Chapter 407 Lava Monster

"How fierce is that?" The boss showed half of his face from the shadows, raised his heroic eyebrows, and showed some interest.

"Not that fierce actually..." Wang Wenbo looked indifferent.

There are many muscular men in Huitie City who have undergone surgery. Seeing the expressiveness of muscular men all day has desensitized him.

Another player, Wang Wenyan, added: "...It's just a little strange."

"Strange?"

"The tough guys we've seen before all use their fists. It's the first time we've seen the one using a bow and arrow. He killed the Fire Spirit Beast in one second with one arrow. It was so fierce! And one of the two people who used fists didn't see much change in physique. The woman's figure... is quite slender, about the same as you, boss. But she can also knock down the Fire Spirit Beast with one punch, but she can't do it with force."

"You haven't seen it either?" The boss pinched his fair chin and muttered to himself with some curiosity, "You've been hanging out outside for two days, how could there be someone you haven't seen in this area?"

He then asked: "Where did you see it?"

"It's at the foot of the volcano... northwest of the city, and also northwest of the volcano."

"There's no reason..." The boss noticed the strangeness at the first time, "Who would run there normally?"

Even if they were going up the mountain to find resources, they could just go north up the mountain after leaving the city. Why would they have to go around in a big circle and go to the direction of the mountain's shadow.

Unless... the other party also wanted to avoid crowded places.

"You didn't talk to each other?"

"Yes." Wang Wenyan nodded.

"What did they say?"

"They said 'Are you okay?'"

"Then what?"

"Then we ran away..."

"..."

"..."

The boss stared at the two with a pair of black and white eyes, "They saved you, and you don't even know how to thank them?"

"Who would thank the NPC for nothing~" Wang Wenbo muttered, "The main thing is that we are all 'illegal residents', how dare I talk to others casually?"

What if my illegal status is discovered, I will have to go to the operating table to survive the tribulation in minutes?

Wang Wenyan scratched his head, "I was chased by the fire beast and was stupid... I didn't react."

"..."The boss rubbed his chin with his fingers and wondered secretly: "Hey, do you think this will be the beginning of a mission?"

"Hmm..."

"emmmm~"

The two brothers looked dazed, staring at each other, both of them looked dumbfounded.

"Our city can't always be like this, right?"

Although I don't know much about other players' birthplaces, I at least know that other players don't have to face such a harsh environment when they are born.

First, you have to get familiar with the environment. After birth, any player who doesn't get the "Adaptive Breathing Enhancement" trait within three days will die on the spot.

Either spend money to find a doctor to improve the trait proficiency, or find a way to improve your own physique or physical attributes and polish it over time. This is the "main task" that players in Gray Iron City are born with.

First, you have to survive. Only by surviving can you play the game.

And then surviving is not the end, the malice of the world has just begun to show.

It's difficult for players in other cities, but most of them come from the environment or the naked malice of some NPCs out of interests.

But this city is different...

This city itself is the biggest malice.

Players in other cities can freely choose their own promotion path.

You can major in martial arts and rely on a strong body and combat skills to overturn everything.

You can also skillfully control the equipment. The early hot weapons are a fatal threat to the player's fragile physique. If you can get the weapons of this era that are mixed with science fiction and magic, the player's combat style can also be colorful.

Or practice psychic power and transform everything with will like a powerful magician.

Each way of practice requires players to find a way out by themselves.

There is no so-called professional mentor, no fixed task route, and even no clear promotion system.

Everything is free and full of infinite possibilities. Every player's exploration of the game content is wonderful and changeable. The plot triggered by almost the same conditions and the same form may also go in a completely different direction.

Even a villager rescued on the roadside may share with you the technology of controlled nuclear fusion reactor.

This is the charm of this game world.

This is what the official expansion pack introduces, and other players also play this way after entering the game, but how come in their Gray Iron City, the only way to be promoted is to transform your own body?

And not only is it the only one, but it is also mandatory.

As long as the "illegal households" found in the census at irregular intervals, they must first be taken for surgery.

If the surgery is successful, it's good. Not only can you gain a powerful trait, but you can also improve your physical fitness to a certain extent. The improvement speed is much faster than the players' own training. At the beginning, those players who succeeded in the surgery thought they had picked up a big bargain and came to a welfare city that other players could not even dream of.

However... the nightmare has just begun.

There is a failure rate in surgery, and it is not small.

The failed players either die directly on the operating table, or linger on with one breath, and are randomly discarded like waste in the form of not knowing which parts are missing, and then they have to rely on their own efforts to be self-reliant in this "jungle" world where the weak are preyed on by the strong.

At first, many players thought this was a feature of the game, and besides, the game... would never really cause players to suffer a big loss.

What is owed here will always be compensated elsewhere.

The last person who thought this way was named Kuang Xin, but unfortunately this game is not always so kind.

After persisting for a while, these players felt that it was better to just die on the operating table and count balls.

After achieving good results in "City Survival Battle" with nine meals in three days, most players chose to restart the game.

Only a very small number of players are still holding on to their "faith" - they firmly believe that the game will not let them down, and their persistence must be meaningful.

Otherwise, wouldn’t the hardships of the past few days be in vain?

This is a failure...

The successful ones are no better.

The city's surgical technology is extremely immature. Even if the operation is successful, the modified body will still have to face the rejection effect of the extra organs. This has led to even those players who have successful operations to rely on a kind of "stable repair fluid". medicine to stabilize one's condition.

And if you want to get this kind of thing that only city officials can produce, you have to accept their control and act according to their instructions.

The city itself does not seem to have deliberately set up its own intelligence organization, large-scale escorts, etc. They do not seem to care about ruling everyone, but only perform surgery for the sake of surgery.

But under this current situation, the entire city... belongs to them.

How frustrating is this place for players who yearn for freedom and act lawlessly?

You can't just jump on the roof and knock down the walls at will. How is the authenticity of this game reflected?

Not to mention that the surgery is not a one-time thing...

There are many surgeries in Gray Tiecheng, one operation and one level of test.

Every surgery is a retelling of all the above risks.

As long as players have undergone surgery and had to accept a certain degree of city control because of the "stable repair fluid", there will be a record of it with the city officials.

Whenever one of the two influencing factors, time or body, meets the conditions for the next operation, he will be immediately pushed to the operating table again.

Of course, if you succeed, you will ascend again. If you fail, you will just fight to the end, or you may be forced to start a "city survival battle" like those unlucky players.

After a period of hard work, the players have certainly discovered certain patterns——

As long as you improve yourself during the time between the two surgeries so that your physique is strong enough, your traits and expertise are sufficient, and you happen to have targeted effects for the surgery, you can greatly improve the success rate during the surgery.

This is the only direction in which players can always "win".

But the failure rate is still not small, at least for players, it is difficult to accept.

Abnormal policies naturally have people who resist them.

Even if you can't resist, you can still run away.

This group of "rats" hiding underground are the "criminals" that the city is hunting for everywhere.

So let’s put it another way: Those who want to avoid the city’s gaze are “black households”.

There are very few fierce people in the "black households", at least they haven't seen them yet, as a group of players who don't accept the abnormal rules of the city.

But they firmly believe it shouldn't be the case.

At least Yafei has always believed so.

The deformed city will surely usher in a complete purification, and changing the deformed rules of this city may be the true natural "main mission" carried by all players born in this city.

Those who obey the city are like dogs; those who resist the city are like rats.

This is a battle between rat and dog.

The dog camp has the city itself as its big daddy, but what about their rat camp?

Just by their new players? So when will this broken place be overthrown?

There must be a big daddy who leads the charge.

Yafei has been looking for Big Daddy, but now...

A "black house" who is powerful and does not look like he is powerful due to surgical transformation, but also needs to avoid the sight of the city.

Is this an opportunity to overthrow the city?

Thinking of this, Yafei stood up excitedly, "Where did you meet them? Take me to see them!"

Regardless of whether it is or not, it is always okay to have some contact.

Even if they are not their own eldest brother, how can these players who are unwilling to undergo surgical transformation finally encounter a strong NPC who is also not following the route of surgical transformation, why not rush to curry favor with them?

Otherwise, Ma Zai is just Ma Zai, without any strategic vision.

"Walk!"

Wearing a midriff-baring ponytail shorts, Yafei jumped off the wooden box she was sitting on and headed towards the entrance and exit of the cave. "Go quickly, don't wait for others to run away."

"Coming, coming!" Ma Wenbo was excited and finally reacted.

…

"Huh~"

"Suck~"

"Huh~"

"Suck~"

The three figures stood there, taking long breaths of air.

Seeing the 99 points of proficiency far behind the other two, Kuang Xin's face was full of pride.

"Do you understand what the arrogant spirit is?" 》

"Gululu~"

The gravel rolled down the hillside that was several degrees steeper.

The ground began to shake slightly.

Gu Lan, who happened to enter a meditative state while breathing calmly and communicated with the world by his own will, encountered a smoky breath of flames.

She opened her eyes in confusion and looked at the top of the gentle hillside... The black-gray land there seemed to have been solidified for thousands of years, so much so that everyone had forgotten the fact that it was actually an active volcano.

"Is the volcano going to erupt?"

"How can it be such a coincidence?" Kuang Xin opened his eyes when he heard the voice and retorted with some disdain, "The volcano erupted just after we arrived. Are we the sons of the volcano?"

Dai Lian narrowed his eyes and stopped his breathing rhythm, "But this movement... looks like it's going to be big."

Behind the rugged corner of the hillside, in a place that Dai Lian and others could not see, a wisp of red flame suddenly gushed out from the hole in the earth by the upwelling airflow.

This wisp of red flame was different from the other ashes that were ejected together and drifted away with the wind. Instead, it was like having its own spirituality, drawing circles of clever arcs in the air and finally drilling into the earth below.

Between the gray-black boulders, there flowed fiery red lines like magma, just like the membrane network of the human body constitutes the human body's ecosystem. The fiery red lines also turned the ordinary stone that originally had no breath of life into a "life" that can move freely.

"Hmm~" A dull whistle came from it. After the giant stone man was confused and stagnant for a moment, the "head" with a human torso structure looked in the direction of the city, and then strode out.

The moment the giant stone man poked his body out from the rugged place, Kuang Xin and others held their breath.

Kuang Xin was a little dumbfounded, "What is this thing?"

Dai Lian looked dazed, "How the hell do I know?"

Gu Lan analyzed rationally, "Maybe it's a local specialty monster?"

The same fiery red monster, compared to the fire spirit beast just called by the locals, which is like an upright lion and is less than twice the height of a human, this giant stone man still in the distance has already presented enough visual shock.

Seeing the giant stone man start to take steps as if locking the direction, the three people widened their eyes.

"Wait... Why does it look like it's coming for us? Did we breathe its breath?"

"Nonsense! Its big feet are about to step on your face, and you're still looking?"

"What should we do?"

"What should we do? Pull out the knife and kill it!"

...

"Boss! Right there!" Wang Wenbo pointed to the three figures standing in the distance with a happy face.

Turning around, he saw that his boss had shrunk behind a rock.

"Boss?"

"Boss?"

Yafei glared at the two of them, and pointed at a "big red dot" that had just started to move in the distance with a look of regret.

"Lava monster! Are we going to get close to it for free?! Let's see what they are going to do first."

Wang Wenyan squinted his eyes and looked for a while, then scratched his cheek in confusion, "Do they seem to be planning to charge?"