Conquering alien worlds starts from the game

Eight twenty minutes Earth time.

Two or ten minutes after the official opening of the game "Other World", about three-tenths of the players... died and went offline.

In the square town hall, Yang Qiu, who was sitting on this plane, silently put his hand on his forehead.

How much the player group loves to die, Yang Qiu is mentally prepared, but the efficiency of dying is so high, and the proportion of dying is so large, he is a little caught off guard...

Challenge the bottom line of NPC interaction and be killed by a group of ex-thieves. You have seen the video posted by Vanilla Pudding and know that the big mouse in the south of the town is not at all comparable to players at this stage, but there are still such a group of people online Immediately after that, he ran over excitedly and tried to leapfrog to kill the boss of Xinshou Village, trying to seize the so-called first opportunity... This is so nonsense!

"——It's not okay to go on like this. If you always die offline, you can't talk about serving as a stable anchor."

Yang Qiu pondered for a while, stood up, and threw a sealing spell on the building of the town hall, so as to prevent any deadly players from trying to break in and open the space-time rift to return to Earth.

He decided to "borrow" the pictures taken by the camera inside the player character, and put together a fancy death highlight video of these deadly players' death scenes and put it on the official website; he emphasized that after death, he would be kicked offline , the severe punishment of having to wait for one hour of game time and half an hour of real time to go online... I hope it can play a role in dissuading these guys who love to make trouble.

Here, Yang Qiu returned to the earth. Outside, a group of players who got together because they were looking for NPCs found the front of the town hall.

"Wow... such a house with earthen walls is actually the town hall? This thing is the central building of the birthplace of our undead race? This is too embarrassing!"

Seeing the sign of "Exile Town Government Affairs Office" hanging on the door of the boxy earthen wall, the players all showed horrible expressions...Even if you are a dungeon like the Undercity, Queen Xi lives in it anyway. It's in a decent palace; even if it's a tauren living on the mountain, the tent of the chieftain is more decent than your earthen house!

"A group of career transfer instructors are squatting in tents and expecting players to help them build professional guilds. Let's not expect anything from the shabby game here." Tang Jia waved his hand and knocked on the door, "Someone Are you there, is the magician there, hello?"

As a matter of course, there was no response.

"What's going on, won't the door be opened if the NPC isn't here?"

"These NPCs can chase two streets and hack people to death. It's impossible not to open the door."

"That's because people are not here. Damn, NPCs still have fish."

Immediately, some players with strong mobility tried to pry the window: "Let me see if I can get in through the window... Oh, this broken window is so strong?"

"Can the windows be broken?"

"Hey, this is the town hall anyway, it will be hacked to death by NPC."

Except for a few people in this group who know each other, most of them are strangers who got together to find an NPC. Seeing that there is no NPC in the town hall, some people said: "Forget it, if you can't find a magic instructor Let’s not look for it now, my friend and I will do the zombie NPC’s mission first, anyway, you have to reach the first level to change jobs, and the potential value is not far behind.”

"That's right. After watching the video of Vanilla Pudding, they only added a little potential after doing several tasks. It seems that it is very difficult to upgrade this game."

"What is there to do with the zombie NPC's mission? Why don't you go for the prestige of life career mentor first..."

Seeing the crowd disperse one after another, Tang Jia said hello, "Is there anyone who continues to look for the warrior mentor together?"

A player who stood still and looked around hurriedly followed: "I'm with you."

The ID on the top of this player's head seems to be his real name, Yang Ying. Tang Jia and Fa Xiaozheng Qingyue are both young girls, so naturally they will not refuse female players to join.

The three female players got together and continued to act. The cheerful Tang Jia quickly chatted with Yang Ying: "Are you using your real name as your ID?"

"Yeah, I haven't played games before and I don't surf the Internet very much, so I can't think of an ID for a while." Yang Ying said frankly.

"Eh?" Tang Jia said in surprise, "Your voice should be about the same age as ours?"

"I should be older than you two, I'm 22." Yang Ying said.

"It's not much older. Qingyue and I are both [-], sophomores. What about you?"

Yang Ying smiled open-mindedly: "College student, I'm not a college student. A few years ago, when I was taking the college entrance examination, something happened at home, and it was delayed. I started working after graduating from high school, and I didn't have time to play."

Tang Jia and Fa Xiao Zheng Qingyue looked at each other, and changed the subject on their own initiative...

Both of their families are ordinary people. Before they went to university, they thought that all families were similar. Only after they went to university did they realize that rich people are really rich, and poor people are really poor. They have all heard of the students who had to suspend school because of family difficulties after two years of study.

While chatting, the three of them walked around the not-so-big exile town to places they hadn't been to before, and found...a tent hidden behind a wall of earth alone.

"Yes!" Tang Jia's eyes lit up, and she said excitedly, "Except for the magic instructor, we have seen the other [-] NPCs listed in the announcement. This must be the tent of the weapon master! Hurry up!" , find out where that NPC is!"

Yang Ying and the two of them have been walking together for so long, and Tang Jia has learned a lot about the benefits of playing warriors. She was only going online to see if the games her brother participated in making are genuine. She also developed a little interest in playing games. If he is interested, he also actively helps find NPCs.

The three of them quickly searched around, and they found the last NPC—a young man with "Charlie Rex" and "Weapon Master Mentor" on his head.

After discovering this NPC... Including Yang Ying, the game Xiaobai, the three female players are all confused.

The dress of this NPC is very similar to other high-level NPCs. It is dressed in a fantasy style, with thick and tight dark-colored clothes, leather sleeves wrapped with tendons on its arms, and a row of exquisite small leather bags hanging on its belt. , with knee pads on his knees, thick-soled high-top boots for his shoes, and a half-body armor that mainly protects his chest and abdomen.

Such an NPC in the shape of a "brave" who seems to have come out of a fantasy movie that pays attention to details... is sitting slumped on the ground, with his back against the dirt wall, his head tilted, his hands hanging on his sides, his face is pale, full of blood. His head was sweating coldly, his eyelids were closed tightly, and his mouth seemed to be still murmuring indistinct syllables in a low voice.

"It's a big hole—why is a warrior mentor so virtuous?" Tang Jia was dumbfounded, "This, why is this guy so like the drug addicts in the movie who have a withdrawal reaction?!"

Tang Jia's hair girl, Zheng Qingyue, knelt down and looked at it carefully, then shook her head and said, "Although it looks like a withdrawal reaction... But if you have a withdrawal reaction, you should not be able to control your tears and nose, and your emotional performance will be more intense, not so peaceful."

Yang Ying looked in surprise at this girl who was usually quite reticent and non-existent.

What surprised Yang Ying even more was...Zheng Qingyue actually got close to the NPC, opened the NPC's eyelids with one hand, and waved the other hand in front of the NPC...

"There are signs of dilated pupils, but they still respond to the light reflected by the white bones. Is it a brain injury?" Zheng Qingyue said to herself, hugging the NPC's head with both hands, and checked it roughly, "It doesn't look like an injury, it is Parasympathetic fiber lesions causing oculomotor paralysis?"

"There is no abnormal color on the lips, no odor, and the color of the mucous membrane is normal. It should not be poisoned..."

Under Tang Jia & Yang Ying's horrified gaze, Zheng Qingyue also stuck her knuckles into the NPC's throat: "No retching, no vomit, ruled out shortness of breath caused by vomit blocking the trachea and insufficient blood supply to the brain."

"It's probably because of some kind of stimulus that produced a strong stress response." Zheng Qingyue let go of the NPC's head, "There is no tranquilizer in the game to give him a shot, what should I do?"

"NPC can still be stressed?" Tang Jia looked puzzled.

"It doesn't mean they will kill people in a bad mood." Zheng Qingyue said.

"Then what should we do, wait for this NPC to wake up?" Yang Ying asked curiously.She hadn't played the game anyway, so she didn't know what a normal NPC in a normal game should be like... So she didn't think there was anything particularly strange about the NPC in this game.

"It's very troublesome..." Zheng Qingyue held her chest and pondered.

Rex, who fell into a nightmare, seemed to hear the voice of a young lady's conversation in a daze.

Their voices were crisp, sweet, and carefree, as if they had some kind of relaxing appeal, which made Rex, who was suffering from nightmares, relax unconsciously, and the terrifying phantom that seemed to swallow him up also It seems to be drifting away because of the interference of these young ladies.

Charlie Rex moved his eyelids and slowly opened them.

Three skeletons surrounded him, and six deep eye holes stared at him.

"?!"

Charlie Rex sat up abruptly.

"Wow, I woke up!" The three skeletons hurriedly backed away a little, but still surrounded him, and made a surprised and happy young lady's voice.

Rex was dumbfounded.

The ferocious skeleton, the crisp and sweet voice of a young lady full of warmth... The huge contrast caused Charlie Rex, who had just woken up, to feel a strong sense of absurdity and disobedience. rapid loss--

"Hello, Charlie Rex, is there any mission release?"

One of the skeletons with the words "Jelly Filled Candy" in green font on its head eagerly approached Rex.

The lively, cheerful, confident and generous young lady's voice is full of anticipation. If Rex closes his eyes, he will definitely feel his heart throbbing...

However, with his eyes wide open, he could clearly see that the deceptively beautiful voice was an old corpse that had been buried in the soil for an unknown number of years.

Haven't woken up from the nightmare...?

Rex closed his eyes and fell back slowly.

"Damn it! Give me the mission to make me dizzy again!" Tang Jia was in a hurry, and grabbed Rex's collar, "What's the matter with this NPC, what about the mission? Aren't you a fighter job-changing instructor!"

Rex's body trembled, and he woke up all of a sudden.

His current state is actually much better than when he was in Sorensen. The spiritual anchor points connected in the imprint matrix have greatly improved his rational stability. The situation will not happen again.

For example, now, being reminded by Tang Jia, he finally remembered what he should do now... In order to maintain his sanity and obtain the qualification to stay in the imprint matrix and share the anchor point with that black magician, he must play his role well. Role - Serve as a fighter job-changing mentor in Exile Town, the birthplace of the undead race!

So Rex pulled himself together, tried his best to maintain his rationality and calmness, and looked at Tang Jia who was eager to get the task...

"Undead friends, undead are not suitable to be warriors." Charlie Rex, who regained his sanity, said in a daze, "Undead are hard to resist the impact, and they don't have enough strength, just give up."

Tang Jia: "..."

Zheng Qingyue & Yang Ying: "..."

"Does your NPC still engage in racial discrimination?!" Tang Jia was furious, "Am I willing to choose Undead? Is there any other choice for me to choose? Stop talking, give me a task!!"

"Don't get excited Tang Jia, it's not worth getting offline." Zheng Qingyue quickly persuaded.

Yang Ying looked puzzled: "NPC will persuade players to quit? Are all online games like this?"

"Usually, it shouldn't be like this..." Zheng Qingyue looked puzzled, and she didn't know how to explain it to Yang Ying, a game rookie, "Maybe this NPC has a bug?"

Charlie Rex couldn't understand what they were saying, and said seriously: "The undead are really not suitable to be fighters. If you desire to fight in close quarters, death walkers and death knights are better choices. If you are obsessed with this, you It will only lead you down a road full of thorns."

"Oh!" Tang Jia looked stunned, and let go of her bone palm, "Damn, I thought something was wrong with this NPC and they didn't even give them any missions. It turned out that there was a procedure to persuade them to quit. That's enough, stop rambling, hurry up Give the task!"

Rex: "...I'm serious, ma'am."

"I'm serious too. Why is the dialogue so long?" Tang Jia muttered impatiently.

Rex stared silently at the persistent skeleton lady...

It is obviously a skeleton undead who is not suitable to be a warrior, and she is obviously a young lady, but she still persistently pursues the path of a warrior - this kind of spirit makes Rex vaguely touched.

"Well, I hope you will never regret your choice." Rex sighed softly, and issued the task to Tang Jia.

"Received the mission!" Tang Jia cheered up and hurriedly greeted Yang Ying.

"Hello, Charlie Rex, is there any mission release?" Yang Ying followed Tang Jia's example and stepped forward to interact.

In the spirit of fulfilling the duty of guidance as a mentor, Rex still tried his best to persuade him to quit...and then was pestered to release the task.

After receiving the quest props, the three of them left Rex and walked towards the construction site with great interest, discussing as they walked: "I have experience, the harder it is to obtain, the better the job, this job-changing weapon master can't do it in the later stage of the advanced stage. It’s so fierce, Sister Ying, do you want to switch to weapon warfare after we switch to warrior together?”

"Okay, I don't know how to play anyway, just teach me how to play."

"Then I'll switch to another milk and add blood to you."

"Hey, Qingyue is the best!"

Charlie Rex, who was still gratified by the undead lady who is not suitable to be a warrior (...) is so persistent in pursuing the way of power: "??"

Wait!Do you want to be fighters just because you think fighters are powerful? !

This kind of evil pursuit is a blasphemy against warriors!

Sooner or later you get lost in the Power Dilemma!

Rex, who was so angry, suddenly froze.

Wait—if disrespecting a warrior's honor leaves him lost in the Power Dilemma, tainted by sneaking evil, then what happens to him...?

Rex felt his head hurt again, and the vision appeared again in front of his eyes.

"No, no...I'm different...I just, just..."

Rex leaned on the dirt wall and sat down slowly.

An idea popped into his mind that was so unbelievable to him, and so hard to ignore.

"Could it be... Is it me who is wrong? Is my persistence, my insistence on the way of strength wrong?"

Rex tried his best to maintain his sanity, forcing himself to ignore the phantom and staring at the undead lady who started to "do the task" happily.

"Perhaps... these undead who regard warrior spirit as a child's play can give me an answer."

And then... Rex witnessed with his own eyes these three laughing, undeserved undead ladies, completing tasks in one go until dark.

During the period, the skeleton that didn't accept the task left for a while, and when it came back, it complained dissatisfiedly about "I found Yang, and I can't gain the reputation of this NPC before level one", and continued to help its companions with the task.

Relying on the undead's racial specialty of being tireless and not needing to eat or sleep, the three powerless undead just cleared out a small piece of the fighter guild's planned construction...

During the period, Rex saw the skeleton lady who was rudely grabbing his collar and suddenly jumped up happily, announcing extremely loudly and joyfully: "My potential value has increased a little! I can still do it without handing in the task." Increase, is it possible to increase the potential value as long as the mission is in progress?"

"Ah, I'm up a little too!" The other skeleton lady seemed happy too.

They happily chatted with each other, guessed the rules for increasing the potential value, and continued to clean up after a short rest...

Rex really couldn't understand why these undead were willing to insist on doing such a boring "task" for the reason of "becoming a soldier" that they themselves regarded as trivial, walked out from under the earth wall, and walked slowly to the edge of the construction site.

Before Rex could figure out how to start a conversation, it would not be a violation of Yang's rules, he heard the undead lady "Jelly Candy" make a speech that made his hair stand on end...

"Is it already dark? My sight is not affected, I didn't even notice it." Tang Jia supported the pickaxe with one hand, and touched his empty stomach with the other, "I'm a little hungry, how about you?"

"Yeah, we've been playing for a long time without realizing it, and I'm hungry too." Yang Ying said.

Rex's complexion changed suddenly, and he retreated quietly instinctively... Even if Yang repeated several times that these undead guests were "safe and harmless" to them, it was still very scary to hear the undead talking about hunger at night !

"It's a bit strange. When we entered the game, the game time was four o'clock in the afternoon. Now it is nine o'clock in the evening. Converting the real time, it means that we have only entered the game and played for two and a half hours. I drank a big bowl of cereal in the morning. Feeling hungry after only two and a half hours?" Zheng Qingyue asked in confusion.

"Is it because we have been doing physical work in the game?" Tang Jia said while packing up the tools, "We are wearing helmets and playing the game, right? Does our activity in the game have something to do with our brainwaves?" Relationship? Brain waves have been highly active, so you're hungry fast?"

"...It seems to make sense." Zheng Qingyue knocked the shovel on the rocks and knocked off the mud and handed it to Tang Jia, "After handing in the task, go offline and have a meal before you go back. Do you want to come to my place to eat?"

"Okay, I'll bring the helmet over and play with you after eating." Tang Jia nodded quickly.

"Then I'm offline and order a takeaway." Zheng Qingyue turned to look at Yang Ying, "Sister Ying, are you still here this afternoon?"

"Go." Yang Ying said with a smile, "I was going to go online to take screenshots and record videos, and then went offline to continue the war of words. Now I don't want to deal with those wars of words. It's not as fun as a game."

Tang Jia said happily: "Then it's settled, we'll meet here in an hour, an hour in real time."

The three came out of the "construction site" talking and laughing, and approached Rex to hand in the task.

Although he didn't understand, but vaguely understood that he seemed to have misunderstood something, Rex silently settled the rewards for Tang Jia and Yang Ying...

After adding the "smart NPC", Yang Qiu also modified the task reward mode. Whether it is a normal task issued by a zombie NPC or a prestige task issued by a smart NPC, it will be settled according to the task contribution.

In addition to the one-time novice benefit of giving players clothes, the rest of the tasks are settled by the newly added applet in the branding matrix according to the effective working hours of the player in the task (not paddling, working hard) to settle rewards, also in the branding matrix " The "NPC" of "Connection" can be fair and just by following the prompts of the matrix feedback.

"Four effective working hours, 400 prestige, and eight copper coins?" Tang Jia played with the copper coins issued by Rex curiously, "The coins look like game coins from a video game hall."

Zheng Qingyue also came over curiously to take a look: "The mission rewards have changed. I watched the video of vanilla pudding before, and there is no reward for doing missions."

Yang Ying took the copper coins, and looked studiously at the two little sisters she just met: "How do I keep this game coin?"

Tang Jia & Zheng Qingyue: "..."

"I don't even have a backpack in this game! Such a big bug has never been fixed!" Tang Jia was trembling with anger, "Damn it, we are all naked skeletons, where do we put the money?!"

Rex thought that he had misunderstood the three undead ladies before, and to apologize, he took the initiative to remind: "Undead friends, there is a tailor named Arisa in the wooden house near the town hall, you can go to him Go shopping."

"Oh!" Only then did the three players think of the intelligent NPC who taught life and professional tailoring that no one cares about at present, bid farewell to Rex, and hurried over.

Rex watched them go away, glanced at the sky, returned to his tent, lit the alcohol lamp and set up a bonfire.

Yang Qiu's requirements for their work are not too high. They must be active around the post from [-]:[-] a.m. to [-]:[-] p.m., as long as they can be found by the players. question.

Even in terms of the most stringent tool management, Yang Qiu actually didn't force the player to take the tool away... Anyway, the player's activities are under the supervision of the matrix, no matter where the player takes the tool, they can take it away. have to come back.

What Yang Qiu really restricts is that players can't use "mission props" to make troubles, such as a group of people who have received a cleanup mission and carried a pickaxe to send the head to the boss of Xinshou Village, or use it to fake fights with each other What the hell... that's why the quest props can only be used within the quest area.

Although these mission props are actually collected from second-hand markets and waste recycling stations, the cost is very low, but whoever called Yang Qiu is poor...

In short, Rex, who does not need to receive too many players because of the secretive location, is not under as much pressure as Hal. After sending the three undead ladies away, Rex got some food and put the tools back in the tent. He announced that he was off work and pulled up his tent to sleep.

The game time is eleven o'clock in the middle of the night, and the real time is noon. A large group of players, headed by Qin Guan with ID Vanilla Pudding, entered the planned construction site of the Warriors Guild.

"The warrior mentor said on the message board by 'jelly candy' should be here...ah, over there!"

A group of undead with natural night vision ability looked around the quiet neighborhood in their eyes as in the daytime with piercing eyes, and soon found that a small open space had been cleared.

"The NPC's tent is said to be behind a dirt wall... yes, here it is!"

"Where are the NPCs?"

"It seems to be asleep."

"I rely on NPC to sleep?! It's too much, and let no one take the task!"

"Charlie Rex! Is Charlie Rex here, squeak!"

"Don't sleep, get up and send the mission!"

Inside the tent, Rex held his head in his hands, opened his bloodshot eyes, and stared blankly at the top of the tent.

Do these bastard undead really understand the word "excessive" they said - the weapon master was so puzzled.