Chapter 76 Players Being Studied, a Common Thing [VIP]
Lin Chen [stole] NPCs all the way to the base kitchen. He walked past the NPCs without hesitation to open the freezer and take away all the ingredients, seasonings and tableware.
After walking around and finding nothing to interact with, Lin Chen ran back to the hot pot and took out a penguin from his system backpack. Because time would stop at the moment everything was placed into the space, the penguin was still screaming with great energy.
The player coldly chooses [Slaughter] and gets nicely cut slices of meat. In the settings, you can also choose to cut it into pieces, shred it, or just process it.
"Multi-Dimensional Life" adds a lot of useless settings in this regard.
For example, you can set up a pot, throw all the ingredients directly into the pot, and get a perfect dish in three seconds.
You can also choose to prepare the ingredients as in the real world, and then start to show your real cooking skills.
Lin Shen chooses the first option most of the time, but in a place like Antarctica, which looks very cold, he always inexplicably wants to eat a hot pot.
While players with their pain reduced might not feel much, it's a kind of ritual. Much like when the weather gets hot and you want to scoop out half a watermelon with a spoon, it's ingrained into players' DNA.
Lin Chen swished the penguin slices into the pot, letting the red oil simmer for three seconds before immediately scooping them out. The dipping sauce was a mixture of sesame paste and fermented bean curd, which she had gotten from nowhere. The aroma made her squint.
On the other side, Grappa (the mad scientist) stared at the screen, watching Player's every move, with real doubts in his eyes.
"That's enough to paralyze an elephant," she muttered to herself, "and Player... her hands didn't even shake."
Gin snorted coldly, "She's a monster... didn't you know that a long time ago?"
"Yes, yes. I know it better than anyone. Player is crazy, powerful, and reckless... Even if there's an obvious trap ahead, she'll jump into it, because no one can influence her." Grappa sighed. "Have I told you? She's the perfect experimental subject. I definitely told you."
"Honestly, my hands and feet are still shaking when I think about facing her soon. I am approaching death." Grapa pondered his own thoughts for a while and was amused by his own fear and excitement.
"Haha, maybe I'll die." She looked sideways at Gin and smiled, "I mean, we all will."
Lin Chen ate and drank to his heart's content surrounded by NPCs, but from time to time, the [Anesthesia] debuff would suddenly pop up, but it was soon eliminated by the [Fermented Bean Curd and Sesame Sauce], which made the players a little confused.
Why? I don’t know, maybe it’s because the broth is too spicy and it’s numbing?
Never mind. It's not like you'll get an upset stomach in the game anyway. It'll just put debuffs like [Indigestion] and [Bloating] in the status bar, weakening the player's stats by a certain percentage. There won't be any real consequences.
So after eating the hot pot, Lin Chen happily ate ice watermelon, drank ice cola, and even took out an ice cream machine to make an ice cream on the spot.
The chef NPCs stood by, wanting to say something but hesitant.
Maybe it’s because the player just pulled the ice cream machine out from the side, but everything in the game belongs to the player, so it doesn’t matter.
Lin Chen ate his ice cream and poked the chatterbox next to him, "Draw blood?"
The chatty NPC looked down at the ice cream on his clothes, then looked at the player who tilted his head.
Player: “?”
Chatty NPC: "..."
Finally, she took a deep breath and smiled professionally, "...please follow me."
Lin Chen followed the chatty NPC down the corridor, taking the emergency light hanging on the wall. The laboratory door slid open automatically, revealing the researcher NPC inside, biting his nails nervously.
The lab door slid open automatically, revealing Grappa, a NPC wearing rubber gloves, debugging equipment. Seeing Lin Chen enter, her eyes lit up like... searchlights: "Hello, Miss Player! I'm Grappa, and I'll be drawing your blood. Please lie down on this table..."
Lin Chen had already jumped onto the lab table and put the ice cream bowl aside: "Hurry up."
She stared at the shadowless lamp on the ceiling and suddenly reached out: "Can this be taken down?"
"Unfortunately, no." The researcher NPC took out a lancet. The moment the needle touched the skin, it snapped.
"Ah~" The researcher NPC's smile gradually became distorted, "It seems that ordinary syringes are not enough~"
Lin Chen watched the other party take out a hydraulic piercer from the cabinet and silently tore open a lollipop.
[New Task: Assist in Experiment (Optional)]
[Description: Grappa wants to test your physical limits. Anyway, you have nothing to do? ]
Grappa, who? I don't know him. He's the NPC in front of me.
It is full, and the pain is always 5%. Players are fearless!
Researcher: Okay! Let's try this laser cutting first—"
"Draw blood." Lin Chen reminded the researcher NPC.
The goal is to draw blood. If you can't draw blood, you can't complete the task. If you can't complete the task, then it would be a waste of time.
Half an hour later, the researcher NPC stared silently at the pile of twisted needles, broken saw blades and melted laser emitters in front of her.
Lin Shen was playing Candy Crush on her tablet computer, and there wasn't even a red mark on her arm.
The researcher NPC said sadly, "I'm sorry, I really can't damage your skin... I've tried my best."
Lin Chen patted her shoulder. This wasn't the NPC's fault. After all, the player's defense was 124. Most items had a base attack power less than half of her defense, so how could they possibly break the player's defense?
Lin Chen took out the sword that he had strengthened countless times, cut a wound very quickly, and urged the NPC to quickly get a container to hold it.
"Alright, alright!" The researcher NPC's eyes lit up as he watched the player's blood pour into the container. He said, "Also, let me test your maximum bleed value... If you feel uncomfortable, tell me and I'll record the data."
Lin Chen's originally casual expression changed, and her eyes became extremely solemn in an instant.
At this point, players wouldn't even cry out! With this kind of limit test, they'd definitely grind as long as they could! Until they hit the game's limit! Blast it!
Lin Chen's blood flowed into the container like a faucet, and soon filled the first 500ml blood collection bag.
The researcher NPC quickly replaced the second one, his eyes fixed on the monitor.
"Heart rate...blood pressure..." Her voice trembled with excitement. "Completely stable...I had suspected it, but seeing it in person still felt incredible...You've surpassed human limits!"
Lin Chen yawned out of boredom and casually pulled a sandwich from his backpack to chew on. His health bar had only dropped by one-tenth, still far from the limit.
The third blood bag was also full. The researcher's forehead began to sweat. "Ms. Player! Are you really not feeling anything at all?"
Lin Chen made a "continue" gesture with the hand that was not bleeding.
Just kidding, the players are super brave, okay? If you yell, I lose!
"There's absolutely no compensatory contraction of the muscle tissue..." the researcher NPC muttered, his fingers dancing across the keyboard. "The speed of red blood cell regeneration... Oh my god!"
She rushed over to the microscope. "This... this is cell division?! In vitro? Without simulating the in vivo environment, how can this be real?"
Lin Chen leaned over to take a look and saw that the red blood cells in the blood sample were multiplying at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Wow - I didn't expect her cells to be so busy every day hahahaha, it's quite hard work.
When the fifth blood bag was almost full, Lin Chen's health bar was full again after she finished her sandwich. She watched with unsatisfied satisfaction as the researcher NPC ended the test and carefully stopped her bleeding.
In fact, during the bleeding process, Lin Chen's wounds were persistently trying to heal, and each time they were torn apart by the player's expressionless face. Because the cut was made on the aorta, blood even splashed on the player's face.
Take a lick, mmm... sweet.
So after the researcher NPC wrapped the wound with gauze, the blood stopped seeping out in less than a minute, and the player's skin tissue tried its best to stick together until it returned to a smooth whole.
"It's perfect..." The researcher NPC stared at Lin Chen's arm in fascination. "This regenerative ability... This cell activity... Are you really human?"
"Of course." Lin Chen jumped off the lab table and flexed his arms. He was baffled by the NPC's question. If players weren't human, what were they? I'm a legitimate primate, a subspecies of Hominidae, and a Celestial Being!
The researcher NPC asked, "So what do you think of the humans you met here? What do you think of us? Do you think we are weak?"
Player: "It doesn't matter. I don't care."
The NPC's daily philosophical questions are actually the copywriter's attempt to show off his literary accomplishment, but the players don't care about it.
NPCs? They are just part of the player's gaming experience. If you take them seriously, you will lose.
Why is Lin Chen so indifferent to NPCs now? This probably all started when she passed the adulthood exam and played her first holographic game...
She collected numerous recommendations from netizens when she was a minor, but she didn't search any information to preserve the sense of surprise. As she was excited to experience the game, the malicious words of netizens dealt a heavy blow to this naive little girl.
The world-famous dark, depressing, and unruly NPCs who were arrogant, ungrateful, and who confidently ordered players to frame and betray them all kissed him at that time.
For a long time since then, Lin Chen felt that the NPCs were enemies.
In short, the past is too painful to recall, and Lin Chen has already cured his symptoms and has returned to his ordinary player attitude towards the NPCs.
Red names kill, yellow names observe, and green names communicate.
Lin Chen watched the researcher NPC neatly packing up his equipment. He had quickly recovered from his shock and was enthusiastically debugging a giant centrifuge.
I don't understand why NPC can get pleasure from this kind of behavior... OK, let's call her Experimental Maniac NOC.
"Next, let's test our pressure resistance!" The experimentalist NPC patted the metal cabin, which was roughly the size of a washing machine. "This is a modified deep-sea simulator, capable of simulating the pressure of the Mariana Trench..."
Lin Chen got in without saying a word. The moment the hatch closed, a system prompt popped up:
[Enter special scene: pressure test chamber]
[Current pressure: 0MPa]
The experimental NPC's voice came from the speaker: "Let's start with 100 atmospheres of pressure..."
The pressure gauge began to soar. Lin Chen stared at the blood stripes, motionless, and boredly began playing a backpack-organizing game.
Although the system can be sorted with one click, players should also put the items they need in the front row of the backpack grid so that they are easier to get.
"It's up to 500! How do you feel?"
Lin Chen glanced at the status bar and saw a new buff: [Water Pressure Resistance +50%]. Was it because this was a specialized machine, not a natural environment, that it added resistance? He didn't understand; adding resistance in a natural environment would make more sense, right?
She knocked on the bulkhead to signal for her to continue.
When the pressure reached 1500 atmospheres, the cabin began to creak under the strain. The experimenter's voice grew tense: "The equipment is reaching its limit... Are you truly alright?"
Lin Shen was busy browsing his beautiful tech tree. Speaking of which, the spell network hadn't been clicked at all. It was all because there were so few NPCs in this world who knew spells! The player hadn't encountered a single one yet, so even if they wanted to learn something, they couldn't.
When the player heard the question, she looked down at herself—not even a strand of her hair was out of place. There was a new icon in the status bar: [High Pressure Adaptation (Permanent)].
Profitable! She nodded with satisfaction and punched the emergency exit button.
The hatch popped open with a bang, and the experiment-crazed NPC wiped the water droplets splashed on his face with a smile.
"Next project." Lin Chen shook off the non-existent dust on his clothes.
The experiment-crazed NPC stared at the distorted pressure chamber with wide eyes, and suddenly laughed strangely: "Great... I can finally test those theoretical projects..."
She rushed into the next room like a whirlwind and pushed out a device that looked like a dental chair, densely packed with electrodes. "This is a nerve tolerance tester! Theoretically, it can produce painful stimulation sufficient to shock a whale..."
Lin Chen lay down leisurely. Isn't this a chance to brush up the [Pain Resistance] passive skill for free? A huge profit!
She didn't even blink when the current was connected. Instead, the device itself emitted black smoke and crackled, causing several capacitors to explode.
"Great!" the experiment-crazed NPC said, completely ignoring the burning equipment and frantically recording data. "Can you describe how you feel right now?"
"I'm hungry." Lin Chen checked the time; it was time for lunch. She rolled out of her chair and took the charred circuit board with her. Even the smallest thing was still meat, and players wouldn't let go of any resource they saw.
The experiment-crazed NPC chased after him: "Wait! There's one last cryogenic test!"
Lin Chen paused. Hypothermia? She had just returned from Antarctica, and her [Cold Resistance] had already been maxed out. But... what if it could be stacked?
"Three minutes." She held up three fingers.
The experiment-crazy NPC jumped up as if he had won the lottery and quickly started the liquid nitrogen freezing device.
When Lin Chen walked out of the -200℃ freezer unharmed, the experiment-crazy NPC had already entered a state of madness.
Her hands, holding the notebook, were shaking like Parkinson's, and she was muttering words like "immortality" and "evolution".
The mission had been completed, so Lin Chen took all the machines away and jumped up and down, ready to go out and raid the base.
"Wait!" The researcher NPC suddenly stopped her, his eyes frantic. "Can we continue tomorrow...tomorrow? I've already thought of a new experiment!"
Lin Chen thought about tomorrow's schedule - Hmm... Do players have schedules? Absolutely not!
He nodded and took the wreckage of the laser launcher on the table.
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