Chapter 22
[Earth-遁卡]: A colorless skill card. After use, it allows you to instantly burrow underground in a specified direction and escape a distance of up to 5 kilometers.
Manufacturing time: 8 hours
Manufacturing cooling time: 4 hours
Each time you create an Earth Escape Card, you can increase your talent experience by 1 point.
Qiao Ning was slightly surprised. So, although the vehicle repair cards could be manufactured before, they didn't increase experience points?
After thinking about it carefully, she realized it wasn't hard to understand. In general, not all monsters in games give experience. Some special monsters only give items, not experience. Others give very little experience, and after reaching a certain level, killing them no longer gives experience.
This Earth-遁卡 (Escape Card) is probably too common, so crafting one gives very little experience.
Qiao Ning currently has three empty slots in her card crafting inventory, which means she can craft three different types of cards at the same time.
Hopefully, killing monsters will drop more skill cards later, so I can fill up these card slots first; I can't let them sit idle.
After briefly testing her skills with the Fang Rat, Qiao Ning directly teleported to the vicinity of the Unicorn Giant Lizard's area. During teleportation, the system deliberately selects a safe zone, preventing players from being eliminated immediately upon landing.
As for the black-tailed hyena, Qiao Ning remembered that ordinary hyenas in the modern world hunt in packs. If these black-tailed hyenas also had this hunting habit, it would be a bit more troublesome. Let's deal with it later.
The area inhabited by the monitor lizards was quite large, with each lizard spaced a considerable distance apart. These large creatures seemed to have a very strong sense of territory, and they spotted Qiao Ning immediately after she stepped into their territory.
However, they also have attack range and activity range. As long as you don't go into their activity range, they will not attack you on their own.
This monitor lizard was definitely the largest lizard-like creature Qiao Ning had ever seen.
It is about the size of a small elephant, with a grassy green body and dark green stripes. When it lies on a rock, its body turns into a gray color close to that of the rock.
There are only 10 monitor lizards in the area: nine level 3 common monitor lizards and one king unicorn monitor lizard.
Qiao Ning first attacked the giant lizard closest to her. With a single strike of her Black Flame Bone Blade, the lizard was not instantly killed, but instead a health bar appeared above its head.
It turns out that wild animals display a health bar after being attacked. When she killed the rats before, she killed them with one hit and didn't have time to see the health bar before they were gone.
A regular unicorn monitor lizard has 20,000 HP, more than the Rat King! Is the difference between a level 3 beast and a level 2 beast really that big?!
Moreover, the unicorn giant lizard seems to have a very high defense. Its skin is like armor, and if it weren't for the Black Flame Bone Blade in Qiao Ning's hand being powerful enough, it probably wouldn't be able to break through its defense.
Even considering the damage absorbed by the defense, Qiao Ning didn't dare estimate just how thick this behemoth's health bar was. And this was just a regular monitor lizard; imagine a monitor lizard king…
Qiao Ning cleared her mind of distractions and focused on dealing with the giant lizard in front of her, which had been angered by the attack.
Its tail slammed heavily on the ground, splashing up countless bits of grass and dirt. The monitor lizard raised its head, opened its mouth, and roared. Its imposing presence was quite frightening, reminding Qiao Ning of the dinosaurs in the Jurassic movies.
To be honest, if the map hadn't labeled the beast as a monitor lizard, she would have really thought it was some kind of dinosaur; it really does look like one.
The monitor lizard was huge, but it was very fast. Qiao Ning had tried her best to dodge its attack, but it still managed to sweep half of her body with its tail. The huge force sent Qiao Ning flying several meters away, and she crashed heavily to the ground. She spat out a mouthful of blood, and her face turned as white as paper in an instant.
The giant lizard gave her no chance to breathe, lunging forward with a bite. Blood trickled from the corner of Qiao Ning's mouth as she desperately held the lizard's serrated jaws shut with her Black Flame Bone Knife.
The system repeatedly issued warnings about her critically injured status. If this stalemate continued, she would only face death. She could withstand the giant lizard's bite force for a while, but she couldn't have the strength to block it forever.
Qiao Ning gritted her teeth, suddenly recalling the scene of the monitor lizard hunting its prey. This guy is a carnivore, so what about rat meat?
I previously killed some rats and got a lot of rat meat, which I temporarily stored in my system backpack (the system backpack unlocks its storage function after entering the area outside the highway, but it can only be used outside the highway. After returning to the highway, the items placed in the system backpack will be locked and cannot be taken out).
Qiao Ning took out several pieces of rat meat, threw some far away, and stuffed the rest into the giant lizard's mouth.
Coincidentally, the monitor lizard's favorite food is tender rat meat. After all, it is just a wild beast without intelligence, and chasing its favorite food is its instinct. Its attention was immediately diverted and attracted by the rat meat.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Qiao Ning flipped over and leaped onto the giant lizard's back, raised the Black Flame Bone Blade, and forcefully slashed at the giant lizard's vital head.
With a bloodcurdling scream, the giant lizard's massive body crashed to the ground, blood and brain matter gushing from its cleaved skull, soaking the soft, green grass beneath it...
Qiao Ning, panting, collapsed beside the giant lizard's corpse.
His gaze, however, was fixed on the information about the monitor lizard displayed on the system interface:
Level: 3
Health: 25000
Attack: 1000
Defense: 8000
Speed: 800
Player Qiao Ning killed one Unicorn Giant Lizard and gained 200 experience points, 1 Green Skin Inner Armor, and 1 Ground Spike Card.
Green inner armor provides +1000 defense, does not affect existing set bonuses, and can be worn inside a set.
Without saying a word, Qiao Ning put it on first.
This giant lizard doesn't actually have high attack power; its main strengths are its high health bar, high defense, and powerful tail. If Qiao Ning weren't so dim-witted, she really wouldn't have been able to defeat it. She'd probably have to use a defensive ring or the survival attributes of the Spring Sunshine Set.
The Spring Breeze Set's additional effects, the first three of which are all for survival: 1. Passively blocks one fatal attack per day.
2. You can actively trigger invincibility defense once a day, lasting for 1 second.
3. External injuries can be actively treated once a day.
These three effects can only be used once a day and should not be wasted easily.
Qiao Ning had some medicine for her injuries. After drinking some, all her injuries disappeared and healed within seconds. She was in even better condition than when she first entered the area outside the highway.
She was also wearing the [Spring Cleansing] gloves, which grant +300 attack and have a 5% chance to trigger a purification effect when attacking monsters or treasure-guarding monsters, reducing the enemy's attack, defense, and speed by half. This is a powerful tool for monster farming.
Qiao Ning didn't trigger the Spring Cleansing effect, nor did she trigger the 10% chance of the Blazing Blade Technique's Blazing Body Incineration effect, which would have doubled her subsequent attacks.
This luck level is a bit below the level of a European god.
Next, Qiao Ning set her sights on a giant lizard, which was larger than the previous one and looked...fat. However, it wasn't the One-Horned Giant Lizard King, just a slightly more powerful ordinary elite monster.
This monitor lizard didn't seem very bright. A large dragonfly was circling above its head, but it couldn't catch it. Frustrated, the monitor lizard slapped its tail and stomped its feet, making the ground rumble loudly. Anyone who didn't know better would think there was an earthquake.
Qiao Ning found it much easier to kill the giant lizard this time. First, she triggered the effect of Chunhui reducing the monster's attributes by half. Then, she triggered the Blazing Blade Technique's Blazing Body, instantly killing the 30,000 HP giant lizard.
For some people, a probability of 5% or 10% is not much different from 0%, but for someone as lucky as Qiao Ning, it's not to say it's equivalent to 100%, but she can trigger it at least seven or eight times out of ten.
Nine unicorn lizards dropped 1800 experience points, plus 5 green-skinned inner armor pieces, 20 pieces of lizard meat, 9 lizard horns, 2 skill cards: Ground Spike, 3 skill cards: Paralyzing Poison Gas, 3 skill cards: Vine Binding, 1 skill card: Swamp Devour, and 1 Beast King's Manual.
Even without killing the giant lizard king, today's harvest is already quite substantial.
Once the vehicle repair card's production time was up, Qiao Ning stopped making that card and focused on producing the four newly acquired skill cards. The production time and cooldown time were the same as the Earth Escape Card. A maximum of two cards could be produced per card slot per day.
Talent experience still increases by 1 point for every card created.
Killing the ordinary monitor lizard took too long, leaving only the king monitor lizard. The system indicated that monitor lizards in this area would respawn in one hour.
Qiao Ning looked through the description of the Unicorn Giant Lizard King in the Beast King Catalogue. It had a unique characteristic: when it was attacked fatally, it would absorb the life force of all the ordinary Unicorn Giant Lizards around it and convert it into its own defense.
Therefore, Qiao Ning must eliminate the King of One-Horned Lizards within an hour; otherwise, if there are ordinary one-horned lizards nearby, it will inevitably unleash its ultimate attack. Once this attack is unleashed, even breaking through its defenses will be difficult. This would essentially mean Qiao Ning's hunt has failed, and she might even lose her life.
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