2. Copper Mining Town
The Copper Mining Town is a small town built on the mountain, and the largest source of income for the town is the copper ore veins hidden in the mountains, and the miners toiled every day in exchange for a barely satisfying low-radiation food, and the copper mining town refined the copper ore excavated by the miners into copper ingots and sold them to other settlements in the wilderness.
It can be said that this copper mine hidden in the mountains is the lifeblood of the entire copper mining town, but now this lifeline is threatened. After decades of excavation, the mine tunnels in the mountains have been dug for a long, long time. Just yesterday, the miners finally dug through the mountain. On the other side of the cave is a small valley with beautiful scenery, but the problem is that the valley is also inhabited by a colony of bloodthirsty and brutal fire-breathing ants.
The fire-breathing ant was formerly known as the red fire ant, and these pesky little things become bigger and more annoying under the influence of radiation. The fire-breathing ant body is one meter long, covered with chitinous carapace, two large jaws are sharp and hard, and the wrist-thick copper rod can be bitten off, and the most terrible thing is that the fire-breathing ant can also spew strong acid, which is not only extremely corrosive, but also spontaneously combustible when encountering air. In less than a day, more than 30 miners have died because of fire-breathing ants.
"Fire-breathing ants? Are you kidding me? Ding Hao bluntly interrupted the bar owner's words, "I just have a pistol and a bow, and I can deal with a large swarm of fire-breathing ants?" It's about the same as adding some protein to their dinners. ”
"No, no, no, of course you're not alone!" The barkeeper waved his hand repeatedly, "Those people from the Autonomous Council of the Copper Mine have invited two Evolvers to come over, you just need to help them clear out the fire-breathing ants." ”
If there is anyone more dangerous in this day and age than a mercenary, it is the Evolver. Because of exposure to radiation, a small number of people gradually develop strange abilities, and those who possess this ability are called evolutionaries. After categorization, summarization, and systematic division, these abilities are divided into three categories: combat, spells, and general.
Combat ability is the general name of various melee offensive and defensive and mobile abilities, spell class is the general name of various energy manipulation ability, as for the general class, it refers to super vision, fast healing and other difficult to partition ability, general class ability is both many and complex, the most common, followed by fighting ability, and then the rarest spell ability.
Becoming an evolutionary also represents a genetic change, and evolution is the greatest dependence of human beings to survive in these last days, but God knows whether the end of this path will be heaven or hell.
"What kind of evolutionary are those two evolutionaries?" Hearing what the bar owner said, Ding Hao couldn't help but ask curiously. In the game, players also have the Evolver class, which is divided into three categories: fighting, spells, and general, and each class has 10 branch options when creating a character, and of course there are some special props in the game that can change their abilities.
"One is the defense enhancement of the fighting class, and the other is the magic type to control lightning." The bar owner thought for a moment and said. "Do you want to participate?"
"Sounds a bit reliable." Ding Hao said, "How much can I get paid for completing the task?" ”
"2,000 pieces." The bar owner held out two fingers, "I know the price is a bit small, after all, you're not the main force." ”
"No matter how small a mosquito's leg is, it's meat." Ding Hao nodded in understanding, "When will it start?" ”
"Those two evolutionaries will arrive in Copper Mine Town in about 1 hour, I suggest you prepare first, and then go to the mine to standby." The bar owner said.
In the face of major matters related to the wallet, the Autonomous Committee of the Copper Mining Town, which has always been procrastinating, has played an unimaginable efficiency at the moment.
After discussing the details of the mission, Ding Hao left the bar with the bow box. At the same time as Ding Hao left, the two people in the bar glanced at each other, and then quietly followed, after all, such a large exquisite box must contain good things, enough for these two thugs to take the risk of doing it.
"It seems that there is an old saying in the Red Dragon Republic that people die for money, and birds die for food? Ho! The man who said this must have been a great philosopher. The bar owner saw the two sneaky guys and neither scolded nor stopped them, but simply shook his head secretly and continued to wipe the wine glasses on the counter.
Two seconds later, two gunshots rang out outside the bar, and the people in the bar continued to party as if they hadn't heard. For these people, in this precarious apocalypse, timely fun is the king, how can there be that idle time to meddle in things?
After killing the two ill-intentioned gangsters with two shots, Ding Hao walked slowly on the streets of Copper Mining Town, and at the same time opened his skill interface. At present, the hunting skills should be enough to have enhanced shooting and concussive shooting, so the third skill should be selected in the survival class.
The five basic survival skills are all useful, so the question is which one to learn first? After all, Ding Hao wanted these five skills very much.
After thinking about it carefully, Ding Hao decided to add skill points to the skill of the arms dealer, after all, he had to deal with fire-breathing ants for a while, and he had to have enough ammunition to deal with this kind of rough-skinned monster.
After clicking on this skill, Ding Hao's eyes appeared in front of him with the same skill interface as in the game, and the skill interface has two panels, one is the item decomposition module, which can convert all kinds of garbage and debris into raw materials. And the skill interface comes with 1 8 cubic meters of carry-on space, the space is not large, but it is more than enough to put some materials or ammunition or daily necessities and the like. The other is the crafting module, which can currently be used to craft hunting arrows for bows and crossbows, normal bullets for various weapons, as well as some special bullets, such as air-tipped bullets for pistols and submachine guns, armor-piercing rounds for rifles and sniper rifles, and single-headed bullets and arrow rounds for shotguns.
Hunting Arrows x7: Steel Ingots, Wood, Feathers x7 - Excellent hunting arrows with competition-grade accuracy.
Bullet x20: Copper Ingot x2, Lead Ingot, Crystal Nucleus Powder, Adhesive - Ordinary bullets, no shortcomings, remember to pay attention to the caliber when crafting.
Although I had crystal nuclei on hand, I didn't have crystal nucleus powder or lead ingots, so I had to make arrows.
Ding Hao walked towards the mining site while picking up various discarded steel plates on the ground, and then used the decomposed materials to make arrows. When he arrived at the mine, Ding Hao had already inserted thirty hunting arrows in the quiver behind his back, presumably this battle should be enough.
"Hey! Guys over there, the mine is temporarily closed, come back tomorrow! Ding Hao had just walked to the edge of the mine when a searchlight came over, and at the same time, a person in the tower of the mine shouted at Ding Hao with a loudspeaker. And at this moment, it was not only a searchlight that was pointing at Ding Hao, but also two Browning heavy machine guns.
"I was commissioned to solve the problems of the mine." Ding Hao shouted.
"Who introduced you?" The man asked over a loudspeaker.
"Marcus, the bar owner." Ding Hao replied, "Come and help the evolutionary solve the fire-breathing ants." ”
"Okay, you can come in." A few seconds after the man on the tower finished speaking, the thick door of the mine slowly opened.
"My name is Mackey, and I'm a mine janitor." A middle-aged man wearing a safety helmet walked towards Ding Hao, "Those two evolutionaries haven't arrived yet, you may have to wait a while." ”
"No problem."
"By the way, are you alone?" Mackey looked behind Ding Hao and found that there was no one else behind him, so he couldn't help but ask.
"yes, I'm here alone, what's the problem?"
"Big problem!" Listening to Ding Hao's words, Mackey looked helpless, "We have issued a total of 6 power of attorneys, but you are the only one who comes, so it's troublesome." ”
"Maybe it's because the fire-breathing ants are so powerful that they don't dare to come." Ding Hao thought about it and said his opinion. In fact, fire-breathing ants are much stronger than rampaging rats, cyst flies and other pus-filled soft eggs, and ordinary mercenaries really don't dare to provoke these guys.
"Then why did you dare to come?" Listening to Ding Hao's words, Mackey couldn't help but ask.
"Because I'm poor." Ding Hao spread his hands.
Mackey: "......"
The two chatted for a while, and soon the roar of cars came from outside the mine, and an old-looking jeep sped towards it, and then stopped steadily at the entrance of the mine.
"The two evolutionaries are coming." Mackey looked at the jeep with envy and longing in his eyes. In this world, becoming an evolutionary, even the most ordinary general-purpose evolutionary, can be regarded as a step to the sky, you can join various large companies and organizations, and say goodbye to the hard days of precariousness.
Getting out of the jeep were two young blond men, a man and a woman. The man was tall and athletic, with a heavy shield in his right hand, a silver-white .44 caliber Magnum revolver pinned to his leg, and a Frankie SPAR12 on his back. The girl is petite and beautiful, wearing a pair of silver-white gloves on her hands, blue-white arcs jumping between her slender fingers, and a jungle camouflage-painted MP7 hanging from her waist.
"Two of you, please!" A middle-aged fat man jumped out of the co-pilot of the jeep and entered the mining site with two evolutionaries. Ding Hao knows this fat man, his name is Danton, he is one of the people in charge of this mining farm, this guy usually has a high-minded face towards miners and civilians, but at the moment he is flattering like a pug.
"Mackey, the Evolver has arrived, but what about the mercenaries?" Seeing Mackey and Ding Hao standing at the door, Denton ran over quickly and asked.
"Now, that's him." Mackey pointed at Ding Hao and said.
"Hey!" Ding Hao beckoned to Denton.
"Just him?" Looking at Ding Hao standing aside, Denton felt a little dizzy.
"I can't help it, boss." Mackey tried to explain, "It's Charizard, and Fire-breathing Ants are mutated creatures that the mercenaries need to walk around. ”
"What the hell!" Denton said with a frown, then turned away with a smiling face, the speed of which was staggering.
"Two guests, I'm sorry, so far we have only recruited one mercenary who is willing to carry out this mission, do you think you can rest for the night and come back tomorrow?" Denton said to the two evolutionaries with a smile on his face.
"There's no need." The shield-wielding evolutionary's voice was as loud as a bell, "A mere nest of fire-breathing ants is nothing. ”
"Okay, then this one, please." Evolvers have said so, what else can Denton say?