Clones Ready, Immediate Resurrection Upon Death

The Calamity Base was peaceful.

Ink Dye Sword Xiao was busy making a shortbow.

Cheng Shaofeng, having just finished chopping wood, was moving stones to build something.

Lin Tang jogged back to the base.

After taking a drink, he said, "Lord, I need to borrow the base's small cart to transport some supplies."

Cheng Shaofeng was slightly surprised.

How much supplies were there that they needed a cart?

Enough that the three of them couldn't carry it all?

But he readily agreed.

"Take it, soldier. Make sure you return safely; this is our only transport vehicle."

"Don't worry! By the time we get back, the mission will be almost done."

He mysteriously placed a package he was carrying into his shack.

"Xiao Xiao, keep an eye on this for me, don't let anyone touch it."

"Okay."

Xiao Xiao agreed while continuing her work.

"Also, I'm going to use your Radiant Flower myself. I'll imbue today's weapons with dual attributes, and maybe we'll get better rewards when we turn in the mission."

"Use it as you please. I'll go gather more after you're done."

Lin Tang pushed the cart and left in a hurry.

Cheng Shaofeng's lips curved slightly as he thought about the dual-attribute weapons Xiao Xiao was making.

"Post a mission. Now I'll have good weapons too."

At the same time, he pondered a very interesting question.

"Zero, after the weapons crafted in our base are identified by the Attribute Conversion Tower, they display an attribute panel. Embedding items can also grant skills to weapons. Hypothetically, if I give such a weapon to a local who isn't a player, what would happen? Would they be able to wield the weapon's power?"

Zero replied, "Responding to the master, although they cannot see the weapon's data, they can use the weapon's power just like us players. By manipulating the embedded items, they can also use the skills, consuming mental energy to guide the aura skills for enhancement."

"Actually, the data the base can display are objective descriptions of objects, such as HP and MP, which correspond to a person's life strength and energy intensity. In the absence of other available energy within the human body, mental energy will be used in place of energy. However, prolonged use of skills can cause a burden on the brain, leading to dizziness, nausea, and mental disorientation."

"Oh, I understand now. So if Thin Dog and the others want to use skills, they have to continuously consume a person's mental energy."

After understanding some of the rules of the nano-base, Cheng Shaofeng continued building his house.

He wanted to set up a shop to sell things specifically to players.

"My head feels so dizzy... did I get a debuff?"

Thin Dog shook his head, feeling unwell.

Demonic Fox quickly asked, "Check your watch, is there any injury information?"

"No? My watch just displayed a blue progress bar, about 30% remaining, and it's still slowly decreasing. What is this... Holy crap! That's my mana bar, I forgot to turn off a skill."

He quickly fiddled with the embedded items on his weapon, and the suction from the weapon disappeared. The Armor Piercing Aura on both of them also vanished simultaneously.

"Phew~ This skill is still consuming mana even when it's on... If my mana gets low, I get debuffs?"

Demonic Fox took Thin Dog's weapon and reactivated the aura.

A mana bar also appeared on his watch, and it immediately dropped by 50%, starting to decrease slowly.

Demonic Fox felt his own condition and analyzed, "According to the description, activating this aura requires a 50% reduction in maximum energy, and it also consumes 1 energy per second. Our mental energy is also slowly recovering, but the recovery speed is less than 1 point per second, so it will continue to decrease. If we add some mana regeneration stats, we can keep this aura active without causing mental strain."

Thin Dog immediately thought of the hand equipment stored at his home: the Rune Bone of Destruction!

"That bone adds 33% energy recovery speed, which probably refers to our mental energy. So, if we want the aura to be permanent, one of us has to hold a spear in one hand and the bone in the other."

"Hmm, that might be a bit inconvenient and reduce our attack power significantly. Maybe we should find a one-handed sword to embed, and then hold the bone in the other hand..."

"Shh! There's a mutated deer ahead... let's sneak up on it."

The two of them surrounded it from both sides. After a tense and exciting operation, they successfully let the deer escape.

"So unlucky! This thing is harder to farm than Raiders!"

"It runs away from everyone, what a coward! It has such long antlers, but it's not man enough to fight. Going back to be a horn for the doe, huh?"

The two of them vented their frustration with curses.

Finally, Demonic Fox concluded, "We need to get a ranged weapon! If we can't get a gun, we'll get a bow. Then we can shoot this deer first, and it won't be able to run fast."

As they were talking, they saw a creature with colorful fur wandering in the depression ahead, seemingly looking for insects to eat on the soft ground.

It was about 1 meter tall and looked quite robust.

Thin Dog said, "Uh, judging by its shape, this looks like a... chicken?"

Demonic Fox nodded. "It looks like it to me too, but let's not worry about what it is. This thing has so many feathers! If we catch this chicken and bring it back, it'll be enough for Xiao Xiao to make hundreds of arrow fletchings."

Their eyes lit up. "We must catch it!"

Sneaking up again, Thin Dog was smarter this time and directly used his stone spear as a ranged weapon, throwing it.

Poof!

One of the Long-Haired Chicken's feet was impaled. The stone spear, with its astonishing penetration, pierced its toes and stuck into the ground.

"Cluck cluck cluck!"

The Long-Haired Chicken let out a miserable squawk, like encountering three single Indian men.

"Go!"

The two pounced. Thin Dog pinned the chicken's body with his own, while Demonic Fox used the butt of her mace to bash its head, knocking it out.

The two then found some willow branches nearby and tied up the Long-Haired Chicken securely.

When Lin Tang arrived, he saw the two men who had captured the chicken and was amused.

"Well, well~ You guys play rough, huh? Reminds me of that story about the old man and the camel in the desert, tsk tsk~ Remember to skin it first."

Thin Dog: "Get lost, get lost! Hurry up and tie this thing to the vehicle, we need to get home. We're rich with this haul!"

Calamity Base.

Cheng Shaofeng stared at the vehicle filled with Raider corpses and a Long-Haired Chicken that had already woken up, falling into a pensive mood.

"So... you borrowed the vehicle because you killed too many Raiders and couldn't carry them all back, right?"

Lin Tang: "That's right!"

Cheng Shaofeng looked at the massive bodies of the Raiders, even in death, and his mouth twitched slightly.

He then calmly nodded, "Soldiers, you've done well. You're almost meeting my expected standards. Keep up the good work. You still need to find more energy to allow..."

"Here!"

Lin Tang produced a small black box, about the size of a bullet vibrator, successfully cutting off Cheng Shaofeng's words.

Zero: "Detected intense nuclear energy fluctuations within the item before me. It can replenish base energy. Absorb?"

Cheng Shaofeng took it and asked, "Where did you find this?"

Lin Tang: "Oh, didn't you say Raider camps always have these radiation sources? We just went and slaughtered one, and sure enough, we found it."

Cheng Shaofeng: "..."

The other two teammates: (￣▽￣")

"Ahem... Lin Tang, don't get too cocky. If the NPCs think we're too capable and assign us dangerous missions, we're dead."

"Ah, this! Then can I say we just picked it up on the road?"

Cheng Shaofeng watched the three whispering to each other, deeply shocked.

This is what kind of god-tier players are these? Raiders that big, and they just went for it, even taking down six at once! Then they raided the enemy camp... and came back without a scratch?

Yesterday they could only handle one Raider, and today they're mowing them down like grass?

Hiss~ So many Raiders, plus some Electronic Components, couldn't that be used to summon new players?

Despite his internal turmoil, Cheng Shaofeng maintained a calm expression.

"Soldiers, I admit you've given me a few surprises. Your mission is complete. I will use this Radiated Material to charge the [Clone Production Pod]. All materials for your three clones are ready. You will have the right to immediate revival upon death. Of course, avoiding death as much as possible is what a Calamity Base soldier should do. Do not become arrogant."

After Cheng Shaofeng finished speaking, the three players' watches lit up simultaneously.

[Mission Completed: Collect materials for your own clone] [Reward: Merit Points: 100]

While the other two were still stunned, Demonic Fox quickly saluted by thumping her chest, "For Calamity Base! For the Lord! For glory!"

Cheng Shaofeng nodded, and nanobots flowed from his hand.

The black box was pierced, and the energy was absorbed by the nanobots into the Calamity Base within his body.

[Charging]

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