Chapter 3: The First Battle
Uncle Beard gave him a small package of dry food and a water bag made of the skins of unknown animals, and said, "Although the Heavenly Favor can survive with potions, you should bring some food in case of emergency." Be careful along the way. ”
"Thank you." Huang Chao felt the uncle's kindness and sincerely thanked him.
"No thanks, please hurry to Isrian as soon as possible and tell them the news of the alchemist, take care!"
Huang Chao carried a package on his back, carried a wooden staff, and took the cow and dog to rush to Isrian in the heavy rain. The Destroyer told him that as long as he followed this dirt road, he could reach Isrian in half a day under normal circumstances.
In the camp, the destroyer watched Huang Chao's back gradually disappear, and his expression was solemn: "I hope he can arrive smoothly." Then he coughed violently, blood gushing from the corners of his mouth, and his body crumbled, and the two conquerors hurried forward and helped him into the tent.
Huang Chao trudged through the muddy water for half an hour, and the rain finally stopped. He was glad that there were a lot of stones on the dirt road, so he didn't sink his feet into the mud completely.
In such a bad road condition, the cow dog did not fall behind, it is really a good dog.
Huang Chao stood and looked into the distance, and the path in front of him led directly to the deep valley, and it was said that on the other side of the valley was the city of Isrian. In the game, he already knows that the road is full of nezumi, storm bears, and battle beasts, and battles are inevitable.
Huang Chao took a deep breath, found a clean stone and sat down to rest, and studied the space-time foil by the way.
He noticed that in the hollow ring of the initial interface, "0. 00%" has changed to "0" at some point. 01%", the lower bar is still "0/1000", which can be determined that these two represent different things.
He called out the attribute bar, which showed his low attributes, and his consciousness was focused on the attributes, and no attribute descriptions appeared. Huang Chao is not in a hurry, as long as he focuses on intelligence like in the game, he will soon learn the secret of space-time foil.
The pet pen is similar to the game, Huang Chao looked at the pet pen while looking at the cow dog, and really couldn't understand how the cow dog could carry so many things. In the end, this can only be attributed to the law of the world: "This is the way this world is, and existence is reasonable." ”
He looked at the data bar, which was similar to the game, mostly explaining his own specific information. He didn't know how these things would manifest in reality, and he would have to study them further in the future. The quest bar simply reads "Warning to Israel", with a reward of money and experience underneath.
In the equipment column, his backpack is empty, and his weapon has a staff, which is the most basic white suit, and his attributes are miserable. Huang Chao found that his clothes and shoes were not all equipment. He lowered his staff, and the equipment slot was cleared, and the staff didn't appear in the item!
"This?" Huang Chao suddenly understood something. He picked up the staff again and thought to himself, "Unload." The staff in his hand suddenly vanished, and a staff appeared in the inventory, taking up a square just like in the game.
Huang Chao tried a few times and came to the conclusion that the inventory was an unknown space that he could put his weapon in, and he could immediately transfer it to his hand with his thoughts. I don't know what the situation is with other equipment, but after fighting monsters for a while, it will inevitably explode the equipment of various parts, and you can try it when the time comes.
He pulled the blood vial from his backpack and telemindedly transferred it to his inventory. Dry food and water cannot be put in, and it seems that only in-game items can be placed in the inventory. That staff was a wooden stick weighing more than ten pounds, and now it was put in the inventory without any burden, and the storage space was really convenient.
Look at the skill bar again, it's the same as the skill bar of the mage in the game.
"It's such a game world." Huang Chao sighed and took off his shoes to clean up the sludge on them.
His movements paused abruptly, remembering something that had been overlooked. These travel shoes are what he usually wears, but the problem is, he has already changed into slippers when he returns to the dormitory!
Huang Chao remembered that he was very tired at the time, and he had come to this world after waking up, but would he still help him change his shoes during this crossing process? He looked at his clothes again, and when he reached into his trouser pocket, the money and his school card were gone.
"I haven't heard that the crossing system will also help change shoes, and what does it mean to take my money and card away?!"
In fact, this is a two-dimensional projection of Huang Chao's usual state by the space-time foil, and now what appears in the world of Torchlight is only Huang Chao's virtual image and soul consciousness. So it strips out some elements that are completely useless in this world.
He tasted the dry food given to him by the Destroyer, it tasted pretty good, high in oil and sugar, quite suitable for carrying in the wild, a few pieces could meet the energy needs of the day. He drank some more water, then continued to sit on the rock, passing the time by watching the scenery and occasionally looking at the screen.
Thankfully, there are no mosquitoes in the wild. Huang Chao felt that a long time had passed, at least more time than on the road just now, and the number in the center of the ring suddenly became "0." 02%”。 In the lower part of the ring, a hint of green appeared.
Huang Chao thought: "The number of the ring can automatically increase over time, and when it is estimated that it is 100 percent, it is exactly green that fills the entire circle. It should be to accumulate some kind of energy, and open the space-time channel when it reaches the full value. ”
He stood up and headed for the valley. The cow dog runs back and forth, and it seems that the dry ground makes it happy. During this period, the cow dog never barked, so Huang Chaogao glanced at it: "Could it be that the cow dog is the legendary dog that can bite people without barking?" ”
A few rat people appeared in front of them, gathered in a bunch and didn't know what they were doing, and Huang Chao was quite nervous in the face of the first batch of mobs that appeared in the game. He tightened his grip on the staff, breathing heavily.
The rat man also saw Huang Chao, holding torches and other weapons, and rushed towards Huang Chao with a jump.
"Okay, it's not as fast as me, and you can get out if you can't beat it." Huang Chao saw their speed, and then quickly stepped forward to meet the rat man.
The nezumi was about a meter tall, covered in black-gray hair, and had a few dirty rags around the key parts. They bared their sharp teeth, squeaked, left saliva on the sides of their mouths, and their red eyes glowed devouringly.
There were a total of four rat men, and when they were close to ten meters, Huang Chao felt that his legs were weak, and he immediately abandoned his previous plan to save mana. He said in his heart, "Magma spear!" ”
Then he uncontrollably raised his staff in both hands and placed it across his chest, and a stream of red fire erupted forward from between his hands, sweeping away all the nezumi who rushed up.
The nezumi let out a scream, but still approached. Huang Chao's heart sank, he had already attacked several times in a short period of time, and the rat man was not dead!
His attention was focused on the rat-man who was hitting the head, and a blood bar floated above the rat-man's head, and the other party was already half-blooded. The appearance of the blood bar made Huang Chao's heart a lot more stable, and the appearance of the setting in the game gave him a sense of illusion, which weakened the shock brought by the rat man.
The nezumi had already rushed in front of him, and Huang Chao took the opportunity to shoot another magma spear, the nezumi's blood volume was obviously reduced, and his hair was also ignited by the flames. A fishy smell accompanied by a burnt smell rushed into Huang Chao's nostrils, making his brain dizzy and a strong feeling of nausea.
"This rat-man is still carrying a chemical attack?" This is something that is not reflected in the game. Huang Chao's reaction was a beat slower, and he was immediately attacked by the rat man. The rat-man's rusty broken knife slashed at Huang Chao's hastily resisted arm.
Huang Chao screamed, gritted his teeth, picked up his staff, and hit the ratman on the flank. At the same time, the cow dog rushed up and bit the rat man hard.
These two attacks killed the nezumi, who snorted and fell to the ground and died. When the three nezumi saw this scene, they immediately ran backwards screaming, which was in line with the nezumi setting: run away when their companions died.
Huang Chao hated this when he played the game, because he had to click the mouse hard every time to chase the scattered rat people, but now he is very grateful for this setting.
He lost a little bit of health, and it was no big deal, so he aimed directly at a nezumi and launched a magma spear. The red stream of fire struck the nezumi in the back, and it burst into flames, tumbling and falling to the ground.
He chased a few steps forward and killed another nezumi in the same way, draining his magic. The fourth nezumi ran for a while, the "escape" time was over, turned back and continued to fight, Huang Chao roared to give himself courage, gritted his teeth and rushed forward, and hit the nezumi hard with his staff.
Huang Chao's weapons are better, and with the help of cows and dogs, he beat the rat man to death without any suspense. The top of his head and shoulders were hit by the rat-man's torches, and his head was painful, and his hands were full of blood, and his shoulders could not move.
Huang Chao took a breath, his face full of the rest of his life.
Now he was trembling all over, watching the rat-man on the ground tumble in his stomach, but he hadn't eaten anything, and his digestion was pretty good, and he didn't vomit in the end. There is his own blood on his body, as well as the blood of the rat people, and there is a constant smell similar to rust.
"I'm still very mouthful. I didn't vomit at all, what an excellent recruit. Huang Chao deliberately thought of some jokes to cheer himself up, and at the same time, his face was pale and he turned the corpse of the nezumi with his staff.
Do? Of course, it's to see if there is any money and equipment.
Five gold coins appeared under the corpse of a rat man, Huang Chao picked them up with his hands, and found that the gold coins were very clean, not at all like the ones carried by the rat man. With a thought, the gold disappeared from his hand, and the number of gold coins in his inventory went from 100 to 105.