"Congratulations, you successfully signed the first devil contract with the player Xiaoqiao Liushui. The task is completed, but the evaluation is only E, the lowest. Do you want to know the reason?"
"First, you take advantage of information asymmetry. The other party does not know your true identity, but you know his identity and past.
Second, you used a 'soul container', an indispensable and equally important prop to you, in exchange for something that seems to be of high value but is actually of no use to you. It's hard to say whether it's a profit or a loss.
How can you be sure that you can get another 'soul container'?
Third, your transaction can only be a one-time deal, and the other party has already remembered you. If you publicize it to others, what about your business reputation? Wouldn’t it be very difficult to carry out similar business in the future? "
"Lord Bai Xiaobai, a real devil should be a master of discerning people's hearts and selfish desires. A clever devil's contract will never let people see the trap in the explicit terms. It should be like a sweet bait, luring the fish.
They know it's dangerous, but they can't help but try it. Once they taste it, they will become addicted. At the same time, they will also understand the hidden dangers and huge dangers, but they can't stop."
"You must know that seducing a virgin into a slut, constantly destroying the confidence of a warrior turns him into a coward that everyone despises, making a noble person become despicable, and making the despicable person experience repeated self-blame, regret and regret after his conscience discovers it.
Pain... Only such souls have the value of harvesting and are qualified to be dedicated to the abyss... The devil pursues such souls and pursues such a process, and takes appreciating and tasting it as his lifelong pleasure, and also harvests such souls.
The soul is the mission.”
"After a moment of sublimation for ordinary people, their souls will undergo a qualitative change, just like fireworks that wither beautifully after blooming for a moment. It's beautiful, isn't it?"
"The stronger the soul, the tougher it is, just like a stubborn stone. Through our ingenious design, we make it soft, fill it with holes, and make it look what we want. This is a project
Art is a superb skill that only we know how to appreciate and use. Only such demons are real demons. They can gain the favor of the abyss and grow, become stronger and be promoted faster!"
The tirade of the skeleton NPC poured cold water on Li Yan.
He was quite proud at first, but he was said to be useless.
But if you taste it carefully, it does make sense. But the truth is this, whether it can be implemented is another matter.
He is a high school dropout under the age of 18. What can tempt his soul to become corrupted? It is too difficult to gain insight into people's hearts and desires...
"It doesn't matter, Master Bai Xiaobai. Another noble quality of the devil is patience. A baby's first walk is always bumpy... This is your mission reward."
The skeleton handed over a new soul container. Li Yan was overjoyed and quickly went to pick it up...
"Please hand over relevant mission props!"
"ah!?"
After waking up from the dream of getting rich, Li Yan didn't know whether to cry or laugh. In the end, his work was in vain, and the things he cheated from Qiao Shan became mission supplies.
No matter how reluctant you are to part with it, you have no choice but to take it out and hand it over obediently to the NPC.
After receiving the new soul container, Li Yan looked at the skeleton in front of him strangely, feeling that it talked a lot today, and just now it seemed to be preaching and teaching.
"Another of your rewards is me!"
The skeleton saluted Li Yan, "Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Qiao, your new demon butler, responsible for your guidance before you grow into a great demon."
At the same time, Qiao Shan was still searching like crazy in Nightmare Swamp.
"Grandson, don't let me catch you!"
When the game time came, Qiao Shan, who boasted that he had the aura of the protagonist, pointed to the depths of the swamp and cursed, then logged off with full of unwillingness and anger.
"I think you need to change into a new disguise, sir. This is my first suggestion."
The demon butler dispersed the light and shadow in front of Li Yan and said with a hint of joking.
The raw material for making demon disguises is soul fragments. The higher the qualifications of the soul fragments, the better and more advanced the disguise will be. Originally, Li Yan had it. Not to mention the ten ghouls, let's just say that he made them outside.
There should be a lot of monsters in stock for a few days.
But those soul fragments were all traded to Qiao Shan along with the soul container. Only then did Li Yan realize that he had not actually made any profit, but had actually lost a lot.
With a sad face, he nodded, picked up the stick, and went to kill skeletons and zombies outside the safe area.
At the same time, Bei Gaoyang unexpectedly received a 'gift' from Xiao Ai.
"This is?"
There are a few game props, but I don’t see anything special about them.
After hearing the cause and effect, Bei Gaoyang was speechless, "As for that? Always keeping a thread for such a trivial matter?"
"This was a mistake, a system error, and it has been corrected now." Xiao Ai emphasized seriously.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, what is this?
Maybe system errors are as intolerable to a life like her as abscesses on the face?
It's a small matter, there's no need to take it seriously with her.
"By the way, the mouse hiding in the dark has not been caught yet?"
This is an intolerable "mistake". A cunning old ghost is a colleague hiding behind the player. How can we rest assured if we don't find him?
"There are some clues."
Xiao Ai unfolded the light screens one by one, and a scene in the game area appeared on the light screen. A seemingly normal old player was talking to someone in a tailor shop in Punk City. It seemed that he was customizing some equipment.
Nowadays, some top tailor players can make intermediate cloth and leather protective gear. Real-life auctions have been held several times. In the most recent auction, a recipe for sewing an intermediate leather jacket was auctioned for a sky-high price.
The intermediate sewing formula has higher requirements for sewing props, materials and skills. It is not much easier than making the same thing by hand in reality. In terms of magic penetration and spiritual tempering, it is more difficult than making a game helmet.
Therefore, tailors who can sew intermediate protective gear are rare.
All the up-and-coming professional life players in the previous tests were lost in the crowd. Even the mid-level tailor Bei Gaoyang who was talking to Tarzan didn't recognize him.
"No new players have reached level 5 yet?"
While observing, Bei Gaoyang asked Xiao Ai something else.
"Just now, 15 minutes ago, several players from the fourth test were promoted to level 5."
"Uh... you still have to grind for one turn!"
"This is inevitable."
"The diversion of players is a problem..."
"Sir, tomorrow is the time to log in as a tourist."
"Ah, if you didn't tell me, I would have forgotten. There are too many orders from Abyss this time... Are you all ready?"
"According to your wishes, there is no need to prepare anything, it is completely free."
"Haha, just let them go free and let them adapt and work hard. Maybe it will be better."
On the light screen, Qiao Shan handed something to the mid-level tailor.
That's a piece of skin.
A piece of soft skin from a wyvern's belly.
Bei Gaoyang smiled, "Wyvern, can players defeat the wyvern now? I remember there are only a few in the game area, right?"
"17, just found in the Fairy Forest."
"Huh, I thought you wouldn't show off your skills."
With the current strength of players, not to mention the wyvern, even the lowest [Assyrian dragon], commonly known as the [earth dragon], cannot be defeated unless they form a group to grind it. So where did the skin of this wyvern come from?
?
"Sir, look at the ring on his right hand."
"Hey, a space ring?" Bei Gaoyang smiled, "This must be the first among players. This old ghost is quite generous?"
"He was very careful before...but this time...he doesn't seem to be planning to hide anymore."
"You have figured out my real identity, are you ready to show up and show your cards to me?"
"I guess so."
"Then I'll wait and see who this old guy is."
Let Xiao Ai disperse the light curtain and put this matter aside for the time being and ignore it.
The large order from Abyss has alleviated the imminent material problem. At present, although the game area is large, it still cannot be self-sufficient in some mid-to-high-end materials. One is the origin problem, which has no solution, and the other is the largest number of four-test players.
It has not yet grown up, and a small part of the vast game map has been explored, namely the Fairy Forest. The huge number of monsters in it are a valuable treasure that can only be mined later.
And the earth’s demonic environment requires a massive amount of materials to support it...
In a tailor shop in Punk City, mid-level tailor Tinghe talked to the NPC about the cost and time of renting tools on a rainy night. He turned around and said to Tarzan, "Your skin is too hard. The strength of the green needle is only 5, and the strength of the non-blue needle is only 5."
No, otherwise the thorns won’t be able to pierce it, let alone sewing it.”
"In this case, how much more processing fees will be added?" Tarzan asked.
"2 gold!"
"ah!?"
"one hour"
"Damn it, do you know the current exchange rate? Isn't this an open robbery?"
"Don't yell at me. It's not my fee. My processing fee is 5 gold. Do you want to do it?"
"...Do it, do it, it's all for this reason, do it!"
Including the processing fee, the money spent to make this piece of equipment is enough to buy a blue piece of equipment with similar attributes.
Liquidity is tightening, and there is less running water circulating in the market. The economy in the game has naturally turned from expansion to deflation. There is a shortage of money everywhere, and prices have naturally fallen accordingly. Especially in the fourth test, players cannot use it, and veteran players generally
The green and blue equipment from levels 78 to 134 that have been replaced have been squeezed out of a large amount of inventory on the market, and the prices are so cheap that they have become cabbage.
However, the whiteboards and green clothing before the game have become extremely scarce. They thought they had little spending power, which surprised many old players. The garbage that could only be thrown to the system's black shops in the past became very popular, but the money of the newbies started from there.
Come, begging? Brushing monsters? Just kidding, naturally I collected them offline.
This has further promoted the rapid rise of the exchange rate. There is a shortage of money and cash everywhere, and deflation will naturally come.
Nowadays, there are very few old players who can take out a few or more than ten gold at once. Unlike before the fourth test, money was just like running water, and you could scoop up a scoop wherever you went.
"Hey, what kind of skin are you talking about? Why can't you identify it?"
On a rainy night, Tinghe sat on the rented workbench, appraising the leather given by Tarzan. Unexpectedly, with his advanced appraisal skills, he could only identify a line of question marks.
"What should we do?"
"Looking for NPC, 50 silver"
"Gan!"
Obediently, he went to the identification NPC to identify the leather. Yuye Tinghe was stunned when he saw the attributes of the leather.
[The belly skin of the flying dragon (complete), quality: purple, note: it is filled with elemental magic. Look at the pattern on its body, it is a natural magic pattern. Do not destroy it when sewing.
, otherwise you will definitely regret it. Universal protective gear can be sewn, requiring intermediate or above sewing skills.】
"This is my first time making purple material. Where did you get it?"
"Don't worry about it. What do you think it is suitable for?"
This piece of skin was very big, and it could be used as a full-body armor, but it was the first time Yuye Tinghe was using purple-quality main materials to make something, so he was not sure, so he said: "I recommend wrist guards. It uses the least amount of materials and has room for error."
… Let’s make it clear first, there’s no guarantee of first-time success, don’t blame me if the materials are wasted.”
"A wristband is just a wristband, what else do you need?"
"...I will make a list for you. They are all common materials. Go to the west corner of the square. There are many players setting up stalls there. You can buy them all quickly."
Tarzan took the list out of the tailor shop. He was so absorbed in looking at it that he accidentally bumped into someone.
"You don't have eyes, you can't see the road!?"
Tarzan looked up and saw that he was a very social NPC.
Never compete with NPCs in Punk City. If you mess with one, a group of them might follow you. Tarzan rubbed his nose and resigned and walked around him.
Not far away, I suddenly saw a system prompt.
【You have been stolen】
[You lost 20 silver and 79 copper money]
"Damn it, what a stupid system!"
He was already distressed by the high production costs and became furious. This was NPC theft, and it was clear that the system had changed its name to hack the players' money.
Damn Canaan Corporation, damn Central Brain, damn...
Forget it, a little impatience will mess up the big plan, I tolerate it, I tolerate it!
I walked to the west gate angrily and saw a group of players who looked like African refugees, crying and laughing at the city gate. Some veteran players came over curiously and asked, and these people talked excitedly.
Let's talk.
"Five days, I've been gone for five whole days!"
"Died a dozen times!"
“The soles of my feet are worn out.”
"I almost didn't starve to death!"
"...I ate everything and almost drank urine, ugh..."
The veteran player was amused and asked them where they came from.
"Chenxi Town 4 is more than a hundred kilometers away. There are countless monster spawning areas and wild monsters. This person who traveled through mountains and rivers has finally arrived."
When asked why they didn't take the teleportation route, these people looked at this veteran player like he was a fool.
hehe……
The veteran player rubbed his nose and said, yes, who would come to Punk City if they had the money to take the teleportation ride?
"Did you believe the lies on the forum and come here to work?"
The newbies nodded their heads, and one of them said, "What's this nonsense? We are an institution, oh, by the way, someone accepted us, but what about others? What is his ID, and is he online?"
"Come on, another group of people have been tricked into working as child laborers!"
The crowd of players and NPCs who were watching the excitement laughed for a while, and then dispersed.
Tarzan watched for a while and was about to leave. Suddenly a voice said directly in his consciousness: "They are the new...new players for this...test?"
"...Why did you speak? Didn't you say you were afraid of being detected by the system?"
"It's okay, you don't have to be so careful in the future."
