Chapter 8: Don't mess with me

At the same time, the music sounded again, two brilliance flashed, Zhou Xing directly rose from level 3 to level 5.
He immediately jumped under the tree, picked up the purse and equipment, and found that there were 10 silver coins in the purse, and the equipment was a pair of handguards, which he just happened to use.
Mad Dog Gauntlets (Bronze)
Type: Gauntlets
Durability: 3030
+65 physical defense
+38 Magic Defense
+5 strength
+7 agility
Equipment requirements: none
"Haha, another bronze outfit!... By the way, Lilith, you said that death has a permanent punishment, what punishment is it?" Zhou Xing asked, putting on the equipment, and immediately felt the handguard brought him. Weight and temperature.
Lilith replied: "Every time you die, 50% of the experience points required for the current level upgrade are deducted, and 5 points are randomly and permanently deducted from the basic attributes. Within half an hour after the resurrection, you will be in a weak state, and all attributes will be reduced by 50%."
"Damn, such a heavy punishment?!" Zhou Xing was taken aback. In his previous online games, he only deducts 30% of his experience points when he hangs up. There is no weakening after death, and he will not permanently reduce his attributes. Point, "It seems that you really can't die casually in this "Sanctuary". If you die too much, the title will be abandoned."
"Yes, random pk is not advocated in "Sanctuary"."
"Haha, there is a fight where there are people, pk is inevitable!... It seems that in this "Sanctuary", the equipment will only sell more expensive..."
Lilith looked blank, she didn't know anything about this.
"Also, how do I learn skills? These monsters have skills."
Lilith said: "You can learn skills when you leave the Novice Village. There are no skills now, so that players can fully experience the free mode. After learning the skills, the system mode will be added, and the player can switch freely between the two modes."
"Is there any difference between system mode and free mode?"
Lilith explained: "Of course it's different! The moves in the system mode are completed with the help of the system, and the damage value is basically fixed, while the actions in the free mode need to be completed by yourself. The damage value is determined according to the degree of completion."
"I probably understand. Free mode is difficult, but it can cause higher damage, right?"
"Yes! The master is really smart! For casual players, the system mode is the first choice, for professional players, the free mode is the first choice. The system mode is 100% by default, so if you choose the free mode, the completion is less than 100% , The damage value will be lower than the system mode, when it exceeds 100%, the damage value will be higher than the system mode."
"How much higher can it be?"
"In the range from 100% to 110%, for every 1% increase in skill completion, the damage value increases by 5%. In the range from 110% to 120%, for every 1% increase in skill completion, the damage value increases by 10%. The upper limit of completion is 120%. Of course, critical strikes, critical strike damage, critical strikes, critical strikes, etc. are not counted."
Zhou Xing thought for a while and said: "It's interesting, I want to learn a skill more and more to try it out.
So he seized the time to kill the dog, quickly completed the task he had received before, and ran all the way back to the village. In the end, he got the old man's praise, experience points, 20 copper coins and 10 red fruits.
Red Fruit: Replenish 50 points of health and 50 points of mana within 3 seconds, no cooling time.
"Young man, your strength is good, are you interested in challenging yourself?" The old man looked up and down Zhou Xing and said suddenly.
In general, cheating recruits like to use challenging high salaries as a guise to cheat people, so when the old man said the word "challenge", Zhou Xing initially refused. But he changed his mind. It was the game anyway, so why bother, he said: "Yes!"
The old man stroked his beard and smiled satisfied, and said: "There are not many young people like you now, but this task is a bit special. I need to charge a deposit. If the task cannot be completed within the specified time, the deposit will not be refunded. You know, this is the only task. If you accept it, I won’t release it to others until you give it up.

Zhou Xing frowned. He had never seen an NPC release mission and collected a deposit. If it hadn't been for two reconnaissances and then asked Lilith to confirm that the other party was indeed an NPC, Zhou Xing could not help but curse. Up.
"How much is it? I don't have too much." Zhou Xing muttered.
The old man smiled and said, "Not much, not much, as long as 10 silver coins."
Zhou Xing groaned in his heart, and secretly said, does this old man have a clairvoyance and see my wallet? He really had 10 silver coins, which he had just killed a monster, and he was still warm. He suddenly suspected that this was a task of emptying the player's purse, and the old man would charge as much deposit as he had.
Zhou Xing gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, took out 10 silver coins for him, and was mentally prepared to make money.
The old man accepted the money, smiled and nodded, and said: "Now, there are not many young people like you who are willing to believe in others. You go to the woods to kill 3 bears and come back, including the round-trip time, it cannot exceed two hours. , Go."
The old man ignored him when he finished speaking, and a green arrow appeared under Zhou Xing's feet. Zhou Xing suddenly felt fooled. The task of killing the bear was far beyond his ability. How could he be the bear's opponent? You know, this game is realistic everywhere. The wolves in the game are stronger than the wolves in reality, and the bears must be so. When their own level and equipment are insufficient, the wolf is already very difficult to kill. It's harder, and it's no different from sending death.
After reading the system's text prompts, he realized that this was another B-level task, and couldn't help but smile.
Zhou Xing felt that the success rate of killing bears was too low. Instead of wasting time and life, he might as well take on other tasks, but he was not willing to spend 10 silver coins so worthlessly, so he cursed the old man while biting his head. Hurry, go straight to the woodland outside the village.
On the road, Zhou Xing found that someone was following him. He looked back several times. At first, the person pretended to be on the same road. Later, he also seemed to know that he was suspected, so he didn't pretend. He followed Zhou Xing closely and kept a distance of four or five meters.
"My buddy, are you looking for something to do with me?" Zhou Xing didn't like stalkers, so he stopped and asked.
The man was called Shadow, and he smiled and said coldly: "Zhou Xing, right? I heard that you killed our people from the Great Qin Empire before. Now that I found you, you don’t want to run away. The coordinates of has been sent out, and they will be there in a while! Hey, someone is already guarding the rebirth point and hangs you until level zero."
"How many of you are there?" Zhou Xing asked.
Shadow smiled and said, "Are you an idiot? How could I tell you?"
"Does Ying Zheng still play with that bald scoop?"
Shadow was taken aback for a moment, and said, "Do you know our boss?"
Zhou Xing sneered: "Still playing, then go back and tell him, don't mess with me so much, or the old rules."
Zhou Xing took advantage of the opponent's loss of mind and suddenly rushed forward. His three pieces of equipment were added with agility, and his movement speed was extremely fast.
"Grass, you attacked me!" Shadow was shocked and hurriedly parried.
"Don't get me wrong, it's too slow to walk and see you off! I'm kind!"
Zhou Xing's attack speed and attack power were higher than those of Shadow. After six or seven swords, Shadow turned away. With just a click, a ring fell to the ground.