Stray Chapter 17: The main line is reading…
Like parasitic beasts fighting, killing, and eating, they are often undiscovered, and Japan is not full of cameras in this era.
Xia Ran, who had planned the route in advance, was not found and did not encounter any unexpected situation, but left the crime scene very easily, but he did not get on the tram again, and then ran to the next city.
I took a ferry instead-
Because this is also his next plan.
Only when he was on the boat did he relax, and he was in the mood to take stock of the gains just now. The value of the points of the parasitic beast had already become 400 points, and only 2 free attribute points had been given, so the visible gains had declined.
It's just that he expected it before, so he wasn't too disappointed.
It seems almost half a month has passed, but Xia Ran's plan went very poorly.
Because he only hunted and killed three parasitic beasts with mental calculations and unintentional tactics through fishing law enforcement and righteous acid tactics. And even if you add the one at the beginning, it only looks like four, and the progress is unimaginably slow.
It was probably because of the smoothness at the beginning that he had some kind of illusion. He always felt that as long as this continued, he could easily and quickly increase his strength, not to mention changing his body into underwear and wearing outerwear, but all attributes reached two ordinary people after ten points. Times should always be easy.
But right now... it's not easy to just say.
"Strength: 4"
"Agility: 10"
"Physical: 5"
"Intelligence: 7"
"Spirit: 5"
"Perception: 7"
- This is his current attribute value.
Because the second parasitic beast hunted turned out to be a fusion of two parasitic beasts, if he hadn't insisted on a righteous way of play from the beginning, his body would have been corroded and his consciousness would not have been unified, and he would have died long ago. To not be able to die anymore.
But because of this, he directly received a generous reward of points x700 and free attribute points x5.
And after the points exceeded the 1000 point mark, he immediately exchanged a free attribute point. Anyway, a little ability value that can enhance his own is a point. In order to prevent sudden death in the process of hoarding resources, he forced himself Break the bad habit of hamster disease.
A total of six free attribute points, he allocated two points to make up for the lack of mental attributes, at least to pull back this aspect, and can't let mental, fatigue, concentration and other factors hold him back.
The remaining four points are still added to the agility attribute in one go. After all, if his reaction and speed were a little worse before, he might have been directly planted when facing the parasitic beast, so he Still ready to continue to increase agility.
If it is in the game, maybe the warrior needs to increase the strength to ensure the output, and the archer needs to increase the agility to ensure the hit. There will probably be the legendary "four powers and one sensitivity" warrior plus point method, "four wisdom and one luck" magician plus point Law, "Four Minds and One Force" archers add some law or something.
Everyone has improved their primary attributes as much as possible and allocated a small amount of points to their secondary attributes. This is the kingly way.
However, this is not a game, and there is no rigid way of adding career points. Everything must be practical. Xia Ran is not doing career planning, he is just following a basic idea, that is, while strengthening the attributes that are currently useful to him as much as possible, make up for his shortcomings.
The value of strengthening a single attribute value must be very amazing, but the shortcomings cannot be ignored. Even if it cannot be strengthened to a certain height in a short time, at least it cannot be held back.
It is also worth noting that the point value of a single parasitic beast was 500 before, but now it is 400, but the two-two parasitic beast is only 700, not 800 or 1000 points...
It seems that the white space has a more complicated formula for the calculation and determination of this aspect.
Think about it too. If this is a world where zombies are rampant, a novice can get 10 points by killing a zombie. If an event with a very small probability is triggered, it is impossible for him to master the powerful weapon to destroy the city. Let him brush millions of points in one breath, right?
There must be a more complex and more reasonable calculation formula, and it is reasonable to judge the various behaviors of the lost.
This also presumably means that improving your rating isn't the only factor that affects your earnings.
Well, this is just Xia Ran's guess, and it doesn't make much sense for the time being, so he didn't get too entangled in this aspect. Anyway, even if he figured out the secret, he still had to act according to the formula of white space, and he was not the one who made the rules.
As for the new two points, he still decisively hit the agility attribute and turned it into a value of 12 points.
Feeling the seemingly subtle and obvious changes in the body, although it is not the first time, Xia Ran still has an indescribable joy, a sense of fulfillment that is really improving her ability value.
The most intuitive feeling brought to him by the improvement of the agility attribute is the change in neural response ability, because now he can barely see the ghost and animal movements when the parasitic beast uses its tentacles and performs deformation attacks...
However, it's still not very safe. Seeing it doesn't mean avoiding it, so the safest way is to keep the opponent from attacking from the beginning until he dies.
He suspects that he still has to increase his agility attribute to at least 20 points to be stable, and his strength is not enough, and his physical fitness is also insufficient. If he is approached by the opponent, it is an absolute dead end.
In other words, according to Xia Ran's estimation, the so-called parasitic beasts should be those whose three-dimensional strength and sensitivity are close to or reach 20 points, so that they can more confidently engage in close combat with them.
Think of the horrific attributes he opens with, the game is just too unbalanced.
If it weren't for the fact that the degree of freedom is high enough to use a variety of trap tactics and have an advantage in intelligence, it would be even more difficult than fighting a soul-based game directly, and there is only one life...
Because sitting on the seat by the window, Xia Ran looked at the seascape, blue sky and white clouds outside the window, and she was a little ecstatic.
After all, he is not the kind of madman who is born to kill and fight, nor does he have the mentality of a righteous partner who fights for all mankind in this world.
In a trance, it seems that even joining the ministry has happened a long time ago.
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At the same time, in the alley where Xia Ran committed the murder, the on-site evidence collection work by the relevant prosecutors is still going on.
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But despite being busy, everyone was silent and did not say a word, and the atmosphere of silence and unease permeated. This quietness is different from the previous working state, but mixed with a kind of heterogeneous sense of fear.
Everyone said nothing, and everyone knew it.
Especially when the forensic doctor carefully removed the head of the bloody, charred corpse, all the people who were busy collecting the evidence at the scene stopped moving, and even some people's faces changed wildly, as if they were about to vomit look.
Despite the severe corrosion, it can still be vaguely seen that it is not a head that a normal human should have at all, but a long tentacle that is suspected to be covered with dense teeth and like a skinned frog.
Are they entangled and combined, they become a human brain?
Is this thing originally a monster disguised as a human? Or is there something parasitic in the human body that takes its place?
Especially when the forensic doctor discovered that the human remains in the stomach that had not been fully digested were exposed due to severe corrosion... The people present were not fools, and they all felt shivering at this moment.
It seems that not only have clues to the previous cases of ground meat and corpses in the areas under their jurisdiction, but even the truth behind those terrible cases around the world has been looming?
They originally thought that some evil religious organization was acting in this maddening phenomenon.
But now it seems that the truth is the more terrifying nature?
“…Verify the identity of this…this person?”
The police officer who led the team felt that his voice had become hoarse, deformed and distorted, and his tone was trembling slightly.
"Not yet, the documents on the body are badly damaged, and the face...the face is already unrecognizable, and needs to be confirmed again."
"About the murderer...the person's clues, should we continue to pursue it?"
"I'm not sure, this is out of our hands and must be reported immediately."
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Xia Ran on the other side got off the boat, arrived at the destination, and then directly looked for the location of Sakurazaki Hospital there.
This time period is probably approaching. The reason why he changed his original plan was because he received a message from the private investigator he hired, saying that the family he had noticed had suddenly changed-
My parents seem to have gone on a trip together. Not long after they left, only their son, Izumi Shinichi, was left at home.
Xia Ran felt that this situation was familiar. After thinking about it for a while, she finally remembered it. It seems that this is a very critical turning point. The parents of the protagonist of the plot go on a trip, and then the mother is killed by the parasitic beast. escape.
After that, the parasitic beast found his home address and rushed back in order to cut grass and roots. Although Quan Xinyi received a warning call from his father and a warning from Xiaoyou, he saw that the parasitic beast who opened the door and walked in was his own. When she was "mother", she collapsed on the spot.
He didn't dare and refused to admit the reality, but just madly vented his remorse, pain, and hysterical emotions, turning a blind eye to the words and deeds of the parasitic beast, and he must think that the other party was his mother.
In the end, he was pierced through the heart without any resistance...
Then, the high school student who used to be named Izumi Shinichi "died", and he came back to life again with superhuman athletic ability, able to defeat ordinary parasitic beasts alone, without tears or fear, Another person who is calm to the extreme.