Chapter 137: The Right Way To Explore The Game
Under the blazing sun, a steel city like a continuous mountain range rumbled slowly across a barren plain. It was like a steel giant beast that blotted out the sky as it crawled over the earth, every step making the ground tremble. Birds and beasts for several kilometers around, as well as foraging monsters, all fled in terror, not daring to approach this steel giant beast in the slightest.
Yet beneath this steel giant beast, large convoys kept rushing in from all directions, swarming into the body of this steel giant beast.
Both for Lin Qi, who was seeing a mobile city for the first time, and for the players sitting on the roofs of the vehicles, the sight before their eyes was utterly shocking.
In front of the steel city with a radius of over ten kilometers, whether people or monsters five or six meters tall, they were less than ants, fit only to be crushed.
“Damn! How much budget did it take to make these graphics?”
“Insane! So insane! Just this mobile city alone is enough for me to play for a year. And the game manufacturer actually plans to make it a one-time-use map, this is so generous.”
“Hurry! Record it! Every frame of this CG is art. If we miss it now, it will be gone.”
“If this CG could be used as the startup scene in the game pod, it would definitely sell like crazy!”
The players on the medium transport vehicles stared at Mobile City Jade Sky, filled with nothing but shock.
Although many people present had played more than a dozen virtual games, not one could compare to High Martial Arts Descend in terms of impact.
Whether it was the roar of the steel city or the tremors as it moved across the earth, especially seeing a colossal city with a radius of more than ten kilometers on the move, it triggered a kind of megalophobia-like instinctive fear.
Just when everyone thought Lin Qi would drive the medium transport vehicle into Emerald Sky like the other convoys, he turned the steering wheel toward a distant woodland. Fang Zhen and the others, driving the transport vehicles, found it strange, but still followed one after another.
“Qin Mu, are your friends not planning to go in with us?” Hou Fei, at the wheel of a transport vehicle, glanced curiously in the rearview mirror and saw that Lin Qi and the others were heading elsewhere, apparently not intending to enter together with them.
“Yeah, Brother Lin said he has his own matters, so he won’t be joining us.” Qin Mu spoke with a smile.
“What a pity. If they acted with us, with their strength, they might be able to explore the outskirts of the city proper.” Hou Fei looked at the three medium transport vehicles entering the distant woodland, sighed slightly, and did not ask further.
Since the death match at Crimson Moon Mountain, the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s reputation had grown by the day. Now, having eradicated the Great Ape Gang, many believed its strength could rival the top ten wilderness gangs.
With Hall Master Lin Qi already a martial artist, in the future Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was very likely to set up in the suburbs of the City of Light Chasing and wield considerable influence throughout the suburbs.
This time, after he was promoted to quasi-martial artist, he had been constantly drawing closer to Qin Mu, largely because of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
“They left?” On another transport vehicle, a stern winged tribesman glanced at Lin Qi and the others who had not followed, his gaze tinged with disgust. “At least those humans know their place. If they kept following, I would have had to let others deal with them.”
“It’s just a wilderness gang that wiped out the Great Ape Gang, not worth caring about.” The winged youth sitting beside him spoke dismissively. “The main purpose of the family sending us here is the Martial Artist Association of Emerald Sky and the stations of those major powers. Even if they follow us in, they will be blocked by the gangs and family members guarding the city proper.”
“Yes, Young Master Mo Ke!” Although the stern man had the qi and blood of an intermediate martial artist and wore B3-grade battle armor, he still responded with utmost respect to the noble young man before him.
Mo Ke Los, eldest young master of the Los martial artist great family. The Los family ranked among the top ten martial artist great families in the suburbs of the City of Light Chasing. Gangs like the Phosphor Fire Gang and Gorilla Gang in the suburbs had to show them considerable deference.
Mo Ke Los himself, not yet twenty-two, had already become a beginner martial artist and was certified by the Martial Artist Association as an outstanding potential candidate, a genius guaranteed to enter the Genius Training Camp this year. Intermediate martial artists, advanced martial artists—before Mo Ke Los, they were nothing.
In the wild woodland on the other side, Lin Qi drove for more than a kilometer and finally stopped before a rift valley, letting all the players disembark.
“Master of the Pavilion, aren’t we going into Emerald Sky to explore?” Twilight of the Gods looked at Emerald Sky in the distance, at least two to three kilometers away, and could not understand why Lin Qi was having them get off here.
“We are going into Emerald Sky to explore, but before that we need to set up camp and have a place to rest.” Lin Qi swept his gaze over the players present and spoke in a very formal tone. “Binding this temporary resting place costs three thousand points per person. If you want to bind, come to me. If you don’t, you can head to Emerald Sky now to explore on your own.”
As soon as Lin Qi finished speaking, the entire crowd was stunned.
“A temporary resurrection point?”
“The game manufacturer finally decided to be humane?”
“Three thousand points, that’s a thousand more than Crimson Moon Mountain.”
“This is a limited-time event. You should be thrilled to have a nearby resurrection point. If you think it’s expensive, don’t bind. At worst you just run here for a few hours.”
“Does anyone have six hundred points to lend me? I’ll pay you back twelve hundred when I get back from Emerald Sky!”
At first, everyone had been worried about death in this limited-time event. After all, it had taken more than four hours of driving to get here, and with no idea how many days the event would last, dying carelessly was not an option. Many had already planned how to play it safe in Emerald Sky; some had even taken out loans to buy a superconducting electromagnetic gun as a safeguard.
“The plan has to be adjusted.” Seeing the bindable temporary resurrection point, Fang Zhen quickly gathered his team.
At this moment, not only Fang Zhen’s team but all the other teams present decided to change their original plans.
“Has everyone finished binding?” Luo Wu Shang looked at Zhang Qing Wei and the others gathered around and asked.
“Everyone has completed the binding.” Zhang Qing Wei nodded and reported.
“Now that we have a temporary resurrection point, our operation needs to change.” Luo Wu Shang glanced over the twenty-six people assembled and quickly ordered, “For exploration efficiency, from now on quasi-martial artist level can act alone. Those below quasi-martial artist go in pairs. If you encounter something tough, mark it first, then join with others to deal with it. We regroup in two hours to process the exploration items. If there are no questions, move out now.”
Everyone nodded, with no objections.
As for the other teams, they chose similar methods, splitting their original squads into several, even more than a dozen. In no time, they swarmed toward Emerald Sky like locusts and vanished into the woods.
“Hope they bring back something good.” Watching the disappearing players, Lin Qi felt a pang in his heart for the energy crystals in his hand.
Energy crystals were extremely rare. Even if players paid three thousand points each to bind, a hundred players only amounted to three hundred thousand points, nowhere near the value of two energy crystals.
Emerald Sky.
As large numbers of players entered this mobile city, they tacitly spread out, each conducting their own exploration.
“Sister Xiao Yuan, how should we explore?” A girl with the strength of an advanced apprentice, bright eyes, and double ponytails could not help glancing at the members of various gangs of different races on the street and asked, “This place is so big, and there are so many gang members from other factions scavenging everywhere. If we want to avoid them and still gather good stuff, it’ll be hard.”
As a strategy guide expert, Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang had specially recruited a total newbie girl so she could make better guides to help newcomers to the game.
For this limited-time event, Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang planned to act together with this girl named Great Emperor Ying Huo, so that the resulting guide would be more realistic and convincing.
“How do you usually play exploration games?” Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang asked Great Emperor Ying Huo curiously.
“Me?” Great Emperor Ying Huo thought for a moment. “I just wander around, take pictures when the scenery is nice, and pick up good stuff if I see it.”
“All right, I get it. You really are a pure newbie.” Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang paused. “Then I’ll teach you how to play exploration games properly, and this can serve as a primer for everyone.”
“In any exploration game, the game manufacturer will hide treasures in some random corner, which also happens to be where enemies come and go. So the first step for a newbie to get stronger is to never skip any place or any enemy. That’s how you avoid missing treasure. Any place you can enter, especially where there are many enemies, is usually where treasures are.”
“And places with treasure usually have good drops from enemies too, so you can’t skip any of those enemies. Clear them all.”
“But this time the game map is too big. It’s impossible to explore everywhere one by one. To be efficient, we have to look for places with lots of enemies. So what we’re going to do is set: clear out the enemies in high-density areas, quickly search the area, then follow the path and push all the way toward the center.”
“Got it?”
“I got it!” Great Emperor Ying Huo nodded her little head. “We just need to kill all these enemies to find valuable treasures. Then we just clear our way across the map and don’t need to deliberately search other places.”
“Exactly!” Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang nodded, pleased. “All right, let’s begin!”
