<h4>Chapter 69: Neurotoxin</h4>
<strong>Trantor: </strong>Nyoi-Bo Studio <strong>Editor: </strong>Nyoi-Bo Studio
“These materials dropped by the scorpions are good. The Doctor yers would definitely like them.”
When the team had reached the beach of Silver Leaf Ind, Big Pineapple was the first to reach out and to pick up the material dropped from one of the Mutant Sand Scorpions. Feng Luo also picked one up to check the properties.
The venom nds of the Mutant Sand Scorpion can be used to produce a refined toxin that causes attenuation of the optic nerve, resulting in temporary blindness.
As expected, unexplored maps often dropped good stuff.
In War, apart from the beneficial potions, there were also a variety of potions with negative effects. For example, yers from the Doctor profession would usually cast attacks through all kinds of negative potionsmonly known as “poisons,” which would cause monsters or enemies to be poisoned in order to obtain a kill.
The toxin from the Mutant Sand Scorpion could cause “blindness,” and it was definitely an excellent potion material. It would be as useful like sh grenades if put to good use. After all, although sh grenades were easy to use, they could also be avoided or prevented. However, this kind of toxin, which could directly react with the human body, was difficult to dodge.
However, it required the life skills from the Doctor profession to extract and produce such toxins. Therefore, it would be less useful for average yers to have it on hand. Moreover, those were Red Queen’s prizes for killing the scorpions. Therefore, some of them collected the materials and passed to White Crescent while she opened up her own portable medical box to put in the scorpion venom nds.
A Doctor’s field kit was also a kind of toolbox that could carry simple pharmaceutical tools so that the Doctor could configure some simple drugs at the battlefield. Of course, the drugs produced this way would not work as effectively as those made with specialized equipment in the pharmaceuticalb.
Strangely, the NPC scientist, Aike, came forward with his eyes staring at the scorpion venom nd on her hands. “Miss White,” he said. “Sorry to bother you. Can I have some venom please?’
“No problem...”
White Crescent looked at Red Queen, who beckoned her yes. This that might be the flow of the mission.
“Great! Just a moment, please.” Aike opened the silver case in his hand and took out a small instrument with a ss tube. He then carefully extracted some of the poison from the scorpion’s venom nd into the container. He and his assistant, Lin, stared at their instrument’s screen as if they were expecting something to happen.
Big pineapple leaned his head closer to Feng Luo. “What are they doing?”
Feng Luo shook his head. “I don’t know!”
It could be assumed that only Red Queen, among the three of them, would know. In fact, it was quite clear that only Big Pineapple and himself were frencers among the seven yers.
If the seven were positioned in apany, the two of them would have been regarded as temporary blue-cor workers. They were only charged with finishing the task assigned without understanding the objective of the mission.
Red Queen, ck Panther, and zed Ice were familiar with each other, but Red Queen’s status was obviously higher than the other two. Therefore, Red Queen must have been the boss while the other two were the white-cors at the top management level of thepany.
Moreover, White Crescent and Neutron Star seemed to be new to the team, as they did not talk or work as quickly as ck Panther and zed Ice. They behaved themselves in front of Red Queen; they could have been considered neers still in a trial period.
This ranking of positions was not groundless. In fact, judging from the way Red Queen spoke and her various habits, she was definitely a person of status who was rich in reality. zed Ice was likely her assistant or secretary, while ck Panther must have been a driver or a bodyguard. As for the White Crescent and Neutron Star, they must have been the professional yers recruited by her in the game.
It waspletely normal for the wealthy from the Star Federation to hire people to y games with them—and in War, in particr. War was almost 100 percent realistic in-game, and the business opportunities were almost limitless. Many people who spent a lot of money initially would actually make more money.
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Since the NPCs were doing an experiment, everyone had to wait and watch. After over a minute of waiting, the middle-aged NPC scientist and the female assistant looked disappointed, as if they had failed to discover what they sought in the venom of the Sand Scorpion.
Afterward, the yers were asked to obtain a living Sand Scorpion for Aike. This was not a difficult task to do. Although the scorpions underneath the beach where they hadnded were all killed, there were still many living scorpions outside the Meteor Rain attack range.
However, average yers would not be able to aplish this. The majority of the yers feared a scorpion when it came to dealing with it. White Crescent Moon and zed Ice turned pale upon hearing the words. ck Panther remained calm. He was thepany’s white-cor, and he was a high-level one. Therefore, he would not do such dirty work. Although Feng Luo and Big Pineapple were temporary workers, they only did as stated in the contract. The rest of the tasks were none of their business. So the task fell to Neutron Star.
Even this Light Armor Warrior with sharp fighting skills was still afraid of the scorpions. However, he had to ept the mission under the boss’s orders. As a result, when Neutron Star managed to grab a Sand Scorpion, he was stung by its tail and went “blind” for five seconds and lost 100 HP per second, unfortunately.
Five seconds was not long, and 100 points per second of HP damage was low enough. Therefore, it was observed that the Sand Scorpion’s neurotoxin was not all that potent. But it soon became clear why these Sand Scorpions had a level of 40, as their blindness effect was stackable.
The blinded Neutron Star was stung once again by another Sand Scorpion crawling out of the sand as he made his retreat. Imagine if they hade ashore and been attacked by these Sand Scorpions, and everyone had gone blind! Due to the multitude of Sand Scorpions—and under the constant refreshing of the blindness state—everyone would have likely died here.
Luckily, Feng Luo had noticed this. Then the middle-aged scientist carefully put the captured Sand Scorpion into a small container and ced it into his own silver case.
“Is there anything else, Mr. Aike?” asked Red Queen. “If not, let’s go straight to the base.”
“Er... Okay, let’s go to the base!” the middle-aged scientist replied after a pause.
Feng Luo thought this was a little strange. When the NPC Aike spoke, his eyes seemed to look at Lin, but he only gave a quick reply.