King from scratch

The flow of people composed of players merged into the most lively area in the dwarf camp.

"I'll update the combat merit points."

"Has today's daily task been updated?"

"Team formation, 2=3, be conscious, don't want missionaries and summoners, mages are preferred."

"I'll hand in the mission!"

"Exchange points for me first!"

"The description of this task is not very clear. Is the number of points for defeating and killing the same?"

"I'll fix the equipment."

"Where did Ai Zhijin go? I'm still waiting to buy something."

He Xingwen and He Tong are mixed in the crowd, and occasionally they can hear terms such as "grapes" and "self-created skills" from the players' comments. The storm caused by He Xingwen's previous behavior is slowly spreading, and the new vortex has just been born, and it has not yet formed a scale. .

However, the vortex will spread, sweeping a tornado, engulfing the entire continent.

He Xingwen sincerely prayed for the aborigines on the mainland for two seconds, then put it behind him and looked around the area specially planned for players in the dwarf camp.

This is an area where several rooms are connected. There are dwarves here, so there is no need to worry about the infrastructure. Although it is only a temporary camp, everything is available.

Just like here, different areas are separated, and there are dwarves sitting in each area, and there is even a dwarf full of equipment behind him.

Flags are erected next to each area, indicating the purpose of each area.

He Xingwen took a quick scan and saw "receive tasks", "submit tasks", "point calculation and update", "point exchange area", "equipment repair", "Aizhijin temporary store", "a restaurant"...

etc?In the end, did something out of the ordinary appear?

He Xingwen looked towards the end of these areas and the most deserted place.

It was originally a space, which was transformed into several small business places by the players themselves. With the narrow space, the players tossed out a miniature snack street, filled with all kinds of food, including packaged snacks, and baked and sold. There are various kinds of culinary delicacies, drinks, and fruit stalls...

He Xingwen couldn't help but be amazed when he saw this.

Human creativity and human pursuit of wealth are indeed endless.

However, the business in the snack street is not as lively as the one ahead. Most players are busy accepting and handing in quests. Only a small number of players will go to the end to buy something to satisfy their hunger.

It's really lively and inexplicably fits the atmosphere of the game.

With this comfort in mind, He Xingwen wandered around in these areas. He was not interested in the mission - the main reason was that he was too easy to fall off, so the first few areas were just passed by, and he only stopped in the area for repairing equipment. step.

Although the area where the equipment is repaired is not as lively as the place where the quests are received, it is still crowded. After all, it is normal for the equipment to break down quickly with the heroism of the players in using the equipment.

However, the dwarves thoughtfully prepared a place for players to repair equipment, which surprised He Xingwen.

In the eyes of the dwarves, the player's equipment is just a pile of garbage. Would the dwarves be interested in repairing garbage?

Judging from the previous performance of the dwarves, maybe even blacksmithing itself is more interesting than repairing garbage?

With this doubt in mind, He Xingwen approached the equipment repair area.

The equipment repair area is no different from other areas, and there are no large repair machines.

A table, a chair, a dwarf, and a big hammer are enough.

When He Xingwen approached, there was a long queue in front of the dwarves repairing equipment, and He Xingwen and He Tong naturally mixed into the queue.

The team moved very fast.

He Xingwen focused on listening to the dialogue between the front dwarf and the player.

The player showed the equipment to the dwarves: "Repair the equipment."

The dwarf touched the sledgehammer and glanced at the equipment in his hand: "Buy a replacement for 60 credits, and repair this equipment for 80 credits."

The player looked confused: "What? Is there something wrong with the price?"

"Repair equipment requires labor and material costs..." The dwarf sitting on the chair glanced at the rags in his hand again: "I recommend you use your points to redeem 'Changhong No. [-]' next door...Next."

The player who came to repair the equipment walked to the point exchange area with a blank face.

Good guy, it turns out that the country is easy to change and the nature is hard to change. This is not repairing equipment, it is like being a promotion ambassador for the point exchange area.

He Xingwen listened to "go to the next door to exchange for xxx", but he didn't see this dwarf repairing a piece of equipment by hand.

No wonder the equipment repair area is less lively than other areas, because this is not a place for serious equipment repair at all.

He Xingwen muttered something in his heart, and looked at the distance between him and the dwarves. Because of the high efficiency of the dwarves, there were only two or three players left in front of him in the blink of an eye.

Just as He Xingwen was about to leave, he heard something new in the conversation at the front.

That player also said the same thing when he came up: "Repair equipment."

The dwarf glanced at the equipment in his hand, did not rush to speak, and carefully looked at the slender stick - from the outside, it didn't look like a weapon at all.

Thin and long, without sharp edges, like a thin stick, but a bit too thin, thicker than a finger, made of unknown material, silvery white, cold in the hand, without patterns, unpretentious.

The dwarf stretched out his hand towards him.

The player hands the equipment to the dwarf.

The dwarf touched it up and down, and then stared at the player: "Your weapon looks like this? Are you going to use it to stab the enemy to death?"

The player smiled slyly: "It's broken anyway, can you fix it?"

The dwarf touched it carefully again, thought for a long time and said, "Where did you pick it up from the Sarfa Federation, what else is there nearby? It wasn't dismantled from a large piece of equipment, right?"

"There are still some broken equipment nearby..." The other party said honestly: "But you also know that the situation in the ruins of the Salfa Federation is too complete, and it is impossible to see what those broken things are. Just you The one in my hand was not completely smashed because it fell into a blind spot."

"This player is not a weapon." The dwarf put it aside and said, "Two hundred credits, this thing belongs to me."

"I have worked so hard to find it in the Salfa Federation for a long time..." The other party said: "With my hard work for it, at least [-] credits are needed!"

He Xingwen watched them bargaining in dumbfounded, and finally settled the deal at a price of [-] credits.

He Xingwen didn't know for a while that he should be shocked that the stubborn dwarves have learned to bargain, or should be shocked that the existence of the equipment repair area really has another purpose.

The dwarves are reclaiming items of unknown use from the ruins of the Salfa Federation.

He Xingwen was not surprised that someone saw the value of the ruins of the Salfa Federation, but he was surprised that the dwarves were also interested in it.

It’s not that He Xingwen underestimated the dwarves, but considering the dwarves’ previous attitude towards great scientists and the degree of stubbornness of the dwarves, it’s really impressive that they can react so quickly and start recycling the garbage from the ruins in the player’s hands so quickly. Accident.

He Xingwen's thoughts diverged for a while, but the two players in front of him were quickly dealt with by the dwarves, and it was his turn directly.

He Xingwen raised his head and looked at the dwarf in blank dismay.

The dwarves, who were waiting for He Xingwen to take out the equipment to be repaired, gradually became impatient as they looked at each other.

He Tong waited for a while, and seeing that He Xingwen didn't intend to turn around and leave, he selected a tattered wreck from the ruins of the Salfa Federation, and then let it emerge under his hands as if it had been taken out of his own space ring. Pass it to the dwarf.

The dwarf, whose anger was about to be full, was taken aback, and turned his attention to the dilapidated wreckage.

The so-called wreckage means that what he holds is only a small half of the complete body. The tattered wreckage is about the size of a palm, with obvious tear marks on the edge, and the only remaining small piece is covered with complex ether patterns. It's not something that abuses the street.

After looking at the wreckage, the dwarf repeatedly checked the details of the wreckage, and finally turned his attention to He Tong.

"Where did you find it? What else is around?" Although the dwarf was stubborn, he was not stupid, especially since this thing seemed to be an important part, and theoretically speaking, it should be a laboratory around.

He Tong: "In the ruins of the Salfa Federation, there are still a lot of dilapidated surroundings."

A player in the back listened for a long time, and after hearing the words, he continued: "Is it the treasure caves that appeared before? I heard that those treasure caves lead to deeper..."

The dwarf showed an obviously excited expression, hugged a huge number to He Tong, and said: "If you bring back similar wreckage from there, I will too."

The other players in the team were all moved by this number, and they booed wildly: "We can form a team and go together."

"Yes, I heard that the further down the ruins are, the more dangerous they are. There are dangerous gas leaks, protective equipment that is still in operation, and there is a risk of collapse. Bring more people and a sense of security."

Of course, there are also players who are not interested in credit points and just want to go to the battlefield.

"Are you still repairing equipment? If you don't repair it, other people are still waiting to repair equipment."

He Xingwen glanced at the messy team. He was a little curious about the reason why the dwarves collected things from the Salfa Federation, so he didn't intend to leave just like that.

He turned his head to look at He Tong, and said slowly: "Actually, we know a little bit about it..."

The dwarves didn't believe He Xingwen's words at all. The dwarves knew the player's level very well, let alone the wreckage. They didn't even know the dwarf's forging process.

Commander He understood He Xingwen's hint, reached out and tapped on the ether pattern of the wreckage, and said a few words to the dwarf in a low voice: "I think this ether pattern is a bit like..."

The players behind them pricked up their ears, but the other party's voice was too low to hear clearly. They could only see what the other party seemed to say. Jumped up and down, picked up the big hammer and said: "This idea is very interesting..."

The players in the long queue complained when they saw the dwarf's apparent desire to run away.

"What?"

"Haven't you looked at my equipment?"

"It's not time for the dwarves to change their shift, is it?"

"The npc ran away?"

The dwarf waved his hand outside as if chasing them away, telling them to leave: "It's time for a break, come back tomorrow."

After leaving a group of dumbfounded players behind, the dwarf led He Xingwen and the others straight towards the heavily disciplined area of ​​the camp.

These areas are off-limits to players, so order isn't that bad.

The knocking of hammers and the sound of machinery running could be vaguely heard in a row of closed doors, as if they were in constant bustle.

Almost all the dwarves patrolling at the side cast their eyes on this strange combination, a dwarf and two players?

This bizarre combination stops at deeper areas.

"Wait here for a while, I'll go and talk to Dorona." The dwarf ordered them, and walked into the too quiet area.

He Xingwen looked around.

There are many buildings here, each of which seems to have different purposes, but it is different from what He Xingwen saw in the dwarf factory. All the buildings have closed doors, and layers of patrol teams are densely shuttling between different buildings.

The atmosphere was inexplicably tense, probably because the two players were too conspicuous here, and the passing patrols would basically cast their eyes on them.

He Xingwen counted the numbers silently in his heart, waiting for the dwarf to come back.

He Tong was even more silent. In his eyes, the question had already been answered, but he was willing to satisfy He Xingwen's own exploration ideas, so he remained silent.

When He Xingwen silently counted to three hundred, the dwarf appeared from the direction where he disappeared, dragging He Xingwen and the others towards the deepest part of the barracks.

The other party couldn't restrain his emotions, and said while walking: "It's surprising to hear the answer about the ether pattern from your mouths."

He glanced at He Tong: "Are you a blacksmith?"

He Tong looked ahead and changed the subject: "I rarely see dwarves so serious."

The dwarves, who didn't have so many twists and turns at all, were diverted from the topic, and continued following He Tong's words: "Because the latest research needs to be kept secret, you don't know..." Although he said he wanted to keep it secret, the other party was so excited that he couldn't help it. Cover-up: "What We Found."

When He Xingwen heard this, he thought about it for two seconds. The dwarf found something and took this posture.

Did you discover that God the Father is Li Wang?Or is the discovery of Li Wang's science the real cornerstone?

With this in mind, He Xingwen asked, "What did you find?"

The other party turned his head and blinked at He Xingwen and the others, then reached out and pushed open the closed steel door in front of him.

Warm heat came from the room, accompanied by the dwarves' arguments one after another.

He Xingwen looked into the room through the crack of the door.

There are various damaged mechanical devices in the room, some with traces of splicing, and some with only a wreckage. Judging from the miserable state of these machines, they should be found from the ruins of the Salfa Federation.

The dwarves gathered around these broken machines, busy with various equipment, hammered and screwdrivers, and argued from time to time.

The dwarf didn't stand stupidly at the door, he took He Xingwen into the room, bypassed the other dwarves, found Dorona who was busy above the broken machine, and said loudly, "Dorona, I brought them here."

Dorona glanced down, and came down with a hammer.

"Do you know the ether pattern on the wreck?" Dorona looked at the two ordinary players, as surprised as the dwarves: "You still know this?"

Of course normal players don't know, but they are not normal players.

He Xingwen didn't answer this question directly, but changed the subject and said, "Are you studying the things left by the Salfa Federation?"

Dorona couldn't hear such words, and he retorted with wide eyes: "Who is studying the things of the Salfa Federation? We are studying our own things!"

He Xingwen glanced at the broken machines around him, and cast a look of "You are talking nonsense with your eyes open" at Duolong.

The upright dwarves didn't even notice that this was a cliché. In fact, their awareness of secrecy was enough to surprise He Xingwen.

Dorona began to yell: "The science of the Salfa Federation is completely different from ours, these things..."

Dorona drew a big circle, including all the broken machines in the room: "The forging and molding of these things use the dwarven method."

He Xingwen almost understood what they were keeping secret.

"But you don't understand that?"

Dorona scratched his head: "After the division of the dwarf kingdom, dwarf education appeared... Wait a minute, why do you have so many questions?"

When it came to the key point, Dorona's vigilance was finally on the line. He yelled: "I asked you to come here to ask you what the purpose of the ether pattern on this wreck is."

He Xingwen achieved his goal, and He Tong didn't reveal a single word. He just used "I guessed it too" and "it looks very similar to that pattern" to prevaricate the inquisitive dwarves.

Duolong asked a few questions carefully, and soon realized that he had been cheated.

"I knew it, how could you know these things?" Doron waved his hands impatiently: "Don't try to sneak in, I said that if there is no mission, there is no mission. This is the dwarf's business. Weak, can't do anything... Let's go."

When He Tong was talking to Duolongna, most of He Xingwen's attention was on his surroundings.

He really didn't know anything about ether and ether patterns, but this didn't prevent him from seeing the information that their progress was going well from the gleeful faces of the dwarves.

Just as He Xingwen noticed, there was a gap in the education of the dwarves, and some advanced knowledge of the dwarf kingdom was lost due to the division of the dwarf kingdom. Humanoid Mechanics...

He Xingwen: "Why does the Salfa Federation have a dwarven forging method?"

Dorona ignored him, and climbed up from the huge mechanical wreckage again, preparing to continue the dismantling process he had just interrupted.

He Tong was on the side and He Xingwen explained: "Probably because after the division of the Dwarf Kingdom, some dwarves settled in the Sarfa Federation and participated in the forging of these machines."

"For the dwarves, that period was very turbulent. A large number of dwarves had nowhere to go, wandered on the mainland, and were captured by slave traders... It is estimated that until now, the dwarves have not counted how many dwarves were displaced after the division of the dwarf kingdom. .”

The dwarf who brought He Xingwen and the others scratched his head: "For the dwarves, this is not a glorious history, so we are trying to pick up the glory of the past."

Although Dorona lost interest in the conversation, the dwarf was clearly in high spirits.

"The kingdom has been divided for more than 7000 years. This is a very long history," he said enthusiastically. "Can you imagine how excited we were when we saw these machines?"

"A more subtle tempering method than ours, a more ingenious forging..." There was a gleam of worship in his eyes: "We have forgotten how powerful we were before!"

He repeated: "We are restoring the techniques used by the blacksmiths from these wreckages and updating the forging knowledge of the dwarves. Do you know that Adisseo is preparing to reorganize the forging knowledge of the dwarves? We are going to build on the top of the mountains. A school of dwarves, restarting the unified education of dwarves."

Although the other party lacked a sense of confidentiality, He Xingwen listened with gusto.

"If it wasn't for revenge..." the other party muttered, "We'll go directly to the ruins of the Salfa Federation. The king said that place is open to everyone."

Dorona's irritable voice came from above: "Why are you still here? Why don't you take them away quickly!" Speaking of this, Dorona snorted: "Don't say anything more to them, Adisseo said Keep it a secret!"

"I know!" The other party responded, and led He Xingwen and the others outside.

As soon as he turned his head, he forgot about Dorona's reminder, and introduced He Xingwen and the others to the ongoing work of other dwarves: "Look, we are trying to restore these tools. It's amazing. We don't know the working principle of most of them. As we all know, the so-called 'science' of the Salfa Federation seems to have really tossed something incredible."

He Xingwen looked around and took the opportunity to ask, "How is your research going?"

"Very well!" The other party answered his question truthfully: "The dwarves are geniuses in forging. As long as we find the remaining traces, we can reproduce the skills and knowledge that the dwarves once used."

They slipped out through the crack of the door.

"Do you know why we keep it a secret?"

He Xingwen showed a puzzled expression.

"Because we are conducting a research that can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of dwarves," he said in a low voice to He Xingwen and the others: "As long as we study different samples, we can refill the faults of dwarves! Let the dwarf kingdom become a real kingdom." Kingdom of the dwarves."

He Xingwen cooperated: "It sounds like a very important research."

The other party looked around and lowered his voice furtively: "So are you willing to help?"

A question mark appeared in He Xingwen's head, and then he saw a task reminder pop up on his player template.

[Hidden Mission - Civilization Fault

The dwarves sensed a cruel reality in the wreckage from the Sarfa Federation, and a fault appeared in their civilization.

Some high-level knowledge was lost when the dwarf kingdom fell into turmoil. The 7000-year division made the dwarven forging civilization continue to regress. Although they still hold the hammer and are still the best blacksmiths in the world, compared with the dwarves themselves, They are heading for mediocrity and poor quality.

The dwarves cannot accept such a future, they hope to reproduce the peak period of the dwarf kingdom.

Mission description: Find five different wreckages from the former dwarves in the ruins of the Salfa Federation.

Current progress: 0/5

Countdown: one month.

Rewards for successful missions: Dwarven Friendship, Black Bloodstone Atlas of Forbidden Weapon (Quality: Legendary), you can choose any weapon produced by Dwarves, some credit points, some favorability, etc.

Punishment for mission failure: the reputation of the dwarf kingdom will be cleared, the friendship of the dwarves will be permanently lost, credit points will be dropped, and favorability will be reduced by a certain amount, etc. 】

He Xingwen stared at the task reward with a lot of information for a while.

The black blood stone version of the curse weapon...is that the one he thought of?

This world's version of nuclear weapons?The subject the dwarves and mages are working on?

He Xingwen saw a small hint from this task, that is to say, what hinders the dwarves and mages from completing this task is that the dwarves' current forging level is not enough?

He Xingwen came to this conclusion while casually rejecting the mission.

As a planner wearing a player template, there must be a minimum awareness-robbing the player's adventure, that is too inhuman.

These task rewards are useless to He Xingwen, but they have a completely different meaning to players, and may even change a player's "game" life.

And even if He Xingwen didn't intervene, and the player didn't trigger this task, the dwarves would still gradually improve their forging level in the research of these wrecks, and finally break through the research predicament—it's just a matter of time.

After all, the wreckage is there, the research has begun, and nothing can stop the dwarves from returning to their former prime, and even further.