[Dungeon mission: Prelude to the plot, resume the production of the Ax Gang. 】
This was a mindless task, but Cheng Peng had no choice.
So now he is carrying a hoe and is working hard on the gentle slope behind the Ax Gang Village, planning to open a field and grow some food at least - rice is out of the question, but things like rye, sorghum, etc., maybe
There is also drama.
In the woods on the other side, Xu Tu was clearing the ground in the woods, planning to create a vegetable patch.
Inside the village, Wang Chen was transforming a room into a livestock pen, and Xu Xiaoyuan and Yi Qing had already set out to catch animals that could be raised, although Cheng Peng was deeply skeptical about what livestock could be found on the barren mountains on the edge of the desert.
Jane is comparing the huge task list about reviving the Ax Gang given by the system, choosing which tasks are possible to complete - tasks such as leading the army to capture nearby states and counties are naturally a no-brainer, and
The task of building a wine base in a cottage - fortunately, Mr. Furukawa, an experienced businessman in the community, is helping to check it, so this kind of mistake should not happen.
Ordinarily, Xu Tu would be suitable for this job, but as an agency engineer and military advisor, he would rather work as a vegetable farmer than discuss issues with Furukawa. The mutual dislike made Cheng Peng speechless.
Two people in their forties, why do they have to have such a grudge?
But he wisely didn't ask.
After all, he and Xu Tu are just friends. It is natural for friends to have some secrets. If they have to get to the bottom of the problem, everyone will be unhappy.
Perhaps Dongliu, who is related to Furukawa, could ask a little more, or ask the elders in the family to inquire. But when Cheng Peng approached Dongliu about this matter, he said "I have to do the task."
He left quickly for a reason and showed his attitude.
Maybe he also knows some related things... Cheng Peng speculated like this, but in the end he didn't get to the bottom of it.
The mission of Dongliu Xingchen, Xiao Moran and Liu Zixiao is to go to nearby cities to collect information about the garrison in this area, and to avoid the occurrence of an unfavorable scenario of "officers and soldiers encircling the Ax Gang" - if it really happens, they will act as spies.
Let the officers and soldiers be defeated.
As for Ye Ying and Wei Antu, who were drawn as travelers, they also went to a nearby city. Their mission had nothing to do with military affairs, but to try to lure business travelers passing by the foot of Wuyue Mountain in order to rob them.
The Ax Gang is also a bandit after all. The bandits' job is to rob, not to work hard to produce. Even if Cheng Peng really cultivated farmland, Xu Tu really planted the vegetable garden, and Wang Chen and the others really built the livestock pens, this
It can only be regarded as completing the production task, which will not help improve the reputation of the Ax Gang.
Jane's system requirements are clear: resume production, rob passers-by, increase their reputation, and make the Ax Gang famous.
But what is distressing is that the current reputation of the Ax Gang is only - 5.
"How high is the prestige goal?" Xu Xiaoyuan asked this question the last time we discussed survival strategies.
"Mighty and far-reaching...Mighty and far-reaching..." Jane rummaged through the gang leader's manual and finally found the specific values of each level of prestige. "It requires one thousand points of prestige."
"How much prestige can you get by robbing a caravan?" Cheng Peng asked.
"10 o'clock."
Cheng Peng sighed, left the main hall named "Juyi Hall", and continued to cultivate farmland.
Nighthawk and Wei Antu, who had to try to attract a large number of caravans, already looked bitter, as if they had swallowed coptis gall.
As the days passed like this, the village developed day by day and gradually became more prosperous.
On the 19th, a big event happened in the village.
Some refugees came to join the Ax Gang and became bandits!
Although they are just two thin and short low-intelligent NPCs, although they seem to be able to kill even Xu Tu, the weakest player among the players, with two fists, this at least means that the reputation of the Ax Gang has been destroyed.
Out!
"It's strange...we've obviously never gone out to rob..." Jane looked at the gang leader's reputation that had been raised to 12 on the panel, with a blank look on her face.
As a result, the answer to this mystery was not revealed until the officers, soldiers and travelers rushed back to attend the "Ax Gang's First Expansion Celebration".
There are many ferocious beasts in the Wuyue Mountain area, including an extremely ferocious big wild boar that often comes down the mountain to destroy farmers' fields.
On the night of the 18th, Xu Xiaoyuan, Yi Qing and Wang Chen worked together to dig a big hole on the road where the wild boar passed, sank it in, knocked it unconscious, carried it up the mountain, and threw it into the corral.
In the eyes of the players, this is just normal hunting, but to the NPCs, this proves that the heroes of the Ax Gang are both wise and brave, and they eliminate harm for the people, which enhances their reputation among the people.
"...We are bandits, right?" After learning the truth, Cheng Peng couldn't help but ask, "Removing harm for the people...is it really suitable for us?"
No one can answer this question.
On the 22nd of the first lunar month, Cheng Peng finally completed his work, reclaimed a field on the rugged hillside, and planted rye.
"Will there be a harvest?" Jane ran over to visit the farmland with great interest and asked curiously, "Do I need to use chemical fertilizer? Will someone come to steal the vegetables? Thieves often appear in the vegetable field. Sister Xiaoyuan tamed them.
The wolfdog 'Charlotte' has bitten off the heads of three thieves!"
"...What are you interested in? Wheat fields? Or thieves? Or...biting your head?"
“It’s all fun!”
Cheng Peng was speechless.
Jane watched from the side as he fetched water from the deep well in the center of the village, and then went to the wheat fields to water them one by one. After going back and forth several times, she couldn't help but ask: "Isn't this very hard work, and doesn't it get boring?"
Cheng Peng shook his head.
Boredom is nothing to him; hard work is nothing to him.
"But... when the dungeon ends, all these efforts will be in vain..." Jane looked at the field reclaimed from the rubble of the barren mountains, and then looked back at the field that everyone had repaired little by little, transforming it from ruins into a cottage.
Building, I couldn't help but sigh, "It always feels like a pity!"
"Have you read Gu Long's novels?"
"Gulong? What is that?"
"In China, there is a novelist. The famous protagonist Chu Liuxiang in his works once said this sentence: 'Been here, lived, loved'. A teacher I respect very much also led us to work hard for most of
After months of not being able to find valuable cultural relics, he said to us, 'If you have been here, worked hard, and tried your best, there will be nothing to regret.' I think this sentence is very reasonable."
"But... so many things... so much hard work..."
"If you can't bear it, just work hard with everyone to complete the task better, so that all our hard work is worth it." Cheng Peng couldn't help but touch Jane's soft blond hair and said with a smile, "Don't think so much, this is
It’s just a game, just enjoy the game.”
Then he continued to carry water and watered the entire wheat field evenly.
"By the way, there is something I have always been curious about." Seeing Jane still looking a little reluctant, he simply found another topic, "You magical girls need to rely on the Seed of Sorrow, right? Without the Seed of Sorrow,
It’s hard to move around in this world, right? Why do you have to leave the environment that suits you and come here?”
"To relax." Jian was immediately diverted by him and answered readily, "Sister Xiaoyuan is in a bad mood recently, so we came here to relax."
"But... what should we do about the problem of spiritual core contamination?"
"We got some very useful props in previous missions, and this world is a magical world, so it's not a big problem." Jane did not answer in detail, but said vaguely, "Actually, what we are most afraid of is the kind without magic.
In the world of factors, magic power is consumed very quickly in that kind of world; in a world like Journey to the West, it is much better, as long as it is not consumed excessively."
"So what exactly is the so-called 'relaxation'?"
"Oh! It's all those judges who are bad!" Speaking of this, Jane's face suddenly became angry, "Sister Xiaoyuan is good at everything, but she has some strange habits - she likes to dress up for games
The character is commonly known as cosplay, and I often participate in various such activities and competitions."
Cheng Peng nodded, and so did Li Wei, and this guy also collected a lot of cosplay costumes.
"A while ago, she participated in a cosplay conference held in Hangzhou. At that time, she played a character from "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" named Tomoe Mami..."
As Jane narrated, Cheng Peng gradually understood what happened.
As a beautiful girl with outstanding appearance and figure, and also quite talented in acting, Xu Xiaoyuan is an excellent cosplay enthusiast and has achieved excellent results in such competitions more than once.
This time she plays Tomoe Mami, who she had close contact with for a long time in "Adventure". In addition, her usual transformation happens to be in the same form. It can be said that the degree of restoration has reached an astonishing level, except for her hair.
Apart from that, it can almost be called a true representation.
Ordinarily, with her level and performance, even if she can't win the championship, she can at least be in the top few.
But the result was that she didn't even get into the top ten!
Cheng Peng recalled seeing the beautiful pictures of Ba Mami on the forum, compared them with the image of Xu Xiaoyuan in his mind, and couldn't help but marvel.
"What kind of monsters are the first few..."
"Those people are simply not as good as Sister Xiaoyuan! She was eliminated because of a very ridiculous reason!" Jane said angrily, "Those perverted judges actually said, 'A senior with a head is not a good senior,'"
Senior sister has no head'..."
Cheng Peng was surprised.
As long as they are human beings, no one can play a headless character... "Sister Xiaoyuan was greatly hit - even though she seemed very stable, she was actually very unable to withstand the blow - she has been saying it often since then
'The head is just for decoration', 'It's not my fault that I have a head'... etc. I even tried to cut off my head with a machete..."
Cheng Peng was stunned.
He now somewhat believes that players born in a "depressive" world like "Madoka Magica" are indeed prone to darkness and collapse.
"Of course we can't watch her go on like this - she will really chop off her head if she goes on like this - so we discussed taking her out to relax." Jane said, "It just happened that I got the opportunity to come to this world to open up wasteland.
So here we are.”
Cheng Peng nodded numbly, not even knowing when Jane left.
