Time Travel: Super Player

Chapter 9 Weapon Choice

The man in sunglasses flicked the ash from his cigarette and said, "If you often surf the Internet, you should have an impression. About a year ago, there was a period of time when a large number of news reports about the disappearance of many people appeared collectively. Later, the rumor was debunked. That was actually the first appearance of the illusion."

Jia Shuai was surprised and said, "So the country already knows about the existence of the illusion? Then why..."

"Why not block the area where the illusion is located?" The man in sunglasses obviously guessed what Jia Shuai was going to ask, and shrugged his shoulders with a smile, "Of course they blocked it, but soon found that this was not realistic."

"Why?"

"Because the illusion looks like this in the real world."

While speaking, the man in sunglasses took back the map, stretched out his finger to draw a circle on the coffee table, and then opened his five fingers and clasped them on it.

"When each illusion first appears, it is a hemispherical area with a diameter of 50 meters, and the interior is shrouded in thick purple fog."

"The speed of time inside and outside the illusion is different. No matter how much time has passed in the illusion, the outside world has only spent 24 hours. Every time the illusion is opened, there will be a cooling time to reset the internal timeline. During this time, you cannot enter the illusion, and the higher the level of the illusion, the longer the cooling time interval."

The man in sunglasses paused for a moment, pointed to the upper right direction of himself, and said: "You also see this task bar - in fact, illusions with only a time limit are still rare. Most of the time, there will be a main line target task."

"If the player does not complete the task within the specified time limit, or simply dies in the illusion, then terrible things will happen -"

As he spoke, the man in sunglasses drew a larger circle outside the circle he just drew.

"You mean, the scope of the illusion in the real world will expand outward?"

Jia Shuai's face changed slightly. It was obvious that this so-called illusion was gradually encroaching on the space of the real world.

At present, the illusion has just appeared for less than a year, and its impact on the real world is still minimal.

However, as time goes by, when the scope of the illusion expands to a certain extent, it is entirely conceivable that the human society with greatly compressed living space will usher in a terrible turmoil.

The man in sunglasses saw Jia Shuai's changing expression and knew that he had figured out the key to the problem. He continued: "Not only that, the most troublesome thing is that unless some special props are used, no player can enter the same illusion repeatedly."

Jia Shuai finally understood at this time and said: "So... Is this the reason why the country tacitly allows the existence of illusion players?"

The man in sunglasses raised his eyebrows without comment, and his expression was self-evident.

"The number of standing troops in each country is a quota, and no one dares to increase the number of troops at the risk of provoking a war... Besides, the death rate in the illusion is extremely high, and the country cannot throw all the carefully trained troops into this pit that will never be filled."

"Based on the above points, although the country has not yet publicly recruited ordinary people to enter the illusion, it is still tolerant of ordinary people like us who have become players... However, the frequency of illusions has increased recently, and they may not be able to keep this secret for much longer."

Seeing that Jia Shuai seemed to have more questions, the man in sunglasses waved his hand and raised his wrist to point at his watch.

"What you want to know, someone will tell you naturally after you leave the illusion. Now we only have three days, so hurry up and save more points for yourself. The road ahead... I'm afraid it's still a long way to go."

...

Under the unlimited physical strength brought by [Death Recast], Roger chopped and killed all the zombies he could see in his field of vision for almost 24 hours without sleep.

The entire shopping mall from the second floor up was almost turned into an empty building by him alone.

Wherever he passed, whether in the corridor or in the room, only the mutilated corpses of zombies were left on the ground, and occasionally some dense piles of corpses of varying heights could be seen.

Puff——!

With a bright sword light, the head of the last zombie in sight flew up, spraying the dark brown dirty blood all over the wall.

Roger looked around mechanically, his eyes were scary and empty.

"Oh... Is it gone?"

Roger subconsciously wiped the blood on his face, and finally restored a trace of the expression that a living person should have.

Although [Death Recast] can restore his physical strength and spirit at any time, the boredom brought by long-term repeated killings needs to be endured by himself.

I don't know since when, his main consciousness has been on strike, and he was completely subconsciously swinging the sword at all movable objects.

Sitting on two stacked zombie corpses, holding a long sword that could no longer be seen, Roger took a deep breath of the air with a strong smell of blood and corpses, took out a piece of chocolate found in a tea room and stuffed it into his mouth. The sweetness melting on the tip of his tongue finally made him regain a little sense of self-existence.

Opening the personal main panel, the most conspicuous countdown on the right task bar has turned red.

——02:23:31.

"It turns out that this time has come..."

Roger muttered to himself, and then turned his eyes to the score column.

135270.

He was obviously stunned for a moment. Although he had expected it, when he saw this unimaginable huge score, he still felt a mixed feeling in his heart.

Really did it...

It's just that the first pot of gold after rebirth was earned too hard, it was completely earned by working hard, which made it difficult for Roger to have the kind of ecstatic feeling of getting rich overnight.

"But it's still not enough..."

Roger scratched his greasy hair in distress. [Death Recast] would only restore his physical condition, but it would not work for the impurities that had already been expelled from his body. After two days of sleepless battles, he almost smelled like a zombie.

There were less than two and a half hours left, and it was obviously a pipe dream to get another 100,000 points, which meant that he had to give up one of the two E-gold weapons.

This decision was undoubtedly difficult. After all, the positioning of these two weapons did not overlap, and their skill effects were different. It was hard to say which one could replace the other.

[Inscribed Blade - Pufferfish Poison] was positioned more defensively, and the effect of skill 3 Swordsman's Heart could well reduce the possibility of being controlled by mental spells.

[Mingdao·Meiying Poison] is more inclined to attack. Skill 3, Curse Shadow, is a small-range fear aura plus a weakness aura, while skill 2, Bloodthirsty Blade, which converts damage to healing, is a great weapon for group battles. It not only increases the chance of survival, but also saves a lot of money on buying healing potions.

Roger frowned, constantly simulating the various pros and cons that may occur when using the two knives in his mind. After weighing the pros and cons, he finally made a decision.

[Mingdao·Fugu Poison]

Type: Katana

Quality: E (Gold)

Level: LV1

Power: 250

Skill 1: Nanatogiri (Passive) - Power +100% against biological targets.

Skill 2: Gale Blade (Passive) - Attack speed +50%, attack range +15%, can damage spiritual targets.

Skill 3: Swordsman's Heart (Passive) - Greatly increases resistance to mental spells, immune to fear status.

Introduction: The sword of the ancient Japanese swordsman of the wind, it is said that a trace of the spirit of the wind god is sealed in the blade.

Certification cost - 100,000 points.

Roger had his own considerations for choosing [Mingdao·Fugu Poison] instead of [Mingdao·Meiying Poison].

To be fair, the skill effect of the latter is much more eye-catching than the former.

However, the terrible power of [Mingdao·Meiying Poison] is based on the premise of completely sacrificing defense. This extreme attack power can only be maximized in a team with perfect professional equipment.

But the secret of [sub-human] bloodline destined him to not be able to stay in a fixed team for a long time like before his rebirth.

Then, the defensive positioning of [Mingdao·Fugu Poison] is undoubtedly the best choice.

100,000 points faded like water, and the black samurai sword turned into a blue and white grid model and automatically stored in the digital storage space.

Seeing the single-digit points drop on the main page, Roger, who was still struggling with this choice, suddenly felt relieved.

Even with [Inscription Blade: Pufferfish Poison] alone, he has already stood at the top of all newcomers, so what else can he ask for absolute perfection?

Although he had E-gold weapons, Roger did not forget the two [Executioner's Demon Head Sword] and [Knight's Hard Head Hammer]. He turned back to the coffee shop on the second floor, retrieved them from the ceiling of the kitchen, and stored them in the digital storage space after authentication.

At the same time, his points were reduced to 29270 points.

While there was still plenty of time, Roger took a look at the spoils of the past two days.

Yes, just like in the game, killing monsters also explodes.

Big and small BOSS-level monsters usually explode treasure chests with their name prefixes, which can open a large number of points and high-quality props and equipment.

As for the cannon fodder-level soldiers like zombies, what they drop is a square box called "surprise box", which can mostly open some white quality miscellaneous items.

Of course, if you are lucky, you can occasionally open some pretty good green quality equipment or skills.

Although there are rumors that someone has opened a gold item in the surprise box, at least Roger has never seen it with his own eyes, and he has never even seen a blue item. It is probably just a rumor spread by some unscrupulous merchants to hype the price of the surprise box.

"Hey? This is... a title?"

Suddenly, Roger accidentally noticed that the title option was turned on on his main panel at some point.

Titles are not rare.

In the illusion, as long as the player accidentally meets one or several conditions, he will get a specific title issued by the system.

However, unlike the titles in the game that can only take effect at one time, these title effects can be stacked, and they can also be regarded as passive skills that cannot be upgraded.