Good news, the traps haven't been refreshed!

Bad news, the experience of the piranha brother has become less!

After level four, the experience of the cannibal grassland in his early 100s was directly cut to 45, which made Wang Shui's speed of obtaining the next skill grid a lot slower.

Fortunately, the battles in SAO are not as boring as other RPGs.

Although it is also staring at a strange brush, the appearance of the monster will not change, but in this highly realistic virtual reality world, every battle is completely different.

Every step you take, every sword you swing, even the slightest change in terrain, any change in conditions can lead to the unknown of the rest of the battle.

Of course, for Wang Shui, the main change in him is that the posture of the little brothers of the man-eating grass is not quite the same every time they fall into the trap.

Every man-eating grass that falls into a trap is like money that falls into the pocket of aqua regia, so even if he has been brushing it for more than a day, he doesn't feel bored at all.

It's noon on the fifth day of game time, and the players in the second and third echelons in the vicinity have begun to increase, and the players who come after them are basically in a state of teaming.

There aren't too many of them in this monster farm, but since someone saw it and started mimicking Aqua King's trap, Aqua Rey knew it wouldn't be a place to stay.

The spawn rate of monsters here will soon not be able to keep up with the speed at which players can kill monsters.

Wang Shui didn't care that others imitated him, and he also taught other players the parameters of traps and how to carbonize wood thorns.

The people who can come here today are all high-end players in the future, so it's good to help each other and make a good relationship.

Wang Shui is not as shy as Master Tong, of course, he is not a social phobia, he is a social colonist.

It's just a man-eating grass, Wang Shui now has nearly a thousand [Man-eating Grass Honey] stored in the town's warehouse, and there are more than two hundred bottles on his body, even if he doesn't brush up, it's time to change the monster community to brush materials.

The only regret is that this game will not drop a [Man-Eating Banner] to commemorate his monster farming journey.

As soon as noon, the refresh of the man-eating grass was interrupted, Wang Shui didn't want to wait, he decisively sorted out the prop column and got on the road.

It's still early and there's no need to go back to the village, Wang Shui plans to go forward and explore, going deep into the dense forest to find the monster spawning point of the red spotted beetle, some people who came back from the front said that there seem to be some monsters in the beetle area, and the damage of a single player is not enough, and the speed is not enough, so it is difficult to rush through.

Therefore, there are more people in the village who are farming [Sword of Fortitude] and seeking to form a team.

Wang Shui was only planning to explore the void and reality, and while the supplies were sufficient, and there was a spare [Sword of Fortitude] in his backpack, it should not be a problem to go to the edge of the so-called "beetle area" to rub it.

Yes, that's right, yesterday morning he brushed another little girl with a thorn on the top, and the little girl contributed a spare sword to him.

The process of in-depth exploration went more smoothly than Wang Shui imagined.

Especially there are more and more teams leveling up along the way, and they will not only clean up the man-eating grass, but also a small number of refreshed monsters such as boars, wolves, and deer.

But as soon as you enter the outskirts of the so-called beetle zone, the number of players in the vicinity drops to zero, and the trees become more dense, and there should still be sunlight at noon, but now it is shaded.

Wang Shui carefully crossed the roadless bushes and slowly advanced for about half an hour before finally discovering the so-called "beetle area".

The area where the man-eating grass is refreshed does not have the name of "man-eating grass area", this side is called the area, because the red, yellow, blue and green sea in front of Wang Shui - the sea of insects.

Beyond a short vacancy, the trees changed from huge broad-leaved trees to some slightly shorter fruit trees, but most were also as tall as three or four stories.

Everywhere above and below these fruit trees, which bear fruit at will regardless of the season, are crawling with huge insects about one meter in size, including beetles and worms, with many different shapes and colors.

At a glance, there are hundreds of huge insects of various colors, and the shock to the water of regia is still quite large, and players who are afraid of insects will probably die on the spot at a glance.

Goosebumps popped out uncontrollably, and Wang Shui endured the discomfort to check, and soon he found that the dense swarm was not too much. He made a detour against the edge of the "beetle area", bypassing the area with a large number of fruit trees, and sure enough, the density of insects dropped a lot, but a few steps to a woodland with a large insect was enough for a pestophobic player to die a few times.

The posts that Wang Shui had seen on the strategy forum before had very few descriptions of beetles and were quite simple. The strategy only says that the beetle has high defense, the desire to attack is not strong, and the worm moves slowly but has poor experience and drops.

Now it seems that it is likely that there will not be so many bugs gathered during the closed beta, otherwise this hellish scene will not be ignored by players.

Compared with emotion and fear, Wang Shui had other worries in his heart, and he took out a reagent bottle that he had vomited in the past few days:

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【Man-eating Honey】

[Item Type: Materials, Consumables]

[Quantity: 500ml*223]

[Description: The predatory digestive juice of the ferocious man-eating grass has a certain toxicity and corrosiveness, sweet and fragrant smell, and has a strong attraction to honey-loving creatures (insects, birds, rodents, etc.). Manivorous grass relies on its own synthetic honey to attract, paralyze, kill, and digest prey, and will also spit honey to attack. 】

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Obviously, honey is helpful in raiding these beetles, and according to the order of the monsters, this coincidence can also be explained.

So, with such obvious details of the strategy, didn't anyone find out during the closed beta?

Maybe it was because no one practiced the [gathering] skill at that time, or maybe the people who discovered it didn't pay attention to it, after all, the beetles at that time may not have been so widespread.

Thinking more and asking more questions is one of the few virtues of Wang Shui, although this also leads to his forward-looking personality.

Now the opportunity to develop a bug farming strategy is in front of him, and in the face of a large number of monster resources that no one cares about, he also let go of his hesitation first.

The first thing to do now is to confirm the effect of honey and find a way to use this item to farm monsters, but the description of "extremely attractive" in the description makes Wang Shui dare not open it directly.

So he first gently threw the glass reagent bottle onto a thick meadow, and retreated at an angle that kept him always able to see the glass bottle, until he was more than ten meters away.

Then I felt out a pebble from the leather pocket around my waist, the pebble was only slightly larger than a coin, smooth and thick, very comfortable to hold in my hand, and perfect for throwing.

Wang level spare pebbles to smash the reagent bottle and observe the effect.

It is not a simple matter to throw a stone at a distance of more than 20 meters to hit a fist-sized thing, Wang Shui really couldn't do it two days ago, he has been throwing stones crazy to pull monsters in the past few days, which has greatly exercised his throwing ability, of course, limited to stones.

The force starts from the ground, Wang Shui mobilizes the muscles of the whole body, grinds the feet and twists the legs to turn the waist, the right arm is like a whip, and when it reaches the sensory position, the thumb, index finger and middle finger of the right hand that are gently pinched are released.

The movement was fast and smooth, and the pebbles shot out of Wang Shui's hand like a line, hitting the glass reagent bottle almost in a straight line.

Wang Shui has long been accustomed to the current strength bonus, and the characters in the game are now superhuman physiques for ordinary people in reality.

The reagent bottle shattered with a muffled sound, and the sound did not attract the attention of the insects a few meters away, but only three or four seconds later, Wang Shui suddenly felt a tingling in his spine - the insect swarm moved.

The huge bugs move like a march, and the picture is too shocking.

Beetle worms of various colors about a meter in size are overwhelmingly surging towards the vicinity of the water king, and the water king, who has recently practiced a little guts, immediately retreats with weak legs.

After escaping a hundred meters quickly, he found that the insects did not follow, so Wang Shui cautiously moved back.

The whole process was actually only about a minute, and when Wang Shui went back, he found that the insects did not rush towards him, but stopped when he reached the position of the bottle.

Now that the swarm had calmed down, they were crawling back to their original positions, and there were seven or eight beetles left near the shattered glass bottle.

The beetles had two icons on their heads, paralyzed and poisoned, and were shaking around the glass bottles.

The paralyzing effect quickly wore off, and the beetles turned back to the swarm as if nothing had happened, while Aqua regia kept staring at the "-15" and "-15" popping up on their heads......

Poison damage, no poison damage that makes beetles hostile! How much total damage?!

As his eyes stared at the last damage number that jumped out, Wang Shui found that a few injured beetles had only about a third of their health left!

Around six hundred to eight hundred, such a number popped into his head.

According to the strategy, the beetle's HP hovers around 1000 to 1500, and it highlights their fairly strong defense capabilities, and the health and defense capabilities of worms and flying insects will be lower, but there will be corrections in attack power or attack methods.

Based on a rough calculation of the blood range, if Honey's poison is a fixed value, Aqua Wang estimates that this value is 750, that is, about 15 damage per second for 50 seconds?

Hiss - group poison injury, early monster farming? Difficult...... Could it be, "Neck Gas Potion"?!

Is this still the world of swordsmanship? Akihiko Kayaba actually designed this way of farming monsters, is it a skipping prop for players who are afraid of bugs?

It's useless to think about these now, these terrifying monsters in Wang Shui's eyes have become experience, kel and materials, and he began to move along the periphery of this beetle area, placing honey glass bottles as he walked, and by the time he had circled around the circle, more than sixty bottles had been placed.

This kind of active display of items will not be judged to be lost or discarded for a long time, which Aqua regia has tested with wooden thorns in traps.

After the bottles were set, Wang Shui began to run back the same way, finding pebbles to smash the nearest bottles along the way.

This time, the aqua regia was very close to the bottle and didn't require much strength, so there was no need to stop.

By the time he had spent three minutes running back to the starting point where the bottle had been placed, he was already level five.

The first bugs have long since died, and here are more intensive and coherent kill prompts! The kill pop-up window didn't stop for fifty seconds, and Aqua Kings set it to close automatically, but the pop-up window was still connected.

The golden light flashed again, and Wang Shui came to the sixth level, and when the experience bar slowly braked, it was not far from the seventh level.

Wang Shui didn't know how many bugs he had killed...... In fact, it can also be known that because the corpses of the bugs have not been refreshed by the [Collection] skill, there is now a "mountain of insect corpses" stretching along the edge of the fruit forest.

It's not much better than when they were alive, but that's not the limit!

The next picture may scare ordinary people to death, so I won't describe it in detail, and I'll tell you a little story here.

Once upon a time there was a miser who got a batch of gold, and he loved it so much that he loved the feeling of being surrounded by gold.

So he melted the gold into tiny pieces of gold and touched them every day, feeling the feeling of them surrounding the palm of his hand.

One day, these golden rice were accidentally eaten by more than a hundred chickens, Scrooge was so angry that he covered his mouth and nose with old linen clothes, picked up the [Bronze Sword] and began to chop the more than 100 chickens one by one, until the bronze sword was used up for a long time, and he replaced it with [Sword of Fortitude], the green chicken blood soaked the linen clothes, and every breath was a thick fishy smell, but Scrooge still dismembered these chickens with a serious face.

After greeting the Nine Clans of the Taste Design Engineers, Scrooge finally retrieved all his possessions and fell headlong on a clean meadow, smiling greedily as he wept.

Well, that's the story.

By the time Aqua regia rose from the meadow, the entire woodland had returned to calm and neatness. There have been bugs that have been refreshed here and there, but now Shui Wang is a little sick to his stomach when he sees the bugs.

The old linen garment had been left far away by him, only the stains on it could not be refreshed, and it needed to be washed to remove the [dirty] state, but Wang Shui never wanted to touch it again.

Struggling to erase the images in his mind, Wang Shui stared blankly at the woodland full of fruit trees, gathering his spirit in the numbness.

He was just in ...... When practicing the [Gathering] skill, I originally wanted to find out the cause of the flood of "chickens" here, but halfway through, well, maybe about a third of the way, his consciousness entered a state of self-protection.

Now that the woodland is much cleaner and the air is fresher, the water is like a walk. Then, unsurprisingly, he saw treasure chests in a small clearing of woodland and bushes.

The huge golden treasure chest actually emitted a glowing green light, and at this time, Wang Shui no longer had the intelligence to analyze why there was a treasure chest outside the labyrinth area, and he didn't think much about whether it would be a treasure mimic monster and opened it directly.

Inside the huge gold chest, which is more than one meter high, is a display table decorated with red brocade, and in the center of the table is a huge green jewel five centimeters square.

The left side of the jewelry is embossed with S-shaped vines, the right side is only thin tendrils, and the top of the upturned leaves is vivid, and under the cover of the vines is an arc-shaped jade surface that glows blue-green, and the whole is exquisite.

Wang Shui reached out and picked up the jewel, and the brocade table disappeared along with the treasure chest.

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【Special Equipment: Supernatural Instincts】

[Equipment Type: Amulet/Jewel/Pendant]

[Level Requirements: None]

[Effect 1: All attribute bonuses from equipment items are invalid.] 】

[Effect 2: All self-exercise effects are doubled.] 】

[Effect 3: Naturally regenerates 5% of max health per second, and increases all buffs by 100%]

[Explanation: "I don't know how I know, but I just know."] ”】

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Yes...... This?

It's actually a talisman-type equipment, and this thing is hardly discussed on the strategy forum, the reason is just that this thing is too rare. There is only a single-digit public information during the closed test, and amulet equipment generally has entries for health and attributes, and it is especially great with special effects.

Of the ten gear slots for the player character's puppet, the necklace, two rings, and amulets are the most difficult to obtain.

Among them, necklaces and rings have relatively poor store goods in the city, and the fine jewelry in the closed beta has only been produced on the boss, and even less has been produced as for amulets.

This jewel is still a special effect class with no attributes, and this is the strength...... Aqua regia was confused.

The first effect is a pure negativity, which directly disables all stat bonuses on the equipment.

Sword Art Online SAO is a game that relies quite on equipment-driven, and during the closed beta, everyone found that the attributes of the equipment span a lot, and the impact of the value on this game is intuitive and obvious, just with the first special effect, Wang Shui dared to assert that this hanging jewel is definitely not a late-stage equipment.

Effect two, the expression of doubling is intuitive, and the suspicious thing is that there is a description of 100% improvement below, why do you still use such a vague text concept as doubling? Shouldn't we all write numbers for the sake of calculation?

And this "workout effect" is not a keyword, there is no entry called workout effect at all.

Does this workout refer to the exercise attribute or the skill proficiency?

But there are upper limits to attributes and skills, even if the training effect is doubled, it will only reach the full level in advance, and the main skills used will definitely reach the full level.

Effect 2 probably saves a lot of time, and is generally useful.

In Wang Shui's view, the most chicken rib is the third one.

Only 5% of the maximum health recovery is too poor in the early stage, and a thousand blood will return to 50 in seconds, which is not much stronger than the potion.

Especially for aqua regia, he can slowly drink the life potion without being fatally injured, and he can take a large amount of damage in a row, do you really bet that the monster just didn't kill him in seconds?

The third effect is obviously that the higher the HP, the stronger the strength, but according to the first effect, without the [Constitution (VIT)] attribute bonus on the equipment, how much blood will he have?

Aqua regia's evaluation is a contradictory chicken rib toy.

In this early stage, this kind of special equipment will only be produced in the first layer of ordinary dense forests, and the blood return on it is probably for the player to save potions in the early stage.

Wang Shui opened the map and shrunk the panel to a minimum, looking at the map fog that had been dispelled, and sure enough, his current location was exactly the center of the first layer of "Ayn Grant", this jewel was probably the reward for more than half of the map outside the maze.

The shape is quite exquisite, and it is very curative of collecting habits in the inventory, but Wang Shui didn't expect that his analysis of this thing was not correct.

In Wang Shui's view, special equipment can only be regarded as an additive, and this group of beetles who are suspected of looking at the treasure chest is the biggest benefit, the early financial gain.

In less than an hour, the materials Wang Shui got had already exceeded the upper limit of the load, and he had to sift out some cheap and heavy materials to pack and hide, and then pick them up when he passed by later.

Now Wang Shui, who is stuck on the edge of the weight-bearing impact action, will be overweight if he has more stones on his body, and it stands to reason that he should go back to the village to unload the goods now, but the current position and time really make him a little embarrassed.

It's just past noon now, and if he goes back, he won't have time to return to this position today, so he can only go back and rob a group of people about the monsters near the village, or simply rest for half a day.

After a brief consideration, Wang Shui decided to continue exploring the front and try to keep going without wasting time dealing with monsters.

His aim was to make a map, and if he could find a supply point like a village in front of him, and if he couldn't find it, he would go back at four o'clock in the afternoon.

If it's just moving forward, the speed of aqua regia is still very fast.

He was very quick to move between trees, and was very skilled at finding the path of the beast and judging the ground where he could land. Except for collecting medicinal herbs (very light), Wang Shui's footsteps have basically never stopped, but when he encounters a monster, he will always take out a booklet and look at it twice.

This booklet is Argo's Floor Strategy Manual: Level 1 (Paid Edition), which was released in advance.

It is a more detailed record of almost all ordinary monsters in the first layer, including attributes, distribution locations, attack methods, drops, and so on.

In addition, there are high-value tasks that have been verified, attribute training information provided by aqua regia, and many other content.

Argo, who originally planned to help novice players for free, still couldn't bear the cost burden after all, and she put on the shelves of the item store two versions, paid and free, the free version has less content but is quite refined, enough for novice players to quickly master the game, and develop a good habit of improving combat power in an orderly manner.

The paid version also gives a lot of undetermined intelligence information, as well as some clues to newly discovered rare items, and the price of 200 kor is also worth the price.

Both versions have a red title page with Special Attention, which lists many important things that must be paid attention to, such as the attribute training provided by Aqua regia and the retention of attribute points, such as some special areas with a high degree of danger, such as the best multiplayer team and [switch] skills, etc.

When Wang Shui is resting, he often takes out the strategy manual to verify the strategy information in his memory, and looks at the discrepancies.

But now he is reading the book, not to find monster information, but he wants to quickly obtain the [Concealment] skill.

In addition to the attributes of the skill itself and the expansion of sword skills, there are also suggestions for teaming up between players in the squad, suggestions for individual players' skill matching, and how to use sword skills correctly and efficiently.

Wang Shui is just looking at the small knowledge and usage techniques of the [Concealment] skill, and then practicing [Concealment] in a complex dense forest environment while on the road.

Level 5 only adds a new skill grid, and if you don't want to invalidate the number, you must fill it in with the most useful skill as soon as possible.