Chapter 245: The Sunk Cost of Trying to Be a Viewer
This battle with the Heroic Soul Legion really exhausted Ash and the others.
Not only Ash, who was leading the battle from beginning to end, but also Sonia and Diya, who spent most of the time as cheerleaders, were equally tired. They hid in the car and endured the danger of death at any time, and had to contend with the racing belt.
The dizziness and shock came, and there was no room for relaxation in the mind... It was like a spring that had been tightened. After releasing the potential energy, the aftermath was still lingering, and the thrilling battle just now was not over yet.
Even though Ash and others have experienced dangerous battles before, they were 'dangerous' at best, and the magicians still had room to maneuver. But this time in the battle with the Heroic Soul Legion, there was no room for error. As long as the sports car exploded, they would be
I don't have the ability to compete with the Heroic Soul Legion at all.
They are always on the verge of death.
Using the terrain to set up traps, poisoning thousands of troops to trap and kill the Thousand-Feathered Bird Dragon, grinding the Scorpion Star Swordsman to death, and fighting the Heroic Soul to the last second... Compared with this battle, decapitating the Fish Dragon can be regarded as relaxing.
Leisure activities for the mood.
However, after sitting for a while, Ash and Sonia basically recovered. But they still sat leaning on the sports car with no intention of standing up, just like employees who started to go to the toilet for 15 minutes.
Naturally, they are not too lazy to get up. Exploring the virtual world is equivalent to working for yourself. Self-employed entrepreneurs who work harder and get more rewards are still very enthusiastic about their work. The reason why they sit still is because they are waiting for the witch to rest.
Sonia, who usually likes to chatter the most, didn't say a word at this time. Her legs wrapped in black stockings were lazily folded, and her nose made a soft hum, as if she was lying on the bed.
But she kept observing Diya's colorful clown-like clothes from the corner of her eyes, with a hint of worry in her eyes.
Ash's acting skills were not as good as Sonia's, so he sat very stiffly, trying his best to use the corner of his eye to observe Diya's chaotic hair color, which seemed to have overturned the paint tray. His left hand was still holding Diya's wrist to prevent any accidents.
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After killing the heroic soul, Ash and Sonia reached a consensus through eye contact that the witch was in a bad state.
They could see clearly that as the battle situation became more and more critical, the color of the witch's hair became more and more mixed, and even her voice changed accordingly. When the witch just spoke, she made a quartet of sounds, as if there were four different people.
As he talks, his hair keeps changing color, which is a very bad sign no matter how you think about it.
Of course, rest is for relaxation after the battle, but it is done in order to heal the witch. Naturally, they all guessed that the witch's strange situation must be related to the "sisters". However, spiritual problems are completely beyond their ability. Their magical powers
Miracles are of no use.
Fortunately, both of them, Ash, have a silver-level spiritual faction realm. Even if they have not read many psychological works, they can still have correct action intuition when encountering such special events involving spiritual changes. Don't disturb the witch, let them
She slowly calmed down.
If it were Sonia from before, she would definitely ask insinuatingly how she felt about being a witch; as for Ash, it would be even better, he would probably say "Have you ever considered shaving your head?"
But because of the knowledge and intuition brought by the spiritual faction realm, they were able to kill in advance those ideas that would make the situation more irreversible.
Only those who are ignorant have no fear; knowledge will make people learn to fear.
Perhaps the atmosphere they created was really good, so the witch lazily sat down next to the sports car and closed her eyes. Her clothes slowly turned back to black, and her long, gradual hair also lost its cheap illusion, and soon returned to normal.
The solid color of the secret princess.
She fell asleep.
This was the first time that Ash and Sonia saw someone sleeping in the virtual world. They quietly gathered around the witch on both sides and looked at the witch's eyebrows, lips, nose, eyelashes, and glasses for a long time.
I was shocked when I saw it. Although the normal witch looked very good, the sleeping witch looked more quiet and quiet, like a timid deer, which made people want to pinch her face.
When Ash tried to look beyond his neck to explore the curves in his clothes, Sonia reached out and grabbed his chin, twisting his eyes to meet hers.
Come and wake her up.
Why do you come?
I just met her, you should be more suitable.
You are a woman, you are more suitable.
Women are not suitable.
Why?
Are you a woman or am I a woman? Don’t women understand women yet?
You...what you said makes a lot of sense.
Ash was completely defeated in this eye debate and had to perform the alarm clock duties that gods and ghosts hate. But since Sword Princess is so unwilling, then he's welcome!
pinch~
Ash reached out and pinched the witch's fleshy face. It felt very good. It is said that the virtual body will faithfully reflect the real body, so he can feel the soft fleshy feeling. Apart from anything else, this touch completely healed Ash just now.
Tired from that round of fighting...it turns out that girls' faces are so soft!
"Hello!"
Sonia split Ash's hand with a knife: "Are you harassing me?"
"I'm waking her up! According to relevant surveys, attacking the face is the most effective way to wake her up. For example, a slap in the face can definitely wake her up."
"Then slap her!"
Good guy, the stupidest and toughest college roommate I knew back then was not as ruthless as you. Only my brother could do such a thing.
"ah?"
After being pinched awake, Diya subconsciously rubbed her eyes and looked at the two of them blankly: "Huh? You...here...but why am I...am I dreaming?"
Sonia immediately used her hands to pinch her face into a big pie: "You just fell asleep! Wake up, we are still in the virtual realm!"
"Oh oh oh!" Diya nodded heavily: "Yes, I remembered, we defeated the Heroic Soul Army... We actually won, okay, okay!"
The witch immediately got excited and hugged Sword Girl to celebrate. Ash was very moved when he saw this and stretched out his hands, trying to join the girl's celebratory hug, but was pushed away by Sword Girl. However, the witch noticed Ash's actions and came over too.
Hugging Ash: "Look, your driving skills are so strong! It's so awesome! It's even more powerful than the villains in fairy tales! The Sword Girl is also super powerful. She completed the final kill. Of course, I'm also very powerful. It was me.
Live with that heroic spirit!"
"Yes, yes, witch, you did a great job this time, thank you for your hard work."
Ashi gently rubbed Diya's head with his right hand, suppressing her proud dull hair, and raised his left hand high to show that all his actions complied with the broadcast standards of the children's channel. Sonia snorted, stood up and said, "Then
It’s time for us to pick up the trophies we deserve. I hope they won’t run away thinking they’re not wanted.”
At this time, the poisonous fog in the cave had dissipated. After looking around, they found that there was no loot to speak of. They didn't know whether there was a problem with the killing method or because those knowledge creatures were members of the Heroic Soul Legion. Not only did they not gain experience after they died,
The orbs and even the magic spirit didn't explode.
There are only three trophies on the battlefield, all dropped by heroic souls.
First it was a manual, but when Ash picked it up, he found that it was not the magician's manual they imagined.
"De Milo's Commander's Manual"
"You can get a reward after reading (optional)"
"Sword Command Skill·Elementary: You know how to make the swordsmanship faction units cooperate in combat, and gain a lot of swordsmanship faction experience."
"Shooting Command Technique·Intermediate: You are good at using long-range troops to achieve tactical intentions, and you have gained a lot of shooting faction experience."
"Offensive Skill·Basic: You will be more threatening when directing attacks, and gain a small amount of experience for each faction."
"Logistics·Intermediate: Your troops will move faster and gain a moderate amount of experience for each faction."
How to describe the shock that this commander's manual gives to magicians? Just look at Sword Princess and you will understand that after she learned about the reward options in it, she blurted out the words "little trumpet" and was so shocked that she could not even maintain self-cultivation.
If the Magician's Manual is a nutritious but unpalatable vegetable, then the Commander's Manual is a highly nutritious ice cream cake with 0 calories, 0 sugar and 0 protein that reverses the laws of matter. First of all, its rewards are not random, but you can choose them yourself;
Secondly, in addition to rewarding command skills, it also comes with faction experience, which is equivalent to giving additional experience orbs.
Of course, the most important thing is that it has no reading threshold!
Not every vegetable is suitable for a magician's appetite, but who can resist a 0-calorie ice cream cake? Ash and the others don't even need to open the manual to read the command experience in it, they can get rewards by using it directly, so even if it's moral
It can also be used by Sonia who has a more rigid bottom line!
Although this commander's manual is not very valuable, after all, it is just "a useless command skill" + "experience orb". The loot they get from killing a fish dragon is not much different from this.
But the emergence of the Commander's Manual has broadened their horizons, letting them know that the Magician's Manual is not just a hard-to-eat vegetable. There may be other flavors and more nutritious Magician's Manuals in the virtual realm.
If they encounter a mutant magician projection similar to the Heroic Soul next time, Sword Princess will definitely not stop Ash from getting involved in danger. They bravely take a step into the unknown, and the Commander's Manual is a positive feedback reward for the unknown, so they will encounter the unknown in the future
The first reaction when encountering danger is not to run away, but to test and collect intelligence.
A magician who has tasted the sweetness will gladly lick any unknown secret, even if it may contain bitterness or even poison.
Quietly, successful experiences have affected their way of thinking. Just as the flowing golden river has nourished their ambitions, hunting heroic souls has also strengthened their greed.
There is no doubt that this commander's manual is naturally for Sonia. After all, none of the three of them needs the shooting faction, and the top priority now is to feed Sonia's swordsmanship faction to gold level.
And Sonia also deeply felt her own powerlessness in the battle just now. Although she completed the final fatal blow, 99% of the credit for the entire battle must be attributed to Ash and his almost burned-out car.
sports car.
The MVP who really deserves praise and hugs is Cheche!
But the sports car belongs to Ash's power, and with this he is far beyond himself; and the witch also has a gold-level magic faction, the aquatic line has both output and control, and the witch can read most magician's manuals...
...Sonia thought about it quietly and realized that she was about to become the one lagging behind in the team without even realizing it.
The viewer has made it clear that if he cannot keep up with the team, he will not receive resources or be favored. If the team wants to optimize its member structure, naturally those who are lagging behind will be optimized first...
Therefore, Sonia was not polite this time and reached out and took away the commander's manual.
She is not a woman who will admit defeat. If she really cannot keep up with the team's progress, then she will also eat up the viewers, eat up the resources of the viewers, and make the viewers continue to invest more to avoid wasting their previous investment.
!
As long as she owes the viewer enough, then it won’t be she who will be panicked, but the viewer!
What is this called... Yes, sunk cost, a word that viewers once explained when they complained about work. Sonia likes this word very much.
The more you give, the harder it is to give up.
Time, energy, emotions, experience, everything will become shackles that affect the current decision-making.
She first set a small goal in her mind and it became a sunk cost that viewers could not abandon!
Before using the commander's manual, Sonia quickly browsed through the contents. As expected, it was very boring. It was all about experience and combat examples of commanding battles, and there was no information about the person 'De Milo'.
No wonder everyone can use the Commander's Manual. There is no imprint of the magician's three views in it, and there is no point of view output. It is just like an ordinary reference book, so of course there is no reading threshold.
But isn’t the Magician’s Manual the condensed version of a magician’s life? Why is there no privacy at all from De Milo?
This idea disappeared in the village girl's mind for a moment. Maybe it was the special mechanism of the virtual realm. If you don't have to see it, you don't have to see it.
Turning to the last page, Sonia saw a somewhat familiar photo.
It was a star map, with a deep night sky and twinkling stars. Three of the stars were connected by lines. The bottom one was marked with the name "De Milo", but the other two had no names.
She showed this page to others, and Ash made an accurate evaluation:
"It looks like the information the victim gave about the murderer before she died."
