Chapter 31: Game lobby (with audience comments, don't buy if you don't like it.)
After a long list of rewards and titles that made people listen to the wood, the system politely said goodbye and Bai Liu's small TV went out with a "pop", but Bai Liu's small TV had already gathered a lot of viewers in front of it, who were marveling and discussing:
"Newcomer? Pure newbie? Shocked my whole neighborhood, newcomers are too powerful now, the pass reward is broadcasted for ten minutes ......"
"That's not even the best, didn't you notice this guy collected all the monster books! A lot of gods can't collect all the monster books by the time they pass the true end!"
"I've purchased his video to watch, and I think it's going to be really good!"
"Me too, I'm really blown away, a long list of rewards and over 10,000 charge points, how did that happen ......"
"I'm rather curious about how he got those thousand or so steps, by all accounts, his clearance numbers are already very impressive, why would anyone still step on them?"
Bai Liu's video game purchases skyrocketed, selling hundreds of copies in no time.
This is also the reason why everyone wants to come to the core area, the audience here is very generous, relatively rational thinking, whether it's a reward for charging, or Bai Liu, who has already passed the level, and finally got stuck on this side to show his face, most of them are willing to spend a few dozen points to buy your video, to see what kind of demon or devil you are, or a newcomer with potential.
Some people have counted the number of charging points you can get for a guaranteed promotional spot in a core area in the thousands.
Wang Shun looked at Bai Liu's blacked out screen with a bit of fondness, "God Mu, when do you think Bai Liu will enter the game next time? Do you think he'll still pick the single player game? I kind of want to squat on his little TV."
"How would I know if you ask me." Mu Sicheng narrowed his eyes, "Bai Liu should have logged out of the game from the newbie area, you'd better go to the newbie area and catch him directly, ask him directly, Bai Liu's spirit value hasn't recovered yet, he shouldn't be too clear in his mind, if you can sell him a good deal while you're there now, maybe he'll still be willing to take you to play the game in the future. "
"God Mu, you really ......" Wang Shun's expression was complicated, "So shameless ...... "
"You're not going?" Mu Sicheng was unfazed by Wang Shun's accusation, he shrugged his shoulders and smiled an evil smile, but his cheeks puckered up on one side because of the lollipop in his mouth spoiled the evil, "I'm curious about his [newcomer skills]."
"The first player in a batch of newcomers will receive [Newcomer Skills], and the system will conceal the player's Newcomer Skills, and the skills are said to be tied to the player's truest inner desires, so I'd like to know what the inner desires of someone like Bai Liu are."
Wang Shun was actually curious, but he was puzzled, "But this kind of thing is normally known to be kept secret, right? Bai Liu shouldn't have told us."
"But Bai Liu's mental value is only 0.1 right now, do you think it's under normal circumstances? It's a miracle he didn't go crazy when he came out." Mu Sicheng innocently looked at Wang Shun, "I think Bai Liu might not even be able to stand up when he logged out of the game, his mind is definitely not clear, so won't we be able to find out everything by pretending to be the system's staff?"
Wang Shun: "......"
Mu Sicheng, you're such an outlaw.
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Bai Liu full of water out, he was all soaked to the skin, confused, as if a layer of frosted glass, standing have a sense of rotation, Bai Liu had to hold on to the wall to gasp to restore energy, he felt a little low blood sugar, so he squatted, Bai Liu squatted down did not stabilize the legs of a soft and sat directly on the ground, sat down Bai Liu tried several times, and could not stand up again, but also as it happened to sit on the ground. Bai Liu tried several times to sit down, but he could not stand up any more, so he just sat down on the ground as the case may be.
"I'm really weak." Bai Liu sighed from the bottom of his heart.
Newcomer area boarding exit here is not much people, after all, in addition to Bai Liu has not other players through the level, Bai Liu took a break to organize the rewards and props that he got, organizing and organizing tsk tsk tsk.
He was right, the rewards in the Monster Book were indeed the biggest.
This kind of big does not mean that these monster book set out of the props are awesome, such as [sea diving] and [sculpture of the shell] are very normal plus attribute panel points props, as a game designer, this kind of props for Bai Liu to say ordinary can not be more ordinary.
But Bai Liu still feels that these things are the biggest rewards.
Because these are things that points can't buy in the game store.
Bai Liu searched several times, but couldn't find any kind of item in the store that could correspond to his prop reward.
This indicates that the reward props dropped by the [Monster Book] have [non-market tradeability] and are considered [limited props], that is, such props cannot be acquired by players through purchasing in the game store, and such props can only be acquired by players through game drops, as well as through transactions between players and players outside of the system in two ways.
But the monster books are obviously not good to collect, which means that these props are difficult to obtain by passing the game, then some players will obtain these [limited props for monster books] through the second way - trading between players, and these people are estimated to be not a few.
In other words, Bai Liu felt that if he sold the items he had obtained, he would be able to sell them for an unbelievably good price.
But he wouldn't sell it, at least right now when he himself still needed a certain basic attribute, Bai Liu wouldn't easily sell the [Monster Book Props] he had gotten.
The prop that Bai Liu finds valuable is of course the [Mermaid's Amulet], which is equivalent to an escape prop to save his life.
Siren's scales] system will directly give him a [efficacy unknown] explanation, [Siren's fishbone] gave a specious and very two-dimensional description, said that you can tear space time, but the specific function or let Bai Liu to explore their own, and the system of these two props did not even give the ratings, directly said the unknown, Bai Liu pointed to this [unknown] after the supplemental explanation, directly told him the system could not The system is not able to rate it.
"The system can't rate?" Bai Liu sighs, "The system doesn't work."
But what Bai Liu didn't know was that both of these props came from the body of a god level npc, and a god level npc was originally a string of incalculable and complex bug data to the system, so to let it explain a string of bones and a piece of scale from the body of a bug data was a bit too strong and unorthodox.
While Bai Liu checked his rewards to the end, he found an amazing [Personal Skill Reward] with the word [Unlocked] displayed behind it, Bai Liu curiously tapped [Unlocked] twice, the interface slowly faded out, and a new page popped up - [Please ask players to close their eyes and visualize what you want the most right now]
Bai Liu closed his eyes, folded his hands, and mumbled three times in his heart with great devotion - money, money, money.
[Players can now open their eyes to receive skills]
Bai Liu opened his eyes, in front of him suspended a very worn, like being used for more than ten years of cowhide wallet, the wallet edges are white, some parts of the cowhide damaged to reveal the inside of the braided line, Bai Liu full of wooden face to look at the wallet he used for a long time did not want to throw away.
That's his new skill?
[Player: Bai Liu Skill: Empty old wallet (seems to have been used for a long time, but the owner still doesn't want to throw it away, enough to show that he's short of cash)]]
[Player: Bai Liu Skill Set: Poor Drifter (Unemployed, broke, your rent is due soon, you seem to have no other way out but to roam the streets)]]
Bai Liu: "......"
Is this skill used to attack someone (like him) for poverty?
[System: Of course not]
[Player Bai Liu's Skill: You can use everything in your hand to trade with other people, as long as the other person promises to give you something, you can put it into your own wallet].
[The other party's skills, points, props, lives, and even souls and beliefs can be turned into coins and loaded into your wallet, becoming tools in your hands; you are the devil's trader, a poor looking vagabond, but the person you trade with can sell everything they have.]
[Though you have nothing now, you will have everything in the future, for your desire for money is endless, and sooner or later you will have the richest purse in the world, even though it is filled with the souls of the helpless.]
[Skill Usage: Trading, after both parties agree that a deal has been made both parties may not renege on the deal, may not re-sell something obtained from the same person to the same person, and if one of the parties dies while the deal is in progress, the soul of the party who did not fulfill the duties of the deal will be imprisoned in the wallet]
"Wow." Bai Liu was a bit intrigued, "That skill doesn't sound very human."
[System: Do you hate this skill?]
"No." Bai Liu smiled, "On the contrary, I like it very much, it suits me very well, I would like to inquire, if a deal is made with me without the other party knowing that I have this skill, is the deal valid?"
[System: A transaction is established when there is a (monetary) relationship between the two parties and (money) enters the prop wallet at least once.]
"Coin relationship?" Bai Liu rubs his chin, "Like what? "
[System: For example, you want to get someone's props, you use the points (coins) in your wallet to buy them from him, and he allows it, no matter if he knows you have this skill or not, and no matter if he is genuinely agreeing to it or not, at the moment he has taken your points coins, the transaction is established, and his props are yours]
"Even if I only use one point to buy the other party's very expensive props, in a joking tone, as long as the other party agrees is it? " Bai Liu smiled wider and wider.
[System: Yes]
"Gee, that's a cheeky skill." Bai Liu commented truthfully, "But I kind of can't wait to try it out."
[System: You currently have a balance of 15,781 points, are they all loaded into your wallet?]
Bai Liu nods, "Pretend."
Bai Liu checked his panel attributes after cleaning up the props, and almost all of his attributes were reddish and miserable, as Bai Liu had overdrawn himself particularly badly in the game:
[Player Name: Bai Liu]
[Life Value: 20 (A two hundred pound man can kill you with one sit on his ass, slowly recovering)]
[Stamina: 7 (unsteady, auto-recovery in progress)]
[Agility: 7 (stiffness and muscle soreness, auto-recovery in progress)]
[Attack: 1 (Your full force blow is like a gentle tap from a two-month old cat's paw paw, on auto-reply)]]
[Intelligence: 45 (original value 89, halved due to endangered mental value, original value restored when mental value is restored)]]
[Luck: 0 (You've been surprisingly unlucky all your life, if there's going to be one person in the game who encounters a godly NPC, that person is bound to be you)]]
[Skill: Empty Old Wallet]
[Status: poor vagrant]
[Mental Value: 3 (By all rights you should be insane to the point of becoming a monster, very shocked that you are still able to maintain your sanity, but now that I think about it, maybe having sanity has made you a monster long ago, whether you are insane or not, maintaining your sanity and calmness is one of the ways in which you are a monster, scary player! (Numerology is in the process of auto-recovery)]
Bai Liu acted as if he hadn't seen the long list of words evaluating him as a monster behind the spirit values, and calmly inquired, "How long will it take for these values to return?"
[System: According to your current recovery rate, you will be able to recover completely in three to five days after leaving the game]
Bai Liu is not a character who likes to procrastinate: "Then leave the swim--" the play.
No sooner had he finished his words than he saw two men trying to make their way toward the entrance to the Den.
Mu Sicheng and Wang Shun were a bit bemused and amused to see Bai Liu sitting on the ground with his head tilted back against the exit wall, it was obvious that Bai Liu was unconscious and resting in such a disheveled position.
It does seem that the lowering of spirit value has had a heavy impact on Bai Liu.
But when they walked over and Bai Liu raised his tilted head to look at Mu Sicheng and Wang Shun and said the first thing he saw them say, the two men's faces changed.
Bai Liu asked, "Are you here to spy on information about my personal skills?"
The smirk on Mu Sicheng's face lurched as he squatted down and rested his hands on his knees to survey Bai Liu, inquiring with amusement, "How can you be sure that we must be here to spy on your personal skills, in case we're here to kill or rob you, after all, you should be very rich right now, and have a lot of props on you as well."
Wang Shun was about to say that it was impossible to kill someone in the system lobby, but then he looked at Bai Liu as if he was really thinking about it, and then he realized that Bai Liu had just come out of the game and didn't know about it.
"You shouldn't be able to kill anyone in this hall." Bai Liu came to this conclusion after only a few seconds of thought.
Wang Shun was shocked and blurted out, "How did you know?"
The interest in Mu Sicheng's eyes grew stronger and stronger, he was sure that Bai Liu did not know about the fact that he was not allowed to kill anyone here in the hall, because when he said that he was going to kill Bai Liu, Bai Liu subconsciously retracted his legs a little bit to avoid himself, which was an automatic reaction of human beings to an object that could harm them.
But after only a few seconds, Bai Liu came to the right conclusion.
"Reason?" Mu Sicheng raised his eyebrows.
"Because if gamers can be robbed and killed if they log out, there's bound to be a lot of people squatting here at this opening."
Bai Liu shrugged, "But I've been out here for ten minutes, and I haven't seen a second creature besides you guys, and if killing was allowed in this game, then this place would inevitably be filled with people coming to rob the place, but it's not here, so I'm guessing killing would be forbidden here, and odds are that robbing would be forbidden as well."
Bai Liu can make this guess there is actually another reason, from the game designer's point of view, this kind of place where the player is very weak to board the exit if allowed to kill, then the game balance will be greatly damaged.
It's like allowing players to crouch next to [resurrection point] to kill people in general, and designing it this way in a game that is not a massively multiplayer online game would make for a very poor gameplay experience.
If the player who cleared the game was robbed and killed as soon as he logged out, the game would quickly run out of players and wouldn't be so well run.
Mu Sicheng whistled, his eyes appreciative, "bingo, right guess."
Wang Shun is very complex eyes, before Mu Sicheng also said to bluff Bai Liu, coax the other party to say their skills, now it seems that Mu Sicheng a lie are not able to play a photo in front of Bai Liu, he and Mu Sicheng this IQ basically goodbye to lie to Bai Liu.... ...
"I'm curious what your current spirit value is?" Mu Sicheng looked at Bai Liu who had a clear mind and a calm gaze, "You don't look like a player who just had a spirit value of 0.1, did you buy yourself mental bleach to restore your spirit value?"
Bai Liu seemed to be thinking clearly, completely like a player with a normal mental value, other than purchasing bleach to rinse away his mental value and this explanation, Mu Sicheng couldn't think of a second reasonable explanation.
"My current spirit value is only 3." Bai Liu said calmly, "It's still recovering."
Mu Sicheng: "......"
Wang Shun: "......"
Mu Sicheng and Wang Shun's eyes both fell into a brief stagnation and woodenness, or Wang Shun took the first step to open his mouth incredulously and asked rhetorically, "How much did you say your spirit is worth right now?!"
"Three." Bai Liu asked naturally, "What's wrong?"
"3......" Wang Shun's words were not even smooth anymore, he looked at Bai Liu with the gaze of a weird creature that shouldn't exist in the world, "Bai Liu, do you know what the concept of spirit value 3 is? Bai Liu, do you know what the concept of spirit value 3 is? You should be in a state where many hallucinations are overlapping and both your consciousness and □□□ are being tormented ......"
"I haven't fallen into a mental value below sixty, but when I fell into sixty it was already very hard, I couldn't even speak well, many players who fell into a mental value below 20 basically went crazy as soon as they got out of the game, you only have a mental value of 3, and then you're like this ......"
Wang Shun gestured Bai Liu's whole body with his hands, his expression was hard to describe, he seemed to be at a loss of words to evaluate Bai Liu, but Bai Liu raised some interest, he leaned against the wall, lazily asked Wang Shun: "What's wrong with me? I think I am quite normal."
Yeah, it's normal, but Bai Liu's current [normal] is an extreme abnormality! No one could maintain a [Normal Human] form when they were at Spirit Value 3!
"You, how can you still think to answer our questions, you should have your mind in a mess, your intelligence value should have been halved! "Wang Shun is a bit incoherent.
"Indeed, my brain is more confused." Bai Liu nodded approvingly, "It's true that my Intelligence value has been halved, but what the hell, that doesn't stop me from thinking about your question with 45 Intelligence value, and it's not a difficult question."
Wang Shun was speechless.
Bai Liu is indeed tormented by a twisted consciousness, which seems like a heartfelt desire, constantly urging him, tempting him, as if to turn him into a monster for the sake of wrongdoing, but that's pretty much the way it's been since Bai Liu lost his job and wanted money.
There was a voice that would whisper in Bai Liu's ear saying [go beat up the boss who fired you] [go beat up the young master Mu Ke who parachuted in to take your place] or something like that, and with Bai Liu's intelligence he could have done it to beat up these two people without being noticed.
But Bai Liu is used to use the law to restrain himself, he puts a lot of big books of jurisprudence at home, he can almost recite them backwards, Bai Liu gives himself the bottom line of being a human being is that he [can't go against the recognized rules set by the group he lives in], when he exists as [a member of the human group], he can't go against the laws and regulations set by [the human group].
Bai Liu had already gotten used to restraining his abnormal monetary desires, so being tormented by this level of out-of-control desire was painless for him.
...... But what is Spirit Value Bleach ...... Bai Liu squinted his eyes as he pondered the name of this prop that came out of Mu Sicheng's mouth, which sounded a bit like something like a [Blue Pill] that replied to a player's status.
But Bai Liu doesn't directly ask Wang Shun what the hell psychic value bleach is, these two have already fooled him once, so Bai Liu turns to Mu Sicheng, pondering -- the man clearly seems to be having more fun... ...
Wang Shun asked, "Bai Liu, how did you guess that we came to you to ask about [Personal Skills]?"
"If you guys aren't here to kill me, most likely you're specifically here to find me because you have a request and are looking for me to work with, or you're just curious about me and are here to spy on my information."
Bai Liu spoke without hesitation, the regulations were clear: "But as a newcomer, I shouldn't have much valuable information for you guys, my various values as well as prop rewards are open to you guys, and the only thing that's hidden is my [Personal Skills]."
He raised his eyes and looked straight at Mu Sicheng and Wang Shun : "So I guess, you guys are here to ask me what my [Personal Skill] is, normally I shouldn't be able to tell you guys but you guys came anyway, I think it's because I'm having an abnormal mental value right now, you guys think that I'm delirious and it's very likely that I'll be snared by you, am I right? "
Thoroughly speechless, Wang Shun let out a long sigh.
Bai Liu's guess was right on the money! Even they were prepared to drill a hole in the ground and were right on the money!
Mu Sicheng leaned in close and scrutinized Bai Liu, "I'm now very skeptical about what your Spirit Value really is? I feel like I won't be able to set your personal skills today."
"Not necessarily." Bai Liu slowly raised the corners of his mouth as he looked at Mu Sicheng good-naturedly, "How about we make a deal? I'll show you my skills, and you help me restore my spirit value with Spirit Bleach."
"...... Are you serious?" Mu Sicheng looked at Bai Liu with a few moments of skepticism, "Don't even think about lying to me, I have props that can judge whether you're honest or not."
Bai Liu spreads his hands and smiles, "You're welcome to judge."
"But why should I help you bleach your spirit value for free?" Mu Sicheng thought about it and instantly recoiled, he smiled wistfully, "Spiritual bleach isn't cheap, I can wait for your skills until the next time you play a game, you're bound to use it aren't you?"
Bai Liu removes a point from his wallet hidden in his pocket, this point turns into a silver coin being pinched by Bai Liu at his fingertips, "I don't float for nothing, here's a point for you."
Published at: 02/02/2024 03:00