Chapter 53: Dead Players
City of Despair, Ninth District.
Next to a puddle of about seven or eight hundred square meters in the city, the weeds are luxuriant, like a jungle.
Three figures with baskets on their backs quietly appeared on the edge of the barren and grassy lake, constantly bowing their heads and leaning over, as if digging to find something.
From the buildings around this overgrown backwater lake, it can probably be seen that this should have been a wasteland, because of the low terrain, coupled with the fact that it has not been tended for a long time, all kinds of plants and plants are particularly vigorous, forming a large dense weed jungle.
Li Yuncheng had noticed that there were still a few pieces around the survivors' camp in such a place, which were used as a source of food for the survivors to survive, but they were basically throwing a few seeds in an extensive manner, without any careful cultivation and care.
On the one hand, the world outside the camp is full of dangers, and on the other hand, there are probably not many survivors, and basically this can barely survive.
Zhuang Dafa threw away a slightly dry and hard mud ground with his hand, dug out a fist-sized melon from it, threw it into a back basket he carried with him, and sighed a little: "I'm here to play games or to work, damn it, I haven't dug sweet potatoes since I was a child." Lao Li, you said that you are not good at taking on any tasks, and getting a collection task is really not challenging. ”
Li Yuncheng straightened up, looked at Zhuang Dafa who was full of complaints behind him, and smiled, "Safety first, we haven't awakened the transcendent seed now, and going out to explore is asking for hardship, and the best way to brush up on prestige is these simple tasks, which are quick to do and efficient." ”
"Hahaha, Dafa, you haven't played some traditional online games at first glance." Xu Zhe, who was busy on the other side, heard Zhuang Dafa's complaint and laughed out loud, "This is the most classic link in all online games, and it can still be considered a game without this kind of task." ”
"Why haven't you played, isn't it just collecting radishes or something, but if you look at the realism now, what's the difference between us and doing farm work?"
Zhuang Dafa shook his head dissatisfied, he used to jump around in other online games, collecting what messy things, and the task was okay, but the real experience of the real holographic simulation was not much different from the real work, and there was a feeling that someone was tricked into working and was happy to help the black-hearted owner consider.
"Boss Xu, didn't you just go to learn that awakening, why did you run back?" Zhuang Dafa asked again.
Xu Zhe shook his head helplessly, "Don't mention this, except for Liu Chuanfeng's tendon, basically no one has learned it, it's too difficult, you want to play a game and you have to exercise every day or something, who can stand it." ”
"Damn, I still have to exercise." Zhuang Da trembled and shook the waves of flesh on his belly, looking loveless, "With that energy, I would have already regained my once handsome appearance." ”
"That's right, except for the potions, everything else is too real, including what kind of awakening transcendent seeds and the like, it is estimated that they are all small probability events." Xu Zhe sighed lightly, "Alas, by the way, isn't the handsome guy with you?" ”
"It's still there before, but it's going to be gone." Zhuang Dafa responded, took a breath, sat on the scattered grass, and looked at Li Yuncheng, who was skilled in front of him, "Alas, Lao Li, your experience in playing games is okay, but why didn't you mix with Liu Chuanfeng, I remember that you were on a team with him before?" ”
Li Yuncheng turned his head, his gaze casually swept over Zhuang Dafa, a somewhat inexplicable smile appeared on his face, and then he said: "I think you have one more internal test experience, you can take me." ”
"Hey, hey, have an eye." Zhuang Dafa heard Li Yuncheng's words and immediately smiled and picked his thumb, "I didn't blow this technique with you, I could use diamond platinum when I played auxiliary, which is absolutely reliable." ”
"yes, that's amazing." Li Yuncheng smiled noncommittally, looked at the messy fields around him, and suddenly saw a slight vibration in the weeds in the distance.
"What's that?" Xu Zhe got up and noticed the movement in front of him, and asked.
"I guess there's some bug." Li Yuncheng remembered that because of his friendship with the little girl Angel, he got the opportunity to take the task from the NPC boy named Rian, and the other party had explained to him that there were some bugs in this grass.
"Let's get out of here."
"Bugs? What bugs?! ”
Zhuang Dafa's eyes narrowed into a slit when he heard this, he felt really bored about this kind of work-like task, he picked up a stone casually, raised his hand and threw it towards the loud grass.
"Don't!"
"Wait!"
Xu Zhe and Li Yuncheng saw Zhuang Dafa's movements and hurriedly stopped them.
The two of them had done the task of [Energy Crisis], and now they still remember the plate-sized spiny beetles, and the overwhelming scene is terrifying to watch.
But the words of the two were still a step too late, and the stone in Zhuang Dafa's hand had already been thrown out, and then the next moment, a strange creaking sound sounded instantly.
A scorpion with a black light and a body size similar to an ordinary car tire slowly emerged from the grass, and two huge big crows plus a thick tail pin that was more than one meter fast and two meters long, almost made the three people present subconsciously retreat as soon as they appeared.
The visual impact of suddenly encountering a giant insect is more exciting than watching 3DIMAX.
However, after the big scorpion appeared, it did not attack several people, but made a creaking sound in its mouth and walked in another direction, and it didn't seem to have any desire to attack the three people it suddenly encountered.
"Whew, it's good that this isn't a red name monster."
Li Yuncheng breathed a sigh of relief, although the monster did not have a red name on its head, which made people know that it would take the initiative to attack at a glance, but he still habitually described it like this.
He generally plays games to complete tasks efficiently, and if he brushes his reputation, he will definitely not do meaningless things unless necessary, since this giant scorpion does not attack, he is ready to bypass it.
"Are scorpions vegetarians?" Xu Zhe watched the giant scorpion leave, and asked with some doubts.
"It seems to be meat, eating insects or something...... Li Yuncheng thought about it and replied, but before the words fell, his face suddenly changed, and he exclaimed, ", Dafa, what are you doing?" ”
saw Zhuang Dafa take out an iron sword from the back basket, and suddenly slashed at the tail of the giant scorpion that had been circled to the side.
This time the force was very large, and it just happened to cut at the joints of the giant scorpion, and with a crisp click, the tail of the giant scorpion fell directly with the tail pin.
The giant scorpion suddenly turned around, and once again let out a strange sound similar to a terrible crunch, and the two big claws sandwiched towards Zhuang Dafa.
Zhuang Dafa was like a frightened fat rabbit, jumping away from the back at once.
But the giant scorpion crunched louder and louder, and suddenly, several people noticed that the grass around them was moving.
The dense grass was pushed away, and then a second one appeared, which seemed to be larger than the first, and rushed towards several people with two large crows.
"Run!"
Li Yuncheng suddenly pulled Zhuang Dafa, Zhuang Dafa came back to his senses a little, and instantly jumped back like a fat rabbit.
"Damn, this is such a game, I'm going to be scared of a heart attack!"
The crunching sound continued to sound, the half-human-tall grass kept shaking, and then the third and fourth giant scorpions kept popping up, and several people just glanced behind them, and then rushed out in a panic.
Suddenly out of nowhere, large scorpions suddenly appeared out of nowhere, chasing the three of them frantically.
Fortunately, although there were a lot of these big scorpions, and their size was terrifying, they were not too fast, and several people ran for hundreds of meters in a row, leaving this grassy area, and arrived at a building complex on an abandoned street, before they gasped and stopped.
"Also...... It's a good thing that Sun Shuai's guy didn't come, otherwise he would have been at the resurrection point. ”
Xu Zhe wiped the sweat from his head, let out a long breath, remembering the previous scene when Sun Shuai was so frightened by the stinging beetle that he didn't even dare to move, and suddenly couldn't help laughing.
"Next time, call more people to clean up these big scorpions." Zhuang Dafa was almost paralyzed on the ground holding on to a broken wall, and after the fear he suddenly encountered, he thought that he was not so afraid of the game, but he was still a little angry in his heart.
"That's a lot of people, we don't have a map now, we don't have monster data, this is really similar to a wild survival expedition." Xu Zhe looked up at his surroundings, "We are really too rookie in the battle. ”
"Playing like you guys, we're really rookies." Li Yuncheng glanced at Zhuang Dafa with some resentment, and sighed helplessly.
Zhuang Dafa laughed embarrassedly, "So it's important to hurry up and improve your reputation." ”
"It's so difficult to collect a task, I really don't know what happened to those who dared to go out and explore?"
Li Yuncheng's scalp was a little numb, it was the second time he had seen this kind of big insect, but perhaps because there were only three people this time, he obviously had no confidence.
Just as a few people were resting for a short time, suddenly a rustling sound sounded again.
"Nima, this hatred is too high!"
The faces of the three people changed, and they ran wildly again.
At the same time, on the edge of the Ninth District of the City of Despair, an exploration team composed of four players who had awakened the Transcendent Seed, Hua Yu, Guan Xiong, Huang Da, and Mao Ming, was hiding behind a dilapidated building, looking at a figure like a hill not far away.
It's almost seven or eight kilometers away from the camp, and it's a completely unfamiliar area, with ruined streets and ruined cities, and the background of the fall of the end is already familiar to everyone.
On the way, a few people also encountered some small monsters, some saw a few people run away, and some people were killed by a few wasted hands and feet, in general, the current combat effectiveness of the four people should not be underestimated.
Not on the edge of the Ninth Municipality, in what appeared to be a trading market, they saw a behemoth lying on the ground, seemingly sleeping.
The monster was huge, slightly curled up and unable to see its head, only revealing the palm-sized scales on its back, and if it weren't for the loud breathing sound, it would almost subconsciously think that it was a huge rock.
"It's a reptilian creature right?" Looking at the scales exposed by the monster, Hua Yu exclaimed a little.
This world is really full of all kinds of monsters, and you can encounter them casually.
"Maybe, but maybe."
"I think it must be an extraordinary species to grow this big?" Huang Da rolled his little eyes and whispered to a few people around him, "Why don't we try?" ”
Otherworldly species are now very attractive to players, and many of these otherworldly species have materials that can be used to synthesize potions, and as long as they collect and return to the camp, their reputation will rise.
Now there are only a few of the four players in the entire camp who have awakened the transcendent seed, Huang Da feels that he has spent two hundred yuan to buy the potion from Liu Chuanfeng is quite a loss, compared to most other players, he is already one step ahead, and he is not deleted from the test, it is estimated that he should be able to become a relatively powerful player when the complete public beta is completed.
The reason why he came to do this exploration mission with a few players who awakened the transcendent seed this time is, on the one hand, he is interested in the map of the game, and on the other hand, it is also for the purpose of opening a trade union or something in the future, recruiting troops and horses, and expanding more contacts.
The first time Huang Da entered the game, he knew how to spend money to buy potions, and the most critical reason was that he had read a lot of online articles about this kind of virtual game before. He remembered a lot of what national online games were, and in the later stage, they were all kinds of guild bosses and what consortiums settled in, and it was very exciting to think about it.
"I don't want it!" Mao Ming, who was a little introverted by nature, scratched his hair and looked at a few people: "With such a big size, I feel that we may not be able to beat it!" ”
"What are you afraid of, one word is to do. With me resisting, you will definitely not die. Hua Yu took a wooden round shield and patted it gently, this round shield was bought by him for 20 points of prestige, and the corners were still a little damaged, of course, he had awakened the transcendent seed now, and this thing didn't seem to be of any other use if he didn't change his equipment.
Of course, what he didn't know was that Meng Yang had basically cleaned up the entire camp in order to enrich the exchangeable equipment in the mall, and put all the broken iron swords on it, and the shield was the only one, according to Phoenix, it was used by a warrior named Bafu in the camp, but the other party never came back after an outing.
"I'm okay with that." Guan Xiong saw a few people looking at him, nodded slightly, and in his hand was still Liu Chuanfeng's bone knife, well, it was already his, and it cost two hundred yuan.
Except for Guan Xiong and Huang Da, probably no one else knows that players have not been in the game for two days, and most of them are still in the stage of exploration and ignorance, but some people have already begun to make money.
"If you can't beat it, run away, anyway, we met, we always have to try the strength of this monster. Alas, I miss the game with a blood bar. ”
"Come on, come on, try it!"
Hua Yu emerged from behind the dilapidated building, and suddenly let out a soft shout, a faint red light instantly appeared all over his body, and the muscles of the whole person's body seemed to swell again in an instant, holding a round shield and rushing towards the huge figure in front of him.
"Rush!" Guan Xiong on the other side held the bone knife, his eyes lit up, and he rushed towards the huge figure, this is the place where it is cool to play this game, and it is too enjoyable to fight.
"These two reckless men!"
Huang Da and Mao Ming glanced at each other, both a little helpless, these two brothers are really a perfect match, anyway, just open the blame, stuffy head is a word.
There was a muffled sound, and Hua Yu, who was rushing to the front, held his shield, and how fast he went, how fast he came back.
His whole body seemed to have crashed into a thick mountain in an instant, and at this moment, he flew out upside down and sat on the ground.
Immediately after Guan Xiong, who rushed up from behind, he held the bone knife, jumped high, and slashed down with a knife, with a click, the bone knife seemed to be slashed on the tough rock, the bone knife in his hand was almost unable to hold and was about to be bounced away, and there was even a faint blood stain from the tiger's mouth in both hands.
"Bang!"
There was a sound like thunder exploding, and the whole ground seemed to tremble in an instant.
The four of them looked at the monster that was slowly waking up, and they were stunned for a moment.