Chapter 121: The Hunt in Progress
"Let's go! It's time to go! ”
Wenner's excited voice echoed in the air, and a team of more than a dozen beast hunters set off from the unfinished animal pen.
"What kind of beast trapper is this?"
Lu Xin stood next to a bed crossbow made of wood, slightly hunched over the edge of the bed crossbow with both hands, and struggled to push the big guy, following the team in front of him slowly.
"What kind of rhinoceros is caught with a bed crossbow, it won't be shot directly, will it?"
He had heard from Chen Longxiang and knew that there were many bed crossbows made in the camp, which were specially used to deal with those huge and ferocious monsters. In the previous rescue mission, it seems that a lot of rhinos were shot with a bed crossbow.
Although this bed crossbow is only more than two meters and less than three meters, the bow arm in the middle is almost more than two meters, and there is a bowstring the thickness of the index finger, thinking about the strong horizontal force after being pulled away, Lu Xin secretly thought about the arrow that was shot, let alone a rhinoceros, even a mammoth elephant is estimated to not be able to carry an arrow.
Use this bed crossbow to shoot monsters and beasts or something, this ...... You can't talk about artifacts, can you?!
But this is not something he is worried about, he still doesn't know anything about the outside world, so he should follow the other players out to run the map and see the world.
The creaking of wheels is endless.
Lu Xin pushed the bed ballista all the way forward slowly, this bed ballista is not light, although the wheels under the bottom are wooden, but the axle is lubricated with iron sand beads and animal oil, plus the outer edge of the tire is wrapped with a layer of leather that I don't know what kind of animal it is, but as long as it moves on the road, it will not be too difficult.
However, after leaving the ninth district, Lu Xin gradually felt that the road did not seem to be so smooth.
There were dilapidated buildings everywhere, many of which looked like they should be six or seven or even more than ten stories with a unique style, which collapsed, and all kinds of rocks and mud piled up, making the speed of movement gradually slow down.
But fortunately, the whole team, half of the new and old players, although the new players were arranged to push the bed ballista, but the other old players were not idle, and they were clearing the road all the way.
Among them, there are two macho men who look like professional basketball players, basically some big rock obstacles or something, these veteran players are either one or several people working together, and they can always quickly clear a path.
"Be careful, don't leave the group, there may be danger around from here!" Wenner's voice came from the front, interspersed with the low roar of the jackal he followed.
Lu Xin pushed the bed ballista, while scanning left and right for a few moments, it was different from the feeling in the Ninth District before, it seemed that after leaving the Ninth District, all kinds of strange screams gradually became more and more at the edge of the vicinity.
Occasionally, he could see dilapidated buildings, some of which were not really visible, as if they were alarmed by the player's ranks, and fled quickly.
Suddenly, a wind whistled.
Above the sky, a hovering black shadow swooped down on the block not far from the team, and then several terrible and piercing sounds sounded, and the black shadow rose into the sky and flew into the sky.
"It turns out that there are a lot of monsters around!"
This black shadow looked like a huge bird of vultures, and this sudden falling attack, although it was still far away, frightened Lu Xin a lot, and the hands pushing the bed ballista suddenly paused.
Before he could recover from this sudden change, there was a loud creature, and a terrible scream suddenly sounded in the sky.
Lu Xin raised his head and looked into the air, only to see that the vulture-like bird suddenly let out a miserable howl, a monster that seemed to have two head wings like a bat, directly swooped and bit the strange bird in the air, and the fluttering feathers fell in an instant.
Lu Xin hissed lightly, and his back was cold.
"This apocalyptic backdrop is really a little scary!"
Lu Xin feels that playing this game really requires a big heart, even if he knows that he will not die, but it is not easy to overcome his fear at close range in the first step.
He remembered what Chen Longxiang said earlier, now the City Lord's Mansion and the players occupy only the seventh to ninth three urban districts, of which the ninth urban area is the main camp where he was just now, and the surrounding monsters are the cleanest, and the seventh urban area has a human survival point in the first place, and many old players are now running over there to engage in construction, fighting monsters and exploring the map.
The eighth district is now mainly around the original huge material warehouse, the construction of the industrial side, there are big players who have started to engage in blast furnace steelmaking there, and other workshops are also popping up one by one.
But these three urban areas are still not the absolute safe areas he understands, just because the players are highly active, many monsters have been driven or hunted, but there are also some powerful or violent monsters running around, just relatively safe.
Outside of the three urban areas of Seven, Eight, and Nine, there are still a large number of monsters, and it is very dangerous for novice players to enter these areas. It may be that any half-human-tall snake beast suddenly pops out of its head, and it is enough to make novice players with no combat experience flee in embarrassment.
"Don't worry!" A warm voice came from the side, "Although there are not many people in our team, there are a few old players in front of us, and if we don't encounter too strong monsters, we are generally fine." ”
Lu Xin turned his head to look in the direction where the voice came from, on the other side of the bed ballista, the player who was pushing the bed ballista with him seemed to see Lu Xin's nervousness, and smiled at him sideways.
This player is also wearing a newbie outfit, but he is carrying a rough hunting bow, which looks quite smart.
"Oh oh......" Lu Xin nodded, as if he felt a little underestimated, and continued, "I'm still not used to it." ”
"I'm starting to be like you." Ke Yuan smiled, and looked at the ruined streets in the distance, "This game is so real and scary, I used to say what would happen if I could make a virtual reality game, but when I really played it, I found that it wasn't the same thing at all." ”
"Yes, yes, yes." Lu Xin nodded again and again, and pointed to the hunting jackal named Wangcai that Wenna was holding in front of him, "I'm even afraid of dogs, let alone other monsters or something." ”
"Haha......" Ke Yuan laughed, "I'm not afraid of dogs, but if a big goose chases me, I must be panicking." ”
For a moment, the two seemed to feel that they had a common language.
"I don't think they feel like they're around at all." Lu Xin pointed to several old players in front of him, "I always feel a little hairy after I came to this place, as if there are a pair of eyes hiding around and staring at us." ”
"I guess I'm used to it." Ke Yuan said uncertainly, "I've heard from a few people that many people were scared at first, and some of them directly hid in the camp as life players. ”
"That's just as well!" Lu Xin nodded, Chen Longxiang told him before, he was also nervous at first, and then he died a few times, and it was nothing.
After a pause, he continued, "I've been busy building houses for people these days, and this is the first time I've been out of camp. ”
"I've been out of the camp once and worked as a handyman for half a day, and I don't know if that person is an NPC or a player." Saying that, Ke Yuan patted the hunting bow on his back, "I'm doing this later." ”
This is the general situation after their new players come in this time, they can find all kinds of "tasks" casually, and there are departments like what guilds recruit people, most of the players can't do it for long, after all, it's too boring, but after leaving the camp, many players who want to sightsee and run the map, soon find that there is no magic crystal coin, and the resurrection has to wait.
At least you have to go to a part-time job to earn some resurrection money, otherwise you will die accidentally and can only wait for a long resurrection time.
After the players start to work and do the tasks, they will be firmly hooked up with a series of attractive rewards such as the exchange of prestige and magic crystals for "transcendent potions", the training of masters to teach combat skills, and the exchange of private land. No matter how hard it is to earn some magic crystal coins, there are also local tyrants who buy it privately, and the right to do a part-time job in the game.
"Stop!"
As the two of them chatted and pushed the bed ballista forward, Wenner's hand in front of him was raised high, signaling the people behind him to stop.
Soon, in the chaos of the street ahead, a figure like a leopard jumped from a pile of bricks and stones to another collapsed log, and ran back with a few ups and downs.
The skills shown made new players such as Lu Xin and Ke Yuan envious, this is a scene that can only be seen when watching martial arts action movies, but now it really appears in front of you.
"Ada, what's going on?"
Wenner, who was at the front of the team, looked at Huang Da who ran back, and hurriedly asked about the situation.
"There are five heads, three big and two small, and they are playing in a small puddle." Huang Da calmed his breath and replied to Wenner and the others.
His super agility is an excellent scout in the team, and he usually encounters a transcendent second-order monster, as long as it is not the kind that is agile, he can't catch up with him.
As for those who can fly in the sky, what everyone has seen for the time being is a first-order transcendent species, and under the complex terrain of Desperate City, it does not pose any threat to Huang Da.
"Didn't get into any trouble, did you?" Standing next to the military general duo, Mao Ming, who was thin and small, suddenly asked.
"No, I don't think I've seen any transcendental species." Huang Da shook his head, "The environment in the Eleventh City District is very poor, there are puddles everywhere, I went to the edge of the Twelve City District to take a look, there seems to be an artificial river over there, there may have been water overflowing before." ”
"Maybe be careful." After listening to what Huang Da said, Mao Ming showed a thoughtful look on his face.
"Ah Mao, don't think about it so much, it's just a few rhinos. If it weren't for the mount, and this time it was the city lord's task, I wouldn't have bothered to make this trip. ”
Hua Yu in the martial arts duo kicked a stone away from the stone in front of him, and said indifferently, "It's still exciting over there in the Seventh District, every time I go out, I can encounter some fresh goods, and after a while, I estimate that I will be able to take the extraordinary second-order potion." ”
"When things go wrong, there must be demons." Guan Xiong glanced at Hua Yu lightly, and said slowly, "There are no threatening monsters in the tenth district, but there are no transcendent species in even the eleventh district, which is unreasonable." ”
"Don't worry about it so much yet!" Wenner listened to the discussion of several people, "Let's speed up and go over first, and take down those rhinos." ”
As he spoke, Wen Na pointed to the bed ballista pushed by Lu Xin and Ke Yuan behind him, "With this artifact, as long as it is not an extraordinary species, the body size will definitely be able to be taken within two or three meters, the key is that after taking it, how to get it back depends on you." ”
"These monsters bully the soft and are afraid of the hard, and they will be honest when they are beaten, and the rhinoceros pig before me did just that." Hua Yu laughed strangely when he heard this, and turned his gaze to the bed ballista behind him, "However, are you reliable with this thing?" ”
"I'm begging Master Sun to modify it for me."
Speaking of his beast hunting "artifact", Wenner couldn't help but laugh proudly, "This is not an ordinary bed crossbow, but a super shooting net crossbow, the arrows of each arrow are smoothed, and it's okay to shoot these rough-skinned and thick-skinned things, and the arrow has a big net made of thick rope behind it, as long as it is not an extraordinary species, it can't tear the net, and it can't run if it hits." Hey, if you can have enough tough materials, I think the original crocodile dragon can be entangled. ”
"Don't blow it, the size of the brute crocodile dragon, where can you find such a big net, besides, the brute crocodile dragon is a younger brother, you can still catch the bone monitor lizard."
Hua Yu listened to Wenner's boast and complained, but although he said so, it shouldn't be a problem to deal with rhinoceros or something.
Everyone acted again, and passed through the dilapidated tenth district, entered the muddy eleventh district, and gradually approached the puddle area that Huang Da said.
Zombie Dance said
The next one is probably in the evening! I'll try to make up for it in the next few days! These two chapters may be relatively bland, but I'll take a look at the situation in Desperate City and the development of some camps from the player's perspective. Thanks to a previous book friend for the super shooting crossbow idea, I forgot who it was!