My Players Are Grinding in the Apocalypse
Chapter 23

Recruiting New Players (Part 1)

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The Loot Generator had seven output slots.

It could dismantle seven creatures at once.

With a ding, the three Raider corpses finished dissolving at the same time.

The output slots opened, and the conveyor belts inside carried out the loot.

Two bottles of red reagent, one bottle of blood, one white bone, and one green garment.

Health Potion ×2 Healed wounds and mended fractures Immediately restored 25% Health + slowly restored 500 Health

The bottle of blood was still the Boiling Blood augment.

Rune Bone of Destruction Quality: Fine +20% Physical Damage +21% Trauma Damage +33% Energy Recovery Speed

This bone contained bioenergy and might have been a medium for some kind of ritual.

Lastly:

Fur Jacket Quality: Normal 18 Armor

Ordinary equipment produced by the Calamity Base. It could adapt to the appearance of Clones.

Now, they had collected all the loot.

Lin Tang grabbed the two red potions.

"Just as expected! Health Potions are here. With these, our survival rate will take a huge leap forward. At least we'll dare to trade Health during battle now."

Thin Dog placed this bottle of Boiling Blood and the previous one on the ground.

"Four corpses yielded two bottles. Looks like this kind of augment is pretty common, so we'll list it as a standard Raider drop for now. We only have one ring, so I suggest using one bottle to increase our combat power first."

Demon Fox said, "Agreed. At this stage, every little bit of improvement counts."

Thin Dog picked up the bone in his left hand, and an inexplicable sense of power flowed from it.

He felt as if even his fists had hardened. If he used his big club to hit someone, he would definitely be stronger.

"The boost is really obvious. I feel like as long as I'm holding this bone, I've become a lot stronger."

He handed the bone to Demon Fox, signaling for him to try it too.

The moment his hand left the bone, that strange enhancement vanished.

After feeling it out for a moment, Demon Fox slipped the bone into his pocket, then found a piece of cloth and tied it to his arm. After trying several positions, he said:

"The boost from this bone is interesting. It only works when I'm holding it in one hand. Putting it anywhere else on my body does nothing. So if we want to continuously benefit from it, we'd have to use a one-handed weapon and hold this in the off hand."

Lin Tang took it and examined it.

"This bone is about as long as a person's arm. If you hold it in one hand, it might reduce your agility in close combat. I think this thing was probably designed for the mage class in this game. Staff in one hand, bone for buffs in the other. Doesn't it even boost Energy Recovery? The designer's hint is obvious."

"True. For now, the percentage boosts to Physical Damage and Trauma Damage aren't as strong as simply wielding a Wolf Tooth Club with both hands. As for the Energy boost, we don't have any skills that use our own Energy yet, so we can't make use of it. We can store it for now."

The Rune Bone of Destruction was temporarily placed on the open ground inside the small cave at the base.

For the final item, Thin Dog put on the Fur Jacket.

"Uh... it's just a fairly thick piece of clothing, but it fits really well."

Demon Fox said, "Of course it fits. The clothes moved by themselves after you put them on and adjusted their size."

Lin Tang said, "!"

"Holy shit? Clothes that can move? Did they become sentient?"

Demon Fox shook his head. "No idea. Maybe it's the material adaptability of base equipment. This clothing feels a little strange. Even though it's called a Fur Jacket, it doesn't feel like animal fur."

"Whatever, as long as it works. Who can explain game stuff anyway? Maybe the designer just casually made a model. I'm pouring the Boiling Blood onto my ring now!"

Thin Dog opened the bottle, and the red blood inside slowly dripped onto the Copper Ring of Resistance. The ring absorbed it directly, without a single drop falling to the ground. Red patterns appeared across its surface.

After the entire bottle had been poured on, the ring flashed, and Thin Dog's watch displayed: Augmentation successful.

Copper Ring of Resistance (Augmented with Boiling Blood) Quality: Fine 11% Radiation Resistance Health Recovery Speed +1 per second +8% Physical Damage +18 Attack Capability

The ring had absorbed the abilities of Boiling Blood. Its four attributes looked amazing.

After Thin Dog put it on, the added strength and reaction speed sent a shiver through his entire body.

"Ahh, that feels good! I need more equipment! I want to wear ten rings and stuff myself full of them!"

Lin Tang said, "What does it feel like? Let me wear it for a bit. Why are you dodging? I'm not stealing it, hand it over! My Attack Capability is the highest, so it should definitely go to me first. I'm going on a killing spree!"

"Ahem! Lin Tang, stop messing around. Let Thin Dog use this equipment first. He can make better use of its advantages. We'll farm some more monsters and distribute whatever equipment drops later. Let's go. Don't waste time. Fighting Raiders should definitely be easier now."

Lin Tang withdrew his hand resentfully. "Fine. Let Thin Dog enjoy himself first."

Besides the four Raider corpses, the players had naturally brought back their weapons as well.

They were still the same utterly uncreative Wolf Tooth Clubs.

It seemed the Raiders all had a fondness for these oversized blunt weapons.

"Identify them all, then Lin Tang can pick the one with the best attributes. Let's head in another direction and explore the map. I feel like there must be more than one Raider Camp around here. Based on the opening guide scenario, I suspect the energy source we're looking for is in the next Raider Camp."

"Charge!"

The three of them placed three Wolf Tooth Clubs, two crowbars, one bone, and three pounds of beans beside the machine. Lin Tang returned the ring to the Lord, and everything was sorted out.

"Does this game have a storage box? What if we leave it out here and someone takes it?"

"Come on! It's just the three of us closed beta testers. Where would anyone else come from? Don't worry. When we log off later, we'll tell Sentinel. He'll definitely find a way to fix it."

"True!"

The three players, all in peak condition, set out once more and began feeling their way toward the darkened parts of the map.

Over on Diablo III Bar.

The post Sentinel had made was continuing to gain popularity.

After chatting about graphics cards for quite a while, everyone's attention returned to the virtual reality game.

Picking Girl's Little Mushroom said, "Uh... there are more closed beta slots? Night God scared me so badly last time that I didn't dare sign up. Should I give it a try? I'm so conflicted."

My Style is My Own said, "No pics, no proof?"

Ink Dye Sword Xiao said, "I'm from the handicrafts forum next door. I heard there was a fishing post here, so I came to join the fun. Though I've already signed up, I probably won't get picked, right? (Smile)"

—Reply: "Holy shit!? Xiao Xiao came to our forum? What an honor!"

—Reply: "Xiao Xiao, I'm your loyal freeloader fan! I've watched all your videos and never even tossed you a single coin!"

—Reply: "My favorite is that Tang Dao you recreated. Can you give it to me for free? I'm a student, and give me another 200 yuan for food."

—Master replied: "Since Xiao Xiao has spoken, I'm willing to trade ten years of my life for Xiao Xiao to get a closed beta slot!"

Ink Dye Sword Xiao was a popular creator in Bilibili's handicrafts section, known for crafting and restoring all kinds of cold weapons.

Who could resist a female version of Handmade Geng who was beautiful and sweet-voiced?

No one knew why she had come to Diablo III Bar to join the fun.

There were many replies, and the post's popularity remained high, drawing the attention of even more forum users.

More people registered on the official website for "Apocalypse OL."

Suddenly, when the thread reached the 153rd reply.

Shadow Night God appeared!

"I thought about it for a very, very long time last night, and finally discovered the true form of this scam. What I'm about to say may overturn everyone's understanding."

The post fell silent all at once.

Cheng Shaofeng, lurking quantumly: (°ー°〃)

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