One Hundred and Seventy-Four: Three Underground Floors, a Miniature World

"This should be a bug......" Fei Yin frowned and thought for a long time, then nodded and whispered. However, after a moment, she shook her head and added, "...... However, if strictly speaking, this is not a bug. ”

The longbow shot at the sun and heard the clouds and mountains and fog, tilted his head and asked loudly, "President, what do you mean by this?" ”

I stood aside with my hands spread out and an innocent face, waiting for Fei Yin's next words.

……

When I did more than 30,000 points of damage with a light pulse assault rifle and put the mechanical guardian Optim at the last minute? After Primum's one-hit kill, we all went crazy with astonishment. My space-wading friends took the trouble to ask me over and over again, trying to come up with a plausible explanation for what had just happened.

I unreservedly told them everything I had just done, such as the source and effect of the "Throw Away" skill, the source and effect of the "Heroic Flash" skill, and all the details of what happened at that time that I could remember. I just hid the origin of those magical boots and, naturally, they thought they were the spoils of some adventure.

In this regard, Fei Yin put forward her own opinions:

"The problem should be with the skill of 'Throw Hard' and that gun......" Fei Yin explained softly! Not! Wrong! M.qulEDU. COM, "...... 'Throw' is not a skill that comes with the system, but is created by Jeff himself. Although under the control of the system, special actions in a special situation can trigger the events of self-created skills, these events and skills should be unique and not universal. Because among the people we know, although there are not many of them, there are also a few cases of self-created skills, but there are no duplicates. Even if we later learn how the skill was created, we won't succeed when we try again. So we say that this skill is a rare special detail that is very easy to overlook by programmers. ”

Although I don't know exactly what she means by "system" and "programmer", I generally understand what she means and agree with her.

“…… Note that the description of this skill is 'deal 4 times the maximum damage value + 100 damage to the target', and this 'maximum damage value' should be the sum of the individual's attack power plus the weapon attack bonus, right? "If it's just a normal weapon, this value is very simple and straightforward, as each weapon has a fixed attack value. But, ...... these laser guns," she gestured to the two pistols that Red Wolf still held in her hands—strange why, why did they call them "laser guns"? I haven't seen such a text introduction anywhere - "...... It's not the same as the weapons we've used. The basic damage of each shot is constant, but there's a problem here: they can fire multiple shots in a row."

"The closest thing to these laser guns is a ranged weapon like a bow or a firebolt. Jeff, have you ever used this type of weapon for throwing? Fei Yin suddenly turned to me and asked.

I shook my head: "These weapons themselves are not very strong, not as strong as weapons such as swords and spears. I've never used it. ”

"It's a pity, there's no way to make a comparison...... Fei Yin shook her head regretfully, and then continued, "...... In fact, it is not that the attack power of these weapons is not strong, but because the lethality of long-range attacks is composed of two parts: weapons and ammunition. Bows and guns only provide one base damage, while special arrows and bullets provide additional damage, and some magic arrows also have some stat damage. Only the combined power of a bow and arrow, musket and bullet can compare to other weapons of the same class. ”

"And for these laser guns, the gun and the bullet are one, and it's not just one bullet, it's the sum of hundreds or thousands of bullets. I guess when using these guns to calculate the damage of the 'Throw', the damage value that all the bullets can deal is used as the base value, and only then can we get a value of more than 90,000 damage. You see, a throw plus a critical hit is eight times the damage, ninety-seven divided by eight is about 12,000, and Jeff's gun still has almost half of the energy left, and at least it can shoot another two or three thousand bullets, and each bullet causes three or four points of damage, which should add up to about 12,000. And if you use an empty gun that has no energy and can no longer fire ammunition, it will have the same effect as a normal critical hit. ”

"I guess the programmers were negligent, I guess they only considered the effect of the system's own skills when upgrading the system to open this new dungeon, ignoring the new conflict that may arise between this very accidental player-created skill and this new dungeon with a weapon like a laser gun. In fact, there is no big problem with the application of other skills here, but it is Jeff's skill that is more special, which destroys the balance, so this should be a bug. But in other words, this practice cannot be replicated, and Jeff is the only one who has this skill, and it fits perfectly with the rules set by the game. Moreover, Jeff has to pay a huge price for using this skill, and he has to lose his only laser gun weapon, so this situation can't be completely considered a bug. ”

Although I didn't fully understand the meaning of everything Fei Yin said, I subconsciously felt that her guess was well-founded and convincing, or at least very close to the truth. In this regard, the longbow shooting sun who stood by and nodded frequently, they obviously had the same opinion as me.

"Anyway, let's report this bug to the GM first, and see what other rewards we can get." As she spoke, Fei Yin casually clicked on her adventure notebook and sent a long message out. Then, with a wave of her hand, she was the first to walk up to the huge lifting platform that led to the third floor of the base.

The platform slowly sank to the ground, and the light around it gradually dimmed. It didn't take long for a new subterranean space to appear in front of us, and the light was bright again. When the platform was finally firmly grounded on the ground, we stepped out.

At this time, we had the opportunity to observe this new underground base.

This floor is much larger than we thought, on the one hand, it may be that this floor is indeed larger than the previous two floors, but the main reason is that this floor no longer looks like a huge building made of countless metals, filled with various corridors and rooms, but a large and bright natural space.

Near us is a large area of dense shrubs, and some distance forward will lead to a large forest of tall trees. To the right of the forest is a swamp, and to the left is a meadow, in which a clear underground river runs through it and merges into a small lake at the edge of the meadow. At the very end of this entire underground space, a white snow-capped mountain appeared, and the entire peak was covered with all kinds of plants adapted to different climates from the bottom to the top.

More than that, hills, deserts, Gobi, plateaus, ...... You can find a corresponding area in this place for all kinds of landscapes and environments in this world, where you can find almost all the animals and plants in this environment.

The walls of this level are also unusually high, the lowest edges are as tall as hundreds of people, and the ceiling is a huge arcing dome arching upwards from the perimeter to the center. At the very top of the dome was a device that was magically applied or something unbelievable, and it was emitting a warm, sun-like glow all the time. It is precisely because of the existence of this huge light source that the plants here can grow so luxuriantly in this deep underground world.

It's not just the artificial sunlight, but you can even feel the climate here: in some areas where hydrophilic plants grow, there is a patch of rain – which, of course, is obviously not really "rain" – that spills down from the ceiling and irrigates them to the fullest; In areas where plants are more suitable for dark, damp environments, there is a large cloud-like thing suspended above them, which reduces the amount of sunlight exposure to them; Even on the top of that snow-capped mountain, you can even see falling snowflakes and frozen ice......

If you were to be immersed in this environment, I guarantee you wouldn't have guessed that this is an artificially created environment. It's a miniature version of the natural world, where everything is so natural and harmonious that you'd be hard-pressed to find traces of man-made carving.

The electronic map shows that the core of this level is called the "biological gene bank", which is located in a cave under the snow-capped mountain. Passing through that gene pool is where the supercomputer Darimoth mastermind is stored, which is the ultimate goal of our trip.

Walking on this green land full of pristine charm and natural beauty, we don't have to worry about getting lost. It is clear that our enemies have built a wide enough road here for the second level of mechanical guardians to pass smoothly in the state of the transporter. Although the road seems to have been unused for a while, and the wild grass in the middle of the road is almost up to our calves, it is still a good road to victory for us.

There are still many enemies to encounter, but they are no longer mechanical puppets with metal brains armed with various guns, but some dangerous beasts that live in this natural environment. In the bushland, there are a number of spiny-backed wolverines with strong defenses, hard-jawed lizards with incredible attack power and tearing damage, and sometimes some toxin-laden giant hooked thorn scorpions crawl out of your path.

The main enemies in the jungle are the fang-toothed boars, the sturdy cave bears and the jungle leopard that can hide their tracks, but the most troubling are the agile and brutal long-armed apes. These tree-climbing animals always move together in groups of three or five, and they like to throw at you with those huge nuts that are tied to the trees whenever you enter their territory. Whenever I was smashed on the head and bleeding from the nuts they threw at me, I missed the assault rifle that I had just thrown out as a hidden weapon - without its help, I could only walk in front with my shield and be a live target, completely unable to fight back. On the other hand, the dark elf assassin Red Wolf is much stronger than me, and the two pistols he carried with him along the way give him ample opportunities to fight back, while the mage Fei Yin, the demon warlock Ding Ding Xiaoge, and the dwarven priest Longbow Shooting Sun have lost their guns, but these three legal professionals themselves have the ability to attack from a distance. With their cover, we managed to break out of the forest.

Which road does not enter the swamp, but leads to the grassland on the other side. Here, sturdy man-eating lions and packs of spotted wolves are our main opponents, and sometimes some sharp-beaked vultures will swoop down to get us in trouble. However, the king of this small grassland is not them, but a fierce beast called the "Swift Dragon". It is supposed to be a reptilian animal, covered in a layer of sturdy and thick crust, running extremely fast, with its own charging skills, and at the same time its attack power is quite weak. However, most of these powerful creatures only roam alone, with only two or three heads walking in groups at most, so these creatures are not too difficult for us to deal with.

Pristine nature, ferocious beasts rushing around, sword and shield weapon combinations, magic and magic combined to fight...... I have to say that the environment of this level is so similar to the world we came from 7,000 years ago that I can't help but feel a familiar intimacy in my heart. Since we have been operating the energy weapons here for some time, at the beginning, our movements were indeed a little stiff, and the cooperation between each other was a little jerky. But soon, our bodies quickly recalled this way of fighting, which relied entirely on their own abilities, and gradually adapted to the intensity of the fight here. It didn't take long for the creatures of nature that looked exactly like 7,000 years ago to stop us. We followed the road through the grassland, crossed the river, crossed a Gobi desert, and then climbed over a hill, and finally came to the foot of the snow-capped mountains. There, we finally see the only object in this level of space that bears a distinctly artificial aura: a large circular cavern with a gleaming silver, spiraling metal door ajar ajar.

To our surprise, it was no longer the bloodthirsty beasts that patrolled the gates, but all sorts of intelligent races: humans, elves, trolls, minotaurs, bloods, demons...... And so on and so forth. Despite being a sapient race, they are clearly nothing more than the people out there who are fighting valiantly in high-tech delivery vehicles and supercomputer-controlled mechanical legions: they are dressed in tattered and filthy animal skin armor and armed with rudimentary weapons made of twigs, bones, and stones, and sit around several campfires, looking like a primitive tribe of members of different races.

I don't know where these guys came from, just as I don't know where all the natural life in the entire third underground base came from. At first I thought they might be captives held here, but it turned out that this was clearly not the case: they were not restricted in their movements, and were even allowed to use some simple weapons, which was by no means the treatment that a prisoner should enjoy; And what is particularly strange is that they don't seem to use language – or rather, they don't use the lingua franca we are already familiar with – but rather convey simple messages to each other with whistling sounds that don't understand rhythm and pitch.

It's strange that they behave like the uncivilized primitive barbarian tribesmen recorded in the archaeological books between intelligent life and wild beasts, but even in our time seven thousand years ago, those guys have long since ceased to exist, why are there such primitive and backward beings in this world controlled and manipulated by sophisticated machinery after seven thousand years of highly developed science?

These savage creatures didn't give me much time to think, and as soon as we appeared, they didn't hesitate to take us for enemies, brandishing rudimentary weapons and attacking us fiercely. At the beginning of the fight, our opponents had rough fighting skills, and some of them didn't even use the instinctive natural skills of their respective races. But as we progressed, we encountered stronger and stronger enemies, who were not only proficient in using their racial talents, but also had mastered some simple combat skills, and even after we entered the cave gate, some guys of different races and different weapons were able to fight us with some simple tactics.

It was a bloody battle, and I regret that we had to kill all the enemies inside and outside of this cavern - although we have done similar things countless times before, but it was on a battlefield where two nations, two continents, and two civilizations were hostile to each other, and I never regretted it. And now, in this new era of great racial integration and national unity, such a massacre always makes me feel a little guilty and sad.

Walking through the area controlled by this mixed tribe, we gradually descended deeper into the interior of the cave. The cave was also larger than I had ever imagined, with about a thousand transparent vessels lined up neatly inside. The vessels were all connected together by some huge tubes, and a yellowish **** that looked a little sticky flowed out of these tubes, filling the utensils with their fill. And what is frightening is that what is soaked in these **** are some animals and plants of all kinds. From seed to germ, from embryo to baby, from adult elf to aged and dying humans...... Everything you need. These poor beings were wrapped in many slender tentacles, and some hoses were stuck in their bodies. I don't know if they're alive or dead, and if they're alive, I don't see any sign of life on them; But if they are dead, their faces and skin do not have the slightest cold and stiff death.

I had a ridiculous feeling that these things didn't look like normal living beings. It's as if they're some kind of ...... I don't know if you can understand what I mean...... Like something that has been "made", they are obviously alive, but they are not a product of nature. They are like those armored combat vehicles, those mechanical puppets, those beam weapons and the like, which are "produced", and those transparent utensils full of pale yellow viscous **** are a special tool for "producing" them.

The hoses that flowed **** continued to stretch inward along the cavern, eventually converging in a huge metal warehouse. There is a strange sign on the side of this metal chamber that spells out the text in red light: "Nexania Type III Biological DNA Information Collection and Storage System".

Nechenia, if I'm not mistaken, this should be the name of the goddess of nature

- How did she end up here?

Just as I was in a daze, a face suddenly appeared on a display screen outside the metal. It was a human face, which at first glance seemed ordinary, but if you look closely, you will find this face very weird, and even make you feel creepy:

You can't tell the age of this man at all from this face: he looks like a newborn child as well as a strong young man, but at the same time his eyes reveal the wisdom and depth that only old people have. Even, you can't tell whether this is a man's face or a woman's face, from one side, he is full of resolute and strong masculine beauty, but when you look at it from another angle, you can find a lot of feminine femininity.

At this moment, a voice echoed throughout the cavern, which was just as indistinguishable as this face, mixed with multiple characteristics:

"Hello guests from the surface world. I'm the host here and usually they call me ......"

“…… Darimos"