Chapter 161: Chapter 160 The Martial Arts Tournament Begins [4400 words]
Skill Name: Spider Silk Weaving
Skill Level: 2nd Tier
Tenacity: Uses spider silk to weave any form of disguise, attaches a shield value of 100,000, negates 30% of physical damage, negates 30% of magic damage, and reduces fire resistance by 30%.
Recovery: Items weaved with spider silk recover 1% of shield value per second if not attacked for one minute.
Upgrade requires 5,000,000 points of negative energy.
“This equipment is actually pretty good!” Yi Zheng exclaimed as he decided to seriously upgrade the rabbits’ equipment next!
Yi Zheng immediately cloned himself into three, one endowed with the ability to weave spider silk, another with the ability to summon the Spear of Agony, and the last, the original self, was in charge of digging up carrots!
Thus, the three rabbits sat together and commenced the great endeavor of arming the entire Newbie Village.
The middle rabbit wildly threw carrots around, while the two beside him continuously crafted Sparta shorts out of spider silk. Meanwhile, Yi Zheng asked his men to hand over any round large shields from their inventory given by the system.
The system’s rule for refreshing equipment on wild monsters is simple: equipment bursts from the monsters upon their death, and is refreshed when they respawn.
However, the first piece of equipment generally has better attributes, and the likelihood of finding good equipment decreases later on, which is why the first kill’s loot is usually better.
But the number of round shields disappointed Yi Zheng, with only 50,000 shields among the one hundred and forty-four thousand wild monsters in Newbie Village!
To solve the shortage of shields, Yi Zheng’s solution was simple: mass suicide!
Players in Newbie Village No. 1 yawned as they watched the sunset, headed to the small tavern to buy a pot of wine, and while drinking, admired the prairie landscape.
Ever since they heard that Vermilion Bird City had been taken over by rabbits, they had lost all urge to venture out.
Now, everyone’s idea was simple: work steadily, earn money, and do some errand tasks in the village during their leisure time. These tasks earned them experience the first time and just money the subsequent times.
Though not much, a few to several copper coins, but doing several could add up to a couple of silver coins.
Sometimes, if lucky, they could hit a jackpot with the task rewards that multiplied their winnings tenfold, earning several silver coins at once.
These silver coins could buy equipment, but they had given up struggling, so they typically spent them at the tavern on peanuts, sliced cucumbers, beef, and then stood at the entrance of the village with a pot of wine, eating meat and watching clouds pass leisurely.
“Honestly, since I gave up struggling, I’ve felt much more at peace,” a man said.
“Same here. If you think about it, just eating here and taking a walk is way better than being in our residential area.”
“Right, plus you get to see some dumb-ass rabbits working out.”
“The air here is much better than on Earth, with the prairie breeze and a little drink… it’s comfortable…”
A group of people were leisurely chatting when suddenly, they heard a rumbling sound of rushing footsteps.
All they could see in the distance were countless rabbits, some riding wild boars, others wolves, with a chicken in the left hand and a snake in the right, charging with a ferocious aura.
Upon seeing this, the crowd trembled, someone cried out, “Impossible, they’re not planning to take over Newbie Village after Vermilion Bird City, are they?”
“Are they not going to leave us any gaming experience?”
“Is this what they call a ‘death experience’ in the game?”
“Damn rabbits, won’t even let us drink now, huh?!” someone yelled, smashing his wine jug on the ground.
Then a bunch of people stood at the door, closed their eyes, and waited for death…
The thundering sound of footsteps drew closer, reached the vicinity, then passed by the village.
What followed was a sound similar to dumping dumplings and then a loud voice shouted, “The rabbits are committing suicide!”
Hearing this, everyone hurried over to check.
All they saw was on the vast prairie, a group of rabbits holding pieces of steel equipment or large stones, jumping into the river with a splash!
The sight was so spectacular that the villagers’ wine jugs fell to the ground…
Once they snapped out of it, they burst out cursing: “Damn rabbits, pay for my wine! Pay for my peanuts! Damn it!”
But soon, they stopped cursing because the rabbits that jumped in didn’t resurface, and what was more horrifying was that more rabbits followed suit, and soon the entire river was blocked, with the water level rising quickly…
Seeing the water spread to their feet, people exchanged glances, seeing panic in each other’s eyes.
“Damn, are these rabbits so mad from not being killed that they want to perish together with us?”
“Log off, log off, quickly log off!” someone shouted.
But more people, with a calm demeanor, holding their wine jugs and eating peanuts, casually said, “Stop worrying, we’re just Level 1, what are we going to lose, experience or something else? Just enjoy the show, it’s quite interesting.”
Then the crowd quietly continued watching.
The number of one hundred and forty-four thousand animals is indeed not small, but it’s not enough to raise the river to the level of flooding Newbie Village.
However, when those rabbits were resurrected and charged again, they had died and come back…