The scene inside the second room was even stranger than the first. The four walls, floor, and ceiling were all painted with human faces. The room was empty, but the faces on the walls were crowded together. And in the middle of this empty house, there was a lone safe placed on the ground.
"The solution to this puzzle is rather clear." Feng Bujue walked to the safe and squatted down to study it closely. "Hmm … After all, this is a training mode, and it probably took into account the player's inability to think calmly in fear." His words sounded like he was complaining about the difficulty level …
Wang Tanzhi followed him in. At that moment, he felt like the faces on the walls were so lifelike that he could not even find two faces that were alike. It was as if there were hundreds of pairs of eyes staring at him in this room, and it made his hair stand on end.
"Brother Bujue, how about we move the safe out of here so that we can study it further?" Wang Tanzhi suggested.
"That will take at most three minutes." Feng Bujue soon stood up again. He took out the six sketches, held them close to his eyes, and started to study the faces on the wall. "When I look at the safe closer, there will be a system prompt, telling me to key in the six-digit code to open it." His eyes soon stopped. "Hmm … there it is." He walked to a wall and tilted his head to the left. "There are plenty of human faces in this room, just to confuse the player's vision." He pointed at the wall. "Look, there are six faces in a row, and they are the six faces in the sketches. They look the same." He compared the scary faces one by one, from left to right, top to bottom, following the order of the six faces on the wall and the numbers on the corner of the sketches, he whispered, "Four, one, six, three, five, two."
Feng Bujue said as he returned to the safe and started to key in the code. "If we only opened the door for a cursory inspection when we explored the first room and did not conduct a detailed search, we would not have found the clues from the sketches. Then, when we opened the second room, we would not have been able to solve the code to the safe. " He turned back to look at the six faces. "Actually, the answer was placed at the area where the light was the brightest when the door was opened, but without the hint from the sketches, even if we knew the six-digit code, we would have had to search the room to get the numbers."
At this time, the safe was really opened. There were two things inside, a key and a card.
"I miscalculated," Feng Bujue said after reading the attributes of the two items.
"What's wrong?" Wang Tanzhi seemed to be influenced by his calmness. He had calmed down, and his Terror Points had returned to three percent..
"We will need the key soon, but this …" Feng Bujue handed the card to Wang Tanzhi.
[Name: Explosive Fist]
Skill Card Attribute: Active, Disappears after two uses
[Skill Type: Fighting]
[Effect: Explode after hitting the target, inflicting Fire Attribute Damage]
Consumption: 50 Stamina
Learning Requirement: Fighting Mastery F
Remark: BOOM!
"I thought the reward would be a piece of equipment, but it turned out to be a skill," Feng Bujue said.
"Er … Let's not talk about the equipment and skill for now. Brother Bujue, how did you know there would be a reward?" Wang Tanzhi asked.
"Isn't it obvious? Even though this mode does not give any additional rewards other than EXP, to ensure the gameplay, the scenario still provides the players with two ways to clear the scenario, "Feng Bujue explained." We are now on the path of puzzle-solving and not brute force. "He held the key in his hand and led Wang Tanzhi out of the second room.
"For players who are not on the path of puzzle-solving, as long as they can overcome their fear, face the enemy calmly, and fight efficiently, they will be able to increase their mastery level. As the character's level increases, the number of combat skills and tactics will increase, and they will be able to gain Skill Points in battle.
Our game style focuses on increasing the overall efficiency of the game and not purely on combat efficiency. Through puzzle-solving, we can lower the difficulty of the scenario, reduce the proportion of combat, and gain a better grasp of the scenario. However, those who play this way will fall behind in terms of mastery level, and the system will compensate them in other ways. Normally, it will be more Skill Points. "
Wang Tanzhi understood what Feng Bujue meant, and he added, "But there is no Skill Points to be gained from the training mode … so if the players choose to solve puzzles, they will be able to gain items from the scenario as a form of compensation."
"Correct." Feng Bujue tried the door of the third room. As he expected, the door was locked. He used the key in his hand to open it, and it matched. After the door was opened, the key disappeared.
The third room was very clean. Leaning against the wall, there was a study table, and there was a notebook on it.
"By the way, how many masteries have you unlocked?" Feng Bujue asked as he picked up the notebook.
"My fighting and general mastery are both F, Brother Bujue. What about you?"
"I've only unlocked general mastery." Feng Bujue flipped through the notebook. "Under what circumstances did you unlock your fighting mastery?"
"I was ambushed by a few monkey-like creatures during the tutorial. After killing them, the system told me that I've unlocked level F fighting mastery." Wang Tanzhi recalled. "But the general mastery level only appeared after the tutorial was over."
"I see. Looks like I'll have to find a chance to unlock all six masteries first," Feng Bujue said darkly.
He then turned back to tell Wang Tanzhi, "When you got the skill, the skill tab in your menu appeared as well, right? Since you've met the requirements, you'd better equip that skill card. It might come in handy later. "
This was the first time Feng Bujue had picked up a skill card. When he looked at its attribute, the system had told him that the skill tab had been unlocked.
In Thriller Paradise, the character's skill tab had twelve slots, and they could only be adjusted before the scenario started. In other words, no matter how many skills a character had, when they entered a scenario, they could only equip twelve skills. Furthermore, for a skill card that had been equipped, whether it had been used or not, it would be bound to the character and could not be traded. Therefore, if a player obtained a skill card and wanted to sell it, they had to place it inside their inventory and could not equip it in their skill tab. Once equipped, the card would disappear, and the skill would turn into a set of data in the player's menu.
Another setting was that when a skill card was an item, it could only be taken out of the scenario and could not be brought in. This was to prevent players from carrying a bunch of spare skill cards into the scenario when they already had twelve skills.
However, there were a few exceptions. For example, if a player picked up a new skill card in the scenario and fulfilled the learning requirement, their skill tab would be full. In that case, they could use the newly picked card to replace an already equipped skill, but the replaced skill would need to return to the log-in lobby to equip it. Other than that, there were some special skill cards that existed in the form of items like stone tablets and boxes. They could be brought in and out of the scenario.
"It did appear, but why does it say that the skill will disappear after two uses?" Wang Tanzhi was confused.
Obviously, Chen Ge had not read the game manual to ask such a question.
Feng Bujue flipped through the notebook with relish as he replied, "The attribute of the skill card is the key. Skills can be separated into active and passive types. Active ones are 'Permanent Mastery', 'Limited Time', and 'Consumable Based on Usage', and passive ones are 'Permanent Mastery' and 'Limited Time'." He thought about it for a few seconds. "The card you have is' consumable based on usage '. After two uses, the skill will be gone."
"That sounds like a scam …" Wang Tanzhi might have said that, but he still followed Feng Bujue's instructions and equipped the skill.
"No, that makes sense," Feng Bujue said. "With your current Stamina Points, you can only throw two punches at full health. If you use it when there's a chance and the conditions are right, at least in this scenario, you won't need to throw a third punch. In fact, you might not even need to throw a punch. " He paused. "Furthermore, if it was a permanent or limited time version, the learning requirement and consumption would not be so low. It might require a higher fighting mastery level and a higher consumption of Stamina Points. Otherwise, this' skill 'thing would be too cheap. It's like if a level 50 Marksmanship player casually equipped a permanent fist technique. If that skill could be used at level F and only consumed 50 Stamina Points, then he would be able to use 100 consecutive shots just like that. How would that work? "
Wang Tanzhi thought he had a point. "Hmm … You have a point. If you give me a fighting mastery level F skill but the consumption is 101 Stamina Points, then there is a problem with the design of this game."
"Oh, I have to remind you, Mastery Level F, meaning that the success rate of activating the active skill of that element is only twenty percent. Therefore … when a low-level character obtains a skill, whether they can activate it or not depends on luck," Feng Bujue said.
"That's still a scam!"
"That's why I was looking forward to finding equipment. I went to the official website and saw that the closed beta had just started in the morning, but the guides were already out in the afternoon. There were a few guys who were already over level 10 on the forum who said that equipment was the biggest improvement for a character at low levels, but low-level equipment above 'Excellent' is extremely rare." Feng Bujue was multitasking. As he chatted, he almost finished reading the notebook. "It's probably because the game transitions to level ten very quickly, and if the player has good equipment at low level, they can easily clear the game without solving puzzles. Therefore, the game doesn't provide that kind of powerful low-level equipment." He closed his notebook. "Also, after level 10, low-level Excellent equipment will become tasteless, but it's a pity to throw it away. The Exchange isn't open now, so it'll only take up more space in the bag."
Feng Bujue suddenly said, "Ah, I've miscalculated …"
"What's wrong?" Wang Tanzhi panicked. He picked up the fruit knife and turned to look at the corridor outside the room. However, other than the bloody handprint on the wall, he did not see anything out of the ordinary.
"Speaking of which … if there's anything like opening treasure chests in the future, you should be the one to do it. I only need to tell you the password or the method," Feng Bujue said.
"Tsk, I thought you were going to say something." Wang Tanzhi said. "Character is nothing, it's just a probability. Do you think you will get trash?"
"I really want to go outside the corridor to pick up a rock and beat you to death."
"Okay … I was wrong."
Feng Bujue placed the notebook in his inventory and said, "Let's go. I'll tell you the story of this scenario as we walk …"
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