Time Travel: Super Player

Chapter 5 The Dilemma of Choice

There were less than a hundred zombies outside, wandering around scattered among the debris and garbage.

The huge square was inexplicably deserted at this moment.

Roger did not go through the spacious main entrance, but came to the side of the Good Luck City complex according to the map. With the help of the black ghost's height and strength far beyond ordinary people, he threw himself onto a viewing platform on the second floor.

This is the best strategy route summarized by explorers in the previous life. It can directly bypass the dense group of zombies in the commercial street on the first floor, thus saving a lot of time.

Of course, such a leap forward must be based on a sufficient understanding of the environment and the enemy, otherwise it is very likely to fall into danger that cannot be escaped.

The viewing platform is the open-air part of a cafe, with an area of ​​about 80 to 90 square meters, cleverly divided into several areas by green vegetation.

Several zombies stood dully under the parasol, and began to move after sensing the breath of living people. The staggering footsteps stepped on the original wooden floor of the platform, making a thumping sound of varying depths.

Bang ——!

A fat male zombie knocked over the small round table and opened his arms to Roger like an old friend who hadn't seen him for a long time. Only half of his bloody tongue could be seen hanging on his chinless face. God knows how he would bite people with this face.

"Get out of my way!"

Roger grabbed the folding stool beside him, exerted force on his waist, swung his arms and slammed them hard on the zombie's left shoulder, which immediately made the fat zombie stagger and trip over the corner of the table and fall flat on his face.

Roar!

The fat zombie struggled to get up, but Roger stepped on his back, turned the folding stool and inserted the stool leg into the back of the fat zombie's head.

Two more zombies rushed over, and Roger didn't have time to pull out the folding stool, so he could only pull down the square table beside him to block one of them, and then pulled out a parasol with the coffee shop logo printed on it, and used the umbrella cover to push it off the edge of the platform.

While the other zombies were still stuck on the green partition wall, Roger rushed to the door as fast as he could, opened the door and flashed into the cafe.

The situation inside the cafe was no better than outside. More than a dozen zombies were squatting in the messy hall, gnawing on several corpses that had long lost their human form.

A zombie dressed as a waiter was stimulated by the smell of blood and flesh and screamed, but he could not find the exit to the outside world, so he could only hit the bar in front of him again and again.

Seeing this scene, Roger jumped over the bar without hesitation on a high stool, picked up the coffee pot on the operating table, and smashed the waiter zombie's head several times in a row.

Other zombies were attracted by the loud sound of the coffee pot breaking, and they abandoned the corpses on the ground and wandered over, but were blocked outside by the chest-high marble bar.

At this time, Roger finally had a chance to breathe.

He suddenly realized that he seemed a little arrogant.

Originally, his plan was to go directly to the security room on the second floor, where he would replenish his weapons and start the first hidden mission. However, the toughness of these zombies was beyond his imagination. With those miscellaneous "Jackie Chan-style weapons", it was obviously not enough to support him to fight his way out of the zombies.

Could it be that he had to go back to the shopping street on the first floor?

Roger shook his head subconsciously and directly rejected this plan.

Judging from the time, the man in sunglasses is very likely to have arrived at the shopping street. If he turned back at this time, he would almost certainly meet the man in sunglasses head-on.

By then, even if the man in sunglasses was stupid, he could guess that he was the one who sold the map before.

So, where is the nearest place with weapons?

Roger subconsciously turned his sight to the left hand direction, through the transparent glass window on the side of the coffee shop facing the corridor, the five traditional Chinese characters "Zhao Ji Antique Shop" were particularly conspicuous among the rows of English letters.

He remembered that the explorer's guide mentioned that the best cold weapons in Good Luck City basically came from this "Zhao Ji Antique Shop".

But it's not easy to get in.

The structure of this antique shop is similar to the pawnshop in ancient China, with iron fences as thick as fingers on all sides, and only a thick anti-theft door connected to the outside world.

In addition to the key, probably only C4 can open this door - but Good Luck City does not have this kind of favorite of Taliban fighters.

So, if you want to get the key, you must first find the owner of the antique shop.

And if you want to know where the owner of the antique shop is, you must go to the security room to retrieve the surveillance video.

In this way, for Roger at the moment, this has become a dead loop.

Wait...

Roger suddenly realized that he seemed to have walked into a blind spot in thinking - he couldn't get in, but it didn't mean that other things couldn't get in.

Black ghost.

The remaining fifty seconds of existence may not kill a few zombies, but it is more than enough to throw a few weapons from the gap in the fence.

IBM particles like smoke floated through the corridor, and the thin black figure like a mummy gradually appeared inside the iron fence of the antique shop.

After regaining his ability to move, Roger immediately controlled the black ghost to rush to the medieval-style weapon rack on the wall.

Bang! Crash ——!

In the process of jumping up, the antique rack that the black ghost stepped on lost its balance and overturned, and a large number of antique sundries fell from the shelf to the ground.

"Huh?"

Roger inadvertently noticed that there was a secret compartment behind the overturned shelf, in which a long wooden box with a somewhat old appearance was stuck.

The black ghost had less than 30 seconds left. Roger didn't have time to think about it. He subconsciously took out the long wooden box and stuffed it out of the gap in the iron fence together with several weapons that he had taken off the wall before.

A moment later, the weapons and wooden boxes were picked up by Roger from the corridor and placed one by one on the ground in front of him.

There were three weapons.

[Knight's Hard Head Hammer]

Type: One-handed warhammer

Quality: F (blue)

Level: LV1

Power: 40

Skill 1: Head-on hit (passive) - When the target is the head, the power is +20%, and there is a certain chance of causing dizziness.

Introduction: What skills are needed for a stick? Hit the head!

Certification cost - 1000 points.

[Ranger Half Sword]

Type: Longsword

Quality: F (blue)

Level: LV1

Power: 40

Skill 1: Hand switching (passive) - You can switch between single-handed and two-handed holding at any time. When holding the sword with two hands, the attack speed is +20%, and the power is +50%.

Introduction: A longsword that is both practical and beautiful, the favorite of medieval rangers.

Certification cost - 1500 points.

[Executioner's Ghost Head Sword]

Type: Two-handed heavy sword

Quality: F (purple)

Level: LV1

Power: 100

Skill 1: Decapitation (passive) - When the attack target is the neck, the power + 100%.

Skill 2: Fierce Evil (passive) - Can damage spiritual targets.

Introduction: The executioner's sword of ancient China, the blade has been dyed light red by the blood of the death row prisoners, and the guard is engraved with beautiful ghost heads and runes, which seems to hide some mysterious power from the East.

Certification consumption - 5000 points.

After reading the attributes of these three weapons, Roger couldn't help but take a breath.

Generally speaking, each level of equipment can be subdivided into five qualities.

From high to low, it is divided into five colors: "gold, purple, blue, green, and white".

White is the so-called blank equipment, with extremely low attributes and no additional skills. Except for newcomers with limited funds, almost no one will use it.

Green equipment can be regarded as an enhanced version of white equipment. It also has no attached skills. However, due to its relatively large production volume, it has always been the mainstream equipment of players and the most circulated commodity on the market.

Starting from blue equipment, the equipment has attached skills. While the power has increased dramatically, the production rate has also dropped sharply. Even before Roger was reborn, blue equipment has not been popularized to the extent that everyone has one.

If blue equipment is just rare, then purple equipment is definitely rare.

According to statistics released by the Explorers Guild, on average, no more than three pieces of purple equipment are generated each time the illusion is opened, and most of them have extremely harsh conditions for acquisition and high certification fees.

Coupled with malicious competition among players and various objective force majeure, the production rate of purple equipment has been reduced again and again, and even reached the point where five illusions could not bring out one piece.

As for the legendary gold equipment, it is also jokingly called "personality equipment" by players, and is generally only produced as a hidden task reward that appears randomly.

And the most disgusting thing is that these random tasks have a one-time attribute. As long as they are triggered once in a certain fantasy, the CD will not appear again regardless of whether they are completed or not.

Therefore, even if the Explorer Guild continues to collect and publish detailed explanations of these random tasks, no one has ever really brought out a golden equipment with these strategies, and most players just treat it as gossip.

Before, Roger only remembered that the strategy mentioned that the reward for the hidden task of saving the antique shop owner was very generous, but he didn't expect it to be so generous.

Two blue weapons and one purple weapon, which is almost one-third of the number of high-level equipment that a first-level fantasy can produce.

It's a pity that finding is not the same as getting. If you can't pay the certification points, no matter how good the equipment is, you can only look at it.

Roger now has only 2400 points, and can only certify one blue weapon at most.

But he doesn't want to give up any of them, especially the rare purple weapon [Executioner's Ghost Head Sword], and he can't help but be in trouble for a while.

At this moment, he inexplicably recalled a sentence he had read online - there is no such thing as a phobia of choice? It's just poverty.

The truth is really heartbreaking...

"Forget it, let's take a look at the contents of this box first..."

Roger could only temporarily distract himself with this.

But then again, he was also very curious about the contents of this long wooden box. After all, in common sense, only extremely valuable items would be hidden so secretly.

Opening the lid of the box, two black and red samurai swords with cold light flashing quietly lay on the golden velvet cloth.

Although no one was holding them, he could still feel a sharp sword intent coming towards him.

[Inscribed Sword - Pufferfish Poison]

Type: Samurai Sword

Quality: E (Gold)

Level: LV1

Power: 250

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

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

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

Introduction: The sword of the wind swordsman Haohmaru, it is said that a trace of the wind god's soul is sealed in the blade.

Certification cost - 100,000 points.

[Inscribed Sword - Plum Oriole Poison]

Type: Katana

Quality: E (Gold)

Level: LV1

Power: 250

Skill 1: Nanadokiri (Passive) - Power to biological targets + 100%.

Skill 2: Bloodthirsty Blade (Passive) - 5% of the damage to biological targets is converted into self-healing, and at the same time, 2% of the weapon's basic power and 1% of the critical strike rate are increased within 60 seconds, up to 5 times. Can damage spiritual targets.

Skill 3: Shadow of Curse (Passive) - When holding a sword, a ghost shadow will automatically appear behind you, and the spirit attribute of non-friendly units within ten meters will be judged. If the judgment fails, you will fall into a state of fear, and all attributes will decrease by 10%. The cost of activating skills will be doubled.

Introduction: The sword of the killer ghost tooth god Genjuro, the curse accumulated on the blade has begun to materialize, but it seems that there is still a lack of some opportunity to become the legendary demon sword.

Certification cost - 100,000 points.