Chapter 78 Expedition
In the wilderness.
The tireless noise of the undead continued. In front of the mighty tricycle expedition team, Rex, who was leading the way on a tricycle, sensed the breath of the monster. He immediately braked and stopped. He issued a temporary task to the undead to clean up the monsters through the branding matrix.
The already annoyingly noisy undead cheered even louder. Then, this group of always energetic guys picked up all kinds of weapons and rushed forward from the back of the team, passing Hal and his four brothers who were riding tricycles in pairs, passing Rex who was in the lead, and rushed to the location of the monster that Rex had clearly pointed out in the mission...
How many monsters are there in Tarantan? It's no exaggeration to say that the number of monsters is about the same as the number of bugs you can encounter when taking a walk in a village.
After a day and a night, Rex had almost figured out how much time it would take for these undead to kill monsters of different strengths and auction them off on the spot (…). Taking advantage of this opportunity, he quickly got out of the car and did some work.
The undead were tireless, but he would get tired. Even if he could ask the undead to help him pedal the bike by issuing tasks so that he could rest in the bike box, the undead had no patience and would "hand in the task" in one or two hours at most... He didn't get a good night's sleep last night.
When Rex stood on the ground and moved around, Hal and the others in the two cars behind him, who also looked tired, got out of the cars one after another...
Five mentors were responsible for three tricycles. Before, Hal and the other three were unwilling to touch these rustic things, so it was all up to Rex to tie them up with ropes and drag them together.
After riding for most of the day, these guys finally realized how powerful they were and took over the bike from Rex with dust on their faces... But Rex, who was already tired after a day's work, obviously wouldn't have a good look at them.
"Mia, come down and move around too." Rex didn't even bother to look at those four bastards and turned to the woman in the truck.
"Okay, Mr. Rex." Mia, who was curled up in the truck bed, quickly lifted the blanket covering her legs and feet and stood up.
Traveling in this world is not a romantic thing. Even though these Chinese-made tricycles are equipped with spring shock absorbers, they will still be extremely uncomfortable after being bumped around on the dirt road for a long time... Mia struggled, but couldn't stand up.
Rex had no choice but to reach out and pick her up.
"Stand for a while holding onto the car body, and try to move your hands and feet." Rex helped Mia stand steadily, turned his head and looked to the east, and added, "Hold on for another half a day, and you will see people."
"Okay, Mr. Rex." Mia bowed her head in gratitude, trying to stand up on her own, gritted her teeth and stretched her limbs that were stiff and almost numb.
Rex smiled at Mia. He still admired this woman. Sitting on a tricycle for a whole day and night was unbearable for him, not to mention Hal and the others. But Mia never complained during the whole process. Her endurance alone was enough to make him look at her with new eyes.
Looking up at the sky, Rex began to search for his target among the undead...
Unlike Hal and the others who rejected the undead, Rex was interested in them. He could not only remember many of their names and match their voices with their "appearances", but he could even remember which undead were not very keen on killing monsters, but were interested in all kinds of "miscellaneous tasks"...
The players surrounded and killed several monsters at the foot of a hill a hundred meters away, which had probably gathered because they had smelled the scent of humans. After the last expedition, the players had become quite experienced in how to hunt monsters. They first divided into multiple combat teams to compress the monsters' activity range, and when the range was squeezed to a certain extent, they took turns to fight in the form of small teams, and after using up all their skills, they would relay to the next team. The wheel tactics made the monsters' health drop rapidly.
After leaving Exile Town, the "NPCs" felt like they had spent a day and a night, but for the players, the activity had only just ended for one night... It was five o'clock in the morning on Tuesday on Earth, and the working people would have to log off and go to work in two hours whether they wanted to or not. So they had to take advantage of this last crazy period and work very hard to kill monsters.
But... Whenever there are more than three players in an activity, there will always be people who are just slacking off. This iron rule applies even in "Another World"; when the team in front is intensely exchanging skills to reduce the health line, there will still be a group of slackers in the back who are either chatting or squatting somewhere secretly, and then openly practicing their gathering skills...
The freshman girl with the ID “I don’t believe it”, whose real name is Liu Meng, is a member of the gang.
When this girl was in high school, Teacher Yuchi was in the class next to her. After graduation and admission to university, she formed a team with Teacher Yuchi when playing mobile games. They got to know each other after a few interactions. It was also Teacher Yuchi who was invited by Liu Meng to play "Another World".
Young people, regardless of gender, can easily misunderstand their own positioning. The same is true for Liu Meng. When she played mobile games, she liked to play ADC and especially enjoyed the pleasure of output. When she came to "Another World", she thought that the most suitable profession for her was Ranger, and she worked hard to improve Tattle's reputation.
And then, nothing happened.
The output profession in "Another World" is completely different from the DPS in traditional PC games and the ADC in traditional MOBA games. You have to really pick up cold weapons and chop... This will cost you your life.
At the beginning, Liu Meng comforted herself, thinking that the ranger should be a long-range archer, and there were no long-range weapons in the game so she couldn't learn to be a ranger... But when the weapons dealer really put bows for sale (produced by a bicycle factory... cough cough), Liu Meng was defeated again.
There is only one type of bow on sale at the weapon dealer, and all of them are single-body straight-pull bows.
There is no compound recurve bow because of cost...
There are no crossbows because crossbows are also controlled items in modern China - it's ok to use the excuse of displaying handicrafts to customize bows that ordinary people can't even play with (ordinary people are N times more likely to hurt themselves when playing with a real bow than to hit the target), but if you want to customize a crossbow, you will be invited for tea.
Taking into account the common idle physique of players in reality, the bows that Yang Qiu ordered from the bicycle factory are not much different in operating difficulty from toy bows. They are made of very hard material and are made entirely of alloy. They can also be used as melee weapons when swung. The key is to make them sturdy, durable and easy to use.
It’s just that the price is not very attractive, after all, the cost is there... The cheapest single straight-pull bow starts at sixty copper coins.
And then...all the players who managed to save enough money to buy a bow basically cried.
I can't play it. I really can't play it. Even though the two bow skills of the Walker's first skill, triple shot and energy arrow, are assisted by rune skills and can be shot after consuming a certain amount of energy, eight out of ten arrows shot by Walker players will still hit teammates...
Liu Meng rented a bow bought by someone else for two copper coins and tried to practice shooting. The target in front of her was fine, but many players in the 70-degree fan-shaped range in front of her suffered...
Liu Meng, who was not good at using the bow and was a mess at killing monsters, finally gave up the seemingly beautiful ranger profession and embarked on the path of a master gatherer... While the players in the front were busy killing monsters, this girl squatted in the back with a few idlers in a very wretched manner. As soon as she saw a plant that could be collected, she would immediately pick up a small shovel and start digging.
Liu Meng dug out a herb from a crack in the rock. Its stem and leaves were similar to those of a dandelion, but its roots were like potatoes and its skin had wavy patterns like snake scales. The gathering player next to him looked over and said admiringly, "Snake scale fruit? Not bad, Xiao Liu, you can even gather level 2 herbs!"
Liu Meng chuckled, tore off the stems and leaves in a few strokes, kicked the snake scale fruit into his backpack, and continued to look around with wide eyes.
She didn't take part in the expedition last time. When the expedition team came back, she realized that the gains from the foraging players who went with them were no less than those from the players who killed monsters. She regretted it so much. For this activity, if she hadn't just started college and didn't dare to skip classes like her seniors, she would have stayed in the game all day.
There are two sales channels for things collected by the gathering profession. One is to take them to Lord Yang in exchange for reputation and copper coins, and the other is to sell them to player teams that employ pharmacists. Liu Meng likes to sell to the latter because the latter can settle in RMB... With the money she earned from gathering, she bought herself several sets of Hanfu on Taobao.
Of course, it is not easy to become a master gatherer. Although the identification skill can quickly scan whether a certain plant or animal is worth collecting, the identification skill has a CD and consumes the energy bar (the mental power of the walker is displayed as an energy bar). In most cases, players who practice gathering have to memorize the illustration panel obtained after switching to the gathering profession and use their own eyes to find collectible resources.
As Liu Meng was looking for her target with her eyes fixed on him, a yellow message suddenly popped up on the taskbar:
"Weapon Master Charlie Rex is looking for players to help cook food. Would you like to go and have a look?"
Liu Meng jumped up happily: "There is a random task! Do you want to come with us?"
The collecting players holding the shovels were all shocked: "Damn, you got another random task?"
"You were the one who got it last time too. How come you are so lucky?"
"I'm coming, I'm coming!"
The rewards for the random tasks issued by high-level NPCs were similar to those of ordinary brick-moving tasks, but they saved time. The monster-killing parties who were busy besieging and killing monsters looked down on these small rewards compared to the benefits of hunting high-level monsters. The idiots who were just hanging around looked up to them. Several gathering players immediately put away their shovels, patted the mud on their hands and bodies, and ran to find Rex with a smile...
The tricycle pulled by the high-level NPC was loaded with food. In addition to instant noodles, ham sausages and canned food that was about to expire, there were also potatoes, radishes, winter melons and other storable vegetables. The six NPCs could not eat much in one meal, so several gathering players prepared breakfast for them in less than twenty minutes.
The players received the copper coin reward for one hour's work and left happily. Hal and the others, who were already growling with hunger, also sat down happily to eat.
The food made by this group of undead was not as good as the ones in the Chamber of Commerce cafeteria, but at least it was better than what they made themselves. After all, Tattle, who was the best cook among them, only knew how to stew anything, while the undead could even use a small iron pan to stir-fry potato slices and ham, or stir-fry luncheon meat with winter melon slices... It was just that they had no sense of taste, so it was always difficult to control the seasoning, and it was inevitably too salty or too bland.
"These undead are quite suitable to be cooks." After eating and drinking, Tuttle touched his stomach and said with emotion.
Hal glanced in the direction of the large group of players who had already killed the monsters and were sitting on the ground auctioning and dividing the money, and shook his head regretfully: "What a pity, with Yang here... If we can sell these things to Kenya, they will be more valuable than the orcs in the outer continent."
Mia, who was cleaning up the dishes, shuddered when she heard this.
Rex: “…”
If he didn't want to fight with these guys in front of the undead, he really wanted to persuade Hal to stop acting like a scumbag.
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