"Click".
【Ding】
[You have mastered the skill: Slash]
In the end, Duan Qing added numbers to his strength first, and every time he added a number to his strength, he went out to find a wild wolf to try. Finally, when his strength reached 7, he performed a chopping action at one time
When I heard the long-awaited system prompt.
After knocking the wolf to the ground a few times, he did not rush to check the wolf's body, but opened the status bar, wanting to appreciate the first skill he learned in "Free World". However, when he opened it
When I looked at the empty skill bar and saw the only skill in it, I only saw a simple introduction.
[Slash: A cutting attack, causing linear slashing damage]
[Power: 1oo%]
[Skill requirement: melee weapons]
Uh...it's so simple that Duan Qing can't understand it.
He silently turned off the skill bar, then found a safe corner and started doing some basic experiments.
He used a slash, and then slashed forward with his sword.
"It seems to be no different from a normal attack. Whether it is a move or a move, it is very slow." Duan Qing shook his head and put away his sword. The simple and neat sword in his eyes made him very dissatisfied.
Then he picked up the sword and picked it out from bottom to top.
"There seems to be no difference. That is, as long as the strength is sufficient, the angle and technique are the player's own choices..." Duan Qing held his chin and muttered to himself, "And gravity and resistance are very limited...
."
He thought for a moment, then thrust forward.
"Let me go, the skill is not working? Is there any other... Well, by the way, Brother Tie seems to have mentioned the stabbing skill..."
After experimenting with many actions, Duan Qing finally determined that the skill of slashing seemed to be no different from ordinary flat slashing. Simply put, this thing was a system-certified flat slash.
If this continues, the thrust will be the system-certified flat thrust...
Production team, you guys are cutting corners!
Duan Qingchai dropped the dagger in his hand to the ground. But thinking about the past of the entire player group, it is estimated that they have already complained about this.
After acquiring this skill, the fighting time with the wild wolf was shortened, but this should be due to his increased strength. There was no change in the way of fighting.
Step forward and slash with your dagger - now it should be called a slash. Then the wild wolf will scratch itself with its front paws, sometimes with the left front paw first, sometimes with the right. If it is with the left, then
Take a step forward to the right, and then you will get a good attack opportunity...
If you jump forward, just retreat. If you pounce forward... it's best to dodge sideways. After all, you will hurt yourself. In the words of the game, it is called an attack judgment. Of course, the wild wolf may additionally turn around to pursue, or continuously
Jumping, it's a little test of reaction ability, just jump away...
The monsters in the novice area should not be difficult no matter how difficult they are. The design of these ordinary monsters is to familiarize players who have just entered the game with the combat mechanism of this world. Although in Duan Qing's eyes, the so-called combat mechanism is
There is no mechanism. What a normal fight looks like is what it is now. In the eyes of a novice, the wild wolf needs to deal with it for a long time, and may even die if he is not careful. In Duan Qing's eyes, it is very simple. Because those who are fighting in the game are very simple.
In the eyes of a novice, those evasive movements that require long-term practice have become conditioned reflex instincts in Duan Qing.
However, it still took Duan Qing a while to recover, and the "stamina" setting in the game also limited Duan Qing's performance.
The stamina bar seems to be as long as the health bar, but every time Duan Qing releases a skill or makes a large movement, part of the stamina bar will be deducted mercilessly. Wait for Duan Qing to jump a few times.
Or in the slashing action, after the stamina bar is exhausted to the end, Duan Qing can only walk back and forth, and cannot even perform normal attacks. Yes, this setting of stamina greatly limits Duan Qing's swings.
Later, in order to study this setting, Duan Qing even fought with the status bar open, ignoring most of the viewing area blocked by the status bar, and danced with the wild wolf for a while, while staring at the stamina bar and observing. After his statistics
, that short stamina bar can probably support him to jump seven or eight times, or slash five or six times, and then he can only hang around and wait for his stamina to recover. Fortunately, the stamina recovers very quickly, as long as he doesn't do it.
Exercise that consumes physical strength interrupts its recovery progress, and it can be fully restored in three or four seconds. Otherwise, this game would be too difficult. Duan Qing even tried to run and jump when his physical strength bar was exhausted, but in addition to the physical feeling
In addition to the aches and pains caused by fatigue, the result was a slight decline in life.
Duan Qing guessed that if he acted forcefully or even released skills when he was low on physical strength, it would be possible to die directly. It would be bad if he could succeed. But now he has no way to consume a lot of physical strength, so he can't prove it.
This one.
Survival is so difficult, skills are so demanding, and combat is so troublesome. It doesn’t have the exhilarating feeling of “gorgeous combat and simple system” in other games. It stands to reason that anyone who has played to this point will be deleting the game every minute.
, but Duan Qing was obviously not an ordinary person, he found it very interesting. He even went to the blacksmith's house to play dirty for a long time and borrowed a wooden shield to study the physical strength consumed by using the shield to block attacks. Although in the end
Still didn't get any useful results, but I learned another skill.
[Block: Use shield to block attacks.]
[Power: 6o%]
[Skill requirement: holding a shield]
Recalling the scene when he was knocked away by Iron Heart's shield, Duan Qing felt that the power was probably a bit low.
The remaining numbers were deducted again, and Duan Qing planned to return to the village for a rest. But before leaving, he looked at the dagger in his hand and thought for a while, and then tried to chop the sword in a certain direction, and then
Pick it up quickly.
Then, he stood there maintaining the downward slashing motion and did not move for a long time.
"How long does it take to be stiff after a slash..." He thought for a while, then slowly withdrew his sword: "That is, if you want to make continuous slashes, you need to break through this bottleneck in other places...
....Hey, maybe it’s a new skill, a cunning system..."
He shook his head and walked towards the village. I heard that Brother Tie's game still has many tasks. The previous one of helping the blacksmith find herbs is an example. So he planned to find two tasks to do as well to feel the customs of this game.
Favor.
But first, he needs to get a mission.
Duan Qing still did a lot of public relations work during this period, commonly known as "boosting his favorability." He chose a lot of private houses to send hares, wild wolves, herbs and other trophies. Even the original blacksmith also patronized his "
"Business", but there is still nothing similar to the task.
After some simple guessing, Duan Qing felt that it still had something to do with his own strength - it was simply a lack of attributes. A weakling would not be able to be favored by NPCs. Now that he has become 7 powerful,
Even he himself felt a little reborn, so he planned to go to those private houses to try again.
I am no longer the person I used to be - Duan Qing yelled in his heart, and then opened a door of a private house.
"Oh, brother Mo Shang Qingshan, thank you very much for sending so many prey again! What do you want this time? I have a lot of dried wild meat here..."
"Thank you, Brother Mo Shang Qingshan. The pelts of these wild wolves are very precious, and our family has nothing to repay. I just woven these coarse cloths today. You can use them to make clothes..."
"
"You are...Moshang Qingshan. What do you want?"
The ruthless facts broke Duan Qing's fantasy. After visiting various houses such as the Orion family, the weaver's family, and the blacksmith's family, and once again experienced the simple folk customs of this remote village, Duan Qing was still helpless. He felt that he had nothing to do with him.
The favorability of these villagers is already very high, so why haven't they received any tasks? Well, the relationship with the blacksmith may be a little different...
Is there any charm value in this game? Duan Qing immediately lost all confidence when he thought of the possibility of having to fight for his face, because his past game experience told him that he might have African ancestry, and he would need to use luck and face every time.
When he talks, nothing good ends for him...
Realizing the seriousness of the problem, Duan Qing felt a little uneasy, so he immediately contacted Hearts of Iron. But it was offline, because this game was so real that there was no secret chat.
"Mission? Of course there is, but how do I know what it is specifically related to..."
In the free world, game players cannot see the secret messages of friends who are not in the game state. It was only when Ambition of Iron was free that he saw Duan Qing's message. Since he also used messages as a reply, Duan Qing also saw these words.
It’s something that will happen after the update.
"Here are some tips for you: The free world advertises itself as real, but in the real world, no idle person will give you any tasks...so."
"So-called tasks can be regarded as events that you will encounter by chance."
"Of course, these words are not mine, but those of a friend of mine... Let me give you an example: You also know about the time when I was looking for herbs for the blacksmith. That was when I happened to go to their house.
, he saw his wife who was ill in bed, so he asked her to find herbal medicine."
"So, if you want to take on a mission like this, you first need a reason to be assigned. There is no need. Everyone is fine, so why should you be given a mission?"
"It's not that you are looking for tasks to do, but that you hope that tasks will find you. That's my understanding."
Duan Qing has not seen Brother Tie's judgments about the "setting" of the mission. He left those questions and entered the game again. He planned to wander around, hoping that some kind of metaphysics could help him.
He went to the tavern and the hotel, saw a lot of local customs and customs, and heard a lot of local anecdotes. Among them, the only thing that can be mentioned is that he found the village chief.
After playing a game and arriving at Novice Village, I could tell with my feet that the village chief was the most important NPC in the village, or the most promising place to obtain information. However, the lanes in this village were like a maze, and Duan Qing had been obsessed with it these days.
When researching skills, I didn’t deliberately pay attention to these specific places, so I never encountered them.
Players in the village who have played for a certain amount of time will basically know where the village chief's home is, not because of how many benefits the village chief can give players, but because many people have been there - they want to try their luck and get benefits.
There are still a lot of people.
When Duan Qing found the village chief's house, there were still two or three new players who had found the place just like Duan Qing. They were enthusiastically pestering a gray old man who seemed to be the village chief, trying to get some kind of mission out of them. Duan Qing frowned.
He frowned and did not rush to join in the fun. He slowly stepped aside, planning to wait for them to leave before trying again.
From the outside, the village chief's house looks no different from other cottages. The only difference may be that it is slightly taller. The slightly pointed house seems to stand out among the row of ordinary bungalows.
The houses on both sides look shorter than the village chief's house. On the left is an ordinary house. There seems to be people living inside, but the door is not open. On the right, the door is open, as if welcoming guests, but Duan Qing walks closer.
Look, there are wooden pots, bamboo baskets, cloth bags and other containers at the door, which contain things like weeds and branches. There are also many wooden boxes inside the house, and a wooden sign is hung on the side of the door.
What it says on it probably means collecting all kinds of herbs.
It looks like it's doing business... Could it be opened by players? How could it be possible? How could there be such rich players in a place like Novice Village? Even if someone really couldn't think of it and ran away
If you come to do business in Novice Village, how can you get good business...
Perhaps it was the result of not setting up any tasks. Later, the two or three novices all had a resentful look on their faces and walked away one after another. Duan Qing then stepped forward. He looked gray-haired and energetic, probably
The village chief showed no sign of boredom at all and remained friendly, greeting the new adventurer with a smile on his face.
"Welcome to Green Stone Village! Although it is a bit poor, our village has a long history! Many families in the village have been living here for hundreds of years..." Then there is a process of introducing the history.
.
Duan Qing was speechless as he listened to the village chief's enthusiastic introduction. It is estimated that every player with excitement and expectation will be "forced" to listen to a piece of science when they find this place. I don't know those who just left.
People, have you listened to the entire village chief's speech? Maybe you will be touched by something after listening to it...
In a professional spirit and with the slightest hope, Duan Qing listened patiently and planned to finish listening to this popular science section. However, he never expected that he would listen to it for several hours.
The reason why this speech lasted for a long time was because the village chief’s historical introduction was extremely long and his language expressions were even more colorful. He did not even repeat a sentence. During this process, Duan Qing used
With resentful eyes, he sent away the two players who later found this place and were bullied away. Then he gritted his teeth and closed his eyes and listened for a while, then sent away another group of players that he didn't see. Until he didn't even think about it anymore.
I don’t know how long it took, but after listening to the impassioned conclusion of "...the future of the village depends on you adventurers, go ahead! More unknown surprises are waiting for you!" Duan Qing finally accepted it.
Unable to withstand this heavy mental blow, I immediately went offline.
Fortunately, those messages from Brother Tie soothed Duan Qing's mind a little. After understanding the game's deceptive mission setting, he gave up the idea of deliberately looking for missions. When he went online again, it was already his second game.
Early in the morning, this time he planned to go to the other side of the village to have a look.
The system of the free world has a map system. Players can find the places they have been to in the "Adventure Notes" in the game system. According to this map, which is similar to a record, they will gradually change their location based on their adventure experiences.
expansion, and then put it in this note together with other records as part of his own adventure. So at this time, in Duan Qing's view, his own parchment-colored map is now very, only in the middle of the map, showing
A floor plan of a village, as well as some areas to the north of the village. The farthest place is probably the field where Iron Ambition once led Duan Qing to.
The roads to the north of the village have been explored by Duan Qing. The grassland to the east is where Duan Qing often fights wild wolves. It is marked on the map. Further to the east is a forest. Duan Qing did not rush there.
Upon entering, the parchment is completely blank. The area at the south entrance of the village is only the grassland where Duan Qing first came to this world. Further south, it is probably the legendary Emerald Forest.
How about going there to explore?
During this period, whether in the exchanges between Hearts of Iron or in the occasional leaks from passers-by, the name of the Emerald Forest can be heard, and just by hearing this name, you can feel that it is a more dangerous place.
place. But you can enter and exit that place when you are at Level 6 of Heart of Iron. I guess I can also experience it. Although I only added one attribute, I guess the strength is about the same as that of players at Level 3 or 4...
However, compared to the equipment image of Hearts of Steel at that time, my image seems to be far behind...
But these are not problems! Duan Qing thought confidently.
It should be morning in the free world now, when the coldness of the morning has not yet dissipated and the warmth of the sun has not yet come. Duan Qing came to the entrance of the village in the south and saw a familiar figure from behind.
She is still wearing the purple burqa and still has the same golden ponytail, but it is different from what she saw that night. At this time, the pigtail is jumping happily, expressing the owner's excitement.
Of course, the girl named Mengzhu didn't know Duan Qing, so this excitement had nothing to do with Duan Qing. Duan Qing stood behind and observed for a while. The girl should be having an excited conversation or argument with the person in front of her.
Her voice is just louder.
"I worked so hard to pick these mushrooms. How could it be possible..."
"No! You can't lie to me. I know the shop next to the village chief's house collects these mushrooms..."
"What is the Black Cloud Alliance? I have never heard of it..."
When Duan Qing was far away, he could hear intermittent sounds coming from the other side. It must have been a loud quarrel in the ears of the players who were setting up stalls and selling goods very close.
When Duan Qing came closer and could see the angry face of the girl and the embarrassed expression of the person opposite, the argument had obviously come to an end. The girl obviously didn't want to complete the deal and walked away angrily.
The man picked up the bamboo basket at his feet and walked toward the village alone. Perhaps because of "anger and shame," she glanced around secretly and found that there were still many people secretly watching her, so
He lowered his head and wanted to leave here quickly. When he passed by Duan Qing, he didn't notice him.
It was probably because the excitement had passed and the gazes around him gradually disappeared. Duan Qing, who had also finished watching the excitement, was just about to move forward when another shout of surprise came from behind. He turned around and saw another person wearing the clothes of a novice player.
He stopped the girl just now and whispered something.
Anyway, there is plenty of time...
Duan Qing walked aside calmly and looked at the man and the girl for a few words. The girl looked a little angry at first, but suddenly she became happy. She shook her head, and her ponytail followed the movement of her head.
Jumping up and down. She took something from the man's hand, then took off the bamboo basket behind her and poured it into a cloth bag that the man took out.
The girl happily waved to the man, probably saying goodbye. After the man turned and left, she stood there for a while, as if thinking about what to do next. Then she moved her temples and put her back
He picked up the bamboo basket, turned around... and walked towards the outside of the village.
Are you going to the forest? Are you going to do another mission? Duan Qing thought of the mushrooms and the shop the girl mentioned before, his eyes lit up, and he slowly followed.
This chapter has been completed!