Chapter 9: Illegible
System Hint: You've found the Twilight Forest.
System prompt: Bai Yanfei is loading.
System Prompt: Lee's Tilt Bow is loading.
The battlefield [Twilight Airspace of the Evening Forest] is being imported.
Time: 3 p.m.
Location, Twilight Forest.
Weather: Sunny.
Wind direction: Southeast.
Machine, thirty-five.
Loaded.
Most of the forests in Gensokyo can be called enchanted forests, and the enchanted forests are densely packed with miasma beasts and monsters, and ordinary humans can't even enter them, even the self-police members with special skills won't enter lightly. And this dusk forest is different from the magic forest, there is no miasma, even ordinary people can enter, before it was only some beasts that inhabited here, so after some exploration, people began to obtain resources from the twilight forest, until some time ago the bird demon stationed, more than a dozen people died, and people were panicked for a while, and the self-police team finally launched an operation.
The dusk forest is overgrown with trees, and the shadows obscure the afternoon sun, and the light can only shine through some gaps between the leaves of the guò trees, and the only bit of sunlight blends with the various plants in the forest, mixing everywhere like twilight.
Although there is no miasma in this forest, it is dimly lit and comparable to an enchanted forest, and from time to time there is a sound of rustling around it, like the steps of wild beasts.
As soon as he entered the forest, Wang Feng ordered everyone to explore in all directions, and immediately retreated when encountered. Among the thirty-five members of the exploration team, only two players, Bai Yan and Li Tiangong, were assigned the task of exploring a former human stronghold in the southeast.
"Brother Li." Bai Yanfei opened the private chat, "How many times have you been out?" ”
"The second time." Li Tiangong said, "The first time was to follow the self-police team to defeat a big wild boar. ”
"Wild boar?"
"Well, the wild boar has rough skin and thick flesh, and ordinary iron tools can't even leave a white spot on it. This wild boar seems to have been demonized by the miasma of the Enchanted Forest, and it is no longer an ordinary animal. I and a dozen members of the police team did our best to defeat it. ”
Li Tiangong smiled: "I collected the teeth of that wild boar and made two arrows, look at it." ”
As he spoke, he shared with Bai Yan the information about the bow and arrow in his quiver.
【Normal Arrows】
The ordinary arrows produced by the Takeshita blacksmith shop in the world are polished to a sharp edge, and they are a constant consumable item for archers.
Quality, nine.
[Armor Piercing]: One of the necessary characteristics of ranged weapons, it can deal slight piercing damage to enemies with strong defenses.
The vast majority of the arrows in the quiver are of this kind, after all, they are consumables, which is not surprising, and what attracts Bai Yan's attention are the two special arrows in the quiver.
The whole body of these two arrows presents a black and bright streamlined shape, the tail feather of the arrow seems to use a very precious bird feather, the color is smooth as water, and the wood of the arrow body looks rich in texture, not iron, but has a kind of hardness. The most striking thing is the two arrowheads, the arrows are not regular three-edged or pointed, the largest length of the maker retains the characteristics of wild boar teeth, the arrows are sharp and curved, like the hideous wild boar teeth to choose people to eat, and even made two barbs on both sides of the arrow. On closer inspection, these two arrows are simply fierce. Utensil.
【Sharp Tooth Hollow Arrow】
The master of the Eternal Pavilion Inaba Blacksmith Shop is the proud work of Inhata Wei, and the arrowhead uses the pig teeth that are often sharpened by demonized wild boars, and its sharpness is difficult to resist.
Quality: Seven
[Heavy Damage]: If the first arrow hits the vital point, there is a high chance that it will directly cause serious damage to the target.
[Bleeding]: If the arrow deals damage to the enemy, it will have a strong bleeding effect.
[Strong]: The hidden properties of the arrows themselves are fused with the material properties of the arrows, and there is a superposition phenomenon, which can cause considerable armor-piercing effects on most defenses.
[Pig Burst]: If you shoot this arrow in the air, it can inflict attack power equivalent to the full force of the demonized boar.
[Phantasmal Miasma]: The miasma on the pig's teeth will affect the enemy, causing them to hallucinate for a small amount for three minutes.
The quality of the item increases from nine to one, and the quality of these two arrows is seven, which is very rare at this stage, and what Bai Yan doesn't know is that the average seven-quality bow and arrow only has three characteristics, and Li Tiangong's two sharp-toothed hollow arrows actually have five, and it is hard to imagine how much effort Li Tiangong has spent on these two arrows.
After Bai Yan finished reading the arrow, he couldn't help but feel a little envious when he thought about his eight-quality long knife.
"The first two days, of course, are two days of reality, players basically don't have the ability to get out of the world, and people don't release such tasks, and only players go out on the third day, but all the tasks that come out of the people are very difficult, and if you are not careful, you will die, and the wild boar almost told me to die there last time. Brother Bai, you don't want to taste death, do you? ”
Bai Yan shook his head, the death experience in the fantasy Sky War was very realistic, the last time Bai Yan fell from the sky to the ground, it was only a fraction of a millimeter away from death, and he still doesn't want to recall the experience at that time.
"Because the death experience is too realistic, and there are many pure life players or pure travel players, Fantasy Sky Warriors, as a unique game that can integrate virtual and reality, naturally does not only have one element of combat." Li said as he withdrew his quiver.
Merging virtual and reality? Bai Yan hadn't seen this sentence anywhere, you know, Bai Yan had collected almost all the information he could find about the Fantasy Sky War, but he had never seen these two sentences that Li Tiangong said. But looking at Li Qiangong's rhetoric, it doesn't look like a fake.
He just wanted to ask, but found that Li Tiangong's expression was tight, and his eyes were fixed on the right side.
"Brother Li..."The words reached his throat, but Bai Yan swallowed it, and he also felt that something was wrong.
On the right side of the four-person team, there was a sound of rustling, accompanied by a cold evil aura.
"I'll take a look." The self-police member named Saburo Sato took the lead, "Bai Yanfei, you come with me, Tian Dong, you take Li Tiangong to cover for us." ”
Tian Dong was the last of the four, a crossbowman, and he cooperated with Li Tiangong, which just allowed Bai Yan and the others to feel at ease to investigate.
"Brother Bai, don't worry, I will use sharp-toothed hollow arrows in times of crisis." Li Tiangong said softly.
Bai Yan nodded, swept the knife at his waist, and slowly followed Sato Saburo's footsteps and slowly touched it forward.
Sato was in front of Bai Yan in the back, all the way forward about thirty meters away, suddenly, Sato hid behind the tree, pointed ahead, beckoned to Bai Yan, Bai Yan quickly approached Sato's side, and looked in the direction.
It was a spider, as tall as an adult, with eight legs covered with dangerous barbs, a huge body resting firmly on the web, and the most bizarre thing was that this spider had a woman's head, and her long hair was scattered, covering her eyes, which looked extremely intimidating. And under the cobwebs it made, Bai Yan can vaguely identify some buildings, and it seems that this is the stronghold to be found.
At this time, this human-faced spider-body monster was entrenched in the center of the spider web, chewing on something, Bai Yan took a closer look, it turned out to be a corpse, and the urge to vomit quickly came up from his stomach.
"Sato, let's hurry back and report to Captain Wang Feng." Bai Yan reminded, but suddenly found that Sato's expression was different.
"That's it." Sato said hatefully, "This spider came with the bird demon, and I was also stationed in this stronghold at the time, bastard, this bastard, killed our three brothers!" I narrowly escaped with my life... I hate it!! ”
Sato's eyes were locked on the monster, as sharp as a knife, and the ten fingers of his clenched fists were pressed deep into the flesh.
"Bai Yanfei, you take the two people behind you to go first and bring the news to Lord Wang."
"What about you?" Bai Yan's voice trembled a little.
"I'm going to fight it." Sato calmed down at this point, but there was no trace of emotion in his words.
"You're crazy! You can only kill more monsters if you keep your useful body, and you forgot Captain Wang Feng's mission? ”
“… Didn't forget. I know what you said, but since I came back, every day I think of the eyes of those three brothers before they died..."
Sato didn't continue, but Bai Yan seemed to be able to feel a hint of such feelings.
He looked at Sato's eyes, red with sadness and anger, and his heart was mixed.
Why does an NPC have such feelings?
This feeling is not fake, maybe Saburo Sato's existence is just a number of jù, but Bai Yan really feels a sincere emotion here in Sato. From childhood to adulthood, Bai Yan has experienced the warmth and coldness of the world, and now, what is true and what is false, he can judge it almost at a glance, his natural endowment has never deceived him, and this time it will not be.
Aren't they just a paragraph of numbers, and why?
Is this really just a game?
Bai Yan didn't understand, he had a lot of doubts. From the beginning of the game to the present, he has countless questions about Fantasy Sky Wars and the world of Gensokyo.
But it's too late to think about it now.
System prompt: Sudden mission [Burning Flame of Vengeance], please choose whether to accept it.
He didn't hesitate to choose [yes] and then pulled out his long knife.