Chapter 6

"Poisonous snake!" Su Peng saw it and immediately recognized it. He had seen this kind of snake when he was playing on the mountains near his hometown as a child; it was a very venomous snake!

Su Peng immediately walked over and picked up a branch from the ground.

The sensation in his palm made him feel as if he was really holding a branch. He thought to himself that the game's feedback system was really impressive. Su Peng used the branch to lift the snake off the child's leg.

He then walked over, picked up the child, and carried him to safety.

Looking at the child's wound, he saw two small round holes on the leg, with the blood inside turning black.

Su Peng tore off a piece of the child's clothing and used the cloth to tie up the leg where the child had been bitten.

He then began to squeeze the wound, and some black blood was squeezed out.

"Master Cao is here! Master Cao is here!" At this moment, Su Peng suddenly heard the child shouting. He saw a man in his forties, dressed in villager's clothes, walking over quickly.

The man held a dagger in his hand.

"Whoosh!"

The dagger was thrown and firmly stuck into the snake's head. The snake writhed wildly, but its head was pinned to the ground and soon stopped moving.

The villager walked over, picked up the dagger, and came to Su Peng's side.

The child's parents and the village chief, Doctor Han, also rushed over. Doctor Han took the child to treat him, and the parents followed.

Only Su Peng and the man who might be a carpenter were left.

Su Peng looked at the NPC and saw the name 'Master Cao' displayed above his head.

Su Peng thought to himself and then walked up to Master Cao, saying, "Hello, Master Cao. I saw you throw the dagger just now; it was really impressive."

"I've been working with wood for a long time and enjoy making wooden carvings, so I'm used to it," Master Cao replied honestly to Su Peng.

"Master Cao, can you teach me how to throw daggers?"

"Do you want to learn?" Master Cao asked, "To learn how to throw daggers, you need to have good eyesight and dexterity. If you really want to learn, I'll have to test you."

"Sure," Su Peng agreed.

Master Cao took out a copper coin and held it in his hands, constantly changing the position of his hands. The coin flew back and forth between his hands at an extremely fast speed, making it hard to follow.

"Stop! Which hand is the coin in?" Master Cao suddenly stopped and asked Su Peng.

"Left hand."

Master Cao opened his left hand, and indeed, the coin was there.

"It might have been a lucky guess. This game needs to be played three times. If you guess correctly all three times, I'll teach you how to throw daggers," Master Cao said and continued to move his hands.

Soon, Master Cao's hands stopped again.

"Still the left hand."

"Very good, this is the third time," Master Cao said, and his hands started moving again. However, a gust of wind blew a piece of grass onto Master Cao's hair. He removed it with his hand and continued moving his hands.

"Stop!" Master Cao's hands stopped, and he asked Su Peng, "Which hand is the coin in this time?"

Su Peng, lying in the game pod, thought to himself, "Is this game really so realistic? Are the NPCs this intelligent?"

Although he was thinking this, Su Peng smiled and said, "Master Cao, that's not fair. The coin is in your hair, isn't it?"

"Haha... You noticed," Master Cao laughed a bit awkwardly and reached into his hair, pulling out a copper coin.

"System notification: Your eyesight +1."

Su Peng suddenly received a system notification.

"Good, I've gained a point in an attribute, even if it's not a basic one," Su Peng thought. At this moment, Master Cao took out a dagger and began explaining to Su Peng, "To throw a dagger, you need to have your eyes, hands, and mind in sync..."

After a one-minute cooldown, Su Peng received another notification: "You have learned Basic Dagger Throwing, current level LV.0."

Su Peng felt quite happy when he saw this.

Master Cao seemed a bit guilty about being caught cheating. After teaching Su Peng the dagger throwing skill, he invited Su Peng to his house and gave him a dagger, not the one that killed the poisonous snake. Su Peng now had a dagger in his inventory. After giving Su Peng the dagger, Master Cao let him leave.

"Finally, I have a skill..." Su Peng thought. He noticed a new skill bar in the upper right corner of his vision. He equipped the Basic Dagger Throwing skill and walked to a large tree in the village. He took out the dagger from his backpack, aimed at a point on the tree, and controlled his wrist to throw the dagger!

"Clang!" The dagger stuck to the tree.

Su Peng realized that the game's attack system did not lock onto targets. The dagger's trajectory was shown as a white line, and it relied entirely on Su Peng's sense of touch to hit the tree.

"This game is really challenging... The attack system is not locked on or controlled by thoughts; it's entirely based on feel. I need to practice more," Su Peng thought. He walked over to the tree, pulled out the dagger, and put it back in his inventory.

"Regardless, I've learned an attack skill, which is pretty good," Su Peng thought. He practiced throwing the dagger a bit more by the tree, feeling he had a better sense of it, and then put the dagger away and left.

At this moment, Fu Kang suddenly shouted, "Leader Lei, does this game have class restrictions? I just accepted a quest, and the system is asking if I want to change my class."

"Classes... There are no restrictions. In the Death Loop, you can change to any class as long as you meet the requirements. You can even change to a dozen different classes."

"Everyone, pay attention. Have you all entered the newbie village? Completing quests in the village can increase NPC favor. Once your favor reaches a certain level, you can change your class... Generally, new players can change their class within half a day. So, I'm giving you a task: by the end of the workday, your characters must change to a class!"

Lei Ming suddenly clapped his hands and said to everyone.

"Understood!" Everyone replied. Su Peng felt the atmosphere become a bit more tense, and everyone felt some pressure.

Sun Shijia then shouted loudly, "Brother Fu, that's amazing! You've already changed your class?"

"Yes, I became an apprentice at the blacksmith's shop," Fu Kang said, trying to sound casual, but his tone still revealed his pride.

"Amazing! Brother Fu, you have to give me a discount on weapons in the future!" Sun Shijia said in an admiring tone. Fu Kang laughed and said, "No problem!"

"Someone has already changed their class... I can't be too proud of getting an attack skill," Su Peng thought, surprised that Fu Kang, who looked like a shrewd businessman, was not much weaker than him in the game.

Su Peng walked to the inn and found a woman in her forties sitting on a small stool in front of a house, looking at the weather outside.

"Hello, Aunt Li! I was introduced by the village chief. I heard you need some ingredients?" Su Peng asked the NPC, his hand on the ball.

"Yes, I'm planning to make some salt-baked wild chicken, but I don't have the ingredients. A young man said he would get me some wild chickens, but I haven't seen him for a long time. Sigh, that young man is really unreliable," Aunt Li said in a complaining tone.

The young man she mentioned was probably Sun Shijia's character. From the NPC's tone, it seemed Sun Shijia had lost favor. Given the game's realism, it would be difficult for Sun Shijia to get another quest here.

"Aunt Li, how about I take this quest?" Su Peng said, estimating his own abilities.

"You? You seem more reliable than that young man. Alright, help me catch ten wild chickens. They're in the forest to the east of the village. I'll buy them from you for fifteen coins each," Aunt Li said to Su Peng.

Su Peng immediately received a notification: "You have accepted Aunt Li's ingredient quest, to be completed within one day."

Su Peng confirmed and walked towards the eastern part of the village.

When he arrived at the forest on the eastern side of the village, Su Peng indeed found some colorful wild chickens flying around. He equipped his dagger and thought, "Let's see how my dagger throwing skill works..."

...

A dagger flew out as a white streak and hit a wild chicken. The chicken's left wing and leg were injured, and it tried to fly away, but a figure quickly approached, grabbed it, and snapped its neck!

Su Peng held the wild chicken, which was the sixth one he had caught. It had been half an hour.

The wild chickens were not easy to catch, being very alert. They would fly away when someone approached, and their agility and movement were better than Su Peng's. Some chickens would even fly away after being hit by a dagger, almost taking Su Peng's dagger with them. However, as time went on, Su Peng became more skilled with the dagger. Initially, he often missed, but later, he could hit one chicken with every three throws.

"Four more to go!" Su Peng thought and continued searching for wild chickens...

After another ten minutes, Su Peng finally caught ten wild chickens. His Basic Dagger Throwing skill had also leveled up to LV.2, with improved accuracy and range.

"Quest completed." Su Peng wiped the sweat from his forehead and thought.

The wild chickens weighed about five to six pounds each, and ten of them were at the limit of Su Peng's carrying capacity. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and walked back to the village.

"Brother Su, how did you catch them?" As Su Peng entered the village, Sun Shijia's character, carrying a hoe, was about to leave. Seeing Su Peng return with wild chickens all over him, he couldn't help but ask.

"Threw daggers," Su Peng said and walked into the village, covered in chicken feathers, to turn in the quest...

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