Chapter 16 The Secret of Chopping Wood

Chapter 16 The Secret of Chopping Wood

Chapter 16 The Secret of Chopping Wood (Additional chapter for the Silver Alliance Leader Lazy Sheep)

Beep-beep-beep!

Hearing the dead tone on the other end of the phone, Xiao Jie sneered as expected.

Is your defense broken now? Liu Qiang, Liu Qiang, you are still the same.

He knew Liu Qiang too well. It was useless to pretend to be stupid and ignorant with such a person. Liu Qiang was somewhat clever. Since Han Luo was dead, the hatred between the two had already been formed. No matter how he pretended that nothing had happened or pretended not to care about the hatred, Liu Qiang would not really believe it.

And asking for peace with soft words is an even worse strategy. A person like Liu Qiang who has no bottom line will never give up his hatred just because of your request for peace. Instead, his weakness will attract more unscrupulous actions from the other party.

Only by showing a strong side can you make the other party unsure of your strength and become timid and afraid to act rashly.

Of course, Xiao Jie was not completely sure about this. Liu Qiang had disappeared for so long, God knew how strong he had become now. What if he was so strong that he ignored the laws of physics and reality and killed him with a spell from a distance? Then no matter what he did, it would be useless.

Although he said it arrogantly just now, he was not as calm as he looked.

Liu Qiang has been playing in the old land for so long, he must be very strong, and he knows where he lives. If he really wants to attack him, I will not be able to escape.

Of course, you can also choose to move and hide, but in today's information society, as long as you have money and skills, it is very easy to find someone. Moving by yourself will not only not make you safe, but it is very likely to expose your weak nature.

This is the stupidest thing to do when dealing with jackals and hyenas.

So he simply stopped hiding and just mocked the other party unscrupulously, making it difficult for the other party to tell the truth.

He calculated that Liu Qiang would not dare to take action. Although this man was a little clever, he valued personal interests too much and would never do anything that would lose him money. It was okay to harm others to benefit oneself, but it was absolutely not okay to harm others and oneself.

So this guy would rather use two precious activation codes to set a trap than do it himself.

However, we have to be prepared for the worst. What if this guy gets provoked by me, loses his mind, and really attacks me? Then I have to arrange the second step.

Xiao Jie sat in front of the computer, exported the recording, and started editing it quickly.

It takes too long to gain power in the game, and it is unknown when he can take revenge with it. If Liu Qiang really attacks him, even if he is going to die, at least he cannot let the other party escape.

And if we could use the power of the black windbreaker to get rid of him in advance, that would be even more perfect.

The recording and editing were completed soon.

Xiao Jie directly dialed the number left by the man in black windbreaker.

"Hey."

"What's wrong, Mr. Xiao?"

"Liu Qiang called me just now. He threatened me and said he would kill me. He also said that killing me would be as easy as killing an ant. Don't you care about this?"

Xiao Jie said this and directly sent the edited recording over.

"Um, Mr. Xiao, your editing skills need to be improved."

"..., well I did edit it, but if he hadn't said that I wouldn't have edited it, so he still wanted to kill me."

"I'm sorry, I'm afraid this evidence is not strong enough, and now recordings are no longer recognized as valid evidence. But don't worry, we will ruthlessly strike down any criminal who dares to violate the Player Management Act. If Liu Qiang really attacks you, he will definitely not get away."

"What if he hired someone to kill someone? This guy must be very rich."

"If he hired someone to do it, we can dig him out through interrogation. Please rest assured that we will never allow anyone to take chances when it comes to maintaining law and order, especially when it comes to the management of gamers. There is no room for negotiation."

Xiao Jie thought to himself, "Why didn't I die earlier?" Although revenge requires putting life and death aside, it's better not to die.

"Can't you send a few people to protect me?"

"Haha, Mr. Xiao, please stop joking. How can this be possible? After all, there are too many conflicts between players. We have limited manpower and it is impossible for us to protect everyone. We can't just ask us to protect anyone who gets into trouble. We are a law enforcement agency, not a security company. We can only say that we can ensure that no bad guy is let go."

Xiao Jie was not surprised by this result. He was just an ordinary person. What qualifications did he have to ask the other party for protection? As long as he had the guarantee of not letting a bad guy go, it would be enough.

After hanging up the phone, Xiao Jie sighed.

At this point, we can only place our hopes on national strength.

Although he felt that Liu Qiang would most likely not dare to attack him directly, if he really did, he would most likely be doomed.

But Xiao Jie still felt unhappy about having to rely on others for his fate.

I am still too weak and can only rely on others' protection.

If you are strong enough, there is no need to go through so much trouble.

If you dare to provoke me, I will kill your entire family. The speech he made to Liu Qiang before about pursuing power was not entirely an act, but also came from the heart.

For a moment, Xiao Jie almost couldn't help but want to take out all his money to buy gold, and then, like the person who wanted to become an immortal in the morning, he got a set of equipment and went outside the village to kill monsters and level up.

But he still held back in the end, picked up the bowl of noodles with an expressionless face and started eating. After taking a bite, he looked helpless again. It was a pity that the whole bowl of noodles was so messed up.

After finally finishing lunch, Xiao Jie came to the computer again.

Clicking on the help post about how to chop wood in [Boundless Sea of ​​Knowledge], a lot of replies have already appeared. [Does anyone still chop wood to make a fire these days? ]

[Probably a blogger on wild survival. ]

[What's the trick to chopping wood? Just chop it. 】

[Use an axe, what the hell is a hatchet? 】

[I used to chop firewood when I was a child. You have to chop along the branches. The branches have texture, so it is easy to chop along the texture.

Never cut vertically towards the tree trunk, as this will easily cause the blade to break. 】

[First, do not cut hard places such as knots, and second, the blade ribs must be correct. When cutting at an angle, there needs to be an angle between the blade direction and the direction of the blade.

Because the blade is a cone, the blade will be subjected to tangential torque when swinging, and an angle needs to be reserved in advance to facilitate return to the correct position. 】

Xiao Jie's eyes lit up. So that's how it is. There are indeed professionals for everything. There are so many things to say even for chopping wood.

But to put it bluntly, it is actually very simple. It is all about avoiding the strong and attacking the weak, and mastering the angle and strength.

If it were in other games, this kind of delicate operation would be difficult to perform, but in Old Earth, because the graphics are realistic enough, every detail of the branches is presented, and when attacking, you can use the mouse to control the angle and strength of the attack, so it is completely possible.

Of course, it requires very high skills, but it is not difficult for me.

He searched the Internet for some pictures of tree branches, compared them with the two answers just now, and quickly understood the concept of cutting.

Entering the game again, Xiao Jie came to the back mountain, found a dead tree, and observed it carefully.

Sure enough, there were many forks in the branches around the trunk, and each fork had an oblique cut.

Xiao Jie raised the hatchet, aimed it at an oblique edge, thought for a moment, tilted it slightly, leaving a slight angle for torque, and chopped it down suddenly.

There was a click.

System prompt: Dry firewood +1.
Another blow of the knife came down.

System prompt: Dry firewood +1.
Haha, so easy!
However, joy turns to sorrow. The mouse just shook slightly and then hit the tree trunk - snap!
Failed to chop wood!

Fortunately, it was just a failure and the durability was not reduced.

Xiao Jie calmed himself, found the right angle, and slashed again.

There were no mistakes this time.

Click—click—click—click!

Xiao Jie cut a piece of dry wood with his knife. After more than ten cuts in one breath, the dead tree was chopped down to a bare trunk in an instant.

Xiao Jie immediately changed to another tree and chopped down a bundle of firewood in less than five minutes. His efficiency increased by about one and a half times.

The more Xiao Jie looked at it, the happier he became. This time he could definitely make money.

click!
When the branches of another tree were cut off.

System prompt: Your wood-chopping skill has been upgraded and is now at the mastery level.

[Chopping Wood (Mastery)
Passive effect: Physical strength consumption when chopping wood is reduced by 20% and critical strike rate is increased by 20%.

Skill introduction: After repeated chopping of wood, you have successfully mastered some skills and techniques of chopping wood, thus raising this seemingly ordinary skill to a proficient level. Now you can chop wood faster and better. 】

Chopping wood can also have critical hits? What is the effect of this?
The answer came quickly, with five or six strikes.

Crack! The knife chopped off two branches at once.

Great success in chopping wood - dry wood +2.
Well...it adds a little sense of accomplishment to the boring job of chopping wood.

As the number of critical hits increased, Xiao Jie actually became a little excited. Although it was just a simple wood-chopping game, it made him feel a rare sense of accomplishment.

At least it's much more interesting than the boring online games on the market now.

He spent the entire afternoon chopping wood, and as expected, the benefits greatly increased after he found the correct method. Not only did his physical strength deplete more slowly, but the durability of his axe hardly decreased.

By three o'clock in the afternoon, his backpack was filled with firewood.

This time he exchanged a total of 200 coins as a reward from Wang Daniu.

After buying four steamed buns to increase his satiety to the maximum, Xiao Jie continued to chop wood.

When he upgraded his wood-chopping skill from (Proficient) to (Expert), a system prompt made him overjoyed.

[System prompt: After continuous chopping wood, you gradually mastered the skills of using knife weapons. You learned the related skill [Knife Weapon Mastery (Beginner)] from the [Chopping Wood] skill.

(End of this chapter)