Chapter 95: The Spotted Tiger
After putting some materials in the locker, I began to run towards the mountains officially named "Tianshan Mountain Range" by Pangu City. The other day, I hunted a large number of "Spotted Tigers" there, which also brought me up to level 17.
This time, my main target was the "Spotted Tiger", but I mainly used the bow and arrow as a means of attack. The "spotted tiger" is located halfway up the Tien Shan Mountains, and it is not a social animal. The last time I attracted monsters, I only saw two at most, so it's still a relatively easy monster to fight.
Holding the "Golden Hunting Bow" in his left hand and pulling the bow with an arrow in his right hand, the wooden arrow flew quickly towards the "Zebra Tiger". A huge "spotted tiger" that was wandering leisurely was suddenly attacked, and with a tiger roar, it turned and chased after me.
But now I'm definitely a little bit faster than "Striped Tiger", and no matter how much "Striped Tiger" chases, he can only follow my ass and eat dust. I climbed a big tree that I had seen earlier, and I leisurely practiced "archery" on a branch 5 or 6 meters above the ground, because although the "spotted tiger" belongs to the feline family, it cannot climb trees, and this is my advantage. The excellent attributes of the "Golden Hunting Bow" and the strong attack of the "Golden Hunting Bow" quickly fell to the ground and died.
I climbed down the tree, quickly picked up a dozen silver coins and a piece of equipment left by the "Spotted Tiger", put them in the "Qiankun Ring", and then took out the "butcher's knife" and began to divide the "Spotted Tiger". After obtaining the furs, pieces of meat, and other materials, I again lured the monsters and practiced "archery".
In just one afternoon, my Bow proficiency had risen to 71, Segmentation to 83, and Climbing had risen to the highest level, now at 92, probably due to spending so much time in the trees. The level has also been increased by 1 level, and it is natural to increase agility a little bit and strength a little.
As my level increases, I won't be able to gain much experience by playing "Striped Tiger" now, so I'm going to change my leveling points.
The higher the Tien Shan Mountains, the more sparse the trees become, and the temperature gradually drops. The territory of the "Spotted Tigers" used to be the world of the "Golden Retriever", and their agility in the trees was unparalleled, and they could leap in the air with their branches, and their speed was not much worse than mine even on flat ground. What's even more terrifying is that I was accidentally swept by the paw of a "golden monkey" and found that I was actually poisoned. Health is spawned down at a rate of 10/s.
If it weren't for the fact that I had bought all the basic medicines in the pharmacy in view of the powerful effect of "Lost Stone Powder", I am afraid that I would have hated Tianshan. Even so, I lost 2 intermediate antidotes. From this, the "golden hair" paws are very toxic. As a result, I automatically exclude their territories from the range of leveling lands.
Passing quickly through the territory of the Golden Retriever, I came to another sparse woodland, where I saw a monster that resembled a bear, the ironback bear.
"Ironback Bear", this kind of monster has also been seen in other online games, the difference is only in appearance. As you can tell from their name, their physical defense is very high, and their attack power is also very strong, but they are extremely lacking in speed. Walking three steps at a time, very clumsy.
In the face of such a monster, I can't use the same method I just used to deal with the "Spotted Tiger", because the "Ironback Bear" can climb trees, this situation startled me, quickly jumped down from the tree, and then quickly escaped. Well, it's better to use traps
After setting up the "silver lining" trap, I began to lure in a large number of ironback bears. The "Ironback Bear" could not come, so he could only be at my mercy, watching his companions die one by one at my hands, and the "Ironback Bear" seemed to be angry and roared in unison. One of them actually picked up a rock and threw it at me, so scared that I almost screamed.
How can the "Ironback Bear" be so smart and know how to attack from a distance? It's hard to imagine. Fortunately, the trap I dug beforehand was big enough, and the middle piece was not small enough for me to dodge. Now I'm looking for those "smart" "ironbacks", and once I see them throwing boulders at me, I'll dodge them and shoot them again.
However, it seems that I underestimated the wisdom of these "ironbacks", and after a few hours, I found that my "silver lining" trap had been almost filled with boulders thrown by "ironbacks". I was so frightened that I broke out in a "cold sweat" and subconsciously wiped my forehead.
NNDοΌ Are these "ironbacks" really so smart!? Or did the game designers lose out all the possible attacks and countermeasures of the player, otherwise how would they know how to use rocks to attack the player?
I'm speechless. In such a situation, I had to run away again. Otherwise, once I am besieged by these melee masters, I will definitely be dismembered.
Jumping over a trap of more than 2 meters, I struggled to split a caught off guard with the Tiger King Sword, and slipped through the gap before they could react. Even so, the strong anti-shock force from the blade made my mouth tingle, and my life dropped by 70. Based on this, I will definitely not be able to catch two frontal attacks from the "Ironback Bear".
This is not a place to stay. The trap that took more than 1 hour to dig is over like this, it's really damnable! But I don't dare to go back there and challenge these "ironback bears", the punishment for death is too severe.
Let's switch sides.
On the same level, I turned a large arc and came to a valley.
The valley is gourd-shaped. There is a wide flat land entering from the narrow valley mouth, and it is estimated that tens of thousands of people will not be a problem. There are no monsters here, but there are herbs all around. After more than a dozen failed experiences in the "Identification Technique", I finally recognized that this is a precious medicinal material called "Xuanshen".
"Radix ginseng" is of the highest grade in ginseng and is an excellent alchemy material. Although the number of mature "ginseng" is very small, it is definitely invaluable to me. In order to prevent accidents during the digging process, I dug a large trap at the waist of the gourd in the outer valley and the inner valley to ensure that the monsters that might exist inside could not disturb me.
Happily, when I set up this danger, I was told that the "Trap Technique" had been upgraded and was now intermediate. Within two hours, I dug up all the ripe "Radix Radix" in the outer valley, and my proficiency in collection skills also rose to 37, and my medicine discrimination skills increased by 9 points.
It's 17:00 in real time, so let's go offline to eat.
Just launched, it's still that gourd-shaped valley. Still haven't seen monsters, isn't there any monsters in there? I was slightly puzzled.
But no matter what, I just want to return to Pangu City as soon as possible, because of the relationship between "Xuanshen", I want to refine the medicine again, after all, the huge harvest brought by refining the "Tiger Bone Pill" last time deeply attracted me.
Looking at his attributes, he went up another level when fighting "Ironback", and now he is level 25. The extra stat points are still added to Strength and Agility. And "Climbing", "Archery", "Splitting" and "Alchemy" are not far from upgrading, and it is estimated that you will soon reach the intermediate level if you work hard, then you can learn new skills; "Trap Technique" has been upgraded to intermediate level, and you can learn the new "Trap Technique" derivative skill - formation. It's a pity that I haven't typed any skill books so far, and I don't know what the situation of others is.
All the way back to Pangucheng, I took out the Dan furnace from the "locker" and looked at my own medicinal materials: Xuanshen, tiger bones, tiger whips, bear bile, "hemostatic grass" and "lilies". Except for the "hemostatic herb" and "lily", they are all high-grade medicinal materials, but as far as I know, the previous high-grade medicinal materials are all positive, and they need negative medicinal materials as a guide to refine the medicine.
And "hemostatic grass" and "lilies" are clearly not very suitable. For this reason, I went to the Tianxia Pharmacy and bought 3 "Snow Lotus" at a high price. Looking at the few gold coins left in the "Qiankun Ring", I sighed in my heart! Money, what a good thing!
6 stalks of scrophularia, 3 tiger bones, 1 bear bile, plus 3 "snow lotus", this is my material.
Put it in the Dan furnace and keep using "alchemy". The faint white light representing the skill of "alchemy" slowly entered the Dan furnace, making the Dan furnace flicker and dark, and it looked very mysterious. But I don't have the leisure to appreciate this mystery, it's been 6 hours. Even in reality, 2 hours have passed, and there is still no movement. There was neither a hint of success nor a hint of failure, so it was really not a taste to leave me there.
Finally, just when I was about to lose my patience, a crisp system prompt sounded: Congratulations to the player's ink for successfully refining the high-grade elixir, "Alchemy" proficiency +50, reputation +100. Players are asked to name the new elixir!
"Dragon Tiger Dan." I said.
System Prompt: The name is successful, and the player's ink reputation is +2000. This recipe belongs to the player's ink and has the power to teach others.
At the same time, the public channel of the system prompts: On the 10th day of the first month of the first year of the world calendar, a player refines the high-grade pill "Dragon and Tiger Pill", attributes: permanently increases strength 2, + life 40.
Before he recovered from the great joy, the empty "Flying Pigeon Biography" came: Brother, the "Dragon and Tiger Pill" was refined by you. It's really a god, make a price, I want it all.
I looked at the pill furnace, in addition to the 3 "Dragon and Tiger Pills", there was also a different pill. Take a look, it is actually a high-grade "detoxification pill", a total of 13 copies. "Detoxification Pill" is a conventional drug, no wonder the system does not prompt.
I thought about it for a while, and replied "empty" and said: Only one is refined.
I believed that "Kongkonger" understood what I meant, and sure enough, another pigeon flew in a moment: yes! Price is not a problem, I believe you brother.
So I replied: See you at the East City Gate.
This time there was only one "empty man". Seeing that I happily greeted me, he punched me in the chest and said, "Good boy, there is you." actually refined such a good elixir, don't forget my brother when you get rich in the future. β
"How can I be?" I smiled slightly and said, "There is only one Dragon Tiger Pill, and I originally wanted to take it myself." But if your brother wants it, that's another matter. The cost of buying medicinal herbs is 1500 gold coins, plus some of your own medicines, I will charge you 2200 gold coins. β
"It's not good! Give you 2,500 gold, I can't let you lose. Kongkonger clicked on the trading interface and said, "Why did you only refine one?" Is there not enough medicine, or I will help you collect the medicine, and you will make the 'Dragon and Tiger Pill' specially for our Iron and Blood Gate, and ensure that you are rich."
"It's impossible." Let me be your alchemist, then there is no freedom at all: "One of the medicines was picked by me on a cliff, and the pharmacy didn't have it at all." Moreover, it took me 7 hours to refine the medicine alone, and now my hunger level is over 50. β
"Okay then." Kongkong'er sighed regretfully and said, "Then there will be good things to contact again." I won't delay you from eating. β
After saying goodbye to the "empty child", I went back to the inn to simply eat a little and then went offline. Seven hours of continuous fighting made my spirit very tired, and in reality my stomach was already croaking with hunger.
It's already the second day in the game to go live again. Looking at his current reputation, it has exceeded 7,000, and there are still more than 2,000 to buy the store, and he is happy in his heart, thinking that he will refine new drugs more frequently in the future to increase his reputation quickly.
casually look at the public channel prompt and find a message: On the 11th day of the first month of the first year of the world calendar, a player comprehended footwork in the battle - Xiaoyao Step. MEx: +2 Agility.
It seems that I am not the only one who has good luck. Agility +2, which is equivalent to a level upgrade in plain white, although there is still a lot of room for improvement, but it is definitely not as easy as me refining the "Dragon and Tiger Pill". "Dragon Tiger Pill", strength +2, health +40, this is equivalent to the attributes added by two levels.
I took out the remaining two "Dragon and Tiger Pills", ate one and waited for the reaction. After a while, a hot breath came from the stomach, which quickly spread to the whole body, and the whole person felt as comfortable as a "sauna". I couldn't wait to look at the strength and life, and sure enough, it had increased.
After eating one more pill, it feels not as obvious as before, and the attribute only increases the health by 40, and the amount has not changed. It's really strange, isn't this "Dragon Tiger Pill" less effective than the previous one? No way, I've seen the exact same attributes.
But how can there be such a reaction? After a long time, I thought of a possibility, that is, the medicinal properties of this drug will decrease after taking too much, just like the website says, if the equipment with similar attributes is used together, its performance will be reduced. Although there are no properties of drugs, the principle is the same. I guess this is also for the sake of the system and the balance of the game.
Although you can't eat more, the attributes of upgrading to a level will definitely make players crazy. Especially the more difficult it is to upgrade in the back, the more precious this medicine is. Hee-hee, in this way, won't it be a big hair in the future? I couldn't help but laugh out loud.
If I have money, I bought all 11 snow lotuses with 2,200 gold coins and continued to refine the medicine. It may be because this time the "alchemy technique" was upgraded to the intermediate level, and the refining time was greatly shortened, only taking three hours.
However, in a total of four refining pills, I actually failed twice, which made me, who had never failed, feel very bad. In the past, the first few times to refine the medicine, no matter how long it was, it would be successful; But now that alchemy has become intermediate, it has failed twice, and the success rate is only 50%, which makes me sigh that luck is really unpredictable and unpredictable.
But fortunately, 6 "Dragon and Tiger Pills" are 15,000 gold coins. Although there are a lot, there is still a gap between the 100,000 gold coins of the small shop. The "Flying Pigeon Message" was given to Kongkong'er, telling him that he had successfully refined two more "Dragon and Tiger Pills".
Let's meet at the East Gate. This time, though, I bid 2,700 gold and sold him only one.
Hearing that I only sell one, I was in a hurry.
"I said Brother Ink, didn't we say okay, I want all your medicine. Is it because of the lack of money, that's not a problem, we can discuss" Kongkong'er grabbed my hand and said anxiously.
"Empty space, it's not that I don't want to sell you, the more you eat this elixir, the worse the effect will be, so I only sell you one. Besides, I'm embarrassed to overcharge you, I want to put this 'Dragon Tiger Pill' on the auction house, so that there will be a good price." Today, I failed several times to refine two 'Dragon and Tiger Pills', how do you let me calculate the price? β
Indeed it is. According to the 50% success rate, it is not too much for me to charge him 4,000 gold coins. However, after all, these "Dragon and Tiger Pills" were obtained from his money for buying medicines, and I was embarrassed to charge him too much money, although I am a professional gamer and make money as my first priority.
Hearing me say this, "Kongkonger" was a little helpless, but he still told me to sell him medicine first in the future. Of course, I gladly agreed.
Note 1: Pharmacies have a wide range of high-grade drugs, but the prices are ridiculously high. For example, 3 snow lotuses purchased by ink are worth 600 gold coins. And these drugs have no other effect than alchemy. In addition, there is a success rate in refining medicines, so sometimes the best medicinal materials will be scrapped, which is a pity. The higher the level of alchemy, the higher the success rate, and the level of luck can also affect the success rate.