Chapter 390: Noobs fighting each other
Twenty groups of players are placed in random locations, and there is a protection mechanism within the first five minutes - to prevent these players who are not used to the "real-life combat" from falling to death or getting injured, or being killed by monsters randomly generated in the fantasy map.
Kingsley worked hard to build the mental matrix and turned himself into a human server. In the final analysis, it was to obtain anchor points, not to make things difficult for the players. Of course, he wanted to increase the survival rate of the players as much as possible and extend the online time of the players...
Fortunately, Kingsley was randomly selected from 3,000 players who applied for "connection" and became the first batch of 100 players to enter "Survivor" and appeared in the fantasy map. He then felt the sense of security brought by the hundreds of lit brand anchors in the mental matrix.
The alien anchor point, which seemed very far away and yet within reach, was very small, but it actually provided an anchoring effect, allowing Kingsley, who seemed to be floating on the sea and relying only on himself to provide an anchor point, to have a real sense of down-to-earth security. The emptiness, anxiety, and instability in the depths of his soul seemed to be mostly eliminated at this moment.
"Is this what it feels like to have an anchor? It's really irresistible."
Kingsley was so overjoyed that he immediately tried to meditate in a state of distraction.
The active magic molecules in the air came into contact with his mental power and were absorbed by him. The chaotic, dangerous, and frantic whispers in the magic became hazy and unclear, like the sound of rain heard through glass.
Kingsley almost instantly felt the joy that his disciple Yang felt when he was meditating unscrupulously, and absorbed the magic power with even greater pleasure.
In the fantasy map in the magic crystal, the Earth players who are experiencing the real-life battle royale version of the chicken game for the first time are as happy as Kingsley.
"Damn, it really feels like a real person has traveled into the game. It's completely different from the fake experience of VR games!"
At a certain birth point in the forest, a female player with a cat demon ID on her head, wearing a simple peasant woman's outfit, but with a very delicate face, fair skin, slender hands and feet, looked down at herself with excitement and curiosity, and then looked at her teammates excitedly.
"This game really doesn't allow you to tweak your face?" Cat Demon's friend, another female player with the ID "Muyu", said with a helpless smile while touching her face.
"How embarrassing! A group match turned into a face-to-face meeting." The third female player in the group, the girl with the ID The Thinker, looked down at her short arms and legs, then looked up at the two female friends she met in Nongyao, with a look on her face that made her want to cry, "Cat Demon, Muyu, how come you two are so tall? Doesn't this make me look even shorter?"
"Sisi is really a cute girl." The cat demon smiled and reached out to touch the thinker's head.
Among the five people in this team, three girls are in a group, and the other two guys are solo. One has the ID Dasheng and the other has the ID Lin Ergou.
If they were playing other chicken-eating games and met three girls in line, the two men might have started to talk nonsense on the spot, but now... they are very honest.
There's no way around it. You can't customize your face in "Survivor". You'll get your own appearance when you come in, and these two otakus both look rather sorry... It would be fine if it was just the petite and cute Thinker, but in front of the standard modern Cat Demon and the Mu Yu who looks like a mature lady, the two otakus really don't dare to tease her.
"Well, ladies, should we start searching for resources first?" The chubby Monkey King chattered for a while before he spoke cautiously.
"Oh yeah, we're playing chicken." The cat demon quickly stopped teasing his friends and family and waved his thin arms proudly, "Let's go, let's go search for resources!"
There are countless chicken-eating games on the market. Although these players are new to holographic real-life games, they are very familiar with chicken-eating games. They stumbled and stumbled out of the birth point, and soon found a shabby place that looked like an altar.
This PUBG map... The framework was designed by Kingsley himself, with reference to places he had visited; in terms of map layout, Yang Qiu gave some references: equipment and supplies should not be thrown in the wild at will, and it is best to concentrate them in places that look like people have been active, to facilitate players' search.
Players who came to the fantasy map for the first time saw the abandoned altar suddenly appearing in the forest. They immediately knew that this was a place with resources and rushed in with cheers...
Among the twenty birth points in the map, there must be at least two , such as abandoned altars, dilapidated villages, hunter cabins, traveler caves, abandoned camps, bandit camps, night watch camps, lumber mills, wilderness towns and so on.
While the team of players led by Cat Demon were searching for supplies in the abandoned altar, at the logging camp about 600 meters away, there was another team of players who were also at the forest birth point and were diligently looking for equipment.
"I found a gun!" A player with a big belly, whose farmer's outfit could barely cover his belly, excitedly raised the gun-shaped weapon in his hand.
"You found a gun? Damn, I only found a crossbow. It takes five seconds to load an arrow. It's useless!" Another player who came out of the wooden shed said indignantly.
"You should be content. Damn it, I only found an axe. How can I use this thing to fight someone in close combat?" Another player cursed.
"This resource point is not good. Hurry up and let's go to the next resource point." said a player who only found a helmet and armor.
This team of players took the resources they had found and ran towards another resource point, the abandoned altar, shown on the minimap.
Coincidentally, the cat demon team, who had just finished searching the abandoned altar, looked at the small map and found a logging resource point nearby, and they were also rushing over here...
After the five-minute protection time was over, the two teams of players met in the forest.
“Oh my god!”
The two teams of players, who were not used to the real-person battle mode, could not open fire as soon as they met. The players on both sides were very neat and hurried to hide to the side...
Next, it was a fight between noobs, using the long-range weapons they had found to shoot at each other through the dense trees, and their hit rate was very impressive ...
"We can't rely on long-range weapons in such a dense forest, we have to fight in close combat!" said the player who found the axe weapon, "Cover me while I sneak over!"
The teammates nodded in agreement, and then began to fire blanks more actively, accompanied by shouting and cursing, to attract the opponent's attention.
Then... the player who was crouching in the bushes with an axe on his shoulder and moving stealthily encountered an enemy who was sneaking towards him with the same idea.
Two more people came from the opposite side - a fat man with the ID "Monkey King" on his head, holding a banana knife (steel knife) in both hands and looking nervous, and a girl with the ID "Muyu" on her head and only a wooden stick in her hand.
"Damn it, you have no moral principles!" The player carrying the axe was shocked and turned around and ran away.
"Hurry up Fatty, stop him and grab the weapon!" Mu Yu girl picked up the stick and chased after him.
The fat Monkey King, who must have weighed more than 200 kilograms, immediately started chasing after him. His heavy body did not affect his speed at all and he ran very fast.
Although players enter the game using their own images, there is no physical difference between individuals. After all, the core operation of this game relies on the mental matrix of the caster structure, and it is impossible to calculate the physical differences for each player. The only things that can affect the player's movement speed in the fantasy map are the weight carried by the player and the player's own motor nerves.
The axe is heavier than the banana knife and the wooden stick, and the player carrying the axe was not an off-road expert who was particularly good at moving in the forest, so he was soon caught up by the two men.
With no other options, the player with the axe could only fight back… and missed, hitting the tree instead.
The fat Monkey King, who was a otaku, had no experience in close combat. He closed his eyes and chopped down with his sword, which hit the ground.
"Aim carefully!" Mu Yu girl was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, and she hit the enemy's arm with a wooden stick.
This wooden stick looked shabby, but it was still a weapon after all. When the player was hit by it, a small piece of black-gray substance immediately flew out of his arm and his health bar slightly dropped.
The players in "Survivor" do not have physical entities, but are holographic images of souls projected into the fantasy map. It is completely impossible to have a scene of blood and flesh flying in the battle. Simulating the appearance of black mist drifting when the soul is defeated is already the limit.
"Fuck? The blood is black? No, a wooden stick can break the defense?!" The player carrying the axe was stunned. He pulled out the weapon that was chopped off the tree with all his strength and instinctively swung it towards the nearby enemy.
Mu Yu girl was also startled by the floating black ash and was unable to dodge, so she was hit in the abdomen.
The projection could not feel pain. As a large mass of black ash floated out of her abdomen , Mu Yu's health bar also dropped by one-fifth.
"Oh!" Mu Yu sister was shocked and ran away with her head in her hands.
The player carrying the axe was greatly encouraged and started to fight back with strange roars.
At the critical moment, luckily the fat Monkey King did not let down the team and rushed forward with a banana knife, howling...
The attack power of the axe is indeed very high, but it is still shorter than the banana knife of the Fat Monkey King. When ordinary people fight each other, the length of the weapon is indeed very important. After a few fights, the player carrying the axe was forced to retreat again and again.
The girl who had fled came back, picked up a small wooden stick and sneaked behind the fat man, and took advantage of every opportunity to finish him off...
It was one against two, and the player was not used to using the weapon. After a short while, the player carrying the axe had his health bar depleted. With a bang, he turned into black smoke and disappeared. The weapon in his hand and the equipment he was carrying turned into a box and fell to the ground, for the enemy to pick up.
In "Survivor", players who die will not be kicked off the spot. Instead, they can enter the spectator mode and communicate with their teammates. The first player to die was reluctant to quit and cursed the enemy in the team channel for being too despicable and unsportsmanlike.
"It's okay, we'll save you when the brothers find the resurrection item!"
The other four teammates ran away when they saw their team was reduced in numbers, went to the next resource point to find more powerful weapons, and dealt with the teammates who were randomly assigned to them perfunctorily.
On the other side, the cat demon team, which had a 5:4 advantage, did not think of pursuing the victory. After celebrating the victory, they turned around and left the forest to look for other resource points...
Yang Qiu, who was immersed in his thoughts watching the fight between the two teams of rookies, had the urge to hold his forehead.
He didn't expect the players of the "Survival" game to show their natural qualities right from the start, but these guys were so bad that he was speechless.
Fortunately, not all players who have the luck and financial resources to get the "Survival" beta helmet are noobs.
A team of players that had refreshed at the grassland birth point, while two groups of people in the forest were fighting each other, neatly killed another group of people that had also refreshed on the grassland, and were now moving confidently to the next area.
The three teams of players who were refreshed at the Gobi spawn point, after a huge fight in the resource-rich Night's Watch camp, only two orphans armed to the teeth were left. They were moving cautiously towards the grassland, intending to hide on the road leading to the wilderness town as Voldemort.
Two teams of players who were refreshed in the lake area were attacked by another team of players while they were fighting each other. One of the teams quickly left the battlefield, threw the crippled enemy to the team that took advantage of the opportunity, and maintained its own formation and urgently evacuated to the forest area.
After taking a quick look at the current status of the surviving players, Yang Qiu expressed his satisfaction... At least among the first batch of one hundred people who entered the field, there were still a dozen or so strong guys who became familiar with this combat mode within ten minutes.
The time limit for each battle in "Survivor" is thirty minutes, but it feels like a full hour to the player; with such ample time, the battle rhythm does not need to be too hasty and can be slowed down a little. It is also enough for the first poison circle to start shrinking after ten minutes.
The so-called poison circle is a soul storm that is extremely dangerous to the fragile non-physical soul projection of the player. When the battle time reaches nine minutes, the players who survive in the illusion map will see a bold and yellow reminder in their vision: "Dear players, the soul storm will appear in sixty seconds. Please go to a safe area as soon as possible."
"Soul Storm countdown fifty-nine seconds, fifty-eight seconds..."
The two Voldemorts who were heading towards the grassland looked at the small map, confirmed that they were still in the safe zone, and continued to move forward towards the ambush area.
The team of players that came out of the grassland birth point found that the forest area had entered a poison circle and regretfully changed their route.
The cat demon team came out of the forest and saw that their team was about to enter the poison circle. The cat demon who was randomly appointed as the captain suggested: "It seems a bit unsafe to go into the safe zone now. Should we hide at the edge of the poison circle?"
"It's a little early to hide now, we don't have any equipment yet." said the Fatty Monkey King.
Muyu, who had just worked with Fatty Monkey King, expressed her support: "Yes, Ergou is still empty-handed, how about we go to the snowy mountain area next to it and take a look?"
The thin man with ID Lin Ergou nodded vigorously hurriedly. He had bad luck. He only picked up protective gear, bandages and a medicine bottle that restored a small amount of blood (soul energy) at the abandoned altar. In his hand was the small wooden stick that the girl with the wooden fish exchanged for the axe, which was no different from being empty-handed.
Unlike the players of "Another World" who still don't have backpacks, the players of "Another World" have no physical body and can only move around in the fantasy map, but they can have a very portable virtual backpack - after all, the weapons and equipment dropped in the fantasy map are just products of illusion, and like the players, they have no physical body. They can be attached to the player's own soul projection and do not require any space at all.
The group of players discussed for a few words, then changed their route and headed towards the snowy mountain area.
At the same time, the team in the lake area that "armedly persuaded the fight" and successfully picked up the leaks without any injuries, also had the same plan as the cat demon team and was heading towards the snow mountain...
