Game Universe: Awakening and Enhancing Everything at the Start

Chapter 54: The Upcoming Drug-Fueling Stream

After dismissing the service robot, Huang Hong continued to fiddle with his watch. The watch had detailed descriptions of all its functions and permissions, making it easy for Huang Hong, with his extensive gaming experience, to get started.

Huang Hongxian looked through the map of the area around the Labrador Fortress.

Centered on the Labyrinth Fortress, to the east lies the Beast Plains, and to the northeast of the Beast Plains is the Flesh and Blood Jungle, which is not marked with a name on the map; it is simply drawn as an area with the word "extremely dangerous" written on it.

Not far to the north of the Labyrinth Fortress lies a vast sea with what appears to be many islands. To the west is a vast forest region inhabited by humanoid life forms with complete systems. To the southwest lies a long, desolate region with complex terrain and numerous monster colonies.

After briefly checking the surrounding environment, the next step was to access the paid content.

By consuming credits, Huang Hong unlocked more information about the three areas: Ocean, Forest, and Wasteland.

The ocean is teeming with aquatic monsters, and there seems to be a sea-folk civilization that is in power. Some primitive tribes live on the islands, and they are at odds with the sea-folk civilization, with wars frequently breaking out between them.

Whether it was a sea-dwelling civilization or a primitive tribe, they were quite unfriendly to outsiders.

There exists an elven kingdom in the forest. Although they do not kill indiscriminately, they do not welcome outsiders. Once you enter the forest and are discovered by the elves, you will most likely be expelled, and there is a small chance you will become a prisoner.

The former is fine, but the latter is up to fate; after all, not all elves are "good people".

The information on the desolate areas is the most detailed, even marking the more dangerous monster groups there and their approximate strength.

The reason for such detailed information is that Rabo, the founder of Rabo Fortress, came to the Giant Beast Plains through the desolate region.

It's worth mentioning that, according to Wrench's speculation, the one who wanted to reach an employment deal with Huang Hong was probably Labb. He temporarily occupied the body of a service robot through the network inside the fortress and communicated with Huang Hong.

Next, Huang Hong inquired about information related to Paradise World, but all he received were basic information with little practical value.

When he inquired about rule assimilation and how to leave the Paradise World, he was told that he did not have sufficient privileges and that he needed at least Level A privileges to access the relevant information.

Level A access is considered a core resource of the fortress network. Ordinary mechanical fortresses are not qualified to grant it; only the top ten fortresses, that is, the top ten mechanical fortresses within the fortress network, are qualified to grant it.

After searching for and recording all the information he wanted, Huang Hong left the mission hall and headed to the next location.

This intelligence gathering cost over a thousand credits, and Huang Hong now has seven thousand credits left. Naturally, he wants to convert these credits into strength.

Huang Hong first arrived at a shop called Biopharmaceutical, which sells medicines made with biotechnology. The boss is a robot called Medicine Jar. Compared to the wrench's erratic behavior, Medicine Jar is quite taciturn.

Huang Hong said, "Let me see the medicines you have here."

The medicine jar pulls out a virtual list with more than thirty kinds of medicines to choose from. Just click on the medicine image to see its detailed information.

Huang Hong glanced at the potions and saw that there were all sorts of potions here. Healing injuries and replenishing blood were just the most basic ones. There were also potions that could increase certain status effects and enhance one's own attributes for a short period of time.

For example, adrenaline-enhancing drugs can put you in an excited state for a short time after injection, making you ignore fear, immune to pain, and improving your basic four-dimensional attributes to varying degrees in a short period of time, but you will enter a weak state after the effects of the drug wear off.

Huang Hong thought for a moment and asked, "Mr. Medicine Pot, do you have any potions here that can permanently enhance one's attributes?"

With a tap on the virtual screen, the names of the medicine bottles disappeared one by one, until only two remained... Physique Development Medicine and Potential Activation Medicine.

The properties of the constitution development potion are simple: after drinking it, one can continuously develop one's constitution. However, the limits of development vary depending on race and potential. What they have in common is that one needs to drink the constitution development potion continuously for a long time to achieve the maximum effect, until the potion becomes completely ineffective due to the continuous development of drug resistance.

The physique development potion costs 1000 credits.

Potential Activation Potions are of another type. They are used when a race reaches its maximum level to activate additional potential within the body, increase basic attributes, and have a small chance of activating additional racial talents or abilities.

The Potential Activator costs 5000 credits.

Huang Hong's eyes lit up, and he asked, "Do you have any more specific information about this potential activation potion? If I drink it multiple times, how much can it increase my attributes at most?"

The medicine bottle first looked at Huang Hong with a strange gaze, and then slowly said, "If you drink it repeatedly, you will be ruined."

Huang Hong choked, snapping out of his excitement and realizing what the medicine bottle meant: "You mean, 'potential'?"

The medicine bottle nodded and explained, "The essence of the potential activation potion is to activate the remaining potential in the body. Drinking it once will only have benefits, but if you drink it multiple times, when there is no more potential to be tapped in your body, it will drain your own life force."

After a pause, the medicine bottle added, "The best time to take the Potential Activation Potion is actually the moment your race level reaches the maximum."

Huang Hong nodded slightly, understanding that the medicine jar had noticed that his racial level was not yet at its maximum, and this was a reminder to him.

Although using the potential development potion repeatedly would deplete his life force, it was not unacceptable for Huang Hong as long as it could enhance his strength.

After all, what's the point of living to be a hundred if you're going to die tomorrow?!

Huang Hong looked at the physique development potion and asked, "What about this? How much can it specifically improve physique?"

The medicine bottle said, "Theoretically speaking, constitution development potions are effective for beings with a basic constitution attribute of less than 15 points. However, this is only theoretical. Considering the issue of drug resistance, the effect is usually reduced to less than one percent after drinking more than 20 to 30 doses of constitution development potions."

"Furthermore, we need to consider the dosage. For example, if a person's base attribute is 14 points, even without considering drug resistance, he would need to drink at least several hundred doses of physique development potion to raise his physique attribute to 15 points."

Huang Hong nodded slightly and bought one of each of the two medicines without hesitation.

Whether to reuse the potential activation potion needs further consideration, but it will definitely be used when his race level reaches the maximum level, and any additional boost it can provide will be appreciated.

Although the Constitution Development Potion has many problems, don't forget that Huang Hong has the [Old Gourd (Rare)]. By placing the Constitution Development Potion in the spring, the spring water produced afterward will all have the effects of the potion.

Even if he develops full drug resistance after taking 20 doses, his investment is only one dose, which is practically free.

Huang Hong, anticipating any eventuality, asked, "Where can I find similar potions to boost basic attributes?"

Without hesitation, the medicine bottle replied, "Other mechanical fortresses, especially those whose core development revolves around trade, are where you can get what you want."

"Of course, that's assuming you have enough credits."