The author's diary of ghost stories

In the Age of Exploration, strong ships and cannons are always unique and romantic. Driven by this idea, Yu Liang actively tried to use characters to transform into items.

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

Only a few players who aimed at the rewards of the character collection list would want to study this aspect and get a good "encouragement synthesis award".

However, the character synthesis list only records the characters obtained by the player for the first time. The same character synthesis will not be recorded for the second time, 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 player himself cannot be synthesized), come up with a suitable character synthesis method, and then you can get the "character collection +1" prompt.

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

The character collection list is not a character synthesis list. You can just grab it directly. Why do you have to synthesize it yourself?

The rare temporary title "Character Collector" always falls on the heads of robbers who rob everywhere, so the character collection list is also jokingly called the "Bandit Leader List" by the player forum.

Until the advent of the business era, the cross-era character collector Yu Liang appeared, and this situation finally came to an end, because it is difficult for anyone to rob the entire dungeon by himself.

It can be imagined that no player will be able to break Yu Liang's single-game dungeon collection record in the future and for a long time in the future.

At this moment, Yu Liang was squatting on the sea under the scorching sun to do professional text research.

The slender snake passed through his armpits on both sides, floating 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 dungeon is much more dangerous than in reality. At least Yu Liang has tried it. Once these strange creatures on the ship fall into the water, they will definitely lose consciousness and ability, and sink straight into the deep sea unless someone can pick it up.

However, if you want to fish, you must not touch the sea water too much. It is best to rely on tools, otherwise it will be like the gourd baby saving his grandfather, and sink into the sea one after another.

"It's still small. It's useless to synthesize this thing." Yu Liang threw away the smoothbore cannon the size of a human head in his hand, and watched it fall into the deep sea in one breath.

In order to synthesize the "cannon" character used by sailboats, Yu Liang thought that the most suitable solution was "bubble", the "bubble" of foam, and there is no shortage of foam on the sea.

Things like "dumplings", "spores", "roe deer", "robes", "planes", and "hail" are all difficult to find in the ocean.

As a result, when he tried, he knew he was wrong.

First of all, things made by players in the dungeon cannot participate in character synthesis.

He tried to let the paper man try to make some "robes" and other things to bypass this restriction, but failed. This dungeon does not recognize this approach.

Then he can only look for natural ocean bubbles.

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

I don't know if it was intentional by the copy program, but the size of the synthesized "cannon" character cannon 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, Yu Liang worked hard for a whole morning to synthesize a cannon that is less than half the size of a person. The 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 he was empty-handed, he knew that he had failed, so he asked: "Is there still no way to succeed?"

"Well, the conditions for the formation of bubbles are too harsh." Yu Liang shook his head, expressing his helplessness, "There is no way to find bubbles the size of a 35-pound cannon."

"Well, it seems that we can only think of some other ways." The money-keeping ghost was not too surprised. They had just obtained this ship a few days ago, and the game process was still in the early stages. It was indeed unrealistic to want to obtain the main battle weapon for naval warfare now.

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

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

And the money-keeping ghost does not have the fantasy of Yu Liang's strong ship and huge cannon. It is very pragmatic, so it soon noticed something.

Are there other players in this dungeon?

After being disconnected from the world of ghost stories for a long time, it is unknown whether there are still players in this dungeon.

It is equivalent to a naval battle online game. It may be fun, but if there are no new players for a long time, what is there to play?

If you want to target small targets like barrel men, heavy machine guns are more effective than smoothbore cannons, right?

Of course, for Yu Liang who is immersed in the great cause of cross-tech creation, the money-keeping ghost will not interfere too much. Anyway, it is the same whether there is a captain on the ship.

Daily affairs can be left to it, the first mate.

"Inform the paper man to melt the metals fished from the sea and the small cannons synthesized in the morning to make some metal blocks." Yu Liang ordered. He had experimented many times in the morning. These smoothbore cannons were made of bronze or wrought iron, which provided him with a large number of metal blocks.

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

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

"Okay, there are about four furnaces responsible for smelting now, all of which are running at high intensity. I have collected a small part of the coal used, and now it is basically supported by wood." The money ghost continued to tell Yu Liang about the resource situation of the ship.

Yu Liang was not interested in these data, but just let the money ghost take care of it.

In the past three days, they 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 urgently needed "smelting furnace" was synthesized through reeds, which was a product far beyond Yu Liang's current technology tree. So he collected a large amount of reeds along the river and made the "furnace" character, which greatly improved productivity.

The second is coal mining. Due to Yu Liang's lack of manpower, the work efficiency is not too high. In the end, he only mined coal for half a day and returned to the ship with almost 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-level fuel, and wood is a low-level fuel. In the setting, they will not have any effect on the temperature inside the smelting furnace, but the consumption is different.

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, which has improved the defense of the ship and increased its safety.

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

The paper man on the high observation tower kept giving 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 came to the bow to see what the paper man had found.

The sea area about two nautical miles ahead was slightly dark, and there seemed to be something deposited on the seabed. There were huge bubbles constantly floating to the surface of the sea, and then they exploded completely, making a huge sound like a monster's roar.

"What is that?" The miser could not recognize the situation over there, but just held the handrail on the ship to resist the inertia of the ship that suddenly turned.

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

The newly summoned paper man still has energy. This time Yu Liang will not let them make Angus beef burgers, so the paper man with the dimension door is very suitable as a scout.

The two paper figures set off quickly on a wooden board and headed for the sea ahead, while Yu Liang and others waited in the distance for them to bring back more accurate information.

Don't approach rashly when you are not sure what kind of creature it is. Yu Liang is indeed very interested in that huge bubble, but at the same time, you need to be careful.

If you provoke a sea monster, the ship may not be saved.

The paper figures rowed the boat to approach the sea area, and also observed from a distance for a while and then quickly returned. They danced and said: "Dead, a lot of bones, rotten."

"Yes, the body is releasing bubbles, it's dead." Another paper figure added.

The paper figure thought for a while and continued: "There is something on the seabed, man-made, bubbles gather and become bigger."

"Dead?" Yu Liang said while thinking, "I seem to know what this thing is."

The huge marine creature died, the body was decomposed by microorganisms, and something similar to methane accumulated and released for some unknown reason, which formed this large bubble.

But this unknown reason...

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

No, it was probably not a simple local force that could put such equipment on the seabed. This might only be done by the barrel man.

Has it entered the barrel man's area?

He was shocked and asked the snake to rise to a high altitude as much as possible for alert. After waiting for a while, the snake did not find any signs of other barrel men's activities, which made Yu Liang feel relieved.

Then his mind became active.

After several days of research, this kind of bubble of suitable size was really found, which made Yu Liang sigh that it was easy to get it. In the face of bubbles, it was absolutely impossible not to try the synthetic artillery.

The ship slowly approached this sea area. Yu Liang did not choose to take a small boat to enter the methane area. This kind of methane bubble often brings about a sudden change in buoyancy, leading to the occurrence of shipwreck accidents.

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 biogas area, Yu Liang also 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 thin tube swayed with the ripples of the sea surface.

Obviously, this is really a man-made area, a "biogas farm".

Yu Liang, led by the snake, approached a rising bubble, quickly extracted the texture of the "bubble" with wood, and then replaced the texture of the long "candle" in his hand with the "fire" character.

The reason why the unburned candle was used to provide the texture "fire" was naturally because open flames must be absolutely prohibited in this sea area, otherwise the gathered biogas could directly send him and the nearby ships to the sky.

The light symbolizing the successful synthesis of the characters rose below, and 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 pulley group with a labor-saving structure dragged the heavy artillery onto the deck. Looking at the cast iron cannon body emitting a calm and heavy luster in the sun, Yu Liang couldn't help but have infinite expectations for the Age of Discovery.

After synthesis, he basically determined that this biogas farm must not be set up by players, otherwise this kind of bubble would not be synthesized because it was contaminated with too many "player motivations".

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 mastered the formula for making heavy artillery?

Just need to breed some players, and the players can use the character synthesis source to help them produce continuously. If this is really the case, then the integration degree of the barrel man and the player in this copy is too high.

He can think of the use of the "cannon" character, and others may not be unable to think of it.

"Yu Liang, an accident happened when you were collecting swamp bubbles." The Money Keeper walked 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, and the other paper figure thought that firing might cause a violent explosion, so he quickly blocked the muzzle, resulting in a burst."

"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 collected a few days ago bring ten repair tools? See if you can repair the bone machine gun."

"Repair tools" are just repair tools, a special prop that grows into a square box. You can "use" it on the equipment that needs repair to complete the repair, and you don't need to actually repair it. It is one of the props with more obvious gamification in the copy.

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

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

"Yes, the repair tool can force something to be restored to a brand new state, but it will not repair and assemble the separated parts, but directly generate it." The Money Keeper picked up the scrapped barrel, and then used the repair tool again, and a brand new 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 Money Keeper, who was smiling even with the paper bag hood, in disbelief: "You seem to have found a bug-"

"We can let the bone machine gun give birth."