Chapter 420: Private Mecha and Custom Mecha

"Okay, I will definitely call you next time in the game." Li Xiaodao heard this, his face immediately returned to normal, replied, and walked past Wang Yu very naturally, as if he were really just an ordinary acquaintance.

When Ouyang Jia walked past from the side, she also smiled at Wang Yu, but there was clearly a trace of curiosity in her eyes.

When Wang Yu walked to the second floor, he could still vaguely hear the woman's inquiry.

"Brother Li, who is this person? Your friend?"

"He is a person I know in Star River, but we are not too familiar. In a while, I will go to that nice Western restaurant nearby for dinner, how about it?" Li Xiaodao's answer was very gentle, but he intentionally or unintentionally pulled the topic away from Wang Yu.

Wang Yu's eyes flashed, he withdrew his divine sense, and went to the third floor.

Li Xiaodao becoming so familiar with this Ouyang Jia in such a short time was somewhat beyond his expectations. It seems that in these days, something he didn't know should have happened between the two.

Although this made him somewhat vigilant, he didn't take it too much to heart.

Li Xiaodao, as a former special forces member of China, would definitely strictly abide by the confidentiality discipline and could not leak matters related to him.

Wang Yu thought this way and came to the stairs on the third floor.

A silver door blocked the way.

Wang Yu scanned his retina at the scanner on the door, and the door opened by itself.

He walked in directly.

There was no one on the third floor, only a few lonely VIP rooms, all marked with numbers.

Apparently, in a major city like Peng Jie City, which is the first in Xi'erde, the number of formal mecha pilots is not large, and players who can become formal mecha pilots have mostly purchased private game pods, so even fewer come to the Star River Bar to play games.

Wang Yu pushed open the door of the VIP room numbered "Three." The interior was simple and atmospheric, and both the tables and chairs were silver-white metal, but the game pod placed in the center of the room was pitch-black like ink.

He locked the door, scanned the room with his divine sense, confirmed that there was no monitoring facility, opened the game pod door, and lay his body inside.

Although he had seen Chen Boshi in the game twice before, the other party did not reveal any intention to continue contact. Otherwise, he would definitely have to ask this Chen Boshi about the matter of seeing Keli people this time.

After a roll of white light, Wang Yu appeared directly in the base hall. After scanning the bustling player crowd around him, he went to a counter with the word "Reward."

He logged into the game this time for the first private custom mecha after becoming a formal mecha pilot.

In the "Star River" game, there are two types of currency. One is the electronic currency "Star Coin" used for everyone's daily consumption. Whether it is a mecha pilot or base logistics personnel, everyone will receive a fixed amount of Star Coins every month.

The other is the merit points that only base military personnel can possess.

This special currency, which can only be converted by killing Star Cloud Beasts or making various military contributions in military affairs, is the true hard currency in the "Star River" game. From spaceship mecha exchange to eating, drinking, and playing consumption, almost everything can be exchanged with merit points.

So the amount of merit points is also the only standard for evaluating player wealth in "Star River."

Originally, players, as mecha pilots in the game, could receive a low-rank standard mecha for free after passing the novice trial, but this mecha belongs to the base. Once destroyed, it can be re-received for free at the base.

But if one is willing to spend merit points, one can purchase private mechas that belong to the player at the base.

These private mechas are owned by the mecha pilot personally and can be used to drive private mechas to participate in most dungeons and mecha pilot ranking matches in the game.

But once the private mecha is damaged, one must spend merit points to repair or re-exchange for other new mechas.

When Wang Yu passed the novice trial, he received a "Earth Dragon I Type" mecha belonging to the base. Later, after driving this mecha to do several missions, he went to the Cultivation World. When he returned to the Blue Star this time, he directly participated in the formal mecha pilot assessment.

In this assessment, all reserve mecha pilots used the "Sky Wing Standard Type" mecha uniformly provided by the base.

So nominally, as a formal mecha pilot of "Star River," besides an "Earth Dragon I Type" mecha belonging to the base, he didn't even have a private mecha, which was far inferior to even ordinary reserve mecha pilot players.

But this cannot blame Wang Yu. Other players soak in "Star River" all day, doing various missions and brushing various dungeons, naturally accumulating quite a few merit points, and can easily exchange for private mechas.

He hadn't entered "Star River" a few times in total, neither had he taken many missions nor brushed a dungeon, so naturally, he couldn't have any merit points.

And his purpose for entering the game this time is to brush the "dungeon" in the game, so as to accumulate merit points and customize a private mecha of his own.

According to the settings of the "Star River" game, the private mecha of a formal mecha pilot can be a standard mecha uniformly provided by major bases, or a custom mecha with more personal style.

It is not to say that the performance of a custom mecha is necessarily better than a standard mecha, but a custom mecha is tailor-made according to personal habits and characteristics, and generally can better exert the mecha technology of a formal mecha pilot.

So general formal mecha pilots will mostly customize special mechas suitable for themselves, and the "Earth Dragon I Type" and "Sky Wing Standard Type" mechas that Wang Yu had driven before are typical of two types of standard mechas. One is the lowest-rank basic standard mecha, and the other already belongs to the mid-rank standard mecha.

From the perspective of performance, mid-to-high-rank mechas are certainly much stronger than basic mechas, but for many reserve mecha pilots and even formal mecha pilots, it is not necessarily that the higher the mecha performance, the better.

You must know that the more prominent the performance and the higher the rank of the mecha, the more it tests the ability of the mecha pilot himself.

If the mecha technology is not enough, the mental power is not strong, or the physical fitness cannot keep up, driving mid-to-high-rank mechas is not as handy and easy to control as driving basic mechas.

According to the greatest principle of the "Star River" game, everything must fit reality, so whether it is a standard mecha or a custom mecha, it must be manufactured one by one in the base production workshop, which also requires time and consumes resources and materials in the base.

The former is still okay, because the manufacturing blueprints have long been mature. As long as the base has the materials needed for manufacturing, they can be manufactured very quickly, and even most base warehouses will generally reserve quite a few standard mechas.

The latter is much more troublesome. Custom mechas of the same rank are also divided into two categories: modified and independent.

Modified type is a custom mecha that is modified on the basis of a standard mecha according to the personal requirements of the mecha pilot. Whether it is manufacturing difficulty or manufacturing cost, it is easier for people to accept.

Independent type is a brand-new custom mecha that is completely different from existing standard mechas and cannot be manufactured on a large scale, only suitable for individual mecha pilots to drive. ===== CHAPTER 421 =====