Chapter 12: Chapter 12: Arrangement and Estimation
Walking on the streets of the Royal Capital, Su Xiao paid attention to the shops on both sides of the street until a shop called ’Dooduib Grocery Shop’ appeared in his sight, and his footsteps stopped.
This was exactly the place he was looking for, Su Xiao walked into this business-declining grocery shop.
"Hey, Guard Sir, our shop paid the protection fee three days ago, how come~?"
The gaze of the grocery shop owner seemed to view a Plague God, it seemed they were often squeezed by the Guard Team in the past.
"I’m not here to collect protection fees, do you have a certain type of plant here...?"
Half an hour later, Su Xiao left the grocery shop with a smile on his face, and the shop owner warmly sent him to the door, it seemed Su Xiao bought quite a few things.
Wanting to kill the master of Mount Corvo is definitely not simple.
According to Su Xiao’s memory, the size of that tiger was at least several times that of an ordinary tiger, with a height of four to five meters, making it a thorough beast.
Su Xiao didn’t go to the wild directly to find the master of Mount Corvo, but first returned to the Guard headquarters.
After wandering in the Guard headquarters for a while, Su Xiao came to the warehouse where supplies were stored.
Due to Ou Ka’s death, the Guard team is now leaderless, and only after a morning, the Guard team was showing signs of factionalism.
Hank and Ouke’s close confidants were forming two factions, engaging in both open and underhanded struggles.
Tomorrow night is the time to incinerate Scrap End Station, so today, the higher-ups must select a new leader of the guards, otherwise, it will affect major events.
In such chaos, Su Xiao easily infiltrated the warehouse, stayed there for a while, then left the Guard team, heading in the direction of Mount Corvo.
Looking at the distant city gate, Su Xiao previously infiltrated from this gate, and now he wanted to leave the city very simply, just need to walk forward openly.
The members of the Gatekeeper Team, upon seeing Su Xiao, nodded to him and let him pass without questioning at all.
After passing through the city gate and voicing the Scrap End Station, Su Xiao saw a large forest, this is Mount Corvo, the place where the original protagonist Luffy grew up.
Walking into the forest, Su Xiao clearly felt the air here was fresher, filled with the aura of various plants, with some unknown birds chirping nonstop on branches, and occasionally some docile herbivores passing through the vegetation, not too afraid of humans.
Although Mount Corvo is picturesque, it is also equally dangerous, with beasts often appearing, and generally, people dare not venture deep inside.
Walking in the deserted forest, Su Xiao kept his hand on the sword handle, appearing relaxed but actually vigilant about the rustling and swaying surroundings.
The surrounding dense forest is not suitable to be Su Xiao’s ’Hunting Ground’, he needed a clearing.
A clearing doesn’t need to be large, but it must meet the following two points.
The first point is to have a water source, as the Goa Kingdom is located on an island, lacking water is the most common situation, so Mount Corvo doesn’t have much water source, finding water would greatly increase the chances of finding the great tiger.
The second point is that there needs to be vegetation coverage on the clearing, making it more convenient for him to set traps.
Of course, the trap Su Xiao set is definitely not just digging a pit to lure Mount Corvo’s master to fall into.
The soil layer of Mount Corvo is not very hard, and such a large-sized creature, unless the pit walls are poured with concrete, will certainly collapse, leading to a dead end with no escape.
It’s not easy to find the trap arrangement point Su Xiao wanted, but the heavens help those who help themselves, after three hours of hard search, Su Xiao finally found a satisfactory terrain.
It’s a clearing surrounded by trees, covered in lush green grass, with colorful wildflowers growing, emanating a faint floral fragrance.
Upon smelling the floral scent, Su Xiao frowned, as it might affect his plan to some extent, but there are pros and cons, floral fragrance can cover the scent of arranging certain items.
Retrieving a shovel from the storage space, Su Xiao took off his shirt and began digging pits in the clearing~.
Two hours later, Su Xiao hid on a big tree near the clearing, which looked completely normal, with just a few randomly placed dried fruits on the ground.
Sweat dripped down Su Xiao’s cheeks, revealing well-defined muscles after going shirtless, his muscles were not exaggerated, appearing smooth.
Actually, those muscle-bound strong men aren’t suitable for combat, strong muscles indeed enhance power but also affect speed and flexibility, being very disadvantageous in fighting.
Su Xiao had attempted, he once visited a famous boxing gym, sparred with their strongest fighting coach.
According to Su Xiao’s estimate, that muscle-bound fighting coach’s strength was at least double his own, and the punch speed was very fast.
Yet in just five minutes, that coach, reportedly a city freestyle fight champion, collapsed on the ground, twitching continuously, his miserable moans evoking sympathy from some female trainees.
Su Xiao honed the skill of killing, but that fighting coach practiced competing, there is an essential difference between the two.
If rules were set, Su Xiao might not be an opponent, but if they fought to the death, Su Xiao could kill the other within two minutes.
Upon seeing Su Xiao’s approximately 1.8-meter, not very strong physique, the coach remarked ’no need for rules in sparring’, so he invited disaster...
Su Xiao sat on a thick tree branch, holding the "Old Flintlock Pistol", which still had three bullets.
Su Xiao previously attempted to load this gun, but Reincarnation Paradise hinted, due to severe wear, loading bullets might cause the entire gun to break and become unusable.
This probably is a kind of restriction, as Su Xiao picked up this gun and did not acquire it from a treasure chest.
After opening two White treasure chests, Su Xiao roughly understood some rules of Reincarnation Paradise.
Items acquired through treasure chests are mostly rule-bound and can be taken out of the Pirate World, while picked up or obtained during tasks items have a certain chance to be brought out, like the "Zhan Long Flash" on his waist.
Through initial exploration, Su Xiao reached some conclusions.
The semi-digitalization of organisms served only as an indication, like the notion of his Strength increasing from 6 to 7, straightforwardly showing his enhancement.
As for Life Value kinds of things, they are basically unquantifiable, at most calculated as a percentage, and won’t show how much health an enemy loses with each slash.
The blood bar above enemies indicates their life signs, the more it loses, the weaker the enemy becomes.
Upon receiving fatal damage, the enemy will die outright, even if 100% Life Value is left, the blood bar would be emptied, resulting in death afterward.
Data word for equipment or items is even more interesting.
For instance, his waist weapon "Zhan Long Flash", Durability, and Additional Attributes were comprehensible, and Attack power: 5~16, referred to this weapon’s sharpness and attack strength.
Equipment rating is the most critical data, from the rating, one could intuitively see an item’s value.
After several battles, Su Xiao understood that although semi-digitalized, it is merely a convenient estimation of strength, and everything conforms to reality, with no gamification.
Semi-digitalization serves to provide an intuitive reflection of his strength and item value.
This is the greatest help Reincarnation Paradise offers Su Xiao.