My slow journey to infinity

Chapter 11 I’m not clean anymore…

Good news, the trap is not refreshed!

Bad news, the man-eating plant boy has less experience!

After the fourth level, the experience of Piranha Prairie, who was in his early 100s, was directly reduced to 45, which made Aqua Regia's speed of acquiring the next skill grid much slower.

Fortunately, the battles in SAO are not as boring as other RPGs.

Although you are still staring at a kind of monster, and the appearance of the monster will not change, in this highly realistic virtual reality world, every battle is completely different.

Every step you take, every sword you swing, and even slight changes in the terrain, as long as any conditions change, may lead to unknown situations in the subsequent battle.

Of course, for Shui Wang, the main change is that the little Piranha brothers have different postures every time they fall into the trap.

Every man-eating plant that fell into the trap was like money falling into the pocket of aqua regia, so even though he had been farming for more than a day, he didn't feel bored at all.

It is now noon on the fifth day of the game, and there are more players in the second and third tiers nearby, and the later players are basically in a team state.

For this monster spawning ground, these people were not too many, but ever since someone saw and started imitating Shui Wang's trap, Shui Wang knew that he couldn't stay here anymore.

The refresh rate of monsters here will soon be unable to keep up with the speed at which players kill monsters.

Wang Shui didn't care about others imitating him. He also taught other players the parameters of traps and the method of carbonizing wood thorns.

The people who can come here today are all high-end players in the future. It would be nice to help each other and form a good relationship.

Wang Shui is not as shy as Mr. Tong, and of course he is not a social phobic, he is a social colonizer.

It's just a man-eating plant, but Wang Shui now has nearly a thousand [piran-eating plant honey] stored in the town's warehouse, and he still has more than two hundred bottles with him. Even if he doesn't get rid of the vomit, it's time to switch to a monster community to get materials.

The only regret is that this game will not drop a [Piranha Flag] to commemorate his monster spawning process.

Just after noon, the refresh of the Man-eating Grass was interrupted. Wang Shui didn't want to wait. He decisively organized the item list and got on the road.

It is still early and there is no need to return to the village. Wang Shui plans to explore further and go deep into the dense forest to find the red-spotted beetle monster spawning point. Some people who came back from the front said that there seems to be a lot of monsters in the beetle area. The single player does not have enough damage and speed, so it is difficult. Rush over.

Therefore, more and more people began to play [Sword of Tenacity] and seek to form a team in the village.

Wang Shui just wanted to explore the truth. While the supplies were sufficient and he still had a spare [Sword of Tenacity] in his backpack, it shouldn't be a problem to go to the edge of the so-called "Beetle Zone".

Yes, that's right. Yesterday morning, he found another little girl with a flower and a thorn on the top. The little girl gave him a spare sword.

The process of in-depth exploration was smoother than Aqua Regia imagined.

Especially as more and more teams are leveling up along the way, they will not only clean up the man-eating grass, but they will also not let go of the monsters that are spawned in small quantities, such as boars, wolves, and deer.

But as soon as they entered the so-called beetle area, the number of nearby players dropped to zero, and the trees became denser. There should have been sunshine during noon, but now it was also shaded.

Wang Shui carefully passed through the pathless bushes and advanced slowly for about half an hour before finally discovering the so-called "beetle area".

The area where the man-eating grass is refreshed is not called "the man-eating grass area". It is called the area because of the red, yellow, blue and green ocean in front of Shui Wang - the ocean of insects.

Across a small gap, the trees changed from huge broadleaf trees to a few shorter fruit trees, but most were as tall as three or four stories.

These fruit trees, which bear fruit regardless of the season, are crawling everywhere with giant bugs about one meter in size, including beetles and worms, in various shapes and colors.

Seeing hundreds of huge bugs of various colors at a glance is quite shocking to Aqua Regia. Players with insect phobia will probably die suddenly on the spot after just one look.

Goosebumps appeared uncontrollably, Wang Shui endured the discomfort to check, and soon he found that the dense swarm of insects was not that many. He moved forward in a circuitous way along the edge of the "Beetle Area", bypassing the area with a large number of fruit trees. Sure enough, the density of bugs dropped a lot, but even walking a few steps into a forest with big bugs would kill a player with insect phobia several times. .

The posts Wang Shui had seen on the strategy forum before had very few and simple descriptions of the beetles. The guide only says that beetles have high defense but low offensive desire, and worms move slowly but have poor experience and drops.

Now it seems that it is very likely that there were not so many bugs gathered during the closed beta, otherwise this hellish scene would not be ignored by the players.

Instead of being filled with emotion and fear, Wang Shui had other concerns in his heart. He took out a reagent bottle that he had seen vomiting in the past few days:

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【Pan-Eating Grass Honey】

[Item type: materials, consumables]

【Quantity: 500ml*223】

[Explanation: The predatory digestive juice of ferocious man-eating grass has a certain degree of toxicity and corrosiveness, and has a sweet and fragrant smell. It is extremely attractive to nectar-loving creatures (insects, birds, rodents, etc.). Man-eating grass relies on the honey it synthesizes to attract, paralyze, kill, and digest prey, and it also spits honey to attack. 】

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Obviously, honey is helpful in defeating these beetles. Based on the distribution of monsters, this coincidence can also be explained.

So, could it be that no one discovered such obvious strategy details during the closed beta?

Maybe no one had practiced [gathering] skills at that time, maybe those who discovered it didn't pay attention to it. After all, beetles might not have been so prevalent at that time.

Thinking more and asking more questions are one of Wang Shui's few strengths, although this also leads to his foresight and hesitation.

Now he had the opportunity to develop a worm farming strategy. Faced with a large number of monster resources that no one cared about, he put aside his hesitation.

The first thing to do now is to confirm the function of honey and find a way to use this item to spawn monsters. However, the description of "extremely strong attraction" in the description prevents Aqua Regia from opening it directly.

So he first gently threw the glass reagent bottle onto a thick meadow, then retreated at an angle where he could always see the glass bottle, until he was more than ten meters away.

Then he took out a pebble from the leather pocket on his waist. The pebble was only slightly larger than a coin, smooth and thick, very comfortable to hold in his hand, and very suitable for throwing.

Aqua Regia is going to use pebbles to crush the reagent bottle and observe the effect.

It is not an easy task to throw a stone and hit something the size of a fist from a distance of more than 20 meters. Shui Wang could not do it two days ago. In the past few days, he has been throwing stones like crazy to pull monsters, which has greatly improved his throwing skills. The ability, of course, is limited to Shi Zier.

Starting from the ground, aqua regia mobilizes the muscles of the whole body, grinds the feet, twists the legs, turns the waist, and swings the right arm like a whip. When it reaches the position it feels, gently release the thumb, index finger and middle finger of the right hand.

The movement was fast and smooth, and the pebbles shot out from Wang Shui's hand like a line, hitting the glass reagent bottle almost in a straight line.

Wang Shui has long been accustomed to the current strength bonus, and the characters in the game now have superhuman physiques for ordinary people in reality.

The reagent bottle shattered with a muffled sound. The sound did not attract the attention of the insects a few meters away, but just three or four seconds later, aqua regia suddenly felt a numbness in his spine - the insects were moving.

The giant bugs move like a march, and the picture is so shocking.

Beetles and worms of about one meter in size in various colors were overwhelmingly swarming near Aqua Regia. Aqua Regia, who had gained some courage recently by spawning monsters, immediately evacuated with weak legs.

After quickly escaping for a hundred meters, he realized that the insects had not followed, so Wang Shui carefully moved back.

The whole process actually only took about a minute. When Aqua Regia returned, he found that the insects did not rush towards him, but stopped when they reached the bottle.

Now that the insect swarm has returned to calm, they are crawling back to their original positions, and there are still seven or eight beetles left near the broken glass bottle.

These beetles have two icons of paralysis and poisoning on their heads, and they are shaking around the glass bottle.

The paralysis effect quickly disappeared, and the beetles turned back to the insect swarm as if nothing had happened, while Aqua Regia kept staring at the "-15", "-15" that appeared above their heads...

Poison damage, no poison damage that makes the beetles hostile! What's the total damage? !

Staring at the damage numbers that popped up at the end and disappearing, Wang Shui discovered that several injured beetles only had about one-third of their health left!

Around six hundred to eight hundred, a number came to his mind.

According to the guide, the health of beetles hovers around 1,000 to 1,500, and their strong defense capabilities are highlighted. The health and defense capabilities of worms and flying insects will be lower, but their attack power or attack methods will be corrected. .

Based on a rough calculation based on the blood volume range, if Honey's poison damage is a fixed value, Aqua Regia estimates that this value is 750. In other words, it is about 15 points of damage per second and lasts for 50 seconds?

Hiss - group poison damage, early monster spawning? Could it be... could it be "Strangulation Gas Potion"? !

Is this still the world of sword skills? Kayaba Akihiko actually designed this method of spawning monsters. Is it a truant prop for players who are afraid of bugs?

It's useless to think about it now. In Wang Shui's eyes, these terrifying monsters have turned into experience, kel and materials. He began to move along the periphery of the beetle area, placing honey glass bottles as he walked. When he made a semicircle, More than sixty bottles have been laid out.

Such items that are actively displayed will not be judged as lost or discarded for a long time. Aqua Regia has tested this with wooden thorns in the trap.

After placing the bottles, Aqua Regia began to run back along the original path, taking out pebbles and smashing the bottles closest to him along the way.

This time, the aqua regia is very close to the bottle and does not require much strength, so there is no need to stop.

By the time he spent three minutes running back to the starting point where the bottle was placed, his level had reached level five.

The first batch of bugs have long since died, and what follows is a more dense and consistent set of killing prompts! The kill pop-ups did not stop within fifty seconds. Aqua Regia had set up automatic closing, but the pop-ups were still connected together.

The golden light shone again, and Aqua Regia reached the sixth level. When the experience bar slowly stopped, it was not far from the seventh level.

Wang Shui didn't know how many bugs he had killed... In fact, he could know that because the bug corpses were affected by the [Collect] skill and were not refreshed. Now there was a "Mountain of Bug Corpses" stretching along the edge of the orchard.

This picture is not much better than when they were alive, but this is not the limit!

The next scene may scare ordinary people to death, so I won’t describe it in detail. Let me tell you a short story.

Once upon a time, there was a miser who got a batch of gold. He loved the gold so much. He liked the feeling of being surrounded by gold.

So he melted the gold into small golden rice, and touched these golden rice every day, feeling the feeling of them surrounding his palms.

One day, these golden rice were accidentally eaten by more than a hundred chickens. The miser was so angry that he covered his mouth and nose with old linen clothes, picked up the [Bronze Sword] and started to chop up the more than a hundred chickens one by one, until The bronze sword's durability ran out, so he replaced it with the [Sword of Tenacity]. The green chicken blood soaked the linen clothes, and every breath was filled with a strong stench, but the miser still dismembered these chickens with a serious face.

After greeting the nine tribes of taste design engineers, the miser finally got back all his property, and then fell down on a clean meadow, smiling greedily while crying.

Well, that’s the story.

When aqua regia rose from the meadow, the entire woodland had returned to calmness and tidiness. Insects have sprung out sporadically, but now Aqua Regia feels a little nauseous when he sees the insects.

He threw the old linen clothes far away. Only the stains on it could not be refreshed. It needed to be washed to remove the [dirty] state, but Aqua Regia never wanted to touch it again.

Trying hard to delete the images in his mind, Wang Shui looked at the forest full of fruit trees with dull eyes, gathering his energy in numbness.

When he was... practicing the [Gathering] skill just now, he originally wanted to find out the reason for the proliferation of "chickens" here, but halfway through, uh, maybe about a third of the way, his consciousness entered into himself. protection status.

Now that the woodland was much cleaner and the air was fresher, Aqua Regia took a stroll as if taking a walk. Then, not surprisingly, he saw treasure chests in a small clearing in the woods.

The huge golden treasure chest actually emitted a bright green light. At this time, Wang Shui no longer had the intelligence to analyze why there was a treasure chest outside the maze area. He opened it directly without thinking too much about whether it was a Mimic.

Inside the huge gold treasure chest, which is more than one meter high, is a display stand decorated with red brocade. In the middle of the stand is a huge green jewel five centimeters square.

There are S-shaped vines embossed on the left side of the jewelry, and there are only thin tendrils on the right side. The upturned leaves at the top are lifelike. Under the vines is a curved jade surface that emits a green light. The whole thing is exquisite.

Wang Shui reached out and picked up the jewelry, and the brocade table disappeared together with the treasure chest.

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[Special Equipment·Supernatural Instinct]

[Equipment type: Amulet/Jewelry/Pendant]

[Level Requirement: None]

[Special Effect 1: All attribute bonuses from equipment items are invalid. 】

[Special Effect 2: All self-training effects are doubled. 】

[Special Effect 3: Naturally restore 5% of maximum health per second, and increase all gain effects by 100%]

[Explanation: "I don't know how I know, but I just know.\