Chapter 10 This Game's Chairs Can Be Sat On, and the Food Isn’t Just a Texture!

This beef stew canned food tastes really good.

Lin Miao picked up a piece and tossed it into his mouth. The premium beef brisket was stewed tender and flavorful, with a fresh and delicious texture. Paired with a bottle of beer and followed up with a can of fruit, life is all about contrast; you could say it was bliss.

Although the army green can didn't specify the production date or manufacturer, I reckon chicken might be a problem, but the possibility of an issue with canned food is even smaller.

As for the players, why eat so well? Full bellies breed desire!

How can you work if you're too full?

However, in between meals, Lin Miao pulled up the panels of the four players one by one and took a look. There wasn't much change, except for the player named Assassin, who couldn't be Brother Ni; his skill panel had an addition of

[Handcraft LV2]

Lin Miao remembered this guy used to take orders for COS prop crafting; who'd have thought his skills would carry over after just a morning of practice in the game.

Those players, the skills they mastered in reality, when applied to related work in the game, have a faster experience acquisition speed and skill upgrade rate than others. However, being familiar is easy, but mastering is difficult; it's destined to be a laborious path.

As for the five attributes, Lin Miao hasn't figured out what they specifically represent yet. Further experimentation with the players is needed. They should represent more than just physical strength, skill proficiency—likely including neural responses, injury recovery, cybernetic capacity, instantaneous computation, etc. But they definitely represent different advancement paths or professions.

As he contemplated and finished packing the can into his bag, soon the players emerged from the bar.

The NPC said they'd teach something, and that's a great opportunity to learn new skills—no way Lin Miao would be kept waiting long for that. As for gossip, it's not too late to discuss it offline on the forums.

What excited them even more, was in the wreckage of houses smashed by the Wildman, Lin Miao had erected several targets using broken planks, and a few circles were drawn on them with an oil-based marker, the intent couldn't be more obvious.

The Night Wanderer incident made Lin Miao realize that this Evil Land was not a benign place; players had to be trained swiftly to have any self-preservation capability.

He placed four unloaded pistols on the table behind him and gestured for the players to come over.

"You have 2 hours left in offline time; now I'll teach you to use guns."

"Alright!"

"Awesome! Awesome!"

"Normal... seems to be low-tier gear, does this game have equipment ratings?"

The four shouted with joy; where would you have the opportunity to touch a real gun in reality? Ten years ago, they could still play with BB guns; as they grew older, even BB guns became illegal, leaving them with only sissy water guns.

"Don't get too happy too soon." Lin Miao sneered, learning to use guns isn't that simple; he suffered quite a bit under the instructor back then.

He dragged Brother Ni to the front, stuffed the pistol into his hand, his attitude more serious than before, and quickly instructed,

"Stand your legs straight, tense up, raise both hands to shoulder level, grip tightly, three points aligned."

Lin Miao manipulated Brother Ni into a posture of aiming with both hands holding the gun, Brother Ni should be glad his skin color doesn't match his name; otherwise, this action alone would cause someone to empty a clip into him in 2 seconds with 17 rounds.

Then it wasn't over yet; under the embarrassed gaze of the four, he balanced a shell casing on the muzzle of the gun held by Brother Ni, the wobbly brass casing seemed ready to fall at any moment.

Lin Miao smiled and told the four, "Maintain this position for ten minutes, don't let it fall, if it falls, start over. When you can hold the gun up for ten minutes without dropping it, you can practice shooting at fixed targets."

No sooner had he finished speaking than the shell casing fell to the ground from the gun of Brother Ni.

The same thought popped into the minds of the four,

"Am I being drafted for military training here?"

Actually, if it weren't for the ten consecutive draws yielding facilities like the Recycling Furnace, Lin Miao's first act after loading them into the game would have been teaching them how to shoot. Once taught, he'd find a way to ambush, kill, and seize cybernetics for modification in the Evil Land.

....

After finishing the remaining two hours of training, by five in the afternoon, none of the four players had the chance to fire a shot; instead, other than the Wildman, the other three had arms so sore they were trembling.

After sending them all back to the modification chamber for rest, Lin Miao also planned to leave W here and drive back to Night City afterward; after all, who'd spend the night in this godforsaken place without water or electricity?

But before heading back, he still had one thing he hadn't done: the four lottery tickets he received after welcoming the players in the morning hadn't been used yet; he wasn't into stockpiling hoarding rats—he had to grasp every opportunity to gather resources.

[Infrared Scope*1]

[Old M-10AF Lexington]

[Future Horizon-Standard Titanium Alloy Skeleton*1]

[Special Water Purification Tablets*100 tablets]

How should I put it.....

It's Lin Miao's first time drawing a cybernetic body; if you ignore the name prefix, it looks no different from the stuff displayed in the clinic windows—a full-body silver-colored skeleton in the backpack feels like carrying a anatomy teacher.

Moreover, the new titanium alloy skeleton isn't the same concept as the titanium alloy bone screws or fillers used for bone healing in the last century anymore.

The old titanium alloy couldn't replace calcium-based bones due to issues like lack of marrow, inability to conduct neural signals, tendon attachment, and weight—all these problems make standing possibly cause pressure on cartilage affecting height growth. But as technology advanced, marrow can be transferred using biotechnology, cells transported by drilling, neural signals replaced with electronic ones, tendons can be adhered with bonding agents, and naturally, there are biomimetic joints and subdermal shields to substitute or reinforce cartilage and foot support.