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Chapter 344 The Open World of "Ink Cloud and Mist 2" (addition 55 for Feishan Liuxue)

After meeting the village chief, a simple cutscene was triggered.

The scholar explained his purpose to the village chief, who briefly told the story of what happened in Yangmeng City, and warned the scholar that the nightmare beast is already very powerful, so he must be fully prepared.It is said that outside the Central Plains, there are four holy beasts in the four directions of east, west, north, south, and if they can obtain the power of the four holy beasts, they will have a great chance of winning by defeating the nightmare beast.

The scholar asked about the painting environment again. The village head said that there is a strange place above the village. People often disappear near there and reappear after a few days, but they fell into a coma and don't remember what happened at all.

So the scholar decided to go to the forbidden area near the village to see if he could find any clues.

Leaving from the village chief, the main quest has been updated. Now Tang Ying has two main quests, one is to obtain the power of the four holy beasts, and the other is to find the painting environment.

According to the instructions of the village chief, the scholar came to the back mountain of the small village, where he saw a magical halo.

The scroll in his hand began to emit the same light, and then entered the painting environment.

The painting environment is a separate small space. The structure here is very simple, as if it is made of a special material that is neither gold nor iron, but there are some mechanisms.These organs are made of wood, gold, and earth, and the colors are cyan, white, and yellow, which are very easy to distinguish.

[I don't know which younger generation entered the old man's painting environment. Since this is the case, you and I must be destined. If you can unlock this painting environment, you can gain the old man's painting sense. 】

Then entered the simple teaching link.

In this painting environment, the scholar has obtained the ability of "erasing", he can use this ability to erase some key organs in this painting environment, so as to reach the opposite painting.

Tang Ying took a closer look, and found that the first painting scene was very simple.

There is only one narrow road in the whole painting environment, with abysses on both sides, and the narrow road is broken in the middle, a suspension bridge is suspended in the center by two iron chains, as long as the two iron chains are erased with the "Erase" skill, it will be fine. Put down the suspension bridge to connect this narrow road, and then you can pass.

After all, the previous scenes are only for teaching, and the difficulty is very low for players to get familiar with the basic operations. As long as the players can use the skills in their hands correctly, they will definitely be able to pass the level.

When you come to the opposite light group, you can see a painting. This painting is the scene in the painting environment. It is just a Chinese style ink painting. The artistic conception is much higher than the real scene that Tang Ying is challenging now. And it can also be regarded as a painting that can be used for collection.

This painting entered the scholar's picture scroll, which shows the scholar's perception of painting +1.

Now the scholar can check many things after opening the picture scroll, including the painting environment that has been challenged, the handwriting that has been copied, the map that has been drawn, etc. In the future, the illustrated book function will be unlocked, and the scholar can draw all animals, monsters, collections, etc. , as an illustrated book, these are all collected elements in the game.

After coming out of the painting environment, the light group changes color, and the system prompts that it can be sent back to this place at any time, and it can also challenge the painting environment repeatedly, but there will be no other gains.

[If you want to find out more of the old man's painting environment, use "Wang Qi" in Gaoyue, the place where the painting ideas gather is the painting environment left by the old man. 】

After leaving the painting environment, the voice of the painting saint sounded again, and at the same time, the system reminded the player that they can find the painting environment by "looking forward to Qi".

"Looking Qi" is a newly acquired resident skill that can be used anywhere, but the higher the scholar's position and the wider the field of vision, the better the effect of using Wang Qi and the wider the range.

After using Wang Qi, if there is a painting environment nearby, an arrow pointing to the painting environment will appear. The direction of this arrow is not particularly accurate, but the closer the distance is, the more obvious the line will be. You can use this to find the nearby painting environment.

Then, Tang Ying began to explore while advancing towards the east coast area.

In the following process, Tang Ying entered different painting environments and unlocked different abilities.

Tang Ying had played with the original "Ink and Cloud", but this time she found that her brush skills were even richer than before.

In addition to the most basic [Erase] ability that can directly erase some elements, the content that can be created by creating elements is also richer than before.In the original work, scholars can create stones, wooden puppets, and lightning. Now, in addition to consuming the ink meaning of specific attributes, they can also create other elements on specific materials.

It's just that this kind of creation needs to rely on a certain environment, and it must be produced according to the mutual generation and restraint of the five elements, and at the same time, there will be a certain consumption of raw materials.

Earth produces gold, and metal platforms can be made on land; similarly, metal produces water, and water can be produced on metal; water can produce wood, and wooden pillars can be produced on water; wood can produce fire, and wood can directly ignite fire, and fire can produce fire. Earth, an earth platform can be made on the flame.

Skillfully using mutual generation and mutual restraint, you can pass through some places that were impossible to pass through.

For example, in the later painting environment, there is a painting environment that needs to skillfully use these restraint attributes to pass the level.Scholars need to continuously make wooden pillars on the waterfall to climb up, and then make earthen platforms on the flames to pass through.

Moreover, the things made by scholars will continue to consume the original materials. For example, if the water flow is made on a metal material, the water flow will continue to be generated, and the metal material will gradually be consumed until it disappears; if the water surface is a pool of stagnant water. , If there is no other water source to supplement, it will slowly disappear.

In addition, painting skills can also perform an operation called "painting", which is also aimed at operable elements in the scene, but this time you can choose monsters.After entering the painting, this element will temporarily fall into a stagnant state, that is, time-stop, hitting can accumulate power, and all accumulated power will be released instantly after the stagnant state ends.

Tang Ying found out that there are indeed a lot of coquettish operations in this game, but she didn't feel clueless, because these operations were all unlocked in the painting environment.

Each painting environment will unlock one of the abilities to use, and the puzzle solving in the painting environment can be used directly. After successfully coming out of the painting environment, these operations are basically learned.

On the way to the east, Tang Ying can always find various things to do, maybe it is a painting scene, maybe it is a handwriting, maybe it is a monster, maybe it is a collection element...

In this land of China, there are interesting things everywhere, and Tang Ying was completely immersed in them.

Even a beast camp on the side of the road, there are many ways to eliminate it, the only thing needed is a little imagination.

"This game is really fun!" Tang Ying couldn't help sighing.

Although "Ink and Cloud 2" may feel a bit slow at first, once you immerse yourself in it, you will feel that this game is completely different from those other open world games.

Other open world games are basically done through tasks, and at the same time are limited by the investment in game production. It is said that it is an open world, and it is often done more repetitively.The passers-by are the same, the tasks are roughly the same, and the open world is just a gimmick.

But "Ink Cloud 2" is completely different. Every corner of the world has its differences, such as randomly refreshed collection items, plots of each village, different monster camps, and rich interactive environments... In this real world In the open world, players can freely use their imagination and get a lot of fun from it.

The next plot is to come to the range where the four holy beasts are, assist the local aborigines to complete the task, and fight against the four holy beasts together with the local aboriginal heroes, and get the blessing of the four holy beasts.

On the coast of the East China Sea, the scholar will meet the Merman Clan, and the princess and sister of the Merman Clan. After completing a series of tasks for the Merman Clan, the Merman Princess will join the scholar to fight against the Qinglong Sacred Beast.

In the Kunlun Mountains in the west, the scholar will meet monster clans who are good at smelting weapons. These monster clans have not been invaded by the evil power of nightmare beasts. White Tiger Holy Beast Fighting...

Similarly, the Vermilion Bird is flying in the sky, and it needs the warriors of the Yuren clan, the scholar, to fly to the sky to reach it; while the Xuanwu Holy Beast is in the North Sea, and it also needs the help of the Nuwa clan.

The battle with the holy beast is divided into multiple stages, and the styles of play in different stages are also different.

For example, the Azure Dragon Sacred Beast, in its initial state, is flying above the clouds, and surrounded by thunder, it cannot be approached at all.Through the tasks of the merman tribe, the scholar obtains sacred sacrifices by hunting sea beasts in the sea, and the holy dragon beasts will fly from the clouds to the sea to enjoy the sacrifices.

At this time, the scholar can approach Qinglong from the sea with Miss Yuren.This is the first stage, and the green dragon will continuously release thunder and wood attribute attacks. The scholar needs to use the attribute of gold to overcome wood, and constantly use metallic long-range attacks to destroy the wood attribute gathering places on the green dragon, weakening its strength.

Afterwards, Miss Yuren will lead the scholar to the area around the Azure Dragon Sacred Beast, and the scholar successfully climbs onto the back of the Azure Dragon Sacred Beast.

At this time, the second stage is entered. The Azure Dragon Sacred Beast takes off from the sea and takes off to the sky. The scholar needs to use his climbing skills to grab the back of the Azure Dragon Sacred Beast and continue to attack the weak points of the Azure Dragon Sacred Beast.

The so-called weakness is the place where the shadows on the Azure Dragon Sacred Beast's body gather after being infested by the Nightmare Beast. Every time a shadow is dispelled, the Azure Dragon Sacred Beast will roll violently due to pain and change its flying form at the same time. Hold on tight and can't be thrown off.

After breaking through all the places where the shadows gather, the Azure Dragon Divine Beast will float in the air and fall into a state of silence. At this time, it is necessary to use the power of the painting to force out the power of the nightmare beast in the Azure Dragon Divine Beast.

Then enter the third stage, the scholar will solve a relatively complex puzzle in the painting environment, the mechanism inside needs to use special abilities proficiently to solve, and the Qinglong holy beast can also help the scholar in this puzzle-solving process, and it needs close cooperation to complete puzzle.

After solving the puzzle in the picture environment, a small nightmare beast will appear.This nightmare beast was conceived in the body of the Azure Dragon Sacred Beast, and it mainly attacks with wood attributes. In the boss battle, the protagonist uses more metal attacks to cause greater damage to the boss.

After successfully defeating the Azure Dragon Sacred Beast, the Azure Dragon Sacred Beast will recover its sanity and grant the scholar the power of the Azure Dragon, which can summon thunder to attack the enemy after the power is charged.At the same time, the Azure Dragon Holy Beast will also use its own power to suppress the Nightmare Beast entrenched above Yangmeng City.

The other holy beasts basically have the same process, but the way of fighting and solving puzzles are different.

The first stage is to get close to the sacred beast in the area where it is located. For example, Qinglong is on the sea, White Tiger is on the mountain, Suzaku is in the sky, and Xuanwu is in the extremely cold North Sea.At this stage, the scholar needs to cooperate closely with the local aboriginal heroes to resist the attribute attacks released by the holy beast, and finally board the body of the holy beast.

The second stage is similar to "Guardian of the Zodiac". The scholar climbs on the holy beast and must be careful not to be thrown off. At the same time, he constantly attacks the weakness of the holy beast and eliminates the power of the nightmare beast.

In the third stage, the holy beast returned to calm. After solving the riddle, the scholar used the power of the painting to force out the remaining nightmare beast power from the holy beast. After a boss battle, the holy beast could be successfully liberated.

In addition to these main quests, there are many side quests in each village, and different areas require different preparations to enter.

For example, in the snowfields of the extreme north, the temperature is extremely cold. Scholars need to purchase cold-proof clothes or use cold-proof food to avoid frostbite, while in volcanic areas because the temperature is hot, special heat-insulating clothes are needed.At the same time, the environment will also produce some special effects, such as lightning will hit metal products, and wooden weapons in volcanic areas will spontaneously ignite due to high temperature and so on.

There are different tasks in different villages. For example, the mermaid tribe asked the protagonist to help them deal with the rioting sea monsters, and the orc tribe in Kunlun Mountain asked the protagonist to help them hunt Qiongqi in the mountains.These tasks are related to the local background and the settings of the aborigines, and different rewards will be obtained after completion.For example, pearls can be obtained from the Merman Race, and some precious metal weapons may be obtained by completing tasks in Kunlun Mountains.

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After "Ink and Cloud 2" was launched, many anchors broadcast the game live for the first time, and those "wait for the party" originally just wanted to watch it casually, but found that the more they watched it, the more they wanted to buy it!

"Ink Cloud 2" is different from other games. It is an open world game with a high degree of freedom, which means that everyone can play in different ways.

This kind of game is much more interesting to play by yourself than to watch others play.

Therefore, the popularity of the live broadcast further boosted the sales of "Ink and Cloud 2", and immediately formed a boom!
At the same time as "Ink and Cloud 2", major game media also experienced this game and gave extremely high evaluations.

Even for the reviewers of most game media, "Shui Mo Yun Yan 2" is a game that can give people enough surprises. It can be said that it redefines the gameplay of the open world!

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