Kumoko came at the right time. The Internet café had made more than 300,000 in profit during this period, and Liu Yuan added a new game after studying for a long time: Monster Hunter.
The Monster Hunter series can be said to be a classic among classics. This series of games does not have a complicated plot, nor does it have various convoluted mechanisms. It only has the law of the jungle and the hunting of monsters.
The system provides a world with richer and larger content than the original version. Ordinary creatures can be killed with general weapons, but creatures like dragons and behemoths require special equipment and potions to defeat.
At the same time, this world is also more cruel. There is no reward for clearing the level under realism, and every death results in file deletion and starting over. However, the general rewards in this game are also very rich. The items you get from the monsters you defeat can be stored in your system. Monster meat, materials, even the potions and delicacies you make can all be kept.
Because of this, the game is also more cruel. The resources obtained by defeating a powerful monster are at most enough to challenge the next level of monsters.
Even if you challenge monsters of the same level again, there will not be many resources left in the end. It is even possible for players to bring external resources to challenge the game, but the cost of doing so is obvious.
If the challenge fails or the player dies, all the weapons, equipment, and items they carry will be destroyed.
Once destroyed, these weapons cannot be restored.
Of course, the above are the requirements of the realism mode.
The game mode does not have so many requirements. Just enter the game and chop monsters up.
However, unlike the realism mode, the game mode has more guidance. The main mission, free mission, and various activity missions will tell players what to do when, what monsters to encounter, and what activities are available on certain days.
In realism, if you don't understand these settings, various accidents may occur. Lack of materials for making weapons is a small problem. Encountering a special monster and being unable to fight it is the most troublesome.
When Kumoko turned on the computer, she saw all kinds of games. There were not many games now, so she naturally wanted to choose one she was familiar with.
"Hey? Resident Evil? Contra? These are here too. I really want to try... huh?"
She put the mouse over each icon, and each icon displayed the content of the game, as well as the rewards for passing the level. The Internet café system even kindly marked the effects of these weapons and items on her.
However, she felt regretful that many weapons did not have much effect on her. The skills or items in Elden Ring were indeed useful, but when she saw the big introduction to a Souls game, she decisively gave up.
She had played Souls type games before, but only in Dark Souls. In her memory, Dark Souls was an extremely painful game, and she was already playing the real Dark Souls back in the dungeon. She felt that playing Dark Souls in the game was just asking for more pain.
FPS? Kumoko looked at her legs and feet. Wouldn't she be a living target if she played FPS with these legs and feet? Whether it was Borderlands or Destiny 2, big-bodied "little monsters" like her were definitely welcome.
"Oh, there is no game suitable for me..."
She was about to give up, but then she saw a very familiar game: Monster Hunter.
[Monster Hunter, after hunting monsters in realism, allows you to bring them to reality for use. Some monsters have delicious meat, and players can also get a special chef meow~.
Note: Items obtained in the game cannot be traded.]
"Delicious?"
At this moment, Kumoko's mouth was watering, and various thoughts were racing through her brain. She couldn't make any mistakes in real-life battles, but the game was different!
Even in realism, there was no punishment for dying.
That's right!
Others may be monster hunters being hunted by Monsters in the early stages of Monster Hunter.
But! Kumoko was really hunting monsters!
Because her current body was also the body of a standard monster.
A two-meter-tall body, various skills brought by the system after crossing, and immortality given by the game.
That's right, after death, the items reset, the game stats reset, but her own stats did not reset! If she could bring the monster corpse to reality and eat it herself, the ability improved in reality would feed back to the game to obtain more ingredients.
Thinking of this, Kumoko's saliva almost dripped.
"It sounds great. That's it, start! Monster Hunter!"
At this moment, she found herself directly entering the game world. "Damn, so awesome, a quick loading screen? Awesome!"
Monster Hunter doesn't have many tutorials. The opening scene is in the village, where someone tells Kumoko where there are monsters. Although Kumoko's appearance was a bit strange, because she could speak and had system assistance, people in the city did not find her unusual.
"Hehe~"
Kumoko looked around. The town was not big, but it had everything. She also found a cute cat.
"Madam, how can I help you? I am good at cooking all kinds of ingredients!"
"All kinds of ingredients?"
"Yes, meow! As long as it's meat, I can cook it~"
The cat's words were full of pride. As a chef, it could cook everything in this world except for things that cannot be eaten. It depended on what dishes Kumoko could provide.
"Is there anything delicious nearby?"
"Nearby? Go in that direction out of the city, and you'll find the habitat of the giant bird. The meat of the giant bird is great."
"Really? Then I'm off~"
Kumoko happily walked in the direction the chef cat indicated. During this, she experienced the realism of this game. The pain, touch, hearing, etc., were all the same as in reality. But at the same time, she could feel her real body enjoying this game, and her consciousness and the system she carried with her also clearly judged that she was in a relaxed state, rather than getting sent into another world again.
"What a wonderful feeling~ Hmm! What fresh air~"
Fight? There's no rush. Although she knew that the giant bird's meat was delicious, Kumoko was not in a hurry to hunt. What she had to do now was eat fruit.
As the saying goes, meat and vegetables should be balanced. During this time, she had eaten all kinds of meat underground. Delicious, unpalatable, so many that she couldn't remember them all. As a qualified spider, it's not enough to eat only meat. She needed to supplement vitamins.
"Hehe~ Fruits, fruits, delicious fruits."
What? Fighting? Impossible.
She came to play games for fun, and she would talk about fighting later. As for meat, she would stuff it into the space provided by the system after catching monsters in the dungeon.
Then she would bring it to the game and let the chef cat she just met cook it, killing two birds with one stone.