Chapter 220 New Talent! with New Year's activities!

   Cow and Horse Club Group.

   Today is as lively as ever.

  Since Ye Shi and Gu Feng became the first perception and intelligence players in Wasteland OL respectively, the name of Niu Ma Squad has become completely famous on the forum.

Some people on the    forum got the group account from nowhere, and now there are people joining the group every day.

   In order to prevent some strange people from coming in, and to prevent someone from harassing Aguang, the group owner Lao Bai simply closed the application for joining the group.

   Looking at the posts on the forum, it is said that two awakened powerhouses were born on the server today.

   And it’s all about power.

   One of the talents unlocked is [Berzy Warrior] with "half intelligence to strength", and the other is [Fighting Enthusiasm] with "Agility and Constitution +10%". Both talents need to be activated actively, the duration is 1~2 minutes, and the CD is not very long.

   Now the entire gossip section is clamoring for the official opening of a channel for re-selection of gene sequences, preferably the function of changing gender.

   However, the official did not seem to care about it, and planning Aguang did not bubbling throughout the whole process.

  Because the topic on the forum could not be inserted at all, everyone came to the group.

  There are mosquitoes in WC: "Hey, I envy you for upgrading so quickly."

   Quit smoking: "Hahaha, Brother Mosquito, let's download this book together, the tunnel is so happy! I'm already level 5!"

  WC really has mosquitoes: "Fuck, even quitting smoking is LV5!"

  Quit Smoking: "What do you mean even me is LV5! I've been in the game for more than a month, okay! (Angry

  There are mosquitoes in WC: "Tsk."

   If it wasn't for the fact that he entered the game too early and didn't know much about the gameplay, Fang Chang of Brainless Learning chose an agility department, and the second intelligence department awakener in the entire server must be him!

   But he is not the most unlucky one. The real unlucky ones are the two factory directors of the No. 81 Steel Plant next door.

   When these two brothers entered the game, they heard that the power department was the father, so they chose all the powers, but now they are even more confused, and there are not many opportunities to hit the iron with the hammer.

  Tomato scrambled eggs: "Time flies so fast, we've been closed for almost three months before you know it?"

   Fang Chang: "The novice stage of this game is really a bit long. It took three months to get to LV10. I don't know if the difficulty will be adjusted after the internal test."

  Ye Shi: "How much do you say the full level is?"

   Fang Chang: "Ghost knows, the official has never mentioned the level cap, but I feel that it may be a hurdle when it is forty or fifty levels, and then it will be released gradually according to the progress of the expansion, which is probably similar to WOW."

  Old Bai: "I think you think too much. With the current speed, it's a problem whether you can reach level 40 this time next year!"

After    level 10, Lao Bai felt that the difficulty of leveling up increased significantly.

  When the level was low before, you could see a significant improvement in the progress bar of tree cutting. Now, only the proficiency is increased for tree cutting.

   This is much harder than any MMORPG he has played before!

  Remembering that scrambled eggs with tomatoes also woke up a few days ago, Lao Bai continued to pick words.

   "By the way, brother scrambled eggs, what is the talent you unlocked?"

   Tomato Scrambled Eggs: "Balanced."

  Old Bai: "Balance?"

  Tomato Scrambled Eggs: "Yes, it's called Balance. The effect is to convert half of your physique into strength within one to two minutes."

  Ye Shi: "Fuck?! Is it so awesome?!"

   Gale: "It can be said to be a magical skill..."

   Converts half of your physique into strength.

   Wouldn’t it be possible to carry and output again? !

   If the physique system can use this skill, the battlefield dominance of the strength system after level 10 must be divided by at least half of the physique system!

   After all, the defense provided by the strength attribute is really pitiful.

   In the medium and long distance, the influence of the strength attribute on the DPS is mainly reflected in the control of the weapon and the distance of the throwing object.

  Unless you get closer to the extreme distance, in most cases, the damage bonus provided by the strength attribute is marginally decreasing!

   Unless, there is equipment that can exert more value in the power system.

   Like the loyal "golden toilet", or the chainsaw gun or something...

   On the other hand, in the physique system, after the attribute points exceed 10, even if it is not as exaggerated as the "breathing and blood-returning method" in FPS games, the effect of rapid hemostasis after being shot is very useful.

   If you don't hit the key, you can at least carry two more guns!

   After awakening, you can even save bandages!

  Tomato scrambled eggs: "God is a hammer, isn't the old man's 'regenerating a severed limb' a magical skill? Even if an arm is dropped, it can grow back!"

   Fang Chang: "Brilliant!"

   Gale: "This Nima is a different kind of skill, right?!"

  Irena is not in the bull and horse club group, but she and the people in the group are familiar with each other in the game, and occasionally form a team together.

   Especially on the forums, he and Ye Shi often exchange funny memes.

   Hearing that he actually unlocked the passive "no-refill knife", everyone was envious for a while.

   Gale: "I feel that the spring of the intelligence department has not yet come, but the spring of the constitution department is coming. (sigh

   Quit smoking: "Hey, physique is ecstasy! (bare teeth

  Ye Ten: "This is very unreasonable. I thought Lao Na would unlock the 'iron stomach' of the rat man, but what I didn't expect was the regeneration of bears and lizards. (Funny

  WC really has mosquitoes: "Speaking of Ye Shi, Gu Feng, have you tried your talents? Does it work?"

  Ye Shi: "I tried it, and it feels normal. Aguang said that the talent I unlocked is very good, but I don't feel it at all. (helpless

   The talent he acquired was "Killing Intuition".

   According to the description of the talent, it is a passive trigger, and can feel the subjective killing intent at the conscious level.

   And the stronger the killing intent, the stronger the feeling!

  Different from perceptions mediated by factors such as light, sound, smell, vibration, etc., this perception does not seem to need to borrow material media, but directly reads the killing intent at the conscious level in an unknown way.

   Brain waves?

   Heart rate?

   Or some unknown "field"?

The    talent description does not give a specific scientific explanation, perhaps the operator himself does not know how to edit it.

   Aside from these details, there is actually a big problem with this talent, that is, it is seriously attenuated by distance!

   The triggering range of the open field is 800 meters to 1 km at the farthest, and in the indoor environment, the maximum capture range may be a three- or four-story house.

   To be honest, this distance is somewhat tasteless for the perception system.

   After all, before Ye Shi was awake, he relied on the bonus of his perception attribute to capture the faint reflection of the sniper mirror 1 km away.

  According to Fang Chang's analysis, the real role of this intuition of killing intent should be to prevent sneak attacks.

  For example, when they were in the ecological experimental base before, they didn't notice the "high agility unit" lurking in the forest - the death claw with Ye Shi's perception.

   And if you have the intuition of killing intent, you may be able to find it in an instant.

   But on the other hand, if the other party restrained the killing intent, or did not find them at all, then this talent might be useless.

   Overall, this talent is still useful.

   But the usefulness is not as big as imagined!

  Gale: "Mine is similar... The name is overclocking, and the effect is probably similar to Lao Bai's intelligence version, gaining 150%~200% brain work efficiency bonus. The duration is a little longer, about 30 seconds."

   Honestly, this talent is probably more tasteless than Ye Shi's "killing instinct".

   At least for the current version of the intelligence department, what is lacking is not attributes at all, but the ability to convert attributes into damage.

  For example, a manipulator is a tool that "can convert intelligence attributes into DPS", but there is a limit to the output power of a manipulator, especially after awakening, which is particularly prominent.

   When the intelligence attribute is below 10, each increase in the attribute point can increase the maximum work efficiency of the manipulator by 10%, and the coordination with the muscles is more coordinated, and the control is more precise. But when the intelligence attribute exceeds 10, the improvement effect is minimal.

  Guangfeng's own analysis is that at this time, two more manipulators should be installed, or a third arm should be implanted, or even a multi-functional arm, just like "Dr. Octopus".

   Another idea is to use neural connection devices to operate drones or ground unmanned vehicles in multiple threads, turning your brain into a "drone hive" that dominates the drone swarm.

   However, there is a premise that you want to take these two paths, that is, you can buy these two things on the shelves of the NPC shop.

   This is so hard!

   Quit smoking: "Damn it, intelligence bonus? That's a bit tricky..."

   Gufeng: "It can't be considered a fool, maybe the usage needs to be developed a little bit."

  “…”

   Looking through the chat records in the group, Chu Guang silently collected the experience summed up by the little players in the text document.

  Although he can see the skills of each player in the background, all he can see is the panel data, and the specific situation still depends on the evaluation and feedback of the players.

   "...The physique system after awakening may enter a strong period, the talent focuses on the enhancement of survivability, and the types of talent are more abundant than other departments."

   However, this sequence is somewhat dependent on talent, and not everyone can use the magical skill of "balance".

   In addition, even though the intelligence department has been awakened, the combat power has not been significantly improved.

   It seems that this sequence is very unfriendly to newcomers.

   It’s okay to take the life career route, but the combat career route relies too much on the assistance of external objects, which may burn a lot of money.

   "Little Qi."

   Following Chu Guang's call, Xiao Qi's voice floated from the side.

   "Here, Master."

  Chu Guang marked the document and leaned back on the chair.

   "Please help me sort out the content in the document and update it to the settings set on the official website."

   "There will be 300 newcomers in Alpha 1.0, and these materials should give them some help."

   After listening to Chu Guang's instructions, Xiao Qi said energetically.

   "No problem, leave it to Xiaoqi with confidence!"

As soon as the    voice fell, a cute little Keli popped up on the table and gave him a thumbs up.

   Although 90% of the emojis were stolen from the forum, Chu Guang couldn't help but smile, feeling that the fatigue of a day's work had been dispelled a lot.

   Turned off the emoji package, Chu Guang was planning to edit the copywriting of the New Year's Day event.

   At this moment, footsteps came from outside the office.

   knocked on the door twice, and Dr. Yin Fang opened the door and walked in.

   He held a round silver-white earphone in his hand. The shell looked like an aluminum alloy. It was not too heavy.

  There is a camera on the front of the earphone, which is perpendicular to the mounting ear, so it can just face the front after wearing it.

   If you want to take a photo, just press the button on the side of the headset. And if you want to take a picture, you can press and hold it for two seconds, and press it again to turn off.

   Put the headset on Chu Guang's desk, Dr. Yin Fang continued.

   "I made the headset you want for you. As you said, on the basis of the two functions of videography and photography, the communication function has been added."

"However, I have to remind you that the signal transmission and reception range of VM...that is, the vital sign monitor is very wide, even up to 20 kilometers, but the bandwidth of information transmission is not very large. Text and images are fine. , if you want to transmit audio, or even video, you may have to get a portable radio for it."

  Chu Guang tried to understand this sentence.

   In short, the headset is matched with the VM, and the communication chips and signal transmitters on the VM are borrowed, so it can be made so small.

   However, VM is only a self-rescue tool that is convenient for the wearer to be found by search and rescue personnel. Stability and reliability are the first elements, which makes it unsuitable as a tool for large-scale data transmission over long distances.

  With the help of the vm's signal transmitter, it is possible to use this headset to communicate between teams, and it is barely enough to communicate with the outpost more than ten kilometers away, but it is still a bit difficult to open a "live broadcast".

   Unless, it is very close to the cell tower, or equip the squad with a mobile station with stronger signal transmission and reception capabilities and a more professional mobile station.

  It is not difficult to solve this problem. Whether it is a signal tower or a mobile station, if you do not deliberately pursue high integration, lightness and compactness, even using relatively "primitive" radio equipment is no problem.

   Not only a mobile radio station, but Chu Guang also plans to build another signal tower in Changchang Farm, so that the signal can cover the area north of Yumu District, and provide information services for players who explore further areas.

   Picking up the earphones on the table and looking at them for a moment, Chu Guang looked at Yin Fang and asked.

   "Is that the one?"

   "Five in all."

  Yin Fang took out four more earphones from his pocket, put them on the table, and sighed softly.

"I've uploaded the design drawings to your computer, including that portable radio. You can find someone to copy it, it's not difficult... So please, don't bother me with this kind of thing again, there's a bunch of data that needs to be processed. , and that robot, I'm almost too busy."

  Although he understands that the task of the scientific research team is very heavy, he is the only one in the Refuge who knows how to deal with those complicated carbon-based circuit boards.

   made a helpless expression, Chu Guang looked at him and said.

"I try my best."

After   Yin Fang left, Chu Guang looked at the drawings he sent him, and the contents were written in great detail.

   includes where to collect the required materials, how to handle those collected materials, and how to assemble them together.

  Chu Guang plans to find a few survivors who understand radio, try to copy a few sets according to the steps on the drawing, and then send them to the frontline team leaders to facilitate unified command.

After    wrote the plan on the work log, Chu Guang continued to edit the copywriting for the New Year's Day event.

  【"Wasteland Online" first New Year's celebration! 】

  【Description: New Year's Day is an important festival in the wasteland! In order to celebrate another year of living and pray for good luck in the coming year, scavengers in the wasteland often go out for food a week in advance, searching for ingredients for the New Year's Eve meal!

  What magical deliciousness will be loaded into recipes for New Year's Eve this year? What kind of magical animals will be eaten to extinction next year?

  The manager has prepared a mysterious gift for all residents participating in the event, participation is earned!

   In addition, the winner of the contest will also receive the honorable title of "Wasteland Foodie"! And be inducted into the Hall of Fame!

  The manager here again reminds everyone that safety always comes first!

  Anyway, don’t eat a bad stomach!

   Unless you want to miss this celebration!

  】

  【Event Start Date: Wasteland Age 25 December 211 to January 1, 212 Wasteland Age】

  【Requirements: Use the ingredients that are easily available in the wasteland to make simple and delicious food. 】

   After reading the event plan from beginning to end, Chu Guang showed a satisfied expression on his face.

good!

   The only fly in the ointment is that such an important holiday event cannot be kryptonite.

   If you add an event krypton gold bar, it will be exactly the same as the game of Goose Factory and Pig Factory!

   In order to prevent the players from dying and causing non-combat attrition, after careful consideration, Chu Guang decided to appoint Yaya as a taster.

   I believe that the helpful crow boss will be happy to accept this task.

   "It's safe to do so!"

   The day after tomorrow is the 25th.

   After completing the final revision of the event plan, Chu Guang held the mouse and clicked twice, set the sending time to tomorrow evening, then yawned and stretched, and went back to his room to sleep.

  …

  Perhaps he has been working too hard recently, and Chu Guang had a long dream at night.

   However, this dream can't be regarded as a nightmare, at most it is a little weird.

  The person who chased him for DNA changed from Heya, who was carrying a needle, to Boss Xia.

   After waking up, Chu Guang was sweating hotly all over his body. After the players' online and offline peaks, he got up and went to the B3 floor.

   Medical Laboratory.

  The silver-haired Miss Heya is observing the sliced ​​specimens collected by the players.

   Seeing Chu Guang coming, she immediately stopped what she was doing, skillfully opened the scanning bed next to her, and patted the pillow.

   "Come on, lie down here."

   Maybe it was because he was observing the specimen for the last second, Chu Guang always felt that the eyes she looked at him were a bit "red fruit".

   But with Xiao Qi there, Chu Guang was not worried that someone in this shelter could hurt him.

   Seeing the sample lying obediently on the scanning bed, Heya excitedly walked to the terminal at the bedside and pressed a few buttons on the touch screen.

   Accompanied by a slight electric current sound, the scanning device soon began to work.

   After waiting for a while, the sorted attribute panel appeared in front of Chu Guang.

  【

  ID: Chu Guang

  Gene Sequence: Manager (Phase 2)

  Level: LV.14→LV.15

  ——Basic Properties——

  Strength: 17

  Agility: 11

   Constitution: 15→16

   Perception: 12

  Intelligence: 14

  】

   Perhaps because of his recent training, his level has been raised again, and now it is LV15.

   "I don't know if LV20 will wake up again."

  Chu Guang's gaze stayed behind the gene sequence, the bracketed "second stage" suffix.

  LV1 is the first stage, and LV10 is the second stage. Similarly, the third stage should be LV20?

   In addition, although he still hasn't figured out the upgrade rules of the manager sequence, Chu Guang can clearly feel that the upgrade is getting more and more difficult.

   "Unbelievable... Your body values ​​are far beyond the scope of normal people. How did you do this?!"

   Sitting in front of the terminal at the bedside of the scanning bed, Heya looked at Chu Guang with an incredible expression, her face full of interest.

   Chu Guang was not surprised by this guy's fuss.

   got up from the bed and adjusted his collar, he replied casually.

   "I want to know too, why don't you study it for me?"

  Hya nodded and said.

   "No problem, but before that... I have something here that you should be interested in."

  Chu Guang cast a questioning look at her.

"what?"

   "Research on Muxomycetes Xenogeneic Species..."

   Said, Heya took a tablet that was converted from VM and turned it to Chu Guang.

"According to the slice samples provided by your 'players', my previous guess has been confirmed. Many slime molds, including gnawing, creepers, martyrs, and tyrants, are not just children of mutant slime molds. Entities, and their forms, predation, and all other physiological phenomena and biological behaviors, are in fact imitations against us."

  Chu Guang raised his eyebrows slightly.

"us?"

   "Humans, but not limited to people, even...machines."

  Heya nodded slightly, paused for a moment, and continued.

"For example, the tyrant... I found a form that is highly similar to the corpse gnawing in its body, and outside is another layer of hardened fruit body structure that is completely different. This also leads to, even if its outer fruit body is destructive Up to 90 percent, it still continues to hunt and uses the organic matter obtained from its prey to release spores, spread slime molds, and slowly repair damaged fruiting bodies."

   "Does this sound surprising?"

   Looking at Chu Guang, whose face gradually showed surprise, Heya continued to talk about her amazing discovery with a bright face.

   "It's imitating us, and although it's a poor imitation, it's not completely useless. It feels like... um."

   frowned and thought for a while, Heya seemed to be thinking about how to describe her discovery.

   However, Chu Guang understood.

The    Adam's apple moved slightly, he tried to ask.

   "...It's like wearing a biomass exoskeleton or power armor on the outside of the gnaw?"

  Heya's eyes lit up and snapped her fingers.

   "Yes, that's what it feels like! Isn't it amazing? No wonder those people are always clamoring to go out, the outside world is simply incredible..."

  Hya was still gushing excitedly.

   However, the joys and sorrows of people are not the same, Chu Guang could not feel her joy in discovering new species at all, and even saw a slight headache.

  Biomass armor that can repair itself, and the amazing imitation ability displayed by those slime molds... What kind of monster is this?

   "Is there any way to make the fruiting bodies of those slime molds edible?" Chu Guang interrupted Heya's eloquence and asked her seriously.

  Heya was stunned for a moment, then looked at him incomprehensibly.

   "Something you can eat? Why eat that kind of thing..."

  Chu Guang sighed softly.

   "Because I really can't think of a better way."

  ——

   (The weather is getting colder, and I occasionally catch a cold. There is only one update today, and tomorrow will continue to be 10,000 days... I'm sorry to the brothers who are waiting for the update, I'm really sorry T.T.

  New plot, new chapter, I have to think about it)

   (end of this chapter)