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Is This Really A Game? - Chapter 185

Published at 31st of May 2023 08:56:52 AM


Chapter 185

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Less than three seconds after the announcement was sent out, the forum on the official website instantly became lively! Compared to the event announcement, people didn't feel much about the birth of the first LV10 player.

After all, the upgrade speed of the strength department is faster than that of the other departments, and Bunny is an old player who has been on the server since the Alpha0.1 version, so it is not surprising that the upgrade is faster.

How difficult this game is in the early stage is obvious to all OB netizens on the forum. Compared with players who become stronger by their abilities, the only thing that makes everyone feel strange is why things like LV10 need to be mentioned separately.

For most MMORPGs, isn't LV10 just out of Novice Village? Is there anything special to mention? Or is there any new change in Wasteland OL's LV10?

Red Face Boxer: "LV10?! Damn! Bunny is too fast!"

Killing Chicken At Midnight: "+1, Both of us are strength system, why I am only LV8.(`▭´)ノ︵ ┻━┻"

Tabletop Cop: "If we talk about LV10, it will be too fast!" Can we buy that miner I-type exoskeleton, now?"

Mole In The Hole: "The prerequisite is citizen membership + LV10, but generally you can reach LV10, and basically your contribution is enough for citizen level."

Night Commander: "2000 silver coins ...Even if the threshold is reached, no one will be able to afford it. (Looking at the sky)"

Irena: "Not necessarily, maybe Boss Yaya can. I see that she has been selling mushrooms, so she has never bought equipment. What a rich lady. ٩(˘◡˘)۶"

Get Up Ten Times A Night: "+1, Let's rob Boss Yaya.≧◠ᴥ◠≦"

Yaya: "You guys are enough, I'm already unemployed, you should go and rob Shuri .o(╥﹏╥)o”

Shuri: "(≖_≖ )?"

The deposits of most players in the server are only three digits, and those who can reach four digits are the best in the server. Even if there is no threshold, few people can afford it.

At this time, someone mentioned the lucky guy from the last expansion pack—the [ Night Commander ] who got the exoskeleton, and the post was full of envious and jealous voices again.

How exasperating! Just because of luck, he got the version's strongest costume!

Is this plausible?

Is this reasonable?

Night Commander, who was lying on the bed for no reason, didn't dare to bubble up on the forum at all, so he could only curse and complain in the small group he built.

"Hey! Bunny upgraded to LV10, why was I the one who was being questioned? The first batch of beta players are not enough! Go mount him!"

I'm the Darkest: "Calm down, it must be because you are not strong enough, everyone thinks you are not strong enough. It’s too wasteful to use such good equipment.”

Tabletop Cop: “+1, why don’t you use the exoskeleton for me? I happen to be an agility type, quick to react, and not easy to die.”

I'm the Darkest: “Or give it to me Well, I'm a newbie, a potential stock, and I'm still in the perception department, and the danger is always one step behind me, and I can't guarantee that I won't lose a piece of paint." The

Tabletop Cop: "Why don't we use it differently, anyway, it will definitely be more useful than the intelligence department."

I'm the Darkest: "I can't agree more."

Night Commander: "F*ck you! (#`Д)"

...

The next morning.

The industrious little players gathered in front of the square of the outpost and started queuing up to receive the task of exploring shelter 117.

The NPC that triggers the mission is the vice-captain of the guard—the Ormas with a horse face.

After going online this time, the players were surprised to find that this guy had actually changed into an exoskeleton.

"Damn it? The guard captain's exoskeleton was replaced by the manager... Where did his exoskeleton come from?"

"Picked it up in shelter 117?"

"According to the settings on the official website, the correct explanation It should be - due to the outstanding performance of our Master Manager, the organization deep underground decided to support him with a new set of equipment." "

That is to say, as long as we work hard enough, our Manager will soon be able to change another set of Brand new power armor?"

"F*ck! Even though you are right but, why do I feel sad."

*Stop talking nonsense, the event team is about to start, have you received any missions? Let's go together."

"Me, me, boss take me with you!"

In order to prevent players from getting together to enter the No. 117 shelter, causing traffic congestion, and too much movement to attract aliens from other areas of the tunnel, only 50 places are released per hour.

After receiving the task, a new activity task option will be updated in the task bar of the player VM. After clicking on it, you will see the following interface.

[ Activity Task: Our Neighbor ]

[Content: Take the VM to visit shelter 117, Check out all the scenes. ]

[ Precautions: 1. No weapons are allowed to enter. There is a checkpoint at the entrance of the shelter, where equipment can be temporarily stored.

2. Do not take or destroy the props in Shelter 117 at will. If it is necessary to pick up and observe, please put them back in place after observation.

3. Make good use of the marking function in the VM three-dimensional area map. There are hidden easter eggs in the shelter. Find and mark them, and the hidden rewards will be triggered after the event ends. (Each player only has one chance) ]

[ Branch Mission: 1. Investigate the reasons for the abandonment of shelter 117: Shelter 117 maintains the appearance before it was abandoned, and the personal belongings of the residents are scattered in the room. We need to find out what happened there.

2. Unknown clues: waiting for players to explore by themselves. ]

[ Personal Exploration Progress: 0% ]

[ Full Server Exploration Progress: 0% ]

Regarding the easter eggs mentioned in the "Precautions", to be honest, Lucius himself doesn't know what it is. The reason for mentioning that there are easter eggs is mainly to stimulate players' desire to explore. Whether there is or not, anyway, look for it.

What if his little players find any clues that he missed? Isn't there an easter egg? And it doesn't matter if you don't find it.

When the time comes, browse around the forum, pick a few posts that are hotly discussed and look like that, just claim them and you're done.

Players will definitely not think that they copied the homework, but will be ecstatic that they discovered the easter eggs left by the plan.

Standing in the corridor of the nursing home, looking at the crowds of players in the square who were eager to try, a sunny smile appeared on Lucius's face.

"I'm simply a genius."

Yuki, who was sitting behind the bank counter, raised her head and blinked curiously.

Is this something that needs special emphasis? She always thought that Brother Lucius was quite smart.

On the other side of the square, looking at the old players who were surrounded by Ormas and ready to go after receiving the mission, and the newbies of Alpha 0.7 and 0.8, they all looked envious.

You need to reach the citizen level to buy a VM, and you need 2,000 contribution points to upgrade to a citizen. If it is fast, it will take a week, and if it is slower, it may take half a month.

The players of the Alpha0.7 version are fine, except for those who got stuck with the resurrection bug, basically they have already accumulated enough contribution points. As for those small players who were unfortunately hit by stray bullets in the faction war, and players who only entered the game in version 0.8, many of them contributed just four digits.

This is the first time they have seen a game that even requires money to buy the system interface.

This is too much!

Envy is envy, it is set like this, and complaining is useless. If you want to experience the complete content of the game, you can only use your liver to prove your loyalty to the manager.

With a longing for a better life, the newcomers stayed in the square for a while, then went to the warehouse manager to pick up the task.

Of course, it's not like they didn't want to take shortcuts. For example, right now, in the middle of the square, a little player stands there and shouts.

"Is there any man who can lend me a VM? I, Martin, will be very grateful!"

Mosquito passing by here, seeing this person looks familiar, and recognizes that it is little guy, who is more old then himself in real world, who squatted in the carriage together last time, so he leans over and made a joke.

"Brother, you can't even take out the VM, what can you do anyway?"

Martin chuckled.

"I'll eat it for you."

Mosquito: "Get out!"

After shouting for a long time, no one answered.

Looking at the sparsely populated square, Martin sighed and shook his head, expressing emotion.

"The world is getting worse, people's hearts are not good anymore... Mommy, I can't even borrow a VM, this game is too real."

Quit Smoking buddy just came back to hand in the task, and seeing this newcomer still shouting in the square, couldn't help but say something more.

"Don't think about it, brother, VM and account ID are one-to-one binding. Don't ask me how I know, I have tried all the methods you have thought of. The big bugs in this game are almost unsolvable, and the small bugs are almost impossible to find. No... You'd better not think about card bugs, it's meaningless."

Martin was shocked when he heard this.

"Damn it! Why didn't anyone tell me?"

Mosquito was speechless by Martin's reaction, and he couldn't help but complain.

"...Brother, don't you even go to the official website?"

Martin suddenly shook his head and said.

"Oh, you means the forum, I don't even go to that place. There are too many posts in it, dozens of them pop up after refreshing, it makes my eyes hurt."

Quit smoking: "..."

This guy...

"Are you really thirty years old?"

...

Spring City, on the edge of the Fifth Ring Road.

In front of the main entrance of the abandoned commercial complex.

Bunny, who was wearing a light hunting suit, put down the javelin bag on his back, weighed the javelin in his hand, and locked his eyes on the one that was closest to the gate.

Ten meters away.

For Bunny, who has experienced many battles, there is almost no need to consider the problem of missing the target at this distance.

Bunny took a deep breath of the cold air and calmed down. He focused all his attention on every inch of muscle and joints in his body, and then threw the javelin in his hand violently.

Boundaries - Break Through!

It was an instant thing. The electrical and chemical signals traveling through the neurons suddenly increased, and his muscles also expanded violently in an instant.

He only heard a piercing sound in my ears! The javelin drew an almost invisible afterimage in the air, blasted into the door like a cannonball, and nailed the nibbler to the wall three meters away.

The nibbler who was pierced through the chest did not die immediately, but was still struggling.

The nibblers hovering nearby raised their heads blankly, their frozen necks sluggishly swaying from side to side, as if looking for their attackers, but found nothing.

Looking at his right hand in surprise, Bunny's face was full of excitement.

Before he could speak, Walker, who was standing on the sidelines watching, couldn't help but say.

"F*ck! This skill is so awesome!"

When it was just launched, before the event started, there was already a sea of ​​people around the event NPC, and it was impossible to squeeze in.

Considering that there is no time limit for activities anyway, and there is no need to be in a hurry, the cattle and horse team came to the edge of the fifth ring road in Spring City under the suggestion of Tomorrow, and found a suitable place for leveling to test their strength The fighting power of LV10.

Facts have proved that the gap between LV9 and LV10 is not generally large.

Bunny, who reached LV10, seemed to have broken through a layer of bottlenecks. Both the panel data and actual combat ability had made a qualitative leap.

"It's more than awesome... This power is simply BUG level." Standing aside, Gale had an envious expression on his face.

Although he can also throw a javelin with the effect of a cannonball, it is with the help of a mechanical prosthesis.

Unlike Bunny, without any equipment bonuses, relying solely on muscle strength, he can reach a level comparable to mechanical prosthetics.

If the power department is so awesome, how can I mechanically become number one? If the machine is broken, it needs to be repaired, and after a long time, it needs to be maintained. When encountering an EMP, it is more likely to lie down directly. The money earned from doing tasks is used to repair equipment.

But physical body strengthening is different. Even if you accidentally die, you don’t feel bad. Waiting for three days will make you a good man again. This price/performance ratio is simply invincible.

A few days ago, Gale was excitedly thinking that good days of the Department of Intelligence was coming. Now it seems that it is too early to be happy!
  
Bunny chuckled and patted the back of his head, "It's not a bug. I think it's quite reasonable. After all, it's an early stage career. If the early stage advantage is not obvious, why don't you just stare blankly in the later stage?"

Walker couldn't help complaining: "I'm afraid your early stage is a bit long!"

Bunny laughed heartily, "It doesn't matter!"

"It doesn't matter if you don't brag, just the power of that blow just now, I feel that it is enough to deal with crawlers." With his arms wrapped around his chest, Tomorrow also had an envious expression on his face, "With my Dynamic vision, I almost didn't see the trajectory of the javelin clearly!"

The agility attribute not only affects the reaction ability, but also enhances the visual aspect. It was so fast that he couldn't even see him, which was enough to show how terrifying the power of that blow was!

He don't know what talents will be unlocked at LV10 of the agility system. He has just been promoted to LV9, and he is looking forward to the world after LV10!

After listening to Tomorrow's evaluation, Bunny thought for a while, then shook his head and expressed his feelings.

"It's still difficult to use a javelin. The crawler's movement speed is too fast, and the forward swing of the javelin is too long. It's hard to hit if you're far away, and you don't have time to charge and aim if you're close. However, there is one thing to say, This talent is probably better than throwing objects in melee combat, and with exoskeleton and long-handled weapons, it can deal tons of damage in a short time! Even if I encounter a mutant, I have the confidence to kill him!"

The ax I bought was custom-made from No. 81 Steel Factory. It has wide blades on both sides and a pointed head. It can chop, poke, and hook. It is very useful for people and aliens.

Tomorrow continued to ask: "Apart from the talent for breakthrough, do you feel any other changes?"

Bunny said after thinking for a while.

"Other changes...it's hard to describe. Specifically, the muscles and bones feel stronger than before, and the athletic ability is stronger, but it doesn't seem to be obvious from the outside." Speaking of this, Bunny said with a little emotion Sighed.

"Hey, every time I play this game, I can't help but think, if only I had such a great physical fitness in reality!"

Hearing this sentence, Tomorrow had an intriguing expression on his face.

Not to mention anything else, just in terms of archery, if his physical fitness in reality can catch up to half of that in the game, he might be able to go directly to the Olympic Games!

What is the concept of an agile attribute with more than 10 points? In terms of eyesight and dynamic vision alone, few normal humans are his opponents. Unless it also mutates.

After brainstorming the picture, Walker frowned: "Wait, if there is such a good thing, wouldn't I be bloody? The perception attribute is completely useless."

Gale said calmly: "Not necessarily, you go to Las Vegas to try "

Waller was stunned for a moment, then startled: "Damn! I didn't think of that!"

Gale hehe, smiled and didn't speak.

If you really want to open up this idea, his intelligence department should be the most popular.

At this moment, Bunny, who was staring at VM, suddenly spoke.

"I seem to have a new task in my taskbar."

Hearing that there was a new task, Walker immediately moved over and glanced curiously.

"What task, let me see."

"Explore Aviatium Aerospace's ecological experiment base in the northern suburbs of Spring City, the task rewards 200 silver coins, 200 contributions... What is the ecological experiment base?" While talking, Bunny switched to VM On the map page, he swipe his index finger on the touch screen a few times, and drag it to the location of the mission beacon.

There is an unexplored area, located in the north-east direction of the outpost, with a straight-line distance of about 15.7 kilometers.

Judging from the pre-war map, there are not many urban buildings nearby, and the terrain is relatively high. After the war, it is very likely to become a forest.

Gale, who also approached the past, touched his chin and said.

"It's actually a task of the scientific expedition... By the way, after the last time the official website updated the gameplay of the scientific expedition, it was the first time I saw Dr. Tom release a task." Maybe the condition to unlock the task is LV10?"

With an expression of interest, he eagerly looked at his good brothers, "What do you guys say? Do you want to do this mission?"

The B3 floor of the greenhouse ruins has just been taken down, the task has not yet been handed in, and the B4 floor level has not yet been triggered. There is no need for the Raiders to rush for these two days. Anyway, the ruins will not run away if they are placed there, so why not take a look at what this new mission is. The name of this research institute is not simple at first glance!

Walker: "I have no objection!"

Gale: "Me neither, just to see what the mission of the scientific research team is like."

"+1," Tomorrow said with a smile on his face, "It's so interesting It would be a pity if I missed it."

Bunny said with a hearty smile.

"Then it's a deal! Let's go back to the outpost to change our equipment, and gather at the north gate of Wetland Park!"

Walker raised his hand.

"Wait, how do we go so far?"

Bunny said with a smile, "Don't worry about it! It was mentioned in the mission that the scientific expedition team will support us with a truck and send us to the destination!"

Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

15.7 kilometers away! If you use your legs to walk, it may take half a day to go back and forth.

Just as the cowboy team was returning to the outpost, the players who were going to explore shelter 117 had already arrived in front of the giant alloy gate in the subway tunnel.

The giant gate has not been closed since it was opened last time.

There were crowds of people in front of the door, and pairs of curious eyes looked inside.

The guard stationed at the entrance of the shelter walked up to the players and said in a loud voice.

"Players who have received the mission, please store your equipment with me."

"Shelter No. 117 is a weapon control area, and it is forbidden to bring guns, knives, explosives, flammables, and dangerous goods into it."

"There is no time limit for exploration, but please try to keep it within one hour!"

"Good luck!"





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