Chapter 3
Song Wei and Zhao Yu finally chose to trust Shu Mo and locked their equipment and underwear in the closet.
They rinsed their bodies and immediately jumped into the hot spring pool.
In fact, the hot water in the shower was comfortable enough. Song Wei was almost reluctant to leave after taking a shower. Even Zhao Yu, who felt sorry for 50 points at the beginning, was now thankful.
What a pleasure it is to be able to take a hot bath in this kind of weather!
Fortunately, the two of them still had some sense and knew that the hot spring was the highlight, so after washing carefully, they hurried to the hot spring pool.
The water temperature of the hot spring is higher than that of the shower water, but Song Wei didn't care about that at all. She soaked her whole body in it. After a little tingling, she felt extremely comfortable. The heat contained in the boiling hot spring water seemed to flow into her limbs and quickly drove away the damp and cold air.
The fatigue from fighting in the snow and hiking for a day disappeared completely, and Song Wei let out a comfortable sigh.
So cool! !
How long has it been since I felt this way?
"These 50 points are totally worth it!" Song Wei said sincerely.
Zhao Yu standing by was also immersed in this wonderful feeling.
She looked up, watching the pale white steam rising from the water slowly dissipate, and suddenly realized that something was wrong.
Zhao Yu took a closer look and exclaimed in surprise: "Weiwei, how come my strength is recovering so quickly?!"
Song Wei leaned against the cool marble by the pool, her eyes half closed, wanting to take a nap. When she heard her shout, she slowly opened her eyes, "Taking a bath is supposed to help you relax. Isn't this normal..."
She felt that Zhao Yu was just being weird.
Zhao Yu was anxious, "Oh, no! I was talking about the stamina bar in the game! Check yours!"
Song Wei started and woke up.
She looked up as well.
Sure enough, the stamina bar above her head, which had already turned red, was recovering rapidly, and it seemed as if it would not stop until it was full.
In "Apocalypse of Extreme Cold", each player has a health bar and a stamina bar. The health bar can be restored by medicine, food, and priest skills, while the stamina bar will naturally restore when resting.
The stamina bar will gradually decrease as players move around, seriously affecting the players' status. If your physical strength is too low, your movements will be slow, and when your physical strength is exhausted, you will be at risk of fainting.
If you faint in the wild without any teammates around you, the situation will be extremely dangerous.
Therefore, combat players like Song Wei and Zhao Yu who spend a long time outdoors attach great importance to physical recovery.
A comfortable bed, sleep status, certain specific medicines and priest skills can all speed up the recovery of basic physical strength. But physical strength is not like the health bar, it cannot be replenished instantly, and it always takes a certain amount of time. The response speed like now is incredible.
"This... this speed is almost as fast as a [Large Energy Recovery Talisman], right?" Zhao Yu stuttered.
Large energy recovery charm, a one-time consumable.
Effect: Basic physical strength recovery speed +15 per second.
The game store has few products and high prices, and most teams will stock up on high-level talisman paper and medicines like this, but are reluctant to use them. It is only used when encountering an emergency, such as accidentally entering the BOSS territory and an important member of the team happens to be exhausted.
The mall price is 200 points per piece.
And just taking a hot spring bath here can bring such amazing effects.
The two looked at each other.
Song Wei murmured, "These 50 points...are really worth it..."
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In the hall, Shu Mo held his breath and listened to the movements outside.
The sound of the monster's flapping wings became louder and louder. She moved her ears and heard a series of rustling sounds, as if something was moving at high speed on the snow.
…It looks like there are more than one.
In my mind, the system explained, "...this is roughly how the barrier is used. The specific operation is very simple. You should understand it after you use it in actual combat once."
"I understand." Shu Mo said softly.
Before traveling through time, she mostly played casual single-player games. Even if she was dragged by her friends to play those popular online games, she would eventually become a casual player.
For Shu Mo, life is tiring enough, and she just wants to do things in the game that are impossible to achieve in reality.
...like inheriting your grandfather's abandoned farm, running a competitive pizza shop, picking up sticks with small animals, etc.
But being a life player doesn't mean you won't fight.
At least now in this dangerous world, if Shu Mo wants to run this hot spring safely and securely, he must be able to ensure the safety of himself and his guests.
Laughter and cheers could be heard from the women's bath behind them from time to time. Perhaps the sound of the water drowned out the noise outside the house, so neither Song Wei nor Zhao Yu heard the sound of the monster approaching.
Shu Mo decided to deal with the trouble outside the house before they came out.
By the way, "test the knife".
Silently reciting the method of using the barrier that the system had just taught him, Shu Mo stood up and walked to the door, quickly opening the door of the cabin.
It seems that it gets dark later in the game than in reality. It is just past eight o'clock now and it is dusk outside, but not completely dark yet. A transparent barrier blocked the violent snowstorm, and the range extended to several meters outside the cabin.
Shu Mo stood cautiously within the barrier, looked up, and saw a giant bat circling in the sky.
It doesn't seem like a bat. This bat-like creature was completely black, with dense hairs covering its torso and wings. Its wingspan was about two to three meters, and it had only one huge eye on its face, which was tightly closed.
When sensing Shu Mo's presence, the eye suddenly opened, and the blood-red pupil stared at Shu Mo.
At the same time, Shu Mo heard a sharp sound of breaking air behind her, and the next second, a fishy, hot and wet breath had already hit the back of her neck.
Although he was prepared for a sneak attack, Shu Mo still got goose bumps all over his body.
"Bound!!"
In an instant, the air behind her seemed to stop flowing. When it was completely stagnant, Shu Mo felt a cold and sharp object pressing against her cheek.
The thing sank a little bit, and before it pierced the skin, it stopped motionless.
Shu Mo's heart was beating like a drum. He moved away and turned to look.
A gigantic beetle-like monster, at least two meters tall, stood behind her, its pair of giant pincers glowing coldly and filled with murderous intent.
But under Shu Mo's control, the beetle no longer had the strength to struggle and stood there like a strange, intricately crafted statue.
Upon discovering that its companion was tied up, the giant bat in the sky let out a sharp scream and swooped down at high speed.
Shu Mo had experience this time, so he was much calmer. He stretched out his finger and pointed at the air, "Annihilate!"
The moment the giant bat's body passed through the barrier, it exploded unexpectedly in mid-air, and the materials fell vertically and all over the ground.
When the monsters in the game fall to the ground, they will turn into countless pixels, which looks much better than exploding into fireworks. Apart from the dropped objects, there will be no corpses or debris left, which is clean and environmentally friendly.
After confirming that there were no other monsters lying in ambush, Shu Mo breathed a sigh of relief.
According to the system's beginner's guide, this barrier only has two moves.
One is [binding], the other is [annihilation].
It is extremely simple, but it can cure all the fancy things.
These two tricks are enough to resist the invasion of monsters.
Shu Mo was very satisfied with the power of the barrier.
She was basically certain that within the range of the barrier, no monster or player could withstand these two moves. However, the hot spring hotel cannot be carried with you, and the barrier cannot be moved. If you want to use them as active attack skills, they will be very useless.
In other words, although this golden finger is powerful, it can only be used for defense.
Even so, Shu Mo was very satisfied.
She can control this barrier even inside the house, and can also use it to sense whether any monsters have broken in. This time I came out just because I was curious and wanted to see what the monsters in this world look like.
Now that I have seen him, I realize it would be better if I had not seen him.
Shu Mo looked at the ugly and ferocious beetle sculpture in front of him with disdain, "Annihilation."
The two-meter-tall monster suddenly broke into a pile of pixels.
The battle is over, and the system pops up a prompt including the bat monster that was killed instantly.
[Eliminate the "Giant Beetle", experience +300]
[Eliminate "Eye Bat", experience +200]
[Level up to Lv.5]
The upgrade brought five-dimensional improvements and skill point rewards. Shu Mo opened it and took a look at the skill tree panel. It was all grey, indicating that she had not yet learned any skills.
She glanced at it and planned to study it more carefully later.
Just now, while Song Wei and Zhao Yu went to soak in the hot spring, Shu Mo and the system had been catching up on their knowledge for a long time, and now they have finally come to their senses.
It turned out that she had traveled to an extremely dangerous RPG game world, in which a simulation management system was bound. Before the advent of the game, this was once a normal world, so the residents all had the same common sense as her. Shu Mo compared some details and found that it was not completely consistent with the world she lived in in the past, so this was probably a parallel world.
According to the game settings, all players except her must rely on fighting or trading to gain points, and then purchase daily necessities in the mall.
But Shu Mo is different.
She owns a hot spring hotel, and the net profit from daily turnover can be transferred to her personal account. As long as the hotel is managed well, she can have food and clothing without having to go out and fight hard.
But the trade-off is that she also can't gain points from combat.
Therefore, fighting was meaningless to her, it was just a means to protect the safety of the hotel.
If it were an ordinary player, these two high-level monsters could bring them hundreds of points of gains, but Shu Mo killed them both as easily as cutting melons and vegetables, but he still had to worry about the 100 points that he had not earned tonight.
It's getting dark soon, and the chances of new customers coming are getting lower and lower...
Monsters in "Arctic Cold" become more active at night, so players rarely move around after dark. Shu Mo didn’t understand the game settings before and didn’t consider this point, but now he is a little at a loss as to what to do.
She was frowning in thought when she suddenly heard two screams from behind her.
"Giant Beetle!"
"Eyebat!"
Shu Mo turned around and found that Song Wei and Zhao Yu had already changed their clothes and came out.
Although the two did not see the battle process, they could easily identify the identities of the two monsters that had just been defeated from the [Giant Beetle's Pincers] and [Eye Bat's Wings] among the fallen objects scattered on the ground in front of Shu Mo.
Zhao Yu looked at Shu Mo in admiration and exclaimed, "Boss, you defeated two A-level monsters by yourself? Last time, I teamed up with another person in the team and finally killed one!"
Song Wei's eyes were also full of horror.
Compared to Zhao Yu, she has more combat experience and a higher level, and can be considered a high-level player, but she can only defeat an A-level monster in a 1v1 battle. If you encounter a giant beetle with high defense, you will have to spend a lot of time and effort to slowly defeat it.
And the boss killed two at once? Or in such a short time?
Song Wei looked at Shu Mo's spotless white sweater and felt confused.
...Did she meet a big boss?
He killed two A-level monsters alone without wearing any defensive gear. What level of boss is he?
Shu Mo quickly threw the fallen items into his backpack, turned around and greeted naturally, "Are you guys done soaking?"
"Yeah!" Zhao Yu nodded. "Boss, your hot spring is super comfortable! And it's also very effective in nourishing the skin!"
Shu Mo took a closer look at her and found that the girl was like a completely different person. The frostbite and chapped skin on her face and hands were gone, her skin was snow-white, and when she smiled she had two dimples. She was a typical sweet girl.
Song Wei next to her was in a similar situation. The traces of wind and sun on her face had faded, and she seemed to have looked several years younger.
The stamina bars above their heads were full and green.
If you are a Sims player, you will probably feel a sense of security when you see this stamina bar.
Shu Mo kindly reminded, "Wouldn't you like to soak for a little longer? There's no time limit here."
Zhao Yu drooped his face when he heard that. "I wanted to, too, but we almost forgot that we came out to find a campsite, and we must go back and reunite with the team before dark..."
When she mentioned this, she felt a little worried.
When their team went out to fight today, several members were seriously injured and their combat effectiveness was greatly reduced. The original camp was set up on the plains, closer to the monster habitat they had their eyes on, but they needed to take turns to keep watch at night to ensure safety. But at this time, with some team members injured and fewer people on night watch, the plain camp seemed unsafe.
She and Song Wei came out this time to see if there was a better place to camp nearby.
We came back empty handed. I'm afraid I'll have a hard time tonight.
Just as I was thinking about it, I heard Song Wei suddenly say, "Boss, I wonder if we can camp near your hotel?"
She had been silent from the beginning till now, and had obviously been thinking for a long time. She looked up at Shu Mo and said carefully, "We will leave after tonight and will not disturb your business. And I think there should be many people in our team who would like to take a hot spring bath, which can make up for the inconvenience we have caused..."
Shu Mo, who was still worried about how to attract the remaining two customers, said: "......?"
Shu Mo blinked, "Uh, I wonder how many people are there in your team?"
Song Wei: "Including the two of us, there are ten people in total."
Shu Mo: “!!”
Is there such a good thing as pie in the sky? ?
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