Players’ NPC daddy

【Second level cold-resistant barbecue】

[This is delicious barbecue. With just one bite, it can maintain body temperature for 30 minutes. Although it won't produce any extra benefits after eating it, if you don't finish it, you will be labeled as a food waste by the cat beastman who made the food, so it's better to finish it.]

After looking at it for a while, Blaze took a big bite, and warmth spread all over his body in an instant, but it was still very spicy.

This seems to be ordinary meat that has been marinated with ingredients such as magma peppers and processed.

Chapter 1001 Extreme Environment, Terrible Monster

Blaze took a close look at the menu provided by the open-air cafeteria. The raw materials provided by the second and first levels were almost all a combination of plants from the giant volcano area and ordinary ingredients, while the third level and above were local ingredients from the giant snow plain.

The third-level cold-resistant soup that Herbie drank was made from the fat of monsters in the Giant Snowfield.

It is worth mentioning that due to the overly harsh ecological environment of the Giant Snowfield and the Giant Volcano, there are no ordinary animals here, only monsters.

Take the Giant Snow Plains for example. If you want to survive here, you must have [Cold Resistance A]. This is only level 1 to 2 of coldness. To go higher, you must continue to improve your proficiency in [Cold Resistance].

This situation also results in the average level of monsters being very high.

What is very strange is that the worst temperature in the Giant Snowfield and the Giant Volcano is actually where ice and fire intersect in the middle.

The two environments seem to be in confrontation, with the ambient temperature at the border madly increasing, and the temperature difference becomes greater as it gets closer to the center.

The location drawn by the forger happens to be in the area where the temperature difference is the most terrible.

"No one has been there yet. We have only reached this point, a level 3 cold zone. To go further, we need to collect and defeat environmental monsters and make corresponding equipment."

The Clown kept talking, and when he had almost finished speaking, Blaze asked.

"You seem to be particularly concerned about the exploration team. I don't think I've ever heard you mention it before."

"because……"

"Because he and another man have a crush on each other, meow." Ai Lei said as she chopped the ingredients on the stone table with the kitchen knife in her hand.

"Is this true?" Blaze turned sideways and put on an attitude of eating melon.

"She, she is actually a woman, just in a man's body." The Horror Clown didn't know how to explain the players' strange genders, and could only weakly express that there was nothing wrong with his sexual orientation.

However, Blazer didn't have any opinion on the clown's sexual orientation. He was more interested in the fact that they "fell in love".

It would be a beautiful thing if the Psycho Clown could find a soul mate in this world.

Unfortunately, the Psycho Clown kept his mouth shut, and he couldn't get any useful information after trying for a long time. He only knew that the stranger with a woman's soul and a man's body was the leader of many exploration teams and was called the Grand Commander.

After his body recovered, especially Herbie regained his vitality, the Psycho Clown formally introduced the main area of ​​the exploration base, which is the investigation mission.

Unlike other missions that rely on the kingdom, merchant group or adventurer guild, the exploration team's missions are all done by the foreigners themselves.

For example, if someone wants certain materials, someone will come with a commission to trade. The bargaining chip for the transaction is a kind of points called investigation points. The way to get points is to accept hunting commissions from the exploration base and hand over the materials to the exploration base.

Those materials will also be placed in the material exchange house at the exploration base for fair trading.

The whole process was managed by the foreigners themselves with great care. In the words of the foreigners, it was done out of love.

Blaze admires these people very much, because the exploration team will only be enthusiastic when new environments and new monsters appear.

Once the environment has been explored and the monster types have been recorded, they will fall into a [grass period], and the bustling exploration base will gradually become deserted until there is no one left.

Strangers came to this world and formed exploration teams to build one exploration base after another. However, the exploration bases fell into desolation one after another, and eventually even became strongholds of bandits and robbers.

It is helpless that something that is loved will eventually be covered in dust, but the exploration team still exists. This is because there is a group of extremely tenacious foreigners who always persist, maintain, and wait.

This is also why, every time a new environment appears, the exploration teams are always able to gather together at the first time and start moving towards the new environment.

Under the leadership of the Psycho Clown, Blaze and Herbie got the registration card at the mission registration office of the exploration base. With this registration card, they can go to receive the mission.

"Do you want to follow too?" Blaze looked at Herbie. To be honest, he felt that Herbie would be safer staying in the exploration base.

"You're going to leave me here?" Herbie pointed at himself, then pointed at the exploration base that had basically no defense capabilities.

The only defense measure of the exploration base is probably the erected fence.

This is indeed a bit hasty, but considering that the people active among them are foreigners and some cat-beastmen with strong individual abilities, this is not surprising.

In comparison, it is absolutely safe to follow Blaze, as Blaze has no blind spots and has many tricks to kill the enemy instantly.

Originally, the chicken could serve as Herbie's bodyguard, but Blazer did not expect that the environment of the Giant Snowfield would be so harsh. The chicken's body could not even grow and could only remain in the state of a soul body.

Whether it is the giant volcano or the giant snowfield, it is extremely deadly to chickens whose bodies are made of plants.

"Then you should follow me, but I'll need you to put on a set of protective gear first." Blaze looked at the task bar, then raised his hand and clicked on the giant bear drawn with charcoal.

[Task Accepted: Defeat the Far North Giant Bear]

"Carrying equipment made of metal can be considered as torture instruments here." The Psycho Clown showed off his protective gear, which was a complete set of Arctic wild boar protective gear. It not only had strong defense but also had super cold-proof ability.

The Psycho Clown's weapons are a bone one-handed sword and a small round shield.

Metal equipment naturally includes weapons, and Blaze tried to take out the twisted sword. The moment he held the twisted sword, a chill ran from his palm to his shoulder, even close to his heart.

【Metamorphosis Z】

【Cold Resistance LV1】

The moment [Metamorphosis Z] was triggered, the chill was suppressed, but it was only suppressed. It did not penetrate into the heart, but spread to the surroundings.

Blaze immediately let go of the twisted sword, and the chill subsided.

This terrible environment completely eliminated the possibility of metal weapons appearing, and even the world-class weapon [Misttin] was affected.

This environmental impact has nothing to do with quality, but with materials.

[Ares' Howl] was also affected. It was still operating ferociously and was not affected by the temperature at all, but it was taking away Blaze's body heat.

Fortunately, Gungnir was not affected. This gun was a branch that was much harder than any other metal.

Chapter 1002: No Rolling

【Far North Giant Bear】

[A top predator living in the third-level cold zone, with an adult body height of more than 3 meters. Its body is covered with natural armor that is more than 15 centimeters thick and is squeezed by heavy snow for a long time, so it moves slowly. ]

[After getting angry, it will actively destroy the snow armor, and its speed and agility will increase significantly. Although it has lost its snow armor, it still has super thick hair and fat armor, and has almost no natural enemies at the biological level.]

[Note that any snow pile over one meter high is likely to be a mimicking Far North Giant Bear]

[Weak Blue Star]

Blaze flipped through the Hunter's Guide - Biological Edition made by the Stranger of the Exploration Group. This guide was widely acclaimed, with clear descriptions of everything from characteristics to weaknesses, and even the dropped items were marked.

The Far North Giant Bear is the dominant creature in the third-level cold zone, and has basically no weaknesses. The only creatures that can defeat the Far North Giant Bear are monsters of higher levels and higher attributes in the fourth and fifth cold zones.

Being crushed by a larger attribute is not really a weakness, but the foreigners still stubbornly wrote on it the highest symbol of honor of the exploration team - the Blue Star.

It is said that the foreigners in the exploration team are very enthusiastic about the title of [Blue Star], but no one in the exploration team calls themselves that.

"The ecology of the Giant Snowfield is very dark. Except for pure ice elemental life forms, most monsters will maintain a mimic state to prevent the loss of body temperature. They will only start moving to hunt when they can't stand it anymore."

"Compared to the simply violent monsters in the Giant Volcano, the monsters in the Giant Snow Mountain are more dangerous."

"In this giant snowfield, body temperature is the lifeline, so any monster that starts to move has already begun a desperate fight, and will not stop until death. Don't underestimate them."

The Scary Clown, who already has hunting experience, tells Blaze some things to know, including not only monsters but also the allocation of physical strength.

In the Giant Snowfield, physical energy consumption is naturally very serious, about twice the normal amount, and what is even more fatal is the [sweating] and [panting] phenomena that occur after the physical energy bar changes frequently.

[Sweating] will cause freezing, and [panting] will damage your lungs. In contrast, the giant volcano will cause negative states such as [dehydration].

Therefore, in this harsh environment, when facing ferocious monsters, you must reduce your movements as much as possible and hunt the monsters with the most efficient techniques.

There is a warning written on the first line of the Hunter's Guide: Environment, Giant Snowfield.

[Rollover is prohibited]

“This is a bit difficult.”

Blaze looked at his feet. There was snow on the ground, which made it very inconvenient to walk. Not to mention that there was ice under the snow, and he had to fight against the slippery feeling of the ice while walking.

"In fact, the best weapon is still to use a gun, but the movement of a gun is really too loud. Firing a gun basically launches a group taunt to the entire environment, so only long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows and traps are supported."

The Psycho Clown walked in front holding a dagger, followed by Herbie and Blaze. Now they were looking for the nearest Far North giant bear based on the whereabouts records.

The monsters in the Giant Snowfield are in a camouflaged hidden state most of the time, and it snows heavily here all year round. Fortunately, the harsh environment requires the monsters here to hunt frequently, so the investigation traces are very obvious.

After a while, the three of them found their target.

"Oh!? It's kind of cute." Herbie whispered, raising his hand and pointing at a huge round creature in the distance that looked like it was wearing a doll costume.

[Far North Giant Bear LV95]

[The descendants of the giants born from the corpses of the giants, although there is little greatness left, they still inherited some power]

"When it gets angry and takes off its shell, you won't think it looks good anymore."

The Psycho Clown and Blaze looked at each other, nodded silently, and then Blaze walked towards the Far North Giant Bear.

"Hello, big guy."

Blaze clapped his hands to attract the attention of the Far North Giant Bear. Hercules' ability to fight beasts allowed him to identify the Far North Giant Bear's skills.

Among them, the more eye-catching ones are [Cold Resistance MAX] and [Vulnerability MAX]. This proficiency is after SSS, which means that the skill has been fully proficient, and after that is the proficiency Z that surpasses the skill.

The Far North Giant Bear turned its round body and looked towards Blaze. Since Blaze's equipment was all made of metal, he was naked now and looked weak.

And [Identification] is indeed an impolite behavior, and the worse the living environment, the more sensitive people are to [Identification].

Aaaaaaa——

The Far North Giant Bear instantly became angry, and its round snow armor cracked and fell off.

【MAX RAGE】

[Exponentially increases size, strength, and defense, causing the body to overheat and reduce sanity]

When all the snow armor fell off, the true form of the Far North Giant Bear was revealed.

It was more like a fat giant covered with thick hair than a bear. The only thing related to a bear was the head.

"No matter how you look at it, it looks like a bear orc." Hebi hid behind a snow pile, speechlessly complaining about the fact that the Far North giant bear was not what he expected.

"Strictly speaking, the Far North Giant Bear should be called a Sumo Bear." said the Shocking Clown.

"What is sumo?"

"Ah... our kind of competition is not particularly healthy. The participants will eat themselves into a huge fat, so fat that..." The Horror Clown was thinking about how to describe fat, and then he thought of a very vivid description.

"So fat that I need someone to wipe my butt."

"How fat must that be?" Herbie touched her back. She could easily reach her belly button with her hand around her back. She had no idea what it would be like not to be able to touch her butt.

"What kind of competition is that? Who's fatter?"

"No, even though they can't touch their buttocks, their bodies are surprisingly flexible. Their center of gravity is all on their lower body, which makes them not easy to fall. At the same time, they can burst out all their strength in a few seconds, making them like human cannonballs."

"To put it simply, they can take countless of your punches without getting hurt, but a single collision from them will break all your bones."

Blaze pricked up his ears to listen to the introduction of the Horror Clown. He could feel the power contained in the body of this fat giant, so he didn't intend to test it and directly transformed into a silver werewolf.

Compared to the fat and huge Far North giant bear with a shield like a city wall, the silver werewolf that Blaze transformed into is sturdy and slender, like a spear.

But surprisingly, Amaterasu did not show up. He thought Amaterasu would like this snowy environment.

"It's a bit strange." Blaze frowned. It seemed that the chickens chose to stay in the warehouse and not come out.

"Let's defeat the monster in front of us first."

The two beasts stared at each other from a distance, but the frightened clown suddenly shouted loudly.

"Don't let it grab your ribs, or you'll end up with boneless chicken feet!"

Chapter 1003 Giant Snow Mountain's Special Killing Mechanism

Boneless chicken feet... a delicacy brought by foreigners. The taste of chicken feet is really good, but there is little meat and many bones, which makes it a bit troublesome to eat.

The foreigners found a way to separate the meat from the bones of chicken feet. Before that, everyone basically ate the chicken with the bones.

Blaze couldn't help but understand what the relationship was between the boneless chicken feet and the Far North Giant Bear in front of him. Did this guy have some skills that could pull out the bones?

Speaking of undead magic, there is an extremely terrifying instant death magic - [Secret·Skeleton Summoning].

This magic came from an extremely terrifying undead wizard. With a wave of his hand, he summoned the bones of more than half of the soldiers in the tens of thousands of legions that were attacking him as his own soldiers.