Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor

【Health status coefficient × 1.4 (Excellent)】

[Combat Proficiency (Defeat the Enemy +0.5) (Brutal Sweep +1)]

Final calculation result: [Mantra Control - Style] proficiency +4

Lin Bo looked at the long list of information on the network prompt board and was quite satisfied with the result. Actual combat is more profitable than practicing alone at a target.

"The problem is that according to this calculation, the final proficiency should be 4.02. Why did they round it off to zero? How stingy." He complained expressionlessly.

[The conditions for clearing the instance have been met, and rewards are being calculated.]

[Rewards for this dungeon: 50 Disaster Coins, 300 General Experience, and Gray Mechanic's Work Shoes]

Another piece of clothing dropped. In Lin Bo’s mind, the status of this copy has almost become that of HaiLan Home. He visits it three times a day.

[Mechanical Factory] produces five pieces of equipment with the Mechanic prefix, all of which have the same effect and can improve the basic proficiency of mechanical skill training. They are windbreaker, vest, trousers, shoes and underwear.

Mechanic underwear comes in two styles: men's and women's. Layering them will not increase the effect - this has been personally proven by friends in the dungeon chat channel.

This set of equipment with the same prefix has no set effect, after all, it is only gray quality.

[Countdown to the opening of the transmission channel...]

A deep purple vortex of space and time swirled across the clearing. Lin Bo hurriedly gathered the remains of the mechanical guards. The portal had a time limit; exceeding it would result in the player's death.

Therefore, if you want to collect resources in the dungeon, you still have to prepare storage tools, such as "a box with a traceless stretching spell", "a cultivator's Qiankun bag", "a paper box with a built-in space-time generator" and other equipment.

The seamless stretch bag is considered a relatively cheap storage equipment, but a pocket with an internal space about the size of a wardrobe costs thousands of disaster coins to buy on the Duolian Duoyi platform - Lin Bo thinks it is probably not worth the price.

The portal closed, leaving a hum in the air.

[Network Tip: The "Extremely Hard" difficulty level of the Abandoned Ancient Machinery Factory dungeon has been unlocked. Please see the invitation letter for details.]

The remains of ten mechanical guards were scattered on the second floor of the lighthouse, squeezing the already cramped living area to the point where there was no room for them.

Lin Bo went online to contact his friends.

[Lighthouse Operator]: I got some mechanical guard wreckage, would you still like to take it?

[Picking up trash makes me happy]: I don’t think this is too much

Although these mechanical guards look clumsy, their technological level is actually very high. At least in Lin Bo's previous life, the technology on Earth had not yet developed to the point where it could produce such intelligent robots.

In the hands of professionals, a little restoration can make it look brand new, which saves a lot of time and money compared to assembling it from scratch.

[Picking up trash]: Wow, ten pieces of debris appeared at once this time. Did you go to a difficult dungeon?

[Lighthouse Visitor]: A Hard Fight

[Picking up trash]: Awesome, awesome, I'll settle it for you right now~

[Lighthouse Guest]: For you

[Garbage Pickup]: Wow, what's going on? So nice? Do you have something to ask of me?

[Lighthouse Guest]: Yes

Lin Bo's bluntness silenced the other party for a moment, and then he sent a message: "Go ahead, let me be clear, I won't agree to everything."

"Actually, I'm planning to learn some mechanical skills. I want to find a guide." Lin Bo is still used to playing straight.

"Hey, you have a good eye, young man. You know who the experts are. Okay, let's communicate with each other and improve together."

The enthusiastic netizen [捡垃圾] was a generous person and immediately recommended to Lin Bo the general skills needed to learn mechanical manufacturing, which could be purchased from the merchant Agilent. He then shared relevant textbooks and academic materials, which were free of charge and he did not have to pay for them.

[Picking up trash makes me happy]: You learn first. If you encounter anything you don’t understand, feel free to contact me. Self-study is difficult, and I hope you won’t be discouraged.

[Lighthouse Guest]: Okay, I’ll listen to the teacher.

[Picking up trash]: (happy) (happy)

Lin Bo collected the paper materials sent by netizens and stored them properly in the cabinet.

He ran through the map again without stopping, and easily ran through the difficult level again. He had 106 disaster coins on hand, and his professional level experience value reached 675, which was very close to the 1350 required for upgrading.

Once he reaches level 3, Lin Bo will have to find a way to get an invitation to a higher-level dungeon.

Because dungeon rewards are subject to strict level penalties, once a player reaches the maximum level allowed, their Disaster Coin and Experience Point earnings are significantly reduced. Beyond the maximum level, Disaster Coin and Experience Point drops are completely eliminated. Equipment and item drop rates remain unchanged.

Therefore, high-level players go to low-level dungeons mainly to farm equipment and knowledge fragments. The special items produced by some dungeons are still very valuable, and the income is higher than the clearance rewards of the comprehensive network.

Lin Bo sat cross-legged at the head of the bed in meditation, recovering the spell power consumed by running around continuously.

Three hours later.

The proficiency of Black Snake Meditation increased by 1.4. Lin Bo had a hunch that this would probably be his first skill to be upgraded to level 2.

[Machinery Factory] There is one challenge left for today.

The extremely difficult difficulty has been unlocked. The rewards for completing the level are disaster coins*100, general experience*500, gray quality equipment (medium probability), white quality equipment (low probability), and knowledge fragments (low probability).

The guide records that the second floor area of ​​the extremely difficult mechanical factory is open. Unlike the first floor with complex terrain, the second floor of the factory is spacious and has ten mechanical guards holding their positions facing the stairs. When encountering the enemy, they will fight together and will no longer give players the opportunity to defeat them one by one.

If players don't seek a reasonable solution and just go head-on, they'll have to face multiple melee guards under the threat of a shooter's gun, which increases the risk dramatically.

Lin Bo had long discovered that the increasing difficulty and rewards of dungeons didn't match. Defeating one guard gave 5 Disaster Coins, while defeating ten guards at once gave 50 Disaster Coins. While the rewards per unit were the same, the latter was far more difficult than the former.

However, he still planned to give it a try. After all, there were only three challenge opportunities every day, and it would be a waste of time to always play at a low difficulty level.

"Death in the dungeon is nothing more than falling into a weakened state. With the Mantra Controlling Technique and Frost Sky Flow, I have at least a 60% chance of success. There's really no need to be timid."

Lin Bo cooked a meal to replenish the calories consumed in meditation. After eating, he took a short rest and checked the wear of the electrified short spear. It was still as sharp as before.

[Selected copy - Abandoned ancient machinery factory]

[Current Difficulty: Extremely Difficult]

[Countdown to the opening of the transmission channel...]

Chapter 10 Men's Wardrobe

The airtight door leading to the second floor of the factory opened, revealing a dim corridor entrance with only a red alarm light on.

After Lin Bo cleaned the factory's main entrance and the first floor, his spell power had been depleted. He didn't rush upstairs, but instead found a relatively clean spot to sit cross-legged and meditate until his spirit and energy were fully restored. Only then did he ascend the stairs.

On the second floor of the factory, the robots here took advantage of the favorable terrain, used machine tools and cargo boxes as cover, and built simple and effective fortifications.

A new enemy is added to the extremely difficult level, an orange-painted guard with a flamethrower that shoots out long strips of scorching flames that can cause serious damage if touched.

Fortunately, as a novice copy, it is somewhat merciful. The most threatening flamethrower guards are high-level paraplegics with only the upper body, unable to move or turn. The only thing they can do is to activate the flamethrower when the player enters the shooting range.

The second floor is guarded only by a single flamethrower.

However, its location is quite particular. It is huddled at the entrance of the fortification. When the player wants to bypass the melee guards and deal with the two long-range shooters standing behind the bunker first, if he rushes into the gap recklessly, he will be hit head-on by the high-temperature flames.

Lin Bo didn't care, he could fly. If he couldn't break through the Maginot Line, he could just go around it.

Before even reaching the second floor, the distinctive, stiff footsteps of the mechanical guards reached my ears, as did the synthesized whispers they made while patrolling. The robot's intelligent core would judge the environment and perform various preset behaviors.

A figure in a windbreaker walked up the stairs, and his boots made crisp sounds as they hit the iron steps.

The patrolling mechanical guard stopped and looked in the direction of the sound.

The masked wizard slowly appeared at the stairs.

To be precise, he had just stretched his upper body out when the shooter on high immediately locked onto the target and opened fire. The metal projectiles shot towards him at a rapid speed.

Lin Bo saw the two shooters' eyes flash red as they raised their gun barrels, and he quickly squatted to avoid them. The bullets collided with the railing beside him and ricocheted, cutting out clusters of dazzling sparks.

The suppressive fire lasted for more than ten seconds before ceasing. The stairwell was completely dark. Patrol guards approached in formation, the sharp blades of their longhandled swords pointed at the shadows. If they spotted an enemy, they would attack together and smash them into the mud.

"(Word Spirit) Bronze Moon."

A long, gray-black figure shot out from the stairwell. The mechanical guards hurriedly raised their swords to strike, but they couldn't catch up. The figure had passed over their heads in an instant. The gleaming white blades only cut through the air currents caused by the black figure's high-speed flight.

Lin Bo made tiny and continuous maneuvers in the air, avoiding the trajectory of the electromagnetic gun with the smallest moving distance, like a lightning arc spreading and refracting in the clouds.

He had to fight quickly because a Level 2 mage's total mana was limited and he couldn't withstand a war of attrition. A high-intensity mantra bending spell would exhaust his mental strength in just two minutes.

The red-painted shooter looked up at the enemy attacking from the air, fine-tuning the shooting angle again and again, and kept pulling the trigger, but he could not stop the opponent's fierce attack.

After passing each other, Lin Bo was already standing behind the archer when he landed. He raised his hand and grabbed backwards, then pulled out the short spear from the wreckage of the mechanical guard that had not yet fallen.

After dealing with the two shooters, seven armed guards swarmed over. They were in neat formation and had strict rules, looking like a solid collective.

Lin Bo had a plan before going upstairs. He knew that he was facing a formation of seven armed guards alone, and it was impossible for him to dodge the seven long swords at the same time. Even if he fought hard, he would not be able to avoid injury even if he tried his best.

After all, he was just a beginner in the Frost Sky Style, and his combat experience was still too shallow. He did not have the confidence to make a series of completely reasonable moves in a split second in a high-intensity one-on-many game.

The correct approach to solving the problem should be to divide the enemy and defeat them, creating a local military advantage. This is a universal principle that applies throughout history and throughout the world.

He glanced around and locked onto the flamethrower guard lying in the corner. He immediately flew over, lifted it up from behind, and faced the surrounding melee guards.

The flamethrower guard detected the enemy and pulled the trigger, and a raging tongue of fire spread forward.

Adhesive fuel will continue to burn for a while when it comes into contact with the surface of an object. Although the mechanical guard has a certain degree of fire resistance, the sensor elements on its head are attached to the flames, causing it to lose its vision and fly around like a headless fly.

"You did a great job in hitting your allies." Lin Bo looked at the seven guards running around and their formation was scattered, so he patted the flamethrower robot's shoulder happily.

"Beep--" The flamethrower robot made a series of rapid prompt sounds, as if it was humiliated.

"But you are useless now." The ruthless enemy destroyed the bridge after crossing it and pierced its back neck with a spear.

With a woosh, the flamethrower guards the camera.

Half a minute later.

[The conditions for clearing the instance have been met, and rewards are being calculated.]

[Rewards for this dungeon: 100 Disaster Coins, 500 General Experience, Mechanic's Boxer Briefs (Gray), Guardian's Left Arm Armor (White)]

"Huh——" Lin Bo took off his mask and wiped the sweat off his face. It wasn't because he was tired, but because he was hot. The flamethrower was indeed one of the most inhumane weapons in war. It even burned the mechanical guards.

Two pieces of equipment were dropped this time, and Lin Bo's stereotype of this dungeon being a clothing store is deepening...

He found some ropes and dragged the mechanical wreckage he had harvested back to the lighthouse. It was all steaming hot and scalding.

[Network Tip: The "Desperate Situation" and "Purgatory" difficulty levels in the Abandoned Ancient Machinery Factory dungeon have been unlocked. Please see the invitation letter for details.]

Lin Bo didn't have time to check the difficulty of the newly unlocked level and went straight to the friend channel.

[Lighthouse Guest]: Come, I received the goods.

[Picking up trash makes me happy]: Okay, okay... Wow, so many, did you challenge the extremely difficult level alone?

[Lighthouse Visitor]: A Hard Fight