there is no ready-made strategy to provide reference, there are only players who die again and again and the team fails again and again, in the process there are many members who will complain that the game is too difficult; There are also quite a few players who will blame their teammates; It is even said that because of the wasteland, it will lead to the loss of many members of the team. But once the challenge is successful, the sense of pride, the sense of accomplishment, and the joy in the heart cannot be experienced by those who have not experienced it. It's not because of a few pieces of equipment, nor because of how many levels you've upgraded, but it's a kind of self-affirmation. The smiles of the members of the team are also because everyone has gone through a difficult battle together, back to back, and finally won the victory. The team is your home, and the members of the team are your own brothers.
The knife can make the strong people and teams stronger, and the knife can also make the cowardly people and teams more cowardly.
An Ran didn't want to be cowardly here, so he kept thinking of a way, just like when he used to sit in front of the computer with his cheeks in his hands.
"Since the system has arranged such a five-player dungeon, it must make sense for players of the current level to challenge and try." To be is to be reasonable' Although most people have misinterpreted Hegel's original words, these words seem to make sense here, and the reason why we feel that it is too difficult to exist is because we have not yet found an effective way to solve it. What is the biggest difficulty we face now? An Ran involuntarily rubbed his temples, "It's that these elite monsters are too concentrated, and there is nothing to cover the tent, once the body is exposed, no matter which elite monster is provoked, everyone will face dozens or even more monsters like a tidal attack, this is not the kind of only two or three hooligans in the forest and wooden house just now, relying on the fierce Fan Yuntian can solve it." β
"If you ......" suddenly a thought came to An Ran's mind, but he felt that it didn't work, so he only muttered two words.
"Any ideas?" Desert Lonely Smoke asked.
"I've always felt that we're missing a key figure in our team," An Ran thought about, "and that's the kind of mage who can use his skills to deal damage and control monster movements in a wide range. An Ran's eyes showed the kind of ice mage who held a staff with a hood and a skill, and could freeze a piece of monsters.
"Even with mages, it's difficult, in the face of so many rogue elites, we can't withstand the damage, and we can't create a good output environment for long-range classes."
What Lonely Smoke in the Desert said was what An Ran felt was not working, and then he found that his servant had been sitting cross-legged on the ground at some point, and he actually read the book with relish. An Ran has always wanted to know what the cloth bag on his back is for, it turns out that Dare Qing is a schoolbag used to hold books!
"What book is so good?" An Ran asked.
"General History of the Chinese World," he replied.
"You're going to just keep watching?" An Ran asked dissatisfiedly with his servant's approach.
"Or else?" Fan Yuntian stared at the book without raising his head, pausing as if he had suddenly thought of something. "It's a bit dangerous here! Otherwise, we'll just break up. β
Although Fan Yuntian finally raised his head and looked at An Ran with those lovely, blue eyes to ask for his master's opinion, his behavior at the moment looked so hateful.
"I saw it!" A patrol soldier began to shout, "These two can't be trusted, especially that little man." β
Everyone thought that Fan Yuntian would be furious when he heard this insulting remark, but unfortunately they were all wrong, the NPC kid didn't even look at the patrolman, he licked his index finger and turned the book to the next one and said contemptuously: "You can do it, you can go up!" β
A single word left the shouting patrol speechless.
An Ran didn't know where he had offended the NPCs of Xiliang City, otherwise why would the two little patrols who came from there be so disdainful of seeing him and Fan Yuntian? But he didn't bother to think about it, 'If you don't wait to see you, you won't see you!' Before you know it, you have to move the pot to your stove to burn. β
"I mean, you have to think of a way with everyone, after all, the plan in the apricot grove is also what you came up with!" An Ran followed the temptation, hoping that Fan Yuntian could put down this attitude and help everyone in the same boat.
"What can I do?" Fan Yuntian closed the book irritably, "We don't have a mage, it's not the biggest problem, the Taoist's 'immobilization talisman' and the archer's 'Spring Rain Arrow' can play a role in controlling and hitting damage, although it is not as good as the mage's 'Frost Flowers Everywhere', but as long as the skills of the two sides are well connected, the tacit understanding is also passable, but you look at them...... Ay! β
The young NPC boy let out a long sigh like an old man.
"I still have this skill?" While suspicious, Sunset opened his professional skill information column, and found that there was indeed a red and yellow skill icon written 'Fix', "Tsk! Yes, but I don't remember learning it! β
"What am I talking about? He didn't even know if he had the skill. Fan Yuntian shook his head painfully, "The 'Fix Talisman' Taoist is a control skill, which is instantaneous and can immobilize creatures that are no more than level 5 of their own, and the skill duration is 2 seconds; Skill cooldown: 4 seconds; Does not work against non-creatures and creatures above Dominion; Does not work on those who possess the body. A minimum of three runes can be fired at the same time, and the number of runes increases with the skill level, and a set of gestures is fairly simple. This is the basic skill that the Taoist priest comes with, and the 'sonorous roar' of the warrior; the archer's 'Spring Rain Arrow'; the swordsman's 'Butterfly Love Flower'; The Warrior Monk's 'Vajra Body' and other skills do not need to be obtained when you change classes. Do you need me to read your 'Spring Rain Arrow' skill again? Fan Yuntian turned his head to look at the smoke and asked.
Changhe Sunset looked at the skill description and the little person in his field of vision who was demonstrating the use of skills, and said it word for word with Fan Yuntian.
"No," Yanluo replied, "I know this skill, I've used it a few times in the Apricot Grove just now, but I can't shoot it accurately." β
"But you haven't used it successfully, the point of the 'Spring Rain Arrow' is that when shooting arrows, you must first unite your mind and mind, and your body method is secondary, and you can't tremble with the fingers that hook the bowstring, otherwise the arrow shaft will shake and can't condense the frost qi, so that the arrow shot out will only have a physical arrow, and it can't form a virtual body qi arrow that is divided into two or two or four, and it can't have the effect of slowing down the enemy's footsteps."
"Do you want to use it like this?" Yanluo said in surprise.
"Or else? My long-legged sister, you have dragged the bowstring to your pair of white rabbits, isn't this using your skills as ordinary arrows? That's how it should be. β
Fan Yuntian happened to be carrying the bow that An Ran bought for him on his back, and it was originally used as a decoration in this copy, but now it is good that NPCs simply use it as a teaching prop.
Yanluo wanted to scold a 'hooligan', but after seeing Fan Yuntian explain his skills and demonstrate his actions so seriously, she couldn't help it when the words came to her lips.
"Can't you be polite to girls? Do you have to stab with a knife? She thought about it and involuntarily moved a few steps to her brother's side, and the girl was really afraid that others would stare at her breasts.
Her brother knew what she meant, and the desert lonely smoke blocked his body in front of the smoke, and his eyes were full of love.
"I feel like you're a martial arts master." The long river sunset did not shoot this high-level data sycophant, he sincerely admired Fan Yuntian.
"Humph! What's the big deal? One patrolman looked at him coldly, and the other patrolman said sourly.
"No, don't force it." Fan Yuntian, who had just finished the demonstration, added another sentence, and he didn't know who it was scolding.
"Is this all right?" Changhe Sunset Yuan didn't care about Fan Yuntian's attitude in a strong sigh, he sighed that this system NPC could actually say such a thing.
"What?" The desert lonely smoke obviously did not understand.
"You can do it! No, don't push it. This is an Internet buzzword, and there is a very funny Chinese-English translation of what is called...... "The sunset of the long river is long and the sunset is hard to remember."
βYou ca
you up,
o ca
o BB" Fan Yuntian helped him complete with an expressionless face.
Smoke laughed and the girl bared her white teeth.
"This foreigner can't understand English, right?" Da Mo Guyan didn't know what was funny about this sentence, or the second monk was confused.
"Oops, cousin! It doesn't matter if you understand it or not, as long as it's popular. The sunset of the long river said.
Fan Yuntian finally gave the inch-headed Taoist priest an approving look.
"I'm sorry you made everyone laugh,?" An Ran raised his hand high, and then gently knocked it on Fan Yuntian's forehead, "Tell you to find a way, but you are talking about jokes here." β
"Don't look for me, you can do it yourself!" Fan Yuntian carefully packed the "General History of the Chinese World" into a cloth bag, and then hung the cloth bag and bow on his back. "Mo said that the current skills of the two of them are not enough to meet the requirements of fighting damage while controlling, even if they can achieve it, how can they deal with so many hooligans? Don't forget, they both have ranged classes; There are also classes that can be used in hand-to-hand combat. β
"Why don't we come back next time! Fan Yuntian is right, with our current level and personnel and technical equipment, it is indeed difficult to clear the dungeon. Desert Lonely Smoke looked a little frustrated, he really wanted to break through the dungeon, but as the captain, the first thing to consider was the gains and losses of the members of the team.
Except for An Ran, whether the player is an NPC in the system, everyone has acquiesced to the proposal of the desert lonely smoke, although it is a bit of a nest, but it is better than losing experience and equipment, and it is a big deal that they will climb the mountain along the rope again.
As for the two patrolmen, in their worldview this is not as simple as dropping the rank, of course they want to kill all these hooligans, but only if they can survive, because it is much more important to save their own lives than to take the lives of others.
It's not that An Ran didn't hear Da Mo's lonely proposal, but now he is more concerned about how to face difficulties, which is a habit brought to him by years of living alone. When you encounter difficulties, you can only choose to face them, because no one will solve them for you, and that kind of words and phrases such as wait and see, tomorrow, I can't do it, give up, etc., it is best not to say to yourself once, otherwise it will definitely appear in your mind next time, and find enough reasons to escape. Learn to say no to the wasted years, this is one of the survival skills of every miserable man who has been alone for a long time, although sometimes he can only live as a living being if he fights for his life, but if he doesn't even have this bit of courage, wouldn't he waste his good youth in vain? As the old saying goes: 'People do things, and heaven makes things happen' Do your best to fight for your goals, and give the rest to God, even if you don't achieve anything in the end, you will not be ashamed and regretful because you have wasted your time.
So even in this game, it is difficult for An Ran to retreat, and this proud young man is difficult to accept, he always feels that the tent in front of him is stacked; The one that didn't come to the door was only two people's width apart; The two simple guard towers at the entrance of the wooden fence hide the way inside.
"Although the wooden fence can protect the hooligans inside, it also restricts their freedom, if ......" suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in the young man's mind.
"As long as there is a glimmer of hope, don't give up easily, not to mention that we are not without a chance." Staring closely at the two improvised guard towers, An Ran muttered.
"Do you think it can be done?" The desert lonely smoke was straight, his eyes lit up, and his frustrated expression was swept away in an instant.
"There's no complete certainty on the front line, so I can only say what I think, and it's up to you, captain, to decide whether to do it or not."
An Ran deliberately added the title of captain, this is to clearly tell the desert lonely Yanzhi, at this time he is the commander of the whole team, and every decision of the captain is related to the vital interests of the team.
"Tell me more about it, and we'll measure it again."
"I think those two watchtowers are the opportunities left to us by the system," An Ran pointed with his finger, "If Yanluo and Changhe occupy a watchtower, they can completely condescend to display their skills." And we can plug the gap in the wooden fence with a few people, so that as long as the gap in the wooden fence is not broken through by these elite monsters, they will not be able to climb the guard tower and threaten our archers and Taoists. β
"Who gave you the courage?" Fan Yuntian beside him suddenly asked, "Use your body to block the door?" Damn it! We are not those fat and strong warrior monks, and those hooligans can't stab you to death. β
"Who the told you that Lao Tzu was going to block the door with his body?" For Fan Yuntian's unkindness, An Ran replied even more unceremoniously. "We just need to take two or three logs here, and put one stick horizontally on the gap, and then use two sticks diagonally to support it like this......" he drew a picture on the ground, "one end against the beam and the other end on the ground, so that we only need to stand on both sides of the gap and grasp the connection points of the wood so that it does not loosen, and those hooligans have hundreds or thousands of people who want to break out of the horizontal wood first." But the gap was only two people wide, so they had to bear our knives if they wanted to bend over or break the wood, and the rest of the people stood in front of the wood, and it cut it one if it dared to come forward, and cut it a pair if it dared to come forward. β
Everyone suddenly realized, and they all sincerely admired An Ran's idea, and Fan Yuntian looked at its owner affirmatively for the first time.
"Wow! Brother Enron, you are really a genius. Fan Yuntian exclaimed: "How did you come up with this method?" In this way, if these hooligans can't rush out, they can only wait in place to accept the blows of our Taoist priests and archers, and it just so happens that the range of this wooden fence circle is also within the casting range of the ranged profession. β
"This is called geometry," An Ran said with a smile: "Do you understand the hook three strands, four strings and five?" This principle is applied to the construction of many bridges. β
Fan Yuntian frowned and scratched his head, "I only know how to hook up three and four, what is geometry Lao Tzu doesn't understand, maybe I have to steal a few more books from where to read next." β
I'm afraid that NPC boys will have to find big data to learn relevant knowledge, and don't waste their good youth on Internet buzzwords!
"It's a bit like a card game BUG" Changhe Sunset Yuan said: "Just like the online games I played before, take advantage of the lack of design of the system on the terrain, find a monster that can't hit you, but you can hit the monster where you can kill the monster - sister!" I said that your brother An Ran is really handsome and smart. The inch-headed young man quipped to the smoke.
"Zhou Jiping, don't pull me on anything, okay?" The smoke fell and whispered.
The girl stole a glance at her sweetheart, and found that he was looking at herself and her cousin, and her heart felt as if she had been hit by a basket of cookies, and the smoke fell quickly to avoid his gaze.
"So far, it's perfect, but I wonder where the imperfections are?" The desert lonely smoke asked directly.
"It is in the implementation of this plan, we use the oblique wooden stick as a support, the horizontal log in the middle of the gap needs to be supported, at this time, once we can not resist the monster's outward impact, can not press the horizontal log on the log stakes on both sides, all the previous efforts are wasted, fortunately, the gap in the wooden fence is not large, and the impact we face is not unbearable. And then there's ......"
An Ran said and looked at the smoke and the sunset again, "The use of skills by the two of you is also very crucial, if we can't hit the hooligans, it will be in vain for us to do this." The two watchtowers are not invulnerable, the arrows of the ranged archers, the fireballs of the mages, the runes of the Taoists, and the flying swords of the swordsmen can all hit you, so you have to dodge the opponent's skills while casting spells. β
"That's what I'm worried about," Fan Yuntian interjected, "Miss Yanluo and Little Brother Sunset are both novices, they- no!" You adventurers can't bear to look at the skills of your profession at this stage. β
"So I feel it's worth a try," Desert Lone Smoke said seriously, "Maybe this attempt will fail, and we will lose levels, experience, and equipment, but what you learn in battle is more important than anything else compared to level and experience - such as combat skills." Given the risks involved, I'm going to ask the majority for advice. β
"You're the elder brother, of course you're up to the shot." The long river sunset replied.
Smoke nodded lightly in agreement.
The two patrolmen nodded as well.
For them, the Huaxia mastermind did not give them too much initiative, as a low-end plot NPC, they can only follow the footsteps of adventurers, otherwise an NPC with too many ideas is enough to make the game world in which players are in chaos, not to mention that they have just issued the adventurer who has been removed from An Ran the task of 'cutting off the second head of the rogue leader Wang II'.
"The captain ordered the boy not to disobey." An Ran happily replied.
This is what An Ran wants to see, to be able to analyze the pros and cons and consider the gains and losses of team members holistically, and not dare to move forward because of losing a little level and equipment; Don't be overjoyed by a single failure; This is the courage of a captain.
"Huh? How do I feel that you are the material to be the captain? You see, whenever we encounter a problem, you can always think of a way to solve it. Desert Lonely Smoke said with a smile, but he wasn't joking.
"He? Forget it! Fan Yuntian stood up and shook his hand and said, "It's better to come to Lao Tzu, this idiot is a soy sauce player." β
"See!" An Ran didn't think he was angry and spread his hands helplessly, "I'm still the captain?" Fan Yuntian was the first to disagree with me. β
The desert lonely smoke laughed.
"Are you amazing?" Yanluo, who hadn't spoken much, couldn't stand it anymore, "You actually scolded Brother An Ran for being an idiot, I think you are an idiot." β
Fan Yuntian uncharacteristically did not scold Yanluo.
"I know that you are towards him, so I don't care about you." He shrugged like an adult.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, because they all knew that if a girl and a teenager quarreled, God knows if it would be upside down.
It was at this time that a stalking villager alerted them to the fact that a few hooligans who were close to them had entered the tent, which meant that everyone had a chance to rush out of the wooden fence of the tent group.
"Right nowβ" Desert Lonely Smoke raised his left hand, "βeveryone go up together!" β
So they lifted a few logs and rushed to the tent like a swarm of moving ants.