Chapter 245 The Sunk Cost of Trying to Become a Viewer

This battle with the Heroic Soul Legion really exhausted Ash and the others.

Not only Ash, who was leading the battle from beginning to end, but also Sonia and Diya, who spent most of the time as cheerleaders, were equally tired. They hid in the car and endured the danger of death at any time, and had to contend with the dizziness and shock caused by racing. There was no time to relax their minds... Just like a spring that has been tightened, after the potential energy is released, the aftermath is still lingering. He didn't get out of the thrilling battle just now.

Even though Ash and others have experienced dangerous battles before, they are 'dangerous' at best, and the magicians still have room to maneuver. But this time the battle with the Heroic Soul Legion had no room for error. As long as the sports car exploded, they themselves had no ability to compete with the Heroic Soul Legion.

They are constantly testing the brink of death.

Using the terrain to set traps, poisoning thousands of troops to trap and kill the Thousand-Feathered Bird Dragon, grinding the Scorpion Star Swordsman to death, and fighting the heroic souls to the last second... Compared with this battle, decapitating the Fish Dragon can be regarded as relaxing. Leisure activities for the mood.

But after sitting for a while, Ash and Sonia basically recovered. But they still sat leaning against the sports car, without any thought of standing up, like employees who started to go to the toilet for 15 minutes.

Naturally, they are not too lazy to get up. Expeditions to the virtual world are equivalent to working for themselves. Self-employed entrepreneurs who work harder and get more rewards are still very enthusiastic about work. The reason why they were sitting still was because they were waiting for the witch to rest.

Sonia, who usually likes to chatter the most, didn't say a word at this time. Her legs wrapped in black stockings were lazily folded, and her nose made a soft hum, as if she was lying on the bed.

But she kept observing Diya's colorful clown-like clothes from the corner of her eyes, with a hint of worry in her eyes.

Ash's acting skills were not as good as Sonia's, so he sat very stiffly and tried his best to use the corner of his eye to observe Diya's chaotic hair color, which seemed to have knocked over the paint tray. His left hand was still holding Diya's wrist to prevent any eventuality.

After killing the heroic spirit, Ash and Sonia reached a consensus through eye contact that the witch was in a bad state.

They could see clearly that as the battle situation became more and more critical, the color of the witch's hair became more and more mixed, and even her voice changed accordingly. The witch just now made a quartet of sounds when she spoke, as if there were four different people talking, and her hair was gradually changing colors. No matter how you think about it, this is a very bad sign.

Resting was of course a way to relax after the battle, but it was done in order to heal the witch. Naturally, they all guessed that the strange situation of the witch must be related to the "sisters". However, spiritual problems were completely beyond their abilities, and their magic and miracles were of no use.

Fortunately, both Yaxiu and Xiu have a silver-level spiritual faction realm. Even if they have not read many psychological works, they can still have the correct action intuition when encountering such special events involving spiritual changes. Don't disturb the witch, let them She slowly calmed down.

If it were the previous Sonia, she would definitely ask insinuatingly how she felt about being a witch; as for Ash, it would be even more powerful, he would probably say "Have you ever considered shaving your head?"

But because of the intellectual intuition brought by the spiritual faction realm, they were able to kill in advance those ideas that would make the situation more irreversible.

Ignorant people have no fear, knowledge will make people learn to fear.

Perhaps the atmosphere they created was really good, so the witch lazily sat down next to the sports car and closed her eyes. Her clothes slowly turned back to black, and her long, gradual hair also lost its cheap illusion, and soon returned to the pure color of the mysterious princess.

She fell asleep.

This was the first time that Ash and Sonia saw someone sleeping in the virtual world. They quietly gathered around the witch on both sides and studied the witch's eyebrows, lips, nose, eyelashes, and glasses for a while. You won't know it until you look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it. Although the witch usually looks very good, the sleeping witch looks more quiet and quiet, like a timid deer, which makes people want to pinch her face.

When Ash tried to look beyond his neck to explore the curves in his clothes, Sonia reached out and grabbed his chin, twisting his eyes to meet hers.

You wake her up.

Why do you come?

I just met her, you should be more suitable.

You are a woman, you are more suitable.

Women are not suitable.

Why?

Are you a woman or am I a woman? Don’t women understand women yet?

You... what you said makes a lot of sense.

Ash was completely defeated in this eye debate and had no choice but to perform the duties of an alarm clock that both gods and ghosts hated. But since Sword Lady is so unwilling, then he's not welcome!

pinch~

Ash reached out and pinched the witch's fleshy face. It felt very good. It is said that the virtual body will faithfully reflect the real body, so he can feel the soft fleshy feeling. Apart from anything else, this touch completely healed Ash's fatigue from the round of battle just now... It turns out that girls' faces are so soft!

"Hello!"

Sonia split Ash's hand with a knife: "Are you harassing me?"

"I'm waking her up! According to relevant surveys, attacking the face is the most effective way to wake her up. For example, a slap in the face can definitely wake her up."

"Then slap her!"

Good guy, the stupidest and toughest college roommate I knew back then was not as ruthless as you. Only my brother could do such a thing.

"ah?"

After being pinched awake, Diya subconsciously rubbed her eyes and looked at the two of them blankly: "Huh? You...here...but why am I...am I dreaming?"

Sonia immediately used her hands to pinch her face into a big pie: "You just fell asleep! Wake up, we are still in the virtual realm!"

"Oh oh oh!" Diya nodded heavily: "Yes, I remembered, we defeated the Heroic Soul Army... We actually won, okay, okay!"

The witch immediately got excited and hugged Sword Girl to celebrate. Ash was very moved when he saw this and stretched out his hands, trying to join the girl's celebratory hug, but Sword Girl pushed him away with his hands. However, the witch noticed Ya Xiu's movements and came over to hug Ya Xiu: "Look, your driving skills are so strong! It's amazing! It's even more powerful than the villains in fairy tales! The Sword Girl is also super powerful, completing the final blow Kill, of course I am also very powerful, I was the one who held that heroic soul!"

"Yes, yes, witch, you did a great job this time, thank you for your hard work."

Ash gently rubbed Diya's head with his right hand, suppressing her proud dull hair, and raised his left hand high to show that all his actions complied with the broadcast standards of the children's channel. Sonia snorted, stood up and said, "Then we should go pick up the trophies we deserve. I hope they won't run away thinking they are not wanted."

At this time, the poisonous fog in the cave had dissipated. After looking around, they found that there was no loot to speak of. They didn't know whether there was a problem with the killing method or because those knowledge creatures were members of the Heroic Soul Legion. Not only did they not gain experience after they died, The orbs and even the magic spirits didn't explode.

There are only three trophies on the battlefield, all dropped by heroic souls.

First it was a manual, but when Ash picked it up, he found that it was not the magician's manual they imagined.

"De Milo's Commander's Manual"

"You can get a reward after reading (optional)"

"Sword Command Skill·Elementary: You know how to make the swordsmanship faction units cooperate in combat, and gain a lot of swordsmanship faction experience."

"Shooting Command Technique·Intermediate: You are good at using long-range troops to achieve tactical intentions, and you have gained a lot of shooting faction experience."

"Offensive Skill·Basic: You will be more threatening when directing attacks, and gain a small amount of experience from each faction."

"Logistics·Intermediate: Your troops will move faster and gain a moderate amount of experience for each faction."

How to describe the shock this commander's manual gives to magicians? Just look at Sword Girl and you will understand that after she learned about the reward options inside, she blurted out the words "little trumpet" and was so shocked that she couldn't even maintain her self-cultivation.

If the Magician's Manual is a nutritious but unpalatable vegetable, then the Commander's Manual is a highly nutritious ice cream cake with 0 calories, 0 sugar and 0 protein, which can be called a reversal of the laws of matter. First of all, its rewards are not random, but you can choose them yourself; secondly, in addition to rewarding command skills, it also comes with faction experience, which is equivalent to giving extra experience orbs.

Of course, the most important thing is that it has no reading threshold!

Not every vegetable is to your liking, but who can resist a 0-calorie ice cream cake? Ash and the others don't even need to open the manual to read the command experience in it. They can get rewards by using it directly, so even Sonia, who has a relatively rigid moral bottom line, can use it!

Although this commander's manual is not very valuable, after all, it is just "a useless command skill" + "experience orb". The loot they get from killing a fish dragon is not much different from this.

But the emergence of the Commander's Manual has broadened their horizons, letting them know that the Magician's Manual is not just a hard-to-gnaw vegetable. There may be other flavors and more nutritious Magician's Manuals in the virtual realm.

If you encounter a mutant magician projection similar to the heroic soul next time, Sword Princess will definitely not stop Ash from getting involved in danger. They bravely take a step into the unknown, and the Commander's Manual is a positive feedback reward for the unknown. Therefore, when they encounter the unknown and danger in the future, their first reaction will not be to escape, but to test and collect intelligence.

A magician who has tasted the sweetness will gladly lick any unknown secret, even if it may contain bitterness or even poison.

Quietly, successful experiences have affected their way of thinking. Just as the flowing golden river fueled their ambition, hunting heroic souls also fueled their greed.

There is no doubt that this commander's manual is naturally for Sonia. After all, none of the three of them needs the shooting faction, and the top priority now is to feed Sonia's swordsmanship faction to gold level.

And Sonia also deeply felt her own powerlessness in the battle just now. Although she completed the final fatal blow, 99% of the credit for the entire battle must be attributed to Ash and his almost burned-out car. sports car.

The MVP who really deserves praise and hugs is Cheche!

But the sports car belongs to Ash's power, and with this he is far beyond himself; and the witch also has a gold-level magic faction, the aquatic line has both output and control, and the witch can read most magician manuals... ...Sonia thought for a while and realized that she was about to become the one lagging behind in the team without even realizing it.

The viewer has made it clear that if he cannot keep up with the team, he will not receive resources or be favored. If the team wants to optimize its member structure, naturally those who are lagging behind will be optimized first...

Therefore, Sonia was not polite this time and reached out to take away the commander's manual.

She is not a woman who will admit defeat obediently. If she really cannot keep up with the team's progress, then she will also eat up the viewers, eat up the resources of the viewers, and make the viewers continue to invest more to avoid wasting their previous investment. !

As long as she owes the viewer enough, then it won’t be she who will be panicked, but the viewer!

What is this called... Yes, sunk cost, a word that viewers once explained when they complained about work before. Sonia likes this word very much.

The more you give, the harder it is to give up.

Time, energy, emotions, experience, everything will become shackles that affect the current decision-making.

She first set a small goal in her mind and it became a sunk cost that viewers could not abandon!

Before using the commander's manual, Sonia quickly browsed the contents. As expected, it was very boring. It was all about the experience and combat examples of commanding battles, and there was no information about the person 'De Milo'.

No wonder everyone can use the Commander's Manual. There is no imprint of the magician's three views in it, and there is no point of view output. It is just like an ordinary reference book, so of course there is no reading threshold.

But isn’t the Magician’s Manual the condensed version of a magician’s life? Why doesn't DeMillo have any privacy?

This idea disappeared in the village girl's mind for a moment. Maybe it was the special mechanism of the virtual realm. If you don't have to see it, you don't have to see it.

Turning to the last page, Sonia saw a somewhat familiar photo.

It was a star map, with a deep night sky and twinkling stars. Three of the stars were connected by lines. The bottom one was marked with the name "De Milo", but the other two had no names.

She showed this page to others, and Ash made an accurate evaluation:

"It looks like the information the victim gave about the murderer before she died."