Chapter 10 Skill Card and Friends

Feng Bujue was overjoyed. Although the skill's effect wasn't exactly the type of ranged, active attack he'd imagined, it would undoubtedly greatly enhance his combat capabilities.

He promptly learned and equipped the skill, and another system prompt sounded:

【This is your Lingli (Spirit Energy) value, the specific number is visible. Using Ling Shu (Spirit Art) skills will consume this value. Lingli can only be recovered through rest or specific items and plots in the script. The system store does not provide any Lingli recovery potions. Current Lingli value: 140/140.】

Accompanying the system voice, the game menu automatically appeared before Feng Bujue's eyes. An arrow pointed to the upper left of the interface, and below the stamina value, a new energy bar gradually emerged, displayed in silver-white.

"Hmm... it only opens after learning a skill..." Feng Bujue muttered. He already knew about the new Lingli setting from the game instructions. He had been wondering why the new energy bar wasn't visible in the menu, but it turned out that learning a related skill would make it appear.

Judging from the value, Lingli was also linked to level, fourteen being one hundred and forty points. Compared to stamina, the data shrank to one-tenth. Of course, stamina was used in many places: walking, running, jumping, hitting, moving. Basically, any action would consume a little, while Lingli was only used for skills, so a larger number wasn't needed to represent it.

After claiming the bonus experience and skill card, Feng Bujue prepared to queue for another script. It was still less than five in the afternoon in the real world, and if all went well, he might reach his goal of leveling up to fifteen before dinner.

Although the official website hadn't explicitly stated it, according to the summaries of player discussions on the forums, it was generally accepted that scripts in non-sleep mode rarely had extremely long completion times. Long-term scripts with virtual durations of eight hours or more were mostly encountered in sleep mode.

Feng Bujue was planning to prepare dinner after finishing this script, so he didn't delay any further. He quickly returned to the login space and contacted Si Yu through the screen. However, she was currently in the mall and didn't respond immediately. A prompt box then popped up on the touchscreen: 【Your friend has not answered. She may be in an area outside the login space. Do you want to use the text chat function to contact her?】

Feng Bujue clicked yes and quickly typed: "Ready here. Contact me when you get back to the login space."

Only when all players in the team were in their respective login spaces could the captain choose to join the queue. This was also stated in the game instructions, and Feng Bujue naturally knew it.

Si Yu didn't keep him waiting long. She quickly returned to the login space and called Feng Bujue. After the dialogue connected, Feng Bujue said, "How was it? Any gains?"

"Didn't really look at the auction house. Bought a set of clothes in the system store and chose an attribute that increases Lingli recovery speed," Si Yu replied.

Feng Bujue was slightly surprised to hear this. He had assumed that Si Yu's growth direction would definitely be combat, but he hadn't expected her to choose a bonus related to the new specialization. But then he thought that the attributes on the clothes were random, and perhaps this was the most cost-effective of the three bonuses Si Yu had drawn. It was also possible that she was focusing on both combat and Ling Shu specializations, as it wasn't very cost-effective to focus on only one specialization in this game.

"Oh," Feng Bujue casually replied, then said, "By the way, you need three signatures to open a guild. There are only two of us now, not enough people. Are you online tonight?"

"Your friends... including me, there are still fewer than three online at the moment?" Si Yu seemed not to have heard Feng Bujue's question, but instead threw back an embarrassing question.

"Um... yeah," Feng Bujue dragged out the sound for a second, giving a definite answer.

"Let me guess... Wang Tanzhi, Long Aomin, and Little Bone are all your friends besides me?" Si Yu continued.

Little Bone should be Si Yu's nickname for Bei Ling Xiaogu (Sorrowful Spirit Laughing Skull). Feng Bujue thought of it when he heard it. He pretended to think for a few seconds, took a breath, made a "hiss..." sound through his teeth, and then still helplessly replied, "Yeah..."

"This is difficult. My situation is similar to yours."

"Damn it!" Feng Bujue shouted in his heart, but he could only think about it in his mind. In reality, he chuckled dryly and replied, "Heh... hehe... That's why I'm asking if you'll be online tonight. I don't know about Brother Long, but Xiao Tan should be online. Counting you and Bei Ling, that's enough people to sign."

"Yeah, sure," Si Yu replied, "But we won't be online for very long. Connecting the nerves for too long is bad for the body. I suggest you pay attention too."

"Hey! Before I met you, I only went online for a little over an hour! Just because you saw I was already online when you logged in, you immediately assumed I was addicted all day long?!" Feng Bujue exclaimed in his heart, but he could only reply in a weak voice, "Uh... thanks for your concern."

"Also, eating on time is very important. We might finish the next script at five or six o'clock. You should log off and eat something," she added in a calm tone.

"I was already planning to do that! Who would play until they forgot to eat and sleep! Do you think I'm a middle school student! Now that you've said that, even if I log off later, it'll seem pointless!" Feng Bujue's complaints were all stuck in his heart, making him so uncomfortable that he gesticulated wildly in his elevator, since the other party couldn't see him...

If Feng Bujue and Si Yu were very familiar, he would have blurted it all out, but the two were far from being the kind of friends who could speak without thinking, so Feng Bujue could only answer: "Um... I know."

He felt that if this conversation continued, the atmosphere would become like a mother scolding her son, so he quickly changed the subject: "Um... in order to eat on time, let's queue up quickly."

"Okay," Si Yu replied briefly.

Feng Bujue was relieved. He breathed a long sigh of relief and quickly operated on the screen.

【Feng Bujue, Level 14】

【Si Yu Ruoli, Level 14】

【Please select the game mode you want to join.】

【You have selected Team Survival Mode (Normal), please confirm.】

【Confirmed. The random value for the number of team members has been generated: five people.】

【Your team has entered the queue, searching for other ready individuals or teams.】

【Match complete, coordinating nerve connections, script is generating...】

【Loading begins, please wait.】