It wasn't until after dinner that Zhang Heng had time to check his character panel, and his information was updated again.
Name: Zhang Heng
Sex: Male
Age: 19
Player number: 07958
Number of game rounds played: 3
Current game points: 777
Items held: Key of Shadow (E), Moment of Shadow (D)
Skills mastered: piano lv1, language proficiency lv1 (three languages can reach daily communication level), modification and repair lv1, skiing lv1, rock climbing lv1, archery lv2, wilderness survival lv2, car driving skills lv2, shooting lv2
Evaluation: This player is protected by the shadows and has skills such as car driving, shooting, wilderness survival and archery. He has a certain ability to protect himself, but has no obvious strengths. It is expected that he can pass the seven rounds of the game.
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After three months of practice in the real world and 48 hours of additional time, Zhang Heng's rock climbing finally broke through from lv0 to lv1. Now he can climb most artificial rock walls with bare hands. For natural rock walls, it depends on the situation. Depending on the angle, the rock quality may affect the difficulty of climbing.
Shooting and skiing are two new skills he gained in the last dungeon. Shooting is also the most talented skill he has shown so far. It only took him a month to improve from a newcomer who just touched a gun. He reached the LV1 level, and that night he and Simon escaped from the guerrilla camp and faced off against the mysterious master at the lake, which also stimulated the potential in his body.
In the end, he not only won the life-and-death battle, but also improved his shooting skills to lv2.
And this is not the end. He stayed with Simon during the period of his life in Sweden. The two often went into the mountains to hunt together. Simon taught him all the skills including rapid shooting. Therefore, Zhang Heng’s current shooting skills The level is actually far beyond lv2, but he doesn't know how far it is from lv3.
In fact, he also discovered that it will be very difficult to improve a skill after it reaches lv2, because this already means that you have reached an extremely outstanding level among ordinary people, and there will be more and more room for improvement in the future. The narrower it gets, taking his level 2 archery as an example, Zhang Heng has already felt that he can only maintain this level with practice alone. If he wants to be promoted to the next level, there must be some other external stimulation.
It was like the life-and-death duel by the lake that night, but this kind of thing was not so easy to encounter. If possible, Zhang Heng even hoped that he would never encounter it.
Understanding the current situation, Zhang Heng closed the character panel.
After nightfall, the wind and waves on the sea became stronger. Zhang Heng was lying on the hammock, feeling that the dinner he had just eaten kept swaying back and forth in his stomach. He had also been on a sea ship before, but it didn't last long, only half a day, and he was at sea. The wind and waves were relatively calm, so I didn’t get seasick.
But this time the situation was obviously different, especially in the crowded sailor's cabin, lying together with a group of pirates who had not taken a shower for an unknown period of time, and the air was mixed with various unpleasant smells, so I didn't pass it. After a while, Zhang Heng couldn't help but spit it out.
The pirates burst out laughing when they saw this, "Are you kidding me? Are you a chick going to sea for the first time?"
"Yeah, I'm starting to regret letting him join us on the deck before." Another pirate also echoed.
Life at sea is boring, so having fun is also a basic skill for pirates.
But there are also helpful guys among them. A black pirate handed Zhang Heng a wooden bucket so that he could spit in it, and also helped him pour a glass of water.
"Thanks."
After vomiting, Zhang Heng felt a little better. He rinsed his mouth with fresh water and said thanks.
"You're welcome, don't take their words to heart. Those guys just have bad mouths. They are actually not bad people. You will find out after you stay for a long time." The black pirate stretched out a hand, "Goodwin, sea lion gunner."
"Zhang Heng." Zhang Heng held the barrel with one hand and completed the handshake with the other hand.
"I saw your performance on the deck before. It was very impressive. What did you do before, a soldier?" Goodwin said enthusiastically.
"Absolutely. I did participate in...a war before."
"Did you win?"
"Not really, but at least I and the people I care about survived."
"You're so lucky, I fought in a war and we lost," Goodwin pulled back his collar to reveal the brand on his left breast.
"My tribe was defeated by another tribe. They killed my father and mother, as well as the elders in the tribe, and sold me, my brother and my six-year-old sister to a slave team. I don't remember How long have we been on the boat? At that time, everyone was shackled and crowded into the small warehouse on the ground floor, one by one, unable to move. In fact, there was no room to even breathe. When we arrived at the place where they were When we called it the New World, of the three hundred black people on board, less than eighty were still breathing, and my brother died in my arms.”
"I'm sorry to hear this." Zhang Heng said.
The slave trade began in the 15th century and reached its peak in the 17th and 18th centuries. The reclamation and construction of colonies required a large amount of cheap labor. It was obviously unrealistic to rely solely on European immigrants, so merchants turned their attention to Africa and Europe. Countries scrambled to set up trading stations and forts there, or to stir up relations between tribes, to acquire war prisoners, or to hunt black slaves themselves.
Today, Zhang Heng lives in an era when the triangular trade is booming. Merchants set out from Europe to Africa to buy black slaves, then transport the black slaves to the Americas and sell them to plantations and farmers in the Americas. They would transport gold, coffee, cotton and other specialties to Europe to make astonishing profits.
This situation did not improve until the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, when Britain, France, the United States and other countries gradually banned the slave trade. However, although the government no longer supported this behavior, private smuggling was still rampant, and it would take some time for the slave trade to truly decline. By the time we got to the 1860s, that was a story for another day.
"I was bought by a coffee planter in Charleston and worked there for eight years, then was sold to a ship as a sailor, doing the most work and the worst food, until she found us."
"who?"
"Sea Lion, she gave me freedom and accepted me. The people above regarded me as a companion, brother. When fighting, we looked after each other's backs. There is no such thing as a master or a slave here. We are all equal free persons. , and we all have a common home.”
"where?"
"Nassau."
