Chapter 244 "Automatic Locking
"Miao, this bowl is the less spicy one, here."
The Hungry Monkey rose, placing a bowl of noodles in front of Chen Miao, then finally unbuckled his belt, looking towards the words on the wall about free extra noodles with a satisfied nod of approval.
To be honest, they weren't short on money right now.
But for some reason, they still preferred to eat at restaurants that offered free extra noodles. It wasn't that they were stingy about the money; rather, it felt unbearably uncomfortable to pay for extra noodles, as if they were being ripped off.
After his bloodline awakened, he needed even more food than before, but the miraculous part was that, despite eating so much every day, his weight didn't increase at all.
His bloodline was an extremely abnormal one, given enough time, his Strength Value could become higher than any Supernatural beings in the federation, and punching holes in the sky wasn't just an empty phrase, but it seemed somewhat unimpressive next to Miao.
The main reason was... he seldom had a chance to make a move. Before he could even swing his fist, Miao's punch would have already come crashing down.
Secondly, as abnormal as his bloodline was, he still needed time to develop, whereas Miao's rate of growth was much faster.
Thinking of this,
The Hungry Monkey shook his head helplessly, decided not to dwell on these troubling thoughts any longer, rolled up his sleeves, picked up his chopsticks, and started gobbling down the bowl of noodles the owner had brought over after taking a deep whiff.
...
They had ordered covered noodles; The Hungry Monkey's was a green pepper and pork cover, Yuan Buping and Zhou Shen both went for garlic sprout and twice-cooked pork, and Chen Miao opted for the pork belly cover.
These past few days had been somewhat busy.
Causing his sleep to be insufficient, feeling a bit overheated with a slight stabbing pain at the top of his mouth, he wasn't well-suited for spicy food. Chen Miao stirred his pork belly noodles while checking the Prop Effects in his backpack.
He was ready to experiment a bit with the little gadgets Wang Haina had given him.
4. 'Color Bullets': The Gatling gun fired bullets that also doubled as flares, maintaining sufficient Lighting while firing.
5. 'On-the-spot Defense': This Gatling could be set up somewhere to activate automatic attacks, and when the automatic attack is turned on, it automatically targets all non-whitelisted creatures that enter its range.
These two effects were for his new weapon, the 'Hell Gatling'; he wasn't very satisfied with either of them, including the fifth one. The whitelist was truly a bit of a waste, as it could easily injure some important NPCs by mistake.
But if you said it was completely useless, that wasn't quite right either.
He was now considering whether to change these two effects. It felt like a gamble, and he was a bit worried that the new effects might be worse than these two. If he wanted to change them back later, it wouldn't be as easy.
"..."
Chen Miao felt torn for a moment, forgetting his noodles were clumping together. After a bit, he gritted his teeth and decided to take a chance. If it weren't for the existence of the Effect Refresh Ticket, he might have just settled for these two effects.
After all, if they couldn't be changed, it would be like discovering your wife had stinky feet after marriage. What can you do, divorce her?
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But now that he had a choice, making do became a much more difficult decision.
"Change!"
He bit the bullet and instantly used a Refresh Ticket, aiming to replace the fifth effect 'On-the-spot Defense.' Compared to the Lighting effect, he felt 'On-the-spot Defense' was somewhat more useless.
At least that's what he thought.
The next second—
A flash of white light crossed the panel, and when the content stabilized again, the original fifth effect 'On-the-spot Defense' had disappeared, replaced by a new one.
5. 'Absolute Kill': Any monster or NPC with less than 10% life that is hit will be instantly killed, excluding elite monsters, players, bosses, etc.
"Hmm..."
Chen Miao frowned slightly as he looked at this new effect. How should he put it? It seemed a bit like a lame duck, ineffective against bosses and other players, meaning it would only affect weaker monsters, like the zombies surrounding the city.
Not even the zombie lieutenants could be affected, excluding elite creatures.
It seemed rather pointless.
With the damage of the Hell Gatling, basic monsters were practically one-shot kills. Even if they weren't killed with one shot, a second bullet would usually be enough. Having an additional kill effect was meaningless.
Chen Miao glanced at his 15 remaining "Effect Refresh Tickets" without any hesitation.
"Continue!"
As the white light flashed again, the panel changed once more.
5. "Bullet Color Change": Your bullets will turn into any color you want, including pink. How about that? Are you tempted?
"Get lost, continue!"
5. "Messenger of Peace": For every 10 bullets you shoot, five of them will randomly cause one of the following positive effects: healing, shield, crowd control release... etc. When you're in a crisis, you can choose to fire a barrage at yourself, and if Lady Luck is on your side, you will be revitalized!
"Get lost!"
5. "Automatic Locking": All the bullets you fire will automatically lock onto targets, the selection of which depends on your consciousness. Any enemy locked onto by your mind can be hit successfully, but that's only if the enemy is not behind cover.
"..."
"What a waste."
Chen Miao looked at this newly refreshed effect with some regret. To tell the truth, the effect was great; he hadn't seen it on other people's Hell Gatlings, which surely made it a rare effect.
But soon, he realized something was amiss.
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Wait a second.
There shouldn't be so many prop effects on a normal Grade D item. His prop effects were all coming from the unique "Yayu" skin, meaning this effect should be one of the random effects that come with the "Yayu" skin.
That made more sense.
If the "Automatic Locking" effect were truly one of the effects in the Hell Gatling's effect pool, then that would be a game-changer. The price of the Hell Gatlings capable of refreshing this effect would probably skyrocket several times over.
With this effect, any shooter would transform into a Sharpshooter, hitting targets with precision.
A powerful effect.
If there were a clear ranking within the effect pool, this one would likely be among the top. However, this effect meant little to him, as he possessed the unique hidden occupation "Gun Devil."
This occupation's innate effect was the complete control over the trajectory of his bullets.
He could hit wherever he wanted.
It was redundant.
And his ability was even stronger. The "Automatic Locking" effect wouldn't work if someone was hiding behind cover, but his occupation effect allowed bullets to slip through even the smallest gaps as long as they existed.
That was truly domineering.
There was no comparison; they weren't even on the same level.