"Click".
【Ding】
[You have mastered the skill: Slash]
In the end, Duan Qing added points to strength first, and every time he added a point to strength, he went out to find a wild wolf to try. Finally, when his strength reached 7, he performed a chopping action When I heard the long-awaited system prompt.
After knocking the wolf to the ground a few times, he didn't rush to check the wolf's body. Instead, he opened the status bar and wanted to appreciate the first skill he learned in the "Free World". However, when he opened the empty skill bar and saw the only skill in it, he only saw a simple introduction.
[Slash: A cutting attack, causing linear slashing damage]
[Power: 100%]
[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. In other words, 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.
"Here, the skill is not activated? Is there any other... Well, by the way, Brother Tie seems to have mentioned the stabbing skill..."
After experimenting with multiple movements, Duan Qing finally determined that the skill of slashing seemed to be no different from ordinary flat slashing. To put it simply, this thing is the flat cut of system certification.
If this continues, the thrust is the system-certified flat thrust...
Production team, you guys are cutting corners!
Duan Qing almost 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 point.
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 make a slash with your dagger - now it should be called a chop. Then the wolf will scratch itself with its front paws, sometimes with the left front paw first, sometimes with the right. If you are using the left side, take a step forward to the right and you will get a good attack opportunity...
If you jump forward, then retreat. If you jump forward... it's best to dodge sideways. After all, you will hurt yourself. In the game's words, it is called an attack judgment. Of course, the wild wolf may turn around to chase, or jump continuously, which is a test of reaction ability. Just jump away...
It stands to reason that the monsters in the novice area are not that difficult no matter how difficult they are. These ordinary monster designs are, in the final analysis, designed to familiarize players who have just entered the game with the combat mechanics of this world. Although in Duan Qing's eyes, the so-called fighting mechanism means that there is no mechanism at all. What a normal fight is like now is what it is now. In the eyes of a novice, a wild wolf that needs to deal with it for a long time and may even die if he is not careful, in Duan Qing's eyes were very simple. Because in the eyes of novices, those evasive movements that require long-term practice have become conditioned reflex instincts in Duan Qing.
However, Duan Qing still took 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. After Duan Qing jumps or slashes a few times and the stamina bar is exhausted, Duan Qing can only walk back and forth, unable to even perform normal attacks. It can be said that this setting of physical strength greatly limits Duan Qing's performance.
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 wolves for a while, while staring at the stamina bar and observing. According to his statistics, the short stamina bar can probably support him to jump seven or eight times, or slash five or six times, and then he can only dangle around and wait for his stamina to recover. Fortunately, the stamina recovers very quickly. , as long as you don’t do physical exertion and interrupt its recovery progress, it will be full in three or four seconds, otherwise this game will be too difficult. Duan Qing even tried to run and jump when his stamina bar was exhausted, but in addition to the soreness caused by fatigue, the result was a slight decrease 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 was hard to say whether he could succeed. But now I don't have any way to greatly consume my physical strength, so I can't prove this point.
Survival is so difficult, skill understanding is so demanding, and combat is so troublesome. It doesn't have the sense of exhilaration that "gorgeous combat and simple systems" can be found in other games. It stands to reason that those who have played to this point are deleting the game every minute, but Duan Qing is obviously not an ordinary person, and he finds it very interesting. He even went to the blacksmith's house to play tricks for a long time and borrowed a wooden shield to study the physical strength consumed by blocking attacks with the shield. Although no useful results were obtained in the end, I learned another skill.
[Block: Use shield to block attacks. 】
[Power: 60%]
[Skill requirement: holding a shield]
Recalling the scene when he was knocked away by Iron Ambition's shield, Duan Qing felt that the power was probably a bit low.
The remaining points 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, then tried to slash the sword in a certain direction, and then quickly raised it.
Then, he stood there maintaining the downward slashing motion and did not move for a long time.
"The stiffening time after slashing is a bit long..." He thought for a while and slowly retracted his sword: "In other words, if you want to make continuous slashing movements, 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 from Brother Tie that there are still many tasks in this game. The previous task of helping the blacksmith find herbs is an example. So he planned to find two missions to do and get a feel for the customs and customs of this game.
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 favorability." He picked many private houses to send hares, wild wolves, herbs and other trophies. Even the original blacksmith patronized his "business", but he still didn't see anything similar to the mission.
After some simple guessing, Duan Qing felt that it was still related to his own strength - simply put, his attributes were insufficient. A person who is as weak as a chicken cannot be favored by NPCs. Now that he has become 7 points of strength, even he feels a little reborn, so he plans 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 one after another, and once again experienced the simple folk customs of this remote village, Duan Qing was still helpless. He felt that his friendship with these villagers was already very high, so why didn't he receive any tasks? Well, the relationship with the blacksmith guy might be a little different...
Does this game still have charm value? When Duan Qing thought about the possibility of having to fight with face, he immediately lost all confidence, because his past game experience told him that he might have African ancestry. Every time he needed to use luck and face, he didn't have it. What a happy ending...
Realizing the seriousness of the problem, Duan Qing felt a little uneasy, so he immediately contacted Iron Ambition. But it's offline, because this game is so real that even secret chat doesn't exist.
"Mission? Of course there is, but how do I know what it is specifically related to..."
Players in the free world cannot see the secret messages of friends who are not in the game state. Iron Ambition only saw Duan Qing's message when he was free. Since he also responded with a message, Duan Qing only saw these words 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 I didn't say this, it was said by 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 Their family 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 for being assigned the mission. There is no need and everyone is in peace. Why should you be given a mission?"
"It's not that you look for tasks to do, but that you hope that tasks find you. That's my understanding."
Duan Qing hadn't seen Brother Tie's judgments about mission "settings" yet. 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.
When I played a game and came to 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 are like a maze. Duan Qing has been obsessed with studying skills these days and has not deliberately paid attention to these specific places, so he has 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 the players, but because many people have been there - they want to try their luck and get benefits. There are still many 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 him. Duan Qing 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 roof, placed among this row of ordinary bungalows, makes it somewhat stand out from the crowd. The houses on both sides looked shorter than the village chief's house. On the left was an ordinary house. There seemed to be people living inside, but the door was not open. The door on the right was open, as if welcoming guests, but when Duan Qing came closer, he saw that there were wooden basins, bamboo baskets, cloth bags and other containers at the door, which contained things like weeds and branches. Inside the house There are also many wooden boxes placed, and a wooden sign is hung on the side of the door, which probably means collecting various types 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 because they didn't get any tasks. Later, the two or three newbies all had angry looks on their faces and walked away one after another. Duan Qing then stepped forward. The man who looked gray-haired and energetic, probably the village chief, was not bored at all. He still looked kind and greeted 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 popular science section when they find this place. I wonder if those people who left just now listened to the entire village chief's words. Maybe something will be triggered after listening to it...
In a professional spirit and with the slightest hope, Duan Qing still listened patiently, intending 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 didn't even repeat a sentence. During this process, Duan Qing used a resentful look to send away the two players who later found this place and were talked away by nonsense. Then he gritted his teeth and closed his eyes and listened for a while before sending away another group of players that he didn't see. He didn’t know how long it had been until he finished listening to the impassioned concluding speech of “...the future of the village depends on you adventurers, go ahead! More unknown surprises are waiting for you!” , Duan Qing finally couldn't bear this heavy mental blow and went offline directly.
Fortunately, Brother Tie's messages 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 early morning the next day, and this time he planned to go to the other side of the village to have a look.
The free world system has a map system. Players can find the places they have been in the "Adventure Notes" in the game system. It is said that this record-like map will gradually expand according to their own adventure experiences, and then be used as part of their own adventure experiences together with other records. Put it in this note. So in Duan Qing's view, his own parchment-colored map is now very small. It only shows the floor plan of a village in the middle of the map, as well as some areas to the north of the village. The farthest place is probably The field where Ambition of Iron once dragged 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 east was a forest. Duan Qing did not enter rashly, and the parchment was blank. As for the area at the south entrance of the village, it only ends at the grassland where Duan Qing first came to this world. Further south is probably the legendary Emerald Forest.
How about going there to explore?
During this period, whether in the exchanges between Iron Hearts or in the occasional leaks from passers-by, the name of the Emerald Forest can be heard, and just hearing this name, you can feel that it is a more dangerous place. The place. However, Heart of Iron can enter and exit that place when it is level 6. I guess I can also see it. Although I only added 3 attribute points, it is probably about the same strength as a player at level 3 or 4...
However, compared to the equipment image of Hearts of Iron at that time, my image seems to be a bit 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 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.
Still wearing the purple burqa and still having the golden ponytail, but it was different from what I saw that night. At this time, the braid was 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 this kind of mushroom..."
"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 was probably 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 girl's angry face 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, so she angrily threw away the man, picked up the bamboo basket at her feet, and walked toward the village alone. Perhaps because she was "angry and ashamed", she secretly glanced around and found that there were still many people secretly looking at her, so she lowered her head and wanted to leave here quickly. When passing Duan Qing, he didn't notice him.
Probably because the excitement has passed, the eyes 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 found that another person wearing novice player clothes stopped the girl just now and whispered something.
Anyway, there is plenty of time...
Duan Qing walked aside calmly and watched the man say a few words to the girl. The girl, who was a little angry at first, suddenly became happy. She nodded, and her ponytail bounced up and down as she nodded. 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 waved to the man cheerfully, 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 brushed her hair, picked up the bamboo basket, turned around... and walked out of the village.
Is this 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 followed slowly.
