Chapter 38: The Outsider's Test
Wang Mancang had no training in stealth or anything like that, and when he appeared at the door of Corvo's room, the vigilant former protectors had already put their knives in their hands and ambushed behind the door, and when they saw that it was Lao Wang, they helped the burn patient to the side of the bed and sat down, and then... The first thing that caused Corvo's height difference was Lao Wang's physical condition.
Lao Wang's current upper limit of life has returned to 80% of its heyday, although the health bar is less than 150 points, but this means that the functional damage on his body is also undergoing amazing self-repair under the strong recovery power, and this time, because the total upper limit of health has decreased, Lao Wang is not willing to use recovery props, it can be said that he is stubborn and resistant, and he is stunned to recover on his own.
In this way, the accidental burn of the sewer is not completely unlucky, at least Lao Wang has fully verified whether his physical fitness as a tank is strong, Takenaka has repeatedly given Lao Wang a point of view, the so-called attribute point threshold theory.
To put it simply, the benefits brought by the improvement of attribute points to the selector are not only the increase and decrease of various numerical accidents on the books, but also the critical values of several stages, which are enough to cause a huge difference.
After a period of dazzling calculations, Takenaka finally told Lao Wang that the conclusion is that after adding more than 15, 30 and 50 points to a single attribute point, you will feel a significant improvement in the corresponding aspects of the attribute point, just like boxers should also be divided into flyweight, lightweight, heavyweight and other stages, and the different stages are reflected in these key points for the selector, and Takenaka calls them qualitative change points.
Speaking of returning to Lao Wang's ability to recover and resist blows, it is actually the benefit of toughness exceeding 15 points, and it is really different after the threshold, Wang Mancang himself is a little surprised by his Warcraft body.
Corvo was unexpectedly shocked after seeing Lao Wang's injury, according to common sense, normal people should be happy to see that their dying love that had been burned has scabbed over and crusted, and can move on the ground, they should be emotionally happy, but if this recovery time is only a few hours, the joy will be completely covered by surprise.
"Mark, you're... How did you revert to this in such a short period of time?" Corvo asked Wang suspiciously, complaining that he couldn't believe it, even if your nickname is "Silent Rock Mark", this "Rock" method is too exaggerated, right? It seems that this nickname is still conservative.
When Lao Wang heard this, he had to explain his recovery problem, and he was worried that he couldn't convince Corvo to believe in the Outsider's method, but now the two happened to be together, which was equivalent to sending the burden to the door by himself.
"Captain, there's a reason why you've seen a burn patient visit you in the middle of the night. Lao Wang's voice was still a little hoarse, probably because he injured his vocal cords when he opened his trachea, and the reason for this was just the growth of his voice, but the content of his words was not affected by his voice, and just one sentence hooked Corvo's cheeks.
"I don't think I understand what you mean, Mark, I need to explain. Corvo's curiosity is aroused, but he can't understand the dumb riddle of Lao Wang, so he can only ask.
"Captain, here's the situation, I encountered a bizarre incident in my sleep..."The old king added fuel to the matter of the outsider, and in his words, he put all the credit for the burn recovery on the outsider, and then he stared at Corvo, hoping for the other party's affirmative answer.
"If it weren't for your usual unsmiling style, Mark, I'd really suspect you'd be on that shitty psychedelic drug. When Corvo first heard this story, he instinctively didn't believe it.
Lao Wang didn't say anything, he directly raised his hands for Corvo to see, and explained very much, this is where his trick comes in.
Corvo carefully examined Wang's injuries again, and there was no major problem, as Wang himself described, the quaint tattoo on the back of his left hand was also clearly visible, and Corvo's original determined heart began to waver.
The torture and helplessness in the prison made him thirst for all power, and Lao Wang sent the most lethal bait at the right time - "Captain, now that we are weak, we can just use this unknown power, if our enemies do not know your abilities, you can imagine how much advantage this will bring, for the sake of Her Royal Highness the Princess, who is missing, and the life of the Empress, Captain." ”
The last thing Corvo could hear was to avenge his old lover Empress Jessamine and find Princess Emily, but what Lao Wang said, he had always been strict, and he loosened up, and said in an inquiring tone: "Mark, can you swear by your father's name?"
"My father, my mother, my second uncle, my third mother!" Lao Wang resolutely spit out a series of relatives.
"Okay, don't say these market slang, I believe you, let's go!" Thinking of this, Corvo glanced at Lao Wang's arms, which had begun to show pink and tender flesh, and made up his mind.
Wang Mancang operated according to the explanation of the Outsider, and the two of Corvo shook their figures, and returned to the Void Realm again, he looked at Corvo, who had just come back to his senses and was full of shock, and spread his hands, meaning that I didn't lie.
Seeing that the old king was a bit of a doorman, the Outsider really brought Corvo back, and greeted him with a floating voice: "Hello, Corvo, I have to say that you have a loyal subordinate, and it is his persistence that has won you the opportunity to obtain magical power. ”
"Now, with my strength, I can give you another mark of mine, but the infusion of magical energy must depend on you. The Outsider didn't wait for Corvo to reply, pinched his left hand, and gave Corvo the same rune as Lao Wang, and continued like a teacher in a hurry to get out of class: "Complete the test of the Void Realm, start by finding me first." ”
Before the words fell, the form of the Outsider Demon had disappeared out of thin air, just as abruptly as when he appeared, and it seemed that only Corvo and Lao Wang were left in the empty and strange void realm.
Corvo is a powerful target for interaction, and his reaction and adaptation are excellent, and after a little stunned, he has already understood.
The former protector nodded to Lao Wang, this time he was not surprised that Wang Mancang had completely recovered his health in the Void Realm, but calmly made a gesture, signaling Lao Wang and him to observe the surrounding environment first and make the next move.
The suspended ruins in the Void Realm seemed to float completely irregularly, and after Corvo's careful observation, a clue was also found.
There are a few ruins that look a little more 'ornate' than the other floating platforms, close to each other, and from a distance it seems that there are still human figures on them, but they are motionless, not knowing whether they are alive or dead, and there are some clues or pathways.
"Mark, the Outsider, should be counting on us to find a way to his location through the floating platforms of these Imperial Palace ruins. Corvo patted Wang on the shoulder.
It turned out that this was the architectural style of the Imperial Palace, and the old king knew it in his heart, and asked his captain: "Captain, we are not close to the floating platform, and it seems that the distance between every two pieces of ruins is quite far, if we want to go over, we may need climbing tools." ”
Lao Wang's worries are reasonable, originally if Corvo entered the Void Realm and accepted the power of the Outsider, he would have obtained a flickering skill that was more suitable for his combat style, with this skill, he could easily walk to the suspended ruins within a certain distance, but now Lao Wang has energy but no skill, Corvotu has an Outsider mark, which is equivalent to a reserve, this trick obviously doesn't work.
"Captain, why don't we climb over with a rope. The living can't let the urine suffocate to death, and Lao Wang immediately made a reasonable suggestion to Corvo.
Corvo pulled out his crossbow and said, "You have a launcher, do you have a rope?"
Lao Wang smiled, and directly called up a roll of climbing rope from the carry-on space, which is the credit of Takenaka, and the little guy also spent 10 random points to buy a large number of various props in the space, in his words, these can play an unexpected role in the world of trials.
The two of them said no more, and climbed up the rope to the suspended fragments of the ruins of the palace, where Corvo had worked all his life, as if he had returned to his mother's home.
There was not much time, and the two climbed to the top of the floating platform, the style here remained relatively intact, probably on the intention of the Void Realm, because the two of them were presenting a scene that Corvo was extremely familiar with, in a simple and elegant European-style marble gazebo, a woman in a black hunting suit fell in the middle of the gazebo, and there was a pool of blood under her.
Corvo's fists clenched involuntarily, and he took a few steps forward to hug the woman, but his hands went straight through the body, just like when Lao Wang first entered the random space, he passed through the red plum, which seemed to be a silent reminder to Corvo that this scene was not real, and he and the woman in the black hunting suit were no longer from the same world.
"You can't do anything but watch her die. Corvo was still stunned, a serious male voice sounded ill-intentioned, it sounded very hollow, with an echo, poking Corvo's sore spot, this kind of spiritual whipping if the former protector could not resist, then it was estimated that he would not be able to use magical power.
It was indeed mental torture, Corvo looked silent and painful when he heard this, and Lao Wang was about to comfort him, but the physical torture followed!
"Whoosh" twice, the slender black shadow appeared out of thin air, and shot Wang Mancang and Corvo, and the two figures that launched them also appeared in the volley, followed by the slender projection weapon and flew down together, in the strange light of the void realm, the blade of the weapon in the hand was bright, reflecting a piece of brilliance, and the killing intent was boundless.
The old king didn't care about Corvo, who was still grieving, so he took out the hunter's axe, turned the socket mechanism to pull out the long handle, and sealed the key point with the axe, anyway, the Void Realm itself is difficult to explain now, and when Corvo becomes suspicious of his weapon, he can just push it directly to the head of the outsider.
With a "Zheng" sound, the slender black shadow that attacked the door of the old king was stopped by the broad axe face, and fell to the ground after being blown away - it was a crossbow arrow with a pitch-black body.
Corvo also stopped grieving, he just recalled the past and sighed in his heart, and when it was really time to fight, he directly turned his grief and anger into strength, and rushed towards the black shadow that was running towards him.
The former protector dodged lightly, and the pitch-black crossbow bolt went directly into the air, grazing his shoulder, and nailed into the ground with the remaining momentum, and the black shadow killed by the crossbow arrow also arrived, dressed in the uniform of the Royal Guard, and turned out to be the appearance of Corvo's men.
Lao Wang took a sip, the test of the demons outside the heart realm is not good stubble, and these roadblock monsters are made into the appearance of old colleagues, which is equivalent to from 'spiritual civilization' to 'material civilization', double blow torture, and you have arranged it for me properly.
However, he had no feelings for these so-called colleagues, and when he saw the other party attacking, he immediately sank the axe downward, and the axe body moved down and the long handle rose, and he held up the hunter's axe horizontally, and parried upwards in a fire-burning style.
"Qiang!" the golden and iron resonated, the enemy dressed as the royal guard fell and slashed on the handle of the old king's axe, and the body landed lightly, the old king only felt that the strong force was on the handle of his axe, and the short knife of the royal guard looked powerless, but it was light and sticky, like a magnet to stick to the blade of the old king.
Lao Wang secretly said that this royal guard's tricks are very strange, and he was about to make more efforts to break away from the other party's guy, but the royal guard reacted faster, and the blade that was originally slashed vertically on the handle of the axe fell down instantly, and the side was flat against the rod, which seemed to abolish Lao Wang's fingers holding the long handle.
This trick was used indiscriminately by Lao Wang to deal with Luo Lao's old girls in the dark world, it turned out that he was short and long, and now he is using long to deal with short.
However, Wang Mancang and the old sisters of Rogge are fundamentally different.
Whether the old girls use a big gun or a javelin, they are pure single weapons, and no matter how clever the tricks are, they can't escape certain rules.
But Lao Wang's hunting blade axe is the foundation of the trick weapon, strictly speaking, the length of the guy is not counted, but in the battle it can be long or short, flexible and free, the routine changes are more than a single weapon out of thousands of kinds, it is really worthy of the three words of the trick weapon.
Wang Mancang saw that the enemy had used the means of sharpening the barrel of the gun, sneered slightly, and the hands holding the handle of the axe did not dodge, but directly exerted force, twisting and closing to the middle.
The Hunter's Axe triggers, and the three-layered long-handled sleeve is quickly folded by the force of the reed contraction, changing from long to short, and in the process of sliding, the raised card slot on the sleeve moves just in time to hit the short blade of the royal guard's flat sharpening.
The card slot knocked slightly, just hit the blade upright again, and Lao Wang's hands not only closed to the middle by himself, but also borrowed the power of the mechanism contraction, and the closing speed became faster and faster, before the royal guard could react and make a move, Lao Wang had already tightly clamped the royal guard's weapon with both sides of his fists.
Wang Mancang clamped the enemy's weapon, wrestling with his strength, the royal guard he put on the right side seemed to be taking the path of a small and fast spirit, the strength was not great, and he tried a few times, but failed to regain control of the weapon, took a deep breath, and in his eagerness, he actually used brute force.
Stupid thing, Lao Wang's hands moved slightly, and he spread a crack in the situation, and said in his heart, once you guys who play tricky work, once you lose mobility, what else do you have to do?
Sure enough, the royal guard pulled the weapon violently, but he didn't know that Lao Wang's side was relieved, and he couldn't help but retreat, his body staggered, and he almost sat on the ground.
The royal guards wanted to sort out their posture again, but the balance had been lost, and at such a juncture, Wang Mancang, who liked to hit people the most, raised his hand, and the tricky weapons inherited by the hunters for generations were aimed at the royal guards with the empty door wide open, and the old Wang, who had been suppressed for a long time, felt that the heartiness of the battle filled his body, and unconsciously, the black words in his mouth jumped out happily again.
"It's a good thing, dad has a new way again, you can give me here!"