Chapter 64: One Shot to Fame

After experiencing such a novel and turbulent snake car journey, the players were like rabbits that had been caged for a long time and finally released, rushing towards the extremely simple novice village with joy.

Why say it was simple?
At the very least, the merman territory had rows of houses and the most basic facilities.
But this novice village truly interpreted the word “empty” to the extreme.

The entire small plain was empty, with only an ordinary wooden hut standing in the very center.
And it was even set up with an air wall, knocking several curious players who wanted to go in and see dizzy.

But it was this very place that was about to become the starting point for them, the two hundred and fifty players, and even more open beta players in the future.
It was also their first stop in exploring the wider world of Sea Realm.

A few life-skill players had already contentedly taken out sticks and wooden boards from their backpacks and, with extreme skill, set up a small stall.
Then they were surrounded by combat players who needed supplies, and their business was more than ten times better than usual.

And besides supplies and selling supplies, more players turned their gazes to the edge of the novice village.
Without having to walk too far, they could see the old friends that all game players were extremely familiar with—the round, sticky Slime classmates!

Immediately, many people couldn’t wait to flick their tails, and with a sinister smile, came face to face with those black, spherical slimes, raising the broadswords in their hands.

“Become the experience on my panel, shinde!”

The expected scene of them trembling and scattering in all directions did not appear.
Instead, they leisurely stayed where they were, and with a pair of small, shiny black eyes, they glanced at that person with disdain, as if looking at some foolish idiot who didn’t know their place.

!!

How can this be tolerated?

The provoked player’s eyebrows shot up.
He slashed at the other, but was nimbly dodged.
The next second, it had already jumped onto a rock not far away.

The player refused to give up, raising his knife behind him.
Just as he was about to chop down fiercely, he felt that something was not right—why did his knife seem much heavier?

The player turned his head and came face to face with several pairs of dark black eyes.
About ten slimes were standing on his knife hilt, looking at him faintly.

Then, one of them let out a “Squeak!” scream.
The other slimes, as if receiving some kind of signal, pounced on that player from all directions.

Not even half a minute had passed, and the player had already turned into a ball of light and flew to the resurrection point.
He would probably have to wait for the red-topped snake to wake up before he could catch the last bus back.

Hiss…

Everyone who witnessed this scene couldn’t help but suck in a cold breath, no longer daring to underestimate these cute little black balls—

MMP, who said slimes are beginner-level monsters?
Which game’s slimes can be so ferocious??

Oh, this is Sea Realm.
Then it’s fine.

They turned to sympathize with the player who had quickly returned to the city: In a game that carries through the word “hardcore” to the end, you can’t be careless at all!

Even a rock on the roadside could turn into a fish and bite off a large chunk of your health.
Who gave you the courage to go one-on-many and gang up on a large group of slimes?

Teacher Liang?

However, thanks to this righteous man who bravely sacrificed himself to warn those who came after, the other players retracted their steps of seeking death.
They turned to take out a wooden sign from their backpacks, and then wrote on it with a pen, ‘swish, swish, swish’—

[Sincerely recruiting monster-grinding team members, 1=9++++++!]

Then with a ‘smack’, he stuck it into the ground in front of him.

This wooden sign brought back the memories of many people when they first entered the game—back then, when they were teaming up for the novice dungeon of that lord’s library, they had held such wooden signs and shouted everywhere at the dungeon entrance to recruit teammates, and only then did they get to know many of their current friends.

Now, after so long, it felt like they were back to how it was in the beginning.

“I’m in!!” thinking this, a brown-haired boy squeezed up and stood next to the wooden sign.

Looking at the entire perimeter of the novice village, one could see teams of players spontaneously gathering together, each showing their skills to carry out the great cause of grinding monsters.

Although the strength of the slimes was somewhat beyond everyone’s imagination, it is said that humans are the most adaptable species.
Today, Sykes also saw the unity and innovation of these visitors from another world.

When they found that they were no match for them in strength, they quickly ganged up to attack.
When they realized the gap in combat power, they changed their hard-resistance policy and turned to winning by skill.

The combat methods of the players present could mainly be divided into two factions: one was the martial arts faction led by Old Li, and the other was the life-skill faction that won with various items.

And these two factions were clearly reflected in the 1234 team.

“Hah!”

With a loud shout, Old Li’s steel-hard claws waved towards the oncoming slime.
…surrounded by magic, its defense rapidly decreased.
Old Li’s claw tips merely grazed the slime’s surface.

“My turn!!”

Hua Yibing excitedly pounced forward, swung the hammer in his hand, and spun around three times on the spot…

K.O.!

“Well done!” Ge Jiao nodded.

Originally, when the few of them were preparing to set off to fight monsters, Ge Jiao had brought her own sister and found the members of the 1234 team, proposing a request to join them in the monster-grinding quest.

“You also know my and my sister’s abilities. We definitely won’t be a drag. I hope we can complete the mission as soon as possible.”

Ge Jiao’s words at that time were very pertinent.
Old Li was also very envious of her defense-lowering buff and very readily added the two of them to the team.

As expected, Old Li’s powerful combat ability, paired with Ge Jiao’s negative buff, could be said to be invincible.
Coupled with the fact that Ge Feifei had now evolved from a fireball to a large-area skill of a fire ring, the few of them cleared monsters with complete ease.

Even if they were occasionally attacked by monsters and lost health, it didn’t matter.
As long as they stood in the blood-regeneration formation set up by Hua Yibing for a while, and cooperated with blood-replenishing potions, they could achieve the maximum efficiency of endurance.

On the combat faction’s side, the enhancement-type fought fist to flesh, and the nature-type’s fire was blazing.
And the efficiency of Yan Shuangwen and Sykes’s side was definitely not inferior to the other few.

Hua Yibing had just laid out a new domain.
When he was taking a takoyaki to replenish his magic power, he suddenly heard his own roommate’s excited voice—

“I did it!”

Huh?
He did it?
Did what?

Speaking of which, since just now, that guy had been pulling Scott and muttering something, not knowing what he was tinkering with.
What’s going on now?

When he curiously turned his head, he discovered a scene that shattered his three views—

His roommate was carrying a cylindrical tube, slung over his waist with a rope.
There were also dense small holes on the tube, reflecting a cold and cruel luster, looking a bit like…

As Yan Shuangwen pressed a certain switch, the surrounding magic power instantly became turbulent.
A faint firelight lit up from the muzzle, and then there were ‘tututu’ magic bullets, with a ferocious and terrifying aura that could devour everything, pouncing straight towards the largest slime gathering place nearby.

Boom!

A sound like a thunderclap from the sky suddenly sounded.
The players nearby all felt the ground under their feet tremble.

Then there was a sky full of particularly dazzling firelight.

Hua Yibing’s jaw almost dropped to the ground, his eyes full of disbelief—

“Holy cr*p, Yan Er’mao, when did you smuggle a Gatling gun into Sea Realm!!!”

The huge noise just now had also attracted the attention of Old Li and the others and the nearby players.
They first heard the sound common in war movies, and then found that the countdown on the mission had suddenly dropped by more than a hundred numbers like a dive.

“Which great god is undergoing a tribulation?”

“Why does it sound like the sound from the xx drama my grandma watches?”

“Holy cr*p, holy cr*p, did you guys see? The full-server progress bar has dropped by a large chunk!!”

What happened?
What happened?

Everyone was asking each other, but even Hua Yibing and the others had no idea why their always silent teammate could suddenly pull out a cool-to-the-extreme Gatling gun and send the slimes and their folks to heaven with a ‘tututu’.

This is even more exaggerated than watching a magical girl transform!
Art comes from life, I am not deceived.

Yan Shuangwen obviously also didn’t expect this item to have such great power.
His usually calm expression also crumbled a little, his eyes shining brighter and brighter, as if his days of hard work had finally been affirmed.

And the super-ferocious hot weapon in his hand seemed to be unable to withstand the pressure of the magic power.
It slowly began to crack from the middle, and then shattered into pieces.

In the end, only an empty rope knot was left hanging on Yan Shuangwen’s shoulder.

Sykes reached out and pinched the rope knot, commenting, “This material really can’t withstand such concentrated magic power, but the effect is very good. You’ve proven yourself.”

Hua Yibing squeezed over to the clearly knowledgeable Sykes with a ‘whoosh’, grabbed one of his arms, and asked with blinking eyes full of curiosity, “Scott, do you know what this is? How did Old Yan suddenly come up with this thing?”

Of course, Sykes knew.
After all, he had watched Yan Shuangwen make this strange weapon from another world from scratch.

Ever since the other had discovered that his inspiration-type had the ability to change the structure of objects, he had begun to try to see if it was possible to bring some things from reality into Sea Realm.

In this worldview where you either fight monsters with your bare hands or wave a magic wand for a spell duel from a distance, what is the most powerful?

Of course, it’s the hot weapons that are completely different from this worldview!

He himself had tried many times, but all had ended in failure.
One day, after Scott, played by Sykes, had opened that appraisal shop, Yan Shuangwen had come to his counter with his waste materials.

Sykes was convinced by his fantastic idea and did his best to guide and help the other to realize this idea.

Compressed magic power could completely serve as bullets, but the problem was that there was no stable enough material to serve as the outer shell.

Later, the second red-topped flower provided by the red-topped snake had undoubtedly pushed this experiment a great step forward.
Yan Shuangwen had asked Old Li for that flower and mixed it into the hardest material he could find, only then barely achieving the earth-shattering blow just now.

“I need to find a harder material,” Yan Shuangwen regretfully put the rope into his backpack as a memento of his first success.

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