Corruptors are low-tier monsters in the darkness, formed when humanoid beings are corrupted by the Evil God's power. Their flesh and blood are rotten, somewhat like zombies, but they can spray corrosive acid.
In his previous life, these monsters were the most common, so Bai Ye was very familiar with their sounds.
He immediately became alert because the dense fog caused low visibility, so he could only cautiously control the character forward.
In the next moment, a ferocious Corruptor appeared, spraying a stream of green liquid directly at Bai Ye's character.
Bai Ye was prepared and immediately dodged, then without hesitation swung the iron stick and smashed the Corruptor's head with a bang.
[You have killed the Corruptor. Do you want to Collect?]
Collect is a player ability in the game that allows collecting materials from the corpses of killed monsters.
Bai Ye immediately chose yes.
[Collect successful. You obtained Corroded Bone x1, Corrosive Venom x1.]
"Indeed, there's nothing useful on the Corruptor."
Bai Ye sneered, somewhat disgusted with the creature.
Because it was useless.
"Wait, it seems I can use these to synthesize."
Suddenly, Bai Ye remembered his talent and his eyes brightened.
These materials might be useless to others but not necessarily for him.
After all, his talent allowed synthesizing anything, though limited times, and only two attempts left today, which made him hesitate.
But soon Bai Ye made up his mind.
"Early strengthening is the most important. With strength, I can better explore the game world and acquire resources."
He opened his Backpack.
The recently Collected items were already automatically stored inside.
[Corroded Bone.]
[Description: Bones from inside the Corruptor's body containing a trace of corrosiveness.]
...
[Corrosive Venom.]
[Description: Venom from inside the Corruptor's body with strong corrosive properties, perhaps can be used to make poison?]
Bai Ye looked at the description and stroked his chin thoughtfully.
His talent was very powerful.
But it had two drawbacks.
First, only three chances per day.
Second, only two items could be synthesized at a time.
He could not spend all his remaining synthesis attempts on this, so he had to choose carefully.
After long consideration, Bai Ye made his choice.
[Iron Wooden Stick] + [Corrosive Venom].
Clicked synthesize.
A prompt immediately appeared.
[Synthesis successful. You obtained: Poisonous Wooden Stick.]
[Poisonous Wooden Stick.]
[Description: A wooden stick containing corrosive poison. Its material is hard, and when striking enemies, it has a chance to corrode their bodies.]
"Nice."
Bai Ye smiled happily.
With this, his combat power greatly increased.
Bai Ye controlled the character to continue moving forward, collecting some wood and stones on the ground.
The Shelter could be infinitely upgraded, but upgrading required materials. The rarer the material, the better, because the Shelter's evolution did not follow a fixed path; it would gain attributes based on the materials used for evolution.
Of course, that was for later stages.
Early on, only iron, wood, and stone were needed.
After a short while, Bai Ye's Backpack was filled with almost two hundred pieces of wood and stone.
At this moment, a Corruptor entered the screen range.
Bai Ye remained calm, controlling the character to dodge the Corruptor's venom, then quickly approached and swung the poisonous wooden stick.
With a bang, the Corruptor's head exploded, a one-hit kill.
After collecting, he obtained a pile of useless materials.
Bai Ye did not discard them but kept them in the Backpack.
He knew he was not the only player in this game.
Although all players had talents, the talents varied in strength.
The key point was that not all players could get a good weapon early on. Maybe later he could trade the Poisonous Wooden Stick for resources.
On the phone screen, the fog surged, the world pitch black, only a one-meter visible area around the character.
Besides the eerie background music, a faint rustling of cold wind could be heard.
Suddenly, A series of roars came from the deep mist.
Bai Ye raised his eyebrows in surprise. "Seems... all are Corruptors, but there seem to be quite a few."
The number of roars sounded like at least a dozen.
"Could there be a building ahead?"
Bai Ye guessed.
After all, Corruptors were humanoid creatures corrupted by the Evil God. In the wilderness, even if someone was corrupted, there would only be one or two, not a dozen.
So it was very likely there was a building ahead.
Thinking of this, Bai Ye did not feel fear but rather excitement.
"A building..."
"Maybe there will be good stuff."
Controlling the character, Bai Ye cautiously advanced.
Soon three Corruptors appeared. They noticed Bai Ye and roared, charging at him.
Bai Ye calmly dodged their attacks, then found an opportunity to strike with the stick, killing one first, then repeated the method for the other two.
In no time, all three Corruptors lay dead at Bai Ye's hands.
After collecting as usual, Bai Ye moved the character forward a distance, and sure enough, a corner of a ruined village appeared on the screen.
"Just as I thought."
In such places, the probability of finding a Chest was much higher, so Bai Ye licked his lips and sat upright, looking serious but also expectant.
Entering the Village, the Corruptors' sounds rose and fell. Clearly, there used to be many villagers here, but all had been corrupted into Corruptors.
While cautiously exploring, Bai Ye also searched for usable resources in the Village.
[You picked up wood.]
[You picked up stone.]
[You picked up iron.]
[You picked up iron.]
[You picked up a Corroded Iron Knife.]
[You picked up Corroded Armor.]
"There really is good stuff, haha."
Seeing the prompts, Bai Ye laughed heartily and immediately opened the Backpack, seeing the Corroded Iron Knife and Armor inside.
He ignored the iron knife for now and focused on the armor, deciding to use his last synthesis attempt.
[Corroded Armor] + [Iron].
Activating his talent, the rust spots on the armor immediately vanished, replaced by a brand-new shine.
[You obtained a set of Soldier Armor.]
[Soldier Armor.]
[Description: Standard-issue soldier armor from an empire, with strong defense but causing some movement inconvenience.]
Bai Ye clicked equip.
The character on the screen flashed white light and donned a set of blue-and-white armor, giving a strong defensive impression.
Seeing this, Bai Ye nodded with great satisfaction.
His character now had a weapon.
What was lacking was defense.
Now with this armor, at least the Village's Corruptors could not threaten him.
This also meant he could start slaughtering freely in the Village.
Of course, on the condition that no monsters other than Corruptors lived in this Village.
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