my slow journey to infinity

Chapter 11 I’m not clean anymore…

Good news, the trap is not refreshed!
Bad news, the man-eating plant boy has less experience!
After the fourth level, the experience of Piranha Prairie, who was in his early 45s, was directly reduced to [-], which made Aqua Regia's speed of acquiring the next skill grid much slower.

Fortunately, the battles in SAO are not as boring as other RPGs.

Although you are still staring at a kind of monster, and the appearance of the monster will not change, in this highly realistic virtual reality world, every battle is completely different.

Every step you take, every sword you swing, and even slight changes in the terrain, as long as any conditions change, may lead to unknown situations in the subsequent battle.

Of course, for Shui Wang, the main change is that the little Piranha brothers have different postures every time they fall into the trap.

Every man-eating plant that fell into the trap was like money falling into the pocket of aqua regia, so even though he had been farming for more than a day, he didn't feel bored at all.

It is now noon on the fifth day of the game, and there are more players in the second and third tiers nearby, and the later players are basically in a team state.

For this monster spawning ground, these people were not too many, but ever since someone saw and started imitating Shui Wang's trap, Shui Wang knew that he couldn't stay here anymore.

The refresh rate of monsters here will soon be unable to keep up with the speed at which players kill monsters.

Wang Shui didn't care about others imitating him. He also taught other players the parameters of traps and the method of carbonizing wood thorns.

The people who can come here today are all high-end players in the future. It would be nice to help each other and form a good relationship.

Wang Shui is not as shy as Mr. Tong, and of course he is not a social phobic, he is a social colonizer.

It's just a man-eating plant. Wang Shui now has nearly a thousand [Pan-Eating Plant Honey] stored in the town's warehouse, and he still has more than 200 bottles. Even if he doesn't get rid of vomit, it's time to switch to a monster community to get materials.

The only regret is that this game will not drop a [Piranha Flag] to commemorate his monster spawning process.

Just after noon, the refresh of the Man-eating Grass was interrupted. Wang Shui didn't want to wait. He decisively organized the item list and got on the road.

It is still early and there is no need to return to the village. Wang Shui plans to explore further and go deep into the dense forest to find the red-spotted beetle monster spawning point. Some people who came back from the front said that there seems to be a lot of monsters in the beetle area. The single player does not have enough damage and speed, so it is difficult. Rush over.

Therefore, more and more people began to play [Sword of Tenacity] and seek to form a team in the village.

Wang Shui just wanted to explore the truth. While the supplies were sufficient and he still had a spare [Sword of Tenacity] in his backpack, it shouldn't be a problem to go to the edge of the so-called "Beetle Zone".

Yes, that's right. Yesterday morning, he found another little girl with a flower and a thorn on the top. The little girl gave him a spare sword.

The process of in-depth exploration was smoother than Aqua Regia imagined.

Especially as more and more teams are leveling up along the way, they will not only clean up the man-eating grass, but they will also not let go of the monsters that are spawned in small quantities, such as boars, wolves, and deer.

But as soon as they entered the so-called beetle area, the number of nearby players dropped to zero, and the trees became denser. There should have been sunshine during noon, but now it was also shaded.

Wang Shui carefully passed through the pathless bushes and advanced slowly for about half an hour before finally discovering the so-called "beetle area".

The area where the man-eating grass is refreshed is not called "the man-eating grass area". It is called the area because of the red, yellow, blue and green ocean in front of Shui Wang - the ocean of insects.

Across a small gap, the trees changed from huge broadleaf trees to a few shorter fruit trees, but most were as tall as three or four stories.

These fruit trees, which bear fruit regardless of the season, are crawling everywhere with giant bugs about one meter in size, including beetles and worms, in various shapes and colors.

Seeing hundreds of huge bugs of various colors at a glance is quite shocking to Aqua Regia. Players with insect phobia will probably die suddenly on the spot after just one look.

Goosebumps appeared uncontrollably, Wang Shui endured the discomfort to check, and soon he found that the dense swarm of insects was not that many.He moved forward in a circuitous way along the edge of the "Beetle Area", bypassing the area with a large number of fruit trees. Sure enough, the density of bugs dropped a lot, but even walking a few steps into a forest with big bugs would kill a player with insect phobia several times. .

The posts Wang Shui had seen on the strategy forum before had very few and simple descriptions of the beetles.The guide only says that beetles have high defense but low offensive desire, and worms move slowly but have poor experience and drops.

Now it seems that it is very likely that there were not so many bugs gathering during the closed beta, otherwise this hellish scene would not be ignored by the players.

Instead of being filled with emotion and fear, Wang Shui had other concerns in his heart. He took out a reagent bottle that he had seen vomiting in the past few days:
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【Pan-Eating Grass Honey】

[Item type: materials, consumables]

【Quantity: 500ml*223】

[Explanation: The predatory digestive juice of ferocious man-eating grass has a certain degree of toxicity and corrosiveness, and has a sweet and fragrant smell. It is extremely attractive to nectar-loving creatures (insects, birds, rodents, etc.).Man-eating grass relies on the honey it synthesizes to attract, paralyze, kill, and digest prey, and it also spits honey to attack. 】

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Obviously, honey is helpful in defeating these beetles. Based on the distribution of monsters, this coincidence can also be explained.

So, could it be that no one discovered such obvious strategy details during the closed beta?
Maybe no one had practiced [gathering] skills at that time, maybe those who discovered it didn't pay attention to it. After all, beetles might not have been so prevalent at that time.

Thinking more and asking more questions are one of Wang Shui's few strengths, although this also leads to his foresight and hesitation.

Now he had the opportunity to develop a worm farming strategy. Faced with a large amount of monster resources that no one cared about, he put aside his hesitation.

The first thing to do now is to confirm the function of honey and find a way to use this item to spawn monsters. However, the description of "extremely strong attraction" in the description prevents Aqua Regia from opening it directly.

So he first gently threw the glass reagent bottle onto a thick meadow, then retreated at an angle where he could always see the glass bottle, until he was more than ten meters away.

Then he took out a pebble from the leather pocket on his waist. The pebble was only slightly larger than a coin, smooth and thick, very comfortable to hold in his hand, and very suitable for throwing.

Aqua Regia is going to use pebbles to crush the reagent bottle and observe the effect.

It is not an easy task to throw a stone from a distance of more than 20 meters and hit something the size of a fist. Two days ago, Shui Wang could not do it. In the past few days, he has been throwing stones like crazy to pull monsters, which greatly improved his throwing ability. Of course, only for Shi Zi'er.

Starting from the ground, aqua regia mobilizes the muscles of the whole body, grinds the feet, twists the legs, turns the waist, and swings the right arm like a whip. When it reaches the position it feels, gently release the thumb, index finger and middle finger of the right hand.

The movement was fast and smooth, and the pebbles shot out from Wang Shui's hand like a line, hitting the glass reagent bottle almost in a straight line.

Wang Shui has long been accustomed to the current strength bonus, and the characters in the game now have superhuman physiques for ordinary people in reality.

The reagent bottle shattered with a muffled sound. The sound did not attract the attention of the insects a few meters away, but just three or four seconds later, aqua regia suddenly felt a numbness in his spine - the insects were moving.

The giant bugs move like a march, and the picture is so shocking.

Beetles and worms of about one meter in size in various colors were overwhelmingly swarming near Aqua Regia. Aqua Regia, who had gained some courage recently by spawning monsters, immediately evacuated with weak legs.

After quickly escaping for a hundred meters, he realized that the insects had not followed, so Wang Shui carefully moved back.

The whole process actually only took about 1 minute. When Aqua Regia returned, he found that the insects did not rush towards him, but stopped when they reached the bottle.

Now that the insect swarm has returned to calm, they are crawling back to their original positions, and there are still seven or eight beetles left near the broken glass bottle.

These beetles have two icons of paralysis and poisoning on their heads, and they are shaking around the glass bottle.

The paralysis effect quickly disappeared, and the beetles turned back to the insect swarm as if nothing had happened, while Aqua Regia kept staring at the "-15", "-15" that appeared above their heads...

Poison damage, no poison damage that makes the beetles hostile!What's the total damage? !

Staring at the damage numbers that popped up at the end and disappearing, Wang Shui discovered that several injured beetles only had about one-third of their health left!
Around six hundred to eight hundred, a number came to his mind.

According to the guide, the health of beetles hovers around 1000 to 1500, and their strong defense capabilities are highlighted. The health and defense capabilities of worms and flying insects will be lower, but their attack power or attack methods will be corrected. .

Based on a rough calculation based on the blood volume range, if Honey's poison damage is a fixed value, Aqua Regia estimates that this value is 750. In other words, it is about 15 points of damage per second and lasts for 50 seconds?
Hiss - group poison damage, early monster spawning?Could it be... could it be "Strangulation Gas Potion"? !

Is this still the world of sword skills?Kayaba Akihiko actually designed this method of spawning monsters. Is it a truant prop for players who are afraid of bugs?
It's useless to think about it now. In Wang Shui's eyes, these terrifying monsters have turned into experience, kel and materials. He began to move along the periphery of the beetle area, placing honey glass bottles as he walked. When he made a semicircle, More than 60 bottles have been laid out.

Such items that are actively displayed will not be judged as lost or discarded for a long time. Aqua Regia has tested this with wooden thorns in the trap.

After placing the bottles, Aqua Regia began to run back along the original path, taking out pebbles and smashing the bottles closest to him along the way.

This time, the aqua regia is very close to the bottle and does not require much strength, so there is no need to stop.

By the time he spent 3 minutes running back to the starting point where the bottle was placed, his level had reached level five.The first batch of bugs have long since died, and what follows is a more dense and consistent set of killing prompts!The kill pop-up window did not stop within 50 seconds. Aqua Regia set it to automatically close, but the pop-up windows were still connected together.

The golden light shone again, and Aqua Regia reached the sixth level. When the experience bar slowly stopped, it was not far from the seventh level.

Wang Shui didn't know how many bugs he had killed... In fact, he could know that because the bug corpses were affected by the [Collect] skill and were not refreshed. Now there was a "Mountain of Bug Corpses" stretching along the edge of the orchard.

This picture is not much better than when they were alive, but this is not the limit!
The next scene may scare ordinary people to death, so I won’t describe it in detail. Let me tell you a short story.

Once upon a time, there was a miser who got a batch of gold. He loved the gold so much. He liked the feeling of being surrounded by gold.

So he melted the gold into small golden rice, and touched these golden rice every day, feeling the feeling of them surrounding his palms.

One day, these golden rice were accidentally eaten by more than 100 chickens. The miser was so angry that he covered his mouth and nose with old linen clothes, picked up the [Bronze Sword] and started to chop the more than 100 chickens one by one until the Bronze Sword When the durability was exhausted, he replaced it with the [Sword of Tenacity]. The green chicken blood soaked the linen clothes, and every breath was filled with a strong stench, but the miser still dismembered these chickens with a serious look on his face.

After greeting the nine tribes of taste design engineers, the miser finally got back all his property, and then fell down on a clean meadow, smiling greedily while crying.

Well, that’s the story.

When aqua regia rose from the meadow, the entire woodland had returned to calmness and tidiness.Insects have sprung out sporadically, but now Aqua Regia feels a little nauseous when he sees the insects.

He threw the old linen clothes far away. Only the stains on it could not be refreshed. It needed to be washed to remove the [dirty] state, but Aqua Regia never wanted to touch it again.

Trying hard to delete the images in his mind, Wang Shui looked at the forest full of fruit trees with dull eyes, gathering his energy in numbness.

When he was... practicing the [Gathering] skill just now, he originally wanted to find out the reason for the proliferation of "chickens" here, but halfway through, uh, maybe about a third of the way, his consciousness entered into himself. protection status.

Now that the woodland was much cleaner and the air was fresher, Aqua Regia took a stroll as if taking a walk.Then, not surprisingly, he saw treasure chests in a small clearing in the woods.

The huge golden treasure chest actually emitted a bright green light. At this time, Wang Shui no longer had the intelligence to analyze why there was a treasure chest outside the maze area. He opened it directly without thinking too much about whether it was a Mimic.

Inside the huge gold treasure chest, which is more than one meter high, is a display stand decorated with red brocade. In the middle of the stand is a huge green jewel five centimeters square.

There are S-shaped vines embossed on the left side of the jewelry, and there are only thin tendrils on the right side. The upturned leaves at the top are lifelike. Under the vines is a curved jade surface that emits a green light. The whole thing is exquisite.

Wang Shui reached out and picked up the jewelry, and the brocade table disappeared together with the treasure chest.

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[Special Equipment·Supernatural Instinct]

[Equipment type: Amulet/Jewelry/Pendant]

[Level Requirements: None]

[Special Effect 1: All attribute bonuses from equipment items are invalid. 】

[Special Effect 2: All self-training effects are doubled. 】

[Special Effect 3: Naturally restore 5% of maximum health per second, and increase all gain effects by 100%]

[Explanation: "I don't know how I know, but I just know."]

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Ah... this?

It's actually a talisman-type equipment. There's almost no discussion about this thing on the strategy forum. The reason is that it's too rare.During the closed beta, there was only single-digit public data. Amulet-type equipment generally had entries for health and attributes, and particularly good ones even had special effects.

Among the ten equipment slots on the player character doll, the necklace, two rings and amulet are the hardest to get.

Among them, necklaces and rings are sold in stores in the city with relatively poor results. The high-quality jewelry in the closed beta has only been produced by BOSS, and the production of amulets is even less.

This jewelry is still a special effect type without adding attributes. It is so strong... Aqua Regia is very confused.

The first special effect is a purely negative effect, which directly disables all attribute bonuses on the equipment.

Sword Art Online SAO is a game that relies heavily on equipment. During the internal testing, everyone found that the attributes of equipment span a large range. The impact of numerical values ​​​​on this game is intuitive and obvious. Just based on the first special effect, Wang Shui dared to claim that this hanging jewelry Definitely not a late-stage equipment.

Effect two, the expression of doubling is intuitive. What is suspicious is that there is clearly a description of a 100% improvement below, so why use such a vague concept of doubling?Shouldn't all numbers be written for ease of calculation?
And this "exercise effect" is not a keyword, there is no entry named exercise effect at all.

Does this exercise refer to training attributes or training skill proficiency?
However, attributes and skills have upper limits. Even if the training effect is doubled, it will only reach the full level in advance. The main skills will definitely reach the full level.

Special effect two can probably save a lot of time, and is generally useful.

In Wang Shui's view, the third one is the most useless.

Only 5% of the maximum health recovery is too poor in the early stage. One thousand health will only restore 50 in seconds, which is not much better than potion.

Especially for aqua regia, he can slowly drink the life potion without being fatally injured and receive a large amount of continuous damage. Is it really necessary to bet that the monster will not kill him in seconds?
The third special effect is obviously that the higher the blood volume, the stronger he is, but according to the first special effect, without the [Physique (VIT)] attribute bonus on the equipment, how much health will he have?
Wang Shui's evaluation is that it is a self-contradictory and useless toy.

In this early stage, this kind of special equipment can only be found in the ordinary dense forest on the first level. The blood return on it is probably used to save potions for players in the early stage.

Wang Shui opened the map and minimized the panel, checking the map fog that had been dispelled. Sure enough, his current location was exactly in the center of the first floor of "Aincrad". This jewelry was probably halfway through the map guide outside the maze. reward.

The shape is quite exquisite, and putting it in the inventory is very good for curing the collecting habit, but Wang Shui did not expect it, and his analysis of this thing was not correct.

From Wang Shui's point of view, special equipment can only be regarded as an added bonus. This group of beetles that seem to be looking at the treasure chest is the biggest benefit, which is the initial financial benefit.

In less than an hour, the materials Wang Shui obtained had already exceeded the maximum weight limit. He had to sort out some cheap and heavy materials and pack them up and hide them, so that he could take them with him when passing by in the future.

Wang Shui is currently stuck on the edge of carrying a heavy load that affects his movement. No matter how much he carries a stone on his body, he will be overweight. It stands to reason that he should go back to the village to unload the goods now, but his current location and time really make him a little embarrassed.

It was just after noon. If he went back, he would not have time to return to this location today. He would have to go back and fight with a group of people to grab monsters near the village, or simply rest for half a day.

After a brief consideration, Wang Shui decided to continue exploring forward and try to move forward as much as possible without wasting time dealing with monsters.

His purpose was to draw a map. It would be best if he could find a supply point such as a village ahead. If he couldn't find it, he would head back at four o'clock in the afternoon.

If you just move forward, Aqua Regia's speed is still very fast.

He moves very quickly between trees, and is very skillful in finding animal paths and judging the ground where he can land.Except for collecting medicinal herbs (which is very light), Wang Shui almost never stops, but when encountering strange things, he will always take out a booklet and take a look.

This booklet is the "Argo's Floor Guide Manual: First Floor (Paid Edition)" that was released in advance.

The above records the information of almost all common monsters on the first level in more detail, including attributes, distribution locations, attack methods, drops, etc.

In addition, there are also verified high-value tasks, attribute training information provided by Wang Shui, and many other contents.

Argo, who originally planned to help novice players for free, couldn't bear the cost burden. She put a paid version and a free version on the prop store. The free version has less content but is quite refined, which is enough for novice players to quickly master the game and develop good skills. A good habit to increase combat power.

The paid version also provides a large amount of undetermined intelligence information, as well as some clues to newly discovered rare items. The price of 200 kels is also worth the money.

Both versions have a red title page with [Special Attention], which lists many important matters that must be paid attention to, such as the attribute training provided by Aqua Regia and the retention of attribute points, such as some special areas with particularly high risk, such as the best player Multi-player team formation and [switching] skills, etc.

When Shui Wang is resting, he often takes out the strategy manual to verify the strategy information in his memory to see if there are any discrepancies.

But now he was reading before the battle, not to find information on monsters, but because he wanted to quickly acquire the [Concealment] skill.

The strategy manual contains information on various skills and sword skills. In addition to the attributes of the skills themselves and the expansion of sword skills, there are also suggestions for teamwork among the players in the team, suggestions for individual player skill combinations, and how to use them correctly and efficiently. Sword skills.

Wang Shui was looking at the basic knowledge and usage of the [Concealment] skill, and then practicing [Concealment] in the complex dense forest environment while on the road.

There is only one new skill grid added at level five. If you don't want your account to become useless, you must fill it with the most useful skills as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)