Tokyo underground city

Chapter 171 The king's car castles

"like me?"

Lin Huai'en was stunned for a moment and said hesitantly: "But, I shouldn't be able to beat him, right?"

If there is no memory of the fight between the two and one only looks at the data on paper, no matter how you look at it, it is he who was beaten by Li Muen——

This was true even after he had the [external brain].

Sure enough, Catalina nodded, her expression very frank:

"Indeed, judging from the data alone, the strength of the two of you should be about the same. In the short term, Li Muen may be stronger - but after level 60, the situation will be different. "

Is this the blue card stage... Lin Huai'en thought for a while and said:

"...Is it because of the [Physique] and [Performance] skills?"

"Yes." She replied, "Your three basic abilities, namely [Cursed Body], [Sword Theory], and [Natural History], are all [Physique-type] or [Performance-type] skills. And the newly acquired [Enhanced Perception] is also an active skill that enhances physical fitness. Coupled with your unusually balanced bonus points - it can be said that you are much stronger than Li Muen in terms of future potential."

Catalina's understanding is similar to what Sen Yan said.

But he still didn't expect that there would be such a big gap just in the blue card stage.

So he thought for a moment: "But Li Muen's [Divine Speed] is also a [performance] skill, right? There should be something like increasing the upper limit of physical strength... Will the difference be that big?"

"The difference is huge." Catalina looked at Li Mu'en who was surrounded by the crowd in the distance, showing a slight disdain, "What kind of skills can each explorer acquire in the future? In addition to experience, they also have the ability to communicate with others. The 'basic ability' of each of us is related - in other words, the stronger the 'basic ability' of an explorer, the better the skills he can acquire in the future."

"An explorer who can break his own arm and then regenerate it within ten seconds, and an explorer who has a bunch of active skills but doesn't have enough foundation. The skills that the two can obtain after upgrading are naturally completely different - —”

"The former will acquire more terrifying functional skills as their physique increases; while the latter will only stand still no matter how many functional skills they have."

"And Li Muen made this mistake."

Catalina looked at Li Muen with a sigh in her eyes:

"He defines himself as a speed explorer, and all his skills revolve around [Super Speed]. In this way, at most, he will be a low-level black card. Even at the stage of purple card, he will be defeated due to lack of strength. Being blocked from the deep dungeon."

Speaking of this, Catalina's expression looked a little sad: "Most Zika explorers have lost the qualification to enter deep dungeons because they specialized in certain aspects of their abilities too early."

"As for explorers in the red card and blue card stages, instead of eagerly trying to make themselves 'stronger', it is better to make themselves 'thicker'."

"'Thick accumulation but thin hair', when you lay a deep enough foundation and become a Zika, you will get better rewards." Catalina said, pointing to Li Mu'en, who was surrounded by people in the distance. "He was obviously too hasty and sacrificed his future."

"...Sacrifice your own future..."

Lin Huaien was silent.

Finally realized why Catalina judged him to be more valuable than Li Muen.

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After the sword fight ended, Li Muen was stayed by Shen Wanshan.

Lin Huai'en didn't know how he would answer Shen Wanshan's question, but while everyone was dismissed, he walked around the camp a few times and found a few crew members he was relatively familiar with to understand the situation.

The result was no different from what he remembered - except that they all called him Mr. "Windrunner Wynn".

"What's going on... Why did Li Muen and I exchange identities..."

Lin Huai'en felt that the situation was extremely strange, but he had no clue about it:

"I remember falling asleep in the Twilight Forest, and when I woke up, everything was different..."

All possible guesses point to the "Abnormal Body" and the relics.

Needless to say about relics, in deep dungeons, it is not uncommon to find first-level relics that can drag the entire crew into a fantasy like this.

"As for the "Abnormal", the "Abnormal" who is good at illusions... In addition to "One Sin Turns Hundreds of Good" to which "Silver Queen" belongs, there are also "Simulacra", "Black Swan", "The Gods" Myths"...are not the type to be trifled with."

Lin Huai'en recalled the "Abnormal Body" knowledge on the forum:

"'One Sin Leads to Hundreds of Good Deeds' is a psychic attack-type 'Abnormal Body' that is good at fighting in large groups. The number and scale of 'Subordinates' are terrifying."

“And ‘Black Swan’ can use ‘embodiment’ to destroy the spirit of the explorers, thus destroying their bodies.”

"The Myth of the Gods, also known as the Deus Ex Machina, is usually a never-ending bloody battle, like the final battle of Ragnarok in Norse mythology or the Day of Judgment in Christianity."

"Finally... is it "Simulacra"..."

Lin Huai'en was silent for a moment.

The first time he learned about "simulacra" was the "simulacra theory" proposed by the French philosopher Baudrillard, who was introduced to him by his senior sister.

Abnormalities of the "Simulacra" type like to extract elements and then piece them together, such as the five "Magical Girls" who appeared in the "Perfect World" on the 25th to 30th floors of Tokyo Underground... and their apostle "Fragments" .

It's like a work of art that extracts the most common beautiful things and the most disgusting monsters in the human world and puts them together.

He was lucky enough to see the suppressed photo of "Pink Miracle", one of the five "Magical Girls".

How to put it... it feels like a mixture of candy and flesh and blood?

Like candy, the sweet, shiny pink flesh covered the entire dungeon hall.

The giant slime monster transformed into "Pink Miracle" will use its candy tentacles to spray out syrup. The explorer captured by the syrup will gradually turn into a pink "Sugar Man" within a few minutes.

Although these flesh-and-candy people can be broken into pieces when knocked, they can run, jump, and use skills to attack. Before being completely destroyed, they will continue to attack all explorers within sight.

"Besides, there are also "Abnormals" who can use illusion abilities, but usually not all "Factions" have related abilities - for example, "Abnormals" of the "Lord of Smiles" type, He only shows strong attachment to 'flesh' and 'physical attacks'..."

Lin Huai'en recalled the description of "Abnormal Body" on Wilderness House.

Just as he was struggling with the matter of "Abnormal Body" in the tent, a question that seemed familiar to him suddenly came from outside the tent -

"Mr. Wynn, can I come in now?"

Caterina...?

Hearing the familiar voice, he stood up subconsciously:

"Come in, what do you want?"

"Windrunner's" tent is much larger than Lin Huaien's own tent, enough to accommodate four or five people, so there will naturally be no "accidents" like when Yuan Ximu came in.

The blond female commander walked in and took a look. She naturally locked her eyes on Lin Huai'en, and then shook the chessboard in her hand at him:

"How about it? Are you free? Play chess with me?"

Looking at the chessboard that clattered in her hand, Lin Huai'en hesitated.

He knew that it was strange no matter how you looked at it, playing chess with a woman who not long ago had wanted to kill him.

But at this moment, he is not "Sunset Xixue's bodyguard", but "Windrunner", Katarina's "companion".

Judging from the familiarity Catalina showed towards him, it was hard to imagine that the two of them were not "friends" - or at least "colleagues" or "acquaintances".

Therefore, Lin Huaien nodded: "Okay."

"But, I'm terrible at chess and I don't even know the rules. Doesn't it matter?"

Catalina was about to put the chessboard in her hand on the table when she paused.

He said somewhat nonchalantly: "If you really don't understand anything, I can play guided chess with you."

"Guidance chess?" Lin Huai'en was a little curious. The senior sister had never played any guidance chess with him.

"Yes." Catalina nodded: "I will tell you some of the rules of chess through playing chess. For me, the difficulty in playing chess is how to make you enter the game as I envisioned. The situation I set up was then eaten up by me using specific rules and killing formations."

"Then for you, as long as you can beat me, that's all."

Catalina said, having already laid out the chessboard, she stretched out her hand——

"White moves first. I hold White, so you're welcome."

She moves White's soldiers.

Because Lin Huai'en already had chess experience before, he was able to pick up the game quite quickly with only a few changes in the rules.

However, compared with chess, there are some special moves and rules in chess that require him to memorize them——

"For example, 'Castling'."

Catalina moved her white king two spaces to the right, then moved her white rook through the white king and placed it on the left side of the white king: "When the king's rooks are not moving, the king's rooks can move toward each other. The rule of moving two chess pieces at one time and swapping positions is counted as a 'move', which is very common in various openings."

“In addition, there are ‘passing pawns’ and ‘promotions’ in chess.”

Catalina then showed Lin Huaien the 'passing pawn' and 'upgrade', and then played three times, five divided by two, and solved the game. She continued to use Lin Huaien's opening pattern called the Spanish opening to show Lin Huaien the king. Benefits of castling:

“There are three main benefits of using ‘King Car Castling’ -”

"In most openings in chess, the two soldiers in the middle will rush out. This will not only facilitate our strongest chess piece, the 'queen', to attack, but it will also expose the king's position."

"The rules of castling the king's rook allow our castle, that is, the straight-line 'rook' to attack from the open center line, and move the king to a relatively safe flank."

Catalina explained in detail the significance of "castling the king's car": "From this perspective, the queen is like the 'ace' among explorers. Although she is extremely powerful, she is still just a chess piece. And although the 'king' is weak, , but it is the 'key' that determines the outcome of the battle..."

She raised her head and looked at Lin Huaien meaningfully:

"How about it? Do you want to be a chess piece, or do you want to be the commander?"

Lin Huai'en moved Black's soldiers silently.

He had just learned the most basic Italian opening in chess, and was defeated by Catalina, but chess itself was still quite interesting——

At least, in terms of the expressiveness of the chess pieces, it is much more interesting than the boring robbery and robbery of Go.

The chess pieces are also very delicate.

But compared to the "game" on the chessboard, he was more concerned about the "game" between him and Catalina.

Finally, after being eaten by Catalina, he raised his head and looked at the blond female commander.

"Does it make any difference if it's a chess player or a chess piece?"

[Digging a hole is fun for a while, but filling it is painful]