Chapter 299 Six Talents
Expansion of enrollment is inevitable, but how many people should be enrolled?
Su Xia looked around and found that less than one-tenth of the players were above level 30, and even fewer were above level 35.
The game is too difficult to upgrade and has too few tasks. Many players can only rely on boring monster killing to upgrade, and the difficulty of killing monsters is far higher than that of other online games.
An ordinary small monster requires the cooperation of several players of the same level to be killed quickly.
It is even harder for single-player players, who have to evade monster attacks through various movements, and the killing process is extremely slow.
In this age of pay-to-win mobile games and mindless monster killing, it is difficult for ordinary people to adapt to this rhythm in the first place.
Fortunately, the game world is realistic enough, and there are big events almost every day, so the player stickiness is still quite high.
According to official statistics of the game, more than 90% of players who have experienced VR Hive chose to continue playing.
"Commander, they have finished registration. Are they coming here to learn skills now?" Lin Shan asked.
"Well, let them all come."
"yes."
Lin Shan waved his hand, and one hundred official members came happily to Su Xia to learn the three ordinary swords.
Many members had only learned normal punches before, and had not even learned the subsequent advanced and super normal punches, but this time they learned them all at once.
They like this series of skills very much. The only flaw is that every time they use a skill, they can't help but shout out the name "ordinary punch".
Everyone couldn't help but be delighted when they saw the three additional skills with "long sword" symbols on the skill bar.
One guy couldn't help but take out a broken sword from the storage space and activated the skill. His face flushed red, his eyes widened, and he shouted to the front: "Hey - an ordinary sword!"
The broken sword slashed down angrily, passing through a faint shadow, and actually made a sharp sword sound, as if even cutting the air.
With a click, a huge rock in front was split into two, with a smooth and neat cross-section.
However, the low-level broken sword in his hand was intact, without even a crack.
"Fuck! What a powerful skill! "
“I want to learn too!”
A lot of envious and jealous eyes were focused on this player, all from outside.
Su Xia took a look at the cross-section of the boulder and nodded slightly. The power was about the same as he had imagined.
From now on, when faced with monsters with hard shells, players of the North Wind team can cut them in half with one sword, thus shortening the time for leveling up by killing monsters.
At this moment, Mo Zhan suddenly knelt down beside the cut boulder, wailed, covered his chest and shouted in grief: "My stone! I begged Cheng Ping'an for a long time to get the Ruyi Gemstone, why did you leave me! No... My heart hurts so much..."
"What the hell..."
Su Xia's face twitched. This broken stone actually had a source?
Is Mo Zhan trying to blackmail people?
The player who was swinging the sword to cut the stone just now was stunned. He held the broken sword, looked at the stone that was split in two, then looked at the sword in his hand, with a confused look on his face, not knowing what to do.
This stone looks ordinary and is placed casually in front of the North Wind Organization’s base.
If it weren't for Mo Zhan's wailing, everyone would have thought it was just a piece of rock.
Su Xia looked carefully for several times before a line of prompts appeared in front of her:
[Ordinary Stone: Cheng Pingan picked up a stone from the ravine and told Mo Zhan that it was his "family heirloom". He used it to exchange for an antique revolver from Mo Zhan that was more than 200 years old]
“…”
After reading the introduction, Su Xia rubbed his eyebrows and felt a headache. He didn't know what to say.
Cheng Ping'an is also a dishonest guy who deceives an honest man like Mo Zhan.
In terms of seniority, Mo Zhan is a member of the Old Beifeng organization, one generation older than Cheng Ping'an and also older, yet he was deceived.
"What effect does this stone have?" Su Xia turned and looked at Mo Zhan.
When asked this, Mo Zhan stopped howling and nodded, saying, "This is Cheng Ping'an's family heirloom, a good thing passed down from generation to generation. It can keep people safe and happy. It's called the 'Ruyi Stone'. Even when they fled during the war, their family didn't abandon this stone. In the end, they had no choice but to bury it under a big tree... He dug it out not long ago."
"oh……"
Su Xia was in mixed emotions and didn't know what to say next.
During the war, the ground was filled with smoke, starving people were everywhere, there were countless corpses, and people were fleeing everywhere.
Who would carry such a big stone around?
"Brother Ping'an is an honest man, he will definitely not lie to me." Mo Zhan touched his chest sadly, still feeling a pang of heartache. This huge family heirloom was gone just like that.
"Yeah, that's true." Su Xia was a little helpless and continued, "I've heard before that Cheng Ping'an's family seems to have several ancestral stones. You can go back and ask him for one."
"Really?"
Mo Zhan's eyes lit up, but then he said worriedly, "I'm afraid Cheng Ping'an won't give it to me."
"It's okay, just say I asked you to ask for it, Cheng Ping'an will understand."
"Okay, thanks, boss!"
Mo Zhan chuckled, and all the grief he had just felt disappeared, and he returned to his normal self.
His brother Mo Zheng, who was standing by, stroked his forehead and sighed, but no one knew what he was sighing about.
The player breathed a sigh of relief, apologized to Mo Zhan repeatedly, put away his sword, and retreated to the team next to him.
Su Xia called Lin Shan over and said to him, "You have been in this world for a long time, so you should have a lot of undead friends."
"Yes, Commander." Lin Shan answered seriously.
"Besides these 100 people, how are your other friends?" Su Xia looked at him and asked, "What are their personalities like? Are they strong enough... You should understand what I mean."
Lin Shan was delighted, as he certainly understood what Su Xia meant.
Su Xia wanted to recruit new members, but he didn't trust most of the undead, so he threw this problem to Lin Shan.
What he meant by "strong enough" naturally refers to whether the level is high enough for players.
Among the individual friends that Lin Shan knows, there are quite a lot of high-level ones, and many of them are above level 35, and they often ask him if he can help them join the Beifeng organization.
"Commander, how many people are needed in total?" Lin Shan asked.
"We will recruit 300 people this time." Su Xia gave an accurate number. "First, select 300 people, just like the previous 100 people, observe them for a period of time, and if they are suitable, they will be regular employees."
"Three hundred people..."
Lin Shan thought about it, nodded quickly, and said with a firm look: "Don't worry, Commander, I will provide you with the list of these 300 people by 6 o'clock tonight at the latest!"
"Okay, I'll rest here for the next two days. If you have any questions, you can ask me directly."
Over at the new Oasis Camp, the two groups of people from Dragon City were still arguing over whether to wake up the aliens, and it was estimated that the argument would last for several days.
Su Xia didn't want to be involved, so he came to the old base to relax and have some peace and quiet.
His operation in Coral City was about to begin.
In this operation, Fan Lu, the unstable factor, must be eliminated, and he does not want to be disturbed too much.
After becoming a level five creature, Su Xia's chances of winning against Fan Lu are over 90%, and it is almost impossible for any accidents to happen.
If there was extra time, he planned to get rid of Wang Teng who had been clamoring in the mercenary town.
"Wang Teng claimed to have been to the battlefield in hell, so he should know the location of a certain piece of wreckage." Su Xia thought to herself, "The Mechanical Clan also has spaceship wreckage, but they are not aware of the battlefield in hell where the combat system is simulated, otherwise the Mechanical Clan would have attacked Wang Teng long ago."
Obviously, there was no complete simulation training system in the spacecraft wreckage obtained by the mechanical clan.
Wang Teng was shouting in the mercenary town every day, living a comfortable life as the king.
[Masked Stranger, I'm already in Coral City, where are you? ]
【You are not in Coral City at all! 】
【Where have you been hiding? 】
【……】
Now, just turn on the radio and tune to the mercenaries' special channel to hear this repetitive and brainwashing voice.
Most of Wang Teng's prestige was built by stepping on Su Xia.
In many taverns, his new nickname has spread - the man that even the masked weirdo dares not mess with.
Many people said that with the masked man’s temper, if he could beat Wang Teng, he would have done so long ago.
"Commander." Mo Zheng suddenly shouted, "It's not a good idea to keep these undead outside all the time. It will affect the normal operation of the camp."
"Well, I'll tell them."
Su Xia came out of her contemplative state and looked up at the many players.
The players also looked at him, each with an expectant look on their face, hoping to be accepted into the North Wind Organization.
"In addition to fulfilling my promise, I am here for another reason. I think everyone has guessed it."
Su Xia spoke in a steady tone, looked around, and spoke neither hurriedly nor slowly.
"Now that the mechanical race is strong and the human race is weak, I need more warriors who have courage and perseverance, who can overcome hardships and are not afraid of death to join my camp..."
"Commander, I'm not afraid of death!" Before Su Xia could finish his words, a player shouted.
"Boss Beifeng, I'm not afraid of death either!"
"We are not afraid of death..."
“…”
Death is probably the last thing players need to worry about.
Since the game was launched, players have discovered many different ways to die.
Some people spend a lot of money to rent an airship. When the airship rises to the stratosphere, they open the hatch , jump down, and feel the crazy joy of free fall.
Some people rent submarines and dive into the sea, driving to the deepest part of the sea until the submarine explodes due to the terrifying pressure on the seabed.
It is said that the players who dived into the deep sea saw a vague, huge and terrifying shadow of a creature in the darkness and coldness of the ocean.
They were so shocked that they even forgot to turn on the game's screen recording system.
One of the members suffered from thalassophobia when he saw the huge shadow. He fainted on the spot and triggered the life alarm system of the VR device. He was rushed to the hospital.
This incident happened abroad, and it caused a storm abroad at the time, attracting a large number of new players into the game.
"I know you are not afraid of death!"
Su Xia nodded in satisfaction and said to everyone, "But this world is more cruel than the world you live in. Some things are more terrible than death... If you are willing, go to Lin Shan to register. I think you all should know him."
Just like that, Su Xia directly handed the matter over to Lin Shan.
He asked the two brothers Mo Zheng and Mo Zhan to assist Lin Shan and maintain order at the registration site.
Su Xia felt much more relaxed. She found a place to sit down, made herself a cup of scented tea, and relaxed in the warm winter sun, smelling the fragrance of the tea.
Lin Shan became busy.
Under the arrangement of Mo Zheng and Mo Zhan, the players who came to register lined up in two rows.
The long queue stretched from the entrance of the North Wind Station inside the camp to the forest outside, circling the entire station twice.
Soon, it was noon.
The bracelet sent a reminder to Su Xia:
[It is detected that your roommate on Earth is calling you, do you want to return to Earth? ]
Su Xia immediately clicked [Yes] and handed the body over to the bracelet for custody.
As soon as he woke up, he heard the voice of his roommate Li Defu: "Brother Su, why did you put the flowers on the windowsill? There are only men in our dormitory. If others see us, they might think we have some bad habits."
"What? Men can't grow flowers?"
Another roommate, He Lie, retorted: "Defu, what backward thinking is this from?"
"He Lie is right." Su Xia pulled aside the bed curtain and said with a smile, "The dormitory is always dark grey, so it would be nice to have some bright colours."
"Then... Brother Su, have you added that freshman girl?" Li Defu turned his head and his voice was filled with gossip as soon as he opened his mouth.
"No." Su Xia shook her head.
"That won't do. If you accept someone's flowers, you have to show some appreciation."
"You took the flowers, it has nothing to do with me." Su Xia spread her hands.
"Oh, Brother Su, you are such an irresponsible scumbag."
“…”
By noon, several roommates had taken action, washing their hair, faces, shaving, putting on handsome suits, and combing their hair like adults.
This is a request from Blizzard, who hope that they can wear formal attire for the interview in the afternoon.
Li Defu stood in front of the mirror, tugged at his tie, brushed his hair back, and suddenly smiled: "Hey, you know what, wearing this suit, I really look like a successful person."
"Damn, Defu, how do you tie your tie? Help me." Another roommate, Li Sihua, asked for help. His messy tie was almost suffocating him.
"I don't know how either, Brother Su helped me to do it."
"Brother Su..."
Li Sihua looked at Su Xia for help, eagerly.
Su Xia held his forehead in silence. In the whole dormitory, he and the head of the dormitory were the only two people who knew how to tie a tie.
Soon, the six people finished their costumes.
Li Defu looked at Su Xia in shock and said, "Fuck, Brother Su, I didn't realize it before. With your body proportions, have you ever considered finding a rich woman?"
"Yes." Su Xia nodded seriously: "Let's talk about it when we can't make any money in the game anymore."
Li Defu looked at Li Sihua again and asked in surprise: "Sihua, why do you have a middle part in your hair?"
"Doesn't the middle part look good?" Li Sihua looked at himself in the mirror, touched his hair, and felt that the hairstyle was not bad.
"It feels weird, something is missing."
"Need a basketball?"
“…”
Just like that, the six brothers in the dormitory went out to face the first interview in their lives.
The sun is shining brightly today. It is rare to see such warm sunshine in Jincheng in winter. The road is full of golden ginkgo leaves.
When the wind blows, the fallen leaves flutter in the air, and combined with the unique Soviet-style buildings of the old campus from the last century, it seems like we have returned to the faded old days.
“Crack—”
Li Defu held up his cell phone and took a selfie, including himself and five other people.
He took several photos in a row, carefully selected the one that showed him looking the most handsome, and then added the text [Six Talents of Jiangnan] and uploaded it to his personal social account.
As soon as I sent it out, someone responded below:
[Wow, so handsome...]
It was followed by a long string of periods, causing the entire reply to be collapsed.
Judging from the profile picture, the person who replied should be a girl.
Li Defu was delighted and immediately clicked on the entire reply.
[…I mean, Pharmacist Su is so handsome]
Li Defu trembled all over, overwhelmed with grief, touched his bumpy fat face, and almost shed tears.
When Nuwa created humans, didn’t she ever think about making them look good-looking?
He held his phone, opened other social and gaming platforms, and browsed other information.
Before he even walked out of the school gate, Li Defu exclaimed in surprise, holding his phone and saying to everyone: "This Sijidao guy is causing trouble again."
"What's wrong?" Several people looked at him.
"The pharmacy where he works has also started accepting apprentices. There are no restrictions. Anyone who wants to become a pharmacist can go." Li Defu handed the phone to several people.
"Damn, this guy is really haunting me!" Li Sihua said with a frown.
"Um……"
Director Yu Wenshuxue's eyes flashed with a trace of gloom, and he whispered: "Find an opportunity to completely destroy him!"
He Ju immediately agreed, clenched his fist and said, "Yes, we must cancel this account!"
"Brother Su, what do you think?"
Everyone asked Su Xia and expressed their concern.
After all, Sijidao’s teacher should be the only fifth-level pharmacist in the entire Coral City.
He has started to accept disciples, which will definitely have a significant impact on Su Xia.
Su Xia glanced at the message on the phone, shrugged, and said, "No hurry, let him be. A fifth-level pharmacist may not be able to teach students well."
