Chapter 120: Paying for Debts in Kind
The flute, like the flute, requires the cooperation of the hand and mouth to play music. But the guqin only needs to be played with your fingers! Since Zhou Daoan has ventriloquist and can imitate the sound of the flute, he can naturally free his hands and play different pieces at the same time, or a group of people, the flute and the song.
Of course, the idea is beautiful, but there is still a long way to go. First of all, he doesn't know how to play - in his previous life, he played the electronic piano for a period of time when he was a child, and he belonged to the interest class of the Children's Palace. When he grew up, he found that he had good hearing, but he didn't have time to study music anymore.
Now, with the Ark, as long as you spend hard work, you can quickly understand the playing skills, not to mention the guqin, any instrument can be learned. But that's just the premise.
It is still possible to learn one instrument or even several instruments. But if you have to manipulate different instruments to play in an ensemble, it's already difficult. If you want to play different pieces separately...... Zhou Daoan couldn't think of any other way than to use the "left and right fighting technique" to exercise dual-purpose.
These can be learned, but they all cost money, and Zhou Daoan, who has only participated in two missions, is still a poor man.
For now, Zhou Daoan's strength is already outstanding at the IN level, otherwise the system will not improve his evaluation. However, this strength is built on a longboard -
Codename: The Contemplative
Physical fitness rating: IN
Mastery Skills: Ventriloquist (Skill-based Skill, IN), Pure Heart Pushan Mantra (Buff Effect, IN+), Finger Snap (Attack Skill, N)
Equipment Items: Bait Hat (IN+), Spooper Glasses (4 uses remaining, N+), Pirate King Sarboni's Gold (Legacy Item, R)
Overall Rating: After the emergency mission test, the Contemplative has reached N-level strength. He has excellent observation, meticulous logical thinking and planning, cautious and rational action, and can skillfully use various equipment and items to exert their effects at the right time. It also has a superhuman sense of hearing, and has a good sense of musicality. However, its own strength is average, the means of attack are relatively single, and the weak physical fitness restricts the power of attack skills. Possess the low-level bloodline of the ancient old gods, but not enough to quickly convert into hard power.
It can be said that the evaluation given by the ark is to the point and could not be more objective. To put it bluntly, he is still a ferryman with "intelligence" higher than "physical strength" in the eyes of the system.
"Physical fitness...... I haven't neglected exercise, although I feel that my endurance has improved a lot, but after such a long time, the evaluation is still at the IN level, and I haven't even touched the door with a + sign. This shows that the conventional way of improving physical fitness is slow to take effect. ”
Zhou Daoan knew it in his heart, but at the moment he only had fifty-eight hard work points left in his hand, even if he spent merit points to buy exercises-type skills to improve his physique, he didn't have enough points to learn - the learning of IN-level skills would cost fifty hard work points.
At present, there are several operations that can be performed on these fifty-eight points of hard work - first, use the merit value to buy an IN-level exercise skill and learn it. However, in the case of the mall, credit is obviously a more rare currency, and it is only cost-effective to buy IN-level skills with hard work. 2. Use merit to buy an N-level exercise skill (R-level he can't afford it), and then only learn the first layer of the exercise to achieve the effect of IN-level. And this is not to mention the question of whether the merit value consumption is cost-effective, this kind of N-level exercise alone has to be layered, there are very few, and the iron crotch gong (actually N-level exercise) is okay, but who will buy it if you have a brain?
In the third option, he still has a few unused props in his hand. For example, this week's family heirloom cheats "Five Senses Spiritism", the first level of learning is also IN-level, and because the physical cheats are in hand, you only need to pay 25 points to learn. But this exercise is obviously also to improve the perception ability, the help for physical fitness is very limited, continue to learn, may be longer, the short board is still the same.
Then there was the unidentified scalpel, Zhou Daoan decisively gave up and identified it now. Because he didn't feel the power of this scalpel in the mission, judging that even if this is an N-level inheritance item, the appraisal fee will not be too low - the appraisal fee for an R-level inheritance item is 1,650, which is still an exception. This time, try it again with luck at 58 points? Zhou Daoan didn't believe that his luck was still so good.
What's more, the next mission location is in the rainforest, and it is impossible not to prepare some props and equipment that are suitable for the environment, which is also an expense.
Another option is to sell the N+-tier equipment that Fred "bought" his N+-class Watcher glasses. However, take a closer look at the stats of this piece of equipment - you can get the stats of one of the most powerful equipment items on the target character, and although you only have four chances to use it, it is still a very useful item. Zhou Daoan thought about it, but he still didn't plan to sell it - in the next death mission, if there are other ferrymen or bosses in the mission world, he can at least see the other party's sharpest hole cards, which undoubtedly has a lot of confidence in saving his life!
"Hey! Stupid, isn't it ...... if you drill the horns" The tangled Zhou Daoan suddenly patted his head. He suddenly reacted, why should he be obsessed with improving his physical fitness right in front of him? There is at least half a year left before the next death mission. And he is going to return to the world of "Oriental Wind Asgard" to continue to be a young master, he can use this half a year to find some exercises in the main world to cultivate, and before the death mission, return to the ark, sell a little native cheats or something, and then use the hard work value to level up, isn't it a better choice?
Thinking of this, Zhou Daoan decisively closed the browsing of the mall. He changed into the clothes of the Overworld, and turned back into a young man, carrying the Pirate King's gold with him with him. Originally, he wanted to leave the bait hat, the Spooper's glasses, and the scalpel in the Ark's cabin, because the shape of these equipment was a bit out of place in the Overworld.
But instinctively, an impulse of "I don't feel at ease if the baby is not around" surged, so he did not hesitate to take these props with him, and then chose to leave the ark.
What Zhou Daoan didn't know was that just a few seconds after he left the cabin, a little mouse covered in golden light appeared out of thin air!
It looked around in the empty cabin, and as if it had gained nothing, it turned into a few bits of Venus and vanished.
By the time the little golden retriever reappeared, he was already in another palatial cabin with a retro style.
An extremely handsome young man with blond hair was calmly changing out of a black casual suit and wearing a white cloak-like gown in the cabin's closet. From ties to leather shoes, from cufflinks to gloves, the outfit is meticulous, understated and luxurious.
If someone appears in front of you dressed in white in reality, you must think that this person is a particularly stinky fart - you think you are Simon Blowing Snow?
But this young man wears white, but he doesn't have the slightest dislike in life, you will only think that he is perfect for wearing this white.
It's just that after the young man was properly dressed, he installed a mechanical power skeleton on his right leg, so that his original lame walking could be normal.
As soon as the young man turned around, he found that the little golden retriever mouse had returned to his room and made a very humane "spread his hands" movement.
"Didn't you find the prop that smelled of me?" The young man was slightly surprised, and said to himself, "But I haven't found anyone selling it on the trading platform...... Not on the ark, is it being taken to the real world? ”
The young man didn't know that after this "treasure hunting spirit mouse" captured the breath of the treasure, the last place it went to was the IN-level cabin on the ground floor. He also thought that the little golden rat would go to the ark's prop warehouse! Because if someone is forced by the Ark to collect items to offset the punishment account because of a failed mission, then these items should be transferred to the Ark's treasury.
This storehouse is not open! The ferryman couldn't get to it...... Only the young man's exclusive pet Treasure Hunt Mouse can break through the Ark's limitations—or the Ark doesn't limit it at all—to go to the warehouse and check if a specific item exists. Of course, the Treasure Hunt Spirit Mouse does not dare to steal from the Ark, it can only help the owner lock on to some kind of treasure (item or equipment). Unfortunately, it is unable to communicate with humans. Therefore, when the treasure hunter heard the young man's self-talk, he only "shrugged" and did not mean to correct himself.
"Looks ...... That Stephen hadn't failed in his mission, so he didn't sell the item or give it to the Ark......" the young man pinched his chin with his hand, "so said...... I'm the one who failed - did I really get tricked by him? ”
Speaking of this, the young man couldn't help but frown.
It's not that he can't bear to fail, it's just that his own failure seems to be due to a low-level ferryman.
"Codename: Ace, Designation: HX4792, your mission has failed. Since it is detected that your current Effort and Credit are not enough to pay the penalty, please deduct an item of matching value. ”
The cold voice of the Ark system rang out in this luxurious cabin.
The young man codenamed Ace frowned again - although the punishment of the ark was expected, as his first failed mission, when the punishment came, he was still very unhappy. Especially, after he recalled it and seemed to have been tricked by his opponent, this unhappiness became even stronger.
However, the young man still maintained a good demeanor. Still calm, he opened the locker in his cabin, first took out a pair of seemingly ordinary pokers, put them in the pocket of his vest, and then glanced around the locker, and finally took out two items-
One is a shiny pipe, and the other is a ruby-encrusted cane.
The young man held one in one hand, turned around and walked back to the light screen, and was about to make a move, when suddenly there was a knock on the door of his cabin, a full nine strokes, one long and eight short.