"Hero City", the first main city of the entire game, is more than five times larger than any city at the next level. At the gate of the city stands four towering crystal stone statues, which are four ancient heroes who were recorded in the annals of history in the mainland's war of gods and demons. The majestic momentum makes people look up at the mountains.
This is a city that can withstand the gathering of three million players at the same time and still be in order. The official services here are the most comprehensive. Except for some hidden multi-turn jobs, all career and business skill mentors can be found in the hero capital. Needless to say, banks, auction houses, and mercenary clubs, there are also many virtual entertainment facilities, such as karaoke, disco, catering, bathing, 5D movies, and so on. The key is that there is no need to line up. This game provides "phase transfer" technology, and there will be no situation where an NPC is surrounded by a group of people. Service NPCs are basically arranged in a certain room, and only people in a team can be together. Entering the same space, if you don't form a team with others, then you will only be alone after you enter. So in the same way, you don’t need to book a table for eating, you don’t need to book a private room for singing K, and movie tickets can never be sold out. There is even a super-high price ticket. There are only two people in the entire screening hall. This is called a private room. What do you want to do? Well.
Today is a very ordinary day in the game, there are no festivals, and the system doesn't seem to plan to rain, the wind is sunny and the sky is clear. The city of heroes is bustling and noisy as usual. In the streets and alleys, countless players are running silently, each of them is a screw in this huge system, supporting the operation of the entire world.
But on this day, when two LV10 players stepped into the east gate of the main city, an undercurrent began to surge, and the biggest disaster in the history of the game quietly kicked off...
Wang Xu and Master Cat entered the professional guild together. They were still "novice" when they entered, and they had become "rangers" when they came out.
This is a relatively unpopular profession in the game, similar to a mix of killer and hunter, but it is obviously not well mixed, and it is rated as the "most tasteless" profession on the forum.
For example, killers focus on stealth, personal assassination, high damage and high crit, high speed and dodge; hunters can carry pets to help fight, good at long-range weapons, high hit, super high range, medium damage, and can also Lay traps to keep enemies from getting close.
What about Ranger? This profession can be invisible, and the attack method can be near or far. Pets cannot be brought, but traps can be placed. Sounds good? Then you are wrong!
It looks like he is proficient in everything, but in fact he doesn't know anything!
When PKing with people, if the ranger is invisible and close to the target to attack, he can indeed get the upper hand, but then what? The ranger's explosive power is naturally not as high as that of the killer, and he often can't lose people in a second. When others recover, they counterattack and beat them violently. Although the ranger's defense and blood volume are slightly higher than the killer's, but the dodge is much worse. Lose.
"Since this is the case, let's assume that we don't have the ability of invisibility, and it's over if we just start from a distance? It's still the first move." People who think this way, after trying it out for themselves, will often stare at the sky and yell, "It's a scam!!!"
The reason is very simple. Ranger's melee ability is a weakened version of killer, so long-range ability is naturally a weakened version of hunter. The range becomes shorter, the hit becomes lower, the damage becomes weaker, and the trap effect is almost useless.
Among other things, if you dare to make a move against players of the two professions of fighters or knights, then it is basically like watching a horror movie after the start of the fight: but see forty yards away, oh, sorry, the hunter uses a long-range weapon It's only forty yards, ranger, you only have a range of thirty yards... But I saw a strong man thirty yards away, and was stabbed by your arrow. He immediately tightened his chrysanthemum, glared angrily, turned around, faced your hail of bullets, stepped on all the traps you put down, and walked in front of you. As a result, only a third of the blood went down, and a red bottle was eaten ,Hey! The waist is no longer sore, the legs are no longer painful, and the blood bar is full as soon as it is full. Then he used his fist the size of a casserole pot to pick up a mace thicker than your leg, and smiled lewdly at you, "Boy, do you want to fight with me?!"
Come on, you'd better kill your relatives righteously, just settle yourself.
Another point that makes people feel dumbfounded is that the profession of ranger is the only profession in this game that has no tendency to choose the second turn. What is selection tendency? Let me give another example, after LV30, warriors can choose to turn into berserkers or heavy armored warriors; knights, there are shield cavalry, holy knights, knight lords; magicians, there are dark mages and elementalists; Assassins, fighters. Other priests, hunters, etc., all have at least two or more second-rank options, and even some professions have hidden second-rank options, such as fallen knights, holy magisters, voodoo monks, and sword masters.
As for Ranger, guess what he's called after his second turn? First of all, I have to clarify that there is nothing hidden in this class, and then, as I said just now, there is no tendency to choose. There is only one second turn available.
The name of this second job is - Grand Ranger.
God…
My feeling is this: Slime → giant slime, orc warrior → burly orc warrior, idiot → big idiot.
The game company may not want to spend more thought on the design of this profession, because there are almost no people who play it, and even fewer people have not deleted their numbers after playing until the second turn. According to me, this is not the second turn, it is called the second turn. Turn to "two", the more you turn, the more you turn. Still want to choose a preference? I don't think so, you already chose it when you were LV10-"Masochistic Tendency", that's right, this is what you chose.
I have said so much, the core point should be quite clear, the ranger profession is really useless...
However, both Wang Xu and Master Cat changed this. When they walked out of the professional guild, the eyes of passers-by changed. There were ridicule, sympathy, sneering, helplessness in the eyes of those people, of course. Also shocked.
However, the thickness of their skins was obviously not something that could be penetrated by their eyes. They completely ignored the gazes of passers-by, and the two of them walked in two directions with expressions on their faces.
They are all white names, and like most players who have just passed LV10, they are not eye-catching. So the question now is, how do they kill five hundred other players who are greater than or equal to LV10...
"From now on according to the plan, it only takes another forty-three hours before everything will be over." Master Cat told Wang Xu through the private chat window.
Wang Xu replied: "Understood, now I will change my personal social information to 'hide'."
This kind of private chat window allows two people to communicate with each other without distance restrictions. Only you can see the text in the window interface.
The conversation between the two stopped temporarily. Master Cat went to the information center in the city and began to look up information. He sat in front of a query touch screen, and his fingers moved rapidly. For the basic content of this game, such as occupation, business, city, He already knows the settings and so on. What he wants to investigate now is grievances... Jianghu...
He needs all available resources: official information, gossip from various forums, the history of the game, the development history of major guilds, famous players, major events, legendary treasures, official guides, maps, bosses...
At the same time, Wang Xu, with all the money they had on them, walked into the only casino in the city of heroes, and also the largest casino in the entire game. Yes, there is a casino in this game.
Wang Xu doesn't know whether gambling is legal in this multiverse, but it is possible in this game anyway. They even briefly introduced the existence of various casinos and some popular items in the game manual.
The casino in this virtual game is one of the few places that use real NPCs to serve. Of course, phase technology also exists. When the number of guests in one plane reaches a certain number, new guests entering the casino will enter another plane with a relatively small number of people. The system will keep the number of people in each place in a certain balance, lively but not noisy, and there will be no overcrowded scenes.
Wang Xu walked around the casino to get a general idea of the situation, and then he put on a dirty face (after cheating countless people like this, he learned to imitate their eyes), and ran to Sit down before the "guess the head" game and put one-fifth of the money on you.
"Do you know..." Wang Xu interrupted suddenly when the croupier was swapping the three cards: "The charm of gambling is that they can never replace a good croupier with a machine. Just like football Although there are many misjudgments in the game, it is still like not using a camera instead of a referee."
The croupier is a pretty girl. Every day, countless guys like Wang Xu sit here, place a little bit of chips and start to strike up a conversation with her. This makes her very disgusted, because she can only bear it, Greet you with a smile and keep playing the game that even a three-year-old can play - guess the head.
"Sir, it's all right." Her smile was stiff.
"The one in the middle." Wang Xu pointed to the table.
The eyes of the croupier girl inadvertently revealed a trace of pride and joy, all of which fell into Wang Xu's eyes.
"Excuse me, sir." The girl turned over the middle card, and then showed the other two cards on the left and right, with Q on the left.
On the electronic interface in front of Wang Xu, the number of game currency chips was reduced to zero. He nonchalantly pressed the same amount as before, and said, "I want to try again."
The girl still smiled in a pattern, thinking: This time this guy should take the opportunity to ask my name, and then he said "this name is really nice" or something, and then asked me for GULP (General Unilaterallinkphone ) number, if I don’t tell you, I will be entangled, and if I tell you, it will be even more entangled. How many times does this girl have to be harassed by guys like you every day? Watch me make you lose or lose! Lose you!
Her hand speed doesn't look fast, but the viewer's focus will shift and blur at any time. If you think that a person can't play any big tricks by changing three cards in front of you with two hands, then But it's wrong, if it's what you think, then many items in the casino are just losing money.
Putting aside the purely lucky gambling projects, in those projects with certain technical components, you will win occasionally, but don’t think that’s what you see, it’s just that the croupier wants you to taste a little sweetness That’s all, or it’s just a temporary mistake. The probability of this kind of mistake is about 5%. If the uncontrollable rate is above 10%, it can only mean that the dealer is probably not competent for this project.
Mikhailovich, a legendary croupier in the last century, is said to be able to manipulate the results of roulette. The moment the roulette starts to spin, he slides the steel ball along the edge of the track, using a more powerful tool than a surgeon. Precise and delicate techniques, miraculously determine the final landing point, the success rate is higher than 95%, this is a miraculous technology that no one knows, and there are even rumors that Russian gangsters paid a lot of money to buy his patent .
Wang Xu remained silent, watching the three cards being exchanged calmly, until the croupier girl finished changing the cards again, and stretched out her hand to signal: "Sir, please guess."
Wang Xu said without hesitation for two seconds: "The one on the left." He pointed to the card.
"Sorry, it doesn't look like this one." She said almost as soon as the cards were turned over.
So Wang Xu took out the third "one-fifth" of funds, quickly bet again, and then said calmly: "Then I will do it again."
The girl smiled and said: "Okay." What she was thinking in her heart was: cut... use this method to get my attention? What's wrong with me being a big sister? If you don't leave even if you lose ten times, that's called sincerity.
This time Wang Xu spoke again: "How long have you been a croupier?"
"Two or three years." She replied, but the movements of her hands were not affected at all.
"Hehe... It's been so long." Wang Xu then said a very shocking sentence: "The guys who come here to guess the head are all patronizing to look at your face, right?"
The girl didn't seem to understand the voice of Wang Xu's words, so she didn't respond, and her card changing work was completed at this moment: "Sir, it's done."
Wang Xu pointed to the card in the middle: "This one..."
Just as the girl was about to uncover it, Wang Xu shook her head and said, "No."
He sneered: "This is a 9." Then he moved his finger to the right one: "This is a 3." Finally he pointed to the left one: "I choose Q."
None of the three cards had been revealed yet, but judging from the croupier's expression, Wang Xu was obviously right.
She quickly recovered her trademark smile and revealed the Q, "Congratulations, sir." She operated a few buttons, and Wang Xu's bet amount doubled.
Wang Xu said: "I feel guilty even if I win money from you..." He is telling the truth. According to his routine, it should be to pretend to be a water fish and lose for two rounds to let the dealer win some sweetness. At this time, the dealer should He would consider putting some water on him deliberately, so Wang Xu took this opportunity to start a proper counterattack. It didn't take a few rounds for the croupier to shake his confidence in his skills.
But this woman... is average in technique, absent-minded, happy, and doesn't know the basic strategy of properly releasing water to make people sink into mud. This whole one-person cash machine!
Wang Xu said: "Let's do this, I'll leave after I win two more games, so that you won't be scolded by the superiors." He bet on all the remaining money.
The croupier girl's neck was flushed with anger, and she thought to herself: You brat dare to speak so brazenly after winning once by chance? ! Patronizing to look at my face? So you mean my food, right? My aunt told you to be clean and go home early for dinner!
So, in the next round, after changing the cards, Wang Xu pointed to the three cards from left to right and said, "3, 9, Q. Open, pay me." The other party really wanted to tear him apart, but he could only endure with.
Another round, Wang Xu is still like this, he has won three consecutive rounds, the dealer girl is a little urge to cry.
But Wang Xu did what he said, he was really embarrassed to bully this kind of rookie again, and he had no sense of accomplishment. He put away the game coins and stood up: "Well, before I leave, I'll show you something." He picked up the three cards on the table: "Pay attention."
In the next ten seconds, he exchanged the positions of these cards no more than twenty times, and the girl did not lose focus. She knew the basic technique, and she never saw Wang Xu use the sudden acceleration of changing cards and pretending to reverse cross. method.
"Guess." Wang Xu said.
The girl said, "This one."
Wang Xu opened it, and it was Zhang 3.
The girl was surprised, blinking her eyes: "Then... this one."
Wang Xu opened the next one, it was 9.
"How come?" She became a little excited: "You must be out of luck! The last one is not Q!" She opened the remaining one by herself as she spoke, and found that it was Q.
Wang Xu laughed: "The trick is...to play head guessing with a master, don't look at the cards, just look at his face."