Chapter 149: Skill System Goes Online
After the industrial ship landed and was refueled with hydrogen-3, it could significantly exceed Red Iron Town's electricity demands.
Consequently, the cold fusion batteries previously transported there were brought back to the main base, fully supplying the supercomputer, which increased the number of lit carbon-based computing cores from less than 1% to 7%.
This brought a pleasant surprise to Nan Guo de Xue; the player skill system was not only immediately ready, but the number of skills was also more than initially anticipated!
It was another sunny Sunday, and with the launch of a new batch of 120 players, the highly anticipated 0.31a patch was updated.
The player skill system was launched with a bang!
Cloud players who frequented the community discovered that this skill system maintained the consistent scientific flavor of “Star Sea,” being clear and well-substantiated.
What was most exciting was that skills were not bound to professions and could be freely chosen and combined.
【Player Skill System 1.0】
【Muscle Skill 1: Hydraulic Muscle Fibers, Passive Skill;
Rewrites muscle structure, maintains explosive power, significantly increases static strength, greatly enhances carrying capacity, even up to about 80% of a power exoskeleton. Recommended Profession: Engineer】
【Muscle Skill 2: Charged Muscle Cells, Active Skill;
Rewrites muscle structure, by charging for 5 to 7 seconds, greatly enhances explosive power and agility for the next three seconds. Recommended Professions: Soldier, Investigator】
【Circulatory System Skill 1: Enhanced Stamina, Passive Skill;
Replaces red blood cells with carbon-based nanorobots, improving aerobic exercise capacity, character stamina attribute 1.6. Recommended Profession: Investigator】
【Circulatory System Skill 2: Concentrated Blood Supply, Active Skill;
Applies pressure to supply or draw blood from specific body parts, which can further enhance organ function, and can also effectively resist various discomforts caused by overload, increasing overload adaptation capacity by at least twofold. Recommended Professions: Sailor, Pilot】
【Nervous System Skill 1: Super Reaction, Active Skill; Replaces neurotransmitters with bio-electric conductors, reducing extreme reaction speed from 0.1 seconds to negligible, activating this skill will gradually lead to sodium-potassium ion imbalance, lasting a maximum of about 10 minutes. Recommended Profession: All】
【Nervous System Skill 2: Efficient Sleep, Passive Skill;
Provided there is no high-intensity brain activity, sleep time can be reduced from 7-8 hours to 4 hours. Recommended Professions: Professions other than Scholar, Engineer】
【Skeletal Skill 1: High-Strength Skeleton, Passive Skill;
Greatly increases bone strength, preventing fractures during strenuous exercise. Recommended Profession: All】
【Skeletal Skill 2: Flexible Joints, Passive Skill;
Alters skeletal physiological structure, increasing joint range of motion, especially for shoulder, hip, and ankle joints, improving the variety of melee attacks and reducing the chance of dislocations and sprains. Recommended Professions: Wilderness Investigator, Melee Soldier】
【Hormone Skill: Autonomous Adrenaline, Active Skill;
Temporarily and significantly enhances strength, stamina, and agility, effective for a maximum of 90 seconds, cooldown is 100 times the effective duration, not shorter than 15 minutes. Recommended Profession: All frontline combat personnel】
【Sensory Skill: Super Vision, Passive Skill;
Performs high-intensity genetic modification on the eyeballs, enhancing dynamic vision, and simultaneously being able to see ultraviolet and infrared light, effect can stack with optical sensors】
“Not bad!” comments quickly appeared, “I found that the basic melee skill framework has emerged: Adrenaline + Charged Muscles + Flexible Joints, a standard Sword Saint build, but unfortunately, it can only be formed at Level 15.”
“Firearms build forms at Level 10: Adrenaline + Super Reaction.”
“It feels like the developers really love melee!”
“I think most people will choose Adrenaline as their first skill, it has the highest overall benefit.”
“Professional players will choose shortened sleep, they can be online for several more hours a day.”
“That’s true...”
“What are you talking about, a true man would definitely choose Concentrated Blood Supply first, those who understand this skill know it’s simply wonderful!”
【Wo Yao Chi Dan Ta】: “Actually, sisters can also choose it, equally wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.”
【Nu He Guo Li Cheng】: “...”
【Victory Male God】: “Alright...”
“By the way, who is the highest level player right now?”
【Caoyuan a Caoyuan】: “I’m Level 9, currently the highest. Ye Xing has been in Oasis City these past few days and can’t level up without a hibernation pod. When he comes back, he’ll probably jump straight to Level 10.”
“There are Level 10 players already, darn it! I still haven’t received an invitation, even though I browse the community intensely every day.”
Seeing the lively discussion and continuous new highs in instant community traffic, Lu Yuan took the opportunity to release another message.
【Navigator】: “Hello everyone, players and cloud players alike!”
“You should have noticed that as the main story progresses, the Sailor profession is finally no longer a minor transparent.
The in-game fleet gameplay is about to be implemented!
“Star Sea” emphasizes full-process simulation, and space warships are something extremely cool that has never appeared in reality. To be honest, the diligent developers don't know the full potential of the in-game construction gameplay.
We don't know what future warships will actually look like, what weapons they will use, or what tactics they will employ.
Therefore, we will specifically open a community page to widely solicit opinions from users. Everyone will collectively propose warship design plans and contribute to building the great Cangyuan Fleet!
You can speak freely; proposed plans can be blueprints, simple concept art, even text, or even mathematical verifications.
As long as a plan is proven effective and adopted, and can help improve the efficiency of the closed beta, you will receive a valuable closed beta qualification!”
For this batch of 120 players, Lu Yuan deliberately avoided selecting “well-connected individuals” like those from Fengqi Loulan.
This was also to clearly express the point that “black technology has a price.”
“If relevant departments want to get more black technology from “Star Sea,” they will have to actively participate in the brainstorming on our side.”
Inside Oasis City, the atmosphere was already quite tense.
Cheng Yun, by selling medicine, accumulated immense prestige in a very short time.
He led half of his subordinates to openly sell medicine to citizens during the day; simultaneously, the other half of his subordinates, led by Cheng Lei and Ye Xing, operated at night, secretly spreading news related to Cangyuan while also selling medicine.
These people seemed to have received inside information; they always managed to evade the night patrol guards' searches.
As for Cheng Yun, who operated openly, Kolben could have forcibly apprehended him, but ultimately lacked the courage to do so.
He knew that Cheng Yun was definitely already a “good friend” of Cangyuan and feared retaliation and reckoning, so he chose a more “gentle” approach.
If anyone was to make a move, let Omar do it.
As a city lord, if I don't dare to touch you, Cheng Yun, don't I dare to touch those citizens?
As for Fili, this was the third day he had gone to confiscate medicines bought by citizens.
He desperately tried to convince himself that this was just work, that he was simply following his captain to complete the City Lord's task, and that he couldn't change anything.
But this didn't change his true feelings, it didn't change his self-loathing.
Every night, reporting the inside information he had acquired to Cheng Lei became his only “redemption.”
“Fili, let’s go!”
As night fell, he and his colleagues jumped onto the large eight-wheeled patrol vehicle, continuing their mission.
“Recently, some peacekeepers aren’t putting in any effort, even refusing to report for duty,” the captain said lazily, smoking in the car, “We’ll go to ‘Lakeside’ first tonight to help the City Lord root out these parasites.”
A moment later, they found the old peacekeeper drinking alone at the bar counter.
“I’m not going anywhere. Do whatever you want with me, I don’t care.”
The other party had an attitude of a dead pig not fearing boiling water.
“This is a clear dereliction of duty, and given the current emergency, the crime is compounded! I’m asking you one last time now, will you report to your post immediately?”
“I won’t,” the other party put down his glass, “I f*cking have cancer too! I got it from being exposed while investigating cases for that trash Kolben!”
“Watch your language!”
The captain snapped.
“You idiot, do you think I care? I only have a few months to live. I spent all my savings on medicine, only for you guys to confiscate it. Damn it, what’s the difference between dying in a few months and being shot tomorrow!? Maybe I’ll even die more easily—”
“Arrest him! Cuff him!”
After the captain shouted this, Fili saw everyone in the bar stop what they were doing and look over.
Flames of anger were spewing from their eyes.
He recognized more off-duty peacekeepers among them, high-level Engineers from the city, and in the corner, even city guards like himself.
Something was wrong—
Something terrible was brewing...