The swordsman and the Taoist priest left quickly because they needed to upgrade, leaving only Su Mo and Hong Guoguo in front of the sect's headquarters.
Su Mo was still looking at the learning requirements for other summoner skills. Hong Guoguo next to him couldn't stand the long silence and asked, "5 packs?"
Su Mo didn't reply.
Hong Guoguo: "6 packs?"
Su Mo didn't say anything.
Hong Guoguo gritted her teeth and said, "7 packs?"
Su Mo tilted his head and glanced at him.
Hong Guoguo wanted to cry but had no tears: "8 bags, 8 bags, I really can't have more."
Su Mo reluctantly said, "Okay then."
Hong Guoguo was very distressed. There was no such bodyguard service in the novice area, not to mention that it was even more difficult to find a bodyguard with good operation skills. He wanted to go back to two hours ago and slap himself for kicking someone. Everyone in the group is a big boss, and he can't mess with them casually in the future. "Eight bags of feed a day are too much for your rabbit to eat. How about some materials?"
The price of the feed is clearly marked at 80 gold, and he can even reduce it a little when converting it into materials.
Su Mo tilted his head and gave him a strange look, "It can eat 8 packets, right?"
The Lingxin Rabbit tilted its head, jumped up and down, with an innocent look on its face.
Hong Guoguo: “…”
It's simply unreasonable!
After Su Mo activated his skills and cleaned up his backpack, he asked, "Why aren't you leaving yet?"
Hong Guoguo: "I'm waiting for you. How can I leave if you don't leave?"
"Oh." Su Mo glanced at the time, "Then I'll log off first. See you tomorrow."
Hong Guoguo: "??? Wait a minute, brother!"
Before he could finish his words, the person in front of him turned into flying smoke and disappeared, leaving him no chance to stay.
It's only 12 o'clock now! He didn't even say he was sleepy. Shouldn't young people be happy until 3 o'clock
-*
Su Mo didn't think too much about it. Going to bed at 12 o'clock was considered staying up late for him.
Just as he disconnected, he saw Lele standing in front of him. There was a series of angry expressions on the electronic screen. The robotic arm was already on his loader, and it seemed that it was ready to force a disconnection.
"I overplayed my hand." Su Mo apologized honestly.
Lele said angrily: "Sumo, you played for 7 hours today!!"
Su Mo said he would not do that next time, but he had already planned to secretly adjust Lele's alarm system back two hours. It was the first time that he played games so late. After washing up, Su Mo lay on the bed, but he was not sleepy at all. His mind seemed to still retain the feeling of running in the holographic world just now, the wind in his face, the light limbs, this was the body he had always dreamed of.
Endless running, enjoyable exercise.
Physical education classes have always been key courses in all schools in the Star Alliance. Students with excellent physical fitness can receive special physical training, but Su Mo cannot experience this. His F-level physique makes it impossible for him to do strenuous exercise, and the vast physical training ground has nothing to do with him.
The first time he realized that there was a gap between himself and his peers was when all the kids were discussing new games and new virtual models. They spoke freely about a fantastic star network world with all kinds of virtual mechas and views of the entire interstellar space… He ran out of school that day, and his father’s comrades-in-arms comforted him in a tactful tone, promising to buy him a more fun optical computer, but they never promised to buy him a virtual loader.
The virtual loader is a treasure chest with rich treasures for others, but it is a door to death for him. When he was young, he didn't understand that complaining and grievances could not move the elders, but only made them find ways to prepare new toys for him to entertain him. He had no parents, and being naughty and willful would only cause trouble to others, so he didn't argue or make a fuss.
While his peers were having fun, he sat in the classroom, playing various computer-based smart games that he had already gotten tired of.
Later, as he grew older, his interest shifted from computer games to the vast ocean of books. The countless collections of books in the homes of the elders in the family quarters became his new interest.
Login
A new message popped up, and the sudden lighting of the light brain brought Su Mo back to his senses in the darkness.
He picked up the laptop and found that the message came from his direct senior brother, Senior Brother Zhou.
Senior Brother Zhou and he had the same instructor. When they first entered college, he was the one who helped them get familiar with the laboratory. Later, the instructor put them in the same group, and they did many experiments together. The two had a good relationship. Several times when Su Mo fainted from overwork, he carried him to the medical room. During this holiday, the school laboratory was renovated, and Senior Brother Zhou went to other star systems for investigation. He just returned to the capital star.
Sumo!
I ran into Lao Liu as soon as I got back to school. He asked me to pack my bags and go to the First Research Institute next week. There are many new instruments in the First Research Institute. Didn’t you complain about the slow running of the laboratory machines last time? How could you refuse such a good opportunity!
Messages popped up one after another, and when Su Mo opened the chat interface, it showed 'the other party is typing'.
Su Mo looked at the pile of text and replied: Not interested.
You haven't slept yet? Don't you want to rest
Su Mo: I can’t sleep.
It seemed that the text input was too slow. Brother Zhou learned that Su Mo had not rested, so he directly sent a communication request. As soon as the call was connected, he asked, "What's the matter? Such a good opportunity is hard to come by. This is the first time that the First Research Institute has issued an invitation to ungraduated students. It is the top research institute in the capital!!"
Su Mo: “No.”
Senior Brother Zhou: “Why?”
Su Mo: "Can I get on the machine when I get there?"
Senior Brother Zhou was silent for a moment, not knowing how to answer, and then said: "There is nothing we can do about this physical condition. If you are on the machine, the medical vehicle will drag you to the intensive care unit in the next second. Besides, you have S-level mental power, so you are also good at off-site control..."
Brother Zhou suddenly stopped talking at this point.
The physical requirements of the machines in the institute were not high, the lowest being D-level. However, Su Mo was only of F-level physical condition, which was the kind that would cause the machine to send out health alerts once he got on it. He could not touch the machine or access the star network, and would only be able to stand in front of the screen and do off-site control for the rest of his life, and would always face the embarrassing situation of being out of touch with information.
Even so, the talent he showed was enough to attract the head of the institute, and he invited him to study in the institute. Senior Brother Zhou felt sorry for this junior brother. Su Mo was very efficient. Usually, after each project, he could come up with the best plan as quickly as possible, set the plan goals, and finally assign him the tasks that needed to be done on the computer.
The data is huge, connecting to the star network, mobilizing the database, etc., sometimes you need to go to a simulation warehouse.
Ordinary machine calculations are fine, but when it comes to core data, you always have to use the machine. Brother Zhou remembers that once he was working with the laboratory next door to run a set of data. Obviously, his junior had already derived all the formulas, but because the student in charge of running the data on the computer was negligent, their two weeks of hard work was wasted.
At that time, it was Su Mo who was doing off-site control. After all, off-site is off-site. He couldn’t see the changes in the data with his own eyes, nor could he correct the wrong information in time...
"The First Research Institute is doing project research, and it is said that they are cooperating with the Cangqiong Group. Do you know the recently popular "Tianhuan"? Their loader is a new type of loader developed by the Cangqiong project team and the First Research Institute." Senior Brother Zhou: "The limit of the loader has been expanded from D-level to E-level, and it may be possible to achieve F-level loader."
Su Mo was startled when he heard this, "Really?"
Senior Brother Zhou: "You don't seem to be very interested. It's the same these past few months. You haven't been as diligent in running around the lab as before..."
"Really?" Su Mo got up from the bed and turned on the bedside lamp. "It's not that bad. The lab isn't too busy recently."
No other sound could be heard in the quiet room. Lele entered a sleep and charging state, and the only noise came from the other side of the optical computer.
Senior Brother Zhou suddenly noticed something was wrong, "Why aren't you asleep at this hour? Don't you go to bed before 11 o'clock?"
"Changed, it's 12 o'clock now." Su Mo frowned, "I've been playing games recently."
Senior Brother Zhou thought Su Mo was still playing computer games. When in the lab, Su Mo always liked to play those smart games with his computer. He continued, "The lab is free during the holidays, so take a rest during this time. When I go to the research institute, if I meet those big guys, I will ask for their autographs."
Su Mo smiled and said, "Okay, thank you."
Senior Brother Zhou told Su Mo some of his observations during the investigation, and sent him relevant materials by email. Finally, he told Su Mo to go to bed early and hung up the phone. Su Mo, however, had insomnia, so he sat on the bed and read his emails. After looking at the special and gorgeous scenery of the alien galaxy, he was stunned for a while, and finally clicked on the circle of friends.
Most of the friends circles on the optical computer were filled with life mottos from professors, or landscape photos of other grandparents in the family quarters... Suddenly, Su Mo saw a special screenshot.
—This is a screenshot of Tianhuan’s game.
The messy thoughts in his mind seemed to be sorted out in an instant, pulling him out of the memory of drowning.
He suddenly laughed and clicked a like on the screenshot.
"Sumo, a man should be content with what he has."
-*
Hong Guoguo was squatting at the entrance of the Yulingju sect's headquarters, setting up a makeshift stall and staring blankly at the players outside.
He logged on at ten in the morning, hid his ID and prepared to go out into the wild to join the team and kill some monsters. However, after just a few minutes, he was chased back to the safe zone by the people from the Zhutian Gang.
The game Tianhuan has a particularly bad mechanism. Although hiding your ID can make you invisible to the public, once you have been killed by someone and the person who was killed is added to the enemy list, as long as the other party opens the Sky Eye, he can see your ID in the crowd. Hong Guoguo didn't expect that the warrior named Bulibuqi was so fragile. It had been a day since the incident, and he still asked people to ambush him in the wild.
It was also his mistake that he was killed by a group of people yesterday.
Now, whenever he ran into Zhutian’s people on the road, he could only return to the safe zone in disgrace and hide. It was too unsafe. He didn’t even dare to set up a stall in the wild to make money. This was a fatal blow to a businessman!
So he waited from morning until two in the afternoon, but the bodyguards hired for 8 bags of feed never showed up.
"Can you make this material cheaper?" a player ran over and asked.
Hong Guoguo said weakly, "Okay, I'll give you a 99% discount."
The player said, "Can you make it cheaper? Why is it only 99% off? I'll buy it right away if you give me 20% off."
Hong Guoguo said, "It's hard to get materials in the novice area, brother. I'm losing money even if you give me a 99% discount. I won't lower the price even if someone I know comes. If it weren't for your kindness, I wouldn't have cut myself. This is the price, 99 gold. Do you want it?"
The player hesitated for a while, but finally bought it.
"Alas, it's not easy to make money. Why is it so difficult for me to train a trumpet?" Hong Guoguo sighed and suddenly saw the young man standing in front of the stall. The young man was still wearing the tattered shirt, only his steps and wrists looked delicate. At this time, he was half-crouching in front of his stall, picking up a material and looking at it. "Not bad, I resold the 80j material at a 99% discount, and made a net profit of 19 gold."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Hong Guoguo and said, "So everyone is getting a 99% discount?"
"Brother, can I give you an 8% discount?" Hong Guoguo's legs went limp when she saw him. "Why are you online only now? I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Su Mo: "I overslept."
"You're still taking a nap." Hong Guoguo was packing up the stall. "Come on, let's upgrade quickly. I want to take my wealth and property and leave this damn place as soon as possible."
The two were at a similar level, and they quickly reached level 25 after completing a few side quests.
After reaching level 25, the leveling speed slowed down. Su Mo looked at the experience settlement at the end of the task list and said, "Let's go to the wild monster area."
"What?" Hong Guoguo refused, "Why go to the wild monster area? What if we get blocked by Zhutian's people again?"
Su Mo closed the task list: "The average experience for the side quests in this map is about 100,000. Each level of the experience bar will increase by 5% on the original basis. After reaching level 25, the floating value reaches 8%. The side quests give a lot of experience but take a long time. It's not as fast as leveling up by killing wild monsters."
Hong Guoguo: "Ah?"
"After level 25, the experience bar fluctuates greatly. We need to spend more than 15 minutes to complete side quests. With the current number of side quests and the difficulty of the quests, and considering unexpected factors, our guaranteed result is to reach level 28 within 5 hours." Su Mo explained simply: "The experience gained from killing monsters is small, but the speed is fast. Minus the time for transmission, plot time, etc., based on an average output of 200/s per person, with two people killing monsters, it only takes us 3 hours to level up."
Hong Guoguo: "Wait a minute, what are you talking about? And where did you get all this messed up data?"
Su Mo looked at him suspiciously, "Don't you look at the experience bar when you level up?"
"???" Hong Guoguo: "Who would look at the experience bar when leveling up... Don't people just complete the quests and then level up? Why are you calculating these when you have nothing better to do?"
Su Mo: "I didn't calculate it. I knew it after just one look."
Hong Guoguo: "Why do I feel like I don't understand something?"
What is this person doing? Does playing a game have to be so complicated
"Different levels of monsters can earn you different amounts of experience. Low-level monsters earn you more experience. A level 25 player going to a level 25-30 monster area can get the most benefit." Su Mo glanced at him, "If you want to level up quickly, follow me."
Hong Guoguo followed Su Mo to the wild monster area without knowing what was going on. It was around 3pm, and there were not many people spawning monsters. There were still many empty spots in the wild monster area. Momo was not in a hurry to kill monsters when he got to the location. He would either slowly use skills to pull monsters, then run a few steps to pull them away, or kill one and then stand still.
In a blink of an eye, five or six minutes passed and Momo was still escaping from the monsters.
"It's not safe here, it's a bit dangerous..." Hong Guoguo was a little scared. Not long ago, he came here to kill monsters and was chased and beaten by Zhutian's people. He was almost killed. "Can we play it safe? It's okay to level up slowly. Life safety comes first."
If you get killed in the wild, you will lose a level. It is safer to complete missions instead of just seeking that quick win.
Su Mo finally stopped and pointed to a certain location and said, "Stand here. The coordinates are 96 west and 116 south."
Hong Guoguo looked in the direction Su Mo pointed, only to see that the location was in the middle and rear of a group of red-named wild monsters.
Apart from anything else, once you enter that location, you will inevitably be attacked by red monsters from all directions.
Hong Guoguo was silent for a while, with a myriad of thoughts running through her mind.
Did he not pay enough protection money, or did he do something wrong...
Seeing that he didn't move, Su Mo said again: "Are you distracted? Come here."
Hong Guoguo said with difficulty: "Brother, I will die."
This is a level 25 monster. It can only last for 7 seconds at most, and then a corpse with the ID "Hong Guoguo No. 14" will appear on the ground.