Weird talk author drags the diary

Chapter 643 We seem to have discovered a serious bug
In the Age of Discovery, powerful ships and huge cannons were always uniquely romantic. Driven by this idea, Yu Liang actively tried to transform characters into objects.

In past copies, this content was basically useless, because no matter how many types of synthesized items there were, you couldn't open a supermarket. These synthesized items were just normal tools without any supernatural properties, and had limited appeal to players.

Only a few players who are eyeing the rewards from the character collection list will want to conduct research in this area in order to get a good "Encouragement for Synthesis Award".

However, the character synthesis list only records the characters obtained by the player for the first time. The second synthesis of the same character will not be recorded, so for most players, this is a thankless task.

You need to explore as much as possible to collect materials in the dungeon (things made by the players themselves cannot be synthesized), come up with a suitable method for synthesizing characters, and then you will get the prompt "Character Collection +1".

Over time, players discovered a more practical way of collecting - British collecting.

This is a character collection list, not a character synthesis list. You can just grab them directly. Why do you have to synthesize them yourself?
The rare temporary title of "Character Collector" always falls on the heads of robbers who are robbing everywhere, so the character collection list is also jokingly called the "Bandit Chief List" in the player forum.

This situation was not brought to an end until the advent of the commercial era and the emergence of Yu Liang, a cross-era character collector, because it was difficult for anyone to plunder an entire copy of the player on their own.

It is conceivable that no player will be able to break Yu Liang's single-game copy collection record in the future or even for a long time to come.

At this moment, Yu Liang was squatting on the sea under the scorching sun, doing professional textual research.

The slender snake passed through his armpits and floated in the air to provide support for Yu Liang, so that Yu Liang would not fall into the sea.

Falling into the sea in this copy is much more dangerous than in reality. At least Yu Liang has tried it. Once these strange creatures on the boat fall into the water, they will definitely lose consciousness and ability and sink straight into the deep sea unless someone can fish them out.

However, if you want to fish it out, you must not let it touch the sea water too much. It is best to rely on tools, otherwise you will end up like the Calabash Brothers saving their grandfather and sink into the sea one after another.

"It's still too small. It's useless even if this thing is synthesized." Yu Liang threw away the smoothbore cannon the size of a human head in his hand and watched it fall into the deep sea with a "gurgle".

In order to synthesize the character "炮" used by sailing ships, Yu Liang thought the most suitable option was "泡", the "泡" in foam, and there would be no shortage of foam on the sea.

Things like "steamed buns", "spores", "roe deer", "robes", "planes" and "hail" are quite difficult to find in the ocean.

But when he tried it, he realized he was wrong.

First of all, things made by players in the copy cannot be used for character synthesis.

He had tried to have the paper figurine make something like a "robes" to circumvent this restriction, but failed as this copy did not recognize this approach.

Then we can only look for natural ocean bubbles.

This was not too difficult, but after completing the character synthesis, Yu Liang could only stare in a daze at the thumb-sized pocket cannon in his hand.

I don’t know if it was intentional by the copy program, but the size of the synthesized “炮” character is actually linked to the size of the bubble.

Normal bubbles can only produce this kind of useless pocket cannon, which is basically useless. Just like now, the cannon that Yu Liang worked hard for a whole morning to synthesize is less than half the size of a person, and its output capacity is far less than that of a heavy machine gun.

"Take me back first." Yu Liang patted the snake that was entangled with him and let it take him back to the deck.

The Money-Keeping Ghost, who was leading the paper people to clean up on the deck, looked back at Yu Liang who was coming up. Seeing that Yu Liang was empty-handed, he knew that he had failed, so he asked, "Is there still no way to succeed?"

"Well, the conditions for bubble formation are too harsh." Yu Liang shook his head, expressing his helplessness, "It's impossible to find bubbles the size of a 35-pound cannon."

"Well, it looks like we have to think of some other ways." The Miser was not too surprised. They had only acquired the ship a few days ago and the game was still in its early stages. It was indeed unrealistic to want to obtain the main weapons for naval warfare now.

Compared with modern weapons, the power of this smoothbore cannon is not too great, but in a copy it is basically a killing weapon. Not to mention its terrifying kinetic energy, this thing can really sink other people's ships.

For players, falling into the water is more terrifying than being hit directly by a cannonball.

Moreover, the miser did not have Yu Liang's fantasy of strong ships and huge cannons. It was very pragmatic, so it soon realized something.

Are there other players in this instance?
After being disconnected from the world of ghost stories for a long time, it is unknown whether there are still any players in this copy.

It is equivalent to a naval battle online game. It may be really fun, but if there are no new players coming in for a long time, what is the point of playing it?
If you want to target small targets like barrel men, a heavy machine gun would be more effective than a smoothbore cannon, right?

Of course, the miser would not interfere too much with Yu Liang who was immersed in the great cause of cross-technological creation. After all, it would be the same whether there was a captain on the ship or not.

Just leave the daily affairs to the first mate.

"Notify the paper man to melt the metal fished out from the sea and the small cannons synthesized this morning and make some metal blocks." Yu Liang gave the order. He had conducted many experiments in the morning. These smoothbore cannons were made of bronze or wrought iron, which provided him with a huge number of metal blocks.

There is probably no more cost-effective smelting industry at this time than making metal blocks through bubbles in the sea.

However, this is also because there are enough characters in the Treasure Jar, otherwise it may not be able to maintain high-intensity character synthesis.

"Okay, there are about four furnaces responsible for smelting now, and they are all running at high intensity. I have collected a small portion of the coal that has been used. Now we are basically using wood to support it." The miser continued, telling Yu Liang about the resource situation of the ship.

Yu Liang had no interest in these data and just let the miser handle it himself.

In the past three days, they have passed a very small island. He found reeds in the freshwater area of ​​the island and found an open-pit coal mine by following the river.

The much-needed "smelting furnace" was synthesized from reeds, which was a product far beyond Yu Liang's current technology tree. So he collected a large number of reeds along the river and made the "furnace" character, which greatly improved productivity.

The next thing was coal mining. Due to Yu Liang's shortage of manpower, the work efficiency was not very high. In the end, he only mined coal for half a day and returned to the ship with about a hundred units.

Fortunately, the process of the entire copy was simplified and did not cause any problems for Yu Liang.

Coal is a high-grade fuel, and wood is a low-grade fuel. In the settings, they will not have any effect on the internal temperature of the smelting furnace. The only difference is the consumption.

Being on such a ship, resources are constantly consumed every day, but this consumption is also quite effective. He has wrapped the exterior of the wooden sailboat and upgraded it to a metal shell, thereby improving the ship's defense and safety.

"Right! Full rudder! Right! Full rudder!"

The paper man on the high lookout tower kept issuing warnings, probably wanting the ship to avoid something. The paper man and the Grass Infant Mecha on the deck moved quickly, and Captain Yu Liang quickly walked to the bow, wanting to see what the paper man had discovered.

I saw that the sea area about two nautical miles ahead was a little dark, and there seemed to be something deposited on the seabed. Huge bubbles kept floating to the surface of the sea, and then exploded completely, making a huge sound like a monster's roar.

"What is that?" The Miserable Ghost couldn't recognize the situation over there, and just held on to the handrail of the boat to resist the inertia of the boat's sudden turn.

"It feels like there is something underneath, it should be a huge creature." Yu Liang said seriously. He squinted his eyes and observed carefully for a while, then gave an order, "Go around this guy and let the paper man go and see what's going on."

The newly summoned paper figures still have energy, and Yu Liang will not let them make Angus beef burgers this time, so the paper figures with dimensional gates are very suitable as scouts.

The two paper figures set off quickly on a piece of wood, heading towards the sea ahead, while Yu Liang and others waited in the distance for them to bring back more accurate news.

It is better not to approach rashly when you are not sure what kind of creature it is. Yu Liang is indeed very interested in that kind of huge bubble, but at the same time he also needs to be careful.

If we provoke a sea monster, the ship may not be able to be saved.

The paper people rowed their boats closer to the sea area, observed it from a distance for a while, and then quickly returned. They danced and said, "Dead, a lot of bones, rotten."

"Yes, the corpse is releasing bubbles. It's dead." added another paper man.

The paper man thought for a moment and continued, "There is something at the bottom of the sea, man-made. When bubbles gather together, they become larger."

"Dead?" Yu Liang said as he thought, "I think I know what this thing is."

Huge marine organisms die and their bodies are decomposed by microorganisms. Something similar to methane accumulates and is released for some unknown reason, forming these large bubbles.

But the reason is unknown...

Yu Liang frowned slightly. The paper people said that there were traces of some man-made facilities underneath, which meant that this was most likely related to some local forces in the copy.

No, the ones who can place this kind of equipment on the seabed are probably not simple local forces. Perhaps only the barrel people can do it.

Is this already entering the territory of the barrel man?
He was startled and ordered the Snake to rise to the highest possible altitude to be on alert. After waiting for a while, the Snake did not find any signs of other Barrel People's activities, which made Yu Liang feel relieved.

Then his mind became active.

After several days of research, they actually found the bubble of suitable size, which made Yu Liang sigh that it was easy to get it. In the face of the bubble, it would be absolutely impossible not to try to synthesize the artillery.

The ship slowly approached the sea area. Yu Liang did not choose to take a small boat into the methane area, as the methane bubbles would often cause a sudden change in buoyancy, leading to shipwrecks.

The super-giant methane bubbles with a diameter of more than ten meters accumulated in the seabed methane mines are probably the reason for the formation of dangerous areas such as the Bermuda Triangle. Such two or three meter large bubbles can easily sink small boats, but it is different for large ships.

After approaching the methane area, Yu Liang saw the huge corpse of a giant beast on the seabed through the turbid sea surface. A black leather bag connected to a special flexible tube was swaying with the rippling sea surface.

It is obvious that this is really a man-made area, a "biogas breeding farm".

Led by the snake, Yu Liang approached a rising bubble and quickly used wood to extract the texture of "bubble". Then he replaced the texture of the long "candle" in his hand with "fire" to replace the character "package".

The reason why unburned candles were used to provide the "fire" was naturally because open flames were absolutely prohibited in this sea area, otherwise the accumulated methane gas would directly send him and the nearby ships into the sky.

A light symbolizing the successful synthesis of the characters rose below. Yu Liang quickly placed the raft prepared in the inventory under the generated heavy artillery, and then dragged the heavy artillery back to the ship.

The labor-saving pulley system dragged the heavy gun onto the deck. Looking at the cast iron gun body emitting a steady and heavy luster in the sun, Yu Liang couldn't help but feel infinite expectations for the Age of Discovery.

After synthesis, he was basically certain that this biogas farm could not have been set up by a player, otherwise the bubbles would not be able to be synthesized because they were contaminated with too many "player motives".

This is a place created by another kind of intelligent life, most likely the Barrel Man.

As for the purpose of the barrel man creating this area...

Yu Liang's heart sank.

Could it be that they also possessed the formula for building heavy artillery?
You just need to cultivate some players, and they can use character synthesis to help them produce continuously. If this is true, then the degree of integration between the barrel people and the players in this copy is too high.

He was able to think of a way to use the character "炮", but others might not be able to think of it.

"Yu Liang, an accident happened when you were collecting the biogas bubbles." The Money Keeper came up quickly to report, "The Grass Infant mecha was not well guarded, and two paper figures approached the bone machine gun. One paper figure wanted to try firing, while the other thought that firing might cause a violent explosion, so it quickly blocked the muzzle of the gun, resulting in a barrel explosion."

"What?" Yu Liang's face darkened. These paper figures were really capable of causing trouble. But at the same time, he also thought of a solution. "Didn't the ocean airdrop I received a few days ago bring ten repair tools? Let's see if we can fix the bone machine gun."

"Repair tools" are just repair tools. They are special props that are shaped like a square box. You can "use" them on the equipment that needs repair to complete the repair. You don't need to actually repair it. It is one of the props in the dungeon that has a more obvious gamification.

The Money Keeper brought Yu Liang to the side of the heavy machine gun, and saw a brand new heavy machine gun appear in front of Yu Liang. It said, "Yes, that's right. The bone machine gun has a high priority, so I have repaired it."

"What's the problem?" Yu Liang patted the heavy machine gun, then saw the entire scrapped barrel next to the brand new heavy machine gun, and suddenly realized something, "Wait a minute..."

"Yes, the repair tool can force something to be restored to its original condition, but it will not repair the separated parts and assemble them back, but will directly generate them." The miser picked up the scrapped gun barrel and used the repair tool again, and a brand new gun barrel appeared in front of Yu Liang.

So, now Yu Liang has a brand new bone machine gun and an extra barrel in front of him.

Yu Liang was completely shocked by this scene. He looked at the miser who was smiling even with the paper bag mask in disbelief: "You seem to have found a bug——"

"We can let Bone Machine Gun have babies."

(End of this chapter)