194: Chapter 194 Vitality: The White Boar's Pants

Hu Gualing was stunned. Judging by Xiao Niao's performance during the battle with the Mutated White Wild Boar, what Xiao Niao said usually seemed quite reliable. So, he stopped his frantic state and thought calmly, noticing the pants' attribute: 'Trait: When the user takes damage, there is a certain chance to recover HP', and his eyes widened instantly!

Could it be? Could the continuous Bleeding caused by the poison also be counted as taking damage?

As soon as this thought appeared in his mind, Hu Gualing threw away the suspicion that Xiao Niao might want to peek at him changing pants. "Okay, okay, okay! I'll try it right now!" Hu Gualing said excitedly, with a desire to live. As he spoke, he put both hands on his waist, preparing to switch equipment.

However, at the critical moment, he heard a cold snort and was immediately pulled back by Xiao Niao. Hu Gualing looked and realized it was Tang Yao, who was carrying her longsword, stained with green sap, on her shoulder without any hesitation. She was glancing at him coldly, looking like she was ready to slash him with her sword in the next second.

"Sorry, sorry, I was just too excited and forgot you were still here!" Hu Gualing apologized hurriedly, fearing that a second's delay would lead to irreparable consequences.

Tang Yao just gave a cold snort.

"Hurry and go behind the wild boar's corpse, change your pants quickly." Xiao Niao was clever, quickly finding a decent cover for Hu Gualing and pointing at the Mutated White Wild Boar's corpse.

When the Mutated White Wild Boar stood upright, its body was twice as tall as Hu Gualing. Even though it was now lying on the ground, its thick body was still about half a person thick, which was enough to hide him while he changed his pants.

Hu Gualing walked two steps to the other side of the Mutated White Wild Boar's corpse and squatted down, sitting with his back against the corpse. He didn't forget to call out: "Turn around, you guys aren't allowed to peek!"

Tang Yao and Xiao Niao naturally disdained to look; they had long since turned their backs on Hu Gualing and even walked a few steps away.

Hu Gualing was just saying that casually; what did he have to be shy about? Leaning against the Mutated White Wild Boar's corpse, he stretched out his legs, holding his novice linen pants in one hand and the newly dropped blue-quality, stylishly designed white wild boar pants in the other. With a thought, he saw his two long, hairy legs flash by and get covered by a pair of green and white leather pants.

'Changing pants in the game is quite convenient!' Hu Gualing chuckled, tossed the novice linen pants he had taken off into his backpack, and stared carefully at his HP bar in the status bar. He wanted to see if, just as Xiao Niao had guessed, he could rely on the vibrant trait of these pants to allow the continuous Bleeding caused by the poison to trigger the pants' HP recovery effect, thereby saving his own skin.

Just as he was thinking this, Hu Gualing froze.

Because in the midst of the constantly popping up green -1s above his HP bar and the +1 caused by the euphorbia humifusa sap that appeared only once every five or six seconds, a +7 number suddenly popped up—also green, but much more pleasing to the eye.

As soon as this number appeared, his HP, which had been constantly dropping, suddenly went up a bit. Although it still looked precarious and not far from death, Hu Gualing's heart suddenly settled.

Because this meant that the continuous decrease in his HP caused by the poison was also counted by the game System as taking damage, which could trigger the HP recovery effect of these white wild boar pants!

Although these white wild boar pants required the user to take damage to have a chance to recover HP, poisoning was continuous damage. Almost every second or so, a -1 damage would appear, and every -1 would independently calculate the probability. So, after the first +7 popped up, just as Hu Gualing's hanging heart had settled and before he could even stand up from behind the Mutated White Wild Boar's corpse, he saw green +7 and +8 numbers popping up from beside the status bar, and his HP bar jumped up rapidly.

"Haven't you finished changing your pants yet?" Xiao Niao urged.

"Done, done!" Hu Gualing stood up excitedly from behind the Mutated White Wild Boar's corpse, walked over to Xiao Niao and Tang Yao, and said triumphantly: "Look at this!"

Xiao Niao and Tang Yao's eyes lit up when they saw the +7 and +8 HP recovery numbers popping up above Hu Gualing's head.

"It seems that continuous damage really can trigger the effect of these pants to recover HP when taking damage. In that case, the practicality of these pants has greatly increased!" Xiao Niao nodded and analyzed to himself while watching Hu Gualing's rapidly rising HP bar.

"It's truly amazing; a pair of leather pants can continuously recover HP," Tang Yao said, feeling curious as she looked at the green numbers popping up above Hu Gualing's head. "But Gualing, why are you still green? Will this poison status stay with you forever?"

Hu Gualing looked at the status bar and found that after wearing these white wild boar pants for a short while, his HP was almost fully recovered, but the poison status on the status bar was still there; he didn't know when it would disappear.

Xiao Niao shook his head and said: "The poison status will definitely disappear; it's just a matter of how long it lasts. Otherwise, if Gualing kept this poison status, combined with these white wild boar pants that recover HP when injured, no matter what damage he took, as long as it wasn't a fatal blow of over a hundred points, his HP would quickly recover. Wouldn't that make him invincible?"

Hu Gualing listened to Xiao Niao's hypothesis and thought that if it were really like that, it would be cool. When facing monsters, he wouldn't need to dodge here and there; he could just stand still and let them hit him, and the lost HP would quickly be refilled... But he was also a game veteran; he knew it was unlikely for such a bug-like loophole to appear in the game. Even if players occasionally discovered such a loophole, the game Development Team would definitely fix it immediately and wouldn't let players exploit it to destroy the game's balance.

Just as he was thinking this, Hu Gualing felt that the icon for the poison status had become a bit lighter. Just as he was wondering if it was an illusion, he heard Tang Yao say in surprise: "Eh, Gualing, you aren't as green as you were just now. Is the poison about to disappear?"