Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“The magic potions are done?”
Meng Yang heard Hera’s words and turned around with an excited expression. He saw Hera’s holding on to a small tray that had five small porcelain bottles on it.
The porcelain bottles had a normal appearance, but when Meng Yang picked up one of them, he could clearly feel a faint warm feeling, as if he was holding hot water.
“Can I open it and have a look?” Meng Yang pointed at the small porcelain bottle, then raised his head and asked Hera.
“Yes, but only for a short time.” Hera’s face had a smile on it as she nodded lightly.
Meng Yang opened the cork on top of the small porcelain bottle lightly. He did not notice any weird smell and only saw that the liquid inside was similar to blood, or even, like volcano lava. It was a little sticky and had a faint glow.
“Can I use this to awaken Extraordinary Seeds?” Meng Yang looked at the liquid in the porcelain bottle again before turning and asking Hera.
Hera shook her head slightly. “Although this is a first level magic potion and, as such the probability of awakening is more than half, instability could still occur. The higher the level of the magic potion, the greater the rejection reaction, and the lower the probability of success.
“Understood.”
Meng Yang recapped the cork before taking the five bottles of magic potions. There was a moment where he actually wanted to drink a bottle of the magic potion to see its effect, but he managed to control his thoughts and stop himself.
His dog-like life was more important.
If it was a terrible situation where there was no other choice, he might be forced to try it even if the probability of success was not high. However, now that players had entered, and that his safety was guaranteed in the short term, there was no need to take this risk.
He actually hoped that he was the same as the players and that he was in a state where he could be constantly resurrected. However, Gustav had passed away, so it would be nothing short of foolish than to test this theory using his own life.
Time passed slowly.
After the entire survivor camp was thoroughly cleaned, as some areas were even rearranged by some ingenious players, a loud noise came from outside the camp gate.
“Back! They are back!”
Outside the camp’s gate, after the figure of eight players and Phoenix had appeared, the entire camp suddenly began to bustle.
“Oh god, f*ck me, Sun Shuai, is this the NPC you actively attacked?”
“Leader Sun, you are f*cking awesome, you did what we wanted to do but didn’t have the guts to try.”
“A yellow light on your head. Hey, if you get Red Named, can we earn prestige if we kill you.”
A group of players that were almost done with their work started clamoring when they saw everyone coming back.
At this time, many people’s attention fell on Sun Shuai. Although there were only a few dozen players in total, everyone basically knew each other when they chose the leader, but they were still not too familiar with Sun Shuai.
After this announcement, some male players felt cordial.
At this moment, Sun Shuai was so tired that he almost wanted to limp. There was a rope hanging on his shoulders, with the other end of the rope tied to a wooden board. On the wooden board laid the NPC who had been the cause of the earlier full server announcement.
On the way here, countless thoughts of wanting to quit the game had gone through his mind. If his mind had not been preoccupied with these thoughts, it would be too hard to drag someone for such a long journey.
In the end, he gritted his teeth and persevered. There was no other reason for his decision than that this kind of virtual online game with such a realistic experience was so enjoyable that even though he knew he was being used as a runner, he still put up with it.
At this moment, none of the other players were relaxed either. The magic crystals carried by everyone were around ten to twenty kilograms. When they arrived at the camp gate, they were panting and almost collapsed to the ground.
Meng Yang didn’t go over to look at the magic crystal brought back by the players, instead, he walked toward Sun Shuai and glanced at the unconscious middle-aged man.
“Do you know him?” Meng Yang asked Phoenix, who was beside them.
“I haven’t seen him before. He might be a survivor of another camp.” Phoenix shook her head and glanced at the person on the ground. “But he is strong. I think we can gain some information from him.”
“Then we better let Hera treat his injuries.”
Meng Yang nodded. He knew that the middle-aged man was seriously injured. Even if he wanted to obtain information, he still had to wait for the other person to wake up.
After the fall of this City of Despair, even if some ordinary people survived, many places were occupied by monsters and the sharing of news had all but completely halted.
Phoenix used to walk outside, looking for resources, and gathering information. However, there were many places where she did not dare to venture. Moreover, she was the main combat force in the survivor camp at that time. Unless completely necessary, she did not dare to go too far.
After Hera took the man away to treat his injuries, Meng Yang noticed that the eyes of many players had fallen on him.
However, he was not in a hurry. He first took a piece of magic crystal, then returned to the summoning circle and re-embed the magic crystal in it.
The light blue light instantly lit up, but none of the players in the summoning circle immediately entered. Meng Yang also understood that time had passed and these people might not be waiting to go online at that moment.
However, after finishing this step, he announced that the two tasks of [Energy Crisis] and [Clean-up After War] which the players had completed had ended,
“It’s time to redeem the reward!”
After announcing the mission completion, Meng Yang watched as many of the players gathered around him. He knew what the players were waiting for. He did not set up a quantitative attribute panel for things like prestige and affinity, so there was no clear concept for players.
However, everyone was very interested in the reward of magical potions. Even though many players knew that they may not have their share in this reward, they were bubbling with curiosity.
“Adventurers, in light of your brave performance, I would like to give you a magical potion as a gift. This potion will help you awaken the Extraordinary Seed, but, please be careful as the potion has a chance of failure.”
Meng Yang successively handed out five potions to the five most prestigious players. Among the five players, Meng Yang was more familiar with Xu Zhe and Liu Chuanfeng. They had done the first [Fire-line Rescue] mission previously, hence, their accumulated prestige was naturally the highest. Another player was the one who had done the most during their previous cleaning task. This person alone carried eleven bloody jackal corpses and threw them to the farthest point. The player even helped several NPCs sweep the floor, splash water, wash the floor, and so on. They had done their work extremely fast.
Finally, the last two potions were won by the two cousins, Hua Yu and Guan Xiong. These two recovered a full 60 kilograms of magic crystals, ranking them first amongst the party.
After allocating the potions, Meng Yang didn’t continue to linger amongst the players. He didn’t need to directly observe the effect of the magic potion after consumption—he only needed to see who was still alive in the end.
Now that he had some magic crystals again, then the next step was for him to plan how to use them in a balanced way. He felt that according to the consumption level of the players, a long-term resurrection plan had to be developed.
“This is the magic potion?”
The moment Xu Zhe received the magic potion, a few players rushed to his side. Everyone stared at the magic potion in his hands with interest.
However, nobody wanted to snatch it away out of jealousy. They were simply curious about this potion, or, in other words, the function of the Extraordinary System in this game.
Of course, there were a few people who were jealous. However, it was just a game, and it was absolutely normal for some of them to finish the mission and get high rewards. At the same time, a lot of the players felt that they would also be able to get things of such nature in the future, so they did not worry too much.
Liu Chuanfeng did not hesitate a single bit after he received the magic potion. He plucked the cork off the small porcelain bottle and was about to flush it into his mouth. However, as he was just doing this, he suddenly discovered that someone was stopping his movement.
“I recommend that you do not consume the magic potion.”
Phoenix looked at the magic potion in Liu Chuanfeng’s hands and said calmly, “Magic potions are one of the ways to awaken Extraordinary Seeds, but it’s not the only way. You can consider learning from me.”
“Er…” The movements of Liu Chuanfeng’s hands suddenly halted. He started to become hesitant as he saw Phoenix turning around and leaving after saying these words.
“This is giving me a headache!”
Liu Chuenfeng was aware that he had gained some affinity from Phoenix. Looking at the current situation, as long as he was willing to learn from Phoenix, he would be able to awaken Extraordinary Seeds in the future.
However, looking at the magic potion in his hand, he was a little reluctant. How quick would he progress if he just consumed the medicine?
“Hi, Brother, can you give this thing to me? After all, your prestige is enough and you can learn from the NPC.” As Liu Chuanfeng was thinking, a player next to him suddenly said.
“Ah?” Liu Chuanfeng was slightly stunned. He looked at the porcelain bottle in his hand. “This thing can be gifted to others?”
“There’s such high degrees of freedom in the game, and no restriction that we’re aware of. It should be possible.” The player that was speaking saw that there was a chance of his wish coming true, so his eyes started to light up.
“I guess I could give it to you.” Liu Chuanfeng thought about it for a while. He suddenly looked at the player and asked, “Alipay or Wechat Pay?”
“Ah?”
“What are you surprised about? How can I just give it to you for free?”