"City of Heroes", the first main city in the entire game, is more than five times larger than any city at the next level. At the gate of the city stand four towering spar giant statues.
An ancient hero who was recorded in the annals of history during the war between gods and demons on the mainland. His majestic momentum made people admire him.
This is a city that can withstand the gathering of three million players at the same time and still maintain order. The official services here are the most comprehensive. Except for some hidden multi-jobs, all professions and business skill instructors can be found in the City of Heroes.
Not to mention banks, auction houses, and mercenary clubs, there are also many virtual entertainment industry facilities, such as karaoke and disco, dining and bathing, 5D movies, etc. The key is that there is no need to queue up, this game provides "phase
"Transfer" technology, there will not be a situation where an NPC is surrounded by a group of people. Service NPCs are basically arranged in a certain room. Only people in a team can enter the same space together. If you are not in a team with others,
Then you will be alone after you go in. So in the same way, you don’t need to book a table to eat, you don’t need to book a private room to sing karaoke, and movie tickets will never be sold out. There is even a super high-priced ticket, where there are only two people in the entire screening room.
It's called a reserved place. You can do whatever you want.
Today is a very ordinary day in the game. There are no festivals and the system does not seem to be planning to rain. The wind is sunny and the sky is clear. The Hero City is as bustling and noisy as usual. On the streets and alleys,
Countless players are working silently, and each of them is a screw in this huge system, supporting the operation of the entire world.
But on this day, the moment two LV10 players stepped into the east gate of the main city, an undercurrent began to surge, and the biggest disaster in the history of the game quietly began...
Wang Xu and Mao Ye entered the professional guild together. When they entered, they were still "novices", but when they came out, their professions had become "Ranger".
This is a relatively unpopular profession in the game. It is similar to a mixture of killer and hunter, but it is obviously not good at mixing. It was rated as the "most useless" profession on the forum.
For example, the killer focuses on stealth, personal assassination, high damage and critical hits, and high speed and dodge; the hunter can bring pets to help fight, and is good at long-range weapons, high hit, super high range, medium damage, and okay
Set up traps to prevent enemies from approaching.
What about the ranger? This profession can be invisible, attack from near or far, cannot bring pets, but can set traps. Sounds good? Then you are wrong!
He seems to be proficient in everything, but in fact he knows nothing!
When PKing with people, if the ranger turns invisible and attacks close to the target, he can indeed get the upper hand, but what happens next? The ranger's explosive power is naturally not as high as that of the killer, and he often cannot kill people within seconds. When others come to their senses, they will counterattack and beat them violently.
Although the ranger's defense and HP are slightly higher than those of the killer, his dodge is much worse. He is easily hit. He has to swallow a red bottle within a few hits. His movement speed is not as fast as the killer's, and he cannot escape.
Lose.
"In this case, let's just pretend that we don't have the skill of invisibility. Wouldn't it be over if we just start from a distance? It's still the first move." People who think like this, after trying it personally, will often look at the sky and roar:
"What a scam! This is!!!"
The reason is very simple. The ranger's melee ability is a weakened version of the killer, so the long-range ability is naturally a weakened version of the hunter. The range becomes shorter, the hit rate becomes lower, the damage becomes weaker, and the trap effect is almost useless.
Apart from anything else, if you dare to take action against players who are warriors or knights, then the fight will basically be like watching a horror movie: only forty yards away, oh, sorry, the hunter uses a long-range weapon.
It’s only forty yards. Ranger, you only have a thirty-yard range... But when I saw a strong man thirty yards away, he was stabbed by your arrow. He immediately tightened his anus, glared angrily, turned around, and faced you.
The hail of bullets, crushing all the traps you put down, and walking in front of you, only one-third of the blood has gone down, a red bottle, hey! My waist is no longer sore, and my legs are no longer painful, the blood bar said
It's full when it's full. Then he uses his fist as big as a casserole to pick up a mace that's thicker than your leg, and smiles lewdly at you, "Boy, do you want to have sex with me?!"
Come on, you'd better kill off your relatives for the sake of justice and take your own life.
Another thing that makes people laugh or cry is that the Ranger profession is the only profession in the game that has no choice tendency in the second turn. What is a choice tendency? Let me give another example. After LV30, a warrior can choose to turn into a madman in the second turn.
Warriors or heavily armored warriors; knights, including shield cavalry, holy knights, and knight lords; magicians, including dark wizards, and elemental masters; assassins, including assassins and combatants. Other priests, hunters, etc., are at least
There are more than two second-turn options, and some professions even have hidden second-turn options, such as fallen knight, holy mage, voodoo monk, swordsman, etc.
As for the Ranger, guess what he will be called after the second turn? First of all, I have to clarify that there is no hidden second turn in this profession. Then, as I just said, there is no tendency to choose. In other words, if you play the Ranger, you can
Don't worry, you don't have to think about what to convert to, because you only have one second conversion to choose from.
The name of this second-level profession is - Grand Ranger.
God……
The feeling it gives me is this: slime → giant slime, orc warrior → burly orc warrior, idiot → big idiot.
The game company may not want to put more thought into the design of this profession, because there are almost no people playing it, and even fewer people have not deleted their accounts after playing the second round. According to me, this is not the second round, this is called
Turn to "Two", and the more you turn, the more you turn. Do you still want to choose a tendency? I don't think it is necessary. You already chose it when you were at LV10 - "Masochistic Tendency". Yes, this is what you chose.
I have said so much, and the core argument should be quite clear. The Ranger profession is really useless...
However, Wang Xu and Mao Ye just decided to change this. When they walked out of the professional guild, the looks from passers-by changed. In the eyes of those people, there were ridicule, sympathy, scorn, and helplessness. Of course,
Also shocked.
However, the thickness of their skins was obviously not something that could be penetrated by their eyes. They completely ignored the gazes of passers-by and walked in two directions expressionlessly.
They are all white-named, and like most players who have just passed LV10, they are not eye-catching. So the question now is, how do they kill 500 other players who are greater than or equal to LV10...
"From now on, proceed as planned. It will only take another forty-three hours before everything will be over." Master Mao said to Wang Xu through the private chat window.
Wang Xu replied: "Understood, now I will change the personal social information to 'hidden'."
This kind of private chat window allows two people to communicate in a single line without distance restrictions. The text in the window interface is only visible to you. Others have no idea who you are chatting with in private or whether you have a private chat.
The conversation between the two stopped temporarily. Mr. Mao walked to the information center in the city and started to look up information. He sat in front of a touch screen for inquiry, and his fingers moved rapidly. For the basic content of the game, such as occupation, business, city,
He already knows the settings and so on. What he wants to investigate now is the grudges...the world...
He needs all available resources: official information, gossip on various forums, the history of the game, the development history of major guilds, famous players, major events, legendary treasures, official strategies, maps, BOSS...
At the same time, Wang Xu took all the money the two of them had and walked into the only casino in the City of Heroes and the largest casino in the entire game. Yes, there is a casino in this game.
Wang Xu didn't know if gambling was legal in this multiverse, but it was allowed in this game anyway. They even gave a rough introduction to the existence of each casino and some of its popular items in the game manual.
The casino in this virtual game is one of the very few places that uses real-life NPCs for services. Of course, phase technology also exists. When the number of guests in one plane reaches a certain number, new guests entering the casino will enter another plane with a relatively small number of guests.
In this plane, the system will keep the number of people in each place at a certain balance, making it lively but not noisy, and there will be no overcrowded scenes.
Wang Xu walked around the casino to get a general understanding of the situation, and then he put on a shabby face (after cheating countless such people, he learned to imitate their eyes), and ran to
I sat down before the "Guess the Head" game and put down one-fifth of my money.
"You know..." Wang Xu suddenly interrupted when the dealer was switching the three cards: "The charm of gambling is that they can never replace an excellent dealer with a machine. Just like
Although there are many misjudgments in football matches, it is still the same as not using cameras to replace referees."
The croupier was a pretty girl. Every day, there were countless guys like Wang Xu sitting here, putting down a few chips and then starting to chat with her. This made her very disgusted because she could only endure it.
He greeted me with a smile, and kept playing with this game that even a three-year-old child can play - guessing the head.
"Sir, that's it." Her smile was stiff.
"The middle one." Wang Xu pointed at the table.
The dealer girl's eyes inadvertently showed a trace of pride and excitement, which all fell into Wang Xu's eyes.
"Excuse me, sir." The girl turned over the middle card, and then showed the other two cards on the left and right, with the Q on the left.
On the electronic interface in front of Wang Xu, the number of game currency chips was reduced to zero. He nonchalantly added the same amount as before and said, "I want to try again."
The girl still smiled in a pattern, thinking: This time this guy should take the opportunity to ask me my name, and then said nonsensically "This name is really nice", and then asked me for GULP (General Unilateral Link Phone)
)’s number. If I don’t tell you, I’ll get entangled with you. If I tell you, I’ll get even more entangled. How many guys like you will I have to harass this girl every day before I’m done with it? Look, I’ll let you lose! Lose! You’ll lose!
Her hand speed doesn't look fast, but the focus of the viewer will shift and blur at some point. If you think that a person can't do any big tricks by changing three cards in front of you with two hands, then
But you are wrong. If it is true as you think, then many projects in the casino only lose money but do not make any profit.
Putting aside the gambling projects that are purely about luck, in those projects with certain technical components, you will occasionally win, but don't think that is because you have seen something, it is just the dealer who wants you to taste a little sweetness.
That's it, or it's just a temporary mistake. The probability of such a mistake is almost 5%. If the uncontrollable rate is more than 10%, it only means that the dealer may not be qualified for this project.
Mihajlovic, a legendary dealer among the last century, is said to be able to even manipulate the results of the roulette wheel. After the roulette wheel starts spinning, he slides the steel ball along the edge track, using more skills than a surgeon.
Precise and delicate techniques determine the final landing point miraculously, with a success rate higher than 95%. This is a miraculous technology that no one knows about. There are even rumors that Russian gangsters spent a lot of money to buy his patent.
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Wang Xu remained silent and watched calmly as the three cards were exchanged, until the dealer girl changed the cards again, stretched out her hand and said: "Sir, please guess."
Wang Xu didn't even hesitate for two seconds before saying: "This is the one on the left." He pointed to the card.
"I'm sorry, it seems it's not this one." She said almost as soon as the card was turned over.
So Wang Xu took out the third "one-fifth" of the funds, quickly placed bets again, and then said calmly: "Then I'll do it again."
The girl smiled and said: "Okay." What she was thinking in her heart was: Oh... you are using this method to attract my attention? What's wrong with me being a sister? If you lose ten times and don't leave, then that's called
Sincerity.
This time Wang Xu spoke again: "How long have you been a dealer?"
"Two or three years," she replied, but the movements of her hands were not affected at all.
"Haha...it's been so long." Wang Xu then said something extremely shocking: "The guys who come here to guess heads are all looking at your face, right?"
The girl didn't seem to understand Wang Xu's words, so she didn't respond. Her work of changing cards was also completed at this moment: "Sir, that's it."
Wang Xu pointed to the card in the middle: "This one..."
Just as the girl was about to uncover it, Wang Xu shook his head and said, "No."
He sneered: "This is a 9." Then he moved his finger to the one on the right: "This is a 3." Finally, he pointed to the one on the left: "I choose Q."
None of the three cards have been revealed yet, but judging from the dealer's expression, Wang Xu is obviously right.
She quickly restored her signature smile and unveiled the Q, "Sir, congratulations." She operated a few buttons, and Wang Xu's bet amount doubled.
Wang Xu said: "I feel guilty for winning money on you..." He was telling the truth. According to his routine, it should be to pretend to be a water fish and lose two rounds first to let the dealer gain some sweetness. At this time, the dealer
He might have considered deliberately giving him some trouble, so Wang Xu took this opportunity to start a proper counterattack. Within a few rounds, the dealer's confidence in his own skills would be shaken.
But this woman... has mediocre skills, is absent-minded, and is overjoyed. She doesn't know the basic strategy of letting people get stuck in the mud properly. This is a one-person cash machine!
Wang Xu said: "Let's do this. I'll leave after I win two more games, so that you won't be scolded by the boss." He put down all the remaining money.
The croupier's girl's neck was red with anger, and she thought to herself: How dare you talk so shamelessly even though you were lucky enough to win once?! Are you looking at my face? So you're talking about me, right? My aunt wants you to lose cleanly, early on.
Go home for dinner!
So, in the next round, after the cards were changed, Wang Xu pointed at the three cards from left to right and said: "3, 9, Q. Open, give me money." The opponent really wanted to tear him apart, but he could only endure it.
With.
Another round, Wang Xu was still like this. After he won three consecutive rounds, the dealer girl almost wanted to cry.
But Wang Xu also kept his word. He was really embarrassed to bully such a novice anymore. He had no sense of accomplishment. He put away the game coins and stood up: "Well, before I leave, I will show you something."
He picked up the three cards on the table: "Pay attention."
In the next ten seconds, he exchanged the positions of these cards no more than twenty times. The girl did not lose focus. She knew the basic techniques. She did not see Wang Xu's sudden acceleration of card changes and disguised reverse crosses at all.
method.
"Guess." Wang Xu said.
The girl said: "This one."
Wang Xu opened it and it was Zhang 3.
The girl was surprised and blinked: "Then...this one."
Wang Xu opened the one next to him, it was 9.
"How is that possible?" She became a little excited: "You must be cheating! The last one is not Q!" As she said this, she opened the remaining one, and found that it was Q.
Wang Xu laughed playfully: "The trick is... to play head guessing with a master, don't look at the cards, just look at his face."
