Tokyo underground city

Chapter 131 New Autumn

In autumn in the city, as soon as October passes, the cool air begins to hit the streets.

The streets in the early morning were shrouded in white mist, which was revealed in the morning sun. Occasionally, there were fallen leaves rolling unnaturally. I wonder if they were affected by the magic power overflowing from the underground city.

Lin Huai'en was jogging on the sidewalk planted with ginkgo trees, constantly blowing out mist.

There are no traces of the pavement that was damaged by the monster surge a month ago. The occasionally broken community fence has not yet been repaired, and repair materials have been piled next to it.

"The emergence of underground cities is a good thing for the construction industry. After all, as long as there is destruction, there will be construction."

"But it's not good news for the real estate industry. After all, rich people are moving away from the city center and heading to surrounding small cities or suburbs. In places with fewer people, the chance of underground cities appearing will also be greatly reduced."

Dungeons like cities and places with lots of people.

Even the underground city in Siberia's no-man's land was originally Komsomolsk, a small resource-based city with a population of hundreds of thousands.

And dungeons like cities, so do cities like dungeons...

Lin Huai'en couldn't tell clearly.

He initially thought that no one would like dungeons except explorers.

After all, on the first day of the monster surge warning, housing prices within 10 kilometers of Changying fell by more than 60% like a plunge.

Fortunately, Senyan's house is far away from Changying, so it was not affected - rather, because housing prices in nearby areas fell, they also increased in other areas.

After all, this is the reality of this era——

Almost no city with a population of more than 10 million is safe.

More or less, there are one or two underground cities hidden in areas of these cities that are deliberately avoided by everyone.

"It's like a modern slum..."

Lin Huaien looked at the empty streets and couldn't help but sigh.

But things are changing too.

As people leave, new groups will join.

The government has increased investment in educational resources around Changying, and the original community has been transformed into office buildings and studios.

Moreover, no matter how many residents leave here, new residents will move in and form a new ecology together with old residents like Lin Huai'en.

“It’s almost like transforming the city.”

Lin Huai'en looked at a cockscomb-headed warrior passing by in the distance and couldn't help but shake his head——

I don’t know if the other person is a true explorer or a stylist obsessed with art.

Because of the cheap housing prices and rents, many small studios and independent producers who were not in good condition moved here. A rock band moved in upstairs from Lin Huai'en's house, making noise all day long.

But there weren't many people left in the entire apartment, so no one came to them to complain.

Some time ago, the apartment's economic company came to the door and planned to sell the apartment to the tenant at a price of 20,000 per square meter.

With a 40-year property right, when you sell it, you will have to pay an additional 20% personal income tax.

Many people are unwilling to be taken advantage of.

But Lin Huai'en received a bonus of 570,000 yuan from Officer Shao, so he simply bought this small apartment of only 19 square meters.

"In this way, the dungeon in the toilet is officially monopolized by me."

Lin Huaien quickly ran up the steps, took out the key and opened the door.

He dare not say that the toilet dungeon "belongs" to him, because the ownership of all dungeons belongs to the state.

But with the ownership of the apartment, he at least doesn't have to worry about the agency looking for a reason to drive him away.

If one day, the Dungeon Association changes its mind and wants to open the Salt 10 shelter to the outside world, it must obtain his consent. Otherwise, he will be compensated according to the market price.

In short, the risk is controllable and this investment will not be a big loss.

After stretching, Lin Huaien began to hold the barbell and exercise his muscles.

In the dungeon, although his muscle strength is very high, the burden will be relatively small. Compared with the ground environment, the muscle-building effect will be much worse.

So recently, every time he returns to the ground, he has to do a lot of fitness classes.

Although you don’t want to become a muscular man, you should at least control your muscle mass to an upper-medium level around the age of 25.

"In addition to fitness, there is also swordsmanship... After the rent has become cheaper recently, there are many more kendo gyms in Changying. Even if you don't study with the master, you can still practice with the students. You can try it when you have time... …”

After Lin Huai'en upgraded his swordsmanship to level 4.0, he was beaten even more severely by the mummy swordsman.

That's right, he was beaten harder by the mummy swordsman. It wasn't him who beat the mummy swordsman, nor was it the mummy swordsman who beat him softer.

"You rely too much on your skills. If you continue like this, you will never be able to break through to the silver level."

Lin Huaien can now return to normal levels of dialogue in The Mummy Swordsman.

"The upper limit of the level of the bronze skill is only 4.0. If you want to upgrade it to 7.0, you must upgrade [Sword Theory] to the silver level."

"At least for now, you're so far gone that there's no hope."

The mummy swordsman’s assertion not only made Lin Huaien a little frightened:

"Then what should I do? After I upgraded my sword skills to 3.0, I feel that I have made great progress. At least I can deal with Two-legged Beasts and Fire Raiders without any damage."

"That's because the effectiveness of your skills has improved, not because your understanding of sword theory has improved."

The mummy swordsman sighed: "The sword management skill is a skill that will become stronger as you become more familiar with the enemy. Do you still often encounter some new monsters? As a result, the sword management skill What’s the case if it doesn’t take effect?”

"Uh, it seems so..."

Lin Huai'en recalled the first time the Fire Raider hit him with a two-legged beast, and the first time he faced the Soul Prisoner Ant.

None of the swordsmanship skills were activated.

At the time, he was still a little surprised as to why the skill of sword management was working sometimes and not working well. Looking back now, this is where the problem turned out to be.

"You yourself have given up on judging the monster's attack, and [Sword Theory] will naturally not react."

The mummy swordsman continued.

"The current [Sword Theory] will only follow your instinct and record the attack patterns of monsters. As you come into contact with monsters more and more times, its judgment will become more accurate and faster -"

"But this won't do you any good."

"You should be able to figure out why, right?"

Lin Huai'en was silent for a moment: "Well...if I don't improve myself, [Sword Theory] will never reach the silver level...let alone the more advanced gold level."

The mummy swordsman nodded: "Yes, your [Sword Theory] now is just to judge the enemy's attack distance and attack angle. If you become a skilled swordsman, you will be able to do these things naturally - No, it should be said that if you are a genius swordsman, these things will be as simple as breathing."

"However, I am not a genius swordsman..." Lin Huai'en smiled bitterly, already understanding what the mummy meant, "but my swordsmanship skills will make up for these shortcomings of mine."

"Yes." The mummy swordsman nodded, "This is also the meaning of dungeon skills. It makes the distance between mortals and geniuses extremely small."

"But if you don't work hard in the right way, even geniuses will sink and become unknown mediocre people."

“What’s more terrifying than becoming a mediocre person is becoming a vulgar talent that is wiped out by everyone.”

The mummy swordsman raised his hand: "You should keep an eye on my sword and don't always think about your sword skills. When your judgment is faster than your skills, you will have hope of breakthrough."

"Faster than [Sword Skills]?" Hearing what the mummy swordsman said, Lin Huaien suddenly felt helpless: "You have said that Sword Skills are the stepping stone for geniuses... What can I do to be more genius than a genius? "

"Experience, judgment, understanding of combat and people."

However, the mummy answered his casual complaint seriously.

"Only in areas where the theory is not developed enough can there be room for geniuses to develop."

"At other times, hard work and inspiration mean far more than talent!"

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As a result, Lin Huai'en was pushed to the ground by the mummy swordsman and beaten again.

The body is very active and the spirit is very tired.

Especially his head, because he had to constantly judge the attack methods and angles of the mummy swordsman. For the first time, he realized that his thinking and memory were sometimes insufficient.

"If you are not in a hurry to improve your skills now, I suggest you improve all five basic attributes first."

The mummy swordsman's suggestion surprised Lin Huai'en: "I think it's too much for me to improve three basic attributes in one go. Are you actually asking me to increase five attributes at the same time?"

"Not at the same time, but first and then later."

The mummy swordsman shook his head: "The deep dungeon is more terrifying than you think. If you really target there, then sooner or later all attributes will be at full value."

"I have never heard of any White Holy Spirit who did not fill up his five-dimensional attributes when he became a Black Holy Spirit."

"After all, becoming the White Holy Spirit is an act that defies heaven. Any shortcomings in the five dimensions will make it difficult to withstand the impact of advancement."

The mummy swordsman said calmly: "But you don't have to worry too much. Talent points are limited. You can give priority to improving the ones you need most. But when you feel that you have so many talent points that there is nothing left to add, just To improve other attributes that are not so important at the moment.”

"The improvement of basic attributes can directly change the way you 'perceive the world' and 'coexist with the world.' In contrast, you must be cautious when upgrading skills. Many times, the skills obtained by investing a large number of talent points will not After leveling up, they will all become useless.”

The mummy swordsman's instructions made Lin Huai'en feel a little silent.

Thinking back to the beginning, the reason why he was able to obtain the [Sensitive] skill was because he invested a lot of talent points in neural reflexes.

Otherwise, there would be no reason for him to obtain scouting skills if he stayed at home without leaving the house.

As for what the Mummy Swordsman said was useless, Lin Huai'en could also make a judgment based on the three skill types that Sen Yan mentioned: 'system type', 'performance type' and 'functional'.

"In short, for Sen Yan and I, the ordinary [Powerful Attack] has no effect on us at all. Even the golden [Powerful Attack] is a huge 'functional' skill. As long as we If you are prepared, you will not be able to hit us."

Although Lin Huai'en has no experience in fighting against humans, he has fought against Soul Prisoner Ants. He knows very well that the [Powerful Attack] skill is only useful when attacking enemies with strong defense and weak movement.

"And now that I have [Curse Return] and Gray-Green Fury, as long as I can break through the defense, I don't care how big the enemy is."

According to the skill description of [Curse Return], the curse of the same level will be returned to the enemy according to the curse Lin Huaien himself received.

In addition to [Scar of Pain], this curse naturally also includes [Scar of Pain].

The battle with "Silver Queen" allowed Lin Huai'en to confirm that the two curses were different negative states, and they could be continuously superimposed on the pain bonus.

"Silver Queen" must have been in so much pain due to the [Curse Return] that she made a series of stupid moves, shared her pain with the entire clan, and finally blew herself up in one breath.

Of course, this is also possible because she is an "abnormal body" composed of nineteen old species. Lin Huai'en's [Curse Return] simultaneously stimulated the minds of nineteen old species, causing them to suffer from pain. They lost the ability to coordinate their spiritual power, conflicted with each other, and finally self-destructed.

As for why Sen Yan, who is also a native species, was not affected, Lin Huaien estimated that it was because Sen Yan was not assimilated by the "Silver Queen", and only the lower body buried in the "Silver Queen" was greatly affected.

In fact, when the rescue team found Sen Yan, the nerves and blood vessels in her lower body were all connected to the "Silver Queen", and starting from the base of her knees, they all turned silver.

It took the hospital a week for her to fully recover.

Lin Huaien had just been discharged from the hospital two days before she regained consciousness.

【Ten o'clock in the next chapter】

[Daily tour starts early in the morning]