Chapter 23: Recruiting New Players (Part 1)
The [Loot Generator] has 7 output ports.
It can simultaneously break down 7 creatures.
With a ding, the 3 raider corpses were fully dissolved at the same time.
The output ports opened, and the conveyor belts inside brought out the loot.
2 bottles of red reagent, 1 vial of blood, 1 white bone, 1 piece of green clothing.
[Life Potion] *2
[Heals wounds, repairs fractures]
[Instantly restores 25% HP + slowly restores 500 HP]
One vial of blood is still the inlay [Boiling Blood].
[Rune Bone of Destruction]
[Quality: Superior]
[+20% Physical Damage]
[+21% Wound Damage]
[+33% Energy Recovery Rate]
[This bone contains biological energy, perhaps a medium for some ritual.]
Lastly:
[Fur Jacket]
[Quality: Common]
[18 Armor]
[Common equipment produced by the Disaster Base, can adapt to the shape of clones.]
Now, all the loot has been obtained.
Lin Tang grabbed the two bottles of red potion.
"As expected! Life potions are here. With these, our survival rate will increase significantly. At least we'll dare to trade blood in battle now."
Thin Dog placed this vial of [Boiling Blood] and the previous one on the ground.
"2 vials from 4 corpses. Seems this inlay is quite common, tentatively listed as a regular drop from raiders. We only have 1 ring now, I suggest using one vial to increase combat power first."
Fox Spirit: "Agreed, at this stage, strengthening ourselves even a little bit counts."
Thin Dog picked up the bone with his left hand, and an inexplicable sense of power transmitted from the bone.
He felt his fists hardening, and hitting someone with a big club would definitely be stronger.
"There's an obvious enhancement feeling. I feel much stronger just holding this bone."
He passed the bone to Fox Spirit, indicating for him to feel it too.
When his hand left the bone, that strange bonus suddenly disappeared.
After feeling it for a moment, Fox Spirit put the bone in his pocket, then found a piece of cloth to wrap around his arm. After trying several positions, he said:
"The enhancement of this bone is interesting. It only works when I'm holding it with one hand. It doesn't work when placed on other parts of the body. So if you want to continuously enjoy the enhancement from this bone, you must use a one-handed weapon, with this in the other hand."
Lin Tang took it and observed.
"This bone is about as long as a human arm. If held in one hand, it might reduce one's agility in close combat. I think the design of this item is likely for the mage class in this game - one hand holding a staff, one hand holding the bone for enhancement. It even comes with energy recovery bonus. The designer's hint is very obvious."
"Indeed. From what we can see now, the percentage increase in physical damage and wound damage is not as strong as directly wielding a two-handed spiked club. As for energy enhancement, we don't have any skills that use our own energy yet, so we can't utilize it. We can store it for now."
The [Rune Bone of Destruction] was temporarily placed by the group on the empty ground in the small cave of the base.
Lastly, the [Fur Jacket], Thin Dog took it and put it on.
"Uh, it's just a rather thick piece of clothing, and it fits well."
Fox Spirit: "Of course it fits, because after you put it on, the clothes moved on their own, adjusting their size."
Lin Tang: "!"
"Holy crap? Moving clothes? Has it gained sentience?"
Fox Spirit shook his head: "Not sure, maybe it's the adaptability of the base equipment's material. The material of this clothing feels a bit strange when touched. Although it's called a [Fur Jacket], it doesn't feel like animal fur..."
"Nevermind, as long as it's usable. Who can understand the workings of a game? For all we know, the designer might have just casually created a model. I'm pouring the [Boiling Blood] onto my ring now!"
Thin Dog opened the bottle, and the red blood inside slowly dripped onto the [Copper Ring of Resistance], being directly absorbed by the ring without a single drop falling to the ground. Red patterns appeared on the surface of the ring.
After one bottle was fully poured, the ring flashed with light, and Thin Dog's watch prompted: [Inlay Successful]
[Copper Ring of Resistance (Inlaid with Boiling Blood)]
[Quality: Superior]
[11% Radiation Resistance]
[+1 HP Recovery per second]
[+8% Physical Damage]
[+18 Attack Ability]
The ring absorbed the abilities of [Boiling Blood], and the 4 attributes looked quite impressive.
After Thin Dog put it on, the enhanced strength and reaction speed gave him a jolt.
"Ah~ That feels good! I need more equipment! I want to wear 10 rings and fill myself up!"
Lin Tang: "How does it feel? Let me try it on? Why are you hiding? I won't snatch it, come on, hand it over! My attack ability is the highest, so I should get priority. I want to go on a killing spree!"
"Ahem! Lin Tang, don't mess around. This equipment goes to Thin Dog first, he can better utilize its advantages. Wait until we kill more monsters and get more equipment to distribute. Let's go, no time to waste. It should be easier to deal with raiders now."
Lin Tang reluctantly withdrew his hand: "Fine. Let Thin Dog enjoy it for now."
Besides the 4 raider corpses, their weapons were naturally brought back by the players as well.
Still the same unimaginative spiked clubs.
It seems all raiders have a fondness for these large blunt weapons.
"Appraise them all, then Lin Tang can pick the one with the highest attributes to use. Let's change direction and explore the map. I feel like there must be more than one raider camp in this area. Based on the initial guiding plot, I deduce that the energy source we're looking for is in the next raider camp."
"Charge!"
The three placed 3 spiked clubs, 2 crowbars, 1 bone, and 3 jin of beans next to the machine. Lin Tang returned the ring to the lord. Everything was tidied up.
"Does this game have a warehouse? What if someone takes our stuff when we leave it outside like this?"
"Heh! There are only three of us beta testers in this game, where would other people come from? Don't worry about it. We'll mention it to Sentry when we log out, he'll definitely find a way to fix it."
"You're right!"
The three players, now at full status, set out again, probing towards the dark parts of the map.
In the Diablo III forum.
The thread posted by Sentry continued to gain popularity.
After talking about graphics cards for half a day, everyone's attention returned to the virtual reality game.
GirlMushroomPicker: "Ah... There are beta test slots again? I was too scared to sign up after what happened with Night God last time. Should I try it? I'm so conflicted..."
GrandpaHasHisOwnStyle: "No pics, no proof?"
InkySwordXiaoxiao: "Coming from the neighboring handicraft forum, heard there's a fishing post here? I'm here to join the fun. Although I've already signed up, I probably won't be selected, right? (laughs)"
--Reply: "Whoa!? Xiaoxiao came to our forum? This is an honor!"
--Reply: "Xiaoxiao, I'm your loyal freeloading fan! I've watched all your videos without donating a single coin!"
--Reply: "I love that Tang sword you recreated the most. Can you give it to me for free? I'm a student, and please give me an extra 200 yuan for food."
--Advisor Reply: "Since Xiaoxiao has spoken, I'm willing to trade ten years of my life for Xiaoxiao to get a beta test slot!"
InkySwordXiaoxiao is a talent in Bilibili's handicraft section, known for creating and repairing various cold weapons.
Who could resist a beautiful and sweet-voiced female version of Handy Geng?
Somehow, she came to the Diablo III forum to join the excitement.
Many people replied, and the popularity of this thread remained high, attracting the attention of more forum users.
The number of registrations on the official website of "Apocalypse Online" increased again.
Suddenly, when the thread reached 153 floors.
Shadow Night God appeared!
"After thinking long and hard last night, I finally discovered the true form of this scam. What I'm about to say may overturn everyone's perceptions..."
The thread suddenly went quiet.
Cheng Shaofeng, who was quantum peeking: (°ー°〃)
(End of chapter)
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