Chapter 1 New Mask

Li Ang frowned, looking at the newly opened Bian Lian (face-changing) mask in his inventory.

The mask was oval-shaped, with a smooth, flawless surface and circular openings on both sides of the edge, presumably for threading to secure it.

The material was wood, coated with ink-black paint that could cover the entire face, including the chin and forehead.

Li Ang paid and left the fatty intestine noodle shop, returning home to test the Bian Lian mask.

Unlike the Cat's Eye, this piece of equipment did not consume sanity when worn. Once the inside of the mask touched the skin of the face, the black color on the outside of the mask would quickly fade, replaced by a variety of bizarre patterns.

Tiger, Kamen Rider, bunny-eared moe girl, the Monkey King Sun Wukong, golden toilet seat, pink furry ladies' slippers...

After playing for more than ten minutes, Li Ang finally determined that, apart from being fun and good for cosplay, the Bian Lian mask’s effect 1 was absolutely useless.

Although Li Ang quite liked cosplay.

As for effect 2, Li Ang had specifically gone to a manga convention in Yin City that afternoon to test it.

The test results were quite gratifying. When choosing to weaken his presence, as long as he stood still, the people around him would actively ignore him.

Even if he walked around casually, it was difficult for others to form an impression of him—even if he was wearing an extremely conspicuous mask.

And when choosing to enhance his presence, no matter what Li Ang did—even if he just stood still—he would quickly be noticed by others, and they would randomly have impressions such as "this weirdo wearing a mask is so strange" or "there's a weirdo here, should we call the police?"

As for how to use the mask, Li Ang quickly developed some uses.

For example, assassination, stabbing, lurking, concealment, qièting (eavesdropping), and... openly toukui (peeping).

According to Li Ang's speculation, the strength of the Bian Lian mask was probably related to the observer's Perception stat. The higher the Perception stat, the more able they were to resist the deceptive effect of the Bian Lian mask.

In any case, it was a good thing to open up a useful piece of equipment. Li Ang put the mask back in his inventory and continued to look for tasks that could be triggered around Yin City.

In the following days, everything was uneventful, except for a young and beautiful female homeroom teacher who was newly transferred to the school. Li Ang was calmly waiting when he received a message from Taobao.

"Your package has arrived at Xindong Road, Yin City. Dispatcher Zhang ** is delivering your package."

For newbies, purchasing cheap and good equipment is always the best way to quickly improve their strength. As long as you find the right channels, you can arm yourself to the teeth for less than ten thousand yuan.

Li Ang's previous purchases on Taobao included laboratory equipment, chemical fertilizers, seamless steel pipes, body armor, a camping hand axe...

These items were not a problem when viewed separately, but when the buyer was the same person, it was easy to be noticed and flagged by the official Internet big data monitoring system.

Therefore, Li Ang used different Taobao accounts when purchasing, and had all the goods sent to different addresses in Yin City.

Although he had to rent a tricycle to run back and forth when picking up the packages, it was all worth it.

Li Ang quickly unpacked all the packages in his living room and began to make small things.

As an uncertified wild genius, Li Ang believed that his knowledge level, action ability, execution ability, and creativity were all top-notch.

When he was eleven or twelve years old, while his peers were still obsessed with using firecrackers to blow up shit and water guns to blast fish, Li Ang had already mastered infantry techniques, including shooting actions, qiang (gun) maintenance, assassination, landmine placement, orientation judgment, distance measurement, and the manufacture, preservation, and transportation of flammable and explosive materials, through studying Soviet militiaman manuals.

Blowing up shit with firecrackers was not as satisfying as blowing up shit with a remote-controlled zhàdàn (bomb) made from an easy-pull can filled with steel balls and iron shards.

When he was thirteen or fourteen years old, while his peers were still obsessed with cartoons and TV dramas, Li Ang had already mastered artillery techniques, including artillery maintenance, artillery binglibushu (troop deployment), coordinated actions, tactical command, fire distribution, fire organization, and application, by reading Soviet war epic materials.

When he was fifteen or sixteen years old, most of his peers were just beginning to have crushes and hazy youthful fantasies. Li Ang had already completed the full set of American Army regulations publications ADP, American Army regulations reference publications ADRP, American field regulations, American Army technical publications, the American Central Intelligence Agency practitioner's ability training manual, the Intelligence Agency interrogation manual, etc., through the open-source Internet.

He could fight jungle guerrilla warfare, play urban CQB (close-quarters battle), write to Guantanamo to interrogate prisoners, and fight drug lords in Mexico. Yuanzidàn (atomic bomb) waxing, nuclear submarine repair, dismantling and washing missile engines, high-altitude operations to scrub the surface dust of satellites, repairing aircraft rearview mirrors....

His name was Li Ang, and he was a talent.

The Internet is the most advanced and powerful invention in human history. It carries the vast majority of human wisdom from ancient times to the present, just like the legendary One Piece, cherished and precious.

Philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, art, history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, agronomy, medicine...

All, all of human wisdom, is in this invisible and intangible network.

What's even better is that it is open source, open, and has no threshold.

Anyone can access it, without being turned away because of differences in blood, origin, ethnicity, culture, or other factors.

Acquiring knowledge has never been easier than it is today. As long as you have the willpower and the ability to act, anyone can use the knowledge contained in the Internet to become an elite in a professional field.

It's just that most people don't do that.

Li Ang stood in the living room full of objects, using various machine tools, including a small stamping machine, and small steel materials such as steel balls, steel wire, and steel pipes purchased from Taobao.

It took him more than ten hours to make parts such as the fire selector, single-fire burst sear, hammer, receiver, gas piston, and qiang (gun) tube, and assembled these parts together to form a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

The metal dànjia (magazine) was made by himself, and the copper bullets were also made by himself, a total of more than seventy rounds.

Li Ang picked up the Kalashnikov assault rifle, known for its stability and reliability, smelled the strong steel breath, and said with a curled lip: "I'm still rusty..."

In a village on the border of Baba Sheep, a three-person family workshop can produce more than twenty Kalashnikovs a month while taking care of farm work, and the equipment they use is not as good as Taobao goods.

After making the Kalashnikov, Li Ang worked overtime and used simple materials such as steel needles, steel balls, light bulbs, pig intestines, easy-pull cans, and chemical fertilizers to make more than a dozen flammable and explosive dangerous goods.

These flammable and explosive dangerous goods, the size of a can of cola, were wrapped on the outside with bundles of transparent tape, and some finger-length steel nails pierced out from the transparent tape, ferocious and terrifying.

And no matter how you look at it, it was ugly, giving people a feeling of instability and unsafety, as if it would bàozhà (explode) at any time.

"If it ain't tu (rustic), it ain't tough, combat power five. The uglier the weapon, the more powerful it is."

Li Ang comforted himself as he put on his equipment.

Wearing a steel helmet, a mask, Cat's Eyes in his eye sockets, a CQB bulletproof tactical vest and stab-resistant tactical pants, and rubber tactical boots, with a sharp folding knife inserted inside the boots.

On his back was a camouflage backpack filled with flammable and explosive items, and a strong flashlight and a camping hand axe hung on his waist. His hands, covered with tactical gloves, held a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

At this time, Li Ang was fully armed. Combining Li Ang's mental quality, physical quality, and combat literacy, his overall combat power was roughly equal to ten Mexican gangsters with equal equipment, or twenty black African child soldiers.

Just as Li Ang was admiring his strange equipment in the mirror, a system prompt sounded in his ears.

Condition met: Total player time 240 hours

Ju (Script)

The ben (script) mission module has been opened

Mission Type: Script Mission

Mission Name: Extreme Hunger

Mission Objective: Eliminate Yinshan Village Zombies 0/1

Mission Time Limit: 3 hours

Mission Reward 1: In addition to eliminating the mission objective, reward additional experience points

Mission Reward 2: 500 game coins

Mission Reward 3: Rare quality random skill scroll *1