Chapter 225 Mining Career

About half a month after the fleet sailed, Gu Hongju, standing in the bow, was surprised to find that there seemed to be a touch of earth at the junction of the water and sky in front of him.

His first reaction was to doubt whether he had read it wrong. After shaking his head hard and rubbing his eyes, he looked far again. When he was sure that the color was indeed the mainland, Gu Hongju shouted excitedly: "Oh! Come out and have a look! There is a continent ahead! Come and have a look!"

Mina was attracted by his voice and quickly jumped to the railing and leaned against the railing to look into the distance. She also saw the continent, and the area of the continent became larger and bigger as the fleet kept moving forward. At first, it was a small black dot, which gradually became as big as a palm, and then gradually became a small piece. Like a flag.

Mina said happily, "Look! That's the Holy Beast Continent!"

"It must be!" Gu Hongju said confidently, "I finally arrived at the Holy Beast Continent. The sea voyage for half a month has almost made me sick. This place where birds don't shit is so boring!"

Xing Keke and others also ran to the deck when they heard the words and saw that a different color finally appeared in front of the sea. Everyone was extremely happy. They felt as if they were going to end a long journey, and they all felt relieved.

Captain Han Chenghu came over, looked at the excited young people with a smile, and said kindly, "Children, it's too early to be happy. The Holy Beast Continent is still far away! I tell you that the front is just a transit station to the Holy Beast Continent, called the Cape of Good Hope!"

Hearing the old captain's words, everyone felt that the excitement that had just risen was extinguished by cold water. Mina was discouraged and said, "Ah? Isn't it the holy beast continent in front? Oh, it's so boring! I'm so happy!"

Gu Hongju also looks like a long sigh.

Nanshanyue showed a more mature leadership style and asked with concern, "Old captain, where is this Cape of Good Hope?"

As soon as Nanyue heard this question, everyone also showed concern. Han Chenghu said, "Children, you must know that the two main game principles of Hell Love Song are simulation peace. This Cape of Good Hope is a manifestation of simulation. According to historical records, the Cape of Good Hope means "the Cape of Good Hope". It is located in the southwest end of Africa and is a very famous Cape. It was discovered and named by the Portuguese explorer Diaz in 1488. In the past, all ships passing through the Eurasian continent had to pass through the Cape of Good Hope. Now although the situation has changed and Europe has cut the Suez Canal, whenever the super-large ships cannot pass through the Suez Canal, they still have to pass through the Cape of Good Hope, so it can be said that the Cape of Good Hope is a traffic fortress at sea. According to the principle of simulation, a transit station such as the Cape of Good Hope is set up in the middle of the Blue Sea Continent and the Holy Beast Continent, which is also to facilitate the rest and stationing of passing ships.

Xing Keke has always loved sailing and said, "In this case, let's go to the Cape of Good Hope. I believe that there will be many players at such a transit station, and there will be transactions above the town."

Han Chenghu nodded and ordered the ship to move forward quickly.

In less than 20 minutes, the fleet arrived on the Bund of the Cape of Good Hope. At this time, they were immersive and felt the charm of the Cape of Good Hope. In terms of scale, the Cape of Good Hope is definitely not only the size of the town, even if it is not as small as the sunset city, it is not as small as Tianjiao City, Wanghai City and other cities. And because this is an important transit station (probably the only transit station) on the sea, almost all sea crossing players will rest and stay again, which has caused a surge of players at the Cape of Good Hope. It is said that there are 700,000 players, of which only 100,000 are permanent players and more than 600,000 are mobile players. That is, passers-by.

Due to the large number of players, the official has also opened many places to practice and kill monsters outside the main city of the Cape of Good Hope, and many of them are instance areas. It can be said that when players come to the Cape of Good Hope, they are no different from coming to an ordinary main city. There are all commodity transactions, as well as mission areas and deputy Ben, and there is no shortage of monsters and minerals.

Han Chenghu put down the deck and led the people off the boat. As he walked, he said, "Children, do you think this Cape of Good Hope is beautiful?"

Xing Keke looked at the majestic atmosphere of the main city of the Cape of Good Hope, the style of European architecture, and added a sense of art, and said sincerely, "It's beautiful! If I hadn't come in person, I would never have thought that there would be such an area on the sea, with a little pearl on the sea. What do you think?

Mina and Ran Ran also praised.

Han Chenghu said, "This is the current situation. You don't know that the Cape of Good Hope was not called the Cape of Good Hope, but the Cape of Storm, which is a very dangerous place. According to Diaz's Log, the Cape of Good Hope that sailors saw at that time was: dark clouds were dense and continuous, and the blue sky and stars and moon were rarely seen. The west wind was blowing vigorously all day long, and the vortex clouds were flying eastward one by one after another. The roaring waves on the sea collided with the side of the ship from time to time, and the roars shocked every seafarers. The heart. The main reason for this scene is that the rotation of the earth plays an important role in the direction of the airflow. Another reason why the west wind is strong is the large temperature difference in the mid-latitudes. If you sail to the pole or the equator for a day, you will obviously feel the difference between cold and warm. This is because the low latitude energy is transported to the poles, and a considerable part of it is consumed in the mid-latitudes. At the same time, the polar cold air keeps invading south. Under the attack of these two airflows with large differences between cold and warm airflows, the mid-latitude zone becomes the temperature difference. In larger areas, cold and heating currents continue to converge, which is very easy to lead to frequent storms.

Mina said with a worshipful look, "Wow! Captain, you know so much! How do you know everything?"

Han Chenghu smiled and said, "I'm a navigator. Naturally, I know more about these sailing things. This is called Wendao, and there is a specialty in the art industry. Let's go to the city. I hope there will be no storm in the Cape of Good Hope these days, so we can continue to set sail in three days.

Nanshan Yue nodded, and the group followed Han Chenghu into the Cape of Good Hope.

No one expected that Han Chenghu's joke would become true. The next day, the Cape of Good Hope really encountered a storm. The waves on the sea rolled up huge waves more than ten meters high and washed the coast deafeningly. They kept trying to rush into the main city of the Cape of Good Hope. The dark clouds in the sky made yesterday's good weather a flash in the pan.

What's more depressing is that according to the prediction of meteorological experts (which is also a player's profession), there will still be strong storms and tsunamis in the sea near the Cape of Good Hope in the next few days. For the sake of safety, players are advised not to sail. At the same time, the city of Cape of Good Hope The main house also hung up a yellow rain warning signal.

In this way, Nanshanyue and his party had to stay in the Cape of Good Hope for a few more days.

Although it is a little depressing, the Cape of Good Hope is also a big city with all the elements of playing games, so Nanshan Yue and others also use this time to supplement their combat effectiveness.

After the release of the new official version, one of the great features is that equipment begins to become important. With the same level and profession, when the equipment is one level apart, good equipment can actually match three, which makes all players realize that in Hell Love Song, the level is indeed not the most Important, equipment, attributes, occupation, terrain, and cooperation will affect the victory or defeat of a battle.

equipment is usually obtained in the following ways: defeat the monster drop, defeat the mission boss drop, defeat the copy boss drop, kill the player drop, lucky draw to get, the system randomly give, hand-made.

The previous methods are random. For example, whether the system will drop equipment, what kind of equipment will be dropped, and what kind of equipment and what attribute equipment will be dropped, all of which are random. If you want to get the best equipment, unless the character breaks out, and the character is usually unclear.

Although there is some randomness in manually building equipment, it is less random, and most of the cases can be controlled by the players themselves, so this method is favored by the majority of players.

Generally speaking, all professions in Hell Love Song can learn production skills such as mining, logging, hunting, refining, building, etc., which can enable players to obtain enough production materials to build weapons and armor. In other words, all professions in the whole server can build their own equipment.

Using the "building" skill, as long as the materials are qualified, the corresponding equipment can be created, but the attributes of the equipment are different, so the randomness of manual creation is the lowest. As long as you have enough materials, you can definitely hit the equipment.

However, in different occupations, the highest level of production skills is different. It is in this way that the official ensures the level of production and combat departments. Generally speaking, the production skills of the production department can be practiced very high, while that of the combat department is relatively low, which ensures that the production department can produce better equipment, while the combat department can only spend money to buy these good equipment.

For example, the warrior's mining skills can only reach level 3, which can dig copper, iron and silver. As for more advanced ores such as platinum, magic silver and arcane ingots, they cannot be excavated, so the warrior can only create relatively rough low-level equipment.

For example, miners can dig skills up to level 10, and can dig almost all the minerals of the whole server, but building skills can only reach level 6, and they cannot produce light equipment and dark equipment.

Like a refiner, mining skills can only reach level 8 and cannot dig the best ore, but building skills can reach level 10, which can create all the most powerful equipment.

But miners must lead the way to mining, otherwise they cannot go to advanced mining areas, because advanced mining areas are usually accompanied by advanced monsters. Without warriors leading the way, miners cannot safely reach mining areas, let alone mining.

Therefore, the official ensures the level of each profession through a unique setting.

After understanding all this, Nanshanyue and his party decided to take a rest at the Cape of Good Hope, and the key task is to build equipment.

If you want to build equipment, of course, you must first learn mining skills and building skills. If you want to build advanced equipment, hunting skills are also essential. However, because Nanshan Yue and others are combat professions, their production capacity is limited, so it is enough to learn mining and building these two skills.

According to the instructions of the system, the group came to the blacksmith's shop in the west city of Good Hope. At a glance, they couldn't help but be surprised. The blacksmith's shop, which is not very lively, is now full of doors. Hundreds of players crowded the blacksmith's shop, and some people jump the queue from behind from time to time. That situation is like the old club. It's the same as farmers grabbing grain.

Zhang Yu had a headache and said, "No! I didn't expect that so many people like to play the production department now, so that we have to queue up for a long time to learn mining!"

Xu Tao said: "After the release of the official version, the importance of equipment has greatly increased, and players began to pay attention to the production of equipment, which is also expected. This is called mass production!"

Zhang Yu shrugged his shoulders and said, "So what should we do now? Won't you really wait here for a few hours?"

Everyone was at a loss when they saw the longer and longer dragon team.

Han Chenghu thought for a moment and said, "Well, I know that there is also a blacksmith's shop in Nancheng. Although it is relatively small, it should also be able to learn mining skills. Why don't we try our luck?"

Zhang Yu nodded and said, "Now, I can only have a try. If you want me to wait here, I really can't wait."

So everyone followed Han Chenghu and headed for Nancheng. The main city of the Cape of Good Hope is indeed not small, and it takes more than half an hour to walk there. On the way, Zhang Yu naturally inevitably scolded the system garbage and did not have a transmission system.

Nancheng is much behind Xicheng. The streets are narrow. The design concept is that it is a poor area, and the business is not prosperous. It is difficult for people to find a place called "Lao Zhang Blacksmith Shop", which is the destination for this trip to learn skills.

Zhang Yu stepped into Huang Laosan's house, knocked on the head of npc Huang Laosan, and said rudely, "Lao Huang, learn to dig!"

"Two thousand gold!" A strange smile appeared on Huang Laosan's face.

Zhang Yu's eyes widened and said, "What! Two thousand gold? Blackmail? Does it cost two thousand yuan to learn to mine?

Two thousand gold is really nothing for the current mythical guild and Zhang Yu. After all, the studio's current monthly income is tens of millions, and these two thousand gold is just a piece of cattle. But for an ordinary game player, 2,000 yuan is equivalent to 2,000 yuan, which is absolutely high. Imagine which game costs 2,000 yuan to learn a mining skill? No, absolutely not.

Oriental players have always been relatively poor, and most of them are not RMB players. Many people only choose free games that cost nothing to play, and refuse to spend money to buy equipment and pets, but the popular "Hell Love Song" has changed this traditional concept. In this game, spending money has become an investment. Take learning to mine as an example, the player spent 2,000 yuan to learn mining, but the return he gets is obviously much higher than he pays. It is said that the price of advanced ore is as high as 200,000 yuan/ton. In this profitable situation, even the stingy miser , and will be happy to invest first before making a profit.

More importantly, because many players are forced by the company to enter the game Hell Love Song, and many people's performance is linked to the game's performance, so far, the official developer Fantasy International has been able to control the preferences of players to a large extent.

Huang Laosan said snobbishly, "No money? Then get out of here, but..."

"But what?"

"But there is a way that you don't have to spend a piece of time, and I'll let you learn mining!"

Zhang Yu was stunned and said, "Is there such a good thing? What's the solution? Say it quickly.

Huang Laosan smiled and said, "As long as you sign an apprentice contract with me, I will not only teach you how to learn mining, but also how to forge. Of course, the iron ore and silver ore you used during the apprenticeship are all free, and there is a large casting furnace in it that can also be used for you for free, hey..."

Laughter? This is obviously a dark smile. NPC actually has such a negative smile. There must be something to hide it. How can a smart man like Zhang Yu be fooled? However, hey hey, will it be a hidden task?

Zhang Yu felt that his speculation was inseparable, and there was a burst of laughter in his heart. He quickly agreed to pick up such a cheap thing. Officials said that the system's npc is fully intelligent, not retarded, and it was such a big cheap for nothing.

With a bang, the system prompts that the player Zhang Yu and npc Huang Laosan sign an apprenticeship contract for the next year. At the same time, in order to motivate the apprentices to complete the task, the apprentice must give Huang Laosan 10,000 copper mines, 1,000 iron mines, 100 silver mines, ten gold mines, a crystal mines and a thousand copper swords in the next 12 months. One hundred iron swords, ten wooden swords and a golden sword.

Congratulations to player Zhang Yu for getting mining, Zhang Yu forging, and Zhang Yu for shoveling.

Seeing the subtitle prompts of these systems, Zhang Yu's first reaction was not happiness, but tragedy, anger and despair.

According to the current 8 hours of game time a day, that is to say, Zhang Yu will sell himself to Huang Laosan in the next year, or even two years, and keep mining and mining every day. One year, how can this make people live!

Zhang Yu is a more than 70-level warrior, and now he wants to become a miner. Who can stand this gap?

Originally, I thought I had picked up a big bargain, but now I know that stealing chickens can't eat rice. Zhang Yu felt that he had been designed and won a full set. Sure enough, when he looked up at Huang Laosan again, Huang Laosan immediately changed his face and smiled, "Haha! Zhang Yu, my good disciple, are you satisfied with this contract as a teacher?

"You..." Everyone, including Zhang Yu, was shocked by Huang Laosan's transformation. Who would have thought that the nearly mentally retarded npc just now has become so luminous.

Huang Laosan smiled proudly and said, "What? Do you think it's surprising? Do you think I'm really an idiot? Hahaha! Don't you know that all the npc in "Hell Love Song" are played by players? Hahaha! Want to make me cheap? It's not that easy. When I, Huang Laosan, came out to do business, you didn't know where to play with mud!"

Zhang Yu was completely helpless and had a feeling that he wanted to faint. He covered his face and shouted, "Cutter, kitchen knife, I want a kitchen knife!" I can't wait to make a hundred blood holes on Huang Laosan and stab him to death to return his freedom.

But npc is invincible in the main city. Who can hack npc to death?

With a thump, a 200-pound iron pick hanged on Zhang Yu's shoulder, and Huang Laosan shouted harshly, "This is also given to you. Why don't you go mining? What are you lingling about?"

Damn it! What a profiteer! Zhang Yu couldn't wait to cry and was cheated by npc and didn't live.

Just as he wanted to commit suicide with a knife, the system prompted: Sorry, he can't commit suicide in the main city.

Damn it! You don't even have the ability to commit suicide? Zhang Yu now only feels that he is on the thief's boat. Now that he should not shout every day, and everyone can only quietly observe silence for Zhang Yu.

After a burst of scolding, Zhang Yu could only accept the reality. In desperation, he had no choice but to carry the iron pick to mine.

After walking around the main city of the Cape of Good Hope for more than half an hour, after asking the route out of the city, thinking about walking in the direction of the West Gate for more than a quarter of an hour, a towering mountain appeared in front of them.

In the game, there are generally mountains and mines, so Zhang Yu knew that it was time to do it. Among this group, he was the only one who was designed to learn to dig, and the rest came to practice with compassion. Zhang Yu came out of the main city at this time. Seeing the green mountains, he was in a much better mood. He swinged the iron pick and could squeeze out. A smile said, "Haha! Sure enough, it is extraordinary. Will there be no mine in the mountain I like?

After saying that, he quickly ran over and jingled. The system prompted: Player Zhang Yu, congratulations on finding Minshan.

Ah, it turns out that this mountain is called Minshan! Zhang Yu stared all the way. As soon as I saw the place with a little color on the stone, I dug desperately, especially those green ones. According to the existing knowledge, this is called "Proni Green". In terms of his current proficiency and level of mining, only copper can be dug.