Chapter 20 - 19 One Night
Maya stood on guard while Lin Wu rummaged through a dead player's body and found quite a bit of junk, he called out, "Hey, I found something weird." and tossed it to Maya.
Catching it with one hand, she saw the item was named corpse smell concealer. After consumption, one's body would emit the smell of zombies, preventing zombie attacks during this period, which lasts for one minute. The side effect was moderate poisoning, losing 1 health point per second for one minute.
"No wonder they were so confident; they could use this potion to lure large hordes of zombies to attack our base," Maya thought. If a resurrected player could obtain this kind of drug, it meant that it was not that rare. This implied that in addition to the irregular sieges by zombies, the base also had to contend with the malicious destruction by other players. It meant that the base needed to have a certain number of defenders at all times.
While they talked, the corpse of the player known as 'A' disappeared, and Lin Wu panicked as he hadn't searched it thoroughly. He immediately turned to search player 'C'. However, since the three players' deaths were too closely timed, Lin Wu only managed to find a book in C's backpack.
"Piping study?" Lin Wu was both happy and confused; happy because it was a Skill Book, but confused because he didn't know what piping study was. The book only indicated it was a Skill Book, without explaining what piping study entailed.
Maya didn't understand either, "Gunbarrel? Making homemade gunbarrels? Or plumbing? Capable of running water?"
Lin Wu said, "Those would be called gunbarrel study and plumbing study."
Maya asked, "Are you going to learn it?"
Lin Wu shook his head, "Men should fear entering the wrong profession; you learn it." Normally, each person could only learn one Life Skill.
Maya hesitated for a moment, "Let's keep it for now." The sooner one learned and used a skill, the sooner they could leverage it to create value. It was unfortunate that the meaning of piping study couldn't be understood from the title alone, which didn't rule out the possibility that it was a redundant skill.
"Women should fear entering the wrong profession too, you know?" This was the first time Maya made a retort without meaning.