Chapter 16: The Sentinel Understands the Game
Boiling beans.
The yellow beans were rolling in the small iron pot, emitting a wisp of fragrance.
The three players found it very novel and praised the game's combustion engine for objects again.
Boiled beans with some salt produced in Yangjing Town solved the lunch for the four of them.
Cheng Shaofeng led the three players to look at the specialty machine of the Calamity Base.
"This is the core functional equipment of our Calamity Base, the [Spoils Generator], which can decompose all energy-containing organisms to produce supplies for your use. This will be the main source of your equipment at this stage. By the way, if you obtain a [Skill Seal], be sure to turn it in to the base. I will reward you with a generous amount of merit based on the rarity of the seal."
"This one is the [Attribute Transformation Tower], which can appraise any valuable item and reveal its precise value."
"Lastly, this one is the [Clone Manufacturing Warehouse]. Our calamity soldiers possess immortal souls. As long as there is a cloned body, they can continue to fight. This machine is what creates your physical bodies. Every time you die, I need to mobilize the resources of the base to reshape your bodies.
Unfortunately! We are now extremely short of supplies, and each cloned body is very precious. I will not allow any waste of life! For soldiers who repeatedly waste their bodies without reason, I will seal their souls in the depths of the base forever, never to be awakened again."
The three were startled!
African Thin Dog whispered, "The NPCs in this game can ban accounts? Is this for real?"
Lin Tang: "If you don't believe it, go kick him and see what effect it has."
African Thin Dog's mouth twitched slightly, "I'm not stupid."
Ghost Face Fox: "It seems that the death penalty in this game is quite severe. Should we ask the NPC if there are any measures to avoid the penalty?"
Cheng Shaofeng ignored the three players whispering in front of him and continued speaking like an NPC:
"However, if you can find the biological raw materials, electronic components, and energy needed for your resurrection body in advance, I can forgive your stupidity."
At this time, the three's watches flashed again.
[Task: Collect a set of materials for your own clone]
[Requirements: Biological Raw Materials *1, Electronic Components *1, Energy Substance: Ruoqian]
[Only soldiers prepared for death deserve to die. Resurrection is a very luxurious thing.]
[Task Completion Reward: 100 Merit]
Cheng Shaofeng had nothing on hand except for a few dozen kilograms of beans, so he could only give the players merit rewards.
Fortunately, these three players all seemed to buy into it.
After assigning the task, Cheng Shaofeng stood on the hillside and looked down.
"Predators are tricky enemies. It's difficult for you to win with your current strength. If you encounter them, be sure to prioritize survival. You can hunt some mutated creatures first to gain experience and biological raw materials, and also supplement some food for our base."
"If you have any questions, you can ask our base's AI butler Zero. It's on the display screens of the 3 machines. Alright soldiers, take the weapons I've prepared for you and go do your own things!"
After Cheng Shaofeng finished speaking, he stood there maintaining his posture.
The other three looked at each other and left the hillside.
The three machines were placed by Cheng Shaofeng in the only small cave on the mountain. Before, he would lie in it when he came here to avoid the rain or escape pursuit.
The cave was small. After placing the 3 machines, there was no room for anyone to sleep.
In front of the 3 machines were 3 weapons.
One long weapon and two short weapons.
The long weapon was the rusty wolf fang club that African Thin Dog had snatched from the predator earlier.
As for the two short weapons, one was a crowbar, and the other... was also a crowbar.
African Thin Dog quickly grabbed the wolf fang club with both hands.
"This is the one I took from the predator! I want to use this!"
The other two spread their hands and each took a crowbar.
The next second, African Thin Dog was stunned, "Eh? This weapon has an attribute panel now. It didn't have one last time. It can also trigger bleeding damage, not bad!"
Lin Tang: "Eh? Why doesn't my crowbar have attributes? African Thin Dog, let me see yours. Let me play with it for a bit. I'm not going to snatch it from you. How can you be like this? Give it to me!"
While Lin Tang and African Thin Dog were fighting over the wolf fang club,
Ghost Face Fox walked to the [Attribute Transformation Tower] and placed the crowbar on it.
A second later,
A light blue glow flashed in front of Ghost Face Fox's eyes.
[Prompt: The attributes of 'Worn Iron Crowbar' are now visible]
The crowbar in his hand had revealed its attributes.
[Worn Iron Crowbar]
[Quality: Common]
[Physical Damage: 5~12]
[Physical Attack +10%]
Ghost Face Fox pressed a button on his watch and shared the attributes of the crowbar. African Thin Dog and Lin Tang could also see it now.
"Oh, so that's how it is."
Lin Tang also went to the [Attribute Transformation Tower] to appraise his own crowbar, imitating Ghost Face Fox.
"Damn it! The weapon variables are actually worse than Fox's."
He shared the attributes.
[Worn Iron Crowbar]
[Quality: Common]
[Physical Damage: 4~12]
[Physical Attack +9%]
Both the lower limit of attack and the physical attack bonus were slightly less.
Ghost Face Fox glanced at his crowbar.
The two were stunned for a moment.
Then they looked at African Thin Dog's name.
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"Ahem!" Ghost Face Fox coughed twice to break the awkwardness.
"Well... now that we've seen the weapon attributes, African Thin Dog's weapon has the highest attack power and can deal bleeding damage, but his is a two-handed weapon, so it's more cumbersome to use than our crowbars. The attack speed and turning speed are definitely not as fast as ours... So in terms of fighting style, it's more suitable for African Thin Dog to be the main attacker, while the two of us assist in attacking and blocking."
Lin Tang made some calculations.
"That's right. The wolf fang club has a 10% chance to deal 50 points of bleeding damage, which is much more useful than our percentage-based physical damage bonus. Our base attack power is too low. My own base attack power is about 10 points, and the weapon attack is 5~12, so the 10% physical damage bonus is at most 2.2, which has very little effect."
"Translating from data to reality... it actually just means that our crowbars are harder and hit people more painfully."
After understanding for a while, the three scanned the base to see what else could be used.
They noticed a palm-sized square seal placed on the [Spoils Generator].
"Hmm? Is this... the [Skill Seal] that the NPC mentioned? The one that can be used to learn skills?"
"That's right."
Zero's voice came from the color display screen of the [Spoils Generator].
"The skill introduction is as follows."
A blue panel appeared simultaneously in front of the three.
[Skill Seal: Barbarian Skin]
[Radiation kills the weak, while the strong can absorb radiation to strengthen themselves, giving the skin even more outstanding defense.]
[Passive Skill]
[0/12 Level]
[Next Level: 1]
[+3% Health]
[+4% Physical Resistance]
[+5% Radiation Resistance]
[Applicable Profession: Barbarian]
[Requires Barbarian Profession Specialization Points: 1]
Zero: "But unfortunately, you can't learn it for now. You need to reach level 2 to obtain skill points and then use the skill points to learn skills."
African Thin Dog: "Oh, okay. Defeating monsters and enemies grants experience, right? I'm familiar with this. When I killed that predator, it gave me 12 points of experience. I still need 488 experience points to level up."
Zero: "Reminding all soldiers, please periodically make contact with the Lord to back up your body data, so that when creating clones, your body state at the time of backup can be fully restored."
African Thin Dog had a sudden realization, "Oh, I was wondering why there was no penalty for death. It's because I ran with the Lord after killing the predator. It must have been backed up at that time. That was close. I almost lost the experience from a predator."
Ghost Face Fox: "Understood. It's a kind of special death penalty mechanism. We must return to the base regularly, otherwise if we die after struggling outside for a long time, we'll have to start from 0... The risk is too high."
Lin Tang understood, "If I were the designer, I would definitely set it up this way! This is an unrestricted open world. If players run around blindly as soon as they log in and don't follow the main storyline, then no one will advance the plot, and the later designs will be unusable. In the end, the game will become a mess, and no one will be able to experience it well. The sentinel really understands the game."
The three left the base, preparing to go down the mountain to find a monster to test the waters.
Zero's voice came from behind, "Please do not challenge overly powerful enemies. If your teammates die, retrieving their corpses and returning to the base can recover a large amount of biological raw materials and electronic components."
"Okay, thank you!"
After the three players carrying weapons went down the mountain,
African Thin Dog secretly looked back, "I have a way to deal with the predators!"
(End of chapter)
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