MTL - Pretend To Be a Boss

  Chapter 4 Learn Survival Skills from God

   Elite boss.

  As long as the student's grades are not too bad, they will understand the dangers involved.

  Anyone who is covered with the word boss is an extremely dangerous existence among the creatures in the mining area.

  Boss hunting, even the lowest-level elite boss, requires the cooperation of several teams.

  Of course, excluding those teams composed of those who have several talents.

   On the map of the Rift Teleporter, you can see many areas marked with four colors.

  Colors represent hazard levels.

  The yellow area has bosses that humans need to spend a lot of manpower and sacrifice many elites to deal with at this stage.

  The blue area is relatively weaker, and it is also the place where the various teams obtain meritorious service, but the death rate is not low. Xinshou Village is a green area, basically there is not much danger.

  As for the red area, there are creatures more powerful than the natural disaster level boss hidden, and it is a place that must not be approached.

  There are not many blue and green areas, and the yellow and red areas occupy most of the map. In short, human civilization is still in the stage of opening up mining areas.

   Tang Xian pointed to somewhere in the blue area and said:

"Hell's three-headed dog is a canine creature in the sub-temperate zone. The temperature around here is between 23 degrees and 31 degrees, which is very suitable for its survival, and there are a lot of rabbit-eared mice in the laterite forest. They are Hell Three. The favorite food of head dogs and bone jackals. Get ready, I'm going to slaughter dogs."

  It seems that the **** three-headed dog is just some kind of small animal. Dongran wondered if Tang Xian still had a helper, otherwise how could he challenge the **** three-headed dog by himself?

   The two fell into silence. Tang Xian flipped through the mission manual silently, killing time bit by bit.

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  Mining area, land of red soil.

Dongran is very nervous. After all, in the mining area, most of the props will be useless. A well-equipped team must have weapons. The weapons that can be used in the mining area, whether knives, guns, sticks, or guns and grenades, are transformed from armed mines. come.

   To slaughter an elite boss, apart from preparing weapons, you must find all the team members.

  DPS members who are good at using weapons, people who are good at healing, and people who are good at observing.

  The more talent data, the stronger the derived combat ability.

  These abilities are indispensable for dealing with bosses.

   Tang Xian has nothing.

  In the tent at night, he turned out the lights like a quiet sculpture.

  Dongran asked Tang Xian what data he could see, and Tang Xian's answer made Dongran turn pale with shock.

   "I'm not gifted. Not gifted."

   "Then... you must have brought a very powerful weapon?"

   "Look where I live, do you look like someone who can afford high-end equipment?"

   "Then do you...have a strong teammate to support you?"

   "I don't know, there should be some in the future. You can consider planting a few, and let's talk about it when we meet."

   "..."

  Dongran froze, suddenly wondering if he had met a lunatic.

  There are often such existences at the bottom floor. After graduating from six years of survival education, returning to the first floor, getting used to the high-quality life of the third floor, and then returning to the first floor where there is not enough to eat, some crazy ideas will arise.

   "You've got to be...prepared?"

"Of course, I definitely can't tear up the boss with my bare hands. The night in the red soil forest is very dangerous, but there are almost no poisonous insects, snakes and ants in this area. They are basically mammalian herbivores and carnivorous creatures. The food chain here is also relatively simple. .”

  Dongran didn't quite understand.

"There are mutual generation and mutual restraint in nature, just like poisonous weeds, there may be other plants that can detoxify. The reproductive ability of the three-headed dog is not bad, but there are still not many three-headed dogs that can be seen on this land. Even It can be said that there are very few."

   Tang Xian looked at the girl's cloudy expression, and remembered that when he was seventeen years old, he wrote an academic report "Research on the Possibility of Biocaptive Breeding in Mining Areas", which was then rated as whimsical by the teacher. He felt that the teacher was like the girl in front of him.

   People who are not at the same level have no way to communicate ideas.

   "It means that the natural enemies that can kill the three-headed dog are also in this area. Animals are animals after all. The biggest difference between them and humans is that humans can rely on reason to suppress their instinctive impulses, but animals can only follow their instincts."

  After Tang Xian finished speaking, he chose a comfortable position to lie down, as if he was sure that there would be no accidents tonight.

  The night in the mining area is indeed dangerous. Tang Xian once deduced some rules of the nocturnal creatures in the mining area based on the three night creature attacks in Xinshou Village.

  Everything in this world has traces to follow. It's just that not many people are really willing to observe.

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  The day soon dawned.

  When Dongran woke up, Tang Xian was squatting in the center of the tent, with some melons and fruits on the ground.

"What is this?"

  Smelling a fragrance that he had never smelled before, Dongran moved his index finger.

   "Red-tailed tree fruit, blue banana fruit, the favorite of black-spotted monkeys. There are many black-spotted monkeys living in this place. Naturally, there are things they like."

  I thought this thing didn’t look edible. After all, the mining area gave people the impression that the animals were crazy, and so were the plants.

   But seeing how delicious Tang Xian was eating, she didn't take it too seriously. She peeled off the blue banana fruit and started to eat it.

   The moment the pulp was bitten open, the sweet, smooth and juicy taste, coupled with the vanilla-like taste, made Dongran's eyes wide open.

  God, why is it so delicious?

   Nutritious meals can achieve a taste experience of many fruit flavors, but compared with real natural fruits, the taste is still not as good.

  Dongran looked at Tang Xian in surprise again. This person...why does he seem to know everything?

  After eating the melons and fruits, Tang Xian said, "I'm going to find the location of the **** three-headed dog. Are you staying in the tent by yourself?"

   "I'll go with you!"

   "Are you sure? It's okay, there will be no danger, but you may not be able to bear it."

"What's the meaning?"

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   Dongran quickly understood what it meant.

  The preparations before finding the three-headed **** dog, in the eyes of this beautiful girl, is even more difficult than hunting the three-headed **** dog itself.

  Tang Xian first cut a lot of red needle-like plants, which Tang Xian also popularized for Dongran by the way, named Red Thread Grass.

   is a kind of grass with grass leaves that can emit a strange smell. This odor is harmless to humans and not too toxic to animals.

   But the smell keeps all animals at bay.

  Tang Xian said: "To survive in the mining area, it is best to crush the red thread grass and then smear it on yourself. In this way, those carnivorous creatures will not come close unless we provoke them too much."

  Dongran was very reluctant to do this, but Tang Xian has a very stubborn temper. If you don't do this, you are not allowed to follow me. As a last resort, the fragrant and soft girl began to exude the smell of all beasts retreating.

   Dongran doesn't know if this knowledge is true.

   When she was a student, her grades in survival education were not bad, and she was barely considered a top student, but even if her grades were better than hers, it seemed that few were as knowledgeable as Tang Xian.

   And has a strong practical ability. Along the way, she really didn't see any creatures. Although this is a blue zone, it just means that the intensity of creatures is generally low, and it doesn't mean that there are no wild animals along the way.

   "What's next?"

   "Find the three-headed dog's lair."

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  The red soil forest is extremely vast, and it will take a lot of time to find a lair of an elite boss creature in such a place.

  Especially humans cannot stay in the mining area for more than seven days. After seven days, the vitality will suddenly decrease until death.

  So many people set a safe period of three days in their hearts, and five days are rare. And it is almost impossible to find the den of the three-headed dog within a few days.

  Tang Xian doesn't think there is anything impossible. If all goes well, it can be completed today. As for the time in the mining area, he personally likes the mining area very much. He feels more comfortable here than in the pyramid.

  Tang Xian really wanted to stay for seven days, to test what the so-called rapid loss of vitality felt like. After returning, he could publish an article on bhu: What was the experience of staying in the mining area for seven days.

  Dongran was very curious about how Tang Xian would look for the **** three-headed dog next.

  In the morning, the air was still a little humid.

   Tang Xian didn't search around like a headless chicken. There were many plants growing in the red earth forest. After applying the red thread grass, his actions were decisive, not too high-profile, but also not deliberately careful.

  Dongran noticed that Tang Xian seemed to pay extra attention to the trees.

   Under some trees with relatively thick branches, Tang Xian's gaze would stay for a long time.

  Tang Xian came to a soil tree. The trees he noticed before were all red-tailed trees. Regarding the red tail tree, Tang Xian just thought about it for a long time, but didn't really do anything.

   Until he found a soil tree here, Tang Xian slowly approached the branch.

  Dongran followed Tang Xian not far behind.

  The soil tree has no leaves, it looks bare, and there are moss-like things growing on the branches.

  Dongran did not learn about woody plants in survival education, and she majored in birds. Thinking about it, Tang Xian should be in the direction of repairing plants.

  Dongran felt that Tang Xian seemed to be familiar with the ecological environment.

  Tang Xian squatted down, and then used his index finger to touch the soil at the stump. Dongran opened his eyes wide, and the next second Tang Xian actually put the unappetizing soil in front of his nose and sniffed it carefully.

  The smell of this soil is very foul. But extremely nutritious. It is called red soil because the soil is red and the vegetation coverage here is very high. It is because of this strong smell that human beings are uncomfortable.

  The soil in the mining area is naturally different from the desert in the human world, full of life.

   Tang Xian frowned slightly. The smell of the soil was indeed unpleasant, but he still dug up a lot of soil and put it in a tool bag.

   Dongran couldn't understand. Tang Xian didn't speak either.

   After confirming that Tujishu had what he needed, he began to look for Tujishu.

  The Tuji tree can be regarded as a towering tree, although it looks a bit strange because it is bare, and it has a breath that can only be found in the deep forest.

  But the Tuji tree grows in a forest full of red-tailed trees, and it stands out from the crowd.

   "Animals are territorial. Even the dogs in the pyramid who have been tortured by humans without wildness will know how to find a pole to pee or something."

   Tang Xian spoke suddenly, probably because he felt too bored. He remembered that when he was thirteen years old, he read a book called "Research Collection of Canines in Mining Areas", and then in order to confirm, he found many similar books, such as "Behavior of Canines in Mining Areas", "Canines in Mining Areas" Biology Questions and Answers.

   Compared with other creatures, Tang Xian has the most research on canine creatures. Because dog meat is delicious.

  Of course, he is very familiar with all the research on mining areas known to mankind.

   For example, soil-based trees.

  Tang Xian is well aware of the distribution of the soil tree, and it is only a matter of time before he finds soil with the same smell along the soil tree.

   Later, he finally found a dry and cool cave that could shelter from the rain.

   This was found after walking nearly ten kilometers in the direction of the last soil tree.

Standing behind a boulder bunker outside the cave, Tang Xian said in a low voice: "Because the three-headed dogs can breathe flames, they don't live in places that are too humid. Apart from the necessary water intake for survival, other water sources are important for them. It is said to be extremely deadly. Interestingly, the bone jackal, which is also a canid, is also the natural enemy of the three-headed hellhound. It is also a creature that is very afraid of water."

   "What should we do now?" Dongran didn't pay attention to the intention of Tang Xian's words just now.

  The lair has been found, the question is how to hunt and kill the three-headed hellhound?

  Tang Xian dares to do things alone that several elite teams may not be able to do?

  Dongran really expected Tang Xian to be the kind of folk master who hides a lot of abilities, has the strength to live in the highest level, but wants to dawdle on the first level.

  The yy novels of street vendors at the bottom often have such plots.

  But Tang Xian has no fighting ability, at least not yet. He glanced at the three-headed hellhound's lair, then turned and walked in another direction.

  Considering that he only has one audience, although this audience is stupid, Tang Xian still explained in order to kill boredom:

"Animals and plants, those who live together and restrain each other, often live very close together. The places where poisonous insects, snakes and ants live often have detoxifying grass or melons and fruits. But animals are different. Antelopes' lairs are far away from cheetahs. Also, stags are unlikely to be neighbors to lions. While it is common to see each other hunting, it is because of the water that they meet."

   "However, the biological structure in the mining area is very special, especially the **** three-headed dog and bone jackal, which are very afraid of water. Even if they meet occasionally, it is just a trick of good fortune."

"The bone jackal hates the three-headed **** dog very much, but we couldn't find the three-headed dog. We were lucky, but we found it ten kilometers north of the last soil tree that lost its smell. In the past, the vegetation was obviously barren, and I guess that direction is relatively dry, which meets the criteria for the three-headed dog to choose a nest. No wonder the bone jackal can't find the three-headed dog. So it needs a little guidance."

  This time Dongran somewhat understood Tang Xian's intentions.

  She wasn't actually stupid. She suddenly thought that the smell of canine urine marks the territory. Could it be that Tang Xian smelled the soil in front of him to confirm the smell?

  There are occasional descriptions of this smell in textbooks, but no matter how accurate the written description is...it is very difficult to practice, right?

   Is this person a genius? What you read on paper can be practiced directly at your fingertips?

  Before observing the Doji tree and the red-tailed tree, is it to find the characteristics?

  If there are many trees, the bladder of the three-headed dog will naturally not have a sea of ​​urine. It is impossible to urinate on every tree to show that this place belongs.

  So they will pick some characteristic ones.

   It is difficult for others to know such characteristic details, but Tang Xian can easily find them.

   In the same way, Tang Xian was also able to find the type of red-tailed tree that bone jackals prefer from many red-tailed trees.

   It's the tree trunk I prefer, but it's... the jackal's favorite urinal.

  The process was the same, he found some kind of soil and smelled a disgusting smell, but this time, Tang Xian didn't put the soil in the item bag.

   Instead, he took out the soil in the item bag that had the smell of three-headed **** dog urine, and slowly covered it.

  Dongran looked at all this and wanted to speak, but didn't know what to say.

  Who would smell a dog's urine? Who will remember the description of animal urine in the book? Those who can enter the mining area must be full-time workers, who live on the second floor or even higher. Those who live on the second floor or higher will make themselves stinky, painted and smashed. Red thread grass?

  Looking at the sky, Tang Xian frowned and said, "It's best to finish these tasks before eleven o'clock tonight. Hurry up."

   Dongran didn't understand again.

  Tang Xian could see Dongran's expression only out of the corner of his eye, but he didn't bother to pay attention to that idiotic expression.

   Time is running out, he must speed up.

  (end of this chapter)