Chapter 2 Chapter 2 "Save my life! It's more important to save my life!"...
"A-choo!" Xia Xifeng broke the heavy atmosphere with a loud sneeze.
He sat down on the grass, hugged his hands to keep warm and reduce the area exposed to the wind.
"Qin Lang, after the launch of the game "Fantasy of Wonderland", the only sun left in the sky was the 'Bloody Day'. The other sun, the 'Day of Hope', was destroyed during the 'Doomsday' launch event. If we really traveled into "Fantasy of Wonderland", we would be in the Double Sun Era now, and the Doomsday Era has not yet arrived."
Xia Xifeng said as he rubbed his arms to keep warm.
He was a heavy fan of plot settings. After calming down, a lot of information suddenly popped up in his mind: "I wonder how many years it will take until the 'Doomsday' event. I'll find out when I find a passerby to ask the time. Why are you standing so high? To attract the wind?"
Qin Lang was about to retort when another breeze blew over. He also sat down and said, "Study the system first."
"Yeah." Xia Xifeng responded in a muffled voice.
The sun rose into the sky from the east. Xia Xifeng and Qin Lang left the river and found a small tree to sit under.
Before approaching the small tree, the two carefully observed the condition of the tree canopy and threw a few stones at the tree before walking over with confidence.
There was no telling what dangerous creatures might emerge from a fantasy world. Even if there weren't any particularly dangerous creatures, venomous snakes and insects could still cause great suffering to the two men in their underwear. They were extremely cautious.
When Xia Xifeng felt hungry, he finally understood the system.
The general structure of the system is similar to the life skills in "Fantasy of Wonderland".
Life skills are divided into four categories: farming, animal husbandry, gathering, and handicrafts. Each of these categories is further divided into many subcategories, forming a tall skill tree.
The basic life skills in the first row of the skill tree have all been lit up.
"Fantasy of Wonderland" has been operating for many years and has stitched together countless game types.
Xia Xifeng's skill tree is the most traditional farming game skill tree. From the oldest pixel-style farming games to high-definition 3D farming games, this skill tree is basically used.
Xia Xifeng's system requires two types of experience.
The first type is character experience, which is the most traditional experience gained by killing monsters and completing tasks in online games.
Although Xia Xifeng's system does not have combat skills, he does have quality points that can be used to enhance his physical fitness every time he levels up. Furthermore, he gains skill points every time he levels up, which can unlock new life skills.
The second is skill experience, that is, skill proficiency.
Every time Xia Xifeng uses a life skill, he gains proficiency. Different levels of life skills yield different quantities, qualities, and types of byproducts.
In short, anyone who has played any farming game will find this system familiar and can quickly get started.
In addition, the system has a "mall" function that is different from the game.
In the game, the items made by Xia Xifeng can be traded with NPCs or listed in auction houses for trading with other players.
Fantasy World has become the real world. Not only are there no other players in the world, but the currency provided by the natives is no longer considered "in-game currency." If Xia Xifeng wants to earn currency again, he can only do so through the "mall."
The "Mall" is divided into three sections: Orders, Repurchases, and Stores.
The initial store is empty. Once Xia Xifeng sells items to the system through "Orders" and "Buybacks", these items will appear permanently in the store.
The store will refresh the quantity daily, monthly, and yearly based on the rarity of the item. The most valuable items will only be sold once, with a minimum quantity of "2".
If the store selling price is "1", the "order" refreshes the purchase price daily and fluctuates between "2-10", and the "buyback" price is fixed at "0.1". There is no limit on the type and quantity of "buyback", and Xia Xifeng can sell as much as he wants.
In other words, as long as Xia Xifeng sells the out-of-print items in the game "Fantasy World" to the system, he can get two at least, but the system will cheat him out of a lot of money.
"The repurchase price is so reasonable?" Xia Xifeng breathed a sigh of relief.
The price setting of this system is to encourage him to produce more products and make money by increasing sales.
After studying his own system, Xia Xifeng took a quick look at Qin Lang's system.
Qin Lang's system didn't have all that much bells and whistles. His system skill tree mirrored the combat skill tree in Fantasy World.
Like the combat professions in most games, the combat skills in "Fantasy of Wonderland" are also divided into "general" and "professional".
General skills do not require skill points, all are already lit up.
When the player reaches level 10, they can choose their first profession and obtain their first profession skill point. After that, the player can obtain one skill point for each level they reach.
Unlike traditional online games where players must continue along this career path after changing jobs, "Fantasy of Wonderland" is more free.
Although you must light up the previous branch skill to light up the next branch skill, players can light up any initial career skill at any time and open any career line.
The maximum level for each profession is ten, which means that when a player reaches level 100, he or she can graduate from a profession.
When they traveled through time, the maximum level of "Fantasy of Wonderland" was 200, which means that players could upgrade two professions to the maximum level and also light up the initial skills of all professions.
The combat gameplay has a high degree of freedom, but not all online game players are hardcore players, and the planners are still quite weak in skill matching.
Although there is an unconventional way of playing that benefits all, the planners recommend that players only choose two professions, because all "legendary quests" that offer good rewards will limit players to having one or two professions at the maximum level before they can accept them.
Moreover, each profession has different compatibility and can be equipped with different equipment. Randomly matching them may result in one plus one being less than two. There are only a few fixed combinations.
For example, the melee mage gameplay when a warrior and a mage are paired together is very stupid, as the mage's skills will be interrupted by the enemy as soon as they are chanted.
Are there any mage skills that don't require casting and can't be interrupted? Dream on! That would completely destroy the game balance. Will melee classes still be playable?
Qin Lang's system is simple, crude and boring. Apart from the fact that it requires money when clicking on skills and the need to brush up on proficiency to upgrade skills after lighting up skills, there is nothing fancy at all.
"Do you want to choose a combination of warlock and mage?" Xia Xifeng asked.
Although Xia Xifeng didn't enjoy combat, having been a long-time player and a die-hard fan of the game's storyline, he was well-versed in combat classes and skills. As long as he wasn't forced to practice, he was a master at theory.
"Fantasy of Wonderland" is a western fantasy game. Different from Japanese fantasy games, the warlock is closer to the traditional spellcaster, and the mage is more auxiliary.
A warlock is someone who possesses special blood or has signed a contract with a special person. Although he does not understand what magic is, he can directly use offensive spells.
Mages are researchers who study the "magic network" which is similar to the energy network, and use the power of the "magic network" through magic props such as scrolls and inscriptions.
That is, during combat, a warlock might throw a fireball, while a mage might unleash a magic cannon and blast you in the face.
Therefore, the mage's solo ability is far inferior to that of the warlock.
A full-level warlock and a full-level mage, with both solo and auxiliary capabilities maximized, are powerful professions that have existed in "Fantasy of Wonderland" since its launch.
For example, Blue Dragon Magic plus Freeze Magic, Fire Dragon Magic plus Blast Magic, etc.
Qin Lang said: "Demon magic plus arcane magic."
"What a despicable playstyle." Xia Xifeng insulted Qin Lang before offering a suggestion, "There really are gods in this world. We're both players and natives now, so I suggest choosing a class pairing that isn't closely tied to the gods."
Xia Xifeng knew that Qin Lang was a pure combat player, the kind of barbarian player who "skipped the entire plot and only knew how to kill, kill, kill", and he probably didn't understand the background setting of the game very well.
"The source of a warlock's power is gods or demons, and they are naturally suppressed by their bloodline or contracted parties; the ability of a mage is affected by the 'magic network', which is built by the God of Magic and controlled by the God of Magic. As long as there are major events related to the source of warlocks and the God of Magic, the abilities of warlocks and mages will be affected." Xia Xifeng explained.
In the background setting of the game, there are always high-ranking figures causing trouble, and the God of Magic has been updated twice.
Every time the God of Magic changes, the "Magic Network" will be temporarily invalidated.
When playing the game, players are not affected by the plot. Even if multiple magic gods die, the magic player can still play the game as usual. Only NPCs will lose their abilities.
But if Xia Xifeng and Qin Lang traveled into this world, they wouldn't necessarily be unaffected. You couldn't gamble on that possibility.
Qin Lang thought for a moment and said, "Shadow Assassin plus Sword Dance Poet?"
The Shadow Assassin has various running skills and is the most agile and flexible. Although the skills can only be activated with short weapons and the attack power is average, the critical bonus is twice that of other professions.
The Sword Dancer is a type of Bard that abandons the Bard's team support ability, strengthens combat ability and self-buff ability, and can use long and short swords. The short sword is a short blade.
At level 200, a max-level Shadow Assassin plus a max-level Sword Dance Poet can transform you into a flexible Violent Assassin.
Thin skin and little blood? Tell me when you can touch me!
Xia Xifeng couldn't help but admire: "As expected of you, you are so wretched."
Qin Lang only likes to solo dungeons and bosses, and is indeed suitable for this kind of lone wolf technical profession.
Xia Xifeng could have praised Qin Lang as a high-level technical player, but he only said that Qin Lang liked backstabs and thousand-year kills, which was particularly despicable.
Qin Lang didn't bother to pay attention to Xia Xifeng's rude words: "First, make a set of low-quality equipment. Once the equipment is ready, I'll go find some monsters to kill."
"What's with your tone? I'm the one supporting you now, so you better be respectful and ask me humbly!" Xia Xifeng stood up, opened the collection vision, and went to look for stones, wood, soil and grass to gain experience.
Qin Lang: "Okay. I ask you to make a set of low-quality equipment first."
Xia Xifeng's expression froze, and he rubbed the goose bumps on his arms: "How disgusting."
Qin Lang didn't bother to pay attention to Xia Xifeng who was always talking back at him, and continued to study the system and test general skills.
Xia Xifeng was also testing his skills.
He picked up a stone without using any skills. The stone was just a stone, useless, occupying an inventory slot.
He opened the collection vision and picked up the stone with a "name". The stone automatically turned into a piece of stone material, and the inventory could be stacked up to 999 times.
The same goes for the rest of the collectible materials.
Wood will become lumber, grass will become fiber, soil will become clay, river water will become drinking water...
"Qin Lang! There are edible berries!" Xia Xifeng excitedly raised the fruit in his hand, turned around and looked, hey, where is Qin Lang?
Xia Xifeng, who was frightened, quickly looked for Qin Lang through the map and found his poor companion lying headfirst in the sand a few dozen meters away.
Qin Lang, who always paid attention to his appearance and demeanor, was now half buried in the sand, completely losing his composure.
"Pfft...Hahahahaha, what are you doing?" Xia Xifeng ran to Qin Lang, pulled Qin Lang out of the sand pile, and laughed out loud.
Qin Lang shook off the dust on his body, his face cold and silent.
Xia Xifeng burst into laughter: "Performance art?"
Qin Lang spat out a mouthful of sand and went to the river to rinse his mouth.
As he walked towards the river, his figure paused and he teleported a few meters at a time.
Xia Xifeng knew at a glance why Qin Lang had dived into the sand pile just now.
Although Qin Lang was a skilled player, keyboard online games were very different from holographic games. Familiar skill combinations, when performed by the human body, could produce bizarre effects due to various movements and inertia.
For example, Qin Lang's intermittent teleportation is the universal skill "Wind Step".
If used in the game, Wind Step allows the player to teleport to a place with a radius of one to three meters (depending on proficiency).
In real life, the Wind Step is not teleportation, but a "jump" or "sprint." Although it looks like teleportation, the human body will generate a large inertia based on the direction of the Wind Step.
Qin Lang failed to brake and the car rolled in the sand for a long time.
Fortunately, he prepared in advance and tried his skills in the soft sand, otherwise he might have hit trees, rocks, fallen into the water and been injured.
If Wind Step is so troublesome, other skills will be even more troublesome.
Every attack skill has a movement. Although the system will "drive" Qin Lang's body when launching a skill, if Qin Lang himself does not adapt to the movement of the skill, not only will the skills be stuck, but the body may also be injured due to limb disharmony, such as spraining an ankle or cramping.
After Qin Lang rinsed his mouth, he said to Xia Xifeng, "Is there any food with blue strips?"
The red bar is health. Xia Xifeng's blue bar is stamina, which is deducted when working. Qin Lang's blue bar is strength, which is deducted when using skills.
Xia Xifeng held up the berries he had just picked: "All cooked food can add mana. Come and try the roasted berries!"
Cooking skills are considered manual skills. Xia Xifeng's most basic cooking skill is grilling various items. Besides increasing mana, health, and satiety, there are no other additional benefits.
Both food and medicine can be used in battle, but firstly, it is inconvenient to eat cooked food while fighting (it is manifested as a reading bar in the game), and secondly, forcing food after reaching fullness will not add mana or blood (it is manifested as not being edible directly in the game), so red and blue medicines are still required in battle.
Xia Xifeng also unlocked the skill of making basic red and blue potions, but there were no herbs in this grassland, so he couldn't make them.
"Here, these roasted berries I carefully prepared... Ugh, they're disgusting." Xia Xifeng retched.
What do roasted berries taste like? It's the taste of roasted, very sour berries. Not only sour, but also with a strange, rancid smell. Chinese people are never used to eating any roasted fruit, let alone extremely sour roasted berries.
Qin Lang frowned and forced himself to fill up the blue bar and continue training.
Xia Xifeng had already laughed once, but when he saw Qin Lang falling into various strange positions on the sand, he stopped laughing.
He barely filled his stomach, rubbed his sore waist and hands, and continued to bend over and pick things until he had collected enough fiber, stone, and wood to make crude equipment and weapons.
Xia Xifeng first made a simple workbench.
Like 3D printing, a phantom of a simple wooden workbench first appeared at the location selected by Xia Xifeng. After Xia Xifeng confirmed the production, the workbench turned from virtual to real as the system read the bar.
After having a workbench, Xia Xifeng clicked on the "Sewing" and "Crafting" skills.
A ball of light and shadow slowly rotated on the workbench. After the reading was finished, the things he made appeared on the workbench.
Everything is very game-like and magical.
The wearable equipment is also very game-like and magical.
Xia Xifeng can wear equipment like clothes, but he can also put the equipment into the backpack first, and then choose to wear it in the system backpack, and the equipment will be directly covered on his body.
He can also hide his equipment. For example, if he hides his upper armor, the feel and visual effect will be that of a shirtless man.
If you poke the upper body with a wooden sword, you will still poke a layer of non-existent "armor". In other words, although Xia Xifeng didn't feel that he was wearing clothes, the effect of the equipment was still there.
Equipment and fashion don't belong together. The hidden equipment in the game is just to let players spend money on various beautiful fashion combinations. In real life, they can pretend to be pigs and eat the tiger.
Xia Xifeng transferred the equipment and stone swords into Qin Lang's backpack, along with a small wooden bow and twenty stone swords.
He can use these equipment, but he has no skills and can only slash and shoot arrows like an ordinary person.
Qin Lang's general skills include swordplay and archery. Using weapons will provide attack trajectory correction, additional damage bonus, and negative status for critical attacks (such as disability, critical hit, and pain).
The movements of general skills were not large, so Qin Lang quickly adapted to the use of weapons and prepared to go to the forest to find some small animals to try.
Xia Xifeng asked worriedly, "Can you do it?" Neither of them had ever killed even a chicken.
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a howling sound and the sound of messy footsteps trampling branches and grass in the forest.
"Help!!!"
As soon as Xia Xifeng looked over, he saw a child about one meter tall screaming and rushing out of the forest, with five wild beasts, which were either wolves or dogs, chasing him.
Seeing a child in danger, Xia Xifeng reflexively ran forward two steps.
Qin Lang showed impatience in his eyes. He clenched the stone sword in his hand, ready to activate his skills.
Xia Xifeng rushed forward two steps, then quickly turned around, grabbed Qin Lang, who was "stuck there," and ran in the other direction: "Run!"
Qin Lang followed Xia Xifeng's footsteps and asked, "Not saving that child?"
Xia Xifeng was sweating profusely: "Save my life! Saving my life is more important! Can you use that Swift Wind Step to lead others? Take me away quickly!"
Qin Lang didn't answer, but directly put his arm around Xia Xifeng's waist. He first took a quick step to a taller tree, then used a vertical jump skill, followed by a double jump, and jumped onto a thick branch.
"Hold on tight." Qin Lang placed Xia Xifeng on a tree branch, and performed another swift step diagonally downward, shortening the vertical distance from the ground and landing steadily on the ground.
Seeing Qin Lang running towards the beasts, Xia Xifeng, who was hugging the tree trunk, shouted nervously: "Come back! Are you crazy?"
Qin Lang isn't the type to sacrifice himself for others and stand up for justice! Why did he suddenly go crazy?!
When the child escaped to the grassland, he saw Qin Lang and Xia Xifeng. Perhaps it was because Qin Lang and Xia Xifeng were not good fighters at first glance, so although the child screamed "Help", he turned a corner and led the beast in the direction away from Qin Lang and Xia Xifeng.
When Qin Lang rushed over with a sword, his face was full of disbelief: "Don't come and die!"
Qin Lang saw the man's golden beard and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.
He was not mistaken in his observation. This short "child" was not a child, but an adult halfling.
When Qin Lang was about to approach the beast, he used his archery skills, corrected the arrow's trajectory, and pierced the beast's fur.
Qin Lang frowned slightly.
He aimed for the beast's eyes, but almost missed. "Holography" was indeed difficult to control.
Even though it didn't hit the vital point, this arrow was enough to attract hatred. The beast that was in first place pounced towards Qin Lang.
Qin Lang threw a disgusting roasted berry into his mouth, counted his mana bar, and used the Wind Step and bow and arrow to fight the beast, and then pulled another beast to chase him.
Only the three slowest beasts were left behind the bearded halfling.
"Thank you!" He turned around suddenly, raised his hands, and two large axes appeared out of thin air in his hands, "Die, you beast!"
The bearded halfling charged at a wild beast, splitting its head with his axe and splattering blood all over it.
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