Chapter 5 [City of Mourning Beasts]
The next morning, everyone, grass and mushroom got up on time and had a hearty breakfast.
After a short rest, they were ready to go.
The copy has strict requirements on the size and weight of the items that can be carried. Shi Li cannot bring anything except the clothes on his body.
This made him a little envious of the straw man and the mushroom, because they didn't need to wear clothes, so the space saved could be used to carry some other items.
Caoren brought some milk tea concentrate tablets.
It’s the size of a fingernail and can be used to make a large cup of milk tea with hot water.
Mosai Mushroom brought some mushrooms and planted them directly on his body, which made them very convenient to carry.
The three of them first called up their own player system panels and completed the team formation.
Then Shi Li, as the captain, continued the operation.
[Are you sure you want to use up one copy opportunity? ]
He clicks confirm.
Mushroom and Strawman also faced the same question panel and clicked confirm.
[Team structure detected]
【Analysis member information】
【Forming a comprehensive score】
[Searching for a copy...]
Strings of information appeared before their eyes.
About 30 seconds later, three copy options popped up.
Although the copy is random, it also gives players a certain degree of choice.
The three dungeons this time are: [Amber Palace] [Swamp Journey] [City of Mourning Beasts]
Next to each copy, relevant information is also marked.
"Well, what do you think?"
After browsing the options, Shi Li asked for their opinions.
"Whatever, f**k."
The straw man waved his hand.
Actually, it doesn’t matter. I just want to play with my friends.
“I’m very interested in this.”
With a flick of his hand, Mosaichou pushed the panel of the [Amber Palace] to the center.
[Instance name: Amber Underground Palace]
[Number of players in the copy: 3]
[Applicable level: LV1~15]
【Time ratio: 10:1】
[Follower Card: 0, Equipment Card: 0]
[Dungeon Tips: When the natural mechanism is triggered, powerful ancient species will be released. Pure PVE]
Follower card = 1 means that a card can be released to act as a follower in the copy.
Equipment card = 1 means that you can equip a card and gain related abilities.
Since the rules of each world are different, the same card may appear slightly different in different copies or have slightly different strengths.
But now they have few cards in their hand and almost no options.
The focus of Mosaicuo is the words pure PVE.
Cube card games are mainly divided into two types: PVP and PVE.
There are huge differences in the rules between the two.
PVP refers to a game between players.
The game in which players play against Warcraft monster cards in a dungeon is called PVE.
Some cards are suitable for PVP, while others are suitable for PVE.
Pure PVE means that you enter and destroy World of Warcraft cards from beginning to end.
"The time ratio is 10:1, which means that for every 10 days in reality, there is only 1 day in the dungeon."
"If you stay in there for ten days or half a month, half a year will have passed by the time you get out."
Shi Li raised an objection.
Moreover, this dungeon is suitable for a wide range of player levels. Combined with the dungeon prompts, he understands that this dungeon may present different levels of difficulty depending on individual behavior.
With the current depth of their deck pool, they will probably fail if they are not careful.
"You are right."
Mushroom's eyes were slightly disappointed, but he immediately said, "So what do you think of this?"
It pushes over another panel.
[Instance name: Swamp Walk]
[Number of players in the dungeon: 99 (3 players per group)]
[Applicable level: LV1~10]
【Time ratio: 1:3】
[Follower card: 1, Equipment card: 1]
[Instance Tips: This is a vast swamp area with a harsh environment that makes it difficult to move forward]
This is a relatively large copy. Although it may take some time to match the remaining 32 teams, the more people participate in the copy, the higher the reward.
"Forget about [Swamp Walk]. Your legs are too short and you'll be a burden."
As a result, Shi Li said mercilessly.
"?"
Mushroom looked up at him and said, "If you can talk, please say more. Thank you."
After comparing them in this way, it seems that [City of Zombie Beasts] is more appropriate.
[Instance name: City of Mourning Beasts]
[Number of players in the copy: 3]
[Suitable level: LV1~5]
【Time ratio: 1:1】
[Follower card: 0, Equipment card: 1]
[Dungeon Tips: Challenge the survival mission, there is a hidden mission]
This copy is the option most recommended by Shi Li.
"Do you think that Zombies shouldn't eat mushrooms and grass?"
Mushrooms were a little touched that this boy was thinking about them.
"No, I think zombies shouldn't eat brainless creatures."
"Hahahaha, shit."
"What are you laughing at? He is talking about you!"
In fact, what Shi Li was interested in was the hidden plot.
Trigger and complete the hidden plot to get more rewards.
For example, generous cubic coins, more opportunities to draw cards, additional expansion packs added to the final card pool, and even directly giving designated cards.
What he values most, of course, is the additional expansion pack.
Because I heard that the cards in expansion packs are generally of very good quality.
With [Absolute Card Sense], you don't have to worry about not winning the expansion pack.
So the three of them clicked to confirm entering the copy, and their bodies began to gradually become weak.
"Why do I feel like you are making all the decisions on the surface, even though it seems like a discussion?"
Mosaichu tilted his head, a little puzzled.
However, Shi Li did not respond to it because he had been thrown into the copy.
The feeling of weightlessness came over him, and he found himself falling rapidly in darkness.
Having had this experience once before, he was not panicked. Sure enough, a blue light projection screen soon appeared in front of him.
[Survival Challenge 1: Survive in the City of Zombies for 24 Hours - 0/1]
[Complete Challenge 1 to get 1 chance to draw a card]
[And start survival challenge 2]
Just after he finished browsing, his eyes flashed.
"Are we there yet?"
He felt his feet touch solid ground and opened his eyes.
The place where he was at the moment seemed to be an unfinished commercial housing building that had been suspended.
The surroundings are all cement-colored, and with rusty steel bars everywhere, it has a very desolate feel.
"Where is the dead beast?"
He didn't feel scared, so he walked to the nearest window and began to observe.
This is the second floor. The sky outside is gloomy and the construction site surrounded by iron sheets seems very quiet.
However, the dried blue liquid bloodstains on the ground more or less indicated what had happened here.
He couldn't see the street outside because the building blocked his view.
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
At this moment, Mosaichu's screams suddenly came from upstairs.
"What's going on?"
He raised his eyebrows.
However, just as he walked out of the room and was about to cross the hall, he immediately stopped.
Because I suddenly saw a figure walking in the aisle outside the hall door.
The man was wearing a green, slightly fluorescent construction vest and was walking slowly back and forth with a hunched back.
Its skin is dry and grayish brown, and its neck is bent at an unreasonable angle, as if its head is drooping on its shoulders and may fall off at any time.
The left tibia is sticking out from the side of the calf, and he walks with a limp.
There were several steel bars stuck in his body, which made clanging sounds when they hit the wall.
It's a dead beast.
Combining the name of this copy, Shi Li made a judgment at the first moment.
He shrank back before the zombie turned around and saw him.
He quietly returned to the room and picked up two steel bars from the ground, one in each hand.
I can't climb walls or fly over rooftops, so if I want to leave here, I have to deal with this zombie beast that is blocking the only way out.
"But...is this thing enough?"
He weighed the steel bar in his hand again.
As we have seen just now, it seems that the steel bars cannot cause much effective damage to that guy.
After thinking about it, I decided to use the cube card.
This copy is different from the previous rookie copy in that you can equip cards.
However, the number of possible equipment is 1, and since there is no way to change it once selected, he has to be careful.
"Let me see."
With a thought, he summoned the card system panel.
Now I only have 4 cards.
[Wild Fat Cat][Iron Stick] x2 [Kung Fu Sheep Girl]
The so-called equipment is not limited to objects.
He picked up the first card first.
[Wild Fat Cat]: Makes itself fat
" What kind of crappy skill is this? It will only feed the zombies even more."
This makes people unable to help but complain.
PASS, see next one.
[Iron Rod]: Obtain an iron rod and increase your strength
The effect of this card seems to be pretty good, and it corresponds exactly to its effect of increasing the attack power by 5 points on the table.
Keep it for now and look at the next one.
【Kung Fu Sheep Girl】: Improve your boxing and kicking skills
Judging from the effect, this card is indeed worthy of the word "Kung Fu".
“Both look good…”
He hesitated a little, but made a decision quickly.
As the saying goes, force can defeat skill, not to mention that he was given an extra iron rod.
Therefore, in this copy, the [Iron Stick] should be a more suitable equipment than the [Kung Fu Sheep Girl].
Buzz!
The selected card turned into blue light and floated into his body, and he immediately felt different.
"That's great. I'll go."
He clenched his fist to feel it and found that the strength was at least three or four times greater.
With another thought, the black iron rod appeared in his hand.
The iron rod is about the length of a forearm, and is just the right thickness and weight for your hand.
It feels many times more powerful than using those rusty steel bars on the ground as weapons.
"Level 1 to 5 copies shouldn't be that difficult."
After equipping himself with the cards, he felt much more confident.
So he lowered his footsteps and quietly walked out of the room again.
When he reached the hall, he saw that the zombie had its back to him.
"First, a sneak attack."
Shi Li gritted his teeth and rushed forward.
However, just as he raised the iron rod, the zombie beast seemed to sense his presence and turned around suddenly.
This time, he was finally able to see the other person's face clearly.
Only one-third of this guy's face is intact, and the rest is full of irregular indentations, as if it has been severely eaten.
The two eyes were now staring at him, revealing an excited and bloodthirsty look.
That look was as if he had discovered some delicious food in the world.
[Ahhh!!!]
The zombie opened its mouth and roared, and a disgusting stench rolled out.
At this moment, he had no time to think, and the iron rod in his hand had already hit the head drooping on the shoulders hard.
Bang!
However, what he didn't expect was that the zombie's head split open as if it had hit a watermelon.
Plop!
The beast fell straight to the ground.
Although I originally planned to defeat the opponent, I also knew that this was just a projection copy.
But the scene before him still made him, who grew up in a society ruled by law, feel his scalp tingling.
After all, what he knocked down was not a fly or mosquito, but a human-sized monster.
Not only did his two feet feel like they were filled with lead and couldn't move, even his eyeballs seemed unable to move, and his gaze was always fixed on this zombified beast.
For a moment, it seemed that the only sounds I could hear were my own breathing and heartbeat.
Keep telling yourself in your mind: This is just a copy. This is just a copy. This is just a copy.
It took him a while to recover.
“This stick…”
He looked at the iron rod in his hand and felt that it was more useful than he had imagined.
"Is anyone there? Is anyone there? Mushroom!"
Before I could think about it, the sound of Mushroom Saesigu sounded again.
So I quickly climbed the stairs, thinking that it would take some time to find this guy, but I found that the next floor up was the transparent top floor.
Soon, the mushrooms were found in a hole left by construction.
It turned out that it did not encounter any zombie beasts, but just accidentally fell into a pit, and then could not climb out because it was too short.
Shi Li jumped down to form a human ladder for it, and then climbed up himself.
"You are finally here."
Mushroom climbed up and took a breath, then looked around and said, "Hmm? Where's that straw bag?"
"I don't know. Maybe it was eaten by a zombie."
Shi Li spread his hands.
"The zombies won't attack a target without a brain."
Mushroom looked serious.
"Look for it. I think it's nearby."
Shi Li stopped joking.
He is on the second floor, and Mushroom is on the third floor, so the straw man is most likely placed on the first floor.
So each man and each mushroom decided to go down and look for the straw man.
Before that, Mosaichou followed Shi Li's advice and chose a card to equip.
Its player talent is [Mushroom King Arrives], the effect of which is to forcibly transform all of its cards into mushroom cards.
So the card equipped at this time is a [Mushroom Revolver], which can shoot mushroom bullets.
Originally, Shi Li looked down on this little water gun-like gadget, but the result surprised him.
The effect of the mushroom bullet when it was tested on the concrete wall was almost the same as that of a real gun.
Unfortunately, you can only fire 6 bullets at a time, and it takes 20 seconds to automatically reload after firing.
After equipping the cards, they walked down the stairs carefully.
The process went smoothly and we didn't encounter any zombies again.
However, after carefully searching the second and first floors, they did not find any trace of the straw man.
“Is there a possibility that it was dropped to a relatively far place?”
Mosaichou put forward his own opinion.
"Is there a possibility that the identity it sent over is actually a zombie?"
Shi Li’s guess was even more outrageous.
"Mourning Beast Grass?"
Mosaichu had an interested expression on his face and clenched the gun in his hand.
"By the way, it seems that the team panel can display the positions of teammates."
At this time, Shi Li remembered something.
I called up the system panel and found that this function really existed.
On the green electronic grid page, three almost overlapping light spots were flashing, representing the current positions of a person, a mushroom, and a grass.
"this……"
After reading it, Mosaichu was confused.
Because according to the panel, the straw man is right next to them.
"It's over. It's really dead. Now it's following us as a ghost."
Shi Li said seriously.
"What the hell! Please don't scare me!"
Mushroom suddenly felt creepy.
Seeing its frightened look, Shi Li smiled triumphantly.
"Okay, let's go."
"There should be a negative 1 floor here."
He waved his hand, signaling the other party to follow.
