Online Game: Super Beast Tamer

Chapter 88: Kobolds

System: You mined ore from a rock wall and collected 12g of white ore.

System: You mined ore from a rock wall and collected 24g of peridot.

……

System prompts indicating successful mining came one after another, and Su Ming became more and more enthusiastic in mining. It turned out that finding the right method to do things can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

If I hadn't met Zui Mingyue and hadn't followed him shamelessly, I don't know how long this mining mission would have taken.

Xiao Hei and Zuoemon were summoned out by Su Ming again to watch him while he was mining.

Zui Mingyue was mining not far away. She mined much faster than Su Ming. While Su Ming was drilling one point, she could drill two or even three points.

There were many spots that Zui Mingyue gave up on his own. Su Ming asked the reason and learned that it was from the skill of "Miner" profession called "Prospecting Perception", which could tell whether there were mines in advance. Only advanced miners could possess this skill.

When monsters refreshed, Zui Mingyue would stop mining and beat the monsters. Su Ming discovered that when Zui Mingyue was fighting monsters, she was rarely attacked by them. Her steps were agile, like a bee.

"The monster's attack can actually be cut off." Su Ming saw a zombie crawling up from the ground. The zombie waved its stiff arms towards Zui Mingyue, but was broken by Zui Mingyue's punch, causing no harm to Zui Mingyue.

A fighter should not have skills that can avoid damage, and this was achieved by Zui Mingyue through his own actions.

"This seems to be a little different from the setting for weapon collision." In the game, as long as the weapons of two players or even monsters collide, damage numbers will appear. If you want to defend yourself, you must use skills.

Su Ming couldn't figure it out, so he went over and asked,
"That...miner sister..."

"What miner sister?" Zui Mingyue interrupted Su Ming and said, "Don't take advantage of me. I'm still young. Just call me Zui Mingyue."

"Yes, Sister Mingyue..." Su Ming swallowed the word "sister" and said again, "Why didn't you get any damage on your head when the monster hit you?"

"You're asking about this. This is my unique secret, but it's okay to tell you." Zui Mingyue said, "Swing a punch at me, a straight punch."

Su Ming dropped the drill, took a step forward, and rushed out with his right fist clenched.

"The movements are pretty standard."

Zui Mingyue slightly turned sideways, slapped Su Ming on the wrist with his palm.

Su Ming's arm moved to the right uncontrollably.

Zui Mingyue explained:

"You see, your force is hitting me, and my force is hitting you vertically, so I won't be hurt, but... do it again."

Su Ming threw out another punch without saying anything.

This time Zui Mingyue did not hit him from the side, but directly grabbed Su Ming's fist and pulled it down. Su Ming was almost pulled down, but fortunately Zui Mingyue supported him.

This time, both of them had injuries on their heads.

"If it were in reality, I shouldn't have been injured, but there is still a difference between games and reality. As long as there is a little bit of force of collision, I will be injured. If I want to avoid the enemy's attack without getting hurt, the angle requirement is very strict. If you can't judge, just hit vertically, and you will have a high probability of avoiding the enemy's attack.

This is a game, and these skills are at most a supplementary role. Those fancy skills clearly hit a point, but the damage is only on one surface, which is too unreasonable. "

Zui Mingyue was still a little dissatisfied with the game. In the early stages of the game, she suffered a lot because of these differences. For example, she once fought with a monkey in the Novice Village. Her mindset was still realistic. She dodged left and right, and each time she killed the monster without taking any damage. She thought she was awesome, but she didn't know that others treated her like an idiot...

If I had the time to dodge, I could have killed two more monsters... You can't learn skills in this game...

"Well, thank you for explaining."

"Small things."

The two men separated to mine again. Suddenly, a burst of hurried footsteps was heard in the distant mine passage.

Zui Mingyue's expression tensed up, and he quickly put away the drill bit and shouted to Su Ming who was still drilling:
"Stop digging. The kobolds are coming to take the mines. Run."

After saying this, Zui Mingyue didn't care whether Su Ming listened or not, and immediately ran into the deeper passage.

"A kobold who is stealing the mines?" When Su Ming was stunned, a kobold with a hunchback, thick hands and feet, carrying a white cloth bag and holding a pickaxe, rushed out from the shadows and ran towards Su Ming.

The dog-headed man was very fast. He quickly passed Xiao Hei and Zuo Weimon who were guarding Su Ming and reached out to grab Su Ming.

With this grab, Su Ming's space backpack was directly taken out.

"What are you doing!" Su Ming was horrified. It was the first time that his backpack was opened by someone else. He grabbed the backpack to prevent it from being snatched away.

"Hohoho——" The kobold raised his pickaxe and smashed it on Su Ming's backpack.

There was a hole in the backpack.

System: The dog-headed man "Fei Fu" took away 1356g of white ore, 1128g of peridot, and 756g of silver ore from your backpack.

Almost all of Su Ming's gains for half a day were taken away by Fei Fu.

After Fei Fu snatched the ore, he smiled with satisfaction and ran away laughing.

"Saemon! Chase it! Charge!"

After the Kobold let go, the backpack returned to its original state. Su Ming realized that this was an animation effect of robbery and began to command Zuoemon to give chase.

Saemon is the fastest among the three, and with the 100% movement speed bonus from the charge, he can definitely catch up with Feifu.

Su Ming took out a bottle of swiftness potion from his backpack and drank it, then let Xiao Hei jump on his head and chased after Zuoemon.

Zuoemon's four hooves flew over and caught up with Feifu. He slammed his pig head into the dog-headed man, knocking it staggeringly.

Fei Fu rolled twice on the ground, and some ore fell out of the white cloth bag.

"Oh! Damn it, why is there a wild boar in the mine!" Fei Fu cursed as he moved towards the fallen ore.

Zuoemon raised his feet and stomped hard, causing the ground to shake.

Fei Fu was knocked into the air and sat down on the ground, with some ore falling out of the white cloth bag.

"Well, Feifu can't deal with a wild boar." Feifu saw Zuoemon rushing towards it, and climbed up using his hands and feet, trying to escape far away. In the distance, it smelled the scent of more precious ore.

"Fei Fu has gone to look for more precious ores. These ores are given to you. Use them to sharpen your teeth!"

Su Ming caught up and saw Fei Fu running away. Zuoemon's charge was still cooling down, and Fei Fu moved so fast that he would definitely not be able to catch up.

There is no white fluorite in the ore exploded on the ground.

So Su Ming pulled out a bottle of tracking potion from his backpack and threw it hard at Fei Fu.

Thanks to long-term practice in aiming normal attacks, Su Ming's throw was quite accurate, and the potion bottle exploded on Fei Fu's body.

"Oh, damn, what did you hit me with?" Although Fei Fu was talking, he did not stop for a moment. The attacks of Su Ming and the others could not arouse any hatred at all.

Soon, Feifu disappeared into the mine.

"Fortunately, I didn't put the tracking potion that Sister Venus gave me in the warehouse." Su Ming glanced at the red dot that appeared on the map and began to switch speed equipment.

"Kuro, Saemon, both of you follow me."

The ores that exploded on the ground were all worthless ores such as iron ore and copper ore, so Su Ming did not waste time picking them up. He drank another bottle of swiftness potion and began to track the red dot on the map. He should be able to catch up in half an hour.

(End of this chapter)