Chapter 39 Meditation
It took half an hour before Li Zi and the others were teleported over.
"These are the troll birds. Aren't there a lot of them?" The scenery on the high cliff was beautiful. Tang Li pointed at the dense swarms of troll birds below and said to a few people.
"Why aren't you talking?"
Tang Li looked at them all with dazed expressions, and then recalled Li Zi's last message, and felt inexplicably guilty.
Even two smart people, Giving an Example and Not Being Able to Express Their Thoughts, were shocked... It can be seen that the scene was really terrible.
She thought about stopping them, but by then it was too late.
Players, you really are going too far!
Tang Li condemned loudly in her heart, trying to put all the blame on the players.
"Ahem, why are you here? I thought someone else would be sent." Seeing everyone's listless look, Tang Li felt that she couldn't let the atmosphere remain so awkward, so she tried to steer the topic to monster hunting.
This should be the answer, right?
...Silence, unspeakable silence.
No one spoke, as if they had not yet recovered from the shock.
Tang Li was a little curious about what had happened to make these people so depressed, but now was not the time to be curious.
Tang Li continued, "The monsters here aren't very high level. Actually, the others can just come over. How about I bring them over now?"
Everyone remained silent.
For Tang Li, who is "bad at starting a conversation", this is a rare opportunity for her to take the initiative.
Tang Li was so distressed that she wanted to scratch her head.
"Oh!" Finally, when Tang Lidu began to consider whether to abandon these people and run away, Li Zi sighed softly.
Tang Li was shocked, thinking this was a good opportunity to make a breakthrough, so she immediately asked with concern: "What's wrong? Why are you sighing?"
"Because..." Li Zi approached with a bitter face, as if wanting to pull her arm and lean on her shoulder...
This was Li Zi's habitual gesture to show closeness. Tang Li had long been accustomed to it and even took the initiative to stretch out her arms so that the other party could hold them better.
Come on, little cutie, tell me what's bothering you? Tang Li happily waited for Li Zi to tell her about their miserable experience.
She was definitely not curious, she just cared about everyone.
She was thinking about all sorts of things and was caught off guard when she felt a strong grip on her arm.
Oh no, I've been trapped! Tang Li's sixth sense frantically sounded the alarm, warning her to leave quickly.
Unfortunately, it's too late now.
In the blink of an eye, Li Zi, Ju Ge Li Zi, Why Bother Saying More and Words Can't Express Her Thoughts surrounded her, cutting off her escape route. Then, in unison, they pulled out a plate of three fresh vegetables from their backpacks and quickly stuffed them into their mouths.
【Bad Mouth】×4!
"ha--"
A foul smell hit...
Tang Li only knew about 360-degree surround music before, but now she has experienced what it means to be surrounded by 360-degree stench without any dead angles.
Four times the foul breath was comparable to chemical weapons. Tang Li couldn't help but think of the players at the door of the restaurant. At that time, she was wondering why the attacked players didn't hide. Now after experiencing it herself, she finally understood.
My brain went blank, as if it had been attacked, and my limbs were completely out of control. Who was she? Where was she?
Tang Li was completely stunned. At that moment, she seemed to have seen heaven.
Despite taking every precaution, Tang Li still couldn't prevent it. She sighed resignedly, reached into her backpack, took out a serving of three fresh delicacies and stuffed it into her mouth.
It tastes super delicious!
After savoring it carefully, Tang Li began to turn her mouth around.
“Ha——” If you can’t beat them, join them!
【Bad Mouth】×5!
"Hahahahahaha!" After debuff laughed, several people looked at each other, and then burst into laughter together with a "puff".
"As expected, good things like this are only fun when shared with everyone," Li Zi smiled as he held Tang Li and rubbed her happily, "Xiao Li, you've never tried this before, right?"
"Tang Li touched her nose guiltily, looking up at the sky and down at the earth, but not at them.
"As the instigator, you can't let everyone be harmed while you are the only one who can escape unscathed, right?"
"Hehe, so we..." Li Zi smiled evilly.
"Are you satisfied now?" Tang Li shook her head and laughed. She did have some baggage before, but after overcoming that hurdle, she no longer had any obstacles in her way.
Just think of it as eating stinky tofu. A real foodie shouldn't be picky. I feel like everyone gave her the courage to try the three fresh delicacies.
"Satisfied, satisfied!" Li Zi hugged her arm flatteringly, finally remembering what they were here for. She took out her bow and arrow, looking at the dense swarm of troll birds in front of her, "Let's start killing monsters!"
"Can……"
Tang Li was interrupted by Li Zi before she could finish her words. "These troll birds aren't very high level, but we're the only ones at such a large spawn point, and the monsters are densely packed. The total experience gained won't be any worse than spawning high-level monsters."
"Li Zi is right." The other three people beside him nodded in agreement.
Looking at the determination in everyone's eyes, Tang Li knew that she would not be able to convince them.
No wonder these people didn’t take pictures of the gang’s combat flying skills last night. It turns out they had already planned to come here and do it in person today.
Of course, Tang Li also knew that the fundamental reason they did this was just to kill monsters with her.
This made it impossible for Tang Li to refuse, so she had to give up her original plan and stay with the others.
System: [The captain invites you to join the team. Do you agree?]
yes.
After clicking confirm, the five-person team gathered again.
"Charge!" Li Zi took the lead and attacked the troll bird under the cliff.
After not being together for a while, Li Zi has made great progress. He can basically kill a troll bird with one arrow. Even if he occasionally encounters a higher level one, he can take it out with two arrows. His efficiency is extremely high.
Of course, the one who is more efficient than her is Ci Budiyi. The mage profession has obvious advantages in long-range attacks, especially since Ci Budiyi has learned several group attack skills during this period. The troll birds under the cliff are very dense, and the combined lethality is astonishing.
Compared with these two people, Tank Hebiduoyan was slightly inferior. He could only pick up the troll birds that broke through the attacks of the above two people and flew to the top of the cliff, and took care of them in a few moves.
However, although He Biduoyan was unable to exert much advantage in this situation, it was precisely because of his protection that others were able to give full play to their abilities without having to worry about being suddenly ambushed during the fight.
For example, someone who is even more idle than him has no attacking ability at all, and no one has any injuries left for him to heal, so at this moment he can only raise his hand boredly to replenish everyone's mana, and occasionally replenish the blood of He Bi Duoyan who is in the front.
When they were in a team before, Tang Li was more cooperating with everyone. Now that they were killing the Troll Bird, her control skills were not really needed. Tang Li finally used her attack skills with all her strength after a long time.
It feels so good to mindlessly kill monsters and just throw skills around!
Recalling the difficulty of several troll birds attracting monsters yesterday, and comparing it with the unscrupulous attacks today, the strong contrast between the two made Tang Li deeply aware of the difference between having a team and not having a team.
Dazzling skills were flying in the air, troll birds were hit one after another, and the dropped equipment fell to the ground like rain. Tang Li had never felt that killing monsters was such a relaxing thing.
The only pity is that she has too few attack skills, only two or three in total, and one of them is a burst impact that consumes a lot of mana.
If she hadn't recovered her mana so quickly, and the person next to her hadn't also helped her recover her mana, she would probably have gone bankrupt by now just drinking mana potions.
"This is for you." Just as he was thinking, he operated the system a few times and threw two skill books to her.
[Meteor Bomb] [Magama]...both are rare group attack skills.
"Huh?" Is this the legendary wish come true?
Tang Li took a look at the skill book introduction and knew at first glance that it was bought on the spot. After all, to put it bluntly, he was a mage. Even if he was not given it, there were still many mages in the gang who were crying for it. If such a good thing really existed, it would have been exchanged for by others long ago.
The movements of the two attracted the attention of several other people.
"What's wrong?"
"Xiaoli's attack skills are not good enough, so I gave her two skill books." Juerlizi explained lazily while yawning.
"So that's how it is." Everyone said "Oh". As a nanny who has an overview of the situation in the whole game, it is not surprising that she can discover this by giving an example.
"Hurry up and learn."
"Okay, then just deduct my gang contribution later." Tang Li nodded and started studying.
Having a team is reliable, she will never consider going solo again!
"Okay." Ju Lizi nodded, and everyone continued to fight monsters.
With two more group attacks, killing monsters becomes more fun.
Tang Li simply ignored the mana-consuming explosive impact and immersed herself in the exciting fight.
"Okay, let's take a break first." After playing for about an hour, he gave an example to signal everyone to pause, "Let's take a look at the spoils first."
When they heard about the spoils, everyone who had felt they hadn't had enough immediately stopped.
They were all curious whether the Combat Flight Manual would drop, and if so, what was the drop rate of this book?
This is the issue that everyone is most concerned about at the moment.
"I won't go into detail about the less valuable equipment. Many gang warehouses won't accept it. I'll sell everything I can and then distribute it to everyone. Now comes the important part," Ju Lizi took out a few skill books from the package and said slowly under everyone's glittering gazes, "A total of five skill books were dropped, three of which are combat flight books, and two of which are the more common Thrust and Fireball books."
"I thought all five books were about combat flying techniques!" He Biduoyan was a little disappointed.
"Three books in an hour is already very good." Although the words didn't express it clearly, he was quite satisfied with the drop rate.
Because of their high level, their efficiency in killing monsters is much higher. If it were a team of gang members at level 12 or 13, they might be able to kill one book in an hour at most. However, there are also some players of this level in the gang. If they kill monsters as a team, they can kill quite a few books in a day.
Following this trend, it shouldn't take long for even the core members, not to mention the entire gang, to have a copy of the Combat Flying Technique.
"Fight for another hour and try to make sure everyone in the team has one. If there are any left, just hand them over to the gang warehouse and we'll split the contribution from the auction." He said this while handing over the three skill books to Ju Renzi.
As for him, just wait for the next trip.
"Yeah." Everyone had no objection and quickly stood up to continue killing monsters.
"Oh right," Tang Li's success in acquiring combat flight reminded her of another piece of information she had provided. "Didn't they say yesterday that the Second Regiment's commander was taking people to farm for night vision equipment? What was the result?"
"No results yet," Ju Lizi shook his head. "Because we have to keep it secret for now, they came back after a short fight yesterday. We'll try again today."
"Well," Tang Li nodded and suggested, "If you want to keep it secret, then the Troll Bird Territory is a good place. You can also practice combat flying skills at the same time."
"That's a really good idea," agreed Li Zi. "Didn't Xiaoli get her night vision potion right here? Maybe we can just absorb some of Xiaoli's luck."
"Forget about luck. If I really want to absorb it, I'll probably only get bad luck," Tang Li said with shame on her face. The label of bad luck had long been welded to her body. Only Li Zi blindly believed that she still had such a thing as luck. She herself was very self-aware. "I picked up my night vision potion from Xirang. If I had picked it up myself, even if I had fought a boss, I probably wouldn't have gotten such a good thing."
Speaking of Xirang, Tang Li quickly released Xirang from the pet space.
Too bad I forgot about the little one again.
"Chi!" Xirang came out and left angrily, and began to attack the huge insects scattered on the ground.
What a self-reliant and hardworking little guy! Tang Li almost shed tears as she looked at his back.
"Xirang looks very angry!" Li Zi and others sighed as if they were enjoying a good show.
"Oh, oh, oh." Tang Li was speechless.
Next time, next time she will definitely not forget to release the Xirang to gain experience!
A group of people chatted while fighting monsters, and time passed quickly.
"Xiao Li?" Suddenly, Judelizi frowned and called her with a confused look on his face.
"What's wrong?" Not only Tang Li was puzzled, but others also didn't know why he looked as if he had encountered a century-long problem.
"Your mana... the speed of recovery seems a little off."
"Blue bar recovery speed?" Tang Li suddenly realized.
She was so excited from fighting monsters just now that her meditation speed started to speed up again, just like when she fought the troll bird leader last night.
Her meditation speed has increased, plus the 5% meditation speed bonus from the Life Staff, and because everyone hasn't fought monsters together for a while, her meditation skills have naturally increased by several levels compared to before. With these factors combined, it's no wonder that those who have been paying attention to her blue bar, for example, found something wrong.
Tang Li explained the situation to several people.
"No..." After hearing this, not only did everyone's confusion not clear up, but they all looked puzzled. "Xiao Li, you've actually been practicing meditation skills according to the magic circuits in the game without stopping for a single moment?"
"It was not allowed originally, but it is like this now. Don't you guys think so?" Tang Li not only did not feel that she had done anything wrong, but she felt that their reaction was even more strange.
Doesn't everyone have this skill? Why does it seem like everyone is unfamiliar with it?
"Isn't the meditation skill only effective when you are fully focused? How is that possible during a battle?" Li Zi couldn't believe her ears. How could such a terrible thing be said so lightly? If she hadn't personally tried it and knew how difficult the meditation skill was, she would have believed her lies.
"Meditation is indeed difficult, but it should be okay once you get used to it, right? Besides, since the authorities have gone to so much trouble to create the magic circuit and made it so difficult, no matter how you think about it, you have to think it will be of great use, right?" Tang Li said as if it was a matter of course, but after seeing everyone's expressions, she felt a little uncertain.
So she's the only one who thinks this way?
She thought this was the consensus of all players.
"I don't know if you're the only one who thinks this, but the vast majority of players don't take meditation seriously."
Tang Li paid attention to the official forum during the initial period, but rarely went there afterwards, so she might not know that many players in the forum had criticized the magic circuit.
Maybe it's the inertia of thinking. In other games, meditation is just sitting on the ground, and then the state will be automatically restored. It is not as difficult as in Magic Continent.
Although the magic circuit setting really adds a lot of realism and fun to the game and is hailed as a genius creation, it also makes the meditation skill very difficult to use.
It's a good thing to be serious about making games, but being too serious will make the game lose its fun. You can't have any distracting thoughts when using meditation skills, otherwise it will be easily disconnected. How many people these days can really calm down and think about nothing, and concentrate on building magic circuits?
Fortunately, in addition to meditation, cooking potions can also replenish status.
Players generally agree that the reason why meditation, a free skill for restoring status, is so difficult to use is that it is an evil method created by the authorities to force players to spend money on cooking and potions.
The most crucial thing is that according to the official's previous operations, such as creating a face-blindness safety mode to force players to spend money to sculpt their faces, not directly opening the function of intercommunication between real currency and game currency, creating a token function to charge players an agency fee, etc., players speculate that meditation is difficult to use in order to force players to spend money to buy props. This view is completely tenable.
Therefore, except for the time when players log off and the system takes over the body and automatically starts meditation to get some free status, players basically ignore the meditation skill at other times. This is completely understandable behavior.
Who knew, this time the official was actually serious.
"Inertial thinking is deadly." Finally, everyone sighed and concluded that Tang Li was probably not the type to play holographic games much before.
After listening to everyone's analysis of the players' mental journey, Tang Li felt that she could understand it very well.
It’s all because the authorities have been behaving in a disrespectful manner for too long. They’ve told the story of the boy who cried wolf so many times, and now that something like this really happens, who will believe it again?
"However, I always feel that this is intentional. The official doesn't want everyone to understand how powerful the meditation skill is." Tang Li's intuition told her so.
The official probably wants to wait until this matter is exposed in the later stages of the game, and then sit back and watch the players beat their chests and stamp their feet with regretful expressions.
"What a bad taste," Tang Li said with a sigh, then thankfully said, "It's a good thing I asked you just now, otherwise we might not have discovered it."
Without this communication, Tang Li would have assumed that the invincible Meditation skill was common knowledge, and Li Zi and the others would have assumed that it was common knowledge that Meditation skills were useless, and thus everyone would have missed each other. "Don't call me 'Chestnut' so unfamiliarly. It seems like we haven't been introduced before. This guy's name is Ju Ming. We all call him Brother Ju. You can call him that too, just like we call you Xiao Li." Li Zi said, pointing to himself. "My name is Yu Li. You should know that. We introduced ourselves before. Just call me Li Zi."
"I'm Xu Ci." He said softly, unable to express his meaning clearly.
"You can call him Brother Ci or Boss, that's what we all call him." Juerlizi added with a smile.
"Well, my name is He Yan." He Biduoyan scratched his head embarrassedly.
Li Zi put her hands on her hips and said, "I don't mind calling him Xiao He or Big Guy. He's at the bottom of the team. Actually, we don't call him that much."
"Hey!" Why bother to protest? Although what he said was indeed true, didn't he have any face to say it so ruthlessly?
Everyone introduced themselves so quickly that Tang Li was caught off guard by learning everyone's real names.
Plus, she had heard before that they were military academy students, so their relationship was indeed getting closer... But Tang Li always felt that online friendships were best left online and shouldn't involve reality, especially when she didn't have any reality.
But everyone had introduced themselves, so no matter how much Tang Li didn't want to listen, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "I'm Tang Li."
"Hahaha, we know this." Everyone was amused by Tang Li's serious look.
"Ahem," Tang Li, feeling it was dangerous to continue like this, tried to find a topic to talk about in order to prevent the next topic from straying further into reality. "Actually, the official setting of this aspect is really not very routine, and it's often surprisingly rigorous."
"For example, the unscientific process of learning skills is rationalized in the game as learning magic. There's also literacy magic, and books are actually readable. Furthermore, while cooking only increases stamina, dishes with attributes like the ground three fresh vegetables are also accepted. And the robots that Ci and Ci made earlier all prove that the game's magic system can be upgraded step by step through the game system, and can also be learned through personal understanding, just like learning real magic."
Tang Li said, as if jokingly but also seriously, "Maybe we don't even need a special skill book. We can just study and cast magic directly."
"How is this..." Li Zi originally wanted to say how this was possible, but when he thought of the benefits Tang Li had gained by running the meditation skill according to the magic circuit, he couldn't say the negative words.
The words failed to express their feelings and several people seemed to be lost in thought. Apart from anything else, it seemed that this was really possible in this game world.
"It's really amazing that they took a game so seriously..." He sighed. No wonder the school recommended them to play it. "I don't know how they did it."
"Isn't it said that it comes from the fragments of some fallen civilization..." Tang Li remembered the official introduction she saw on the day she entered the game.
...Of course everyone has seen this, but before, everyone always thought it was just magic to flatter itself.
Now it seems that may not be the case.
“Maybe there will be something to gain from playing it later.”
Using magic in real life is a bit far-fetched, but maybe we can learn something from it.
But all this has nothing to do with Tang Li.
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