Shut Up – This Is a Serious Game

Chapter 8: I'm Not the Liver Emperor.

Qin Chuan never expected that he, who had been trying to fix a bug, would be subdued by a wild boar.

The feeling of real hunting was really exhilarating.

In fact, there is a lot of overlap between the circles of war and hunting. An elder once told him that in hunting, shooting is the lowest level, and then there is trapping, which is setting traps.

These two are played by more people, mainly for safety.

Going further up, it comes to archery, which is divided into recurve bows and compound bows. People who play recurve bows look down on those who play compound bows, and those who play compound bows look down on those who play crossbows.

However, no matter whether it is shooting, trapping or archery, they all have a lofty goal.

Knife Hunting!

One person with a knife, or one person with a trap gun, facing off against prey that is equal in weight to themselves, enjoying the purest form of dangerous challenge.

And themselves, they had completed the knife hunt that most hunters wanted to try, but were too scared to.

And not just once either!

With the complete disregard for their own life and the remarkable observational skills of the player called Chen Jiu, they consecutively hunted a wild boar, a lost giant horned deer, three bloated beyond belief lop-eared rabbits, and even found an oak tree, trapping the squirrels and storing up the acorns within.

Exceeding the mission objective!

If it weren't for the sun setting on the horizon, he would definitely have continued hunting!

Seeing the prompt on the interface【Prey Acquired 3/3】, he was practically bursting with joy.

Although the task rewards were so-called points, he couldn't help but be excited despite not knowing what the points could be used for besides buying a revival chance. It was normal that the novice trading system wasn't open yet, after all, why worry about not having anywhere to spend the money he had saved up? Furthermore, his level had increased from 0 to 1. The pleasure of the rewards filled his brain, and the idea of helping the planners to find bugs was sadly pushed to the corner—what bugs? I want to play the game! Of course, as an old-timer, he was able to find bugs. For example, he successfully managed to get the giant stag stuck between two trees, and in the end he had to use a spear he had dropped earlier to kill it.

In summary, the task was completed successfully with the only regret that the wig was destroyed by the giant antlers. However, it was alright since the rewards were shared and she still got some points. Qin Chuan checked his player interface again but still couldn't find the experience bar. His attributes were slightly increased, agility from 4 to 4.02 and strength to 8.05. Perhaps this game is like the ACT game he used to play, Hollow Knight, with no experience value, but rely on proficiency for upgrades. That would be pretty good and more realistic...

He let out a sigh and looked towards Chen Jiu, saying, "Buddy, you have quite the observational skills, have you ever gone hunting before?"

Chen Jiu shook his head in response, "No, this must be some kind of in-game setting. I just rely on my intuition--speaking of which, killing a wild boar of that size in real life must not be that easy, right?"

As he spoke, Chen Jiu thought to himself, "intuition=life-detection system unlocked with an F-level permission".

Makes sense.

Since other players can't see their own interface, let's just leave it all up to fate.

"Your fate is good, but why don't I have fate displayed?"

"Neither do I, I’m just guessing." Chen Jiu quickly explained.

Phew, almost got caught.

Fortunately, Qin Chuan didn't think too much and instead looked at the "corpse" left by the wig, feeling helpless.

"What do we do with this thing? Should we drag it back or bury it?"

Worm crouched down and carefully looked at the frozen and stiff corpse, shaking her head and saying: "The guide didn't mention recovering the corpse, it probably would disappear after a while, why not bury it?"

"Forget it, don't waste the energy, just find a hollow and throw it away, it will be buried by the next snow."

Qin Chuan threw the corpse of the wig like a rag doll between two rocks, then clapped his hands and continued: "That's it, out of sight out of mind!"

"If the wig hears this, he will probably be mad..." Chen Jiu helplessly said. In fact, he didn't know what to do with the corpse, because it was not something that the particle reconstruction system could refresh.

Fortunately there are still few players now so there should not be too much trouble for now. After the first hyperspace radar is restored, the first thing to do might be to build a crematorium with the players. Seeing that the sky was darkening, Chen Jiu, knowing the danger of the land, didn't dare to delay and called the other two to drag the prey back, and on the way they met Jiafa who had come to support them after reviving. The three of them split the prey into two trips and dragged them back. Fortunately, the distance was not too far. Looking at the prey piled up in the hall, Chen Jiu smiled satisfied. These things were enough for the three of them to eat for almost a month. From now on, besides necessary hunting and gathering, more energy can be put into the infrastructure.

Despite the spaciousness of the research institute, it cannot accommodate the hundreds of players who will arrive soon.

At the same time as aiming to restore the Hyper Space Radar in Summer River Village, it is urgent to build an external base that can withstand the Ice Age.

But how does one do this?

Chen Jiu is an IT person and knows nothing about infrastructure construction.

It seems he will have to wait until after the game is over to find someone to ask.

Qin Chuan walked up to Chen Jiu, patting his shoulder and asked, "Hey buddy, did you get the new task? To make jerky out of these game? I just tried to cut it, but it's nothing like I imagined!" "I thought I could just cut it with a knife and it would automatically be separated, but it didn't work...," Qin Chuan said, his hands covered in blood from the kitchen knife Frost River had prepared for them. It should have been a gruesome scene, yet his confused, innocent expression made it seem a bit funny. On the other side, the corpse of a snow rabbit had already been mangled by him. "Er... to be honest, I don't know how either," Chen Jiu answered honestly.

But soon he continued, "But I saw that there are skills for sale in the mall, and in the life skills there is a slaughter skill for only 20 points. Should we each buy one?"

As soon as the words fell, Qin Chuan suddenly realized, and then, together with Chen Jiu, the two of them turned their eyes to the Wig standing aside and joyfully peeling the acorns.

Well, that's right, it's her.

Upon noticing the two people's gazes, Wig looked back in confusion. Then, seemingly realizing something, they spoke with a slightly fearful expression:

"My goodness, can't you two act like adults? How can you make a girl do such a bloody thing!"

"There's no other way. You're the least useful---no, I mean, you have the weakest fighting ability; you were probably born to be in the Life department!"

"Come on, Wig, think about it. Killing pigs is still a contribution to the revolution!"

"Well what about you? Why don't you go to the life department!"

Wig retorted in disagreement.

Qin Chuan: "Of course I can't do it; I'm a special invite bug tester, here to test bugs; how can I bug up living systems? Don't you see that when I just enter the game, I'm already looking for bugs everywhere?"

The other three people were quiet. Qin Chuan looked at them bewildered and asked in confusion, "What? Can't bug up?"

Worm sighed and replied, "Chuan Ge, it's not that you can't bug up; it's just that you can't bug up. Just when you entered the game, you were still taking me around to find loopholes and shortcuts, but you ended up being lonely. Before you went out hunting, you said you wanted to skip the beginner tutorial, but in the end it was Long Ge who found the prey. After killing the pigs, you said you wanted to bug the recycling mechanism, so what happened? Where did you bug up to?"

"You just kept hunting and killing pigs, you bugged up a hammer! I can see that you're not a tester at all, you're just a grinding master!"

"What are you saying! What are you saying!"

Qin Chuan was greatly taken aback and argued, "How can I call it luck? Feeding dogs for Qin Chuan's sake, can that be called luck? That's called knowing the game mechanisms! Not knowing the game mechanisms, can it be passed quickly?" Then came some incomprehensible words, like "blind", "glitched" and "all boss" and everyone burst out laughing, filling the research institute with a cheerful atmosphere...