Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
Li Ang frowned while looking at the new Face-Changing Mask in his inventory.
This mask was oval and had a curved, glossy surface. There were circular notches on the edges of both sides that threads could go through so it could be fastened.
It was made of wood, and the surface was covered with black ink-like paint. The mask could cover the entire face, including the chin and forehead.
After Li Ang paid and left the pig intestine noodle shop, he started to test his Face-Changing Mask while going home.
It was different from the Cat’s Eye. This piece of equipment would not consume Spirit when equipped. Once the inside of the mask touched the face’s skin, the black color outside the mask would rapidly fade away and would be replaced by a variety of strange patterns.
Tiger, Kamen Rider, a cute girl with rabbit ears, Handsome Monkey King Sun Wukong, a golden toilet seat, pink fluffy ladies slippers…
After playing for over ten minutes, Li Ang was finally sure that, besides being fun and being able to cosplay, Effect 1 of the Face-Changing Mask was useless.
Li Ang liked cosplay a lot, though.
As for Effect 2, Li Ang went to an anime convention in Yin City in the afternoon to test it out.
The result was quite gratifying. When he chose to weaken his presence, the people around him would actively ignore him as long as he stood still.
Even if he walked around at will, it would be hard for other people to have an impression of him although he was wearing an obvious mask.
When he enhanced his presence, no matter what he did, other people would quickly notice him even if he stood still. They would think that this weird person wearing a mask was really strange and wonder whether they should call the police since there was a weird person there.
As for the usage of the mask, it was quickly developed by Li Ang.
For example, he could use it for assassinating, hiding, eavesdropping, and… peeping in the open.
Based on Li Ang’s deduction, the strength of the Face-Changing Mask was probably dependent on the wearer’s Perception. The higher the Perception, the better one could resist the confusion effect of the mask.
In short, it was good to have useful equipment. Li Ang put the mask back in his backpack and continued to look for triggerable quests around Yin City.
In the next few days, everything was normal besides the fact that the school assigned a new young and pretty female teacher to his class. As Li Ang was waiting calmly, he received a delivery message.
“Your order has arrived in Yin City, Xindong Road. Delivery Man Zhang ** is dispatching your order.”
When it came to game novices, purchasing high-quality and inexpensive equipment had always been the best way to increase strength quickly. As long as they found the right ones, they could arm themselves with less than 10,000 yuan.
Li Ang’s previous purchases on Taobao included laboratory equipment, chemical fertilizers, seamless steel pipes, bulletproof vests, and camping hand axes…
There was no problem if these products were separated. However, when the buyer was the same person, it was easy to be noticed and marked by the official online data-monitoring system.
Therefore, Li Ang had used different Taobao accounts, IP addresses, personal information, and contact numbers to make his purchases to ensure that he would not be traced. He had sent all his orders to different addresses in Yin City.
Although he had to rent a tricycle to run about picking up his orders, everything was worth it.
Li Ang quickly opened all his parcels in his living room and started small production.
As an uncertified wild genius, Li Ang believed that his knowledge, actions, execution, and creativity were top-level.
At the age of 11 or 12, when kids of the same age had still been addicted to using firecrackers to blow up feces and water cannons to fry fish, Li Ang had already studied the manual of the Soviet militia and mastered infantry skills such as shooting, firearm maintenance, assassination, underground mine installation, position determination, distance determination, as well as manufacturing, storage, and transportation of flammable and explosive materials.
It was much more pleasurable to blow up feces with a pull-top remote control bomb filled with steel balls and iron pieces than use firecrackers.
At the age of 13 or 14, when kids of the same age as him had been addicted to animated TV series, Li Ang had flipped through the Soviet Union war saga information and mastered artillery skills such as artillery maintenance, artillery force deployment, coordination, tactical command, firepower deployment, as well as firepower organization and usage.
At the age of 15 or 16, when most kids of the same age had reached puberty and had hazy youthful fantasies, Li Ang had already browsed through the Internet about the full set of U.S. Army Command Doctrine Publication, U.S. Army Command Doctrine Reference Publication, U.S. Battle Commands, U.S. Army Technical Publications, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Training Manual, and Intelligence Bureau Interrogation Manual…
He had played jungle guerilla warfare and city CQB and gone to Guantanamo to interrogate prisoners and to Mexico to fight drug traffickers. He had also learned about atomic bomb waxing, nuclear submarine maintenance, dismantling and cleaning missile engines, scrubbing satellite surface dust at high altitude, and repairing aircraft rear-view mirrors…
Li Ang was a genius.
The Internet was the most advanced and powerful invention in human history. It bore most of mankind’s knowledge from ancient times to the present, just like One Piece, which was precious according to the legend.
Philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, art, history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, agronomy, medical science…
All the knowledge of mankind was in the invisible, intangible Internet.
It was even more wonderful because it was an open source to the public that had no threshold.
Anyone could visit it and not be rejected because of differences in lineage, ancestry, ethnicity, culture, and so on.
Acquiring knowledge had never been easier than it was now. As long as there were willpower and action, anyone could use the knowledge provided by the Internet to become an elite in their professional field.
However, most people did not do that.
Li Ang was standing in a living room full of things and using various machine tools, including small machines presses, steel balls, steel wires, steel pipes, and steel purchased from Taobao.
It took him more than ten hours to manufacture parts, such as a lever, a continuous single-shot sear, a hammer, a casing, an air piston, and a barrel, and put these parts together to form a Kalashnikov rifle.
He made the metal cartridges and copper bullets, which could last for more than 70 rounds, by himself.
Li Ang picked up the Kalashnikov rifle, which was famous for its stability and reliability, and smelled its strong steel smell before he said with curled lips, “I still need to practice…”
In a village on the border of Pakistan, the workshop of a family of three could produce more than 20 Kalashnikov rifles a month while they balanced this job with farm work. However, the materials they used were not as good as the ones on Taobao.
After making the Kalashnikov rifle, Li Ang worked overtime and used steel needles, steel balls, light bulbs, large pig intestines, pull-top cans, chemical fertilizers, and other simple materials to produce more than a dozen flammable and explosive dangerous goods.
These dangerous goods, which were the size of a Coke, were wrapped in layers of transparent tape, while some steel nails that were as long as a finger pierced the transparent tape, which was fierce and terrifying.
Furthermore, it looked very ugly and gave people the feeling that it was unstable and could explode at any time.
“A country bumpkin is not uncouth, as he still has a little combat power. The uglier the weapon, the more powerful it is.”
While Li Ang consoled himself, he put on the equipment.
He was wearing a steel helmet, a face mask, a Cat’s Eye in his eye, a CQB bulletproof tactical vest, stab-resistant tactical pants, and rubber tactical boots on his feet. There was also a sharp pocket knife inside his boots.
He was carrying a camouflage backpack full of flammables and explosives on his back and holding a glaring flashlight. A camping hand ax was around his waist, and a Kalashnikov rifle was in his hands, which were in tactical gloves.
At the moment, Li Ang was fully armed and integrated with his psychological, physical, and combat qualities. His overall combat power was almost equal to ten Mexican gangsters with similar equipment or twenty African scouts.
As Li Ang was admiring the strange equipment he was wearing in the mirror, a system prompt echoed near his ear.
[Condition Met: Being a player for a total of 240 hours]
[Scripted Quest has been unlocked]
[Quest Type: Scripted Quest]
[Quest Name: Starvation Limit]
[Quest Objective: Eliminate zombie in Hidden Mountain Village 0/1]
[Quest Time Limit: 3 hours]
[Quest Reward 1: Eliminate the quest target to obtain additional EXP]
[Quest Reward 2: 200 Game Credits]
[Quest Reward 3: Random Rare Grade Skill Scroll*1]