Volume 16, Chapter 158: A Worm with a Brain

Chapter 158: A worm with a brain

"Hahahaha!" The guy actually laughed crazily. "Novice Village? Do you think it's scary? I'm only at level 180 now. What difference does it make if I can't go back to Novice Village?"

In fact, it is normal for this guy to be angry. "Zero" is a game with a basic level limit of one thousand levels. The biggest difference from previous games that only had a limit of forty or one hundred levels is that its levels are actually set quite loosely. The two previous ones At level 100, as long as you know the correct method, a master can even complete this process in three days, and this is under the premise that no one is required to guide you. If you have a master to help you level up, as long as you plan everything, then do the tasks step by step and level up along the way, then just twenty-four hours of continuous splitting will be enough to reach level 200. When I first entered the game, the reason why I was slow to upgrade was because at that time, no one knew much about the game and had to explore everything by themselves. In addition, the degree of realism of "Zero" was too high, and it was the first time for many people. Just coming in and experiencing the game environment was a waste of more than ten hours. But now that the game has been in operation for such a long time, everyone has used the environment, and the best routes for completing tasks have been used by bored players. Found it out. Under these task chains, you can complete tasks one after another to ensure that you level up quickly. Of course, this speed only includes before level 200. After level 200, most of the tasks players receive are non-fixed tasks. They are generally tasks temporarily generated by the system for each player. If you take it, others will not be able to take it. , so there is no way to talk about mission clues or anything like that.

That is because upgrading before level 200 has become so easy, so this guy doesn't care if I kill him back to the novice village, and now he has been greatly stimulated by losing so many levels at once, and he has a kind of broken pot. The meaning is in it, and naturally there is no reaction at all to my threat.

After knowing that this guy wouldn't be threatened by me, I didn't intend to waste time on him. I restarted the PK mode and slapped him to the ground. Following Rose, I looked angrily at the white guy who just got up from the ground. The soul threw another light bomb, but even the white soul disappeared.

When a player dies in "Zero", he will not directly return to the city to resurrect like in other games, but will first create a soul. This soul can decide whether to teleport back to the city without a scroll to return to the city. It will not be resurrected immediately after returning to the city, but will go to the Resurrection Hall to find a resurrection mage. After the resurrection mage uses resurrection on the player's soul, the player can be resurrected, but this process also has the possibility of failure. If the spell succeeds, the player will be resurrected and drop one level after the spell is completed. If it fails, the player will still be resurrected, but the player will drop two levels. In this process, the skill level of the resurrection mage has the greatest impact on the success rate of resurrection. Generally speaking, the basic resurrection success rate of NPC resurrection mages is relatively high. The success rate of low-level NPC resurrection mages is generally around 50%, and the success rate of high-level NPC resurrection mages can reach 80 to 90%. However, the initial success rate of resurrection mages among players is only Less than 30%, but in the end you can practice until it is infinitely close to 100%.

Rose herself is a resurrection mage, which means she can actually use resurrection, but just now she used another spell - punishment. This spell is only effective on the player's soul after death. It will not take effect if it is thrown directly on a living person. Once hit by this spell, the player will immediately drop two levels, and the failure rate will increase by 20% the next time he is resurrected. In other words, if you are hit by this spell, you will pay at least three levels for the death, and it is very likely that you will directly lose four levels.

After leaving the place where the player was, I immediately opened the insect hole on my body, and countless ghost beetles swarmed out of the insect hole. I need scouts now. I must confirm whether any bugs have left during the previous period. If any bugs really escape, they must be intercepted. A defensive line composed of experts like the one we used to block bugs is nothing. Once these guys run into the middle of ordinary players, it will be a disaster.

While my beetles were searching the nearby area, I was not idle, but was looking for bones everywhere in the forest. As a high-level expert in the evil system, I am very good at this simple and practical method of communicating with the undead. Although the guy just refused to cooperate, there may not be only one dead person nearby. As long as I find the corpses of other players or the souls of some NPC creatures, I can help me confirm the situation in the nearby area for a period of time.

The hard work paid off. After wandering around for more than ten minutes, I finally found a human skeleton among a pile of grass. This is the corpse of a player after death. After the player is resurrected, the corpse will be temporarily given a soul by the system until the corpse is completely refreshed. Of course, some undead gathering places have the ability to transform corpses, so in those places the player's corpses will not be brushed away, but will turn into zombies and wander around. This forest is obviously not a gathering place for the undead, and this corpse is almost on the verge of being refreshed, thanks to my timely discovery.

After a brief communication with the corpse, we confirmed that there were indeed a few bugs that did not participate in biting the player and left early. According to the description of the soul temporarily assigned to the corpse, there should be ten bugs that left. There are less than twenty of them, and they are all relatively large. The two largest ones are between 1.8 and 1.9 meters long, and the smallest ones are about 1.5 meters long. These bugs have basically lost their ability to fly and can only jump forward, and according to this undead, their speed is quite fast.

After asking about the insect's whereabouts, I gave the undead a handful of crystal powder as a reward, and then Rose and I immediately chased after him. Because I had a specific direction, I concentrated the search range of the bugs into a small area. As the search scope of seeds is reduced, the search density naturally increases. Soon the bugs were discovered. It turned out that these guys did not escape, but found a big tree and dug a hole under the tree to hide in. Although this incident is rather strange, it also proves what Rose and I had guessed before. These bugs should have evolved advanced intelligence. In the past, he took the initiative to evacuate compared with other bugs for food, and now he did not rush to escape but first found a place to hide. These are all manifestations of intelligence. At least the bugs in the beginning definitely did not have this level of intelligence.

When my bugs discovered those big bugs, they did not pounce on them immediately, but ran back quickly. Because those big bugs can absorb the experience value of any creature and use it as food to reproduce, so creatures whose strength is below a certain level rush forward. It can only increase their strength. But unfortunately, the vigilance of these bugs was higher than I thought. Although the ghost beetle ran back in time, it alarmed the bugs, and they quickly emerged from the tree hole and began to escape. However, this time they did something that I admired immensely.

These guys would actually run away in all directions instead of concentrating and running in one direction. A total of fourteen beetles fled in different directions in a nearly ninety-degree fan, and Rose and I were the only two. All my demon pets suitable for participating in the pursuit were helping Gunslinger and the others near the ruins. The summons I carried were of no use at all. I was dumbfounded when I saw more than a dozen beetles running away separately. Which direction should I pursue?

Although Rose was also a little crazy, she reacted much faster than me. "Don't think about it, start catching them from the outermost, your side and my side. If you catch one, focus on the middle. As long as they don't change direction temporarily, we should still have hope to catch them all before they leave the forest. "

I nodded and jumped out immediately. The bug in front saw me catching up and immediately turned left and right in an attempt to use the obstruction of trees to delay my speed. "Hmph, just a few trees are trying to block me?" I suddenly jumped up, and then swung my sword fiercely in mid-air, and a red light instantly swept across a large area of ​​land in front of me. After a pause of two seconds, the trees within 200 meters in front of me made a creaking sound at the same time, and then fell forward together. The dense forest that was originally full of trees suddenly became a messy open space.

Those little bugs in the past would definitely disappear in a place like this in an instant. The dense branches and leaves on the fallen trees overlapped with each other to form a thick isolation layer on the ground after falling to the ground. Under this isolation layer, there are all large and small gaps. If it was a small insect from before, it would be perfectly fine. They burrowed in and out of these gaps, but now the bugs have grown too big. The fallen trees not only failed to provide cover for it, but also made it difficult for the insect, which had lost its ability to fly due to its size.

"Where are you going to run?" I swung the Eternal Sword forward with all my strength. The whip-sword-shaped blade was instantly detached and swept away in a huge arc. When the tip of the sword hit the insect, it immediately turned into an insect. The big cage contained it.

After catching a bug, use the holder on your body to secure it, and then quickly change direction to chase the next one. Due to our previous experience, Rose and I were very fast, and soon we were together.

"Is this the last one?" Rose said, looking at the running bugs in front of her.

I looked up and looked ahead. Although I couldn't see it yet, the roar in my ears told me that we were almost at the edge of the forest. When I came here before, the logging teams from each of our guilds were cutting down trees on the outside of the forest. What I heard now was the sound of our guild's large loggers. Being able to hear this sound means that we are not far away from the crowd. If the bug in front of us rushes into the crowd, it will be troublesome. "Enlarge the move."

"It's too late." Rose glanced ahead, then winked at me, and I instantly understood what she meant. Rose accelerated and took two steps forward, then jumped up suddenly. At the same time, she bent her legs into a ball in the air. I rushed forward and punched out. Rose's legs straightened suddenly, and the soles of her feet stepped on my fist. The impact of my punch and the reaction force of her own kick accelerated her body and flew out like a cannonball.